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"Why I don’t want my children to be politicians"

<div class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ahmed Makarfi, Caretaker Chairman, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has disclosed that he would not like to see his children get active in politics.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“They should take interest in it, but not to participate,” the former governor of Kaduna State said.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to him, many people think all politicians made money from politics and he would not want that kind of perception for his children.</span></div>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“If they want to be active politically, they should first of all grow up to be something in their own right, otherwise people would say ‘oh, you took public fund, everything he has is public.’</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">“But when you’re your own person, people would know that you did not come into office as a pauper”, he said</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Sometimes people don’t remember that some people were people of meat before they found themselves in public office, and just think whatever is around a person is taken from public office.</span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He said his children are far more ambitious than him on the side of entrepreneurship, “But I can also see a bit of interest in political issues, from their comments. If they talk to me sometimes, they say if we can’t get it done, they would make it done when it’s their time they which is good.”</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">“It is good for those growing up to be active observers, not passive ones. They should begin to develop ideas on how we can take this country to greater heights”.</span></blockquote>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On his rumored presidential ambition in 2019, Makarfi said “Everybody has ambition. But I’m not that kind of super-ambitious person.</span></div>
<blockquote style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“What I want is good for Nigeria. Any way I can contribute to moving Nigeria forward, I don’t have to be elected or appointed, I’m satisfied to contribute towards achieving that. When I look at my primary schoolmates and look at myself, if I don’t thank God for what he has done for me, I would be an ingrate.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">”There’re many potentials in Nigeria, in the North. But I’ve a thing that bothers me, and it’s more or less in the North. Successors and predecessors don’t see eye-to-eye; this is what obtains generally in the North.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">”Take it at governmental level and in spite of whatever political difference, which state in the South where a serving governor is going after his predecessor! But come to the North, there’re only few states where these things are not happening.</span></blockquote>

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Tension as Naval officer shoots dead three youths in Warri

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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">An unidentified naval personnel on guard at the premises of the Warri Petrochemical Company, WRPC in Ifiekporo, Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, Friday shot dead three youths.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">An eyewitness said the youths had squabbles with a contractor given a job to repair a jetty in the yard.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The eyewitness also stated that the contractor reportedly came in with some Ekpan youths possibly to ward-off any confrontation.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“In the process, an argument ensued, leading to the unidentified naval personnel shooting dead the three youths at about 3pm.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“It took the intervention of men of the Nigerian Army who swooped into action to bring the situation under control as they whisked the naval personnel away for safety”, he stated.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, a source within the Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS Delta who craved anonymity stated that the unidentified naval personnel may have acted in self defense.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Naval Source also noted that it was two youths that were shot dead and not three.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The source explained that youths from Ifiekporo community scaled the fence in an attempt to disarm the unidentified naval personnel during a protest.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the slain youths simply identified as Agbolu is the liaison officer of Ifiekporo community to A&E Petrol.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Until his death, he had two children.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Contacted at about 7am Saturday morning, the Delta State Acting Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Andrew Aniamaka said, “I am not aware of the matter. However, I will get back to you.”</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Zanna Mohammed asked our correspondent to hold on while he gets across to the Divisional Police Officer in that Area before he could give any confirmation.</span></div>

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2019: Buhari will re-contest, Igbos will vote for him

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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A former Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prince Tony Momoh has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari will run for the 2019 presidential elections.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">According to him, the current administration has delivered on its promise and should be given accolades instead of</span> <span style="color: #444444;">criticisms</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speaking with Sun, the elder statesman noted that people from the south east region of the country will support him unlike in 2015, considering the political big wigs that recently joined the ruling APC.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He said, “Politics is dynamic, active. I don’t believe in judging anything. Buhari is on ground and in my way of calculation, I don’t see anything coming between now and 2023 that will dismantle what is already on ground. I don’t argue over 2019, because he will contest.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“We have never had money, but we ran and won the election because Buhari has very loyal supporters. Don’t forget that INEC has limit on the amount of money you can spend for election.</span></div>

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Photo of the day: Tinubu, Jonathan sit side-by-side at IBB daughter’s wedding

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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Former president Goodluck Jonathan and Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), sat side-by-side on Friday at the wedding of Halimat, last daughter of Ibrahim Babangida.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">This is probably the first time the duo would be that close for hours since Tinubu led the APC team to oust Jonathan from power in 2015.</div>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jonathan who was already seated before Tinubu arrived stood to exchange pleasantries with the former Lagos governor.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Babangida is a former Nigeria military head of state.</span></div>
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Chibok girls: Claims that parents are not allowed to see their daughters false – Presidency

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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, on Friday dismissed allegations by parents of 21 earlier released Chibok girls that they have been restricted from having access to their daughters.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shehu, in a series of tweets on his social media handle described the claims by the parents as totally false.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He noted that the girls, who were to visit their parents during the Easter period could not due to security concerns.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The tweets read, “It is time to put to rest the falsehood that parents of the 24 Chibok Girls who returned earlier are not allowed to see them. Cross section of the Chibok Girls recently released from Boko Haram</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“This claim is outrightly false. By an arrangement put in place, the 24 girls will go home to spend time with their families every three months.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“They were due to go during Easter but security advice was against that.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Instead, Government made arrangements for the parents to come to their girls in Abuja in batches.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Eighteen of the parents left Abuja on Friday, May 5 after spending three days with their daughters. This can be verified.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Another set will also come once arrangements for them are put in place.”</span></div>

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Woman locks up her step-children in a room to starve to death in Kano (photos)

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God will not be happy with artistes who dishonour contracts -Kcee

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<div class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Five Star Music boss, Kcee, during an interview, talked about artistes who throw the contract they signed with their music label after they become successful, into the ditch. </span></div>
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<blockquote style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Most of these guys are hungry, and they are not interested in reading your contract. You type a contract for an upcoming artist, of 10 pages. Hes not interested in reading the contract. All he's interested in for you to put him on the camera and let him shoot a video. Put them in a studio to record music. And he wants to see himself in South Africa, London. That's what he interested in. Once he gets that, he's satisfied.</span></blockquote>
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<blockquote style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The next thing is how he's going to do without you and he's going to forget your contract. So its high time we, the record label owners, try to make these guys go through their contracts. Read it for them line by line, get your lawyer sit with them and they should get their lawyer or someone from their own angle. Because some of them don't have family when they come to you, but all of a sudden, when they become huge and big, they have families and friends. They come to fight for them.</span></blockquote>
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<blockquote style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So I think we should put that in play when they are being signed, They should bring that their friends and their families from the initial stage, to come and help them read the contract, before you invest. It's not easy to give them a platform, money, and all the investment that is needed, and when the person gets to this level, they want to throw you aside. Sometimes it's hurting, some of these record label owners don't find it funny. And away from that, the blessings that goes with that, you will lose it by the time you breach your contract.</span></blockquote>
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<blockquote style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Because for someone to invest a dime in you, it's like a risk because you don't know if that person is going to make it. So when you now make it and you think you can do without the person, not in a proper way or fulfilling your obligations, trust me, even God in heaven is not going to be happy with you.</span></blockquote>
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<blockquote style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So I think the advice is that we the record label owners should also make sure that they know what they are signing this time, before they go into it. Don't try to pretend to make them fell like you are tying them down, you are tying yourself down because at the end of the day, they will fight you, you will go to court. So lets do that from the beginning and settle it before we move on."</span></blockquote>