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There is a raging controversy trailing the appointment of Dr Ahmed Rufai Abubakar as the substantive director-general of National Intelligence Agency (NIA). The controversy is brewing over what Presidency insiders and members of the intelligence community consider “as breach of national security” over the personality of the new NIA chief. Another issue is what insiders called the Presidency’s “promotion of mediocrity, nepotism and incompetence” in the intelligence community. Multiple sources who spoke to this newspaper said the new NIA chief “may compromise the security of this country because of his background.” “Rufai was born in Chad Republic. He had his…
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The All Progressive Congress (APC) keep blaming PDP for their misfortune, as if Nigeria was better of before the 16years of PDP rule. I remember before the 16years of PDP, things were really tough and rough for Nigerians. I remember trekking a distance of about 10km to load sawdust that we would use to power Abacha stove. Kerosene and electric Stoves were for the elites, even at that, there was scarcity of kerosene. If you can’t afford Gas cooker, Electric stove, Kerosene stove, or Abacha stove, you’ll go for Firewood. Electricity ‘NEPA’ was not stable, people were forced to buy…
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There are no more waters in the Benue but a flowing river of tears. It has been many months that I have been wandering on her quiet banks with a fishing net in my hands but since then, I have neither seen a rippling of water from a swimming fish nor a bubble of water from a breathing fish. They are all dead!! Is this how the owner of the food basket will spend yet another day and night starving out on the cold deserted river bank? My food basket is under attack from some nomadic pests and she is…
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PRESS RELEASE The attention of the RESCUE GOVERNMENT of Imo State has been drawn to the wild and unsubstantiated rumour currently making the rounds that parts of Imo State have been earmarked for the establishment of cattle colonies. This information is wicked, unfounded and untrue although it represents the typical product of warped thinking of desperate mischief makers via the social media. Out of abundant caution, the RESCUE MISSION GOVERNMENT of Imo State restates that there is no law, policy, decision, plan, request or intention to cede, allocate or designate any part of Imo State as a cattle colony. The…
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1.Buhari lacks physical, intellectual capacity to govern-Ghali Umar Na’Abba. APC BoT member. 2.Buhari government has dragged Nigeria backward, says Junaid Mohammed. 3.APC has no answer to Nigeria’s problems –Balarabe Musa 4.Buhari is taking Nigeria backwards-Pastor Tunde Bak-are. Buhari’s running mate in 2011. 5.Change or you would be changed. Forget about 2019 election-Rev Fr Mbaka. 6.Go home and rest. Do not contest 2019 election-Dele Momodu 7.Buhari is wrong, Nigeria needs restructuring — Balarabe Musa. WHAT A WEEK.
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Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of shielding corrupt members of his government. Obasanjo made this claims in a 13-page statement released on Tuesday. In a special press statement entitled, “The Way Out: A Clarion Call for Coalition for Nigeria Movement”, the former president said whoever is “going to justice must be with clean hands.” Obasanjo wrote: “But there are three other areas where President Buhari has come out more glaringly than most of us thought we knew about him. One is nepotic deployment bordering on clannishness and inability to bring discipline to bear on errant members…
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PRESS STATEMENT Wednesday, 17th January 2018 The Nigeria Intervention Movement (NIM), a Pro democracy Movement and Pressure Group of like-minded Nigerians who are committed to changing the political order, which has failed to fashion a Nigeria that works for all is conceived as the THIRD POLITICAL FORCE to rescue Nigeria from corrupt and inert political leadership and system by the year 2019 NIM is concerned that the political elite, since independence and particularly since the exit of the military from visible power in 1999, has proved that it is ill-equipped and unprepared for the challenge of transforming our nation from…
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Nigeria Intervention Movement (NIM), which has former Cross River State governor, Donald Duke, former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Charles Soludo, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Olisa Agbakoba, Tafawa Balewa, and Prof. Pat Utomi, as members, has vowed to rescue Nigeria in 2019. The group said it would be providing an alternative to the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Former Education minister, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili is also a member of the group, including former Information minister, Frank Nweke Jnr, Col. Abubakar Umar (retd), Ayo Obe, Rabiu Ishyaku Rabiu, former presidential adviser, Akin Osuntokun.…
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The Guardian (Lagos): Editorial of August 30, 1985. THE ARROGANCE OF POWER. It should be perfectly understandable if, in the wake of the recent coup, Nigerians seem a great deal more sceptical about their prospects than perhaps they need be. Two coups in 20 months, separated from a long stretch of military rule only by four brief years of ignominious civilian administration, do not add up to any settled understanding of the essence of government. What they do create is a climate of uncertainty and instability, conditions that are hardly helpful to a nation so desperately in need of orderly…
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MUTUK Receives Approval to Deliver Petition at 10 Downing Street and Nigeria High Commission London. Protest Agenda Date: January 22, 2018 Timings: • 9.00 – 9.40am: We will converge (and hold a meeting) in front (outside) National Gallery, Trafalgar Square. We will proceed from there to Nigeria High Commission. It’s about 2 minutes’ walk. • 9.40 – 10.00am: March to Nigeria High Commission, 9 Northumberland Ave, Westminster, London WC2N 5BX. • 10.00am – 12.00 noon: Protest Commences in front of Nigeria High Commission, 9 Northumberland Ave, Westminster, London WC2N 5BX. Designated speakers to address the group. Deliver petition to High…
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If you have not registered before, If you have lost or damaged your PVC, If you have relocated from where you registered before, Please visit the INEC office in your LGA to get registered, to replace ur PVC, to apply for correction of your details and to apply for transfer of your registration to your new location. Day: Monday – Friday Time: 9am – 3pm daily
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” Out of the abundance of their hearts, their mouths speaketh ” … Benue State belongs to the Fulani people by right of conquest. This is because half of the state is part of the Bauchi Emirate and the other half is part of the Adamawa Emirate. Benue is therefore part and parcel of the Sokoto Caliphate. So no one has the right to expel the Fulani from Benue under any guise. Second to the Arabs, perhaps the Fulani are the most benevolent and merciful conquerors in history. If they had applied the Nazi final solution to the natives, or…
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THE THREE CARDINAL SINS OF GEN. GOWON. Gen. Yakubu Gowon in 1967 thought he could invade Enugu, arrest Ojukwu and place him on trial. A mission he could not accomplish in 3 three years. As soon as Gowon realized that Gen. Ojukwu and his boys were not smiling or easy to conquer, Gowon committed 3 crimes against Nigerians just to win the war. These are the sins of Gowon that are affecting Nigerians today. 1. THE GODOGODO Gowon and his supreme military council thought it would be easy to walk over Biafra and capture Ojukwu so they decided to launch…
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By Comr. Ezekwe Uche History has it that PDP has never failed election in Ohaji/Egbema and 2019 will not be an exception. Its very appalling that some of our brothers from Ohaji/Egbema have ignorantly decided to dine and wine with the man that slept with their mother while she carries them at her back. Its very unfortunate that we have these set of uncircumcised persons amongst us who has foolishly sold their souls to the devil for peanuts of today,selling out perpetually the future of their born and unborn children for selfish interests against the communal interests of our people.…
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A very significant event—a peaceful mass protest against the misgovernance and mindless plunder of Imo State by Mr. Rochas Okorocha—took place in Owerri exactly a month ago, on Monday, December 18, 2017. It was organized by the Imo Peoples Action for Democracy (IPAD), a coalition of civil society and professional groups in Imo State. It didn’t get much media traction, not because it didn’t deserve national media attention. Part of the problem is the character of the Nigerian media. The other explanation was the concerted effort by Mr. Okorocha and his goons, aided by the Nigeria Police, to suppress the…
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I am worried about the ongoing narrative that Nigerians desired a change from the PDP misrule and agreed in 2015 to kick out Goodluck Jonathan and vote in Muhammadu Buhari as President. Nothing sounds more fraudulent. Was there a consensus at anytime on that? The answer is no. Rather, the Buhari presidency was a risk specifically undertaken by a tiny but powerful clique solely for its benefit and not the benefit of Nigerians. Now that the risk has failed and woefully too, the same clique is trying to change the narrative and make the mistake look like everybody’s mistake. It…
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Leaders of the South-East and South-West, on Thursday in Enugu, asked the Federal Government to declare Fulani herdsmen as terrorists. The Southern leaders, at an event tagged, ‘Handshake Across the Niger: A Celebration of Igbo/Yoruba Friendship Beyond Brotherhood,’ and organised by a pan-Igbo group, Nzuko Umunna, also insisted on the restructuring of the country. The event, hosted by the leaders of Afenifere and the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, was also attended by the representatives of the South-South and the Middle Belt. A minute silence was observed in honour of the victims of herdsmen attacks in Benue State and other parts of the…
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The expected return of Senate President Bukola Saraki to the dock for alleged false asset declaration and the continuation of the trials of former Peoples Democratic Party spokesperson, Olisah Metuh, and the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, are some of the major cases expected in 2018. Also, the continued detention of former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, as well as the Shiite leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, are among cases that will make the headlines in 2018. Saraki’s False Asset Charge On December 12, 2017, an Abuja Division of the Appeal Court ordered the retrial of Mr. Saraki, months…
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11 JAN 2018 THIS series is dedicated to the Handshake Across the Niger event taking place today in Enugu between the leaders of the Igbo and Yoruba ethnic groups. Before now, I never considered former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the right material for the presidency because I saw him as a regional champion. Now that he seems to have seen the light and become the leading campaigner for restructuring (even risking his political standing in the conservative North) I am willing to give him another look. During the build-up to the 2011 general elections, he arrogantly boasted at a gathering of the…
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An alliance between the Southwest and Southeast seeking to remove old animosities and rivalries between the two geo-political zones of Nigeria could be the first step towards finding a common front in the search for solutions to the myriad of problems facing the nation. Today, leaders from major ethnic nationalities in the southern part of Nigeria are in Enugu under the auspices of ‘Handshake Across the Niger.’ Although it was a political strategy enunciated by the late Dr. Chuba Okadigbo, the historical underpinning of what is taking place in Enugu, is the bond of friendship between late Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi…
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January 11 2018 In a society where collaboration between geopolitical zones often lead to landmark consensus on national issues, today’s summit between the Yoruba and Igbo, will be seen as very promising. The fact that the Yoruba and the Igbo have rarely had any convergence on socio-political issues before and after independence, suggests that the outcome of the forum may likely address the age-long mistrust between them. It could also be a functional vehicle for the bonding of the components that make up the larger South. If the conference heralds that, the dreams of having a monolithic South like the…
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In 1950, just two years after the state of Israel was founded, the country’s first commercial delegation set off for South America. Israel desperately needed trading partners. Unlike its Arab adversaries, Israel did not have natural resources to fund its economy. There was no oil or minerals. Nothing. The delegation held a couple of meetings but was mostly met with laughs. The Israelis were trying to sell oranges, kerosene stove tops and fake teeth. For countries like Argentina, which grew its own oranges and was connected to the electrical grid, the products were pretty useless. It’s hard to imagine this…
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Enugu, Jan 11, 2018 Every Generation is confronted with opportunities they seize upon, as well as the challenges they must confront and defeat if they desire to make appreciable progress, or simply succumb to those challenges and live with the consequences of their actions or inactions forever after. It is no different with the present generation of the Igbos and Yorubas especially in the present day Nigeria. For far too long the present generation of the Yorubas and the Igbos have frittered away so much energy in animosity and mutual cynicism, driven by mostly false narrative, and to the benefit…
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Baron Roy wrote: Since the past couple of years, we have had numerous killings. ALL from Fulani Militias masquerading as herdsmen. The number of killings within the past 30 months have claimed at least 10,000 souls (conservative estimates) These people did not plan to die…at least not violently. And not in the hands of their guests. But die they did…unmourned, unavenged…and their killers treated with awe by the Nigerian Establishment… Nassarawa killings Benue killings Taraba killings Adamawa killings Kaduna killings Enugu killings Edo killings Delta killings Abia killings Cross River killings Plataue killings Kaduna killings… And all those people killed…
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It has become clear to many parents that the task of teaching their children has been shifted to them despite the huge fees they keep doling out to private schools. Children come home with homework that requires over 6 hours to complete and the children are usually clueless about the topic. Clearly some of these topics were never introduced in class and the burden of breaking in the topic is shifted to the parents. In some cases a topic is given a very brief introduction in class then a slew of tasks is bundled as assignments and becomes the parent’s…
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It is happening all over again. History is repeating itself and, alas, within such an agonizingly short span of time. How often must we warn against the enervating lure of appeasement in face of aggression and will to dominate! I do not hesitate to draw attention to Volume III of my INTERVENTION Series, and to the chapter on The Unappeasable Price of Appeasement. There is little to add, but it does appear that even the tragically fulfilled warnings of the past leave no impression on leadership, not even when identical signs of impending cardiac arrest loom over the nation. Boko…
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January 8, 2018 The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday told the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, to address issues and stop his resort to excuses and shifting of blames over the failures and inherent confusion in the APC-led Federal Government. The PDP slammed Oyegun for attempting to exonerate the APC of blames over the embarrassing list of board members of federal parastatatals which contained names of deceased persons, adding that his excuses has further confirmed PDP’s position that APC and its Federal government are completely disorganized and ill-equipped to govern. PDP National Publicity…
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January 11 2018 The attention of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), IMO State chapter has been drawn to the false, erroneous and inaccurate statement credited to Sam Onwuemeodo, the Chief Press Secretary to IMO State Government where he allegedly claimed that the State Government under Rochas Okorocha is not indebted to any bank anywhere in the country or outside the country. The Imo State Governor, speaking through his Chief Press Secretary also claimed that the current N93.27 billion IMO debt profile was an accumulated debts right from the creation of the State in 1976. The above provocative comment is not only…
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As preparations reach fever-pitch levels for the January 11, 2018 Event in Enugu tagged “HANDSHAKE ACROSS THE NIGER” where the Yoruba will be coming in their strength to fraternize with Igbo as a part of steps towards closing the chapter of longstanding suspicion-ridden acrimonious relationship between the Yoruba and Igbo in the Nigerian Union of Attrition, the Lower Niger Independence Movement (LONIM) has followed very closely and with a measure of anxiety, what the Igbo side is taking to the HANDSHAKE Table. LONIM notes that while the Yoruba Position on the Nigerian Question in terms of the minimum conditions for…
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In one research, Lagos State Government revealed that over *6000 heads of Cattle are slaughtered in Lagos daily.* That is over 180,000 heads of Cattle per month and about 2.2 million in Lagos State alone. Analytical reasoning has never been known to be a forte of the African man and has been a major source of setbacks for us. The white folks have devised a way to tame devious, greedy and powerful people by hurting their economies. *They simply boycott their products and it hurts.* _”Without justice, there can be no peace. *He who passively accepts evil is as much…
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January 10, 2018 Says Anambra senate rerun must hold Saturday Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has finally issued detailed timetable of activities leading to the next general elections in 2019. According to the time table issued by the commission, all the political parties are expected to submit to INEC names of its presidential candidates latest on December 3, 2018. It said the earlier approved election timetable which scheduled the presidential and National Assembly elections for February 16 and governorship and state assembly polls for March 2, 2019 still stands. Addressing journalists at the headquarters of…
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Ibadan, January 9, 2018 Press Statement No inch of Yoruba territory must be ceded for ‘Cattle Colony’ by the State or Federal Governments, the Oodua Nationalist Coalition, (ONAC) warned on Tuesday in a statement issued at Ibadan. The group accused President Mohammadu Buhari of promoting ethnic supremacy through his indifference to Fulani genocide and savage manslaughter. “It is the first time in Nigerian history that the Federal Government will boldly and without shame support armed insurgents and murderers. This is the worst scene in recent human history that no one can ever forget in a hurry.” ONAC berated the Governor…
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Invisible attackers who will never be traced ! 1. February 2013 Fulani Attacked Agatu burning Inoli, Ologba, olegeje, olegogboche, olegede, Adana, Inminy and Abugbe communities. Many lives lost. 2. April 23 2013. 10 farmers killed in an attack on Mbasenge community in Guma LGA by suspected herdsmen. 3. May 7, 2013. 47 mourners gunned down in Agatu while burying two policemen killed the Tuesday before in Nassarawa. 4. May 14, 2013. Over 200 herdsmen surround Ekwo-Okpanchenyi, Agatu LGA killing 40 locals. 5. July 5, 2013. 20 people were killed in a “conflict” between Tiv farmers & herdsmen at Nzorov,Guma LGA,…
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*To go Ahead with Anambra Central Elections Jan. 13 The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has issued the time table and schedule of activities for the 2019 General Elections, fixing the conduct of party primaries including the resolution of disputes arising from primaries for August 18, 2018 to October 7, 2018 for national and state elections while that of the FCT Area Council is slated for between September 4 and October 27, 2018. Speaking with journalists Tuesday in Abuja, INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu said the commission arrived at the schedule of activities after its meeting held on the same…
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HIS EXCELLENCY, President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR. President and Commander-in-Chief Of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja Your Excellency Mr. President, YOU HAVE BETRAYED DEMOCRACY AND PROMOTED GENOCIDE. I would have loved to wish you a happy new year, but I am not a hypocrite. I am not happy and nobody in Benue is happy today, because many of our citizens did not have a happy new 2018. Genocide on citizens of Nigeria has escalated in earnest in Benue State. This genocide has turned their happiness to nightmare and death. Let me also…
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The Fulani in Nigeria have said they will not accept cattle ranching because the country’s geographical location was not suitable for it. Besides, the Fulani said the species of cows they had, as subsistence livestock farmers, were not good for ranching in the country, saying they could only be confined to ranching if their livestock were replaced with breeds suitable for it. This was even as they said the anti open grazing laws being established by some state governments would die a natural death like ‘political sharia law’ in Zamfara. According to them, the laws are being used as campaigns…
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Pendulum January 6, 2018 My dear President, please, permit me to wish you and your family a very happy new year. Let me also offer my words of prayers, and intercession, on behalf of your very handsome son, and his friend, who, according to reports, were involved in a terrible power-bike crash. I pray that God almighty will grant them full recovery and I believe my prayer is already answered because of my presence in the Holy Land of Jerusalem. Now to the business of the day. Kindly permit me to be as brutally frank as possible. As a stakeholder…
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From the Americas, through Europe, the Mediterranean Basin, the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea, East Africa to China and Japan the global price for the ordinary grey Portland cement averages out at $62/tonne by mid-December 2017 data. At $1:N350, that is N21,000. This is the average global price for the everyday cement we buy, produced and bagged in Nigeria by just two players who have swallowed everybody else up with one of them as the local leader. Now a tonne of cement is 1000kg, i.e 20 x the 50kg bags we buy on retail in Nigeria. This is to say…
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By Brady Nwosu No doubt about it, Nigeria is an illusion. It is not only a failing state, but it has failed both man, and God, who endowed her with resources in more that sufficient measures. All the indices of a failed state has manifested and still bald-facing. According to Britannica.com, failed state, a state that is unable to perform the two fundamental functions of the sovereign nation-state in the modern world system: it cannot project authority over its territory and peoples, and it cannot protect its national boundaries. … A failed state is composed of feeble and flawed institutions.…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Federal Government of providing cover for huge sleazes directly involving APC interests and urged its officials to stop dishing out falsehood to suffering Nigerians. PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan in a statement on Wednesday said it is completely reprehensible that the APC and the Federal Government has continue to stick to lies, particularly on the real reasons behind the biting fuel scarcity as well as their exposed attempt to pilfer $1bn from the Excess Crude Account (ECA). The PDP charged the APC-led Federal Government to tell Nigerians the truth regarding its…
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The *Deadly Misdiagnosis and even more deadly Prescription* of hoping to escape the ferocious Jihad already on a full Southward sweep, by mere *Voting* at an *Election* under the 1999 Constitution that *massively empowers the Fulani Caliphate against the rest of Nigeria*, is a sure guarantee for the success of the Jihadists, especially when it is the Khalif Herdsman-In-Chief that would preside over the 2019 Round, (whether or not he runs) already zoned to the North by the two viable Political Parties, if the PDP and APC could be so properly described. *The choice is already narrowed down to one…
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Fellow Middle Belters, Nigeria is fully back to the state of nature. The unabated killing of our people in their communities is a war declared on us and President Mohammadu Buhari is sleeping on duty. We should not make mistake thinking that Nigerian government will stop this situation. Every part of the country is defending its territory now. The Fulani terrorists will leave no part of the Middle Belt region untouched then they finally face the Southern part of the country with war. Despite the calls on Federal Government by Middle Belt people to stop this genocide, Nigerian government has…
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A poll conducted by SUNDAY PUNCH has revealed that many Nigerians will not vote for President Muham madu Buhari if he decides to seek re-election in 2019. The poll with the title, “Will you vote for Buhari in 2019?” was conducted on The PUNCH website, http://www.punchng.com. It gauged the opinions of Nigerians using three options for participants. Those who want to vote again for the President in 2019 answered by clicking ‘YES’ while those with a contrary opinion clicked the ‘NO’ button. The last option was for those who were indifferent to Buhari’s choice. The poll went live on Thursday,…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Federal Government of providing cover for huge sleazes directly involving APC interests and urged its officials to stop dishing out falsehood to suffering Nigerians. PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan in a statement on Wednesday said it is completely reprehensible that the APC and the Federal Government has continue to stick to lies, particularly on the real reasons behind the biting fuel scarcity as well as their exposed attempt to pilfer $1bn from the Excess Crude Account (ECA). The PDP charged the APC-led Federal Government to tell Nigerians the truth regarding its…
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The biggest country in Africa that the United Kingdom colonized is Nigeria. The biggest country that the United Kingdom colonized in Asia is India (which then comprised the present Pakistan and Bangladesh). When the UK came into Nigeria and India, like all other countries they colonized, they brought along their technology, religion (Christianity), and culture: names, dressing, food, language, etc. Try as hard as the British did, India rejected the British religion, names, dressing, food, and even language, but they did not reject the British technology. Today, 80.5% of Indians are Hindus; 13.4% Muslims; 2.3% Christians; 1.9% Sikhs; 0.8% Buddhists,…
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All of us will get old one day.. In few years to come it will be your turn. The current pension manipulations should be stopped by Nigerians now. I was very happy when the Senate recently made a move to adjust the pensions act to enable Nigerians withdraw up to seventy five percent of their cumulative savings.. The liberty should even extend to allowing pensioners withdraw their whole sum…. The law could also give pensioners the liberty to either withdraw their total sum or give the pension administrators the kind of investments they want.. After spending sixty years or thirty…
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When Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu was planning to contest the Governorship of Abia State in the last quarter of the year 2014, he rolled out a manifesto detailing his plans and programmes that will be implemented by his administration upon assumption of office. The manifesto contained detailed prognosis and plans of action for a number of sectors including Health, Education, Road Infrastructure, Agriculture Trade and Commerce among others. Under Trade and Commerce, the Governor outlined his vision for the strengthening of the production capacity of Aba to consolidate its status as the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises Capital of West Africa.…
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Startling Research findings by Professor Charles Adisa, Issued by Chinua Achebe Centre for Leadership and Development (CACLAD) The most significant problem that African nations face is lack of leadership. Normally, Leadership should be an intentional conscious effort to attend to the people’s needs and aspirations. But in Africa, even though many of those that are thrust into the position of leadership mean well, they lack the capacity to lead and meet the people/s hopes and aspirations. Apart from lack of adequate preparation for leadership, one other notable factor that had inhibited good leadership among African leaders is the seemingly non-existent…
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Explains why Yoruba and Igbo are collaborating. Proffesor Banji Akintoye is a renowned historian and a member of the Southern Leaders Forum. In this interview, Akintoye maintains that Nigeria may eventually break up if it is not properly structured. He also gives an insight to the controversy over who were the original settlers of Lagos and the forthcoming Handshake Across the Niger which seeks to promote unity and collaboration between Yoruba and Igbo. Excerpts: Q- You are an advocate of restructuring, what are your views on it ? A- When you have the type of country that we have, with…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi to resign from the federal Executive Council following his being appointed the Director General of President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 re-election campaign. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbodiyan, the PDP said, “If APC has any strand of dignity, then Amaechi must resign as the Minister of Transportation having been appointed and already functioning as the DG of President Buhari’s Campaign. “Under the constitution of Nigeria, Mr. Amaechi cannot combine the job of a Minister of the Federal Republic with another responsibility such as…
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Since 2008, the question of whether the 774 local government areas within the Federal Republic of Nigeria should be granted autonomous status like the states or not has been a recurrent decimal during constitutional amendment debates in Nigeria. Whereas some people who were alarmed by the allegations that some state governors flagrantly abuse the Local Government and States Joint Account system established by the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) yearn for further amendments of the constitution to confer autonomous status on local government areas; others who are equally uncomfortable but not emotional about the alleged…
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INEC Takes Charge of LGCs Elections… As It Grants Full Financial,Administrative Autonomy to 774 LGCs in Nigeria. The National Assembly on Tuesday, granted full financial and administrative autonomy to all the 774 local council authorities across Nigeria by amending section 124 of the nation’s constitution. The section provides a consequential provision for the making of the local councils, a full third tier government without undue interference from the state governments. The amendment was one of the 22 others approved by the House of Representatives last week and ratified by the Senate on Tuesday. Both chambers had through a conference committee…
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I join my fellow citizens this morning to welcome and celebrate the New Year 2018. This year promises to be pivotal in our quest for CHANGE. Unfortunately, I am saddened to acknowledge that for many this Christmas and New Year holidays have been anything but merry and happy. Instead of showing love, companionship and charity, some of our compatriots chose this period to inflict severe hardship on us all by creating unnecessary fuel scarcity across the country. The consequence was that not many could travel and the few who did had to pay exorbitant transport fares. This is unacceptable given…
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The state Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Nze Ray Emeana, described Buhari’s New Year message as “a rehash of the All Progressives Congress, APC, continuous deceitful and failed promises.” It was Emeana’s opinion that there was nothing new in the speech, as Nigerians have continued to live in pitch darkness, in spite of lies of increased power generation. “This is the worst Christmas ever, as transport fare from Lagos and Abuja to Owerri, was over N20,000. Virtually every kobo available to Nigerians this festival period was spent on fuel and diesel, which rose to over N350 and N250 per…
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His Excellency before the event inspected a cassava processing plant built by him for the good people of His community. He was conducted round by HRH Eze Damian Onyeoziri Nwaigwe, the Eze Udo of Mbutu Ancient kingdom. Notable among the dignitaries in attendance were His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Amnu Waziri Tambuwal, the executive governor of Sokoto State, Distinguished Senators, members of the house of representatives (former and present), state commissioners, house of assembly members, the clergy led by Rt. Rev. Chamberlain Ogunedo, Bishop of Mbaise Diocese, Rt. Rev. Enyinnaya Okoroafor, Bishop of Egbu Diocese, the traditional rulers, leaders of the…
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Do you know that in July 2017 ,Ibe Kachikwu, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum did a memo to President/Minister of Petroleum ,Mohammadu Buhari on anticipated shortage of premium motor spirit. In the memo,he surmised that short fall in PMS will become discernible from the early month of November 2017 and that by third week of November the shortfall shall manifest in long queues at filling stations. He ended the brief by strategically recommending for early and quick augmentation of stock. As usual,the Aso Rock Villa Cabal, led by Abbah Kyari,Buhari’s integrity challenged Chief of Staff muted and stayed action…
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PRESIDENT BUHARI REJECTS MARKETER’S DEMAND FOR PRICE INCREASE. THE DEMANDS: ~ Price increase ~ Total deregulation of petroleum products ~ Payment of outstanding subsidy FG’S OFFERS: ~ Creation of special window for Forex from CBN ~ Presentation of request for payment of outstanding subsidy to National Assembly ~ Creating opportunity for the establishment of modular refineries. ~ No return to era of fuel subsidy A subtle move by marketers for the federal government to increase fuel price appears to have failed. President Muhammadu Buhari is not disposed to the proposal, The Nation gathered yesterday. He is also saying No to…
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When fire is burning over your roof, you must reach a decision whether to fetch water to put out the fire or resign to fate and watch the fire burn. It’s all about the choice we make. The illegal arrest and detention of citizen Innocent Chukwuma by the EFCC at the instigation of GTBank, is one of such troubling time when we as a people must reach a decision to organize and mobilize to put out the fire of political and economic war that is waged against us. We must by our collective will signal to Pharaoh that as a…
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Nigerian government has identified those behind the current fuel scarcity. Director General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Dr Garba Abari, said the situation was caused by oil marketers. In a statement on Saturday, Abari said the hoarding is an intentional ploy to force government to increase the pump price of the petrol. Abari said: “I call on Nigerians to ask why and how without any sign of scarcity, they suddenly woke up to most petrol stations across the country not selling fuel instantaneously. “In spite of increase supplies by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, petroleum marketers have resorted to…
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Barring last minute change, President Muhammadu Buhari may have bowed to pressure from the Nigerian Senate to drop the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC. The President, according to Gong News has reportedly narrowed down to the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations at Police College, Kaduna, Ahmed Abdulrahman as Ibrahim Magu’s replacement. Our source reported that the government is already combing the ranks of the Nigeria Police force for a worthy and less controversial replacement for Mr Ibrahim Magu as Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Except if things take a…
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Aisha Yesufu Co-convener of Bring Back Our Girls Group has blasted President Muhammadu Buhari over his ill performance as a president. Aisha who made reference to Buhari’s tweet in 2015 blaming former President Goodluck Jonathan for fuel crisis called him a hypocrite “Dear President Muhammadu Buhari @MBuhari your tweet below says it all about your hypocritical stand. “Your tears, words, tweets were never about Nigeria but about your need to come and enjoy the perks of power. “You have failed as the Minister of Petroleum and more so as the President. She tweeted The BBOG co-convener said the president has…
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Chairman of Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff, Senator Hope Uzodinma, has blamed petroleum products’ dealers and tank farm owners over the current fuel crisis in the country. Uzodinma, in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja, decried that some petroleum products’ dealers and tank farm owners were playing politics with the distribution of petroleum products through hoarding. He said the scarcity, which was coming at a time Christians were about to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, indicated that it was “a great sabotage.” The lawmaker added that from statistics available to his committee, “the volume of petroleum…
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Very Funny that I woke up this morning to see Buhari’s supporters celebrating that Col. Hameed Ali of the Nigerian customs service generated 1.022 trillion naira Revenue. They have been shouting everywhere that Hameed has generated the highest Revenue in the customs service. In 2014, Dikko Inde , the former CG of the customs service generated about 977 billion Naira Revenue when $1 was equal to about 190 naira. With now that the naira has lost about 100% value exchanging for figures close to 380 naira to a dollar, Hameed Ali should have doubled the amount Inde generated in 2014…
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December 22, 2017 Fellow Nigerians, it is no longer in the realm of speculation that our reticent general would seek a second term in office. It is not just his infamous body language speaking volumes about his intention, his actions and utterances lately give us a clear picture of his desire for a second term. His supporters under the umbrella of the Buhari Support Organisation have already launched Buhari’s 2019 bid. His foot soldiers have commenced nocturnal meetings to sell to the public what they know in their heart of hearts is a bad product. Although this has provoked incredulity…
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Interest groups within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are set to engage each other in intense politicking for the control of the party as the race for 2019 presidential election gets underway in the new year. A competent source within the party told our correspondents that some power brokers within the party who seemed united towards the convention held last weekend have since commenced underground politicking for the control of the party. Speaking under anonymity, the source disclosed that the position of the vice presidential candidate of the party may eventually turn out more controversial than the fight for the…
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Fourteen governors belonging to the ruling All Progressives Congress [APC] are angry that they were deliberately not invited to two meetings organised by Kaduna State Governor Nasiru el-Rufa’i and Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi all geared towards the 2019 elections, a top source in the ruling party told Daily Trust in Abuja yesterday. The affair has already ruffled feathers within APC and the 14 governors are demanding to know why they were left out of consultations, the source said. Daily Trust learned that two were held in October and December, this year at the Abuja residence of Amaechi, who hosted the…
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Danjuma Ibrahim the officer alleged to have given the order to shoot at sight the Apo six Igbo traders as a result of a disagreement over a woman, was among 15 new CPs recently promoted by the Police Service Commission on the recommendation of the IG. He had been suspended from duty on account of the alleged extrajudicial killing and was subsequently charged to court alongside Othman Abdulsalam, Nicholas Zakaria, Baba Emmanuel, Ezekiel Acheneje and Sadiq Salami as co-defendants for a felony. The trial Judge, Justice Ishaq Bello, of the FCT High Court found Danjuma, who was the first accused…
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The House of Representatives said on Wednesday that over $5 billion had been diverted by the Central Bank of Nigeria from the Federation Account. The House stated that part of the money was kept in “secret accounts” known only to the apex bank. In a resolution it passed in Abuja, the House set up an ad hoc committee to investigate several cases of non-remittances and under-remittances of revenue to the federation account by the apex bank. A member of the All Progressives Congress from Osun State, Mrs. Ayo Omidiran, had raised the issue in plenary under matters of urgent national…
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Barr. Victor Muruako, Acting Chairman, Fiscal Responsibility Commission, FRC, says the revenue projections contained in the 2018-2020 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) are feasible. He told the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on Tuesday in Abuja that the projections were in line with the realities on ground. According to him, the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, ERGP, of the Federal Government has helped shape the 2018-2020 MTEF and formed the basis for the 2018 budget projections as outlined in the document. He commended the Federal Government for engaging Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, the media and…
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Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar was challenged yesterday to prove that he funded President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2015 campaign. Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai threw the challenge and stated why the forme vice president quit the All Progressives Congress (APC) — there was no room for him to run for president after governors endorsed Buhari for a second term. El-Rufai spoke on a Voice of America (VOA) Hausa Service Programme, “Democracy Today”, which was monitored in Kaduna. The former VP and former Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who has also plans to run for president, were…
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Imo governor, Rochas Okorocha has approved the payment of November and December salaries for civil servants in the state. According to a statement on Wednesday, Okorocha said the payment will ensure workers celebrate “seamless Christmas”. The statement read, “This is to announce that the Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has approved the immediate payment of the November and December 2017 salaries of Imo workers. This is to enable our esteemed Imo workers to celebrate seamless Christmas. Payments have duly commenced. “Any worker encountering any difficulties with the approved payments should not hesitate to contact the Ministry of Happiness and…
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Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has released the Chairman of Nigeria’s automobile company, Innoson Motors, Innocent Chukwuma on bail. This was contained in a statement issued by the EFCC Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren on Wednesday night, December 20. Oblong Media recalls that the Innoson Motors boss was arrested in his residence in Enugu, Nigeria, on Tuesday morning, December 19. Though the EFCC said the businessman who runs a local auto assembly plant was arrested following his refusal to respond to invitations by the Commission, after initially being granted administrative bail by the Commission,…
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The Anglican Archbishop, Enugu ecclesiastical province, Most. Rev. Dr Emmanuel Chukwuma has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently call Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha to order. Chukwuma, at a media briefing in Enugu on Wednesday, also asked Okorocha’s party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, to look into the governor’s leadership style and redirect his steps. The Church leader stated that it was saddening that while several Imo workers and pensioners were groaning over unpaid salaries and pension, Okorocha was busy wasting millions of naira on moulding statues. “I want to say that the condition of civil servants in Imo…
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Top former executives from oil giants Shell and Eni are to stand trial for an alleged $1.1 billion bribery scheme, an Italian court ruled on Wednesday. This is the biggest corporate bribery trial in history, and relates to alleged corruption in a deal done over a Nigerian oil block. The trial is due to begin in March. Shell and Eni denied any wrongdoing. An Italian judge has ordered former executives from oil giants Royal Dutch Shell and Eni to stand trial over an alleged $1.1 billion bribery scheme. Mrs Justice Barbara handed down the ruling on Wednesday, stating top executives…
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Group Managing Director, GMD of NNPC, Maikanti Baru (right), with Niger State Governor, Abubakar Bello, during a visit to NNPC, on Tuesday in Abuja. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation says it is planning to construct three power plants to generate about 4,600 megawatts in the northern part of the country. The power plants, to be located in Abuja, Kaduna and Kano, would rely on gas supplies from the proposed Ajaokuta-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano, AKK, Gas Pipeline project. The tender for the award of contract for the pipeline was two weeks ago presented to the Executive Council of the Federation, FEC, for approval. The…
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The PDP is completely unperturbed by the comical act of some individuals who make outlandish claims in the media regarding our party The fact is that we are happy with the efforts of the Governor Seriake Dickson-led Reconciliation Committee as well as the responses from all the respectable and responsible leaders of our party in that regard. We will however not be responsible or respond to any person or groups of individuals who decide for whatever reason to allow themselves to be used by another political party in a laughable and childish attempt to distract us The PDP under the…
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In an attempt to justify the dubious process by which $1 Billion was taken from the Excess Crude Account by the Federal Government ostensibly to fund an anti terror war with the same Boko Haram that the Buhari administration said was ‘finished’ and ‘technically defeated’, the Zamfara state Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, who is also the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum made some startling revelations which has exposed him to ridicule and further shown that his party, the All Progressive Congress, and its members, are a patently dishonest bunch with no credibility whatsoever. Speaking yesterday (Tuesday 19th December, 2017) at…
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To you all who abhor injustice and official tyranny, this is a golden opportunity to stand up to be counted. Stop speaking too many grammar over the humiliation and economic terrorism visited on Innoson by the uniformed rogues masquerading as the EFCC with their partner in corporate roquery, GTBANK. GET UP NOW AND WALK TO THE NEAREST GTBANK AND TRANSFER YOUR MONEY TO ANOTHER BANK. Is GTBank the only bank?? If you can’t fight EFCC since they are the govt, can’t you at least make GTBANK pay a very steep price for this act of state-sponsored corporate witch-craft. You have…
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Going by the chronology of facts available to it and the verifications of same so far made, the Lower Niger Congress (LNC) has reached a preliminary determination that the aggression unleashed against Innocent Chukwuma, CEO of Innoson Motors Ltd is an arm-twisting brigandage by the Guarantee Trust Bank (GTB) and its owners, using the EFCC and Police an instruments of Intimidation, in a straightforward matter of Commercial Dispute in which the embattled Innocent Chukwuma and his company, Innoson had recoursed to the painstakingly slow judicial process for remediation. This undisguised aggression, which is heavily laden with Regional and Ethnic connotations,…
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Oh, I do understand now: we need the money to mobilise for a street party ala carnival, for merriment and an owambe party and even to celebrate Nigeria’s liberation from the grip of insurgency, and to the lesser evil of kidnapping. Yes, we need the money to rejoice over a symbolic gesture of the release of some of the Chibok girls and for the impending success of sending PDP to permanent political oblivion in 2019… At the last National Economic Council meeting, Nigerian governors approved the withdrawal of one billion naira from the highly depleted Excess Crude Account for the…
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Innoson Nigeria Ltd operates a current account with GTB. At some point, Innoson discovered that GTB imposed excess and unlawful charges in its current account. Both parties agreed to invite an independent auditing firm that will be agreed by both parties, At the end, Multiwings Consulting Firm of Auditors was invited to properly audit Innoson Nigeria Ltd current account no 0043753636 domiciled with Nnewi Branch of GTB. The auditing covers a period from March 2004 to December 2011. After the account was audited, it was discovered that GTB has been illegally deducting excess bank charges on its overdraft facility to…
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My friends who are not from the East of Nigeria where Igbos come from often ask me why there is so much anger in the East and among Igbos. Some wonder why, despite the famed Igbo” wealth’ and enterprise all over Nigeria, the people still complain that Nigeria is unfair to them. Some insinuate that the anger comes from the loss of the 2015 election by Jonathan who the Igbos heavily backed. And why is it that the current generation of Igbos are so angry as to contemplate carrying arms against the country? With lots following Nnamdi Kanu of IPOB…
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Our attention has been drawn to a tweet by EFCC on its official twiiter handle claiming that the gestapo kind of arrest of Dr Innocent Chukwuma (OFR) today at his Enugu residence was because he didnt honour an invitation from the commission sent to him. This claim by the commission is not factual and it tends to mislead the public and bring the personality and character of Dr Innocent Chukwuma to disrepute. Hence we want to state the true position so as to inform the general public the truth about this matter. EFCC never at any time invited Dr Innocent…
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The huge sum of money found at a residence in Ikoyi, Lagos state, was taken from Nigeria’s joint venture (JV) cash call account at the American bank, JP Morgan Chase, according to the report of the auditor-general of the federation seen by TheCable. NNPC currently runs six JVs — with Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (MPNU), Nigerian Agip Oil Company Limited (NAOC), Elf Petroleum Nigeria Limited (EPNL) and Texaco Overseas Petroleum Company of Nigeria Unlimited (TOPCON). Also, there was no documentation for the official release of $289,202,382 to the…
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Saif Gaddafi, the second son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will announce in coming days his intention to run for president of Libya, the family’s spokesman, Basem Hashimi Soul, told Sputnik Monday. On Wednesday, the Libyan Government of National Accord’s (GNA) foreign minister, Mohamed Siala, said that presidential election in Libya might be held in mid-2018. “Saif will soon announce the nomination [of his own candidacy] for the election in Libya, this is already a settled issue, no discussions about this are being conducted. “He will announce this on TV and all the media. He will decide on the…
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Ahead of the 2019 election, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Public Relations, Alhaji Garba Shehu has refused to disclose where his loyalty lies between President Muhammadu Buhari and his former boss Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Atiku who recently defected from the ruling APC to the PDP has expressed his intentions to run against the current president in 2019. Garba Shehu was asked the question of where his loyalty lies between his both bosses and he responded thus: “When the time comes you will ask the question.” In a video gone viral, Garba Shehu said he does not…
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There are good reasons why Nigerians should take more than a passing interest in the controversy generated by the actions of members of the Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariffs and that of the Nigeria Ports Authority. If the reports in the media are true, the matter goes beyond the victimisation of one organ of government by another. It is a possibility that members of the National Assembly might be on a mission to crash the federal governments’ war against corruption using the power of ‘oversight’ as cover. Two recent incidents would serve to illustrate the danger. Sometime in…
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Ghost companies lift N1.1tr crude oil Some indigenous companies not registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) have lifted Nigerian crude oil grades valued at $3.5 billion (about N1.1 trillion) in the last 10 months, an investigation by Daily Trust on Sunday has shown. A four-month enquiry into Nigerian and global corporate registries by our reporter showed that the repeated failure by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to provide clear and accurate identity of some companies it awarded multi-million dollar oil lifting contracts this year is helping these companies to escape public scrutiny. This is even as the corporation…
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The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has endorsed the popular decision of brave Imo citizens to stage series of peaceful protests against current serial and gross misgovernance and alleged corruption by Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State. Besides, HURIWA has strongly condemned as primitive, retrogressive, unconstitutional and anti-people the plot by the Imo State Police Command to undermine the pro-democracy “Occupy Imo” campaign by completely peaceful Imo State citizens and supporters of genuine democracy and good governance. HURIWA stated that the right to peaceful assembly is constitutionally sacrosanct and inviolable and wondered why the police has imposed an…
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*Police attack anti-Okorocha protesters in Owerri. *Group petitions Buhari over Gov. Okorocha’s ‘brutal and repressive tactics *Three feared killed as Owerri residents protest demolition of market. *Traders protest extortion in Owerri Owerri market demolition controversy: 10-year-old killed, father blames soldiers The police in Imo State on Monday said its officials dispersed protesters on a peaceful march against Governor Rochas Okorocha’s administration because they did not get the permission of the police to carry out the march. The protesters were allegedly attacked along Wethral road, Owerri, the Imo State capital by a detachment of police officers as they commenced the march.…
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Your PDP is Your *Personal Development Plans. Your PDP must be a *Detailed, Well-Structured, Articulated and Written Plan* that will demand your *loyalty and commitment. Your PDP Guide must include the following: 1. *Building Spiritual Capacity* (Moving from Just *Relationship* to Quality *Fellowship* with Your *God*) 2. *Inspirational And Motivational Books* to *Read* in 2018 (weekly, monthly or quarterly) 3. *Professional And Career Development* Seminars, Conferences or Workshops to attend. (either *Paid or Free*) 4. *Mentors and Coaches* you must *connect* with in 2018, that will *add great value* to your life and work. 5. *Relevant/Additional Skills* to *Develop* or…
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“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it” ― Frantz Fanon The‘Handshake Across the Niger’ project, that noble initiative of an Igbo sociocultural and professional organization, Nzuko Umunna, may turn out to be the missing link in binding Igbo and Yoruba relations in Nigeria. I understand it is aimed at remembering the late head of state, Major General JTU Uguiyi-Ironsi and his host killed along with him in the countercoup of July 29th 1966, the late Col. Francis Adekunle Fajuyi. History records it that Fajuyi opted to die with his guest, Ironsi, who…
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Ayodele Fayose, Ekiti state governor, has alleged that the federal government is deliberately hoarding premium motor spirit (PMS) popularly called fuel, in a plot to increase pump price from N145 to N185 per litre. In a statement by Lere Olayinka, his spokesman, Fayose accused the government of insensitivity to the plight of Nigerians. He asked why the government chose the yuletide season to make the product scarce, knowing fully well that many people will be travelling. “Petrol is scarce across the country because the federal government deliberately reduced supply since it is only the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that…
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We want to take the floor once again to inform the general public that Governor Rochas Okorocha or his Rescue Mission Administration does not have any opposition in the state. The few elite whose simple and compound interest is 2019 governorship in the State do not constitute any opposition in the proper sense of the word and so, they only operate in the social media. We want also to state clearly that no reasonable Imo man or woman can come out in protest against Governor Rochas Okorocha or his Administration because he has done for them what they never knew…
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*Unknown Faces Appear in Office, Private Homes *As Okorocha Drags Newspaper Owners to DSS *We Can’t Be Cowed by Threat, Intimidation-Management. Following the sudden presence of unknown persons at the private homes of publishers of Trumpeta newspapers, and strange movements noticed at the corporate office of the media organization, at the Ikenegbu area of Owerri, Imo State, the management and staff of the regional based tabloid with Owerri office has raised the alarm of threat to their life. The public notification of the threat to the life of the Trumpeta publishers is coming at the heels of a story carried…
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As the 2019 electioneering campaign draws closer, the Imo State Governor and his appointees week in, week out introduce a rash of gimmicks to curry favour from the unsuspecting public. They fired their first salvo a few weeks ago, with a hastily contrived fable which alleged that 16 out 27 APC LGA Chairmen in the state *”took an oath”* with one of aspirants to the office of the Governor of Imo State (in a veiled reference to Senator Ifeanyi Arararume, whose political star has steadily soared, and threatens to light up an otherwise pitch-black firmament in Imo State). It was…
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December 18, 2017 Press Statement. $1bn: PDP Replies APC, Insists ECA Withdrawal Is A Ruse The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says no amount of finger-pointing by the APC can justify the fraudulent attempt by the Federal Government to withdraw $1bn from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) to finance partisan activities, adding that APC’s arguments are diversionary and lame. The PDP also maintained that “the attempt to claim that 11 PDP governors were part of the approval in a meeting superintended and eminently directed by Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo was merely begging the question” and further underpins the manipulative proclivities…
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The general outing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo which held at the Practicing Pitch of the National Stadium Surulere on Thursday 14th December 2017 was important. The meeting was advertised as A town hall meeting though, but was actually an open air, market Square kind of meeting. The sense in it I guess was to get more people to attend. And many did attend. However, since the meeting came and passed, a lot of commentaries about the meeting and the speech by the President General, Chief Nnia Nwodo has been making the rounds. One thing, for sure is that most of the…
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Imo people woke up few days ago precisely monday 11th Dec to get reports from the Imo APGA Publicity Secretary Dr George Nkwoji accusing Gov Rochas Okorocha of spreading death, poverty in IMO. Ordinarily, I did not want to reply to this mischievous and frivolous claims knowing fully well that APGA has been on sick bed since 2011, but on a second thought, I decided to put down this piece only to remind Imo APGA that they were the original group that introduced this poverty and death in Imo and must remain quiet until this mistake is fully corrected by…
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It’s not elections that take the most from Nigerian politicians. Every blessed day, the average politician receives average of 100 – 300 requests for money, other forms of assistance. Such unlimited pressure and unnecessary phone calls contribute to why most politicians hardly take calls. This also pressures some politicians to find every means to steal or do all sorts of shady things just to be buoyant enough to meet up with most of these demands just so they are not labelled *Stingy* and denied the opportunity in the future by their party members and constituents. This also contributes to why…
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