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WikiLeaks published thousands of documents Tuesday it described as the CIA’s hacking arsenal in what the website called the “largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency.” Wikileaks said the document dump from the CIA Center for Cyber Intelligence represents a new series of leaks it had code-named “Vault 7.” The website says the CIA “lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal,” more than several hundred million lines of code, providing “the entire hacking capacity of the CIA.” Wikileaks says the archive appears to have been circulated among former government hackers and contractors, one of whom…
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PRESS RELEASE: IMO STATE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION CALL ON GOVERNOR ROCHAS OKOROCHA TO BE ACCOUNTABLE TO IMO PEOPLE AND DEMAND A FULL EXPLANATION FROM HIM ON THE RUNNING OF IMO STATE FINANCES. BACKGROUND: We members of independent Newspaper Publishers Association (INPA) as stakeholders in Imo state and who are operating and contributing our quota especially in the areas of job creation particularly in the media industry in the state and also, in line with our core responsibility of being the watchdog of the society and acting as a link between the government and the governed in the state, it…
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In 44 BC the respected Roman seer and soothsayer Spurinna warned the great Consul and ruler of the Roman Empire Julius Caesar about the “ides of March”. He counselled him not to go out on that day because he had perceived that something terrible would happen. According to the Roman calendar the ides of March was the 15th of March. Caesar treated the prophecy and the warning with ridicule and contempt, as is often the case with most men of power, and he chose to ignore it. According to the Greek historian and essayist Plutarch, on the morning of March…
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Permit me to begin the second part of this essay with a word from Dr. Shuaib Musa Zaria, who is a leading member of the Shiite Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) and who is a close confidante and associate of Sheik El Zak Zaky, the wounded and detained leader of the Shiite Muslim community in Nigeria. I have his permission to share his thoughts and words. On 4th March 2017 he wrote, “Since the brutal clampdown on innocent people of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria in December 2015, things went out of Buhari’s hands. The economy went haywire and everything…
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What are we waiting for? Isn’t it very obvious even to the daftest that the contraption called Nigeria is a failed state by every definition and every parameter? Is this what a country of 186 million people supposed to be? Should we continue to sustain a country that is unsustainable? Should we continue to live a lie and in self denial when all onlookers know that we are merely living the life of the ostrich? This country is no longer together. In fact and in truth it has never been together. If it was ever together it was before 1914,…
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What are we waiting for? Isn’t it very obvious even to the daftest that the contraption called Nigeria is a failed state by every definition and every parameter? Is this what a country of 186 million people supposed to be? Should we continue to sustain a country that is unsustainable? Should we continue to live a lie and in self denial when all onlookers know that we are merely living the life of the ostrich? This country is no longer together. In fact and in truth it has never been together. If it was ever together it was before 1914,…
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The Senate on Wednesday began a probe into alleged non-remittance of revenue into the Federation Account by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. The NNPC was alleged to have failed to account for revenue amounting to about N5.1tn between 2006 and 2016. The probe was based on a motion moved by Senator Dino Melaye and titled, ‘Discrepancies in subsidy payment and non-remittance of funds by the NNPC to the Federation Account.’ Melaye said although independent marketers accounted for 49 per cent of imported petroleum products and the NNPC accounted for 51 percent, it did not justify the huge amount the corporation…
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These Documents which were widely publicized had each been advertised in Nigeria’s National Dailies including the Guardian, Thisday, Vanguard and Sun apart from several online publications. This is just to assure us that the contents have been in the public domain. By way of Summarizing the 6 Documents, and to situate their contents within the Igbo Quo Vadis Debate, I will list each with short comment on what they represent. (1) ALADINMA EPISTLE: This was a 2012 publication of Aladinma, which is the Igbo Caucus of the Lower Niger Congress. In that Epistle, the Igbo perspective to the whole Nigeria…
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Regions since 1914 were carved with Lagos Federal District formed in 1954. The regions gained self-rule on 1 Oct 1954. Military governors were installed after the coup of 15 Jan 1966. During the abolition of federalism 24 May – 31 Aug 1966, the regions were re-designated “groups of provinces,” and the governors continued in office under the new designations. In 27 May 1967 the regions were dissolved and 12 states created instead. Upon independence Nigeria was divided into three regions Northern, Eastern, Western and the federal district Lagos. These regions had own flags and own coats of arms. The flags…
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Recent literature on politics in Africa and the third world is replete with accounts of the rise of “mostly antisystem, mostly grassroots, movements with a variety of political, social and economic goals …which are often beyond the control of the states…” (Haynes, 1997:vii,3). Another account refers to groups which interact with the state “by bypassing it …by defining [themselves] in relation to economic, political or cultural systems which transcend the state, by submerging the state with its spectacular claims and mobilisations” (Bayart, 1991:60; also Bayat, 1997). The phenomenon described in these accounts is referred to in the literature as exit,…
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There is another marathon essay on the President spiced with another interesting GMB story from my TBO archives, but this time coming at its tail end. Right now, let us go on with the agenda of the discussion: PMB’s health, how it affects his function as our President, and what should be done about it. Crisis It is becoming clear that PMB has an illness which is a bit graver than the ear problem he suffered before. I have no idea of what it is but unequivocal facts point directly to that. His stay away from his seat is taking…
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Exclusive: By Editor, Denisaurus News On Thursday 19 January 2017, President Muhammadu Buhari, PMB wrote a letter to the National Assembly asking to take a 10-day leave the following week. Not long… Source: Revealed: President Buhari Was Poisoned But All Those Involved Have Been Identified By The DSS
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At the stakeholders’ meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today in Abuja. We shall overcome and build a formidable party that will take its pride of place in the polity. COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AFTER A MEETING OF STAKEHOLDERS OF THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY ON THE 20TH FEBRUARY 2017 WHEREAS: A. Following the repugnant attempt by Sen. Ali Modu Sherrif and other undemocratic forces to undermine and take over the Peoples Democratic Party, the National Convention of the party held at Port Harcourt on the 21st day of May 2016 dissolved the then National Working Committee and the National Executive Committee…
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A Keynote Address By His Majesty, Nnaemeka A. Achebe, CFR, mni, Obi of Onitsha, Agbogidi, On The Occasion Of The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Celebration Of Anambra State, On 03 October At The Professor Dora Akunyili Women’s Development Centre, Awka. “Aku Lue Uno” Protocols . . . I stand here in great awe and trepidation before you all. The reason is simply that I feel totally unqualified for this important assignment. There are indeed so many Ndi Anambra that are more eminently qualified to do justice to the subject. Nevertheless, I will persevere to do my best since, in the words of…
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By EMEKA OJUKWU ~ General of the People’s Army INTRODUCTION PROUD AND COURAGEOUS BIAFRANS,FELLOW COUNTRY MEN AND WOMEN, I salute you. Today, as I look back over our two years as a sovereign and independent nation, I am overwhelmed with the feeling of pride and satisfaction in our performance and achievement as a people. Our indomitable will, our courage, our endurance of the severest privations, our resourcefulness and inventiveness in the face of tremendous odds and dangers, have become proverbial in a world so bereft of heroism, and have become a source of frustration to Nigeria and her foreign…
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With the economic crisis in the country hitting businesses hard, telecommunication firms are opting for drastic measures to boost revenue. Telecoms companies in the country are hoping to address concerns over revenue loss from international calls and hit a revenue target of N20tn by blocking subscribers from accessing Skype and other Over-the-Top services. It was reliably gathered that subscribers might also be prevented from performing certain functions like voice and video calls on WhatsApp and Facebook, among other OTT services. Skype is a proprietary Voice-over Internet Protocol software for calling other people on their computers or mobile phones. Phone calls…
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Lord Justice Fulford was named last year as an adviser to the Queen He was a key backer of the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange Police suspect the group of abusing children on an ‘industrial scale’ He is revealed as a founder member of campaign to defend PIE At the time it was calling for the age of consent to be lowered to just four I clashed with Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) global leaders at the Wales conference in Swansea in 1977. Tom O’Carroll is still accepted and active on a sexnet chat group of experts in “sexology” although he writes…
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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Saturday declared that it had no interest in the forthcoming Anambra governorship election. The group said they were aware of the efforts by some politicians trying to drag its name into Nigerian politics. IPOB in a statement forwarded by its spokesman, Emma Powerful, said they remained committed to the leadership of its founder, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, whom he described as their prophet. According to him, IPOB was not interested in any political party and would in no way support any politician in Nigeria. The statement reads: “IPOB and its leadership worldwide warn those…
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CNN GOT CAUGHT DEAD IN THE WATER. Trump has been calling out the mainstream media and specifically CNN for bias reporting or “fake news”. They have been caught several times skewing facts or prematurely reporting from sources before they are confirmed. President Trump isn’t the only one that has felt the searing pain of the CNN truth-benders. A Former CEO of a West Palm Beach hospital lost his job over CNN false reporting and he took them to court because of it…and then he won! Read on below for more details. Those who accuse CNN and other mainstream media outlets…
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Late last month, as a section of the country awaited the triumphant return of James Ibori, an ex-governor of Delta State, who was jailed, incidentally, in the UK for his egregious looting of his state’s treasury while in office, the Nigerian media landscape was abuzz with stories about the mind-boggling salaries, allowances and other perquisites of office that elected officials and state functionaries in the country enjoy. According to the report in Vanguard newspaper, forty-seven former governors from 21 states in the country, draw as much as N37.4 billion from the public treasury. There are twenty-one serving senators currently receiving…
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A press conference was addressed today by the National Chairman of PDP, Ali Modu Sheriff in Abuja over the Court of Appeal judgement yesterday recognizing him as the authentic Chairman of the Party.. According to him, the victory at the court was a victory for all PDP members including those belonging to the Makarfi faction. According to him, he’ll start consulting every stakeholder in the Party including the Governors, National Assembly and BOT in order to organize a unified National convention of the Party… He assured that everyone will come back to the Party as one unified Party. According to…
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Diplomats say President Muhammadu Buhari routes official trips via London in order to see his doctor and avoid declaring medical leave all the time, Reuters reports. The diplomats are unnamed, but they are thought to be from Western countries. Buhari is currently in the UK for vacation during which, he said, he would undergo medicals for an undisclosed ailment. He was scheduled to return to the country on February 5 – at the end of his 10-day vacation – but he extended the time indefinitely, citing advice from his doctor that he should wait to get his test results as…
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Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital will quake today as high profile Nigerians from diverse walks of life- government, politics, the industry, professions, sports and entertainment circuit storm the city, the nation’s second largest, for the 13th edition of The Sun Awards. Former Commonwealth Secretary General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku will be the Chairman of the event billed to kick off at 4pm. Nineteen eminent Nigerians are being honoured in 14 categories of the awards hosted every year since 2004 by The Sun Publishing Ltd, publishers of The Sun titles, to recognise and promote excellence, innovation and courage. Among the dignitaries expected at…
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Dele Momodu, Publisher of Ovation International, says President Muhammadu Buhari is not comfortable disclosing his actual ailment. He added that images released by the presidency proved that the nation’s leader was not yet fit to return to Nigeria to resume the task of governance. This is just as Coalition of Urhobo Nation Youth Leaders and Stakeholders (CUNYLS), has asked the presidency to release video recording of President Buhari. In his latest article published on Saturday, titled ‘President Buhari and his London vistors’, Dele Momodu lamented that there was a theatre of the absurd ongoing in the city of London. He…
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President Muhammadu Buhari is keenly interested in the ongoing investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) into how state governors spent the N552.74 billion Paris Club loan refund shared to the states by the Federal Government last December. A highly-placed official in the Presidency disclosed yesterday. The official, who pleaded not to be named, revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari particularly got interested in the matter following “mind-boggling allegations” in the way the governors expended the funds. According to the official, the position of President Buhari’s administration is that the governors concerned should go and face the probe. The…
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Over N94.5 million will be spent on bullet-proof tyres for President Muhammadu Buhari and others this year, State House Permanent Secretary Jalal A. Arabi has said. Canteen and kitchen equipment will cost N100.8 million. These are part of the breakdown of the State House budget presented by Arabi to the Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs. The number of treated (bulletproof) tyres that will be bought with N94.5 million was, however, not specified. Arabi told the committee that N94.5 million (50% of the actual sought for in 2016) is proposed for this year. The amount is expected to…
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Governor of Kaduna state, Nasir el-rufai has disclosed that his refusal to appoint as commissioners, any of the people Senator Shehu Sani sent to him in 2015 triggered the anger and media outbursts he has suffered in the hands of the Senator. Gov. el-rufai said this in a chat with in Kaduna. He said that the nominees Sani sent to him for appointment were dropped because of lack of necessary academic competence and capacity to function as commissioners and not out of vendetta because Sani defeated his own candidate during the APC primaries. The governor also said that Sani’s opinion…
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As the agitation for the restoration and actualization of Biafra continue, the Ohaneze Ndigbo has declared that the people of the South East are no longer comfortable being part of Nigeria. This they blamed on marginalisation by the present Nigerian government under the Buhari-led administration. While addressing Igbo leaders during an interactive forum in Lagos, Nnia Nwodo, the President-General of the socio-political Igbo organisation, reportedly lamented the continued marginalization of Ndigbo on the scheme of things which borders on security and many others. His words: “We don’t feel that we are part of this country. The statement I made earlier…
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A former governor of Anambra State, Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, has declared that no politician of Igbo origin that contests under the All Progressives Congress, APC, will win any election in the South east. Lamenting that the region had not benefited anything from the APC-controlled government since 2015, Ezeife described those joining the APC in Anambra State as those who wanted governorship position through the back door. Ezeife spoke in Akure, the Ondo State capital on Wednesday at the public presentation of the biography of the Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko. He said, “South-eastern people are not going to the…
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Some elders in Rivers state under the aegis of Rivers Elders Consultative Council have accused the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi of deceiving the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo during his visit to the state. Recall that Osinbajo had on Tuesday addressed a stakeholders’ meeting of the APC in Port Harcourt, the state capital, shortly after a Town Hall Meeting in the state. The elders’ Council alleged that Amaechi rented the crowd that attended the stakeholders forum of the All Progressives Congress, APC. In a statement by the Executive Secretary of the council, Granville Abiye Goergewill, the forum explained that the…
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Ekiti State Governor and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum, Mr Ayodele Fayose has called on Nigerians to rise in unison to pray to God to save Nigeria from imminent collapse, lamenting that “Nigeria is in dire need of divine salvation at this critical time.” The governor said it was time for men of good conscience to come together, irrespective of the political affiliations to salvage the country from this present state of uncertainty, which was occasioned by the cluelessness and insincerity of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led federal government, saying; “It is painful…
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The Forex fraud which allegedly took place in the Central Bank of Nigeria might have taken a serious nature as the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami has issued a query to Godwin Emefiele. The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele might have landed himself in trouble following allegations of corruption in the CBN’s foreign exchange allocation and transactions. The incident has forced the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), to issue him a query as Malami added, on Wednesday, that the fraud allegations…
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Reading comments by some “Biafra” Agitators, one problem the LNC has observed is that most of those who are warming up for one great war of machetes and guns with Nigeria are the ones who have not taken the trouble to understand that the LNC committed a huge chunk of its energies to first asphyxiate the monster called Nigeria to stupor and death as a Strategy for freeing its many captives including Eastern Nigeria. This is totally different from the calculations of those who are thinking only in terms of Biafra that will fight the rest of Nigeria with…
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Buhari, as a dictator in the 80s, and as the President now. It is an ancestral duty to fight such living dictators until, one-by-one, they expire to embrace their graves. Then, their victims shall grace their wakes with crocodile tears and melodious sounds of the “Amazing Grace.” I know that Africans do not like discussing death until it strikes like a lightening. But at all times, we must not be shy to discuss death because it is an inevitable dilemma waiting on every individual. Now a tenant in an obscure hospital in London, Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari, whether dead or…
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For nearly two decades running we have ”enjoyed” civilian democratic governance. Every 4-year circle of tenure has left us worse than we were. Even when we made unprecedented revenue from oil , it did not translate too much, as poverty only doubled during the same period. The violence associated with our elections has been on the increase, to a point that INEC was not able to hold elections at times. The corruption associated with governance has completely paralyzed development and gone to such astonishing heights that it has become proverbial. The economy has literally crushed in all but name and…
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There are indications that former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and a former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido, are making moves towards clinching the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2019 election. Investigations by our correspondent showed that both politicians had been discussing with the leaders of the party with the hope of gaining their support for the ticket. It was gathered that Atiku, though a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, was already tinkering with the idea of returning to his former party if he would not be allowed to contest the ticket in his…
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It is unfortunate Nigeria is being held to ransom by the cabal entrenched at the helm of the administration of President Buhari. The secrecy surrounding the situation as regards the President’s health status is a very bad indication and it is quite unfortunate Nigeria has found itself in another quagmire. It is also unfortunate that Buhari and his handlers are trying to cause another constitutional crisis rather than telling Nigerians the truth regarding their president’s health. This situation is similar to that of late president Yar’Adua when a cabal with the help of his wife Turai held this country to…
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It’s Putin’s World. How the Russian president became the ideological hero of nationalists everywhere
In 2012, Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency after a four-year, constitutionally imposed hiatus. It wasn’t the smoothest of transitions. To his surprise, in the run-up to his inauguration, protesters filled the streets of Moscow and other major cities to denounce his comeback. Such opposition required dousing. But an opportunity abroad also beckoned—and the solution to Putin’s domestic crisis and the fulfillment of his international ambitions would roll into one. After the global financial crisis of 2008, populist uprisings had sprouted across Europe. Putin and his strategists sensed the beginnings of a larger uprising that could upend the Continent and…
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Donald Trump just recently expressed his indifference on the breakdown of the EU, saying: “I don’t really care whether it’s separate or together. To me, it doesn’t matter.” Donald Trump even made the prediction that more countries are going to be severing themselves from the European Union. According to Anthony L. Gardner, the US Ambassador to the EU, Trump aids even made phone calls to several European institutions, asking them on which European nations were next in going down the road of Brexit. Gardener affirmed that for Trump to encourage the disintegration of the EU is “sheer folly” and “lunacy”.…
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Donald Trump just recently expressed his indifference on the breakdown of the EU, saying: “I don’t really care whether it’s separate or together. To me, it doesn’t matter.” Donald Trump even made the prediction that more countries are going to be severing themselves from the European Union. According to Anthony L. Gardner, the US Ambassador to the EU, Trump aids even made phone calls to several European institutions, asking them on which European nations were next in going down the road of Brexit. Gardener affirmed that for Trump to encourage the disintegration of the EU is “sheer folly” and “lunacy”.…
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The war between good and evil, will be a war between Orthodox Christianity and Gnosticism, or the belief that life is an illusion. To make multitudes of men into callous murderers, what better way to desensitize them than to have them believe that the evils that they are committing, are not real? In this same view of gnosticism, humanity is considered as being purely evil. To make men thirsty to destroy humanity, this system of antichrist will have them declare war on humanity, as something evil and worthy of destruction. In our study of the coming great conflict, it is…
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No reader of history can write about the Reformation without writing, at least briefly, on the pre-Reformation protestants. And what one fill find in this history, is that the roots of Protestantism is gnosticism, or the belief that Christ was not physical, but a phantom. To reject the physical Humanity of Christ, would then lead to the rejection of the Eucharist, icons, holy water, and Confession. When perusing their history, one will find that these pro-Reformation sects rejected crucifixes, icons, and the Eucharist. In other words, they rejected the tangible. But one of the most untold truths behind these sects…
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Martin Luther has for centuries been touted as a champion for Biblical Christianity, a reformer who wanted to bring the Church back to its original roots and eschew the “traditions of men.” They often show how much Luther referenced the Church Fathers — especially Augustine —, with the intent of restoring their interpretation of Scripture and keeping them away from Roman Catholic corruption. But recent scholarship, based on perusing notes written by the German reformer, reveals a gnostic Luther who was adversed to the orthodox view of the Trinity, the Humanity of Christ, and Augustine’s refutations of gnosticism with sentiments…
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Free-will is what separates man from all other creatures. Animals are confined within a natural impulse, and will always act in submission to their inborn inclinations. Man, on the other hand, was conferred with the mental faculties to choose to eschew his lower nature. To then say that man has no freedom to spurn evil and sin, then reduces him to the level of the animal. Humanity is now at an equal level with animals, and thus the Protestant heresy is akin to Social Darwinism. To reject free-will is to reduce man to animalism, for what is man without choice,…
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Charles Darwin Charles Darwin learned of the idea of evolution from his grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, a major figure of the Enlightenment. Erasmus rejected Christianity and adopted the heresy of deism, a belief that states that God simply created the world and set the processes of nature as the clockmaker sets the clock, being separate from His creation, leaving man to be governed by reason and not any of the divine inspirations that we find in the Scriptures. Erasmus Darwin was not just a deist, but an occultist Freemason. In Darwin’s memoirs he writes: “My father told me two odd stories…
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Long before Darwin wrote his On the Origin of Species, a Protestant minister of the Anglican Church, Baden Powell, was teaching and promoting evolutionism. He, like Darwin and his predecessors, hated the Catholic Church. In an 1841 speech given at Oxford University, Powell said that the Catholic Church had made “corruptions of the simplicity and purity of the Christian faith,” that it had stemmed from “Successive ages of darkness and general barbarism” and that it was to the Church “that men’s minds were made to bow in abject submission.” Powell praised the cause of Luther and his fellow protestant leaders,…
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Protestantism would influence evolutionism, Ernst Haeckel (bottom left), a German evolutionist, was instrumental in influencing the Young Turks (bottom right) on Darwinism. The Young Turks, influenced by Darwinism, would carry out the Armenian Genocide Ernst Haeckel was deeply influenced by the German religious teacher, Friedrich Daniel Schleiermacher. In 1799 book, On Religion, Schleiermacher taught that true religion was forged deeply into the human heart, and that all rites and dogmas were merely poor expressions of this true religion. Influenced by Protestantism, Haeckel erected a bridge between Luther’s revolt against the Catholic Church, and Darwin’s revolt against the Christian teaching of…
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The anti-Jewish hatred of Nazi Germany was sown into the German soul by Martin Luther. Luther once expressed his violent fantasy against the Jews as such: “Were I able, I would knock him [the Jew] down and stab him in my anger. It is lawful according to both the human and the divine law, to kill a robber; then it is even more permissible to slay a blasphemer” He also said, “We ought to take revenge on the Jews and kill them”, and he lamented: “it is our own fault that we have not annihilated the Jews but placidly let…
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You once came out to accuse President Muhammadu Buhari of perpetuating the worst form of nepotism in Nigeria; do you still hold this view? Absolutely! I have seen no evidence so far to make me chan… Source: Buhari Hasn’t Convinced Nigerians He Passed School Certificate Examination, Says Junaid Mohammed
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ALLEGATIONS I have up till now chosen to maintain my silence and not to respond to inaccurate press reporting. However, given the level of deliberate inaccuracies, I am now forced to respond because it is clear that the EFCC is taking advantage of my silence to try me by media and to convict me in the eyes of the public on false reports. 1. THE $153.3MILLION ALLEGATION I am deeply disturbed and bewildered by recent media reports (Premium Times Thursday 12 January, 2017 and other dailies about the same time) claiming that by virtue of an order of the Federal…
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* Hail emergence of Nwodo as Ohanaeze president Lawyers of Igbo extraction under the aegis of Otu Oka-Iwu (Law Society) have warned the Federal Government to ensure that the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr. Nnamdi Kanu is accorded all his civil rights. In a statement on the “state of the nation” signed by its President, Chief Chuks Ikokwu, the influential body expressed “deep concern” on the reported planned secret trial of the IPOB leader, adding that “The Federal Government must ensure that he and other defendants are accorded their full rights under the Constitution of…
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Determined the tap into the opportunity provided by the scarcity of forex in the country to create jobs, foremost entrepreneur, Aliko Dangote has embarked on the establishment of multi-million dollar vehicle assembly plant project in Lagos Specifically, the plant will be churning out heavy duty trucks on which his conglomerate, the Dangote Group spends huge amount on its importation to distribute it’s products both locally and cross African countries. Dangote is partnering a leading Chinese Company, National Heavy Duty Truck Group Company Limited, SINOTRUCK to produce several thousand of trucks used mainly for haulage business from its newly promoted assembly…
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APPLICATION FOR NIGERIAN AIR FORCE AIRMEN/AIRWOMEN RECRUITMENT EXERCISE 2017 GUIDELINES 1. Interested applicants are to apply free of charge online at http://www.airforce.mil.ng. 2. Applicants are to apply once, multiple online application will be disqualified. 3. Applicants are to print out the underlisted documents after completion of application online: a. Local Government Indigeneship Form. b. Attestation form to be signed by Military officer or Local Government Chairman. c. Parent/Guardian Consent Form. d. Acknowledgment Form. QUALIFICATIONS 4. Applicants must be a Nigerian citizen by birth. 5. Applicants must not be less than 1.66m tall for male and not less than 1.63m tall…
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A 39-year-old Nigerian lady, Olutayo Arikawe, has been announced as Britain’s favourite pharmacist. She was named the national winner of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s annual I Love My Pharmacist competition, which celebrates the exceptional contribution pharmacists make to patient care on a daily basis across the UK. Olutayo who runs a Community Pharmacy in Dudley, was shortlisted by an expert panel to become one of the 23 finalists. Thousands of members of the public then voted for their favorite pharmacist. Olutayo was announced as the regional winner for Midlands and East. She, along with the five other regional finalists, presented…
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Tsonje, a village in the heart of Kaura local government of Kaduna is the latest victim of attacks by unidentified gunmen in the Southern senatorial zone. They attacked last Saturday and engaged local vigilante and policemen in a gun battle, at the end of which two men identified as Ephraim Ezekiel and Joshua Ladi lay dead. Village Head Adamu Abbah said five people were killed, and that it happened while they were on their way to their farms. The attack unsettled villagers greatly, as it had seemed all necessary security measures were in place. Following the incessant violence in the…
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After recording a worst plunge into recession in over 25 years, in 2016 the World Bank has projected Nigeria could get out of its economic quagmire, and grow its gross domestic product (GDP) by one percent in 2017. The bank also projected the global economy will accelerate moderately to 2.7 percent in 2017. According to it, “Sub-Saharan African growth is expected to pick up modestly to 2.9 percent in 2017 as the region continues to adjust to lower commodity prices”. “Growth in South Africa and oil exporters is expected to be weaker, while growth in economies that are not natural-resource…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has been called to act immediately after some indicted oil companies who perpetuated subsidy fraud against the state were reportedly awarded crude oil contracts. A new investigative report carried out by Premium Times has revealed how companies indicted in a multi-billion subsidy fraud were awarded contracts to lift crude oil in Nigeria in 2017 by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. This was noticed from the list of companies released by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation for the 2017/2018 crude oil trade. The report gathered that some of the firms have been indicted and facing criminal charges.…
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There is every indication that IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu might be set free soon as court has fixed a date to rule on his matter. The Federal High Court, Abuja, has fixed Feb. 10 to rule on whether or not it will dismiss the treason charges preferred against the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The court would also rule on whether or not to quash the charges preferred against three other defendants, Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi, who were charged along with Kanu. Similarly, the court would give a ruling on an application…
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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Dr.Agnes Callamard, has confirmed that she is probing “recent allegations of killings of over 800 citizens mostly women, children and the elderly in Southern Kaduna by suspected herdsmen, and to identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice, and to provide reparations to victims.” This followed a petition dated 30 December 2016 and sent by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP). The development on Dr Callamard’s investigation of the killings was disclosed today by SERAP executive director Adetokunbo Mumuni. In the communication sent to SERAP today Dr…
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The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) yesterday warned of imminent fuel across the country. Its Vice President, Alhaji Abubakar Dankigari told The Nation on phone that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) which sold the product for N133 per litre at the depots, was no longer loading petrol. According to him, private depots around Calabar were already selling the product between N138 and N140 per litre. He added that the marketers had decided to keep their trucks since the Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF) was already owing them over N200 billion for bridging the product. If this trend…
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The story is told of how King Yunfa, the Hausa Sarki in Gobir (now called Sokoto) hosted a Fulani immigrant called Usman Dan Fodiyo and his group in February 1804, as a result of this and since 1808 the whole of the northern region lost its kingdoms and were replaced by Fulani emirates. King Yunfa is said to have been killed in 1808 and the Fulani warrior (Usman Dan Fodiyo) established Sokoto caliphate, making himself Sultan. Gradually, other Hausa kingdoms were pillaged and taken over by the Fulani emirs. The ethnic groups in the core north were the first victims…
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Nigeria severs diplomatic relations with Taiwan because of $29billion loan Buhari wants to get from China, shuts its Abuja office The federal government has withdrawn all diplomatic relations with Taiwan and ordered the closure of the Taiwanese office in Abuja. Angry over Nigeria’s continued recognition of Taiwan as a sovereign nation, China may withhold part of the $29.9bn loans on which Nigeria partly pins its hope of financing next year. The Nation reports that China is upset by the Federal Government’s diplomatic recognition of Taiwan as a sovereign nation. Geoffrey Onyeama, minister of foreign affairs, disclosed this at news conference…
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I AM NNAMDI KANU , I SAY FIGHT ON GREAT PEOPLE UNTIL VICTORY IS ACHIEVED. THIS STRUGGLE MUST CONTINUE, VICTORY FOR BIAFRA RESTORATION IS NEAR. I SHALL NEVER BETRAY YOU NEITHER SHALL I GIVE UP, AND ILL RATHER DIE GETTING BIAFRA THAN LIVING WITHOUT THE FREEDOM FOR ALL BIAFRANS AS GOD HAS MANDATED. I am Nnamdi Kanu ,the Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Director of Radio Biafra/Biafra Tv and the commander of Biafra loyal armed forces. I stand for truth, equity, fairness, justice, and freedom. Never forget my commandment, If you love me keep keep my command. IF ANYTHING…
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The following, an abridgement of a two-part series entitled “Michael Ishola Adenuga” and “Of War, Stray Bullets & P.O.Ws” first carried 11 years ago (2006) by Sunday Sun, is rerun today with a view to offering readers some illumination to better dissect the epistolary grenade hurled Wednesday by former President Olusegun Obasanjo against Oba Sikuri Adetona of Ijebuland over the latter’s claims in an autobiography, “Awujale” Though isolated by space, a correlation of irony is easy to decipher at two events in Brussels and Lagos in July 2006. In a landmark pronouncement, the European Union fined Microsoft a whopping $357…
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Representatives of international airlines operators have rejected the Kaduna International Airport as alternative destination for Abuja flights to enable government carry out repairs on the runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Speaking at a stakeholders meeting yesterday, a representative of the international airlines operators, Mr. Osho Joseph said Kaduna international airport is not an option for them. “We believe Kaduna may be an alternative for local operators but definitely not for international airline operators. But we will get back on this,” he said. In his response, the minister of state for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika said it is…
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Igwebuike Ndi-Imo Network Group (ING), a not-for-profit and non-religious, pro-good governance and democracy organization, held its maiden annual summit on December 30, 2016, at Dreamland Hotel, World Bank Road, Owerri, with the theme: Igwebuike Ndi-Imo Network Group for Democratic Good Governance, Quality and Credible Leadership Summit. The summit was chaired by a distinguished Nigerian and Imo son, Dr Walter Ofonagoro, former Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The keynote speaker was Prof Uzodimma Nwala, while other speakers included Mr. Samuel Ajayi, Prof C.C. Ikeji and Dr. Jimanze Ego Alowes. At the end of the summit which attracted Imo sons…
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Former CIA director R. James Woolsey Jr., a veteran of four presidential administrations and one of the nation’s leading intelligence experts, resigned Thursday from President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team because of growing tensions over Trump’s vision for intelligence agencies. Woolsey’s resignation as a Trump senior adviser comes amid frustrations over the incoming administration’s national security plans and Trump’s public comments undermining the intelligence community. “Effective immediately, Ambassador Woolsey is no longer a Senior Advisor to President-Elect Trump or the Transition. He wishes the President-Elect and his Administration great success in their time in office,” Jonathan Franks, a spokesman for…
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On IBB, Ooni, Alaafin, Shonekan,and June12. A piece from the Autobiography of the Awujale of Ijebuland “In the end however, IBB’s game had to come to an end. In June 1993, the elections finally held and apparently against all IBB’s calculations, they were not only transparent, but were judged to be free and fair by international observers. The results pointed clearly in the direction of one winner – Chief M.KO Abiola, a close friend and confidant of the General himself. But just as the announcement of the results was to be made, Babangida cancelled the entire process! The nation erupted…
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The position of world oldest man tends to have been taken over by a man who says he is the oldest human ever to have lived. The man named Mbah Gotho recently hosted his family for his 146th birthday. Mbah Gotho, from Indonesia, claims he was born on December 31, 1870, and reckons that his ID card proves it. If correct, it makes him significantly older than the officially verified oldest person ever – French woman Jeanne Calment, who lived to 122. Metro UK reports that all of his siblings are dead, along with his four wives – the last…
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Importers and clearing agents operating at the nation’s border posts have raised the alarm that over 10,000 new and used vehicles are trapped at the Idiroko and Seme borders in the southern part of the country due to the federal government’s policy banning the importation of vehicles through the land borders. Government had last year directed that the importation of used and new vehicles be restricted to the seaports, starting from January 1. Consequently, the agents have appealed to the federal government to extend the grace period by three months to allow importers and auto dealers clear the backlog of…
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A trip is often defined by its surprises, so here are my biggest revelations from six days in Lagos, Nigeria. Most of all, I found Lagos to be much safer than advertised. It is frequently described as one of the most dangerous cities on earth. Many people told me I was crazy to go there, and some Nigerian expats warned me I might not get out of the airport alive. The reality is that I walked around freely and in many parts of town. I didn’t try to go everywhere or at all hours, and I may have been lucky.…
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The Nigeria Customs Service in a statement signed by the Deputy Public Relations Officer, Joseph Attah on Tuesday, said the move is meant to strengthen operations and reposition the Service to meet the challenges of the New Year 2017. It said the ACGs affected include Charles Edike who was moved from Zone A to the Human Resource Development (HRD), Ahmed Mohammed from HRD to Zone B, Aminu Dangaladima from Zone B to Enforcement, and Francis Dosumu from Enforcement to Zone D. The other ACGs are Augustine Chidi from Zone D to Excise, Free Trade Zone and Industrial Incentives (Ex, FTZ,…
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The Federal Government has raised duties on luxury goods such as yachts and Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) imported into the country.But also affected are some food items such as rice, salt and sugarcane that have local alternatives. The plan to raise the duties which was first contemplated by former Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala under the immediate past administration of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan had remained on the drawing board due to Jonathan’s loss of the presidential election to the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari and the consequent change of officials between the former…
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COMMENCEMENT OF REGISTRATION OF 3 MILLION VOLUNTEERS IN PREPARATION FOR THE FORTHCOMING REFERENDUM IN THE LOWER NIGER TERRITORY. WHEREAS: (a) By RESOLUTION 2, of the SOLEMN ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLES OF THE LOWER NIGER IN PORT HARCOURT, 27TH APRIL, 2015, Convened by the Lower Niger Congress, Accredited Delegates Representing the Ethnic Nationalities of the Lower Niger (being the combined Contiguity of the Old Eastern Region and Midwestern Region of Nigeria), Unanimously Decided that the political future of the Peoples of the Lower Niger in the failed, fractured, imposed Federation of Nigeria shall go to a Referendum of the Peoples of…
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* Prophet Olagunju, who accurately predicted President Muhammadu Buhari victory in the 2015 election, has said the president will be dethroned in 2019 election by former vice president Atiku Abubakar * He says that Igbo’s desire for Biafra nation has received divine approval * The prophet says no amount of peace talk can prevent Nigeria’s disintegration Prophet Wale Olagunju, the presiding Bishop of Divine Seed of God Chapel Ministries in Ibadan, Oyo state, has released his prophecies for 2017. Prophet Olagunju, who accurately predicted President Muhammadu Buhari victory in the 2015 election, has revealed that the Nigerian president will be…
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President Muhammadu Buhari rose to power on the back of post-truth politics fuelled by an out-of-control social media spewing falsehoods and outlandish claims. Its propagators and masterminds hid behind the veil of anonymity while its beneficiary – Buhari enjoyed the damaging impact of fake news on his opponent. His party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) even helped to amplify and spread lies and half-truths through its social media army. It was a very effective tool deployed to devastating effect with all its different strands of narratives designed to sink truth with fiction. It was the first time the…
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CAN president, Rev. Ayokunle The National leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria, (CAN) on Friday expressed sadness over the manner the federal and state governments are handling the Southern Kaduna killings. CAN described President Muhammadu Buhari’s silence on the matter as sad and unacceptable. Briefing journalists in Abuja on the crisis in Southern Kaduna, CAN National General Secretary, Rev. Musa Asake, said although the church in Nigeria has been subjected to a “systemic genocide and persecution through the instrumentality of Boko Haram, which has killed thousands of Christians and destroyed churches and over 50,000 houses since 2009, the current…
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This article first published by GR in November 2006 is of particular relevance to an understanding of the ongoing process of destabilization and political fragmentation of Iraq, Syria and Yemen. Washington’s strategy consists in breaking up Syria and Iraq. “Hegemony is as old as Mankind…” -Zbigniew Brzezinski, former U.S. National Security Advisor. The term “New Middle East” was introduced to the world in June 2006 in Tel Aviv by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (who was credited by the Western media for coining the term) in replacement of the older and more imposing term, the “Greater Middle East.” This…
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“ The EFCC in Lagos had come calling brusquely on Mike Adenuga (Jnr), Chairman Globacom on 9 July 2006. They broke his gate, swarmed into his house and kept him under ‘arrest’. When I heard about the arrest, I called the legal firms, of Ayanlaja SAN & Adesanya SAN as well as Professor Biodun Adesanya SAN to take up the matter and secure Mike’s release. They swung into action and gave indication that they would take the matter to court. By evening, it was no longer necessary to go to court as Mike, following his statement to EFCC, had been…
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Russia on Thursday pledged “adequate reprisals” over US sanctions and accused Washington of trying to destroy ties by making “unfounded” allegations of interference in the US election. The United States wants to “definitively destroy US-Russia relations which have already reached a low” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, adding that Russia will “react in an adequate manner based on the principles of reciprocity.” Washington announced a series of measures against Russia, including tough sanctions on Russia‘s top two intelligence agencies, the expulsion of 35 agents and a decision to shut down two Russian compounds in the US. “We categorically reject the…
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Remittances from Nigerians living abroad from January to November 2016 have hit $35 billion, Senior Special Assistant to the president on Foreign Affairs and the Diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa has said. She revealed the figures on 20 December in Abuja when she paid a courtesy call on the Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Tunde Fowler. She said she was on the visit to seek ways for Nigerians in diaspora could get tax incentives to encourage them to invest more locally. “In 2016, Nigerians living abroad remitted $35 billion, higher than 2015. This is the highest in Africa and the…
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The plan by the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and the Minister of Justice to re-open some alleged high-profile corruption cases has been stalled by lack of funds, according to report. Sources in the AGF office confirmed on Tuesday that the corruption cases, involving some former governors, were among those affected by paucity of funds. It was learnt that because of insufficient funds, the AGF, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), recently shifted attention to the more sensitive cases of the judges being prosecuted for alleged corruption. One of the sources said, “You will recall that the office of…
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MR. JOSEPH BODUNRIN DAUDU (SAN) is a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). He is currently the Chairman of the African Bar Association and founder of the Rule of Law Development Foundation, an interventionist civil society organisation with an interest on rule of law issues. In this interview with AMEH EJEKWONYILO, the SAN maintained that the proposed special anti-corruption courts by President Muhammadu Buhari through the office of the Attorney General of the Federation is aimed at stifling members of the opposition political parties ahead of the 2019 general elections so as to pave way for his re-election.…
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Those who do not yet understand that Nigeria is the name of a scam, set up, first by rogue British Colonialists, but currently under the control of their local agents, the Caliphate, operated for the sole purpose of legitimately looting and carting away humongous values of assets, will continue to wonder why bizzare things happen here all the time. Those who think that we operate in democracy here, must be ignorant of the meaning of Democracy, even by the simplest definition of democracy “Government OF the people, BY the the people and FOR the people”. Nigeria does not pass the…
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* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state. * His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex. * His government built the Lagos State Television * His government built the Lagos Radio * His government built Lagos State University * His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care. * His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education. * His government built low cost…
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A new report on Thursday said despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s attempt at ensuring transparency in the oil sector, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, still withholds billions in oil revenues from the government account. The report by the Natural Resource Governance Institute, titled “NNPC still holds blank check” said that within the first six months of the Buhari administration, the NNPC withheld over $4.2 billion (about N824.7 billion) out of a total of $6.3 billion (N1.24 trillion) revenues realised from crude oil sales in the second half of 2015. The withheld revenues represented about 66 per cent of the total…
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“Buhari is the last standing samurai of the oligarchy with the boldness to implement the Fulani agenda. He is doing it as fast as possible. The regime of Buhari is on a conquest mission. It is not hiding its intention because it believes that our strongholds have been spiritially damaged. What is going on has a spiritual precursor. They don’t fight in the ordinary alone. The reason the Middle Belt is under massive siege is because they have been spiritually decimated. They have to pray AND FIGHT”- Ariyo Raphael Dare- Atoye. Mr. Dare-Atoye of the One Nigeria Group is absolutely…
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The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has assured states on 13 per cent derivation for mineral revenue following the approval by the Federal Executive Council, Daily Trust reports. “We have got approval for the implementation of the constitutionally guaranteed 13 percent derivation for mineral revenue to states, similar to the derivation that oil-producing states currently enjoy from the federation accounts,” he said. He stated this at a two-day capacity building workshop on Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) for beneficial participation of state governments in mining, jointly organised by the Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel Development and…
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The National-Director of the High Performance Centre in Port Harcourt, Angie Taylor, and the Director of athletics of the HPC, Eric Campbell, have not been paid for 11 months, our correspondent has learnt. The two American athletics coaches, who are attached to the Athletic Federation of Nigeria, were employed by former Minister, Bolaji Abdulahi, in 2012 to oversee the country’s grassroots athletes and ensure an increase in the performance of the country’s athletics ranking. Campbell and Taylor reside in Abuja. The defunct National Sports Commission decided not to renew their contracts after they expired last year. However, the current sports…
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A 4000 year civilization resurrects and seeks out a sick teenage African boy in Peckham… Umemnaeku collapsed yet again on his nineteenth birthday to the mysterious illness that has challenged him since childhood. His African born single mother in utter desperation consults a West Indian voodoo priestess in their Peckham neighbourhood and to her horror learned that what ails her son was from her long forgotten home in Africa. In his desperation to overcome his challenge, Umemnaeku embarks on a quest that stretched back over four thousand years, revealing an ancient civilization he never believed possible. Through ancient sacred rituals…
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King Opokunabo walked into his royal chambers with the precise, ordained and ritual steps bred into him when he was first acknowledged as the heir apparent. Today, he was going to receive the British Consul, Sir Japhet Hooper. They had known each other since his father’s reign when he was heir apparent and they had formed a serious friendship, and were about the same age. Back then, Hooper was the captain of a British slaver, the Jolly Guinea. Prince Opokunabo was his major supplier, since as the heir apparent, he had monopoly of the Imo River slave route held on…
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The meeting of dibias is never a frivolous gathering. Before a sacred summons is made there must be a very serious issue bothering them. Such was the case when the leader of the network of dibias in the now British protected Owerri province sent out a secret summons to their members, including famed dibias from neighbouring communities. Okoñoro, the great dibia from Ahiara, was among those who received the summons. “We have become endangered species,” said Okeosisi, their blind leader. Okeosisi had been born blind, but that did not stop Agwu from visiting him when it fell on him to…
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They were surprised to wake up one morning to see hundreds of thousands of Indians dressed in simple white cloths tied across the right shoulders like Ozo initiates would, and sat down all day long at the town square. He was meant to understand that they were carrying out a non-violent protest under their leader called Ghandi. It did not take long before political discussions became the most important topic among the black soldiers. Some even added the name ‘Ghandi’ to theirs to form some sort of solidarity with the Indians and their fight against the British. But to Nnamdi, it…
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As I sit down to write this piece, I cannot but be amused by the change chorus around me. Even though I sense some genuine desire to have things go in a different direction, I get this sneaky feeling that a vast majority of Nigerians are being duped by some smart and clever businessmen masquerading as progressive democrats and agents of change. They sensed resentment and keyed in with the change slogan which seems to have caught on like a wildfire in the harmattan. But when you ask those clamouring for change; change to what? They just stare blankly at…
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The news in town is that both President Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), have in words and in deeds rejected calls for the restructuring of Nigeria. Buhari emphatically declared in interviews to mark his one year in office that he would prefer to see the National Conference report, which comes close to resolving the national question and many of the contentious issues plaguing this land, gather dust in the archives. These were his words: “I advised against the issue of the National Conference. Teachers were on strike then. I have not even bothered to read…
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Twelve days ago, I raised the alarm that there might be no Imo State after Rochas. My position was based on facts that he has shown gross unconcern for the people of the state. I said the government of Okorocha is preoccupied with edifice mentality, as if raising useless structures, buildings that may be pulled down by another Governor, is the real essence of governance. If anyone is still in doubt about the Okorocha failure, let the fellow go through the 2017 budget presented to the state assembly on Friday by the Governor. My analysis of the budget will come…
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For sometime there had been rumours of an alleged rift between President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Tinubu in a statement signed by his spokesperson Sunday Dare and made available to our reporter said he had no rift with the president. Azuka Onwuka in this piece gives reasons why the president should have the APC national leader as an ally rather that an opponent in his brand of politics. There must be something Asiwaju Bola Tinubu knows or does that is beyond other politicians; for he is the only politician…
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A white man, with nationality not yet disclosed, was arrested inside Sambisa Forest as Nigerian troops cleared Boko Haram insurgents out of their last fortress on Thursday. “The man is under custody and providing positive information”, said a soldier, who just returned to Maiduguri from the liberated forest. The Daily Trust on Sunday quoting the soldier said while hundreds of Boko Haram fighters were killed during the offensive that began about a month ago, many others were captured alive while attempting to flee. “Hundreds of Boko Haram captives, including men, women and children have been freed and taken to safety.…
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In a week the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics released unprecedented unemployment (13.9%), inflation (18.49%) and poverty rates, Nigeria was treated to both a wedding and birthday of unprecedented proportions. A man who had to borrow money to buy his Presidential nomination form is now so well off that he can throw a lavish wedding for his daughter and a regal birthday party for himself while his citizens who could afford to throw lavish weddings for their children and grand birthday parties for themselves can no longer afford it. It seems Buhari traded places with Nigeria. Buhari could not afford many…
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