Obasanjo is a liar and an economic illiterate – Soyinka

Prof. Wole Soyinka, has stated that he has no respect for former President Obasanjo, who he describeds as an indescribable liar.

Soyinka talked about the former president on Friday night when he responded to questions during a programme tagged: ‘An evening with Wole Soyinka’, organised by Globacom.

Asked to respond to Obasanjo’s assessment of him in the former president’s book titled ‘My Watch’, where he notes that Soyinka is good at hunting and wines but a political illiterate, Soyinka said that he was hardly bothered because he believed that Obasanjo was a liar.

 

Soyinka said, “Obasanjo is entitled to his opinion. But the question is: ‘Who respects the opinion of a liar?’

I can spend the whole night proving that he is a liar. Obasanjo was once described by an economist, the late Prof Ojetunji Aboyade, as an economic illiterate. They nearly went into blows that night. It was Prof. Mabogunje who separated them.

“So, if an economic illiterate calls somebody a political illiterate, no problem at all.

“In ‘ My Watch’, Obasanjo told the first lie when he said he deplored lies. Anybody who said he never plotted to have an unconstitutional third term in office, even as a writer, I need a word to describe him.”

The former President and the Nobel laureate have been in a running battle taking swipes at each other over a lingering issue between them. Obasanjo had once stated that Soyinka once vowed that the differences between the two of them would not be resolved on earth.

Obasanjo had also in his book, My Watch, and at public events described Soyinka as an expert in wine matters than in political analysis.

 

He had said:

“For Wole, no one can be good, nor can anything be spot-on politically except that which emanates from him or is ordained by him. His friends and loved ones will always be right and correct, no matter what they do or fail to do. He is surely a better wine connoisseur and a more successful aparo (guinea fowl) hunter than a political critic.

“Wole Soyinka is a gifted man. I have always acknowledged that but he is a bad politician and I have also always said that. That is my own point of view. He may agree with it, he may not agree with it. For instance, I know that if I want somebody to give me the best wine, one of the people I will go to is Wole Soyinka and I know he has a taste for good wine and I said that in the book.”

 

Punch

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Neighbour films two men having sex in back garden.

77-year-old Donald Williams

A pair of horny pensioners was filmed getting it on in the back garden by a scandalised neighbour.
Jeffrey Belden, 63, and 77-year-old Donald Williams are facing indecent exposure charges after a neigbour called police.
The officers also allegedly discovered a stash of child abuse pictures in Williams's house.
Pam Miller, who witnessed the romp in the back garden in Coldwater, Michigan, speculated why the men were getting it on outside when they lived opposite each other.

She told Newschannel 3: “I was shocked. Nowadays nothing seems to shock me, but in a small neighbourhood, yeah, surprised.”

Jeffrey Belden, 63

Court documents say Belden and Williams were performing sexual acts on each other in full view of traffic.
Ms Miller said: “There are too many kids out here. It’s public, it’s a nice neighbourhood.”

Following their arrest, police delved deeper and court documents claim police found 145 pictures of child pornography at Williams’ house.

The pictures show boys as young as seven years old in various stages of undress.

Williams who is currently behind bars in the Branch County jail awaiting trial.

In addition to the indecent exposure charge, he faces five counts of using a computer to commit a crime and five counts of possessing child pornography.

He is due back in court in September and Belden is currently free on bond.

Daily Mail

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Woman robs three (3) banks for daughter's Party

An accused robber told a court she held up three banks in May to raise money for her daughter's graduation party.

Cindy Sanchez Carabeo, 50, of Brandon, Florida, pleaded guity in federal court on Thursday to one count of interfering with interstate commerce by robbery.Carabeo told a judge she robbed the banks to pay for a graduation party for her daughter and to cover her rent. She faces up to 20 years in prison.

Police arrested Carabeo in May after she stole $6,000 from a BB&T Bank, a Wells Fargo and Florida Central Credit Union in Brandon in less than the time it takes to deliver a pizza.

However, investigators nabbed her even faster, according to Larry McKinnon of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

"By the time she made it home after that third robbery, within 15 minutes we had her in custody and all three bank managers were able to positively identify her," McKinnon said.

Authorities said McKinnon threatened to kill one teller but wrote "Happy Mother's Day" on the hold-up note.

Tampa Bay Times

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Former Pres. GEJ body guards posted out of the Presidential Villa

After months of not knowing their fate, the Department of State Services personnel who served as Body Guards to President Goodluck Jonathan have been posted out of the Villa to various state commands.
Reliable sources at the Presidential Villa said that the signal for the posting of the over 150 body guards who had remained redundant following the directive by the ADC to President Buhari that they should leave the presidential villa came yesterday.

It would be recalled that following the swearing in of President Buhari, personnel of the Department of State Services who had traditionally served as Body Guards to the president were ordered to leave the Villa on the instructions of the ADC to the president.

According to the source while a few of the DSS personnel were posted to the headquarters of the DSS, most of them were posted to various state commands of the service.
The source said:

“Almost all of our personnel who were body guards in the villa have been transferred out of the state House. A new crop of body guards who were trained for the purpose have taken over. They will take over from the soldiers who were initially drafted to man the various beats hitherto occupied by the DSS personnel. That phase of transition is over” the source said.

About 250 personnel of the DSS are expected to take over the job of protecting the president from the military personnel.
It was gathered that the reason why they were replaced was sue to the bitter experience during the sallah prayers when president Buhari was almost mobbed by enthusiastic Nigerians who overwhelmed the military men that were supposed to protect him.

President Buhari himself confessed that but for God’s protection,   he would have been mobbed by the crowd that thronged the Eid prayer ground.


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Apple Music refuses to allow Drake perform at Lil Wayne’s hurricane Katrina Benefit Concert

Apple Music is apparently really territorial when it comes to Drake because they got upset when they found out he would be performing at Lil Wayne's benefit concert for Weezy’s Tha Carter Fund on the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina  that Tidal would be streaming and because he has high stakes with Tidal it would only make sense for them to stream it live.

When word got out that Drake would be making an appearance at Lil Wayne’s concert, (hence putting his performance on Tidal) Apple Music went ballistic! Apple Music is so pissed that they threatened to sue if Drake appeared on Tidal.

According to Page Six, Drake would be breaching his contract if he appears on Tidal since it would definitely cause a conflict of interest .

A source said to Page Six:

“Legal letters have been sent to Tidal warning that Drake cannot appear on the Tidal stream of the festival, either solo or part of a group, and if the warning was ignored, the liabilities could be up to $20 million,”.

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Ini Edo speaks on her failed marriage, " i have no regrets"

Actress Ini Edo was a guest on RubbingMinds yesterday where she spoke on her failed marriage to Philip Ehiagwina. When asked to address insinuations that her marriage crashed because she picked her career over family and refused to move to the US where her ex resided, Ini Edo said;

 "First of all, I got married early because I wanted to have a family so anybody wouldn’t think that I would want to chose career over family in as much as my career is also very important. Basically there would never be a particular reason. You know how these things work. Its like I said, differences. I mean, incompatibility. Not being able to reach certain compromises or finding common ground.
You know when you’re with someone, even your work partner, if you cannot find common ground or agree on certain things....sighs "she said

Asked if she was too young to get married, Ini said

"No I don't think I married too soon. I was pretty much of age. Maybe a little in a hurry. I don't think I married too soon"she said .

Asked whether distance ruined their marriage, she said

"Being together actually helps in understanding. It creates more platform to understand each other more. Maybe it would have helped. Distance plays a very important role in a relationship, no matter the difference or incompatibility, if you are together a lot, you can find a way to work things out'she said

Asked if her ex husband ever complained about her job, a hesitant Ini Edo said

"He met me an actor so I want to believe he was okay with it. Naturally I mean. Of course. My work takes my time. It does takes my time. It appears"she said Asked if she regrets her crashed marriage, she said "I try not to regret my actions so I will say it has been an experience which I have learnt a lot from. It’s made me a stronger person, it’s made me wiser and I think it has actually made me more matured. So I won’t say that I regret anything; I’ll say that I have learnt my lesson"she said.

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Floyd Mayweather chilling in bed with four woman. - photo

The multi-millionaire champion boxer shared a photo of himself in bed with four women. The right pic is his main chick and pimp, Bad Medina

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Kelly Osbourne says she'll return to FP if Giuliana Rancic leaves.

Kelly Osbourne left Fashion Police in February this year after Giuliana Rancic's comment about Zendaya's dreadlocked hair, which some regarded as racist. Kelly says she's willing to return to the show on the condition that 'liar' Giuliana is booted off the show

"If certain people weren’t there, I'd return. I will never admit to liking Giuliana because I don’t. I don’t think she’s a good person and I think she’s a liar.' she told The Wrap when asked if she would consider returning to the show.

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must read:Toke Makinwa Blasts People Having S*x Before Marriage

Celebrated OAP, Toke Makinwa in her recent vlog discusses pre marital s*x. She says people having such affairs are dirty because they are not with the right partner.

Read below;

“S*x kills. It is bad for you to have s*x if you are not married. You are dirty and God does not like dirty. If you are not married and you are watching this, if you are underage, I’m judging you because s*x should only be with your rightful partner, with your husband.

Why are you having s*x? Close your legs and only give it to the person you want to spend the rest of your life with. 

Even if you preach abstinence from now till tomorrow, people are still going to have s*x. People are really having a lot of s*x. We are a generation of people who are having too much s*x as far as I’m concerned and protection is key if you must have s*x.”

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Ali Baba Attacks NBC Over Ban Of Olamide’s ‘Shakiti Bobo’, Says Even Pastors Know The Song

Legendary Nigeria comedian, Ali Baba, has revealed that he is unhappy with the decisions of theNigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC), on banning some songs which has been in circulation for a long time.

Using Olamide’s song, ‘Shakiti Bobo,’ as a case study, he said even pastors know the song.

According to Nigeriafilms, the comedian who wondered while it took the NBC this long to dictate that those songs are not good for the public, stated that some of the banned songs are so popular that people use their dance steps during praise and worship in churches.

In his words; “I just heard that some songs were banned from airplay. Wait o, if it took NBC how many months to know the contents of a song were not fit for public consumption, then we should worry. Songs that I have heard Pastors singing sef. People even shakiti in church during praise and worship.”

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The Queen of England makes Guinness book of record

On the 9th of September 2015, the Queen of England - Elizabeth Alexandra Mary - 89. will enter the history books as the longest serving British queen ever. She'll be passing the record set by her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria who Buckingham Palace has calculated reigned for 23,226 days, 16 hours and 23 minutes.

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Fashola spent N139million on two boreholes - Lagos Gov

Another accusation against former Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola. According to a report byPunch, the Lagos State Government is accusing Fashola of spending N139million on the drilling of two boreholes at the Lagos House, Ikeja. Report below...

The project was completed by Deux Projects Limited according to a report published by the state government. The report, which was part of the awarded contracts by the Lagos State Tenders Board in 2013, was seen on the website of the Lagos State Public Procurement Agency.

In the same year, N640m was spent by the Fashola administration for the reconstruction of a car park and other associated works at the Lagos House, Marina. The report stated that the N640m contract was given to Julius Berger Plc as part of phase two of the reconstruction of Lagos House where Fashola lived during his eight years in government.

In the same year, N300m was spent on the relocation of cables belonging to the Power Holding Company of Nigeria at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital. The contract was awarded to Deux Projects Limited.

According to the report, the former governor also spent N175m to replace the railings of a pedestrian bridge on Carter Bridge from Ido to Idumota with concrete railings. The contract was awarded to A Abicon Engineering Limited.

According to the report, N220m was spent on the facility management of the Lagos State University College of Medicine. The contract was awarded to Deux Projects Limited.

The former governor, according to the report, spent N619m on surface repair on Ajara-Erekiti-Iragon-Ikoga Road in Badagry Local Government.

According to the report, Fashola spent N1.2bn on the construction of an unidentified multi-storey building in Onikan, Lagos.

The former governor was also said to have spent N1.6bn on the construction of a 48-bedroom hotel at Lagos State VIP Chalets, Badagry.

About N510m was spent on the remodelling and equipping of the official residence of the state’s Chief Judge at 4 Thompson Avenue, Ikoyi, Lagos, according to the report.

About N165m was spent on the construction of an 18-classroom block at Ajara Senior Grammar School, Ajara Badagry. The same amount was also spent on an 18-block classroom at Community Senior/Junior Secondary School, Bayeku, Ikorodu.

Source: Punch in

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