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    An SEO service provider utilizes the practice of search engine
    optimization to increase the amount of visitors to a Web site by
    obtaining high-ranking placements in the search results page of search
    engines (SERP). Typically, a business with a website and online presence
    will hire an experienced SEO service provider to improve its organic
    Google search result listings.
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    SEO
    services help to ensure that a site is accessible to a search engine
    and improves the chances that the site will be found and ranked highly
    by the search engine. SEO service providers offer a wide range of
    services such as keyword and keyphrase optimization and research,
    technical website SEO audits, optimization of specific pages, robots.txt
    and sitemaps and additional tasks as deemed appropriate for the
    client’s website and business needs.

    Often SEO service providers
    will bundle types of SEO tasks and services into bundled packages, 
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  • Two Robbery Suspects Escape From SARS Detention In Akure

    Two Robbery Suspects Escape From SARS Detention In Akure

    Rotimi Adeyeye and Adeoye Bukola bolted from detention with handcuffed
    hands during the week, we learnt. The two fugitives were
    said to be members of a notorious gang of daredevil armed robbers
    terrorizing the residents of the state.

    The two fugitives were said to be members of a notorious gang of daredevil armed robbers terrorizing the residents of the state.

    It was gathered that both men had unleashed terror and robbed one Samuel Arifalo and his family at Odopo, off Ijoka Road, Akure.

    Items carted away during their robbery operation included a LED TV,
    four expensive mobile phones, bottles of wine and wrist watches.

    The two culprits were later arrested and handed over to the men of
    the Special Anti-Cultism Squad of the Ondo State Police Command.

    SaharaReporters exclusively gathered that instead of being arrested
    for “burglary”, the two notorious men were detained for “cultism”.

    This action forced a source close to the robbery victims to petition the Ondo State Commissioner of Police, Gbenga Adeyanju.

    Adeyanju was said to have ordered the transfer of the culprits from
    the Anti-Cultism office to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad for immediate
    investigation and prosecution.

    However, both Adeyeye and Bukola fled from the detention at midnight,
    hours before their expected relocation to the SARS office, sparking a
    series of conspiracy theories among the officers.  

    When contacted by Sahara Reporters, Femi Joseph, Spokesperson for the
    Ondo State Police Command, confirmed that the culprits escaped from
    detention.

    Mr. Joseph said that the Police had already declared the two fleeing
    culprits wanted, noting that investigation had also begun. 

    “We have declared the two fleeing armed robbery suspects wanted by
    the Police as proper investigation have started into the case,” he
    said. “To show our commitment to this case, we have also arrested our
    officers who are at the SARS office and they have been detained.

    “They would be tried for negligence of duty and roles in the escape of the suspects.”

     Source: SaharaReporters

  • Ekiti gov poll: More accusations as tension rises ahead of D-day

    Ekiti gov poll: More accusations as tension rises ahead of D-day

    The July 14 governorship election will obviously be a test of might
    between the candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress and the
    Peoples Democratic Party, currently in government in the state, writes
    KAMARUDEEN OGUNDELE

    Anxiety, tension and fears have enveloped Ekiti State as the people prepare to elect a new governor on Saturday.
    The candidates, in a bid to win the
    votes of eligible voters, have resorted to mudslinging, frivolous claims
    and allegations laced with suspicions and speculations. The most
    culpable among the political parties involved in the politics of
    blackmail, are the APC and the PDP.
    The two parties are arguably the leading
    contenders for the state coveted seat. The election, on one hand,
    revolves around the incumbent Governor Ayodele Fayose of the PDP, who is
    seeking to install his deputy, Prof. Kolapo Olusola, and his main
    challenger, the immediate past governor of the state and until last
    month, the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.
    Fayemi, who is seeking a return to
    office, lost the 2014 governorship election to Fayose against
    bookmakers’ predictions. Up till today, there are arguments by members
    of the APC that Fayemi lost the election in questionable circumstances.
    Other political parties that are
    participating in the election and their candidates are Mega Party of
    Nigeria, Adebisi Omoyeni; Peoples Party of Nigeria, Amb. Dare Bejide;
    Labour Party, Dr Sikiru Lawal; Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party, Rev.
    Tunde Afe; and Accord, Abiodun Aluko.
    There are also for the Social Democratic
    Party, Akinloye Ayegbusi; Advanced Congress of Democrats, Senator Bode
    Olowoporoku; All Grassroot Alliance, Lucas Orubuloye; Action Democratic
    Party, Otunba Segun Adewale, and All Grand Alliance Party, Stephen
    Oribamise.
    Others are African Peoples Alliance,
    Malam Jimoh Saheed; Advanced Peoples Democratic Alliance, Tope Adebayo;
    All Progressives Grand Alliance, Amb Ayodeji Ayodele; Better Nigeria
    Peoples Party, Prince Adegboye Ajayi; Democratic Alternative, Ayodele
    Adesua; Democratic Peoples Congress, Olalekan Olanrewaju; Democratic
    Peoples Party, Yinka Akerele; Freedom and Justice Party, Sule Ganiyu;
    and Green Party of Nigeria, Adewale Akinyele.
    They also include Independent Democrats,
    Tosin Ajibare; Kowa Party, Tope Amuda; Labour Party, Temitope Amuda;
    Masses Movement of Nigeria, Olabode Jegede; National Democratic Liberty
    Party, Babatunde Alegbeleye; Nigeria Peoples Congress, Dr Oladosu
    Olaniyi; Peoples for Democratic Change, Dada Olayinka; and Progressive
    Peoples Alliance, Goke Animasahun.
    The rest are Action Alliance, Shola
    Omolola; United Democratic Party, Dr Olusegun Adeleye; Unity Party of
    Nigeria, Gboyega Jacob; Young Democratic Party, Fakorede Ayodeji; and
    Young Progressive Party, Temitope Omotayo.
    Fayose recently accused the APC and the
    Independent National Electoral Commission of plotting to preload card
    readers to be used for the election.
    The governor said the plot to manipulate
    the poll in favour of the APC candidate (Fayemi) was being hatched in
    Akure, Ondo State, in collaboration with the APC-led Ondo State
    Government.
    “They are also printing fake voter cards
    in Akure with support from the Ondo State Government. They are also
    working to bring in about 14,000 people from Ondo State to come and vote
    here. They have already issued fake 7,000 voter’s cards and they are
    daily printing this.”
    Debunking the claim, Fayemi accused Fayose and officials of INEC of plotting to compromise the election.
    The former minister, who raised the
    alarm through the Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation, alleged that a
    former INEC official, Ishaku Abbo, and three INEC officials were
    neck-deep in the new plot.
    The Deputy Director-General (South) of
    KFCO, Bamidele Faparusi, said the team was led by Abbo, who, according
    to him, has been living with the governor in the Government House since
    January.
    He alleged that a secret meeting held in the Government House with three top officials of INEC from the national headquarters.
    The organisation gave the names of the officials as Egharevba John, Festus Aisien, Igidiogu Kelechi and Ishaku.
    SUNDAY PUNCH spoke with some
    stakeholders on the raging tension between the two political parties who
    are daily engaging each other in a battle of wits.
    Alluding to this, the Secretary of the
    Ekiti State Council of Elders, Pa Niyi Ajibulu, said it would not be far
    from the truth to describe the election as a battle between the
    federal-led and the state-led forces.
    “It has always been like that. It is a
    straight fight between the APC and the PDP. But we are only concerned
    about having the best candidate,” he added.
    Ajibulu expressed worry that the tactics
    that both parties had deployed in their campaign was another indicator
    that they were both desperate to win the election.
    “Since the campaign began, there have
    been gimmicks here and there. That is a bit worrisome and we have been
    appealing to them to make the campaign issue-based,” he stated.
    But the state Chairman of Trade Union
    Congress, Mr. Odunayo Adesoye, counselled that it would not be in the
    interest of the peace of the state for the election to take the
    dimension of a battle between the federal might and incumbency.
    The labour leader said, “I don’t
    subscribe to that. Federal might can’t come in a state where people know
    where they are going. There are 34 candidates in Ekiti and people are
    watching. The people should be allowed to vote according to their
    conscience. The Federal Government should ensure a credible, free and
    fair election so as not to tarnish its image.”
    Adesoye said the people already knew where they were going, hence their views should be respected.
    Responding to a question that the union
    seems to be given a tacit support to the PDP-led state government,
    Adesoye said, “There is no way unions will not work with state
    government. We are enjoying a perfect relationship. The immediate past
    government and the incumbent have done their bits. The present
    administration is doing well to be precise. We are not to condemn any of
    them because the state belongs to us all, irrespective of political
    party.”
    The state Chairman of the Road Transport
    Employees Association of Nigeria, Mr. Rotimi Agbede, however, called
    for caution in the conduct of the election.
    Agbede added, “The wish of the people
    should stand, there should be no harassment or intimidation. If the
    soldiers are coming, they are free, but they should not interfere in the
    election.
    “They should not favour one candidate
    against the other. Where there is perceived intimidation of the
    opposition, people may revolt. If the process is transparent, people
    will accept it.”
    The Chairman of the State Council of
    Traditional Rulers and Oloye of Oye-Ekiti, Oba Oluwole Ademolaju, called
    on the United States to prevent vote-buying during the July 14
    governorship poll.
    He expressed concern over the exchange
    of words between the incumbent state government and the Federal
    Government, urging the US to deploy observers in the polling units to
    ensure each vote counted in the election.
    Oba Ademolaju spoke at a meeting of the
    council with the US Consul General, Mr. John Bray, held in the palace of
    the Ewi of Ado-Ekiti, Oba Rufus Adejugbe.
    “We want everybody to be carried along.
    We want reputable groups as monitors at polling units, not people who
    will just be moving about.”
    Oba Adejugbe noted that the people would be happy if the most popular candidate wins the election.
    The Ogoga of Ikere-Ekiti, Oba Adejimi
    Alagbado, warned against a replay of the 1983 experience during the
    election, where many houses were burnt in the old Ondo State.
    He said, “The eyes of the world will be on Ekiti on July 14. We would be here and we won’t let you down.”
    The state Chairman of the APC, Chief Jide Awe, expressed concern over the tension in the state.
    In an interview with our correspondent
    in Ado Ekiti, Awe accused Fayose of creating an atmosphere of tension by
    compelling workers to submit photocopies of their PVCs.
    He said, “The heat that is generating
    now is giving us concern, particularly, in the APC. A situation where
    the sitting governor is compelling workers to submit their PVC,
    duplicating them and keeping them is unacceptable. We have written to
    the INEC commissioner. The person doing this knows what he wants to do
    with them.”
    Awe said there was no way the election
    could be conducted without adequate security measure because of events
    leading to the election where workers were being allegedly coerced by
    the state government.
    He added, “Judging by the dramatic
    personae that will take part in the election, you can’t rule out beefing
    up of security. But the security agencies are to ensure safety of
    voters and election materials.
    But Fayose’s Special Assistant on New
    Media and Public Communications, Lere Olayinka, to the state, blamed
    Fayemi, DSS and the police for causing tension in the land by allegedly
    deploying a former security aides to Fayemi, claiming that they were in
    the state to manipulate the election.
    Olayinka added, “The former Governor’s
    CSO is among the DSS operatives in Ekiti now. That is enough to show
    there is a plot to manipulate the election by using federal might.
    “Abiola is part of the men of DSS on the
    streets wearing masks. Ekiti is not at war. Why are they going about in
    masks? How do you determine if they are real or fake security men?
    “We are also aware that Fayemi’s former
    ADC is to lead men of Mopol 22 from Lagos to Ekiti for this election.
    Those two are enough indicators.”
    He faulted the DSS for arresting some members of staff of Ola Oluwa Grammar School in Ado Ekiti while duplicating their PVCs.
    The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Ekiti, Prof. Abdul-Ganiyy Raji, promised that the election would be free and fair.
    In an interview with our correspondent,
    Raji, who spoke through the Public Relations Officer in Ekiti, Alh.
    Taiwo Gbadegesin, distanced the commission from allegations of collusion
    with political parties to rig the governorship poll.
    He said, “We are not under pressure to
    rig the election from any quarters and we won’t allow politicians to
    sabotage our efforts. We are an impartial umpire and will expect all the
    parties to conform with the electoral guidelines.”
    The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence
    Corps has however assured the people that security agencies will be
    neutral in the election.
    Speaking with our correspondent, the
    NSCDC spokesperson in Ekiti, Tolu Afolabi, said, “Our role is defined by
    the Electoral Act and whatever INEC sanctions. If INEC says we should
    move five metres away from the polling units, we will move away and if
    INEC says we should come closer, we will do that.
    “Our duty in monitoring election is
    defined. Our work is minimal. It is to ensure safety of voters and to
    maintain peace. We are bringing men from Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Ogun and Edo
    (states) to join our men in Ekiti.”
    Notwithstanding the assurances from law
    enforcement agencies that the poll will be peaceful, residents of the
    state are still apprehensive of possible clashes between security agents
    and some politicians on election day.
    Source – Punch
  • Your Edo rigging template won’t work in Ekiti, Fayose replies Oshiomhole

    Your Edo rigging template won’t work in Ekiti, Fayose replies Oshiomhole

    Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said nothing is
    haunting him and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party as the people
    of the state go to poll next Saturday to elect a new governor.

    He said he and his party simply demand the conduct of a credible,
    free and fair election, declaring that plan to use what he called the
    “Edo State option” in Ekiti next Saturday would fail.

    This is just as the governor said he won the June 21, 2014
    governorship election fair and square and that the credibility of the
    election was attested to by local and international observers such as
    the American Government, and the British Department for International
    Development among others.
    The governor, who spoke in Ado-Ekiti on Saturday through his Chief
    Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, was reacting to a statement credited
    to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Mr Adams
    Oshiomhole, that he and the PDP were being haunted and jittery about the
    coming election.

    “Oshiomole’s secret plan to use his fraudulent Edo template in Ekiti
    will never work and it will attract injurious consequences. This is
    because Ekiti people are resolutely determined to resist rigging right
    on the spot.

    “Contrary to Adams’ diatribe, rumour peddling and rabble rousing
    unbecoming of an ex- governor and national chairman of the ruling party,
    Fayose and PDP are only interested in a credible election.
    “Fayose and PDP are raising the alarm because of tell-tale signs that APC and Fayemi are plotting to rig the election.

    “The statements by top APC leaders including its former chairman,
    John Odigie-Oyegun that they must capture Ekiti by all means are very
    instructive in this regard.”

    Fayose added that the 2014 governorship election that the APC and its
    leaders tried to rubbish, was declared by the US and the international
    community as free and fair and as a reference point for future elections
    in Nigeria.

    He advised Oshiomhole to face the crisis rocking his party and allow people of Ekiti to freely choose their leader.

    “If Adams Oshiomhole still has problems with that election,  he
    should address his misgivings to the US and the international community.

    “Besides, APC challenged the election up to the Supreme Court but
    lost. Is Adams Oshiomhole disputing and despising the highest court of
    the land?  It must be noted that he himself became governor by the same
    court judgment.”

    Source: Punch 

  • Saraki: Nigeria’s judicial system working – Buhari

    Saraki: Nigeria’s judicial system working – Buhari

    President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday reacted to the
    Supreme Court’s acquittal of the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki,
    saying the nation’s judicial system is working despite the challenges
    it is facing.

    He said no one should be allowed to undermine or break the judicial system.

    Buhari said this in a statement made available to journalists by his
    Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu.

    The President noted that Saraki took what he described as the
    tortuous path of using the judicial process and persevered until the
    highest court in the land pronounced him not guilty.

    Buhari recalled that he himself took the same path in the three
    elections during which he claimed he was rigged out before finally
    making it at the fourth attempt.

    The President said, “I have seen many instances where individuals and
    groups seek the destruction of the judicial institution in the foolish
    thinking of saving their skin, instead of going through the painstaking
    process of establishing their innocence.

    “In the case of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, I have seen him take the tortuous path of using the judicial process.

    “He persevered, and in the end, the highest court of the land, the Supreme Court, says he is not guilty as charged.

    “This is what I have done in the three elections in which I was
    cheated out before God made it possible for me to come here the fourth
    time I ran for the office.”

    The President said Saraki’s journey from the lowest to the highest
    court of the land provided an important example for Nigerians to
    emulate.

  • Croatia beat Russia on penalties to reach World Cup semi-finals

    Croatia beat Russia on penalties to reach World Cup semi-finals

    Ivan Rakitic scored the winning penalty as Croatia beat
    Russia 4-3 in a shoot-out after a dramatic 2-2 draw on Saturday to end
    the World Cup hopes of the host nation and advance to a semi-final
    against England.

    Brazilian-born Mario Fernandes had kept Russia’s dream alive when he
    headed home in the 115th minute to level the scores and force penalties,
    but he and Fedor Smolov both failed to convert their spot-kicks in
    Sochi.

    Croatia, for whom Andrej Kramaric and Domagoj Vida had earlier found
    the net, advance to their first World Cup semi-final since 1998. They
    will face England, who beat Sweden 2-0 earlier, at the Luzhniki Stadium
    Moscow on Wednesday.

    In contrast for Russia, who had taken the lead through another Denis
    Cheryshev wonder goal in the first half, there is only heartbreak as
    they finally go out.

     They can however be proud of their
    efforts, with a run to the last eight exceeding expectations for a side
    written off as no-hopers before the tournament.

    And it remains to be seen how quickly Croatia — whose President
    Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic was watching from the stands in her country’s
    colours — can recover from this draining night, having also been taken
    to extra time and penalties by Denmark in the last round.

    The arrival of the host nation for the final World Cup match at the
    Fisht Stadium meant by far the most vibrant atmosphere yet at this Black
    Sea beach resort.

    The Russians, riding a wave of euphoria after unexpectedly knocking
    out Spain in the previous round, were determined to carry on to a first
    World Cup semi-final since the break-up of the Soviet Union.

    But Croatia came into this game as the favourites. They may have a
    population of little over four million, but amongst that number are two
    of the finest midfielders in the world in Rakitic and Luka Modric.

    They dominated the match, but Russia contributed to another fantastic occasion in what has been an outstanding World Cup.

    – Cheryshev bolt from the blue –

    The hosts went ahead thanks to a bolt from the blue just after the half-hour mark.

    Cheryshev, who scored three times in the group-stage wins over Saudi
    Arabia and Egypt, was back in the line-up here after beginning on the
    bench against Spain last weekend.

    He cut in from the left, exchanged passes with Artem Dzyuba and
    skipped away from a Modric challenge before firing home a superb shot
    from 25 yards on his left foot.

    Croatia were stunned. But the Russian lead had lasted only eight
    minutes before they drew level, Mario Mandzukic cutting the ball back
    for Kramaric to head home.

    Ivan Perisic hit the post for Croatia in a second half they
    controlled, yet they had to limp on into extra-time, with goalkeeper
    Danijel Subasic providing a scare as he hurt a hamstring late on.

    However, Croatia took the lead for the first time in the 101st
    minute, defender Vida getting his head to a corner to send the ball low
    into the net, helped by substitute Vedran Corluka getting out of the
    way.

    Vida removed his shirt as he ran away in celebration, possibly thinking Croatia were heading through.

    However, Russia found the resources to draw level again, substitute
    Alan Dzagoev holding up a free-kick for Fernandes to head home in the
    115th minute.

    His shoot-out miss proved pivotal, however, especially after Smolov’s weak attempt at a chipped penalty was saved by Subasic.

    For Croatia, Mateo Kovacic had his penalty saved, but Marcelo
    Brozovic, Modric and Vida all netted theirs before Rakitic stroked in
    the winner.

    AFP.

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  • Boko Haram, gunmen kill four soldiers, monarch in Borno, Benue

    Boko Haram, gunmen kill four soldiers, monarch in Borno, Benue

    It was a sad day for the military as the
    Nigerian Army lost an officer and three soldiers to a landmine and an
    ambush by the Boko Haram in Borno State on Sunday.
    Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman
    Also, there was pandemonium in Vingir, a
    town in Kastina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue State, on Monday,
    when unknown gunmen shot dead a traditional ruler, Chief Awuhe Alev, in
    his residence.
    The Acting Director, Army Public
    Relations, Col. Sani Usman, said in a late night statement on Sunday
    that 16 soldiers and three members of the Civilian Joint Task Force were
    also wounded when the troops encountered the landmine between Miyanti
    and Dareljamal in Borno State.
    He said that the troops were on an
    administrative patrol from Maiduguri when they drove into the landmine
    and the ambush set by the insurgents.
    The Army spokesman said that the wounded
    soldiers and their Civilian JTF counterparts had been receiving medical
    attention and were in a stable condition.
    Usman said that the troops cleared the insurgents’ ambush and killed three of them.
    According to him, the troops also
    recovered ‘a machine gun, one AK-47 rifle and some quantity of
    ammunition’ from the insurgents.
    He added that two vehicles which had the encounter with the Improvised Explosive Device were badly damaged.
    He said, “Today, troops of Operation
    Lafiya Dole on administration patrol from Maiduguri encountered an
    Improvised Explosive Device and an ambush between Miyanti and
    Dareljamal, Borno State.
    “The ambush was cleared and three Boko
    Haram terrorists were killed by the troops. They also recovered a
    machine gun, an AK-47 rifle and some quantity of ammunition.
    “Unfortunately, we lost an officer and
    three soldiers, while 16 soldiers and three Civilian JTF members
    sustained injuries during the encounter. Similarly, two vehicles that
    encountered the IED were badly damaged.
    “The wounded have since been evacuated and are in stable condition.”
    Confirming the monarch’s killing to the
    News Agency of Nigeria in Makurdi on Monday, the Police Public Relations
    Officer, ASP Moses Yamu, said unknown gunmen invaded the traditional
    ruler’s house in Vingir on Sunday night and shot him dead.
    He said the police had yet to discover
    the motive for the killing, but added that investigations into the
    murder were in top gear. He assured the people that the culprits would
    soon be arrested.
    The police spokesman said additional
    policemen had been deployed to the area to maintain law and order. He
    appealed to members of the public with useful information that might
    lead to the arrest of the culprits to volunteer them to security
    agencies.





    Meanwhile, NAN reported that a village
    in Mbayongo had recently been under siege from security operatives in
    search of Mr. Terwase Akwaza, Governor Samuel Ortom’s former aide, who
    had been accused of killing, kidnapping and cattle rustling.
    Yamu said that more police men have been
    deployed to the area while investigation has already commenced with a
    view to arresting the perpetrators.
    Katsina-Ala had witnessed several
    robbery incidents as a result of a recent pronouncement by the state
    government, declaring the notorious criminal, Terwase Akwaza, alias
    ‘Ghana’, wanted.
    Some weeks ago, soldiers had invaded
    Gbise in search of ‘Ghana’ and when they could not find him, they
    destroyed several of his property including a school.
  • Bola Ahmed Tinubu and those who want him dead – FFK

    Bola Ahmed Tinubu and those who want him dead – FFK

    I do not like to delve into matters touching and concerning the APC because I am not a member. However what is happening in the ruling party today transcends partisan politics and should be a concern to us all. At the very least we can learn some very hard lessons from it.

    The truth is that the behaviour of Chief John Odige-Oyegun towards the man that single-handedly made him the National Chairman of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is reprehensible. 

    And neither does this matter begin or end with the way and manner in which the Ondo state governorship  primaries were conducted or its final outcome. 

    It goes much deeper than that and the Ondo affair is only symptomatic of a much deeper malaise and wider conspiracy to humiliate the National Leader of the APC by forces within his party that are even greater than him. 

    Those forces represent the hidden hand. They are a small cabal of power-brokers who constitute the leadership of the Buhari-led CPC. These people believe that they were born to rule and that they own Nigeria. 

    They simply used Tinubu’s old ACN as a compliant and ready piggy-back to catapult their way back to power and once they achieved that they never looked back. 

    Some of us warned Tinubu at the time about the dangers of riding the tiger and allowing himself to be used by these very dark and sinister forces but he would not listen. 

    No true student of history could have made such a cataclysmic and monumental error given the terrible experiences of others from the south-west, and indeed the entire south, who collaborated with such ultra-conservative, sectarian and arcane forces with a clear and distinct ethnic and religious agenda in the past. 

    Such forces can never be comfortable with a well-connected, highly sophisticated, independent-minded, strong, unpredictable, uncontrollable and experienced Yoruba leader and southern gladiator with a June 12th pedigree, a NADECO background, a massive war-chest and a widespread and formidable political base. 

    They may use him to achieve their objective but they can never trust him or allow him to have control of the party machinery or to wield any real power when it comes to running the affairs of the nation. 

    Most importantly once they have finished using him it becomes their duty and cardinal objective not just to cut him down to size but also to castrate and render him impotent and eventually destroy him.

    That is their way. It is also a classic and vintage Nicollo Machiavelli move. This great writer that has had more influence on political thinking and strategies than perhaps any other author in human history taught us a critical and crucial lesson in his famous 14th century literary masterpiece and treatise on the power game titled “The Prince”. He tells us that the first thing that a Prince must do once he has achieved power is to destroy those that put him there. 

    And that is precisely what those that seek to do Tinubu in are doing. Worst still they are using his own erstwhile discipiles as a first line of attack against him. 

    It is not just Odige-Oyegun that has turned his back on him but also his former political protegees and former ACN associates like Tunde Fashola, Ibikunle Amosu, Kayode Fayemi, Biodun Ajimobi, Olorunimbe Mamora, Niyi Adebayo, Rotimi Akeredolu and numerous others. 

    Pulling the strings from behind the scenes and encouraging and funding the rebellion are hardline Buhari-supporters like my good friend Governor Nasir El Rufai and a number of others. 

    Their objective is to establish a new political order in the south west which is beholden to them alone, to replace Tinubu as the National Leader of the party and to utterly demystify and crush him in order to prepare the ground for the emergence of a new and more compliant Yoruba running mate for either Buhari himself or El Rufai in 2019. 

    As a graphic illustration of this interesting and unfolding agenda, the powers that be in the APC, led by Buhari himself, fired six shots at Tinubu inmediately after they formed  government. 

    The first was the Senate Presidency affair and the Bukola Saraki matter which saw the defeat and humiliation of Tinubu’s prefered candidate for Senate President. 

    The second shot was the Speaker of the House of Representatives affair and the Yakubu Dogara matter which, again, saw the defeat and humiliation of Tinibu’s prefered candidate for the position of Speaker of the House. 

    The third was the vital issue of Ministerial appointments in which not one single Ministerial nominee of Tinubu’s was accepted and appointed as a Minister by Buhari. 

    Every single person that he nominated from the south west and elsewhere as Minister was rejected and instead the slots were filled by his political adversaries and/or their nominees.

    Many erroneously believe that Mr. Lai Mohammed, who is from Kwara state, was Tinubu’s choice and nominee for Minister of Information but this was not the case. 

    The person that he nominated for Minister of Information was not Lai Mohammed but Mr. Dele Alake, his former Commissioner of Information in Lagos state. 

    Again he nominated Mr. Wale Edun, his former Commissioner of Finance in Lagos state, for the position of Minister of Finance but this was rejected and Governor Ibikunle Amosu’s candidate, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, got the job instead. 

    This went on across the board for every single person that Tinubu nominated and presented for the position of Minister last year and it was a terrible humiliation for him. It was a dirty slap in his face. 

    The fourth shot was the James Faleke matter in Kogi state where it was agreed by the real landlords of the APC in the core north that Tinubu must not be allowed to gain a foothold in the north central zone by getting his own Yoruba kinsman and candidate to be elected as governor of that state. 

    Hence Faleke was ruthlessly dropped and shabbily treated and another person was selected to be the gubernatorial candidate of that state. It worked, Faleke went to court and sadly he lost. That was the end of the story.

    The fifth shot is the thorough and systematic, though subtle and covert, humiliation and relegation of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, a close associate and political protegee of Tinubu and a spiritual son of the reverred Pastor Enoch Adeboye of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), to not just a spare tyre as Vice President but also to a very flat one.

    Rather than being allowed to participate in the crucial decision-making processes on vital and critical issues of state and governance as any Vice President should,  Osinbajo has been kept in the dark about virtually everything and he has little or no power to effect anything. 

    When such decions are to be debated, discussed and made the Vice President is never invited into the room and neither is he even aware that there is such a meeting going on.

    Worse still he is constantly being directed to represent the President at official functions all over the country as if he were more his Personal Assistant, Special Advisor or Minister rather than the Vice President of the country. Osinbajo’s crime is simply that he is loyal to Tinubu and he has refused to dump or betray him. 

    The sixth and perhaps most devastating shot is the fact that the party machinery has not only been taken away from Tinubu with the effective highjacking of Odige-Oyegun but that it has also opted to do the bidding of his mortal enemies and to fight him. 

    An eloquent testimony to this disturbing fact is the outcome of the Ondo state gubernatorial primaries where Tinubu’s candidate was edged out and cheated of the nomination by the party leadership. 

    This was the last straw that broke the camels back and predictably Tinubu has reacted in a very loud, aggressive and profound manner by publicly calling for the removal of the National Chairman of the party. 

    Yet calling for the removal of Odigie-Oyegun is not enough. The whole situation calls for critical thiking, sober reflection and deep retrospection. 

    The point that needs to be clearly understood when considering these six shots and the unfolding anti-Tinubu agenda within the APC is the fact that, contrary to all pretensions, President Muhammadu Buhari is part and parcel of it and he is in fact the moving spirit behind the whole conspiracy. 

    Nasir El Rufai and a number of others are simply the strategists and enforcers. Buhari, Mamman Daura and Abba Kyari are the masterminds.

    Given all this one thing is clear: these people want Tinubu dead. If he does not realign quickly and fight hard to save his dwindling political fortunes and empire his APC friends and allies will destroy him in a slow, clinical, sadistic and systematic manner. And they will do it with a big, beautiful and friendly smile on their faces.

    The fact of the matter is that, right from the outset, Tinubu failed to accept the fact that he was in bed with demons. 

    He refused to appreciate the fact that he was sleeping with beasts that are hell bent on eating his flesh, driniking his blood and ruthlessly implementing an ancient ethnic and religious agenda. 

    He gave them his all, caused them to win an election and trusted them to honor their word and treat him with respect and decorum. 

    He failed to appreciate the fact that you cannot make a deal with snakes and expect them to honor their word. 

    He forgot that you cannot wine and dine with cancerous lepers and hungry tigers without ending up being served as the final dish in a long, blood-curdling and Byzantian satanic feast. 

    Yet if the truth is to be told, no matter what mistakes he may have made, Tinubu does not deserve to be treated in this way. 

    Up until the Presidential elections were conducted last year he led and held together the south-western wing of the APC with an iron fist and he was the undisputed leader of the APC in that zone. 

    All four APC governors from the south west and virtually every single party leader waited on his every word and he called all the shots. 

    Sadly today, just over one year later, he is a caricature of his former self. Today Tinubu can only boast of having the ear and the full support of only two of those govermors, namely Rauf Aregbesola of Osun state, who will NEVER betray him no matter what, and Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos state who will also stand firmly behind him until the very end. 

    The truth is that Tinubu has lost much ground and political mileage in recent times and, as more daggers are pulled out over the next few months and years it is bound to get worse for him.

    Yet that does not mean that he is finished. I say this because he is a tried and tested fighter and a formidable adversary who is quite capable of pulling the whole APC house down. 

    It would be a fatal error for any of his adversaries, including President Buhari, Vice President Atiku Abubakar or Senate President Bukola Saraki, to underestimate him or dismiss his ability to fight back.

    In July 2016, just after my release from detention and during the course of an interview with Channels Television (which can still be viewed on Youtube) Mr. Seun Okinbaloye asked me whether I could ever contemplate going back to the APC and how I thought the ruling party would fare into the future. 

    I told him that I would NEVER go back to the APC under ANY circumstances. I also told him that in any case by 2019 there would not be an APC, as it is presently constituted, left because the party would have spilt up into three separate and distinct political entities. 

    I told him that the Tinubu group comprising of men like Baba Bisi Akande, Rauf Aregbesola, Akinwummi Ambode and others would establish one party, the Atiku Abubakar group comprising of men like Bukola Saraki, Rabiu Kwakwanso and many of the former PDP leaders and governors that had left for the APC when President Goodluck Jonathan was in power would establish another and that the Buhari group comprising of men like Nasir El Rufai, Bello Masari, Aminu Tambuwal, Rotimi Amaechi, Rochas Okorocha, Chris Ngige, Ogbonaya Onu, Adams Oshiomole and virtually the entire structure of the old CPC leadership in the core north would constitute yet another. I stand by this prediction. 

    These three strong and equally forceful factions can be likened to the proverbial three blind yet ravenous wolves. 

    They cannot stay in the same cage or remain on the same platform for long without tearing each other to pieces. 

    Eventually they will all go their separate ways and, hopefully, contend with a newly-branded  and reinvigotated PDP in the field of battle in 2019. 

    What we are witnessing today in the ranks of the APC is the beginning of that bitter separation and messy divorce and it is going to get far worse. 

    It will be loud, bitter, acrimonious and rancorous and many political empires, careers and aspirations will be destroyed as a consequence of it. 

    My hope and prayer is that the PDP, which is also going through its own rigorous process of redefinition and reinvigoration, can get its act together before then, take advantage of the situation, pick up the pieces and win the presidential election in 2019. I am sure that we will. 

    Meanwhile my advise to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is to watch his back, consolidate his base, fight his enemies, reach out to new friends, accept the fact that he is at war and sleep with one eye wide open. The truth is that it will get far worse before it gets any better.





  • Germany blocks WhatsApp data transfers to Facebook

    Germany blocks WhatsApp data transfers to Facebook

    German data protection authorities on
    Tuesday said they had blocked Facebook from collecting subscriber data
    from its subsidiary WhatsApp, citing privacy concerns.
    Facebook and WhatsApp promised in the
    wake of the Silicon Valley giant’s 2014 acquisition of the messaging app
    that they would not share data, Hamburg’s Commissioner for Data
    Protection and Freedom of Information Johannes Caspar recalled in a
    statement.
    He added that Facebook would be required to delete any data already received from WhatsApp in Germany.
    “It has to be (the users’) decision
    whether they want to connect their account with Facebook,” Caspar said.
    “Facebook has to ask for their permission in advance.”
    WhatsApp announced in August that it
    would begin sharing data with Facebook, in a bid to allow better
    targeted advertising and fight spam on the platform.
    Currently, users of the instant
    messenger must opt out of sending information to Facebook through
    WhatsApp’s settings on their smartphone.
    Caspar said that he had acted to protect
    the privacy of 35 million WhatsApp users in Germany — a fraction of
    some one billion worldwide — and that of people saved in their address
    books, whose details might also be forwarded under the data-sharing
    arrangement.





    Facebook’s activities in German-speaking
    regions are managed through its subsidiary in Hamburg, placing the firm
    under the jurisdiction of the regulator in the northern port city.
    Spokespeople for Facebook could not immediately be reached for comment on the ruling.
    WhatsApp’s announcement that it would
    share information with Facebook came just four months after the service
    introduced end-to-end encryption by default, saying that the content of
    messages would become unreadable for anyone except the sender and
    receiver.
    In mid-September, the European
    Commission recommended tighter privacy and security requirements for
    services including WhatsApp and Microsoft-owned video calling service
    Skype, saying they should be regulated more like traditional telecoms.
    Subjecting the internet firms to such
    rules could force them to offer emergency calling services and to obey
    stricter privacy rules.
    AFP