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Daily Post Nigeria You’re political hustler – Wike replies Ugochinyere Home News Politics Metro Entertainment Sport News You’re political hustler – Wike replies Ugochinyere Published on November 23, 2024 By Seun Opejobi The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike has said the House of Representative member from Ideato North and South Federal Constituency of Imo State, Ikenga Ugochinyere should be in jail for impersonation. This was as Wike described Ugochinyere as a political hustler trying to satisfy his paymasters from Rivers State. He was reacting to the lawmaker’s remark that he was playing kindergarten and childish politics in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Wike was reacting to Ugochinyere’s comment on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Friday in which he accused him and the G-5 governors of trying to destroy PDP. Ugochinyere also accused Wike of playing childish and kindergarten politics in PDP. Reacting through his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, warned the lawmaker to stop making unfounded claims about him. A statement by Olayinka reads partly: “If PDP had functioned properly, would Ugochinyere have gotten the party’s ticket while still in another party? Even till today, as a PDP Rep member, Ugochinyere is still holding on to his Action Peoples Party APP, using it to cash out in Rivers State. “Therefore, we on this side are not bothered because we understand why Ugochinyere must now mount the podium and accuse Wike of playing childish and kindergarten politics. He must satisfy those feeding him from the resources of Rivers State.” He also mocked the lawmaker for always having an organisation to speak for to carry out his “political hustle.” “In saner climes, such a character would have been arrested, tried and jailed for impersonation. When he got to the House of Representatives and there was no title under which his political hushpuppism would continue, he awarded to himself a non-existing title of ‘Spokesperson of Opposition Lawmakers Coalition in the 10th National Assembly,’ claiming to have been so appointed by the Coalition of United Political Parties. “Being the political hustler that he has always been, Ugochinyere knew that he would be contravening the rules of the National Assembly by allocating to himself a non-existing position, but he just must have a title to keep his hustle going, and indeed, it has been booming,” the statement articulated. Related Topics: Ugochinyere Wike Don't Miss Rural development: No community in Ekiti will suffer neglect – Oyebanji You may like Six year-single term for president temporarily set back – Ugochinyere Wike, G5 governors want to destroy PDP – Rep member ugochinyere Criticism over judges quarters project does not bother me – Wike Irredeemable doom awaits PDP – Ugochinyere warns Rivers: Court stops Wike-backed APC from holding congress Rivers crisis: Leave Fubara alone, nobody is bigger than PDP – Bode George to Wike Advertise About Us Contact Us Privacy-Policy Terms Copyright © Daily Post Media Ltd
Jamal Murray shoved the ball away from him With 4.2 seconds left and the Nuggets trailing Dallas, 121-119, Murray stepped up for the second of two free throws with the intention of missing. It banked off the backboard and tushed right through the net. One of those nights. One of those Novembers. “The whole game, I’m trying to make (a shot), and I’m trying to miss one time,” the Nuggets guard recalled with a rueful chuckle late Friday night after a 123-120 defeat. “So, that’s the way it goes sometimes, you know?” You’d laugh, but only to keep from crying. Before Saturday night’s late-night showdown with the Lakers, the Blue Arrows looked more like a Broken Arrow. Mr. 50-40-90 went into Tinseltown averaging 17.4 points per game in November while shooting 40.7% from the floor and 33.3% on treys. You don’t know what you’re going to get on a given night. As of Saturday morning, the Arrow had posted four games this season in which he’d scored 20 points or more. After each of those four, he went out the next time and shot 6 for 20, 2 for 7, 7 for 17 and, more recently, 4 for 16 vs. the Mavericks. “You sure you’re feeling OK?” I asked the Nuggets guard at his locker after the Dallas loss. “You keep saying, ‘I’m good, I’m good ...'” Murray looked daggers in my direction. “Then take that,” he replied. , it’s the head. You get flashes of Playoff Mal, those spring heat checks that could melt a glacier. But much of the time, it looks as if Murray is on his back, a wanna-be All-Star staggered by the weight of expectations. A max contract guy putting up mid numbers. To wit: While closing out a miserable first half against Dallas and a Mavs squad missing Luka Doncic, the Nuggets nevertheless found themselves with a chance to take the final shot. Only Murray, who was 2 for 7 at the time, turned it over and then committed a foul, gifting Big D two free throws and a 73-53 cushion at the break. “I think (if) we just take care of the first half, don’t come out as sloppy and make better urgency, we can win that game,” Murray reflected. Alas, the Nuggets ran out of juice over the final three minutes. Which was compounded by Dallas hunting Murray defensively and taking it to him, time and again. Over his first 10 games, the Arrow has posted a 112 or higher Defensive Rating in the fourth quarter — higher is worse — six times. Mind you, he put up the same ratio at the start of the 2022-23 season. You just notice it more when he stops making shots at the other end of the floor. “Some of those are shots that he probably makes,” Malone said. “And I’m sure some of those are probably ... shots where maybe we could have swung it or made an extra pass for maybe a better shot.” Maybe. Although these days, even Murray’s clutch gene comes and goes like the autumn wind. NBA.com defines “clutch” stats as applying to any action that takes place in the final five minutes of the fourth quarter or overtime of a game that’s within five points or less. In the first month of the 2022-23 campaign, one that ended with a parade, This season? Seven “clutch” games as of Saturday morning, with a yikes 123.4 Defensive Rating and a Net of plus-7.9. Christian Braun went into Saturday night with 10 “clutch” games and a 115.3 Defensive Rating and a Net of plus-18.9, best among Nuggets starters. Nikola Jokic was second in “clutch” Net, at plus-14.2, followed by Peyton Watson (plus-14.0), then Michael Porter Jr. (plus-13.3) ... and then Murray. When the eye test and the computers match up, you’ve got a problem. If MPJ can be benched for defensive reasons in the fourth quarter, why not the Arrow? “We’ve got to find a way,” Malone continued. “And I have to find a way to help to get Jamal going.” The Canadian’s most buzz-worthy moment Friday came with 8:27 left. Murray caught a live fly, walked over to the sideline “It was just squirming on the court and ... I just thought I’d go to Doris or whoever was over there and just lighten up my mood as well,” the Nuggets guard explained. “Sometimes, you just have to smile ... so I just tried to, more for myself, honestly, break the negativity mentally and have a joke with those guys.” “Did you catch that thing in the air?” I asked. Another look. Another dagger. “I’ll let you figure that out,” he countered. This version of Murray wouldn’t hurt a fly. But it’s hurting the Nuggets in the middle of Jokic’s title window, as the latter creeps ever closer to a cold, lonely sill.First Farmers Financial Co. (OTCMKTS:FFMR) to Issue Dividend Increase – $0.49 Per Share
NEW YORK — Shohei Ohtani won his third Most Valuable Player Award and first in the National League, and Aaron Judge earned his second American League honor on Thursday. Ohtani was a unanimous MVP for the third time, receiving all 30 first-place votes and 420 points in voting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor was second with 263 points and Arizona second baseman Ketel Marte third with 229. Judge was a unanimous pick for the first time. Kansas City shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. got all 30 second-place votes for 270 points, and Yankees outfielder Juan Soto was third with 21 third-place votes and 229 points. Ohtani was unanimously voted the AL MVP in 2021 and 2023 as a two-way star for the Los Angeles Angels and finished second to Judge in 2022 voting. He didn't pitch in 2024 following elbow surgery and signed a record $700 million, 10-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers last December. Ohtani joined Frank Robinson for Cincinnati in 1961 and Baltimore in 1966 as the only players to win the MVP award in both leagues. He was the first player to twice become an unanimous MVP. He had combined with Atlanta outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr. in 2023 for the first year both MVPs were unanimous. Ohtani hit .310, stole 59 bases and led the NL with 54 homers and 130 RBIs exclusively as a designated hitter, becoming the first player with 50 or more homers and 50 or more stolen bases in a season. He helped the Dodgers to the World Series title, playing the final three games with a torn labrum in his left shoulder. "The ultimate goal from the beginning was to win a World Series, which we are able to accomplish," he said through a translator. "The next goal is for me to do it again and so right now I'm in the middle of rehab and working out and getting stronger." When Ohtani returns to the mound, could he win MVP and the Cy Young Award in the same year? "That would obviously be great, but right now my focus is just to get to get back healthy, come back stronger, get back on the mound and show everybody what I can do," Ohtani said. Ohtani became the first primary DH to win an MVP in a season that started with the revelation his longtime interpreter and friend, Ippei Mizuhara, had stolen nearly $17 million from the star to fund gambling. Ohtani is the 12th player with three or more MVPs, joining Barry Bonds (seven) and Jimmie Foxx, Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial, Roy Campanella, Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, Mike Schmidt, Alex Rodriguez, Albert Pujols and Mike Trout (three each). Balloting was conducted before the postseason. Judge led the major leagues with 58 homers, 144 RBIs and 133 walks while hitting .322. Witt topped the big leagues with a .332 average, hitting 32 homers with 31 stolen bases and 109 RBIs. Soto batted .288 with 41 homers and 109 RBIs. When Judge won his first MVP award in 2022, he received 28 first-place votes while Ohtani got the other two. Judge had discussed the MVP award with Philadelphia's Bryce Harper, the NL winner in 2015 and '21. "I was telling him, `Man, I'm going to try to catch up to you with these MVPs here, man,'" Judge recalled. "He'd say, hopefully, he could stay a couple ahead of me, which I think he'll do." When Judge won his first MVP award in 2022, he received 28 first-place votes while Ohtani got the other two. He is the Yankees' 22nd MVP winner, four more than any other team. Judge was hitting .207 with six homers and 18 RBIs through April, then batted .352 with 52 homers and 126 RBIs in 127 games. "March and April were not my friend this year." Judge said. "Just keep putting in the work and things are going to change. You can't mope. You can't feel sorry for yourself. Especially in New York, nobody's going to feel sorry for you. So you just got to go out there and put up the numbers?" ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The St. Petersburg City Council reversed course Thursday on whether to spend more than $23 million to repair the hurricane-shredded roof of the Tampa Bay Rays' ballpark, initially voting narrowly for approval and hours later changing course. The reversal on fixing Tropicana Field came after the council voted to delay consideration of revenue bonds for a proposed new $1.3 billion Rays ballpark. Just two days before, the Pinellas County Commission postponed a vote on its share of the new stadium bonds, leaving that project in limbo. “This is a sad place. I'm really disappointed,” council chair Deborah Figg-Sanders said. “We won’t get there if we keep finding ways we can’t.” The Rays say the lack of progress puts the new stadium plan and the future of Tropicana Field in jeopardy. “I can't say I'm confident about anything,” Rays co-president Brian Auld told the council members. The Trop's translucent fiberglass roof was ripped to pieces on Oct. 9 when Hurricane Milton swept ashore just south of Tampa Bay. There was also significant water damage inside the ballpark, with a city estimate of the total repair costs pegged at $55.7 million. The extensive repairs cannot be finished before the 2026 season, city documents show. The Rays made a deal with the Yankees to play next season at 11,000-seat Steinbrenner Field, New York's spring training home across the bay in Tampa. The initial vote Thursday was to get moving on the roof portion of the repair. Once that's done, crews could begin working on laying down a new baseball field, fixing damaged seating and office areas and a variety of electronic systems — which would require another vote to approve money for the remaining restoration. The subsequent vote reversing funding for the roof repair essentially means the city and Rays must work on an alternative in the coming weeks so that Tropicana Field can possibly be ready for the 2026 season. The city is legally obligated to fix the roof. BRIEFLY PIRATES: Pittsburgh hired Matt Hague as its hitting coach, bringing him back to the team that drafted him in 2008. Hague replaces Andy Haines, who was fired after Pittsburgh finished in the bottom 10 in the majors in every significant statistical category last season, including runs (24th) and home runs (25th), while also striking out a club-record 1,504 times, second-most in the National League behind Colorado. The 39-year-old Hague spent last season as an assistant hitting coach with the Toronto Blue Jays. Get local news delivered to your inbox!
There's a shortage of cybersecurity professionalsWilliam H. Phillips (1830-1916) had a long and varied career as a Williams College student, telegraph operator, state senator, magazine editor, Pittsfield Sun publisher and publisher and primary contributor to a monthly, The Berkshire Hills, which he packed with local lore. He was impressive in his liberality, including subjects of both genders, white and Black, well-to-do and not. Phillips also once profiled a bird. It was a rooster that lived next door to Dr. Alvah Harvey (1823-1897), a homeopathic physician for 30 years who lived on Quincy Street in North Adams. Harvey when first arriving in town had started a manufactory, said to have produced the first Marseilles bedspread ever made in this country. He also made Balmoral skirts. He changed professions and later moved to Springfield. The Lanesborough humorist Josh Billings once announced: “I luv a rooster for two things: One is for the crow that iz in him, and the other iz, the spurs that air on him to back him up.” Harvey wouldn’t have been amused to hear this. The Berkshire Hills telling of the doctor’s encounter with a neighbor’s game rooster — likely gleaned during Phillips’ days as Hoosac Valley News publisher and when Harvey still lived in North Adams — is too good to be paraphrased. Here it is, slightly shortened, from the July 1, 1902 issue: “This lordly masculine fowl, who was gorgeously arrayed in fine feathers and evidently felt himself to be a born aristocrat in the poultry family, persisted in flying over the fence into the doctor’s back yard to indulge in nearly all of his triumphant voicings. Really he had become an especial discomfort to the physician in the early morning hours I which he was accustomed to secure his soundest naps. “The doctor had previously hurled numerous bricks, much stove wood, many chunks of hard coal and no end of stones at this persistent offender against his peace and quiet, never hitting or frightening him once, and therefore without avail. “But the time came at last when the final straw snapped in the doctor’s stock of patience, and a wreck of friendship with hits neighbor or in fact the whole citizenship of the county resolved itself into a thoroughly unconsidered question. The doctor had just invested in a new $250 buggy and had it drawn from his carriage house out in the back yard and entered his dining room for breakfast. On coming out of the house to his utter astonishment he found this now thoroughly despised barnyard king perched upon the top of a rear wheel of his new vehicle, flapping his wings and crowing his loudest. White-heated anger was no name for the doctor’s state of mine in face of this high-handed affront. “He hastened back into the house from which he soon emerged with a six shooter in hand and death in his eyes. He halted on his piazza and taking deliberate aim at this brazen fowl, fired, but to his infinite surprise, instead of dropping from his perch upon the earth, he flapped his wings and crowed for all he was worth in lung power. “Again he fired with sure aim, and again the same astonishing results. Again and again he fired until he held his smoking weapon in his hand with every cartridge empty, and with the same evident harmless effects. Did that rooster bear a charmed life, he was asking himself mentally, when with a final triumphant salute he hopped down from the wheel and made a hasty exit from the premises “The doctor at once made a careful tour of inspection to discover just where those six bullets went to, and was not long in ascertaining their exact location. He had shot his buggy dashboard and seat into kindling wood, and it cost him a round $50 for necessary repairs.” Certainly it is inadvisable, and illegal, to fire a weapon in a settled area. A hard lesson of this came in Williamstown in 1902, when young Clarence Goodrich, who had borrowed a .22 rifle and with friends, spotted a rooster near the entrance to Weston Field. He fired a shot. The bullet missed the bird but struck a boy, 9-year-old Edward Yarter Jr., who was playing football with pals 150 yards away. “Before entering the body [the bullet] passed through a heavy coat, a shirt and then a heavy flannel undershirt and that it did not lose its force is considered strange...,” the North Adams Transcript reported. “The bullet struck the boy on [the] lower part of the shoulder blade and glancing, entered the back, inflicting a small wound.” A physician was unable to locate the projectile and worried that it had entered a lung. But young Yarter didn’t seem much the worse for wear and within a week was outdoors at play again. Young Goodrich, it turned out, had had no experience with firearms. The rifle belonged to another boy, who planned to go hunting. Roosters aren’t universally popular, by any means. A man named Columbus who lived on Francis Street in North Adams in 1909, sought police action to arrest a rooster on the charge of assault and battery. A neighboring family raised fowl including “a large rooster about as big as a four years old boy the size of Mr. Columbus’ son,” The Transcript said. “Every time the boy had gone into the yard to play recently, the rooster has flown over the fence and attacked the little fellow. Yesterday morning the boy started out of the house on an errand and the rooster came over the fence on a hop, skip and jump and before the lad could be rescued the big bird had raised a sizeable bunch on the boy’s head.” Columbus was disappointed to learn the law applied only to humans. But police said they would have a talk with the crowmaster’s owners.Washington: US President-elect Donald Trump plans to assemble investigative teams at the Department of Justice to search for evidence in battleground states that fraud tainted the 2020 election, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing sources. Trump, who won the 2024 election but lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden, has falsely claimed that he lost the 2020 election due to extensive voter fraud, a view shared by millions of his supporters. President-elect Donald Trump isn’t letting his grievance about the 2020 election go now he’s returning to office. Credit: AP Trump was indicted last year on federal charges for his attempts to overturn the election. The charges stemmed from an investigation by Special Counsel Jack Smith. The Washington Post , citing two people close to Trump’s transition team, reported that Trump plans to fire the entire team that worked with Smith. Asked about Trump’s plans to fire prosecutors on Smith’s team, a Trump spokeswoman said: “President Trump campaigned on firing rogue bureaucrats who have engaged in the illegal weaponisation of our American justice system, and the American people can expect he will deliver on that promise,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. Trump’s unwillingness to believe his loss in 2020 prompted him to encourage rioters to storm the US Capitol. Credit: Getty Images “One of the many reasons that President Trump won the election in a landslide is Americans are sick and tired of seeing their tax dollars spent on targeting the Biden-Harris administration’s political enemies rather than going after real violent criminals in our streets.” In a separate legal case, a judge confirmed on Friday that Trump won’t be sentenced this month in his hush money case, instead setting a schedule for prosecutors and his lawyers to expand on their ideas about what to do next. Amid a flurry of filings in the case since Trump’s election win this month, it had already become clear that the November 26 sentencing date wouldn’t hold. Judge Juan Merchan’s order on Friday formalised that without setting a new one. He called for more filing from both sides over the next 21⁄2 weeks about how to proceed in light of Trump’s impending return to the White House. The team that worked with Special Counsel Jack Smith is likely to be fired, the report says. Credit: AP Trump’s lawyers want the case to be dismissed outright, and immediately. As the start of Trump’s second term nears, he is expected to pick prominent investor Scott Bessent to be US Treasury secretary, sources told Reuters on Friday, putting him at the helm of a cabinet position with vast influence over economic, regulatory and international affairs. One source briefed by the Trump transition team and a donor briefed on the plans told Reuters of Trump’s intention to pick Bessent. The Trump transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Investor Scott Bessent is likely to be Trump’s Treasury secretary pick. Credit: Bloomberg Wall Street has been closely watching who Trump will pick, especially given his plans to remake global trade through tariffs. Bessent has advocated for tax reform and deregulation, particularly to spur more bank lending and energy production, as noted in a recent opinion piece he wrote for The Wall Street Journal . Reuters, AP Get a note directly from our foreign correspondents on what’s making headlines around the world. Sign up for the weekly What in the World newsletter here .Former N-Dubz singer Tulisa took on Saturday (November 30) night's bush tucker trial - Jungle TV Dinners along with Reverend Richard Coles. The pair were forced to eat everything from fermented duck egg to fish eyes during the challenge. Jungle TV Dinners starring Richard and Tulisa - Screaming now on ITVX-treme 😱 #ImACeleb pic.twitter.com/T6448UtYs9 Another one of the dishes Tulisa was forced to eat as part of the bush tucker trial was spider. The pair managed to eat their way through all the dishes and earn the camp the full 11 stars. Upon returning to camp the N-Dubz star revealed to all the campmates she was forced to swallow back her own sick during the trial due to it being so horrible. Tulisa continued to go into more detail about the challenge, revealing what it was like to eat a spider, describing it as creamy. GK Barry replied: "That is the worst information you've told me ever. "That's ruined my day." Applause for the new Camp Leaders, Oti & Richard! 👏 Here are their chore assignments: 🧼 Washing up: Barry & Maura 🧰 Camp maintenance: Danny & Melvin 🥘 Camp chefs: Tulisa & GK Barry 🪵 Wood collection: Coleen & Dean 💧 Water duty: Alan & Danny #ImACeleb pic.twitter.com/ehiHdAq3Rd Saturday night's episode also saw Oti Mubuse and Reverend Richard Coles voted in as the new camp leaders, replacing McFly's Danny Jones and boxing champion Barry McGuigan. As there first order of business they had to re-assign chores to the campmates. RECOMMENDED READING: I'm a Celeb fans upset at 'non-elimination' as they call to get rid of next star Who was the first celeb to be eliminated on tonight's I'm a Celebrity? I'm a Celebrity's 'naughty' Maura Higgins becomes the talk of social media How much is Jane Moore being paid for appearing on I'm a Celebrity 2024? Love Island star Maura Higgins was paired up with Barry for washing up duties, while Danny and radio DJ Melvin Odoom were chosen for camp maintenance. The role of camp chefs went to Tulisa and GK Barry, while Coleen Rooney and Dean McCullough were put on wood collection. Finally water duty was assigned to Danny and Coronation Street actor Alan Halsall.