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An Arik Air aircraft lost one of its two engines mid-air with over 100 passengers on board at the weekend. The aircraft, a Boeing 737 with the registration number 5N-MJD, departed Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos, for Jos when the pilot discovered that the plane had lost one of its engines during the flight. It was gathered that when the pilot discovered the problem, he contacted the Lagos control tower, which granted him emergency landing status. The aircraft also could not taxi out of the runway until Airport Rescue and Fire-Fighting Services (ARFFS), tow the aircraft to the hajj and…
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There is a confession I’ve been longing to make: I never expected Candidate Muhammadu Buhari to win the 2015 presidential election. Although I have never hidden my soft spot for him for decades, I somehow expected President Goodluck Jonathan to be returned by any means. I had my reason: I thought no sitting president could be defeated in Nigeria. He has CBN, NNPC, INEC, police, military and even FRSC at his beck and call. How would he lose? We all saw the ridiculous results that returned President Olusegun Obasanjo to office in 2003. That made me conclude that it was…
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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, has disclosed plans by the Federal Government to refund debts owed the 36 states by paying them N20billion apiece, a total of N720bn. Dogara said the money would be used for the provision of infrastructure by the states. Many states had in the past undertaken to rehabilitate failing federal government infrastructure in their domain, especially road projects with the understanding that they would be repaid by the latter. Statement on Sunday by the Speaker’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Iliya Habila, quoted Dogara as making the…
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Bill Gates has said that capitalism isn’t working, and that socialism is our only hope in order to save the planet. During an interview with The Atlantic, the Microsoft founder said that the private sector is too selfish to produce clean and economical alternatives to fossil fuels, and announced his intentions to spend $2 billion of his own money on green energy. The Independent reports: The Microsoft founder called on fellow billionaires to help make the US fossil-free by 2050 with similar philanthropy.
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Nigeria is contending with so many challenges and is in crisis situation. There is no doubt that the violent crises rearing its ugly head in different parts of the country today is a manifestation of impending political crises. The challenges are multifaceted encompassing corruption, dwindling revenue due to drop in oil production and crude oil price, small arms proliferation, abduction, terrorism in the North-East, criminal destruction of pipelines and oil installations in the South-South, civil agitation and consistent clamour for independence or sovereignty of South-East and South-South by various groups, violent usurpation of farm lands and coordinated destruction of lives…
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The false federal system of government is what was handed over to the democratic regime that assumed office in 1999. As at 1999, Nigerians have gotten used to the false impression of federalism and its practice thereof. The wrong trends have eaten deep into the fabrics of the Nigerian nation. The early stage of an individual or a nation is the formation stage. This stage in the life of Nigerian Nation was moulded by military recklessness and extravagance. Lawlessness and impunity became the norm upon which corruption bred. What Nigeria is practicing today is a version of federalism as imposed…
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Bishop Abraham Chris Udeh has warned that Nnamdi Kanu must not spend this year’s Christmas in Kuje prisons. Bishop Udeh, who doubles as the General Overseer of Mount Zion Faith Global Ministries blamed Kanu’s incarceration on lack of interest of the international community. He particularly called on Britain to assist the Indigenous People of Biafra gain their independence. Bishop Udeh said if the United Nations, USA and United Kngodom had questioned Kanu’s detention, he would have been released by now. He said that the British government was only trying to protect her economic interests in Nigeria. Bishop Udeh described Nnamdi…
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Sources in the Nigerian military, have blamed President Muhammadu Buhari, and the Department of State Security Service, DSS, over the recent ransom paid to Boko Haram, in exchange for the release of some Chibok girls. According to the sources, the recent upsurge in the killings, and disappearance of soldiers engaged in the fight against the insurgents, was as a result of the alleged $50 million. The military men, told Saturday PUNCH, that despite denials by the Federal Government, money was paid to the sect, to secure the release of the abducted girls. It was learnt that the Federal Government, paid…
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“The Igbo people of Nigeria have made a mark in the history of this nation. They led the first successful military coup which eliminated the Military and Political leaders of other regions while letting off Igbo leaders. Nwafor Orizu, then Senate President, in consultation with President Azikiwe, subverted the constitution and handed over power to Aguiyi-Ironsi. Subsequent developments, including attempts at humiliating other peoples, led to the counter-coup and later the civil war. The Igbos themselves must acknowledge that they have a large part of the blame for shattering the unity of this country. Having said that, this nation must…
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The President of Imo Union in the United Kingdom, Mr. Adolph Agbasonu, has called on the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, to tread with caution and stop inflicting hardship on the people of the state. He said some of their members who visited the state recently described the rate of disregard for the Owerri Master Plan by the incumbent administration as callous and unprecedented. According to a statement issued after a meeting in London, Agbasonu condemned how people’s property and investments were being destroyed under the so-called developmental programme of the state government. He noted that all the roads in…
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Russia have officially declared that Billionaire George Soros is a wanted man in their country, citing him and his organizations as a “threat to Russian national security”. Putin banned Soros from Russia last year due to the fact that Soros helped to nearly destroy the Russian economy in the early 1990’s. “The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. “In fact, the history of the recent…
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Fresh facts have, indeed, emerged on the alleged tearing of the Peoples’ Democratic Party membership card by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Our source who spoke recently to the aide of the former President of Nigeria in Abuja, Nigeria said Chief Olusegun Obasanjo did not openly tear his PDP membership card as widely reported by the Nigerian press. Recall sometime in 2015, the ex-president while speaking at the Global Education and Skills Forum, (GESF) in Dubai, the United Arab Emirate, said he did not tear his PDP membership card adding that he is not aware, maybe somebody else did it if the…
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Indications have emerged that South East Senators, who recently visited President Muhammadu Buhari presented a list of demands as a condition for supporting the $29.9 billion external loan being sought by the President through the National Assembly, NASS. The proposals, which Saturday Vanguard had knowledge of focused on poor state of infrastructure in the South East geopolitical zone, security and accommodation of the zone’s interest in the proposed loan, detention of leader of Independent People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu and construction of a rail Standard Gauge Spur from Agbor to Onitsha, Others included a request to address the…
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London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) was the venue on Friday 11 November for the launch of Chudi Offodile’s controversial book: The Politics of Biafra and the Future of Nigeria. Several UK-based Nigerians, pro-Biafran separatists, and academics with an interest in Nigeria turned up to hear the author speak about the book and then take questions from the audience, drawing on his experience as a member of Nigeria’s House of Representatives for four years when the country returned to civilian rule in 1999. Chudi Offodile signs copies of his book The book is 279 pages long but…
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Politics has always been a game that the elites play ostensibly on behalf of the rest of us. As in all games, there are rules and methodologies that players rely upon. Nigerian politics is replete with written as well as unwritten rules about how the game is to be played. Terms like “rotational presidency”, “power shift” and “zoning” are examples of such rules that, though unwritten and thus extra-constitutional, feature routinely in the lexicon of Nigerian politicians. These terms, which are more implicit than explicit in nature, have been bandied about for so long that the mass media and the…
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When I read in many nigerian newspapers today, 15/04/2016, that the Peoples Democratic Party-PDP, has zoned the party’s Vice Presidential slot for 2019 to the Igbo people of the South East geo-political zone, my mind ran back to the second Republic in 1979 when the National Party of Nigeria-NPN zoned the same Vice Presidential slot to the Igbo people of the old Anambra and Imo States, with the promise that the Vice President would be supported by the Party, to be elected President at the expiration of the tenure of his boss. President Shehu Shagari and Vice President Alex…
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The power above the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the US Attorney General, and, above that person, the US President. That’s whom the FBI actually serves — not the US public. This is the reason why the FBI is having such internal tensions and dissensions over the investigation of Hillary Clinton: Not only is she the current President’s ardently preferred and designated successor — and overwhelmingly supported also by America’s aristocracy and endorsed by the aristocracy’s press — but the top leadership of the FBI have terms-in-office that (unlike, for example, the term of the US Attorney General) do…
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“Reform always provokes rage on the part of those who profit by the old order.” Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Crisis of the Old Order Who are the anti-Trump protesters besmirching the name of progressives by pretending to be progresives and by refusing to accept the outcome of the presidential election? They look like, and are acting worse than, the “white trash” that they are denouncing. I think I know who they are. They are thugs for hire and are paid by the Oligarchy to delegitimize Trump’s presidency in the way that Washington and the German Marshall Fund paid students…
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If you look at the two candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, regardless of your political orientation you are forced to conclude that Hillary is smarter and is the more polished of the two. She appears well schooled in the ways of the political world; she says all the right things. Donald appears like an uneducated bum from the boondocks, a Hilly Billy from the Appalachian backwoods of Kentucky; Trump seems so dumb that you wonder what he is doing wanting to be the president of the world’s greatest economic and political power. However, what this facile assessment of…
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A former US state department top expert on Nigeria has asked the American government not to sell 12 warplanes worth $500 million to the Muhammadu Buhari administration. TheCable understands that the order for 12 A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft was to enable the Nigerian military to “finish off” Boko Haram insurgents who are still operating in Borno state. But Matthew Page, writing in War on The Rocks, an online policy discussion platform, accused the Buhari government of violating human rights and misplacing his priorities. He also alleged that the Nigeria air force officer who went to the US to…
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(Being the text of a Statement By the Lower Niger Congress, on the visit of Senators from Eastern Nigeria to President Muhammadu Buhari to present a list demands, November 9, 2016). The attention of the Lower Niger Congress has been drawn to media reports relating to a visit to the Aso Rock Presidential Villa by seven Senators of South-East Nigeria, at which they made representations to President Muhammadu Buhari concerning the decayed infrastructure in the East, particularly roads and pleading that dialogue be deployed by the Federal Government in the handling of the Biafra Agitation, and we wish to state…
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday administered an oath of office to Justice Walter Oonoghen as the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria. He takes over from Justice Mahmud Mohammed who bowed out of the bench of the Supreme Court yesterday after attaining the mandatory retirement age of 70 years. Onnoghen is expected to act until the name of substantive CJN is forwarded to the Senate and it is confirmed. Justice Onnoghen becomes the first southerner since 1980 to as assume the position of the chief Justice of Nigeria. It would be recalled that by virtue of Section 231 of the 1999…
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Officers of the Department of State Services (DSS) have raided two major Bureau de Change markets in Lagos and Abuja in a fresh attempt to end speculation in the foreign exchange transaction at the parallel market.Sources at the market told Daily Trust that the DSS have earlier directed the officials of the BDCs association to peg the dollar at N400 while selling and N390 while buying from customers. Immediately after the directives, the DSS operatives commenced the enforcement of the order by arresting those erring members that sold the dollar above N400 and or bought above N390 a dollar. During…
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Intelligence services on both sides of the Atlantic have struggled to come to terms with new technology and a new mission. They are not done yet, writes Edward Carr In the spring thaw of 1992 a KGB archivist called Vasili Mitrokhin walked into the British embassy in Riga. Stashed at the bottom of his bag, beneath some sausages, were copies of Soviet intelligence files that he had smuggled out of Russia. Before the year was out MI6, Britain’s foreign-intelligence service, had spirited away Mitrokhin, his family and six large cases packed with KGB records which he had kept hidden in…
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While the eyes of the world are focused intently on the 2016 presidential election, the White House has made a dramatic, potentially game-changing move that has once again almost completely eluded the mainstream media — leading many to wonder what they may be hiding. On Friday, November 4, a new executive order was signed titled “Advancing the Global Health Security Agenda to Achieve a World Safe and Secure from Infectious Disease Threats,” giving the United States government, military and other worldwide partner organizations new powers to respond to what they deem as “biological threats” that may potentially emerge. Usually…
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U.S. President Barack Obama met with President-elect Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday to coordinate a smooth transfer of power after the New York real estate developer scored a stunning election victory. The two men have had almost no one-on-one contact previously. Trump, a Republican, led the “birther” movement that questioned Obama’s U.S. citizenship and has pledged to overturn the Democrat’s signature policy achievements after he takes office on Jan. 20. Obama campaigned vigorously for Trump’s Democratic rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and called Trump both temperamentally unfit for the presidency and dangerously unprepared to have…
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The immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, on Thursday said he had no apologies for refusing to do the bidding of politicians who wanted to intimidate the judiciary. He spoke in Abuja at a valedictory court session held for him by the Supreme Court to mark his exit from the bench. He said the nation owed the judiciary a debt of gratitude for standing firm in the face of contrary winds that threatened to blow the country’s democracy off course. According to him, it took the steadfastness of the judiciary to avert a replay of what happened…
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Gombe State Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, has approved the appointment of 229 people as his Special Assistants (SAs). A letter by the Acting Secretary to the State Government, Mr. James Pisagih, said the appointment of the new special assistants took effect from the day they resumed duty. The new SAs, who are categorized into SA I, II, III and IV, were announced without any specific portfolio or assignment. Those who served as SA I during the governor’s first tenure collected N80,000 as monthly salary, while SA II got N56,000 every month. Monthly salaries of SA III and SA IV…
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Nigerian lawmakers on Thursday threw out a bill seeking to make history a core learning subject in the nation’s primary and secondary schools. The proposed legislation was rejected by the House of Representatives after members raised concerns about the implication of a language in it. The bill, titled “A Bill for an Act to Make History a Core School Subject in Nigeria’s Primary and Secondary Schools and for other Related Matters,” was proposed by Ayodeji Oladimeji from Oyo State. Mr. Oladimeji said he crafted the bill to address widespread ignorance of Nigerian history – and even major historical events around…
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No fewer than 78 construction companies are competing for contracts for construction of 90 mosques in Jigawa. Alhaji Muhammad Musa, Chairman, Tender Board Committee for the project, made this known in a statement on Thursday in Dutse. Muhammad, also the Permanent Secretary, Administration and Finance, Office of the Secretary to the State Government, said that three mosques would be constructed in each of the 30 constituencies of the state. He gave the assurance that due process would be followed in awarding the contracts, adding that the Technical Evaluation Committee for the bidding would be fair. The dailytrust
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Is John Kerry actually representing the United States or is he serving some incomprehensible interests? ■ These organizations might be right in their discontentment of Kerry’s itinerary. In a country divided since its independence in 1960 over ethnic and religious differences, it was awfully intolerant for Kerry to have flown in, socialized with Muslim clerics and winged off. He was in Nigeria on Monday and Tuesday and was hosted by the Sultan of Sokoto, the most senior Islamic cleric in the country. He also met with 19 governors of Nigeria’s northern states and held talks with President Muhammadu Buhari, who…
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Now, am talking to the man in the mirror. Listen up; There’s a way and manner you’ll grieve and weep at someone’s funeral it will raise certain level of suspicion as if you knew what may have been responsible for that person’s demise. I wish our people had expressed or still should express the same outrage they have expressed about this election in the last 2015 Presidential election in Nigeria. Some of us amusingly have called the Americans all manners of condescending names simply for responding to what they clearly saw as a clear and present danger with the Democratic…
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RE: BIAFRA; “IT’S A PLOT BY IGBO TO COLONISE SOUTH SOUTH – Alhaji Sagir Ringim Sir, I want to thank you for your concern about the welfare of the people of the South-South by exposing the plans of the Igbos to recolonize the region. But I am worried about the sincerity of these your concerns. Because of these worries, let us dissect and carefully assess your statements of fear and concerns in four (4) segments, so as not to repeat the mistakes of 1964, 1966 and 1967-1970s till date. In your carefully written letter or chat with the Journalists as…
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President Buhari had paid a visit to Washington, D.C., to discuss the fight against Boko Haram. His visit provoked critics to again question why Hillary Clinton refused to label Boko Haram as terrorists during her State Department tenure. Presidents Obama and Muhammadu Buhari deliberated U.S. support of Nigerian counterterrorism efforts. The discussion was facilitated by Secretary of State John Kerry’s decision to place Boko Haram on the terrorist watch list in 2013. The State Department under Clinton had resisted congressional calls to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist organization. Robert Jackson, acting assistant secretary of state for African affairs, testified…
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There is confusion, fear and anxiety in the Judiciary as Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Mahmud Mohammed retires today, without handing over to a successor. At the close of work, yesterday, he did not officially hand over to any successor. It was also gathered that, on October 10, Mohammed forwarded the name of Justice Walter Nkanu Onnoghen, as his successor, to President Muhammadu Buhari, who will then forward same to the Senate for confirmation next CJN. Anxiety is high in the Judiciary over the lacuna, giving that Mohammed’s tenure as CJN lapsed by 12:00am today, upon clocking the mandatory retirement…
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The controversial bill for an Act to provide for establishment of grazing areas management agency and other related matters, yesterday on the floor of the Senate, suffered a major set back as it was stood down for discussion and further deliberation. The bill, sponsored by Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, APC, Kano Central, titled A Bill for an Act to provide for the Establishment of grazing Areas Management Agency and for other related Matters, 2016, failed to scale second reading as it was rejected. It further seeks to create a mechanism for prevention of crises on getting early warning signals by setting…
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The Senate has screened President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominees as Justices of the Supreme Court. The Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters screened the two judges on Wednesday. The justices screened by the Senator David Umaru-led committee were Justice Sidi Dauda Bage (North-Central) and Justice Paul Adamu Galinje (North-East). Based on the recommendation of the National Judiciary Council in conformity with Section 231 Subsection 2 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), the President forwarded the names of the judges to the Senate for confirmation as Supreme Court Justices. A statement from the office of the Senior Special Assistant…
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On Election Day 2016, I urged all my friends to go out and vote for Donald Trump with the following message: ‘Get out and vote for the unborn fetus, get out and vote for God ordained marriage between a man and a woman, get out and vote against transgender bathrooms, get out and vote against Roe V Wade, get out and vote for Donald J. Trump! He might not be perfect, but he will promote those conservative values that have kept a check on the moral fabric of society and nominate conservative Supreme Court Justices.’ So many African Americans and…
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The federal government on Tuesday brought a 9-count charge of money laundering and corruption against Sylvester Ngwuta, a supreme court judge. Ngwuta and six other justices were suspended over allegations of fraud. The Department of State Services (DSS) raided the homes of the judges between October 7 and October 8. The charge filed in federal high court, Abuja, alleged that Ngwuta illegally retained in his possession N35,358, 000.00 contrary to the money laundering (prohibition) Act 2011. It was also alleged that the defendant retained in his possession $319,596.00 and 25, 915. pounds. According to the charge, the prosecution alleged that…
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A senior lawyer who has worked for the anti-graft commission, EFCC, in the past has been questioned for allegedly giving a judge N5 million. Godwin Obla, a former EFCC prosecutor, arrived the commission’s Lagos office on Tuesday afternoon, a source said. Mr. Obla is being queried in relation to an allegation of the payment of N5 million to a Federal High Court judge, Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, through a company in which the embattled judge has an interest. The High Court judge had earlier told operatives during interrogation that the money was a part payment for a property she sold to the…
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The Senate has resolved to probe the country’s Ministry of Transport headed by Rotimi Amaechi over the procedure leading to concession of Port Harcourt-Maiduguri and Lagos-Kano rail lines to General Electric, GE, a U.S. conglomerate. Amaechi had in an interview with CNBC in June announced Nigeria’s engagement with GE regarding the concession of Western and Eastern rail lines – Lagos to Kano and Port Harcourt to Maiduguri respectively – worth around $2 billion. “GE is already in; we are trying to get the government agencies to allow us negotiate with GE. The company is going to bring in over $2…
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Despite the payment of fines by some companies, fresh facts emerged yesterday that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may soon bring prominent Nigerians implicated in the $180m Halliburton bribe to justice. About four former Heads of State and 89 prominent Nigerians were allegedly linked with the scandal. In all, 76 prominent Nigerians are listed in the five notebooks submitted by the Halliburton Group to the EFCC. There were indications yesterday that the anti-graft agency may quiz some of those listed. A former Minister of Petroleum Resources has admitted collecting inducement from the bribery agent, Jeffrey Tesler/TSKJ. It was…
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Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mahmud Mohammed, has given reasons the National Judicial Council (NJC), which he heads, suspended judges accused by the Department of State Services (DSS) of corruption and falsification of assets. The CJN said the NJC’s action was informed by the desire of the Judiciary to preserve its independence. He said the NJC had to act because the Attorney-General of the Federation and Justice Minister, Shehu Malamai SAN, had said the ministry was ready to prosecute the judges. According to the CJN all courts were empowered to adjudicate with utmost fairness and justice as prescribed in…
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There has been a clash between suspected Fulani herdsmen and the people of Ndi Okereke Abam in Ovukwu autonomous community, Arochukwu local government area of Abia State, which has left about five people badly injured and battling for their lives in an undisclosed hospital. The injuries they sustained was said to have arisen from bullet and machete wounds inflicted on them by the suspected Fulani herdsmen during the clash between them and the indigenes of the Arrochukwu community. Speaking with newsmen the President General of the town union, Chief Chukwuma Egbuta Okubi, said that the incident happened last Friday when…
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Gov. Nasiru El-Rufai of Kaduna State would flag-off the distribution of 20,000 electricity prepaid metres for customers in the state. This is contained in a statement issued by the company’s Head, Corporate Communication, Mr Abdulazeez Abdullahi, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Kaduna. Abdullahi said the metres are part of the 50,000 the Kaduna Electric metres earmarked for distribution in its franchise states of Kaduna, Sokoto, Zamfara and Kebbi. “After the successful flag-off of the mass deployment of 50,000 prepaid smart metres in its franchise states at a ceremony in Sokoto in October, Kaduna…
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The crisis in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is taking a turn for the worse. It was learnt that a meeting scheduled for last week Tuesday to resolve the controversy trailing the September 3 governorship primaries in Ondo State won by the former President, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, did not hold. A source from the party said he was not aware of any meeting scheduled for last Tuesday, but confirmed the one scheduled for today at the instance of the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun. The Guardian learnt that the National Leader of…
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His political achievements are already unprecedented, and his insight amounts to genius Almost anyone who has followed the US presidential selection process closely could realise what a brilliant campaign Donald Trump has conducted. He saw that in its self-absorption, the US political class had completely failed to grasp the extent of public anger at the deterioration of almost everything. American public policy has brought about the greatest sequence of disasters since the 1920s, when the liquor business was given to gangsters by Prohibition, followed by the equities debt bubble and the Great Depression. In the past 20 years, both parties…
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President Muhammadu Buhari’s avowed determination to punish culprits, who smuggled foreign items into the 2016 budget, and who caused both National and International embarrassment, is back at work, Economic Confidential has confirmed. Investigation by the Economic Intelligence Magazine, indicates that the officials who were sanctioned by their deployment outside Federal Ministry of Finance, have since resumed duties in the same Ministry, without the highly publicized punishment the President promised, while speaking to Nigerians resident in Saudi Arabia. Buhari, had in February this year, while speaking in Saudi Arabia, threatened to punish all those who were involved in the padding of…
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Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mr. Femi Adesina, has claimed that he would have turned down his appointment as the president’s media aide if he had seen it coming. According to Adesina, his appointment came as surprise to him, adding that he would have done all he could to, perhaps, stop the appointment before his announcement. Adesina made this disclosure during a feature on Sweet FM’s Flagship programme, The Podium. “I was not expecting it. Maybe if I knew, I would have done all in my powers to make sure it did not happen,” Adesina…
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Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, says President Buhari cannot order EFCC to investigate any of his Ministers accused of corruption because the anti-graft agency is an independent body and is not controlled by the Presidency. Adesina said this in a recent interview with Naija Standard when he was asked why President Buhari has not ordered EFCC to investigate Rotimi Amaechi and Abbah Kyari who are both ministers and have been accused of corrupt practices. Adesina in his reply said “President Buhari does not direct the EFCC. He maintains a critical distance from all the…
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Detained immediate past Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed, has turned to a political idol in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Mohammed was arrested two weeks ago alongside Dr. Reuben Abati, former spokesman to immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan over alleged land swap deal. Since the former minister’s arrest, the EFCC headquarters, also known as Tunde Idiagbon House in Abuja, has become a Mecca of sort to politicians from his home state of Bauchi and other neighbouring states of Gombe, Kano, Kaduna, Plateau and Jigawa. “On a good day,” said an…
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The Senate has asked the Department of Petroleum Resources to henceforth prepare and forward to it daily records of oil and gas production and sale in the country. The Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream) said the records must be submitted to it every month. The records will include those of petroleum industry activities, data on seismic activities, crude oil production, lifting, allocations, exports by destination and receipts, gas production, utilisation, sales, transmission and exports. The Chairman of the committee, Senator Tayo Alasoadura, who led members to the headquarters of the DPR in Lagos on oversight visit, said the data…
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The Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission and the Nigeria Police of colluding with the All Progressives Congress to rig the December 10, 2016 legislative rerun in the state. Wike specifically accused the state APC of printing fake result sheets and other election materials inside a building located at No. 12, Isiokpo Street, D-Line, Port Harcourt. The governor, who spoke with newsmen on Sunday at the Government House in Port Harcourt, also alleged that the police had refused to charge those behind the crime to court. But the state APC insisted that they…
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The efforts by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to bring lasting peace to the troubled Nigeria Delta region, hit the rock on Saturday, November 5, as Government Ekpemupolo, also known As Tompolo and Asari Dokubo, threatened war. The Niger Delta Militants, clearly dissociated themselves from the meeting of elders from the oil-rich region with President Buhari, in Abuja, last Tuesday. Apart from distancing themselves from the meeting, they warned the Federal Government, not to rejoice yet over the recent rise in oil production in the country, threatening that a series of attacks await oil facilities in the region in the…
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The House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee on Insurance has threatened to issue a warrant for the arrest of the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (retd.), over an alleged N250m insurance fraud committed by the NCS. The infraction reportedly took place between 2013 and 2015. Details of the committee’s proceedings, which The PUNCH obtained on Sunday, indicated that Ali was given up till Wednesday, November 9, to appear before the committee or risks being arrested. The committee, which is chaired by an All Progressives Congress lawmaker from Ogun State, Mr. Adekunle Akinlade, had earlier summoned the…
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It was Gaddafi’s Libya that offered all of Africa its first uprising in present day times – linking the whole Africa by phone, TV, radio telecom and a few other innovative applications, for example, telemedicine and separate instructing. What’s more, on account of the WMAX radio extension, a minimal effort association was made accessible all over Africa, incorporating the rural areas. It started in 1992, when 45 African countries built up RASCOM (Regional African Satellite Communication Oranization) with the goal that Africa would have its own particular satellite and slice correspondence costs in the landmass. This was a period when…
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Despite the Federal Government’s consistent calls on Nigerians to patronise Made-in-Nigeria products in order to strengthen the economy and aid national development, SUNDAY PUNCH’s investigation has shown that President Muhammadu Buhari and members of his team are using foreign products. The investigation showed that except their clothes, the President and his team have been using foreign products ranging from their shoes to their cars. For instance, there was outcry especially on social media platforms recently when Buhari was spotted in a pair of Gucci 1953 horsebit loafer shoes. The price of the shoes was put at $640 at that time.…
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A former Minister of Health, Prof. A.B.C Nwosu, has said that Nigeria would no longer exist as a nation if it was not restructured in a way that would weaken the power of the Federal Government. According to him, the present political arrangement where there is too much pressure and over-concentration of power at the centre was not the dream of the founding fathers of Nigeria. Nwosu, who also served as Political Adviser to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, bared his mind to SUNDAY PUNCH, during the public presentation of a book entitled, “Dan-Nzelu: The biography of one of Nigeria’s foremost oil…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has frozen a bank account belonging to Mrs. Bola Shagaya, a businesswoman which Forbes Magazine described as one of the wealthiest in Africa. It was learnt that Shagaya, who is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bolmus Group International – a diversified Nigerian conglomerate with interests in oil, real estate, banking, communications and photography – had become a subject of investigation due to her links to Dame Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan. Sources within the EFCC told SUNDAY PUNCH that Shagaya’s account with Unity Bank with a balance of N500m…
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Your Excellency, Mr. President, permit me to use this open letter as an appropriate channel to convey this message to you for the obvious reason of reliability. For fear of being misunderstood, I should state from the onset that I have been your hardened fan since the 80-90s while I was a student and contributing articles featuring the famed incorruptibility and discipline of you and your former lieutenant, the late General Tunde Idiagbon. (Link: http://yashuaib.com/1991/11/haba-governor-madaki/ It may interest you to note that immediately after your election, I was approached by well-wishers requesting my services on communication strategies for…
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Yakubu Dogara, may be facing one of his biggest hurdles as a Lawmaker, since assuming the position of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, as emerging reports reveal that the Economic and Financial crimes Commission, EFCC, is requesting for his asset declaration form, among 30 other Lawmakers.“They may be forced to resign, or be charged to court, if it is discovered that their asset declaration is false,” a source confirmed on Friday, November 4. This is coming, following allegations of budget padding leveled against Dogara, by the suspended Chairman, House Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumuni Jibrin. According to an online…
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The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Usani Nguru Usani, has on Friday, November 4, described as fraud, the latest Amnesty Programme organised by Governors majorly from the All Progressives Congress, APC, controlled States, maintaining that the programme was ill conceived. Usani, expressed displeasure over the manner the State Governments granted pardon to criminal elements parading as militants, adding that, the exercise does not enjoy the backing of the Federal Government, or his Ministry, and therefore, is “null and void”. The Minister, who was apparently referring to the recent Amnesty programme organised by Imo, and Benue States Governors, Rochas Okorocha, and…
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OUR VIEW AFTER THE PEACE TALKS. The Niger Delta Elders and leaders under the leadership of Papa (Dr) Senator Edwin Kiagbodo Clark Pan Niger Delta Elders and stakeholders Forum deserves Kudos by all well meaning Nigerians for presenting such minimal demands before the government of Nigeria to pacify a people and region that has being continuously raped and dehumanized since 1914, because the Golden Egg she lays is the commonwealth of the nation. These demands will lead the roadmap to engender desired peaceful atmosphere that Nigerian state so need if there is sincerity. The days of buying peace through unpatriotic…
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Name your dog Buhari and you will be diligently prosecuted in today’s Nigeria but kill a harmless wife of an evangelist preaching the Gospel of Jesus and you will be acquitted! Welcome to the new improved Nigeria! This may sound surreal but it is the present day reality we live in in Nigeria. The injustices in today’s Nigeria are just too glaring. For instance, Reuben Abati ALLEGEDLY got ₦50 million from Dasuki and goes to jail. Rotimi Amaechi ADMITTEDLY spends $500k (₦235 million at today’s rate) on a one day dinner for Soyinka and becomes a minister! Yet we say…
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Leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, Mr. Uchenna Madu, has said that Igbo leaders are cowards because they cannot defend the cause of Ndigbo In view of this, he said MASSOB would soon embark on an internal revolution in the South-East, starting with all Igbo leaders. Madu stated this on Friday at the National Headquarters of MASSOB in Okwe, Onuimo Local Government Area of Imo State, during the 83rd posthumous birthday celebration of the Biafran warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu. He attributed the current deplorable plight of Igbo people to their leaders, adding that they…
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U.S. military hackers have allegedly penetrated Russia’s electric grid, telecommunications networks and the Kremlin’s command systems, making them vulnerable to attack by secret American cyber weapons should the U.S. deem it necessary, according to a senior intelligence official and top-secret documents reviewed by NBC News. American officials have long said publicly that Russia, China and other nations have probed and left hidden malware on parts of U.S critical infrastructure, “preparing the battlefield,” in military parlance, for cyber attacks that could turn out the lights or turn off the internet across major cities. It’s been widely assumed that the U.S. has…
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A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, said if President Muhammadu Buhari was serious about fighting corruption, he [Buhari] would not mortgage the future of the country by seeking a $29.9bn loan. Ever since the economy fell into recession primarily as a result of a significant drop in oil prices, the Federal Government has been looking for ways to get the economy back on track, including its recent application for a $29.9bn loan from external sources. Though the Senate rejected the loan application on Tuesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the President would resubmit the…
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Philip Haney, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) whistleblower exposes a shocking revelation. President Obama ordered him to scrub the DHS database of all records of Muslims with terror ties.
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On Thursday, October 27, 2016, Governor Rochas Okorocha took his melodrama in the state to a higher pedestal when he announced to the weary and hungry people of the state that he would be recruiting fresh 3,000 for fresh jobs in the state. He said the fresh recruitment is part of the new deal with his newest bizarre creation, the State Development Council, to fill vacant positions in the state civil service. Okorocha gave the hint at the Government House, Owerri, during the swearing-in of his new commissioners for the state civil service commission and the ministries. The Governor, in…
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“For as long as the Old Eastern region remain in disarray and not united, self-determination of the region will remain impossible.” ~ An anonymous retired Nigerian Army Chief The word “South-South,” even though it may sound absurd, is a name we have come to accept as a people. We can’t say exactly how we came about to be identified with the name neither can we say exactly when we were given the name, but we just know it is our name. While growing up back in the days, geography taught us about “the North,” “the South,” “The East” and “The…
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Ancient Bible claims Jesus Christ is Prophet, not son of God. It also states he was not the son of God but a Prophet. Religious authorities insist that the book is authentic. The 1500-year-old Bible, which was discovered in Ankara, Turkey’s capital, in 2000, refutes the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Moreover, it says that he was not the son of God but a Prophet, who didn’t die and ascended into heaven alive. The 1500-year-old bible was found in Turkey, in the Ethnography Museum of Ankara It also states that it was Judas Iscariot who was actually crucified and calls Apostle…
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Those who do not understand what Buhari is saying should realize that he is laying claim to the whole of Nigeria as the Estate of their Great-grandfather Uthman Dan Fodio and he is showing the exit door to those who are not happy about the definition (ie the Constitutional Arrangements imposed on all by Caliphate-inspired Decrees), of that Nigeria. The only chance the rest of Nigeria stands today against the complete CONQUEST and ISLAMIZATION Agenda of the Caliphate is the immediate dissolution and unbundling of the failed, toxic and defunct Federation of Nigeria. The background to this mindset is that…
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At a time CNN should be riding high, the network is facing the biggest threat to its reputation since Jeff Zucker took over as top executive because of its liberal use of campaign surrogates like Donna Brazile and Corey Lewandowski. CNN announced on Monday that Brazile, the acting head of the Democratic National Committee, had quit as a contributor two weeks ago. Brazile, who had been suspended at CNN upon taking the DNC job this summer, was exposed in documents released by WikiLeaks as feeding Hillary Clinton’s campaign questions in advance of primary debates. The presence of Lewandowski, Donald Trump’s…
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***Wole Soyinka on Buhari in his article “The Nigerian Nation against General Buhari dated Oct. 25, 2014. 1. The grounds on which General Buhari is being promoted as the alternative choice are not only shaky, but pitifully naive. History matters. Records are not kept simply to assist the weakness of memory, but to operate as guides to the future. Of course, we know that human beings change. What the claims of personality change or transformation impose on us is a rigorous inspection of the evidence, not wishful speculation or behind-the-scenes assurances. 2. Public offence, crimes against a polity, must be…
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Top on the list of demands is the relocation of the administrative and operational headquarters of major International Oil Companies (IOCs) to the Niger Delta region. The leaders say the decision would fast-track the development of the region.The region’s leaders, under the aegis of Pan Niger Delta Forum, also demanded the clean-up of other communities affected by spill, besides Ogoniland. They also asked for a review of the amnesty programme’s core mandate of providing a robust exit strategy, to ensure that those trained have jobs to return to or are given stipends. Briefing journalists after the closed-door meeting, the…
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Sounds like one of the best reasons ever TO vote for Trump… A Saudi prince has urged Americans not to vote for Donald Trump in the upcoming general election. Turki al-Faisal, who served as Saudia Arabia’s ambassador to the US from 2005 to 2007, spoke against the presumptive Republican nominee during a foreign policy dinner in Washington, DC on Thursday. He blasted Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the US, which the billionaire first formulated in December last year before renewing his vow on Wednesday. ‘For the life of me, I cannot believe that a country like the United…
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A group, Kingdom Human Rights Foundation, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to order the arrests of the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, and his Science and Technology counterpart, Mr. Ogbonnaya Onu. The plaintiff also sought an order of mandamus compelling President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack both ministers in public interest and public morality based on the allegations of attempts to influence court decisions recently levelled against them by two Justices of the Supreme Court. Two Justices of the Supreme Court, Justices Sylvester Ngwuta and Inyang Okoro, had accused Amaechi and Onu of attempting to influence…
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said any Nigerian who has another country to relocate to are free to do so. On his part, he said he would stay back to solve the nation’s position. According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President spoke while addressing Niger Delta stakeholders at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. “We are determined to make life comfortable and affordable to all Nigerians. If anybody has a country to go to, let him go, we will stay here and salvage our country,” Shehu quoted the President as saying. Buhari…
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Emirates Airlines on Sunday officially shut down its operations in Abuja, the nation’s capital though temporarily. The airline had announced that it would suspend its four flights per week from Abuja to Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), with effect from October 30, 2016. “The decision was made after a review of the airline’s operations to ensure the best utilisation of its aircraft fleet for its overall business objectives. The airline continues to serve Nigeria with a daily flight to and from Lagos,” the airline said in a statement. It was learnt that though the suspension commenced yesterday based on the…
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Niger Delta leaders, under the auspices of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, met with President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday and presented a 16-point demand to him. They said the 16 points were where “quick wins” could be achieved to restore hope and confidence in a region that has “grown skeptical of dialogue and engagements that have hardly produced tangible results”. The demands include allocation of oil blocs to natives of the region, maritime university, stop of military occupation of communities and proper funding of the amnesty programme. The demands also include extension of Ogoni clean-up to other areas of the region,…
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The meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and the Niger Delta leaders will hold on Tuesday (today) in Abuja. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, had on Monday, described the meeting as contentious due to the controversies it generated among Niger Delta leaders. Kachikwu, however, said that despite the increased controversy, negotiations would continue until the unrest and militancy in the oil-rich region were adequately resolved. He had on Thursday announced that the leaders from Niger Delta would meet with the President this week Tuesday to discuss issues affecting the region. Kachikwu, who spoke about the…
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For much of the summer, the F.B.I. pursued a widening investigation into a Russian role in the American presidential campaign. Agents scrutinized advisers close to Donald J. Trump, looked for financial connections with Russian financial figures, searched for those involved in hacking the computers of Democrats, and even chased a lead — which they ultimately came to doubt — about a possible secret channel of email communication from the Trump Organization to a Russian bank. Law enforcement officials say that none of the investigations so far have found any link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government. And even…
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The two Justices of the Supreme Court, Sylva Ngwuta and Inyang Okoro, who were among some judiciary officers recently arrested by the Department of State Services on corruption allegations, have voluntarily withdrawn from further participating in the proceedings of the apex court. The PUNCH learnt on Sunday that the two senior judiciary officers would no longer sit until when they were able to clear their names. It was also gathered that both Ngwuta and Okoro had not been sitting since they were released after their arrest along with some other serving and compulsorily retired judges between October 7 and 8.…
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Mark Olise, Deputy Director Communications, Lower Niger Congress (LNC), has said that planned negotiation between the Federal Government and stakeholders in the Niger Delta is mere political stunt and would be futile if fundamental demands of the region are not addressed. According to him, there would be no excuse for the emergence of new militant groups or resort to violence if government attends to the people’s grievances. Negotiation between the Federal Government and stakeholders appears to be in disarray. Who should government be talking to, in order to resolve the Niger Delta unrest? The government can discuss with whomever it…
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The harsh economic climate that the country is currently experiencing has made the aviation sector to record a decline of nine per cent in activities in the second quarter of this year, according to figures published by the National Bureau of Statistics. The NBS in its report on the aviation sector explained that the numbers of travellers, aircraft, cargo weight as well as mails that were moved during the period declined as against what were recorded in the first quarter of the year. For instance, the report, made available to our correspondent on Sunday said 54,405 aircraft arrived at, or…
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Innoson Group, Nigeria’s foremost indigenous motor manufacturing company has raised the alarm over what it described as sponsored and calculated smear campaign against it and its Executive Chairman, Dr Innocent Chukwuma, by some unscrupulous interest group. In a statement signed by Mr. Cornel Osigwe, Public Relations and Media Manager of Innoson Group, the company said that contrary to report sponsored in the media to bring the name of the company and its promoter into disrepute, no new case was filed against it by the current Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris. Citing a letter dated February 17, 2016, the…
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INTRODUCTION: As various national groups prepare for the inevitable constitutional reconstruction of the distressed Nigerian Union, the LOWER NIGER CONGRESS, (a platform by which willing peoples of the Ethnic Nations of the old Eastern Region and the old Mid-Western Region, seek to federate themselves into a cohesive, values-driven, systems-based political bloc, under a new social-contract regime engendering a society of equal opportunities), wishes to restate its position on the vexed question of the basis of Nigeria and the future of its divergent peoples. The goal of this communication is to dissect and illuminate the core issues of the obfuscated debate…
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The World Igbo Summit took place at the Gregory University Uturu, Abia State, from 27th – 30th October, 2016. The Summit was organized to bring together the great minds of alaigbo from across the globe to dialogue and give for Igbo nation a strategic roadmap for growth and development going forward. The Summit heralded the 50-year Visioning Project initiated to strategize, document and design a roadmap for the sustainable development of Igbo nation to catalyze wealth repatriation and reinvestment in Igbo homeland by all Igbo sons and daughters in all parts of the world. The theme of the World Igbo Summit is: Igboka…
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INTRODUCTION In the late 1950s Nigeria was not yet independent and, therefore, was not a full member of the British Commonwealth of Nations but was allowed to attend its meetings as an observer. At one of such meetings, Mr. Jawahalral Nehru, the then Prime Minister of India, took the liberty to offer advice to the then Prime Minister of Nigeria, Alh. Abubakae Tafawa Balewa, in three key areas: 1) Power Generation; this being an important resource, our country needed to develop sources especially the hydroelectric type that is cheaper to run 2) Rail transportation; especially mass transit for movement of…
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This article appeared as part of a feature in the December 8, 1995 issue of Executive Intelligence Review, and was circuclated extensively by the Schiller Insitute Food for Peace Movement. It is reprinted here as part of the package: “Who Is Responsible for the World Food Shortage?” Excepts On Dec. 10, 1974, the U.S. National Security Council under Henry Kissinger completed a classified 200-page study, “National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests.” The study falsely claimed that population growth in the so-called Lesser Developed Countries (LDCs) was a grave threat to…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is extending the war against corruption in the judicial arm to the bar. It has invited eight Senior Advocates of Nigeria( SANs) for interrogation over alleged payments into judges’ accounts. This is coming three weeks after the Department of State Security (DSS) raided the homes of several judges, including two justices of the Supreme Court, and arrested them for alleged corruption. But the EFCC,after intercepting test messages, have now extended the scope of the investigation to the bar, summoning eight senior lawyers suspected of corrupting judges. Four of the SANs have already been…
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After World War 2, what remained of Europe (after the self inflicted consuming flames of WAR and destruction has simmered down) was in serious need of reconstruction. Particularly if Europe wanted to maintain its status as ‘first world’ or ‘most developed’ and wanted to maintain its parasitic power over the rest of the world. This reconstruction depended on continued access to cheap raw materials as previously provided by colonization. The old colonies were all claiming independence making older colonial systems of exploitation and abuse impossible, which led to a radical shift in the structure of world power. America was in…
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In what appears a further marginalisation of the South East zone, the Federal Government has left out the region in projects which President Muhammadu Buhari plans to execute with the proposed $29.960 billion infrastructure loan. A breakdown of how the loan would be spent on infrastructure between 2016 and 2018 shows that none of the projects contained in the government’s document is located in the South East geo-political zone. President Buhari had on Tuesday asked the Senate to approve the loan from multilateral financial institutions to enable his administration execute critical infrastructure and other social intervention initiatives across the country.…
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Since the end of the Cold War, the position that the United States has enjoyed as the world’s superpower has not been seriously challenged, but that may be starting to change. The rise and later decline of the European Union did nothing to unseat the United States, as the two maintained a strong alliance through NATO. Venezuela, Iran, Pakistan and other nations have not come close to upsetting the cart either, as each has lacked the strong web of alliances that the US possesses. But now, with the continued rise of China as an economic and regional power and the…
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As soon as Buhari’s CPC joined up with Tinubu’s ACN, to begin his journey into the presidency, he began galvanizing a populist version of a man that could fix what ever was wrong with Nigeria…! But he didn’t create the populist movement, neither did he author the dubious integrity – Nigerians did….! And they did, for the simple reason of being Idle! The Nigeria that carried Mr Mohammadu Buhari from his estate of many houses at Number 9 Udo Udoma Street, Asokoro in the highbrow district of Abuja, to the presidential nomination was largely an uninformed, docile, weak, Ready-to-accept anything…
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Nigerian militants claim to have bombed an oil pipeline owned by Chevron Corp. (CVX) as a warning to oil companies not to repair damaged infrastructure until they have completed talks with the Nigerian government about sharing some of the oil wealth with the people of the Niger Delta. The attack came as a surprise, as security forces had been anticipating that a peace agreement would be signed next Monday. The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), which claimed responsibility for the bombing, have been blamed for cutting Nigerian oil production from 2.2 million barrels a day to 1.4 million. In August 2016,…
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The President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress, APC, has on Wednesday, October 26, disclosed that there is no evidence of corruption against any of its members, as speculated in various quarters. The party which stated this on behalf of the President, also challenged anybody with proof of corruption, to bring it forward. This was contained in a statement by the APC Deputy National Chairman (South), Segun Oni, where he maintained that the ongoing corruption crusade, must be maintained. He said: “Anybody with corruption proof against any APC member, should bring it forward,” he said. This came barely few days when…
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THE NORTH HAS GOLD, DIAMOND, OIL, OTHERS BUT I STILL WANT US TO REMAIN WITH BIAFRANS – MAITAMA SULE.
The North Has Gold, Diamond, Oil, Others But I Still Want Us To Remain With Biafrans – Maitama Sule Elder statesman, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule in this interview speaks on the state of the nation. He remarked that the true story of the Civil War in the country was yet to be told. He spoke on the recent efforts by some people in the South-east to resurrect the Biafra Republic, saying they would not succeed. Excerpt: What is your personal reaction to the huge story of corruption that is prevalent in Nigeria today. How do you see it? I see…
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As Nigeria wobbles in the throes of what seems its terminus and as the various federating blocs continue to explore options for their political future, a research-based review of the odyssey of the Igbo in Nigeria from inception to date intended to birth an action plan for societal reconstruction of Ala-Igbo, anchored on the pristine Igbo value system, was discreetly undertaken by a younger generation of NdIgbo under the code-name, ALADINMA over a 12 year period. That initiative has not only diagnosed the Igbo question correctly but has attracted a considerable mass of adherents with the clarity, commitment, courage and…
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