Yet once I joined I began to see things as they really were. I have never been and will never be part of a cult and the fact that people like Mohammed and those he represents within the APC are not comfortable with any form of admonition or criticism from senior party members like me speaks volumes
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And what was her problem? She felt God has failed her. Though very hardworking, educated, but has not received promotion at work for more than a decade, broken marriage, and recently she also had a ghastly accident that almost took her life
What has the enemy taken away from you? What did you lose because of your disobedience, mistakes or ignorance? Look at it being restored now as you go through this message
Look at what happened at the Pool of Bethesda in John chapter five. The sick man lying there had almost everything against him before Jesus stepped into the situation
Aside from being the motto of the Labour Party (which reads: Equal Opportunities and Social Justice), where he is seeking to govern Ekiti State, Michael Opeyemi Bamidele himself is equal opportunities personified
These criminals are daily losing several of their men to coordinated and sustained offensive launched by our military and other security officers in different encounters
This was even as he argued that the immediate past Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of Administration, Barrister Joel Azubuko Udah, would have been the best IGP, Nigeria and indeed, the police force never had
Although I have ordered a low-key commemoration of this year’s Democracy Day in deference to the current mood of the nation, there can be no doubt that the past 15 years, the longest period of sustained democratic governance in our country, have been a blessing to us, as a people.
Democracy Day marks the turning point in our history, when we – as a nation – defied all odds and expectations, and chose to rebuild our motherland on the principles adhered to by many nations before us: that the people of a country can stand sovereign over their elected leaders, by exercising their right to choose at the ballot box
The guy later gave her some money before she left. He told me that the lady works with one of the phone network service providers in the country and that her salary was incredibly attractive. When he had probed further, she said she does the Badoo runs as ‘part time
In many ways, the PDP has, in its 15-year rule, come to symbolize democratic rule in Nigeria – and deserves credit for the longest streak of interrupted civilian (non-military) rule in Nigeria’s history. To their credit and that of the nation, PDP has given this country a seamless, civilian-to-civilian succession, another novelty because that had been the breaking point of many African democracies
Who is afraid of Hon. Michael Opeyemi Bamidele? This is a million dollar question agitating minds of keen watchers of…
The range of bloody violence and insurgencies of all dimensions and especially the unprecedented bombing attacks by the armed Islamic insurgents known as Boko Haram over the last three years, Nigeria is facing serious challenges to her survival and understandably the current Federal administration is rated as one of the most antagonized civil administration in the political annals of Nigeria. President Good Luck Jonathan has over the past three years introduced multi dimensional strategies to resolve these unrests and violence of monumental dimension
Since the kidnapping of the over 200 girls in Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State, there have been several protests. Some have been well-intended, while others were clearly motivated by a desire to be in the limelight, especially by those enemies of the president that see it as a political opportunity. Anyway, sometimes opportunity is the midst of tragedy is sometime symptomatic of politics of negativity
Prior to his eventual foray into partisan politics back then in 1991 during the days of the Social Democratic Party and National Republican Convention, the name Michael Opeyemi Bamidele had resounded several times in the political struggle that gave birth to the Nigeria’s Third Republic under former military President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida
The above information is not the focus of this piece. The news is what has transpired since the Holy Father, Pope Francis, touched down in West Bank, the Palestinian controlled territory, during which he held high level diplomatic meetings with the political authorities of the Palestinian homeland headed by Mahmood Abbas (Mr. Abu Muazu)
For some it was good. And then some of us started blaming the Christians for it. And then by the time they had set us up, all questioning each other; all having blamed each other; all having eaten each other’s flesh and drank the blood therein; all having demonstrated our weakness, that our lack of humanity, our predisposition to clamor only when we felt it was one of ours, then the monster revealed its true blood-thirsty self and bombed and killed everyone
The media had reported that Khosravi, the billionaire businessman, was executed at Evin Prison, North of Tehran for involvement in a $2.6 billion state bank scam, the largest fraud case since the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution
Arriving as a leader in a state that not many seeking peace and pleasure would want to live, there is a grandiose display of the realization that the power pails into insignificance if it does not translate into a tool for changing history from an unenviable past to a new world of possibilities
The revolution of and on behalf of the Nigerian masses can no longer be ignored as it has recently assumed new dimensions, with the military junior officers joining in, and the international community also in no weak terms, raising the urgency of the compromised plight of the nation’s people in the hands of devastating, failed, corrupt leadership and regime facilitated terrorism.
For the second time in barely two weeks, Nigeria’s 7th division soldiers drafted to combat Boko Haram in the northeast have revolted against their commanders