{"id":41,"date":"2013-01-20T05:27:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T05:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=41"},"modified":"2013-01-20T05:27:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T05:27:12","slug":"barack-obama-is-naija-standard-newspaper-man-of-the-year-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/barack-obama-is-naija-standard-newspaper-man-of-the-year-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"BARACK OBAMA IS NAIJA STANDARD NEWSPAPER ‘MAN OF THE YEAR 2012’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"221_obama_and_wife_now\"<\/a>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 !
\nAuthor George Elijah Otumu
\nMonday, Dec 31, 2012 5:19 pm
\nBARACK 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 !<\/p>\n

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

Barack Obama, our ‘Person of the Year 2012’<\/p>\n

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

Olusegun Obasanjo…Nigeria’s Most Influential Politician<\/p>\n

You may like him, or hate him: but since independence till now, Olusegun Aremu Mathew Okikiola Obasanjo,Nigerian
\nArmy general, politician, and diplomat was the first military leader in Africa to hand over power to civilian rule.
\nHe was born March 5, 1937, served as ruler of Nigeria (1976\u201379) and as president (1999\u20132007).When other successive
\nNigerian administrations are faced with cpmplex situations on leadership, Obasanjo rich reportoire of knowledge
\nreally comes in handy. He is celebrated in the membership of African Union, same with Commonwealth Union and among
\nthe comity of United Nations. Today, Obansanjo remains the one amd only former President to have attained this height.<\/p>\n

UN Global Leadership Award on Obasanjo on September 26, 2012 in New York<\/p>\n

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

Now, just a few months later, he has gotten another international recognition, this time from the United Nations.<\/p>\n

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

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

David Mark as Nigeria’s Parliamentarian of the Year<\/p>\n

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

Don’t foget that the National Assembly on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 made history as it laid to bare the lingering political
\nlogjam that had been raging in the country for about 78 days due to the absence of late President Umaru Musa Yar\u2019 Adua
\nwho left the shores of Nigeria for Saudi-Arabia, where he has been receiving medical treatment, by declaring
\nDr. Goodluck Jonathan then as the Acting President.<\/p>\n

The Senate, under the great leadership based its resolution to declare Jonathan as the Acting President on the
\n\u201cDoctrine of Necessity\u201d. His words: \u201cA rigid and inflexible interpretation will not only stifle the spirit and
\nintendment of the Constitution, but will also affront the doctrine of necessity. The
\ndoctrine of necessity requires that we do what is necessary when faced with a situation that was not contemplated
\nby the Constitution. And that is precisely what we have done today. In doing so, we have as well maintained the
\nsanctity of our Constitution as the ultimate law of the land.\u201d<\/p>\n

The term, Doctrine of Necessity, was first used in 1954, in Pakistan when the Pakistani Chief Judge, Muhammad Munir,
\nvalidated use of emergency powers by Governor General, Ghulam Mohammad. In his judgment the Chief Justice cited
\nBracton\u2019s maxim, \u201cthat which is otherwise not lawful is made lawful by necessity,\u201d thereby providing the label that
\nwould come to be attached to the judgment and the doctrine that it was establishing.<\/p>\n

For the Recrods…<\/p>\n

The Doctrine of Necessity was also invoked in 1985 in Grenada\u00a0 for the second time to permit a murder trial to
\ncontinue in courts that had been brought into being by an extra-constitutional decree. In a 1985 judgment, the Chief
\nJustice of the High Court of Grenada invoked the doctrine of necessity to validate the legal existence of a court
\nthen trying for murder the persons who had conducted a coup against former leader Maurice Bishop. The court had
\nbeen established under an unconstitutional \u201cPeople\u2019s Law\u201d following the overthrow of the country\u2019s constitution,
\nwhich had subsequently been restored. The defendants argued that the court before which they were being tried had
\nno legal existence under the restored constitution, and they were therefore being deprived of their constitutional
\nright to a trial before a \u201cCourt established by law.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Whizkid…<\/p>\n

Nigeria’s Whizkid is 22 year old and had been nominated and won the Next Rated award category at the 2011 edition of one
\nof Nigeria\u2019s leading urban music event Headies, having been nominated for BET, Channel O Award, MTV Europe Award. He
\nhas performed in several concerts in Africa, Europe and America. And in view of his consistency message to the youths
\nworldwide, employing Nigeria’s Yoruba dialect as a medium of expression, our Directors selected and honored him above
\nthe likes of Tuface, D’Banj and P Square as a raw music talent, waiting to celebrate the riches of Nigeria as a cultural
\nambassador.<\/p>\n

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