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This could be it for Cruz and company. Donald Trump won the Republican Primary in Indiana Tuesday evening, all but eviscerating the #NeverTrump movement and moving the New York Businessman tantalizingly close to the Republican nomination for president. To be clear, Trump has not yet reached the magic number of 1,237 delegates needed to secure the Republican nomination on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention in July. But with upcoming states, especially big delegate states like New Jersey and California, seeming favorable to Trump, it is looking more and more likely that he will win the delegates required.…
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The federal government on Tuesday issued a directive to medical doctors across the country to henceforth treat all patients and victims with gunshot injuries without any form of restraint or inhibition. Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, gave the order at the induction ceremony of foreign graduates organised by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN). According to him, government was considering reforming the health sector, with the objective to scale up service delivery across various sections of the sector. “Hospitals are sanctuary for the sick and injured, never must our hospitals be closed for whatever reasons; even…
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The Eko Electricity Distribution Company has said it will begin power rationing today (Tuesday) in Lekki, Ikoyi, Victoria Island and some parts of Ajah, Lagos State. The company made the announcement on Monday in a statement signed by its General Manager, Corporate Communications, Mr. Godwin Idemudia, saying the rationing would last for one month. It stated that the power rationing was to enable the Transmission Company of Nigeria to upgrade both line 1 and line 2 of the Ajah-Alagbon transmission line from 132kv to 330kv. According to the statement, during the upgrade operation, which will last between three and four…
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Nigerian billionaire Femi Otedola has lost more than $400 million of his personal fortune over the last 9 weeks as the stock price of Forte Oil, the Nigerian-listed energy behemoth he controls, shed off 43.5% in value within that period. In late February the share price of Forte Oil hit an all-time high of N342 per share after the Lagos-based utilities and petroleum marketing company released its impressive 2015 FY results and declared an attractive dividend of N3.45 per share. However, as at close of trading today (Tuesday), its share price has dropped to N193.46 after recording consistent daily losses…
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Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed saying, ‘let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us’. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision”- Psalm 2: 1-4. Everything that I said about President Muhammadu Buhari and his APC during the presidential campaign has come true. In less than one year I have been proved right in my continuous assertion that when it comes…
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• Ohaneze seeks self-defence • Stay off our territory or face war — Niger Delta militants • Iloh cautions against disintegration THE unrestrained invasion of communities and massacre of innocent citizens by the Fulani herdsmen across the country is now causing provocation for bloody uprising from the South East since the incident in Enugu State. Prominent Igbo leaders, at their meeting at the weekend, decided on urgent need for the Igbo nation to organize the people for self-defence against the invasion and killing of Igbo indigenes by the Fulani herdsmen. The dreaded Bakassi Boys, a violent vigilante group mobilized to…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has restated his administration’s resolve to deal decisively and expeditiously with reported cases of continued attacks on communities across the country by armed herdsmen. The president was speaking on Monday night at a meeting with members of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) held in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. A statement issued on Tuesday by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, said that President Buhari confirmed that heads of national security agencies had been ordered to take all necessary action to apprehend and expose those behind the heinous attacks. “We are…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday, May 3, said its effort to contact the Department of State Services (DSS) to produce the former national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki for trial was futile. Dasuki trial before Justice Hussien Baba-Yusuf was expected to commence today. But on assumption of the sitting, the prosecuting (EFCC) counsel, Oluwaleke Atolagbe told the court that he had made several efforts through the EFCC to facilitate the appearance of Dasuki in court today. Atolagbe, he regrets to inform the court that as at the sitting time, the former NSA might not be brought…
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“I acknowledge the fact that it happens in the core North too but if the leaders and people of the core North can live with it, the rest of us cannot… They have a duty to fight it and to put a stop to it more than anyone else because these beasts, militants and religious extremists that call themselves Fulani herdsmen are their kinsmen.” The following discusion took place on my Facebook friend’s page on May 2nd, 2016. Since it is already in the public realm I have taken the liberty of sharing it in my column as well. Though…
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Because King Yunfa, the Hausa sarkin in Gobir (Sokoto) permitted a Fulani immigrant called Usman Dan Fodiyo and his group in February 1804, the whole of northern region lost the kingdom to Fulani emirates from 1808! The king Yunfa was killed in 1808 and the Fulani warrior, Fodio established Sokoto caliphate, making himself Sultan! Lots of people were killed by the Fulani warriors then to overrun the Hausa kingdoms! Gradually, other Hausa kingdoms were pillaged and taken over by the Fulani emirs! They failed to overrun Borno kingdom, hence the Shehu remains paramount till today! Because the Afonja dynasty compromised…
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It is harder to do business in Nigeria now than it was in 2015, the World Bank Group’s ‘Doing Business Report’ has revealed. According to the report, Nigeria went up the ease of doing business ranking, yet doing business actually just got harder in the largest economy in Africa. In 2015, Nigeria ranked 170 of 189 countries, with a distance to frontier (DTF) or ease of doing business score of 47.33, against Singapore’s 88.27 and Eritrea’s 33.16. In the 2016 version of the report, Nigeria climbed one rung of the ladder to the 169 position, but its ease of doing…
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One thing I learnt in the last 3 months is that politics is not all about rights or wrongs, it’s about numbers and interest. PDP lost 2015 because we couldn’t get sufficient numbers from the North. Like Sule Lamido said last week, PDP was demonised and people who were supporting the party in the North were seen as infidels. It was that terrible. To change such tide and negative wave, a northern politician who is a strategist, fearless and cannot be intimidated by the APC or president Buhari would most definitely be needed to chart the way and lead PDP.…
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The insulting warning to the South from the 19 Northern governors just the other day made matters worse. That contribution did not help to calm the storm but instead it has further frayed nerves. Simply put the Northern governors have rubbed raw salt into our Southern wounds. Last week I wrote an essay titled “The Road To Kigali” which was widely published. The callous response of the Northern governors to the horrendous events in Enugu State has compelled me to write this contribution as something of a follow-up. These are difficult and troubling times and these are times that the…
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(34-POSITIONS & PRESENTATION OF CONCERNED IMEOBI MEMBERS) RE: UNPROVOKED MASSACRE OF OUR PEOPLE AT NIMBO, UZOUWANI LGA, ENUGU STATE BY FULANI HERDSMEN , ON MONDAY, THE 25TH DAY OF APRIL, 2016,. OUR 34 POSITIONS: 1. We have viewed with grave concern, the reckless and callous attitude of the Fulani herdsmen, who had the effrontery to bring down their violence to our peaceful south-eastern states of Nigeria, by recently attacking our defenseless kiths and kin at Nimbo Community, Uzouwani, LGA, Enugu State, MASSACRED AND DISMEMBERED a lot of them, without any respect or value for human life. 2. These itinerant herdsmen…
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RESOLUTIONS OF THE 70TH MEETING OF THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (NEC) OF THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP) ON APRIL 28, 2016 AT THE NATIONAL SECRETARIAT, ABUJA. The Meeting was presided over by the National Chairman, H.E. Sen. (Dr.) Ali Modu-Sheriff. The Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, PDP State Governors, members of the National Committee (NWC), Members and leaders of the National Assembly and other members of NEC were in attendance. NEC commended the Rally in Jigawa State and thanked the former Governor, Alh. Sule Lamido and his team for the overwhelming crowd that welcomed the leadership of the Party…
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Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has called on the Nigeria Labour Movement to lead campaign for recovery of stolen wealth and the prosecution of all indicted looters. He made the call Saturday at the 2016 Pre-May Day Lecture with the theme, “The fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy’’, organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC). Falana who was represented by Mr Ezenwa Nwagwu, the Chairman, Partner for Electoral Reforms said that the need to prosecute indicted looters had become imperative, as there had been diversion of public funds by a handful…
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For seven days now, Nigeria’s number one youth leader has been in detention with no reasons adduced for his detention. Youths from across Nigeria have been protesting here and on the ground, seeking that the young legal practitioner and political activist, who was at a time the Senate President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, be either charged to court or released unconditionally by the DSS who are said to have kept him in the most dehumanizing condition for one week now, without access to his food, drinks, lawyers or family members. This is a democracy, and in every…
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The embattled publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, has taken his blackmailing business to a new height, this time, by accusing the CEO of facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, of collecting bribe from the Nigerian Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki. Over the last few years, Sowore has accused prominent Nigerians of either trying to assassinate him or pull his platform down for reasons best known to him. He has severally accused former ministers, Obanikoro, Madwekwe, Oduah etc of varying crimes. All efforts by these individuals to get at him through litigation have proven abortive as a result of his non-residence in…
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The Office of the Special Senior Assistant to Governor Okorocha on Media, Chinedu Offor just released these videos. In this 3 part clip recorded 35,000 feet above sea level aboard Governor Okorocha’s private jet, His Excellency lectures on Leadership Ideology. Also on board was Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Rt.Hon Benjamin Uwajumogu and Chief Martin Agbaso. It is a peek into the mind of Gov.Okorocha which many of us have not seen before. Find out what he had to say about the “Principles of Kwashiokorism” and how it relates to instability in the economy of Africa.…
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A former presidential candidate of the National Conscience Party (NCP), Chief Martin Onovo, has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of promoting corruption in Nigeria while claiming to be waging war against it. Onovo, who spoke in an interview, also claimed that the anti-corruption war of President Muhammadu Buhari is one-sided and targeted at the opposition. According to him, most corrupt politicians in Nigeria today are in the ruling party. “Everybody is saying the anti-corruption war of the APC is one-sided. Even the UK Telegraph said that it is political and is targeted at the opposition. The Office of…
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Ndigbo Unity Forum, an Igbo socio-cultural group, has given Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo an ultimatum of 60 days to pay workers outstanding salaries and allowances. This is contained in a statement signed by the President of the forum, Mr Augustine Chukwudum, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Sunday. It described as unfortunate that after receiving 26 billion naira bailout funds from the Federal Government, which the governors and their cabinets agreed was enough to settle workers, would divert such money. The statement said such action was the height of criminality and insensitivity…
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY NATIONAL CHRISTIAN ELDERS FORUM (NCEF) APRIL, 2016 Christians have no choice but to transform CAN into an established Organization for the promotion and protection of Christianity in Nigeria in the face of the threat of Islamism otherwise known as – Political Islam, which has no single creed or political manifesto but certain common beliefs such as that (1) Nigerian Society should be reconstructed in line with the Religious principles and ideals of Islam. (2). The Islamists are demanding that Section 10 should be replaced by an Islamic State in which Religious principles and authority have primacy over…
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The Catholic Archbishop of Benin City, Dr. Augustin Akubueze, and the Catholic Bishop of Uromi Diocese, Dr. Donatus Ogun, have both appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to tackle the issue of the growing attacks of hoodlums in Edo State. The Bishops spoke against the backdrop of last Friday’s attempt on the life of John Cardinal Onaiyekan, the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja. Akubueze and Ogun said the appeal became urgent following the brazenness with which the herdsmen commit atrocities in the state without adequate security checks. Cardinal Onaiyekan was attacked by suspected herdsmen along the Benin-Ekpoma Road while returning from…
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•Afenifere, Ijaw youths fault them The 19 northern governors came under criticism yesterday over their position that the Fulani should not be labelled as criminals. The Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, asked the governors to bury their heads in shame over their position which came in the wake of the heat generated by the attack on Ukpabi-Ninbo community in Enugu State by suspected Fulani herdsmen, last Monday. Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) also condemned the governors. The northern governors, who met in Kaduna, on Friday, had taken a strong exception to the branding of perpetrators of crimes around the country as Fulani.…
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lol!!! lol!!! Ihiagwa and Nekede ( uzii na Abosi) are two (2) neighboring communities in Owerri hosting the Federal Polytechnic Nekede and Federal University of Technology Owerri. Sometime last year, the activities of these Fulani herdsmen became so unbearable with destruction of farms and rape. The women gathered and thought of what to do to stop these killer Fulani herdsmen wielding AK 47s. In contrast, the women had no gun, knife nor any other weapon but their brains. They came together and reasoned what to do to drive them from their communities without firing a shot. They agreed and tasked…
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The federal government is set to reintroduce toll on some roads that will be built or reconstructed. The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola SAN, made the declaration while fielding questions as guest on the popular Channels Sunrise Daily programme. The minister said it would be pretentious to assume that the roads would get better if we continued to make our roads absolutely toll free. He added that, there would however be alternative roads to the ones that would be tolled. Fashola declared, “We should stop being pretentious that roads can be had for absolutely free everywhere.…
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•‘No evidence I lost June 12, 1993 election to Abiola’ •Asks FG not to give impression Saraki is being punished •His life in ‘retirement’ •Says Ganduje and Kwankwaso haven’t disclosed cause of figh Remember Alhaji Bashir Tofa? He was the man who contested the June 12, 1993 presidential election against the late Chief MKO Abiola. Abiola was generally believed to have won that historic election which was unfortunately annulled by the military. In this interview, Tofa wonders whether anybody said Abiola won the election and he lost. Now a member of the Board of Trustees of the ruling All Progressives…
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President Muhammadu Buhari says it is “a matter of great concern” to him that nearly two-thirds of states of the federation are still having difficulties with paying salaries, despite the bailout funds provided to them by the federal government. He therefore said he would “strive to make more funds available to the states”. This, he said he would do by specifically “expediting action on refunds due to them for the maintenance of federal roads and other expenses incurred on behalf of the federal government”. According to a statement by Garba Shehu, senior special assistant (media and publicity) to the president,…
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Former presidents, Goodluck jonathan and Olusegun Obasanjo President Buhari has extended the investigation of corrupt practices beyond Jonathan’s administration. – There are indications that administration before Jonathan began the scheme of adding non-exiting projects to budget. – The minister of justice says there is a compilation of agencies that have allowed these corrupt practices to thrive. – There are strong indications that President Muhammadu Buhari will extend his crackdown on corruption beyond the administration of former president, Goodluck Jonathan. According to Sources, the probe is expected to begin from 1999 when Nigeria returned to democratic rule. According to a…
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THE 19 northern state governors on Friday agreed to commence the issuance of licences to all religious organisations and preachers in all states in the region. Only Kaduna state had, hitherto, proposed the new measure. The governors, who said they were alarmed by the proliferation of sects and preachers in the region, also agreed to close down all religious organizations and institutions that refused to be registered with the respective state governments. These were part of the seven-page communiqué issued by the governors after a meeting in Kaduna on Friday. The governors also said they noted the proliferation of Islamic…
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Republican voters should unify in support of Donald Trump because he is almost certain to become the party’s presidential nominee, Newt Gingrich argued in a guest editorial the Washington Times published Wednesday. “Every analysis of the next few weeks indicates Trump’s margin will widen and he will move steadily closer to 1,237,” the former speaker of the House wrote, referring to the number of delegates required to secure the nomination in the first round of balloting at the GOP national convention. “These are the numbers of a presumptive nominee, not a front-runner,” Gingrich added. “If this were any candidate but…
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. Chieftains and members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are upbeat about the reluctance of President Muhammadu Buhari to make appointments into federal parastatals as well as Government Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs). Few days to the first anniversary of the administration, the APC bigwigs are displeased that Buhari is yet to overhaul the parastatals and compensate loyal party members with appointments. The situation, according to those who spoke with online reporters under condition of anonymity, is affecting morale among party members. They claimed many of their supporters are restive they have not been compensated for the emergence…
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Customers in the United States have Begun to Receive Deliveries of the HondaJet The HondaJet can transport five passengers up to 1,360 miles without refueling, at cruise speeds of up to 483 mph. Honda Aircraft Company has been working on the HondaJet for more than 20 years and now has started deliveries of the $4.5 million airplane in both North America and Europe. In April, at the Aero Friedrichshafen general-aviation show in Germany, the first European delivery was made to Rheinland Air Service, a dealer who will promote the airplane to the business-aviation market. Customer deliveries for the United…
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Did you know that eastern Nigeria had a very big cattle industry till the civil war wiped it out? As a matter of fact the Hausa/fulani cow could not survive down in the east or southern states due to tse tse fly. It was only because it was eventually cross bred with the west African short horn cow (ehi igbo) which was only found in eastern and south west Nigeria did the northern Nigerians start bringing cows to the south. Did you know that the Obudu cattle ranch was specifically set up by the Micheal Okpara government to cross breed…
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Mr. George Akinola wrote: “When the Fulani exploded on the geographic space later christened Nigeria, in 1804, they did not negotiate power with the Hausas, they seized it from them on the battlefield. 1804 to 1810 When the same Fulani appeared in Ilorin in 1823, purportedly to assist Afonja, the Are-ona-kakanfo of Oyo and the ruler of Ilorin, in revolt against his sovereign, Alafin Aole, the Alafin of Oyo, it was to gain his confidence for a while and a vantage position to murder him. Ilorin has been under Fulani rule since. 1825 to 2014. When the British colonised all…
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President Muhammadu Buhari said Thursday in Abuja that it was a matter of great concern to him that nearly two-thirds of states of the federation are still having difficulties with salary payments despite the bail-out funds provided to them by the federal government. Speaking at a meeting with members of the Nigeria Governors Forum at the Presidential Villa, Mr. Buhari said he was very disturbed by the hardship which state government workers across the country and their families were facing due to the non-payment of salaries. To ameliorate the hardship being faced by affected workers, the president said the federal…
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In the words of a colonial government report of 1947, “The African’s background and outlook on public morality is very different from the present day Briton. “The African in the public service seeks to further his own financial interest.” The colonial report concluded that only public opinion could deal with corruption. The problem was that there was no responsible public opinion to check corruption in Nigeria. From as early as 1947, commissions of inquiry were held to investigate cases of corruption. The purpose of the inquiries was to expose wrong-doing and to punish the culprits. Today, we hear much of…
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Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has lashed out at the presidency for its seeming inability to rein in the violent activities of herdsmen across the country. In his address to the National Conference on Culture and Tourism, Wednesday, Mr. Soyinka said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government was yet to come up with an articulate solution to tackle the menace. “I have yet to hear this government articulate a firm policy of non-tolerance for the serial massacres that have become the nation’s identification stamp,” said Mr. Soyinka. “I have not heard an order given that any cattle herders caught with sophisticated firearms…
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In 56 years, Nigeria has consolidated a dubious political culture that emphasizes the primacy of sectional interest over and above the national interest. Recently, the media (print and electronic, including social media) have been awash with outcries on the proposed `National Grazing Reserve Establishment and Development Commission Bill (SB. 60)’, which the 8th Senate has come out strongly to deny. But we need to make certain clarifications here. The Senate denied the presence of such a bill in this 8th Senate; it did not deny the existence of such bill. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Senator Babajide…
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President Muhammadu Buhari’s current economic policies are similar to those he promulgated during the military regime he led in the 1980s, a former Minister of Education and social critic, Oby Ezekwesili, has said. Mrs. Ezekwesili said Mr. Buhari’s “archaic” and “opaque” economic principles are not only encouraging massive corruption and abuse of power, but also hurting the poor they were intended to help. Mrs. Ezekwesili said this at The Platform, a public policy forum that is currently underway in Abuja. “During the first coming of this our new president, a command and control economic system was adopted. “During that era,…
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Former governor of Kaduna State Alhaji Balarabe Musa, said that the only explanation for President Muhammadu Buhari’s silence over renew attacks by armed men suspected to be Fulani herdsmen resulting in the deaths of several Nigerians is absolute weakness, incompetence and lack of focus. About 40 persons have so far been reportedly killed in the recent attacks by suspected Fulani herdsmen at Nimbo in Uzo- Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State. He laments in an interview with Newsmen in Kano, that not only are the Fulani herdsmen killing and attempting to forcefully take over other peoples’ land, they also…
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The Oba of Benin, His Royal Majesty Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Erediauwa, has joined his ancestors.The Iyase of Benin, Chief Sam Igbe, yesterday, announced the passing on of the great monarch at the palace ground in Benin City, saying, “Osorhue Burun” in Edo, meaning “the chalk has broken.” He added: “Oba Erediuwa of Benin Kingdom, the Prince of Peace, Ebo, Ayamwirhe, Emini Mini Mini, has reunited with his ancestors. May he find perfect peace with God.” His Royal majesty Oba Erediauwa was born on June 22, 1923, son of Oba Akenzua II. He was the 38th Oba of Benin,…
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The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress, TUC, have maintained stance on N56, 000 as new minimum wage with other demands to raise workers’ standard of living. This declaration was made by Deputy President, NLC, Comrade Peters Adeyemi, during a press conference on the activities marking May Day with theme, ‘The Working Class and the Quest for Socio-Economic Revival’, on May 1, 2016 to hold at the Eagle Square, Abuja, and across the 36 states of the federation. Adeyemi said with the current N18, 000 minimum wage workers in the country can no longer cope with…
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Governors of 19 Northern States have risen from their meeting in Kaduna Friday, condemning labelling perpetrators of crimes around the country as Fulani people. The Governors who met behind closed doors said, as much as they condemn the recent attacks in Enugu and other parts of the country, they condemned labelling the criminals as Fulani people. Briefing newsmen shortly after the meeting at the Kaduna Government House Friday evening, Chairman of the Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF) and Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Kashim Shettima said, it is an insult to label criminals as Fulani. According to him, “We want…
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It was a moment of truth telling and reality check at the just-concluded 5th Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa when former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan insisted that African countries must stop begging, cap-in-hand, for assistance from foreigners to address challenges confronting the continent. Annan, who gave the keynote address at this year’s forum in Addis Ababa, said the solutions to the problems the continent is facing must come from within. He added, however, that the continent must build up its ability to do so, including in financing its institutions. “We cannot always pass a hat around…
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The Igbo Improvement Union (Oganiru Ndi-Igbo) a socio-political and cultural organization of Igbo speaking people in Abia, Anambra, Delta, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo and Rivers States of Nigeria yesterday met with Igwe John Ikemefuna Akor, Agaba Idu XXIV of Ukpabi-Nimbo Community in Uzo-Uwani LGA of Enugu State. Addressing the press after the closed door meeting the Union expressed shock and disbelief on the wanton destruction of lives and property in Ukpabi-Nimbo, the Union said it is scandalized that such ethnic cleansing and palpable act of brigandage could take place in a twenty first (21st) century Nigeria. Igbo Improvement Union (Oganiru…
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Apprehension heightened in the equities market yesterday as the deadline for withdrawal of Morgan Stanley Capital International, MSCI, foreign investment index from the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, expires today. The US-based provider of equity, fixed income, and hedge fund stock market indexes, announced earlier in the month that it was considering yanking off Nigeria from its MSCI Emerging market index. Though a decision is expected to be announced today, April 29, 2016, feelers from the NSE indicated that MSCI authorities may postpone the decision while keeping close watch on the investment climate in Nigeria. Equity investors in the Nigerian bourse…
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My Dear People of Enugu State, Four days ago on Monday April 25, 2016 many of our brothers and sisters in Nimbo in Uzo Uwani Local Government Area of the state were murdered in cold blood by suspected Fulani herdsmen who have been grazing their cattle in that area for a while now. May their souls rest in peace. Amen. On Sunday, April 24, 2016, by 7 pm, the night before this carnage took place, I got security information from Uzo-Uwani Local Government Transition Chairman, Hon. Cornell Onwubuya that such an incident was likely to take place in the state.…
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I have just been reading one of the most recently published books on the Biafran War in which Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon was quoted as saying, through his August 3, 1966 broadcast to the nation, that the basis for Nigeria’s unity no longer existed. Gowon was then Nigeria’s Head of State. His broadcast was fallout of the ominous events of the period. A revenge coup had just taken place in which Igbo military officers were systematically eliminated by their northern counterparts. Because Gowon, a lily-livered officer from the Middle Belt, could not but do the bidding of the northern oligarchs…
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The Federal Government on Thursday re-arraigned Senate President Bukola Saraki on amended three charges of alleged false asset declaration before the Code of Conduct Tribunal. Saraki pleaded not guilty to the charges. In the fresh charge, the Federal Government accused Saraki of abusing his office while serving as Governor of Kwara State between Oct.2016 and May 2007 by obtaining a loan from GTBank to acquire property at No. 17A and 17B McDonald Street Ikoyi, Lagos. The Federal Government, through its counsel, Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), said Saraki failed to declare the property which was allegedly acquired in at N497.2 million. In…
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In its one-year in office, the government has not established a single institution or passed any legislation necessary to fight corruption. The much-ballyhooed Whistle-blower Act is still blowing in the wind. In Buhari’s first coming, he bamboozled Nigerians with a so-called War against Indiscipline. This entailed treating Nigerians, young and old, like primary school children. We were forced to queue at bus-stops under the watchful eyes of soldiers wielding whips with orders to flog publicly those deemed unruly. Late-coming civil-servants were required to do frog-jumps. The pathetic thing about this was that the government actually believed such charade constituted cogent…
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What we have is a government attempt to decimate the opposition and create a de facto one-party state under the guise of fighting against corruption. I was invited to a Roundtable on Corruption by the Law Faculty of the University of Lagos, only to discover that some “Buharideens” had highjacked the occasion and were inclined to use it as a platform to promote the onslaught of “democratic dictatorship” in Nigeria. The topic was on corruption in Nigeria, but the mast-head in the hall was more specific. It read: “Winning the War against Corruption. This was easily seized on by government…
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I have not heard an order given that any cattle herder caught with sophisticated firearms be instantly disarmed, arrested, placed on trial, and his cattle confiscated… Let me repeat, and of course I only ask to be corrected if wrong: I have yet to encounter a terse, rigorous, soldierly and uncompromising language from this leadership, one that threatens a response to this unconscionable blood-letting that would make even Boko Haram repudiate its founding clerics. Herdsmen, let us appreciate, are perhaps humanity’s earliest known tourists. They must be taught however that there is a culture of settlement, and learn to seek…
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About eight months ago, some Igbo social media and political activists invited me inbox to discuss the way forward for Ndigbo. I will copy and paste my contributions to that meeting: “I have personally moved on from nice guy to “say it as it is” in my analysis of Nigerian issues. What I will never do is publicly insult any one Igbo person. However, I will continue to abuse Igbo efulefus generally.” “Finally, the only Igbo project in my radar now is a call for referendum. I am not saying it will work out fine. But it will rally Igbo…
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In fact it’s a JIHAD! This video was made on the morning of the Agatu attack, by one of the attackers. The same man took part in the Logo attack two weeks later where he was killed and the video was found on a mobile phone retrieved from his body. This menace has superceded Boko haram as the biggest existential threat to the country. these guys are terrorists pure and simple.
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Governor Shettima is indeed lucky. Apart from Obasanjo who was so friendly with fortune to have been a president two times, Shettima is one of the luckiest men to have come from Nigeria. He should thank his Creator or whatever god he serves for making him a Nigerian. In saner climes, Shettima will be facing fierce public prosecutors, he will be put under the fire of cross examination while he is behind dock, answering questions as to the Chibok drama. None of these happened because he is from a country where governors are prohibited from any form of court trials…
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The Head, Defence Headquarters Committee on Persistent Clashes between Herdsmen and Farmers, Maj. Gen. Edward Nze, has said attacks on some communities could assume the menace of the Boko Haram dimension if not checked. Nze, who paid a courtesy call on the acting Governor of Benue State, Benson Abounu, at the Benue Peoples House on Wednesday, told journalists in an interview that the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Olonishakin, was worried that the clashes between herdsmen and farmers were beginning to threaten national security. He said the committee had visited Nasarawa State, adding that it would proceed to Enugu…
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The Chairman of the NGF, Alhaji Abdulazeez Yari of Zamfara State A meeting of state governors held Wednesday night to address the nation’s economic crisis was again inconclusive. That was the second time in a week that the Nigeria Governors Forum could not reach a conclusion on the crisis which has led to the inability of many state governments to pay salaries. The forum’s Chairman, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, told State House correspondents at the end of the meeting held inside the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja that no conclusion had been reached on the matter.…
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THE South East Senate Caucus yesterday warned against what it termed imminent danger and possible attack on the unity of Nigeria if the Federal Government fails to urgently address the Enugu massacres by the marauding Fulani herdsmen. Rising from an emergency meeting in Abuja yesterday, the Senators not only condemned the attack, which left over 50 persons dead and scores driven out of their homes, they also called for a summit of South East and South South State Governors, members of National and State Houses of Assembly, Socio-Cultural associations, traditional rulers and major stakeholders immediately. In a statement by Senator…
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A news report has disclosed that there are about 21 senators currently receiving pensions from government as ex-governors and deputy governors. The current senators who once served as governors are Bukola Saraki of Kwara, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano, Kabiru Gaya of Kano, Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, Theodore Orji of Abia, Abdullahi Adamu of Nasarawa, Sam Egwu of Ebonyi, Shaaba Lafiagi of Kwara, Joshua Dariye of Plateau Jonah Jang of Plateau, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto, Ahmed Sani Yarima of Zamfara, Danjuma Goje of Gombe, Bukar Abba Ibrahim of Yobe, Adamu Aliero of Kebbi, George Akume of Benue and…
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Protesters, under the aegis of Okigwe Zonal Development Association, Abuja (OZDA), yesterday staged a demonstration at the National Assembly, over the delay in conducting Imo North Senatorial rerun polls. His Royal Highness, Eze O.J. C. Anyanwu, of Ehime in Mbano Local Council area, led the protesters, dominated by elderly people from the affected areas. OZDA vice chairman, Chief Asomugha, who spoke for the group, said their protest became necessary, to convey their displeasure at the continued breach of their right to representation at the Senate. The group asked the Senate to summon the Inspector General of Police, Commandant-General of the…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the inspector-general of police (IGP) and security agencies to stop the killings by suspected herdsmen across the country. The president, who broke silence on the carnage by herdsmen in Enugu state, said that the development has become a priority in the agenda of his administration. “Following continuing reports of attacks by ‘herdsmen’ on communities across the country, particularly Monday’s attack on Ukpabi Nimbo in Enugu State, President Muhammadu Buhari assures all Nigerians, once again, of his administration’s continued commitment to ensuring the safety of lives and property in all parts of the country,” a…
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In a shocking move likely to eventually crush the US economy, China is refusing to make its new gold-backed Yuan, convertible from or to US Dollars. The new Yuan was introduced last Tuesday, April 19. When the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreed to add the Yuan to the basket of world currencies used for Global Reserves and International Trade, they wanted China to make the Yuan more reliable as a currency. Since then, China has almost un-pegged its Yuan from the Dollar, allowing its value to fluctuate on world markets. But for years, China has been amassing huge amounts of…
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“We will write this for all to read. Anyone, soldier or not that kills the Fulani takes a loan repayable one day no matter how long it takes.” Nasir Ahmad El Rufai 7:51pm – 15 Jul 2012 This chilling video sent out by the militia arm of the Fulani herdsmen currently terrorising Nigeria claims that the group is supported and protected by the government of General Muhammadu Buhari. The announcer in the video claims that the group is “everywhere in Nigeria”. The 6.37-minute video was sent to us by a reader on Wednesday, April 27, 2016. According to our investigations…
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There are two operant Crowns in England, one being Queen Elizabeth II. Although extremely wealthy, the Queen functions largely in a ceremonial capacity and serves to deflect attention away from the other Crown, who issues her marching orders through their control of the English Parliament. This other Crown is comprised of a committee of 12 banks headed by the Bank of England (House of Rothschild). They rule the world from the 677-acre, independent sovereign state know as The City of London, or simply ‘The City.’ The City is not a part of England, just as Washington D.C., is not a…
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Nigeria’s Treasury Single Account (TSA) regime formulated by the Federal Government to shield its resources from pilfering may experience a flop, following hints that lenders are planning to stop the use of their platforms for TSA. The grouse of the banks is the one percent transaction charge, based on the use of Remita, an e-payment and e-collection software, on their platforms. From the transaction charge, 10 percent goes to the CBN; 40 percent goes to banks; while 50 percent goes to SystemSpecs. Barely two months ago, the Senate passed a resolution asking the Federal Government to terminate the 2013 contract…
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There’s something bigger than those cows on your highways and forests! Never have we had as many cowards in the Nigerian media and “civil rights movement” as we do today!!! No more voice of influence! Gone are the Ganis, the Dele Giwas … only the federal appointment-seeking, Facebook and Twitter handle warriors remain. Cowards! The media won’t use the politically incorrect words such as “ethnic cleansing,” “mass murder” and “religious persecution” even though those are exactly the three things happening right now in Nigeria!!!! ••• And crazy self seeking “men of God” are busy telling us to speak well of…
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The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists will release on May 9 a searchable database with information on more than 200,000 offshore entities that are part of the Panama Papers investigation. The database will likely be the largest ever release of secret offshore companies and the people behind them. The data comes from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, one of the top players in the offshore world, and includes information about companies, trusts, foundations and funds incorporated in 21 tax havens, from Hong Kong to Nevada in the United States. It links to people in more than 200 countries and…
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The Igbo Youths Movement, IYM, has lamented that Fulani herdsmen have killed 710 other Nigerians excluding the 48 Agatu people in Benue State in the last 10 months without the Federal Government addressing the issue. IYM made this known while reacting to the Monday’s killing of about 40 indigenes of Nimbo in Uzo Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State by Fulani herdsmen last night. The statement signed by the Founder of the IYM and Leader of the South East Democratic Coalition, Evangelist Elliot Uko, entitled, ‘Ten Months of Carnage,’ read: “Between June 2015 and April 2016, Fulani herdsmen have…
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The leader of the Senate, Mohammed Ali-Ndume, said on Tuesday that no amount of protest would force any legislator to resign. Mr. Ndume was reacting to a protest by the “Occupy National Assembly” group, calling for the resignation of the president of the Senate, Bukola Saraki. Mr. Ndume said there is a democratic process of recalling any senator, adding that protest was not the constitutionally recognised process. He described the protest as a “wrong precedence and anti-democratic’’. “That is why we are not trying to say anything about them because what is happening out there is a very dangerous precedence…
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Having enjoyed blissful growth over the past decade, Nigeria was one of the fastest growing economies in the world, but it is not one of the 15 fastest growing economies in Africa for 2016. In 2014 and early 2015, Nigeria was named the third fastest growing economy in the world by CNNMoney, with China and Qatar, taking the lead at 7.3 percent, 7.1 percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth. For 2016, however, the coast is cloudy, and Nigeria is nowhere near the fastest growing economies in Africa. According to the International Monetary Funds (IMF) World Economic Outlook for 2016, as…
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For years Fulani herdsmen have been allowed free access to our land in the southern and western parts of Nigeria to graze their cattle, as long as they are not on farmlands. In those days, the herdsmen were not armed with machine guns, all they had were long sticks with which they beat their animals into conformity. All of a sudden, in this era of the menace of Boko Haram, a bold and militant sets of herdsmen started pumping up in the south and west of Nigeria armed to the teeth with high powered guns uninterrupted by the people, the…
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Potter Stewart, a renown associate justice of the United States Supreme Court who played a significant role in the interpretation of Civil Rights laws, coined the basic phrase: “Fairness is what justice really is”. This phrase, conceived to propel the notion of every individual’s equitable right under the law, demonstrates that an unbiased legal system, is a necessary component for justice to be dispensed. As things stand, the case of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) against Nigeria’s senate president, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has proven to be full of contradictions and inequity. ‘Contradictions’ because since the case was in…
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Alleged graphic photos of people killed by Fulani herdsmen in Nimbo, Uzo-Uwani LGA of Enugu State Many people are said to have been killed by suspected herdsmen in Nimbo, Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State on Monday. The spokesman of the police in Enugu State, Mr Ebere Amaraizu who confirmed the incident said the Commissioner of Police, Mr Nwodibo Ekechukwu had already moved to the local government to ensure that normalcy returned. The photos after the cut are graphic *viewer discretion advised* “The police are aware of the attack in Uzo-Uwani and the state commissioner of police is…
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“I have completed 20 new Silo Complexes spread across the country to store Millions of Metric tonnes of Rice, Millet, Bean, Maize, Cassava, Sorghum. These Strategic Reserve have a total storage capacity of 1.336 million metric tons (MT) will protect my people against any level of food shortage or used to stabilize prices. “Strategic food reserve is a first line of defence in case of food crises, my Nigeria looks set to store enough food to cope with emergencies through the operation of these silos”. – GEJ. Today, President Buhari have ordered that 10,000metric tons of grains should…
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After what appeared to be good news for Nigeria’s Federal Government workers, it is not hunky-dory after all as Ahmed Idris, Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive that federal workers be paid on the 25th of every month was not possible, because there was no cash to pay on that date every month. This would come as a surprise to Federal Government workers as it was for Idris, who disclosed this on Wednesday to journalists in Abuja. He said, paying salary on the 25th of every month would “be given a test, I believe,…
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ICPC is an anti corruption agency. It was established by law and has the power to arrest, arraign and prosecute. However, I am surprised that ICPC indicted the governor of Imo state, Owelle Rochas Okorocha and accused him of diverting the states 26 Billion naira bailout funds and up till now, not even an invitation to his aides to appear at the ICPC office for questioning and subsequent prosecution. What then is the essence of the ICPC report? Is it just to tell ndi Imo that your bailout fund was diverted by ur governor so go and ask him or…
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The Senate President, Bukola Saraki has rejected the clearance issued by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Umar, exonerating him of complicity in the alleged N10m bribery scam. Saraki is being prosecuted before the Danladi Umar-led tribunal on 13 counts of false asset declaration. The Senate President’s lawyer, Mr. Ajibola Oluyede, has filed an application before the CCT asking Umar to disqualify himself from further presiding over the trial because he allegedly remained under EFCC investigation over the bribery allegation. Attempt by Oluyede to introduce the application before the CCT…
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Aliko Dangote, foremost business man and richest man in Africa, has said that the federal government should stop giving out bailout to states, insisting that states should sit down and plan to cut cost instead of looking for bailout and being lazy. Dangote said states can create jobs and give incentives to people to come and invest, saying “they should assure people that they are not going to be slammed with various taxes which is what some of them do.’’ He spoke on Friday, April 22, 2016, in Lagos when he was honoured as “Man of the Year 2015 by…
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If you resign Nigeria resigns and I would resign that is no bluff but a fact. Deep down in me I know what I am saying but I would not say it out here as yet. Let whatever wants to happen let it happen let Nigeria fall apart that is okay but please, I am appealing do not resign. I do not like you as a politician but I have nothing against you as a person as I do not know you one on one. But there is a process and a method to the madness let that process continue…
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PDP won AKURE NORTH LGA with 10,923 votes. PDP won IRELE LGA with 27,342 votes. PDP also won ONDO EAST LGA with 47,617 votes. PDP won AKOKO SOUTH-EAST LGA with 14791 votes. PDP won AKOKO SOUTH-WEST LGA With 39292 votes. PDP won AKOKO NORTH LGA with 10923 votes. Final Result IFEDORE LGA APC 0 CPP 4 APP 18 AD 2 LP 54 NCP 15 PDC 6 PDM 38 PDP 36, 913 UPN 5 Final Result AKOKO NORTH-WEST LGA APC 87 LP 59 NPP 13 PDC 7 PDP 28690 PPA 4 PPN 97 Final Result OWO…
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1. There is a town in Jamaica called ABEOKUTA. It was founded by former slaves from present-day Ogun State who were brought to a plantation in that part of Jamaica. 2· In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called “Hindi” (“from India”). In India, it’s called “Peru.” In Arabic, the bird is called”Greek chicken”; in Greek it’s called “French chicken”; and in French it’s called “Indian chicken.” The bird is indigenous to none of these places. 3· The letter ‘i’ that Apple uses (in their products iPhone, iPad, iMac, iPod) stands for “Interactive”. 4· Edward James Roye, the…
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Ten senators who are members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have concluded a deal with the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to support its candidate for the Senate Presidency if Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki is forced to resign at the end of his on-going Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) trial, Daily Trust on Sunday learnt from impeccable political sources at the weekend. Senate President Saraki’s trial at CCT was accelerated by the tribunal’s chairman Justice Danladi Umar last week and he could lose his exalted position if he is convicted of the charges brought against him by the…
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FORMER Anambra State governor, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife has described the recent letter to President Muhammadu Buhari by the northern elders wherein they claimed “short changed” in capital budgetary allocations as “unnecessary”, and arising from their “studied” notice of the dominance of the three zones of the North, especially the North west in budgetary allocations. He pointed out that “it may be a matter of how much more the North must have, in excess of the south, for the backbone North not to feel shortchanged.” Ezeife, a former federal permanent secretary, in a terse six-point letter released at the weekend entitled,…
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Another major company has resorted to laying off staff in response to the stifling economic policies of the Muhammadu Buhari-led government. A reliable source at Guinness Nigeria Plc confirmed to The Trent that the company has laid off about 300 staff following the economic downturn in Nigeria. The exercise which was carried out for four days – April 14, 15, 18, and 19, 2016 – affected staff at all cadres in the multinational company. “Directors were fired on Thursday [April 14], while senior managers were let off on the 15th,” our source, who didn’t wish to be named because he…
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Presidency moves against emergency billionaires ..says holders of public office must account for their wealth Serving and former public office holders will henceforth be made to account for their wealth, Vice President Yemi Osibajo (SAN), has said. He stated this at a town hall meeting convened by the United Action for Change, UAC in Lagos today Saturday April 23rd. Osinbajo who fielded questions from various labour and professional organisations as well as individuals at the meeting held at the Ikeja Airport Hotel, said “the era of people becoming emergency billionaires is gone” and would no longer be tolerated by…
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…….As 46 km Escravos-Warri-Kaduna Pipeline is Recommissioned The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu has today recommissioned the Escravos-Warri-Kaduna pipeline stressing that both Warri and Kaduna refineries are now receiving crude simultaneously for the first time in many years. The Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mallam Garba Deen Muhammad in a press statement quoted Dr. Kachikwu as saying that Warri has started working while Kaduna will start production at the end of the month. The Minister noted that this means that for the first time…
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Since the All Progressives Congress (APC) made it to the seat of power in 2015, it has been doing what it knows how to do best: bristling and spewing propaganda. The unfortunate thing here is that while it got away with it as an opposition party, it is proving a different kettle of fish as the party in power. Its self-assured hubris and the potency of its magical abilities sold on a hypnotic propaganda are being challenged every day by reality. But the party is yet to come to terms with this reality and has continued to fiddle and twaddle…
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“The ship of state is heading inexorably towards the rock and you as the chief helmsman owe it a duty to steer the ship away from it” – Chief Obafemi Awolowo, in an open letter to the then President Shehu Shagari, warning that the nation’s economy was in dire straits in 1982. Today that ship is heading towards the same rock as the Buhari government has so far failed to define its economic direction. The country’s GDP has progressively declined since Buhari assumed office, the latest being the fourth quarter GDP of last year which slowed to 2.11%, according…
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The nation is currently facing an economic crisis due to a plethora of issues. From the fall in oil prices, to the decline in the value of the country’s currency; the Naira, to the shame of the ‘padded’ budget (the first of its kind), and to the prolonged debacle in the passage of the 2016 budget. One needs no soothsayer to know that the present administration has no clue on how to revamp the nation’s economy as it has shown time and time again that it is bereft of ideas and policies to turn the tide. Nigeria has never had…
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*To remove EFCC from presidency control *Vow to back Saraki *To confront older senators over juicy committees Strong indications emerged early yesterday of a hardening of position by senators who have coalesced into a Group of 77 drawn from various parties and camps to protect what they have dubbed as the integrity of the Senate. The new G77 which had its maiden meeting on Thursday night has meanwhile launched moves to extricate the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC from the control of the presidency in the light of claims by the senators that it had become a tool…
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MOST of the 23 states that got bail out cash from the federal government for the settlement of arrears of workers’ salaries and emoluments, diverted the funds for other purposes, thereby defeating the purpose of the government’s effort to provide succour for the workers. A comprehensive analysis carried out by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Related Offences Commission, ICPC, in conjunction with the Nigeria Labour Congress, revealed last night that many of the states deliberately lied that they were owing their workers huge debts when the reverse was the case. A major feature of the analysis released by the ICPC…
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Bukola Saraki, the Senate President on Saturday, April 23, replied the strong worded letter written to him by Dele Momodu, a veteran journalist. In a letter dated Sunday, April 17, Dele Momodu asked him to resign his position as a Senate president as Saraki has done everything within his power to make that impossible. He added that Saraki should not do anything to pervert the justice of the court and face the consequence if found guilty. Read Saraki’s reply below. My dear brother Dele, let me thank you most sincerely for your article last weekend, “My candid letter to Saraki”…
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Former Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, at the mayor’s office in Newark, New Jersey, yesterday spoke to Friends of Africa coalition on the theme of strengthening democracy and elections and also touched on some of the legacies of his administration. Speaking to the elite group, former President Jonathan said that real democracy will continue to flourish in Africa as long as leaders “value the process (of elections) more than the product of the process”. Dr. Jonathan also argued that if the process that brought leaders to power “did not flow through the people, they naturally administered their governments to first…
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Benue and Imo states allegedly diverted money meant for the payment of workers’ salaries. This is according to a report by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, which monitored how states spent the N338bn bailout fund given to them by the Federal Government. The report was signed by Mustapha Hussain on behalf of the Commissioner, Public Enlightenment. It was released on Friday in Abuja. It will be recalled that Buhari had last year approved the sum of N338bn for 27 states that were unable to pay salaries. Some of the states had been unable to pay over…
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CONTRARY to the claim of the Senate, the controversial National Grazing Bill is before the National Assembly checks have revealed. Currently, the bill is at the House of Representatives and was sponsored by a first term legislator elected in 2015. The Senate, in a statement by its Committee on Rules and Business, Tuesday, said the bill that was sponsored by Senator Zainab Kure, who represented Niger Central in the Seventh Senate was not before it, that it was presented for consideration in the last Senate and was rejected. The Senate denial was in response to the request of Senator Enyinnaya…
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A former member of the House of Representatives, now lecturer in a university, Dr. Haruna Yerima has warned that a Senate taken over by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will spell doom for the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, pointing out that the opposition party only needs three senators to become the majority in the Senate. Speaking in an interview , he called on Buhari and the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to take measures to stop the PDP from taking over leadership of the Senate, asserting that what transpired during the election of the Senate President…
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