Jonathan will run in 2015 - Chief Edwin Clark

Ijaw national leader and First Republic Information Minister, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, at the weekend replied northern leaders threatening fire and brimstone if President Goodluck Jonathan contests again in 2015.


The octogenarian elder statesman insisted that it is only the Nigerian people that can decide the President’s fate if he decides to run and not any section of the country.
Clark spoke in Lagos on Friday night at the investiture of Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme, Hon Kingsley Kuku, as the Maritime Man of the Year.

The event was organised by Maritime Media Limited, publishers of Shipping World Magazine.
He upbraided a section of the political class in the North, saying their attitude “shows that the region is born to rule over others in the country.”

“Nigeria belongs to all of us. There is no second-class citizen in this country and that is why I sometimes find it very difficult to believe that our northern brothers are still carrying on as if they are more Nigerian than other tribes.
“I think the best thing for anybody to do is to remain patient and honourable if after 40 years of being in the saddle in this country, power leaves you and goes to another section of the country. Does it not look worrisome that someone will one day wake up and threaten fire simply because power has shifted away from his region?

“Even though I do not want to talk about 2015 now because the time is still far, the North should know that only Nigerians have the power to stop anyone from becoming president. If Jonathan wants to run today, the North cannot stop him because apart from the fact that he has the right to run, the North should equally know that they are not born to rule over others in the country.

“Today, there is Boko Haram in the North and they blame it on the present government. It is wrong in my thinking because the reasons for the uprising of the sect did not start just yesterday. They have been there for over 40 years; and who was in power? The North. They should blame themselves for this because they did not develop the North for the unborn children of yesterday, who today are the restive youths in the region.

“Let it be known that there is a great difference between Boko Haram and the Niger Delta struggle, which some people call militancy. They are things no one should compare because the backgrounds for both are different,” Clark said.

He equally defended the maritime security concession granted by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) to Global West Fleet Specialists Limited, which is reportedly owned by a former warlord and leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), High Chief Government Ekpemupolo (alias Tompolo).

“If someone like Tompolo, for instance, is given the concession for maritime security in the country and people complain, they are only insulting our psyche in the Niger Delta. If Tompolo, who lives on water, cannot be allowed to secure where he lives, is it in the North that he can be given such a concession? We are tired of these intrigues where whatever that is due to our people face unnecessary blackmail,” Clark said

The event attracted some of the prominent former militant ‘Generals’ in the Niger Delta such as Ateke Tom, Ebikabowei Victor-Ben (Boyloaf), Ezekiel Akpasibewei (Deadly Underdog), Bibopreye Ajube (Shoot-at-Sight) and Eris Paul (Ogunbos)
[Sunnewsonline] 
Editor's note: Well, the Ijaw chief may be saying 'if Jonathan decides to run' but we all know he is very influencial to President Jonathan and spearheads most decisions reached by the President, so he has just leaked his mind which must be adhered to by the president. So East North get ready.

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Kansas comes back, beats Ohio State in NCAA basketball Final Four

Trailing by nine points at halftime, Kansas had Ohio State right where it wanted in Saturday’s national semifinal.

The Jayhawks’ NCAA tournament run has been defined by strong second-half performances, and they offered another with the help of indomitable forward Thomas Robinson. Like he has all season, Robinson played at higher level than everybody else on the floor at the Superdome, leading the Jayhawks to a 64-62 victory over Ohio State before 73,361.

 Kansas earned a trip to its first national title game since 2008, when it beat a John Calipari-coached Memphis team to give Coach Bill Self his first national championship.

This season, Self’s ninth in Lawrence, may be his finest coaching job. After losing to mid-major programs Virginia Commonwealth and Northern Iowa in the NCAA tournament the last two seasons, Self took a team with middling preseason expectations to its eighth consecutive Big 12 regular season title.

He watched Robinson rebound from personal tragedy to turn himself into a national player of the year candidate. And he saw erratic senior Tyshawn Taylor overcome an up-and-down career arc to deliver a sterling performance in a Midwest Region final victory over North Carolina.

And Saturday night provided another sterling effort and turnaround. Kansas had excelled in the second half in the NCAA tournament, particularly in the second round against Purdue and in the Elite Eight against North Carolina. The Jayhawks were poised for another second-half surge Saturday, when the Buckeyes missed their first 10 shots from the field in the half.

Robinson’s emphatic dunk cut the deficit to three points. Elijah Johnson’s layup in transition tied the score at 38, capping a 17-4 run. It took nearly seven minutes into the second half before Ohio State had its first field goal, a corner three-pointer by Aaron Craft.

Meantime, Deshaun Thomas, who had been one of Ohio State’s best offensive players throughout the tournament, picked up his fourth foul with 11 minutes 30 seconds remaining.

Ohio State’s William Buford and Kansas senior Conner Teahan traded three-point baskets down the stretch. Trailing by one point with three minutes to play, Robinson demanded the ball in the post, but he could not convert against Jared Sullinger.

Moments later, two free throws by Travis Releford gave the Jayhawks their first lead since the opening minute of the game, 56-55. But back came the Buckeyes and Craft, the school’s all-time single-season steals leader who stole the ball and raced the other way for a layup with 2:21 remaining.

In the game’s final 10 seconds, Taylor made two free throws to provide Kansas with its final points. Leading by three and with the Buckeyes out of timeouts, Kansas then fouled Craft to send him to the line with 2.8 seconds left. Craft made the first free throw and purposely missed the second, but he was whistled for a lane violation because he crossed the free throw line before the ball hit the rim. The Jayhawks quickly inbounded the ball before the Buckeyes could set themselves, and the clock ran out.

“I left the line early apparently,” Craft said. “You have to live with it.”

At halftime, all five Ohio State starters had scored between five and eight points. It was the clearest sign of balance by a team that had been winning in unspectacular fashion.

All season, Ohio State has been one of the teams least reliant on the three-pointer. The Buckeyes shoot 33.2 percent from three-point range and rely on three-pointers for just 20.1 percent of their total point production.

But they made 5 of 10 attempts beyond the arc in the first half, enabling them to enter the half with a nine-point advantage.

Buford in particular had struggled mightily with his outside shooting, making 7 of 25 three-point shots the last five games. But the senior sank two three-pointers in a span of a little more than a minute midway through the first half.

Craft and Thomas also demonstrated a hot shooting touch from the outside, giving the Buckeyes some separation on the scoreboard.

Ohio State doubled up Kansas, 26-13, with 6:10 left in the half after Thomas followed up a missed contested layup by Craft.

The Buckeyes were the nation’s second most efficient defensive team all season and looked like it throughout the first half.

With less than five minutes left in the half, Kansas had more turnovers (eight) than field goals (seven) and was shooting 29 percent. And Robinson and Taylor had made a combined 5 of 15 shots from the floor.

Late in the half, Thomas buried an 18-foot jumper over Robinson to extend the lead to 13 points.

Kansas finally got a jolt of positive energy in the waning moments of the half, when Taylor flipped a pass ahead to Travis Releford, who released his buzzer-beating layup with two-tenths of a second left on the clock.

[Washingtonpost]  

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Wale – Oliver Twist Freestyle

MMG artist Wale recently stopped by DJ Semtex’s show on 1Xtra in the UK and gave him this exclusive freestyle over Nigerian artist D’Banj’s huge club record ‘Oliver Twist’ adding to the number of stars who have freestyled on the record's beat produced by enigmatic prodcer Don Jazzy. Take a listen below.

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Harry Porter Ebooks

When the Harry Potter books finally went on sale in electronic form on Tuesday, it was as if Harry himself had cast the "Alohomora" spell on them - the one that unlocks doors.
In a break with industry practices, the books aren't locked down by encryption, which means consumers can move them between devices and read them anywhere they like.

If "Pottermore," J.K. Rowling's new Web store, proves a success, it could provide a model for other authors and publishers and undermine the clout of Amazon.com Inc., which dominates e-book sales.
"I think it's a very large crack in a dam that's going to collapse in the next nine to twelve months," says Matteo Berlucchi, the CEO of an independent British-based online bookstore, aNobii.
E-books from major publishers are sold in encrypted form today. The text of a book is scrambled so that only authorized devices and software can read it. For instance, a book bought from Amazon can be read only on the company's Kindle e-readers and on its Kindle applications for smartphones, tablets and PCs. It can't be read on Barnes & Noble's Nook e-readers.    
Conversely, a book for the Nook can't be read on a Kindle. A book purchased from Apple Inc. can only be read on iPhones, iPod touches and iPads.
Publishers insist on encryption in the form of "Digital Rights Management," or DRM because they believe it stops piracy. It also helps e-book retailers like Amazon defend their business models, keeping non-Amazon books off Kindle e-readers.   
But when Rowling fans buy a book from Pottermore, they can download it in a variety of formats, including one that is not pro tected by DRM.  They can be read by a wide variety of applications and devices.
These books can be purchased once and then passed around to friends or shared with children. Wider sharing is dissuaded by visible and invisible "watermarks" inserted by Pottermore before the download, which identify the buyer.
Charles Redmayne, CEO of Pottermore, says that "Harry Potter" books are probably the most pirated in the world already, even though -or rather because- there have been no legal electronic versions until now. Fans have scanned or even re-typed the printed books to make them available in electronic form.
"We believe that people should have the right, once they've bought the book, to read it on any device that they chose to," says Redmayne.
Of course, there's another reason Pottermore is going DRM-free. It wants to "own" the relationship with the customers - the Potter fans - rather than have them go to other retailers. And the only way to get onto all reading devices without dealing with the other retailers is to sell books without DRM.
"It's a very valuable thing to us to own that customer relationship. It gives us a tremendous opportunity to create new products that we can sell to those consumers around the Harry Potter brand," Redmayne says.  
Shatzkin thinks other authors are unlikely to copy Rowling and set up their own stores -Rowling is "The Beatles" of the literary world and an industry unto herself. But he believes publishers who can aggregate the works of many authors on their sites are going to figure out that they can bypass Amazon as long as they're willing to give up DRM. 
"If you don't have DRM, it opens up strategies that aren't available to you if you insist on DRM," says publishing consultant Michael Shatzkin. "The question is: is the fear of piracy greater than the fear of Amazon?"
Amazon is thought to account for about 60 percent of the e-books sold in the U.S. Barnes & Noble Inc. is the second-largest seller with around 25 percent.
[Daily Dot Com]

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