EPL RESULTS Saturday, March 9
FT: Crystal Palace 1 vs Brighton & Hove Albion 2
FT: Cardiff City 2 vs West Ham United 0
FT: Huddersfield Town 0 vs AFC Bournemouth 2
FT: Leicester City 3 vs Fulham 1
FT: Newcastle United 3 vs Everton 2
FT: Southampton 2 vs Tottenham Hotspur 1
18:30 Manchester City vs Watford
Saturday, 9 March 2019
Ayokunle For Peaceful Election
AYOKUNLE APPEALS TO MAINTAIN PEACE DURING AND AFTER ELECTIONS
The President of the Nigerian Baptist convention and Christian Association of Nigeria, Rev Dr Supo Ayokunle has appealed to Nigerians to maintain peace during and after the gubernatorial and state Houses elections.
President Ayokunle who gave the advice in Ibadan said as Nigerians decide who will govern them in various states for another four years in different political positions there is the need to eschew violence.
“I am aware of the actions and efforts each political party and individuals have made to make the electorates vote for them during the campaign periods.
In all of these, I appeal to the Independent National Electoral Commission to ensure they conduct free and fair elections , as that’s the expectation of Nigerians and the international observers watching.
Nigerians want peace and unity and we must all work towards the Unity of the country.
I appeal to the security agencies to ensure violence free elections . The live of Nigerians must be protected and the Election Materials and properties must be safeguarded. In this elections there shall be no blood shed. All candidates must know that election is not a do or die affair. The life of our corps member that will participate in the election process must be protected, also the electorates from any violence.
Furthermore, political parties and their agents in various polling units should follow due process in the discharge of their duties without violence or instigating one against another.
However, the electorate who are in possession of their Permanent Voters card should participate in the elections without fear. Your Vote is your power and must be guided well. Think about the greater good of Nigeria and not allow primordial sentiment to becloud us from seeing the four wonderful years ahead. Electorate should ensure they vote the candidate of their choice without any intimidation and inducement. Do not sell your vote.
I enjoined you all to be vigilant during the voting exercise and promptly report any suspicious undertaking at voting centres. Electorates are admonished to stay away from any violent act, mob action, lawlessness etc.
Nigeria is a great country with good people, I pray as we go to the poll to decide who governs us for another four years, God in his infinite mercy will make us vote aright. Nigeria shall be great again. The labour of our heroes past shall never be in vain.
God Bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Signed.
Eben Durodola
PRO, Nigerian Baptist Convention
The President of the Nigerian Baptist convention and Christian Association of Nigeria, Rev Dr Supo Ayokunle has appealed to Nigerians to maintain peace during and after the gubernatorial and state Houses elections.
President Ayokunle who gave the advice in Ibadan said as Nigerians decide who will govern them in various states for another four years in different political positions there is the need to eschew violence.
“I am aware of the actions and efforts each political party and individuals have made to make the electorates vote for them during the campaign periods.
In all of these, I appeal to the Independent National Electoral Commission to ensure they conduct free and fair elections , as that’s the expectation of Nigerians and the international observers watching.
Nigerians want peace and unity and we must all work towards the Unity of the country.
I appeal to the security agencies to ensure violence free elections . The live of Nigerians must be protected and the Election Materials and properties must be safeguarded. In this elections there shall be no blood shed. All candidates must know that election is not a do or die affair. The life of our corps member that will participate in the election process must be protected, also the electorates from any violence.
Furthermore, political parties and their agents in various polling units should follow due process in the discharge of their duties without violence or instigating one against another.
However, the electorate who are in possession of their Permanent Voters card should participate in the elections without fear. Your Vote is your power and must be guided well. Think about the greater good of Nigeria and not allow primordial sentiment to becloud us from seeing the four wonderful years ahead. Electorate should ensure they vote the candidate of their choice without any intimidation and inducement. Do not sell your vote.
I enjoined you all to be vigilant during the voting exercise and promptly report any suspicious undertaking at voting centres. Electorates are admonished to stay away from any violent act, mob action, lawlessness etc.
Nigeria is a great country with good people, I pray as we go to the poll to decide who governs us for another four years, God in his infinite mercy will make us vote aright. Nigeria shall be great again. The labour of our heroes past shall never be in vain.
God Bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Signed.
Eben Durodola
PRO, Nigerian Baptist Convention
Friday, 8 March 2019
Stop Gloating, Atiku Will Reclaim His Mandate - PDP tells Buhari
March 8, 2019
Press Statement
PDP To Buhari: Stop Gloating, Atiku 'll Soon Reclaim His Mandate
…Says Renewed Attack On PDP is Diversionary
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) charges President Muhammadu Buhari to stop gloating and showboating on Nigerians with the stolen 2019 Presidential mandate, as the people's candidate, Atiku Abubakar would soon retrieve it from him at the tribunal.
The party further describes President Buhari’s renewed attack and blame game on PDP administrations as a lame attempt to divert public attention from the overwhelming evidence that he rigged the elections, as well as from the plots by his Presidency to obstruct the clear winner, Atiku Abubakar, from going to the tribunal to reclaim the mandate freely given to him by Nigerians.
It indeed speaks volumes that President Buhari, in his claimed integrity and anti-corruption stance, is grandstanding over the violent rigging of the elections and his attempt to foist himself into a second term in office on the pedestal of stolen votes.
President Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC) should know that the PDP and Nigerians are focused and will not be distracted by any sort of blackmail in the pursuit of the mandate and we are confident that our justices will never allow an illegitimate government to sit over the affairs of our dear nation.
Moreover, if anybody has a question to answer on the administration of the nation’s resources, it is President Buhari, who has not been able to offer any explanation on the looting of over N14 trillion from revenue generating agencies in a space of three years under his direct supervision.
We ask; was it the PDP that siphoned over N9 trillion, through underhand contracts, as detailed in the leaked NNPC memo, in the same sector President Buhari directly supervises as Minister of Petroleum Resources?
Was it the PDP that stole the over N1.1 trillion worth of crude illegally lifted and diverted with 18 unregistered companies in 2017; the over N1.4 trillion in fraudulent oil subsidy regime and many more scams, including funds meant for the welfare of victims of insurgency in the North East under the Buhari administration?
Whereas the PDP administrations created wealth and applied our national resources on massive infrastructural development in all critical sectors; paid off our huge foreign and domestic debts and grew our economy to be one of fastest growing in the world, President Buhari, within a space of three years ran our economy into recession and cannot point to any development project his administration initiated and completed despite the huge opportunities at his disposal.
President Buhari must note that Nigerians are no longer interested in his incompetence and blame game and this is the very reason they voted massively against him on February 23. He should therefore end his diversionary tactics and get ready to meet the people’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in court.
Signed:
Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary
And
Director, Media & Publicity
PDP Presidential Campaign Organization
Press Statement
PDP To Buhari: Stop Gloating, Atiku 'll Soon Reclaim His Mandate
…Says Renewed Attack On PDP is Diversionary
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) charges President Muhammadu Buhari to stop gloating and showboating on Nigerians with the stolen 2019 Presidential mandate, as the people's candidate, Atiku Abubakar would soon retrieve it from him at the tribunal.
The party further describes President Buhari’s renewed attack and blame game on PDP administrations as a lame attempt to divert public attention from the overwhelming evidence that he rigged the elections, as well as from the plots by his Presidency to obstruct the clear winner, Atiku Abubakar, from going to the tribunal to reclaim the mandate freely given to him by Nigerians.
It indeed speaks volumes that President Buhari, in his claimed integrity and anti-corruption stance, is grandstanding over the violent rigging of the elections and his attempt to foist himself into a second term in office on the pedestal of stolen votes.
President Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC) should know that the PDP and Nigerians are focused and will not be distracted by any sort of blackmail in the pursuit of the mandate and we are confident that our justices will never allow an illegitimate government to sit over the affairs of our dear nation.
Moreover, if anybody has a question to answer on the administration of the nation’s resources, it is President Buhari, who has not been able to offer any explanation on the looting of over N14 trillion from revenue generating agencies in a space of three years under his direct supervision.
We ask; was it the PDP that siphoned over N9 trillion, through underhand contracts, as detailed in the leaked NNPC memo, in the same sector President Buhari directly supervises as Minister of Petroleum Resources?
Was it the PDP that stole the over N1.1 trillion worth of crude illegally lifted and diverted with 18 unregistered companies in 2017; the over N1.4 trillion in fraudulent oil subsidy regime and many more scams, including funds meant for the welfare of victims of insurgency in the North East under the Buhari administration?
Whereas the PDP administrations created wealth and applied our national resources on massive infrastructural development in all critical sectors; paid off our huge foreign and domestic debts and grew our economy to be one of fastest growing in the world, President Buhari, within a space of three years ran our economy into recession and cannot point to any development project his administration initiated and completed despite the huge opportunities at his disposal.
President Buhari must note that Nigerians are no longer interested in his incompetence and blame game and this is the very reason they voted massively against him on February 23. He should therefore end his diversionary tactics and get ready to meet the people’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in court.
Signed:
Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary
And
Director, Media & Publicity
PDP Presidential Campaign Organization
Thursday, 7 March 2019
Stop Pitching Military Against Nigerians - PDP tells Buratai
March 7, 2019
Press Statement
PDP To Buratai: Stop Pitching Military Against Nigerians
…Says Soldiers For Election Is Triggering Crime Against Humanity
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) cautions the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, over the deployment of soldiers for elections, saying such is already triggering an uncontrolled crime against humanity in our nation.
This usurpation of the responsibility of the police and involvement of soldiers in the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections, led to the gruesome killing of over 30 innocent Nigerians in the Niger Delta as well as arbitrary arrest and detention of opposition figures, resulting in escalated insecurity in the region.
The deployment of soldiers for the 2019 general elections, despite the extant ruling of the Supreme Court against such, is part of the grand plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to use the military to suppress opposition, instill fear in the citizenry and forcefully rig the elections.
Gen. Buratai’s outburst on Wednesday, that the Army will be 'tough’ in its unconstitutional involvement in the conduct of elections, particularly in the Niger Delta, the South East and the North Central, appears to be a license to trigger-happy security agents to re-enact or even scale up their February 23 aggression against PDP figures in the March 9 governorship and State Assembly elections.
The PDP invites Nigerians to note that following Gen. Buratai’s statement on Wednesday, soldiers last night commenced a targeted manhandling and mass arrest of PDP leaders in Delta, Rivers, Akwa-Ibom and Bayelsa states.
In Rivers state, PDP leaders are being tracked down, arrested and taken to unknown destinations. The State Commissioner of Education, Dr. Tam Gogo Jaja, who was picked up by soldiers attached to the Director General of the Buhari Campaign Organization and Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, is still being held in an unknown facility.
Furthermore, compromised security agents have been hounding, arresting and detaining PDP figures in the North Central states of Kogi, Benue, Kwara and Plateau states ahead of the March 9 elections.
The PDP laments that the APC is pitching the military against Nigerians not minding the collateral damage that usually occurs whenever soldiers clash with civilians.
This is particularly given the fact that Nigerians in all PDP strongholds, spread across our country, are resolute in their resistance of any force that seeks to subvert their will at the March 9 elections.
Nigerians should call on Gen. Buratai to redirect his officers and men from participating in the March 9 election so as to avert any breakdown of law and order in any part of our country before, during and after the March 9 elections.
Signed:
Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary
And
Director, Media & Publicity
PDP Presidential Campaign Organization
Press Statement
PDP To Buratai: Stop Pitching Military Against Nigerians
…Says Soldiers For Election Is Triggering Crime Against Humanity
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) cautions the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, over the deployment of soldiers for elections, saying such is already triggering an uncontrolled crime against humanity in our nation.
This usurpation of the responsibility of the police and involvement of soldiers in the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections, led to the gruesome killing of over 30 innocent Nigerians in the Niger Delta as well as arbitrary arrest and detention of opposition figures, resulting in escalated insecurity in the region.
The deployment of soldiers for the 2019 general elections, despite the extant ruling of the Supreme Court against such, is part of the grand plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to use the military to suppress opposition, instill fear in the citizenry and forcefully rig the elections.
Gen. Buratai’s outburst on Wednesday, that the Army will be 'tough’ in its unconstitutional involvement in the conduct of elections, particularly in the Niger Delta, the South East and the North Central, appears to be a license to trigger-happy security agents to re-enact or even scale up their February 23 aggression against PDP figures in the March 9 governorship and State Assembly elections.
The PDP invites Nigerians to note that following Gen. Buratai’s statement on Wednesday, soldiers last night commenced a targeted manhandling and mass arrest of PDP leaders in Delta, Rivers, Akwa-Ibom and Bayelsa states.
In Rivers state, PDP leaders are being tracked down, arrested and taken to unknown destinations. The State Commissioner of Education, Dr. Tam Gogo Jaja, who was picked up by soldiers attached to the Director General of the Buhari Campaign Organization and Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, is still being held in an unknown facility.
Furthermore, compromised security agents have been hounding, arresting and detaining PDP figures in the North Central states of Kogi, Benue, Kwara and Plateau states ahead of the March 9 elections.
The PDP laments that the APC is pitching the military against Nigerians not minding the collateral damage that usually occurs whenever soldiers clash with civilians.
This is particularly given the fact that Nigerians in all PDP strongholds, spread across our country, are resolute in their resistance of any force that seeks to subvert their will at the March 9 elections.
Nigerians should call on Gen. Buratai to redirect his officers and men from participating in the March 9 election so as to avert any breakdown of law and order in any part of our country before, during and after the March 9 elections.
Signed:
Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary
And
Director, Media & Publicity
PDP Presidential Campaign Organization
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Guber Poll: Steet Clear of Niger Delta Region - PDP Warns Buhari, APC
March 6, 2019
Press Statement
March 9: Steer Clear of Niger Delta, PDP Cautions Buhari, APC
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) cautions President Muhammadu Buhari and his prowling All Progressives Congress (APC) to steer clear of all PDP strongholds, particularly the Niger Delta region, ahead of the March 9, Governorship and State Assembly elections, in order to avert a widespread crisis in our country.
The party also counsels Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and APC factional National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, to perish APC’s thoughts of using thugs to muscle the Akwa-Ibom governorship and state assembly elections, as the people have been fully rallied for a firm resistance on Saturday.
PDP’s position is predicated on the on-going heavy shipment of security forces and armed thugs into PDP strongholds, particularly, the Niger Delta region, with the view to suppress voters and manipulate the March 9 electoral process for the APC.
Since the robbery of the PDP's Presidential mandate, which Nigerians are determined to reclaim at the tribunal, the APC has been jittery over the escalated public support for the PDP not only to retain our states but also to ensure a sweeping victory for PDP in APC states across the country.
As a result, the APC is desperate to unleash violence in oil rich Akwa-Ibom, Rivers, Cross River, Delta, Bayelsa, Abia, as well as Benue, Taraba, Gombe, Sokoto, Enugu, Ebonyi, Kwara, but these states and all other strongholds of the PDP, spanning across our nation, remain impregnable.
The PDP warns that Nigerians are still livid over the rigging of the February 23 Presidential election, which was clearly won by Atiku Abubakar. As such, any further attempt to test their collective will on March 9 is capable of sparking off a huge civil restiveness across our nation.
We invite Nigerians to note how Osinbajo, on Tuesday, at a town hall meeting in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom state, boasted that he and Oshiomhole will ensure that the APC will never be defeated and how thugs, loaded in over 50 buses, who confessed to have been contracted by Oshiomhole, were later intercepted on their way from Edo state to Akwa-Ibom to cause mayhem during Saturday’s election.
The PDP has full information on various secret locations in Akwa-Ibom state, including hotels and other camps, where the APC has quartered thugs ahead of Saturday’s election. We note that the police have refused to evacuate these thugs; but let it be known that the people of Akwa Ibom State will never allow them to operate.
The PDP therefore cautions the APC as well as its compromised INEC and security officials to bear in mind that Akwa-Ibom and all Niger Delta states are incontrovertible PDP strongholds; that the APC do not have any genuine followership in these states and that anybody attempting or supporting any forceful take over of any PDP stronghold should be aware that he or she is doing so at his or her own peril.
Signed:
Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary
And
Director, Media & Publicity
PDP Presidential Campaign Organization
Press Statement
March 9: Steer Clear of Niger Delta, PDP Cautions Buhari, APC
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) cautions President Muhammadu Buhari and his prowling All Progressives Congress (APC) to steer clear of all PDP strongholds, particularly the Niger Delta region, ahead of the March 9, Governorship and State Assembly elections, in order to avert a widespread crisis in our country.
The party also counsels Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and APC factional National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, to perish APC’s thoughts of using thugs to muscle the Akwa-Ibom governorship and state assembly elections, as the people have been fully rallied for a firm resistance on Saturday.
PDP’s position is predicated on the on-going heavy shipment of security forces and armed thugs into PDP strongholds, particularly, the Niger Delta region, with the view to suppress voters and manipulate the March 9 electoral process for the APC.
Since the robbery of the PDP's Presidential mandate, which Nigerians are determined to reclaim at the tribunal, the APC has been jittery over the escalated public support for the PDP not only to retain our states but also to ensure a sweeping victory for PDP in APC states across the country.
As a result, the APC is desperate to unleash violence in oil rich Akwa-Ibom, Rivers, Cross River, Delta, Bayelsa, Abia, as well as Benue, Taraba, Gombe, Sokoto, Enugu, Ebonyi, Kwara, but these states and all other strongholds of the PDP, spanning across our nation, remain impregnable.
The PDP warns that Nigerians are still livid over the rigging of the February 23 Presidential election, which was clearly won by Atiku Abubakar. As such, any further attempt to test their collective will on March 9 is capable of sparking off a huge civil restiveness across our nation.
We invite Nigerians to note how Osinbajo, on Tuesday, at a town hall meeting in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom state, boasted that he and Oshiomhole will ensure that the APC will never be defeated and how thugs, loaded in over 50 buses, who confessed to have been contracted by Oshiomhole, were later intercepted on their way from Edo state to Akwa-Ibom to cause mayhem during Saturday’s election.
The PDP has full information on various secret locations in Akwa-Ibom state, including hotels and other camps, where the APC has quartered thugs ahead of Saturday’s election. We note that the police have refused to evacuate these thugs; but let it be known that the people of Akwa Ibom State will never allow them to operate.
The PDP therefore cautions the APC as well as its compromised INEC and security officials to bear in mind that Akwa-Ibom and all Niger Delta states are incontrovertible PDP strongholds; that the APC do not have any genuine followership in these states and that anybody attempting or supporting any forceful take over of any PDP stronghold should be aware that he or she is doing so at his or her own peril.
Signed:
Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary
And
Director, Media & Publicity
PDP Presidential Campaign Organization
Tuesday, 5 March 2019
Faith Is Based on Bible Facts, Not Theories - Devotional
Health Food Devotional
Faith Is Based on Bible Facts, Not Theories
March 5, 2019
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
(1 Peter 2:24)
Faith is built on fact, not theory. A fact is a conclusion deduced from evidence. (My definition of a theory is a supposition established on ignorance of the subject under discussion!) Faith is based on the facts of God's Word, but theory about God's Word is based on suppositions.
It is a Bible fact that by Jesus' stripes, we were healed (1 Peter 2:24). It is a Bible fact that surely He has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains (Is. 53:4). It is a Bible fact that Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses (Matt. 8:17). These are Bible facts, not theories.
Start believing these facts - even while you still have the symptoms. Although your body may be telling you that you are not healed, continue to believe the facts of God's Word. I know it works. It has worked for me.
Confession
I believe the facts of God's Word. I believe that by Jesus' stripes, I am healed. I am not going to be healed, because I am healed now.
Source: Health Food Devotions by Kenneth E. Hagin.
Excerpt permission granted by Faith Library Publications
Faith Is Based on Bible Facts, Not Theories
March 5, 2019
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
(1 Peter 2:24)
Faith is built on fact, not theory. A fact is a conclusion deduced from evidence. (My definition of a theory is a supposition established on ignorance of the subject under discussion!) Faith is based on the facts of God's Word, but theory about God's Word is based on suppositions.
It is a Bible fact that by Jesus' stripes, we were healed (1 Peter 2:24). It is a Bible fact that surely He has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains (Is. 53:4). It is a Bible fact that Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses (Matt. 8:17). These are Bible facts, not theories.
Start believing these facts - even while you still have the symptoms. Although your body may be telling you that you are not healed, continue to believe the facts of God's Word. I know it works. It has worked for me.
Confession
I believe the facts of God's Word. I believe that by Jesus' stripes, I am healed. I am not going to be healed, because I am healed now.
Source: Health Food Devotions by Kenneth E. Hagin.
Excerpt permission granted by Faith Library Publications
Saturday, 2 March 2019
All EPL Results for Saturday & Sunday
Tottenham 1 – 1 Arsenal
Bournemouth 0 - 1 Manchester City
Brighton HA 1 – 0 Huddersfield
Manchester United 3 – 2 Southampton
Wolves 2 -0 Cardiff
West Ham 2 – New Castle
SUNDAY
WATFORD 2 - 1 LEICESTER CITY
FULHAM 1 - 2 CHELSEA
EVERTON 0 - 0 LIVERPOOL
Bournemouth 0 - 1 Manchester City
Brighton HA 1 – 0 Huddersfield
Manchester United 3 – 2 Southampton
Wolves 2 -0 Cardiff
West Ham 2 – New Castle
SUNDAY
WATFORD 2 - 1 LEICESTER CITY
FULHAM 1 - 2 CHELSEA
EVERTON 0 - 0 LIVERPOOL
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