BARACK OBAMA IS NAIJA STANDARD NEWSPAPER ‘MAN OF THE YEAR 2012’

BARACK OBAMA IS NAIJA STANDARD NEWSPAPER ‘MAN OF THE YEAR 2012’ …Obasanjo Emerges Most Influential Nigerian Politician, Why UN adores him * David Mark is Nigeria’s Best Parliamentarian *Adeboye is Greatest Nigerian Man of God !
Author George Elijah Otumu
Monday, Dec 31, 2012 5:19 pm
BARACK OBAMA IS NAIJA STANDARD NEWSPAPER ‘MAN OF THE YEAR 2012’ …Obasanjo Emerges Most Influential Nigerian Politician, Why UN adores him * David Mark is Nigeria’s Best Parliamentarian *Adeboye is Greatest Nigerian Man of God !

UNITED STATES President, Barack Obama has been unanimously selected by our Regional African Editors, Middle
East Editors, Eurorean Editors and American Editors as Person of the Year 2012 in view of his far-reaching
economic reforms and the global recognition of his re-election and confidence in his leadership despite the
difficulty this year was for America despite an unemployment rate higher than 7.5 per cent.Nigeria’s former
President, Olusegun Obasanjo have emerged our most influential politician in the country, well rated by the
international commuinty.

Barack Obama, our ‘Person of the Year 2012’

According to our Board of Directors, Obama remains the first president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt
to have secured more than 50 per cent of the vote in two straight elections, and the first to be re-elected
since 1940. Recently, Obama won over Republic candidate Mitt Romney for his second and final four-year
term.Obama was able to step up medical care for the aged, women and the youths. His consisitency for withdrawing
American troops from all war-prone areas of the world compels our Directors to naming Obama Person of the Year.

Olusegun Obasanjo…Nigeria’s Most Influential Politician

You may like him, or hate him: but since independence till now, Olusegun Aremu Mathew Okikiola Obasanjo,Nigerian
Army general, politician, and diplomat was the first military leader in Africa to hand over power to civilian rule.
He was born March 5, 1937, served as ruler of Nigeria (1976–79) and as president (1999–2007).When other successive
Nigerian administrations are faced with cpmplex situations on leadership, Obasanjo rich reportoire of knowledge
really comes in handy. He is celebrated in the membership of African Union, same with Commonwealth Union and among
the comity of United Nations. Today, Obansanjo remains the one amd only former President to have attained this height.

UN Global Leadership Award on Obasanjo on September 26, 2012 in New York

Naija Standard gathered that Obasanjo is daily getting more and more international recognition. In June, the former
President was appointed an adviser to New World Oil and Gas plc, an AIM-listed investment company focused on investing
in and operating oil and gas assets.

Now, just a few months later, he has gotten another international recognition, this time from the United Nations.

On Sunday, in New York, the UN conferred on him the South-South Awards for Global Leadership. The ceremony was
part of the 2nd Annual South-South Awards which took place at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel during the High-Level
Segment of the 67th Session of the UN General Assembly.

According to NAN, the 2012 South-South Award recognises, shares and disseminates the most outstanding success
stories and lessons learned in South-South and triangular cooperation in using ICT for development.
The selection process for the Awards is led by an internationally recognised jury, and the Awards are organised
in close cooperation with several international organisations under the patronage of the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the United Nations World Trade Organisation (WTO).The criteria for the nomination
and selection of Award winners focus on achievements and initiatives, which represent outstanding contributions
and advances in the use of ICT and media in advancing the MDGs.The Awardees include government leaders, business,
ICT innovators and practitioners, and youth leaders.

David Mark as Nigeria’s Parliamentarian of the Year

Senate President, David Mark is on the threshold of history as ‘Nigeria’s Best Parliamentarian’ to have consistently
maintain his masses’ postion on Constitutional Review, Good Governance and stable polity. Mark led the Nigerian
delegation to the 127th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly, which held in Quebec, Canada.

Don’t foget that the National Assembly on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 made history as it laid to bare the lingering political
logjam that had been raging in the country for about 78 days due to the absence of late President Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua
who left the shores of Nigeria for Saudi-Arabia, where he has been receiving medical treatment, by declaring
Dr. Goodluck Jonathan then as the Acting President.

The Senate, under the great leadership based its resolution to declare Jonathan as the Acting President on the
“Doctrine of Necessity”. His words: “A rigid and inflexible interpretation will not only stifle the spirit and
intendment of the Constitution, but will also affront the doctrine of necessity. The
doctrine of necessity requires that we do what is necessary when faced with a situation that was not contemplated
by the Constitution. And that is precisely what we have done today. In doing so, we have as well maintained the
sanctity of our Constitution as the ultimate law of the land.”

The term, Doctrine of Necessity, was first used in 1954, in Pakistan when the Pakistani Chief Judge, Muhammad Munir,
validated use of emergency powers by Governor General, Ghulam Mohammad. In his judgment the Chief Justice cited
Bracton’s maxim, “that which is otherwise not lawful is made lawful by necessity,” thereby providing the label that
would come to be attached to the judgment and the doctrine that it was establishing.

For the Recrods…

The Doctrine of Necessity was also invoked in 1985 in Grenada  for the second time to permit a murder trial to
continue in courts that had been brought into being by an extra-constitutional decree. In a 1985 judgment, the Chief
Justice of the High Court of Grenada invoked the doctrine of necessity to validate the legal existence of a court
then trying for murder the persons who had conducted a coup against former leader Maurice Bishop. The court had
been established under an unconstitutional “People’s Law” following the overthrow of the country’s constitution,
which had subsequently been restored. The defendants argued that the court before which they were being tried had
no legal existence under the restored constitution, and they were therefore being deprived of their constitutional
right to a trial before a “Court established by law.”

Enoch Adeboye-Nigeria’s Greatest Man of God!
He is very easy-going, calm, very humble and loves God greatly. Enoch Adejare Adeboye is our Nigerian Greatest Man
pastor and the General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG).He shepherd the fastest pentecostal
church in Nigeria. He is a-scandal free preacher whose prophesies never failed.His annual Holy Ghost Congress attracts
people from all walks of life. He is most repected by African and world leaders for his genuine love for God.
Pastor Adeboye has a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Lagos, and worked as a lecturer in mathematics
at the universities of Lagos and Ilorin. After joining the RCCG, he began working to translate the sermons of its then
Pastor and founder,Rev. Josiah Olufemi Akindayomi, from Yoruba into English. In 1981 Adeboye was appointed General Overseer the church,
taking over from Papa Akindayomi, who had died the previous year.For three years he filled the role part-time,
still lecturing at Ilorin, until giving up his university position to preach full-time. The church, which was not well
known before Adeboye took charge,now claims branches in over a hundred countries, including more than 14,000 in Nigeria.
Adeboye has stated that his aim is to put a church within five minutes of every person on Earth. He is known for his
tremendous humility. He is the national president of RCF (an interdenominational fellowship in all the campuses in Nigeria) In 2008, Newsweek magazine named Adeboye one of
the fifty most powerful people in the world.He is married to Foluke Adeboye, also a pastor, with whom he has children

Whizkid…

Nigeria’s Whizkid is 22 year old and had been nominated and won the Next Rated award category at the 2011 edition of one
of Nigeria’s leading urban music event Headies, having been nominated for BET, Channel O Award, MTV Europe Award. He
has performed in several concerts in Africa, Europe and America. And in view of his consistency message to the youths
worldwide, employing Nigeria’s Yoruba dialect as a medium of expression, our Directors selected and honored him above
the likes of Tuface, D’Banj and P Square as a raw music talent, waiting to celebrate the riches of Nigeria as a cultural
ambassador.

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