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December 3, 2016

The Sexuality Blog: Nigerian men hate gays… but don’t mind when Comedian Nedu dresses up as Nkechi

A foreigner recently pointed out- “You Nigerians love to dress like women,” (referring to Nigerian men of course). Immediately Diepreye Alamieyeseigha from 2005 corruption scandal came to mind but seriously, disguise aside, in recent times, Instagram timelines have been flooding with Nigerian men in gruesome makeup, scary wigs and “life sentence” worthy fashion making jokes about the... Read More

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Saatah Nubari: WE will take back our country from THEM in 2019… get ready

by Saatah Nubari I rented an apartment about a week ago and the compound had a big generator house—that was part of the building plan—where tenants kept their generators. The owner of the compound had already done the generator connections for every flat, so all I had to do was to search the generator house... Read More

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Jonathan, Ben Bruce, others attend burial of Alamieyeseigha

The remains of former Bayelsa state governor late Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was on Saturday, laid to rest in his hometown of Amassoma, Southern-Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa state. Present at the burial ceremony were: Former President Goodluck Jonathan, governor Seriake Dickson, senator Ben Murray-Bruce, former Jigawa state governor Sule Lamido, former PDP acting Chairman, Uche... Read More

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Alamieyeseigha ‘had his own failings, but he stood for Niger Delta’

The funeral rites of former Governor of Bayelsa, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, begins today in Yenegoa, the capital of the state. Former Commissioner for Information, Esueme Dan-Kikile who heads the Publicity Sub-Committee of the burial committee, said Alamieyeseigha, would be given a heroic burial, yet solemn. He said Alamieyeseigha was much loved by Bayelsans, who fondly described... Read More

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James Ibori insists that Alamieyeseigha was not corrupt | YNaija.com

October 12, 2015

Alamieyeseigha had only one house in his village – James Ibori

Former governor of Delta state, James Ibori, who’s imprisoned in the United Kingdom, has reacted to the death of former Bayelsa state governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha. Alamieyeseigha died of cardiac arrest on Saturday, October 10, in Port Harcourt. Speaking through his spokesperson, Tony Eluemunor, the former governor said Alamieyeseigha was a victim of evil politics and great hypocrisy.... Read More

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Former Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha is dead | YNaija.com

October 10, 2015

BREAKING: Former Bayelsa governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha is dead

Former Bayelsa state Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha is dead, a report by Leadership affirms. Alamieyeseigha reportedly died at a private hospital in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The former governor had reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest earlier in the week. Channels Television reports that the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information, Esueme Dan-Kikili, confirmed that Alamieyeseigha died of cardiac arrest... Read More

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October 5, 2015

‘Jonathan cannot pardon Alamieyeseigha for his crimes in the UK’

Professor Itse Sagay, says a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, could possibly be extradited to the United Kingdom to face his outstanding criminal charges. Sagay, who’s the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption, says the UK has every legal right to demand for Alamieyeseigha’s extradition to London after skipping bail from the country. His... Read More

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September 15, 2015

Obasanjo made Jonathan President to rubbish me – Alamieyeseigha

Former governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, has revealed the order of events that led to Goodluck Jonathan becoming President of Nigeria. Alamieyeseigha says former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, picked Jonathan, his former deputy as Vice President to late President Umaru Yar’Adua, in an attempt to embarrass him. He revealed to Sun Newspapers, that the move was part of... Read More

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September 12, 2015

“I have forgiven Obasanjo… but I will expose him” – Alamieyeseigha

Former Bayelsa State Governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha says he has forgiven everyone responsible for his impeachment and subsequent imprisonment in 2005. Alamieyeseigha says he has forgiven former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, over the role he played in his ordeals, but however, added that he would expose him in his upcoming memoirs. In an interview with Vanguard, Alamieyeseigha, spoke... Read More

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“We can’t be changing governors anyhow” | Alamieyeseigha tells Bayelsans

Former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, has urged Bayelsans to stop electing new governors, in every election. Alamieyeseigha said that the era of changing governors at will in the state was over, while urging the people of the state to support the re-election bid of Governor Seriake Dickson. He said this on Thursday, July... Read More

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October 21, 2014

“His murderer has a name” || Aisha Falode pens open letter to Jonathan over son’s death

by Isi Esene Aisha Falode has written an open letter to the Nigerian government to do more in helping her fish out the killer(s) of her son, Toba Falode. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) executive penned her letter 8 months after her son was killed and just weeks after former governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha’s son... Read More

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December 9, 2013

“Shame on you”: Facebook users bash PDP for comparing founding members to Mandela (READ)

by Oke Efagene The ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP), has come under fire for its recent claims which rubbed off many respondents as inappropriate. The party attracted public outrage for comparing its founding members to Nelson Mandela, the late anti-apartheid leader. The Party argued on its Facebook page that just as Mandela fought and won... Read More

Cheta Nwanze: I am sick and tired of ignorant people with BlackBerrys (Y! FrontPage)

by Cheta Nwanze Changing that discussion requires actually going to the National Assembly and putting the issue on the table. Until we are actually ready to do that, please get the hell off of my timeline. Saturday morning, I went to The Palms Shopping Mall in Lekki to join in signing the petition regarding the hashtag #ChildNotBride.... Read More

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Pat Utomi: When shame died in Rivers

by Pat Utomi The greater tragedy is the failure of elders to act. No African society should be lacking in elders who speak truth to power. What a sad time for Nigeria! And shame died. On July 9, 2013, they put shame to shame and gave impunity a new meaning on the eve of the 10th... Read More

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Debo Adejugbe: Festus Okotie-Eboh and Nigeria’s ‘rumoured’ corruption problem (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe People like Alamieyesegha and Bulama –managed to be convicted- are getting pardons from the presidency while the president announced, in his majesty, that “corruption is not Nigeria’s problem”. In one of my previous articles, I likened the process of making a charge of corruption stick in Nigeria to a mirage. In these words,... Read More

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Sam Nda-Isaiah: This emperor has no clothes

by Sam Nda-Isaiah Watching President Jonathan and his band of praise singers present their so-called mid-term report last week eerily reminded me of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” or “The Emperor Without Clothes” as some writers prefer to call it. Has President Goodluck Jonathan heard about the tale of “The Emperor’s New Clothes?” If he has not,... Read More

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Alamieyeseigha forfeits Maryland mansion to the US gov’t (Report)

The Maryland, United States home of former Bayelsa state governor, Diepreye Alamaieyeseigha has been forfeited to the US government following the approval by a federal judge of the Justice Department’s forfeiture order. The Wall Street Journal reported that the forfeiture on the $700,000 Rockville, Maryland house was executed Friday after U.S District Judge Roger W.... Read More

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Abimbola Adelakun: Good luck, Governor Amaechi

by Abimbola Adelakun Amaechi, last time I checked, is a member of the PDP and a beneficiary of all the political capital and the repressive might the party wields. The drama involving Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State and certain political goons is approaching a climax. What started as a governor-family affair has, somehow, managed... Read More

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State pardon: “Jonathan was part of the negotiating team, it was in order” – Alamieyeseigha

by Rachel Ogbu Former Bayelsa State Governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha has revealed that his state pardon was actually approved by the late President Umaru Yar’Adua administration and all President Goodluck Jonathan did was complete the process. Speaking to journalist in Lagos yesterday, Alamieyeseigha who became the first governor to be convicted for corruption said “it was a pardon... Read More

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Opinion: Why the Ijaws still love Alamieyeseigha

by Steve Azaki As Governor of Bayelsa, Alamieyeseigha interceded on numerous occasions to secure the release of expatriate oil workers who had been kidnapped. He braved rough seas on occasion to negotiate with the kidnappers to secure the freedom of the victims. Before 1999, the Ijaw nation had no one whom they affectionately called the... Read More

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Dele Momodu: Governor Amaechi & the devil on the cross

by Dele Momodu What makes this saga very notorious, but divine, is the fact that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which clearly separates the devolution of power between the States and the Federal Government is being openly desecrated and carelessly debased. Fellow Nigerians, I’m sure you are already wondering what this title... Read More

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Get serious about corruption – U.S. tells GEJ (again)

by Isi Esene The United States has again reiterated its stand that the Nigerian government is not doing enough in its fight against corruption. In an editorial published on the U.S embassy website, Terence McCulley, the American Ambassador to Nigeria urged the President Goodluck Jonathan government to step-up its fight against the menace maintaining that... Read More

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Bloody foreigners – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze Yes Nigeria, one of our big problems, is not just from our admittedly inept leadership, it is from all of us. AP’s correspondent in Nigeria, Jon Gambrell, is a very interesting character. He has seen a lot in his decade as a journalist. Seven years ago, he joined the Associated Press, and... Read More

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For The Records: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala fights back on Amanpour (WATCH, READ TRANSCRIPT)

AMANPOUR: Welcome back to the program. Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria, is full of promise. But fulfilling that promise is sometimes a struggle. Plagued by corruption and mismanagement, the resource-rich country has a poverty rate of over 50 percent. Maternal mortality is shockingly high. And more than half of Nigerians don’t have access to electricity.... Read More

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Japheth Omojuwa: The Jonathan gov’t must earn the loyalty it demands (Y! FrontPage)

Every government must earn its loyalty. The current government does not deserve the loyalty of Nigerians because it has not been loyal to the majority of Nigerians. One will always be loyal to Nigeria but one cannot guarantee loyalty to its government at anytime. Loyalty to a system is earned not given. Sophists of repressive... Read More

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Alamieyeseigha’s pardon is in order, Reuben Abati maintains

by Akan Ido The Presidency is maintaining that it has no regret over the pardon given to former Bayelsa governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha saying the process leading to the pardon conformed with the provisions of the nation’s constitution. This position was re-iterated by Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity who... Read More

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Stop misapplying the law on state pardon: Speaker Tambuwal warns President Jonathan

by Isi Esene Speaker, House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, on Monday in Abuja spoke against the misapplication of the law in granting pardon to corrupt officials. Tambuwal who was speaking at a Two-day National Conference on Corruption and National Security in Nigeria, organised by the Institute for Anti-Corruption Studies, University of Abuja, said, “A situation... Read More

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You are all cowards, me too – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze Rewriting the history books is what #DSPAlams is doing now, and getting people to believe his side of the story. The Rivers state governor is a very interesting character. Like I said in an earlier newsletter, he is funny, and he proved it again last Saturday when he stood in front of... Read More

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Ife Adebayo: PDP and the cankerworm called corruption (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo Professor Achebe’s rejection of the recent national honour by the PDP led government of President Goodluck Jonathan is a testament to the fact that he died without his dreams for Nigeria being fulfilled, neither did he see any hopes that these dreams will be fulfilled in the near future… October 1st, 1960,... Read More

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Opinion: The folly in criticising Alamieyeseigha’s presidential pardon

by Teinye Akobo Critics have condemned the pardon on DSP on the simple premonition that it will encourage others to engage in acts of corruption. This argument is misleading and cannot be proven by fact. Following the presidential pardon granted former Bayelsa State Governor, Diepreye Solomon Peter (DSP) Alamieyeseigha and others, pundits reacted, analyzing the... Read More

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