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Saturday, January 15, 2011
And He Picked His Ticket Too For A Second Term . . . . .Goodluck Sir.
Benue State Governor His Execellency Rt Hon. Gabriel Suswan.
Governor Gabriel Suswam, on Sunday, won the Benue State PDP gubernatorial primary, which was decided at the Aper Aku Stadiun, Makurdi, just as he lauded the Benue members of the party for granting him another mandate to fly the party’s flag at the April polls.
He defeated his opponent, Mr Terver Kahki, to emerge winner of the election which was conducted under a peaceful atmosphere.
The governor lauded party members for the overwhelming votes given him and described the victory as an energiser to serve the people better than he did in his first term.
Nollywood Actress. Dakore Egbuson And Olumide Akande Set To Wed On The 16 January 2011.
Come Saturday January 16, 2011, top Nollywood actress, Dakore Egbuson and Olumide Akande will be pronounced husband and wife.
The wedding planning is said to be well planned that without an invitation card it would be impossible to get into the venue.
As expected the wedding will be a talk of the town for a long time to come with caliber of guests expected at the event. The father of the groom, Chief Harry Akande is a crowd puller and he is not sparing any cost to make his first son’s wedding a huge success.
The couple had dated for over 4 years before Olumide proposed at a surprise dinner party in Chicago last summer.
Wishing the couple Happy Married Life.
Oshiomhole’s daughter’s wedding.
IT
WAS a tale of two high octane weddings Saturday as dignitaries stormed
Abuja for the weddings of Jane Oshiomhole, daughter of the Edo State
Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, who got married to Achimugu Aduku,
and the wedding of Nkechi Madueke to Dr. Edozie Akunyili, the son of
former Minister for Information, Prof. Dora Akunyili.
The
two weddings held at Holy Trinity Church in Maitama, Abuja. While the
wedding of Akuyili’s son held between the hours of 12 noon to 2pm, that
of the Edo State Governor’s daughter held between the hours of 2pm to
4pm.
The
dignitaries that graced the wedding of the Oshiomhole’s daughter
included the First Lady of the country, Dame Patience Jonathan who was
the Mother of the Day, the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Raji
Fashola, former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the
Governor of Ekiti, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, Governor of Anambra, Peter Obi and
his wife and the Chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Chief
Bisi Akande.
Others
are Senator Oloruninmbe Mamorah, former Governor of Rivers State,
Peter Odili and his wife, former Governor of Edo State, Lucky
Igbinedion, Mrs. Titi Atiku, the wife of the presidential aspirant,
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Chief Tom Ikimi, former External Affairs Minister
and a host of others.
The
Benin council of Chiefs were also at the wedding in representation of
the Oba of Benin and Commissioners and Sate House of Assembly members
from the Edo Sate legislature, women and youth groups also graced the
occasion.
Some of the guests attended the two weddings which both had the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan as the Mother of the day.
Speaking
at the wedding of Jane and Achimugu, Reverend Father Matthew Kukah in
his sermon observed that though the wedding was meant to have held on
the 18th of December 2010, it was shifted to yesterday because of the
death of Jane’s mother who was buried on the 17th of December, adding
that nonetheless, the event still remained a thing of joy because of his
great conviction that the spirit of her mother was present at the
event.
He
traced the prevalent causes of divorce and its high incidence in
different countries saying that the couple should make God the focus in
order to have a good marriage.
Kukah
said that there was the need for the wife to respect her husband and
for the husband to love the wife, adding that the couple has a
responsibility to ensure that their marriage succeeds.
The
wedding of Akunyili’s son, Edozie also witnessed a full church
attendance with a lot of serving member of the executive in attendance
as well as Prof. Akunyili’s political supporters who came in different
buses to the venue.
The
reception for the wedding of Jane and Achimugu held at the Thisday Dome
with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the Chairman of the occasion.
Tinubu
enjoined the couple to live in love and harmony and to have respect for
each other in order to have a sustainable relationship.
Nkechi and Edozie’s wedding reception held at the International Conference Centre.
Almost
all the roads leading to the Church were blocked by the heavy traffic
caused by the unusually large number of guests that came from different
States of the country for the two separate events.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Nuhu Ribadu Gets ACN Presidential Ticket.
Former boss of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Malam Nuhu, has emerged the presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN. Ribadu was officially declared the presidential candidate of ACN after two other aspirants, Attahiru Bafarawa, former governor of Sokoto State, and Seidu Malami withdrew from the race at the party’s national convention held today at Onikan Stadium in Lagos, South West Nigeria.
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PDP Presidential Primaries In Abuja In Pictures.
PDP Primaries result. Goodluck Jonathan wins! Photos from the primaries.
Nigeria's president Goodluck Jonathan (L) addresses delegates next to vice-president Namadi Sambo | . |
Party delegate and former president Olusegun Obasanjo attends the primaries |
Security at the primaries |
Delegates vote |
Party delegates wait after voting in the presidential primaries |
People gather around a truck with voting materials at the ruling party primary in Abuja |
A party delegate and Nigeria's ambassador to Ireland, Kema Chikwe, attends the primaries |
Delegates from Nasarawa |
Performance |
Delegates from various states cast their votes |
Members of Nigeria's civil defense corps |
Delegatea from Plateau State, led by Gov. Jona Jang, centre |
Former Nigerian vice-president Atiku Abubakar (R) and presidential aspirant leaves the podium after addressing delegates |
A delegate votes during the primaries |
Atiku with Sarah Jubril |
Delegates voting |