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THE NEED TO VERIFY, DOUBLE CHECK OR MULTI CHECK BEFORE POSTING HOAXES. My advise 1. When you see a sensational post that borders on the following issues. A) Generating Fear in people about a product health implications. For example the fake plastic rice story or Chinese are selling human parts. B) Medical information on the benefit or harm of a particular item be it natural or manufactured. C) Political statements that appear smart by a prominent political icon or public figure. Examples like Mugabe, Trump, Obama, Buhari etc. D) If it is too good to be true or too bad…
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Gilbert Ebinyo Ogbowei Modern history is replete with widespread violations of human rights and crimes against humanity. Over the years, indigenous peoples are systematically being cleansed off resources rich lands by brutal governments to the deafening staccato of international silence. Writers, especially poets, having been adjudged chroniclers who speak the minds of their people are always on course to create handy awarenesses through their poetic reflections. The proclivity of the poet documenting the events in his immediate environment and beyond issues from the natural perception of the poet as a tribune, hence the message isn’t his but that of his…
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The need for Unity.. My dear brethren, it is with mixed feelings that I write this letter to you. I write, not to appeal to you to do what I believe is right, but rather; I write to stare the truth on your faces of how we have been a willing tool in the hands of our oppressors. We have provided the life to this contraption called a United Nigeria with our environmental hazardous mineral resources. Yet, we have been treated as the greatest vagabonds of our time. I write to you as my brothers, to take you back to…
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The leadership of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has concluded plans to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari over the rising wave of militancy in the Niger Delta and the agitations by the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB). The 28-member Union, with a population of over 500 million people, and a quarter of the global wealth, is one of the most powerful organisations in the world. Worried by the deteriorating security situation in the Niger Delta and the Southeast, leaders of the European Union spent the past weeks meeting…
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President Muhammadu Buhari met the Leaders/Representatives of the Niger Delta, or rather the Oil producing States, on November 1st, 2016 on the lingering economic and security issues in the oil producing areas. The Niger Delta Leaders presented a list of 16 demands as condition for peace in the region. Further, two other demands were added: that there should be no mistake of announcing policies and plans, relating to the issues, without vigorous public scrutiny and inputs; and that the problem would remain if those affected were excluded from the process of designing the solutions to those problems. Yet, the leaders…
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Last week ThisDay newspapers published a story about how the CBN had fined StanChart Bank N2bn for a forex offence. Please read the story here. Who gave this story to ThisDay? The story is not true so we strongly suspect it was someone in CBN who gave them the story. So what really happened? ICBC bank of China wanted to bring some dollars into the Nigerian economy. They called Stanbic IBTC who they normally use for their transactions and told them that they wanted to exchange the $60 million for naira and that they wanted a rate of N390 to…
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Former minister of aviation, one of the PDP chieftains, Femi Fani-Kayode, was rearrested by EFCC at the Lagos court on October 21 after he had been granted bail by Justice Hassan. Kayode, who has regained his freedom some days ago, in his latest piece explores the influence of the election victory of Donald Trump on Nigeria and on the whole world. Though rather belated, I hereby congratulate President-elect Donald Trump on a magnificent victory at the polls in America and I wish him well. I have been an ardent supporter of a Trump presidency for the last one year and…
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday November 17, paid a visit to the family of the late Ibrahim Dasuki. Dasuki, a former Sultan of Sokoto died on Monday, November 14. He was the father of Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd), who was Jonathan’s National Security Adviser during his tenure as president. Jonathan condoled with the Dasuki family and the Sokoto monarchy. “I travelled to Sokoto this afternoon to condole with the family of the late Former Sultan Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki and the current Monarch,” His Excellency former President Jonathan wrote on his Twitter page. “I thank the Dasuki Family, the Sultan,…
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CIA ‘salts’ White House, installs every president since Kennedy A new bombshell report written by Jerome Corsi suggests that President Barack H. Obama’s passport records were likely ‘sanitized’ by the acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan, leading up to the 2008 presidential election after Brennan achieved the status of Director of the National Counterterrorism Center under the Bush Administration. That’s right, this sleazeball may be the one almost solely responsible for allowing an illegal foreign entity, i.e. Barry Soetoro, A.K.A. Barack Hessian Obama, to ‘salt,’ sprinkle, his way into the White House under CIA direction, thus reacquiring…
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▪SGF blames it on paucity of funds Former Presidents Goodluck Jonathan, Olusegun Obasanjo, General Ibrahim Babangida, Alhaji Shehu Shagari have not been paid their salaries and allowances since January this year, it was disclosed on Thursday. The revelation came as a shock to members of the Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs who visited the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF). Paucity of funds due to non-approvals by President Muhammadu Buhari was blamed for the inability to pay the entitlements of the former presidents, Payment schedules were said to have been sent…
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When it comes to ensuring fairness, it is dangerous to stick your head in the sand. With the recent pronouncement on Cross River’s Green Police, we might be playing the ostrich. The Federal Government has declared the Green Police – an outfit inaugurated by the Cross River State government to protect the environment and create jobs – as illegal. But nothing has been heard, recently, on the legality or illegality of the Sharia Police, Hisbah, which holds sway in the north. While declaring the Green Police illegal, the state commissioner of police, Mr. Jimoh Obi-Ozeh, quoted Section 214 of the…
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Nigeria is in very serious need of redemption. Our public posturing is often at variance with our private views and inclinations; views and inclinations that are tainted by infected mindsets that seem to lack the ability for deep and durable convictions. This sorry situation is engendered by the cumulative effect of the incurable cancer of corruption and its tendencies that have define and characterise our individual and collective endeavours as a people and as a nation. For all practical purposes, corruption is no longer an unacceptable crime and shame, but has become a shameless way of our national life. Our…
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A prominent and fiery member of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) and former presidential aide, Prof. Ango Abdullahi has again taken a swipe at those who see the historic amalgamation of Nigeria as a mistake. The fiery northern elder said in no uncertain terms that no region is a liability to another and whereby co-existence has become impossible among the diverse ethnic nationalities that make up Nigeria, each region could to go its separate ways with a simple handshake. A visibly angry Prof. Ango while speaking at a book launch questioned the rationale behind the call for a restructuring or…
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Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation confirmed on Saturday that it was intensifying its search for crude oil in the North-East geopolitical zone. The agency also disclosed that it had succeeded in mounting a Global Positioning System monument at the Kolmani oil well in the region. A group of foreign expatriates and indigenous professionals from the corporation mounted the GPS monument at the oil exploration site, according to Twitter messages from the national oil firm. The corporation said, “NNPC group seismic crew has finally mounted GPS Monument at the Kolmani oil well…
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It was Professor Anta Diop of Senegal who observed that ethnic groups often do not realize the extent to which they share kinship with the language, culture, traditions and historical socio-political structures, evolved by communities they have come to view as rivals. Indeed ethnic groups tend to see themselves as self-enclosed communities. But as an example are the Luluas of Kenya aware of their kingship with the Luluas of Senegal? By the same token how many of us in Nigeria are aware that Anambra State is the ancestral home of the Igalas, Ngwas, Jukuns and Binis? Yet it remains historically…
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Earlier today, the Chairman of Innoson Group Chief Dr Innocent Ifediaso Chukwuma OFR presented the new IVM G12 to the Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen T Y Buratai at the Tactical Headquarters of Operations in Maiduguri, Borno State. The IVM G12 is a highly mobile and tactical SUV built solely for military operations. It possesses a brawny frame, typical of military armored carriers. A few inches of ground clearance, a smooth underbody, allowing the vehicle to easily navigate obstacles under most road conditions. This highly mobile and tactical SUV is presently available in double cabin, pickup and closed roof…
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Femi Fani-Kayode recounts his 21-day experience in the underground EFCC detention facility in Abuja and being placed in the Boko Haram cell of the Kuje Medium Security Prison for four day. He also tells of his impression of Nnamdi Kanu whom he spent three hours with. Permit me to begin this contribution with an apology for my disappearance from the literary and political scene for the last one month but this was due to circumstances beyond my control. On October 21st, five days after my 56th birthday, I was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, without an…
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American youths regret. It all started as freedom propaganda. The lie was told so subtly that we didn’t notice. To gain popularity, they convinced us that it was all about gender equality. Then they preached to us, saying it was a human rights and child rights agenda. To draw the attention of women, they hid under Women Empowerment Campaigns. We saw everything they did as part of civilization. Because of this, we applauded them and blindly sang their praises. We were so blind that we did not notice when they went from equality to role reversal, and from ‘rights’ to…
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A pan Igbo socio- cultural group, Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF) is seeking audience with American President-elect, Mr. Donald Trump, just as it has sent a congratulatory message to him on his victory. ADF is a corporate body of intellectuals, clergy, traditional rulers, businessmen, politicians, women and youth of Igbo origin who are working to overcome the state of endemic corruption, political and economic marginalisation in the country. In a November 12, 2016 congratulatory letter and signed by Prof. Uzodinma Nwala, president and Prof Nath Aniekwu, secretary, respectively, the group said Trump’s role in global affairs and his importance in the…
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Former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, has formally joined the All Progressives congress. Kalu was received by the Chief John Odigie-Oyegun-led National Working Committee of the party at the National Secretariat on Wednesday. He said he has succumbed to pressures from his friends and well wishers to contribute his quota to building the party in Nigeria especially in the South East.
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There has been a lot of speculations that Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has put machinery in place to take over the apex Igbo socio-cultural group,Ohanaeze Ndigbo ahead of the 2019 general elections. President of Ohanaeze Youth, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, told Newsmen reliably that the ongoing construction of Ohanaeze Secretariat at No 7, Park Avenue, GRA, Enugu bankrolled by the governor, was part of the carrot dangled at the Ohanaeze leadership. The President General, Chief Enwo Gary Igariwey whose tenure was said to have elapsed but was clinging to power to ensure he produced a successor from Imo State extraction,…
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The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has raised the alarm that more Nigerians may be displaced in the coming days as a result of the resurgence of Boko Haram in the country’s north-east region. Peter Lundberg, OCHA humanitarian coordinator for Nigeria said in a Press Conference in Abuja on Tuesday that the main driver of the humanitarian crisis in the north-east continues to be the threat of Boko Haram. He said up to 1.8 million people remain displaced across the six states of the north-east. “The onset of the dry season enables greater mobility and the…
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Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, yesterday said that plans have been concluded to commission 1,125 hectares of land in the state for cattle business.The governor made this known to newsmen in Owerri. According to the principal officer to the governor on Imo State Lives Stock, Hon Calistus Chinedu, the business was in partnership with Amana Cattle Dealers Association of Nigeria. He said: “This is to inform you that Governor Rochas Okorocha will be commissioning the Ultra Modern Regional Cattle Market, in Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State, one of its kind in West Africa. “The land space is 1,125…
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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said that he has not visited the United States since 2007 on personal grounds. He said his not travelling to the US had nothing to do with either alleged laundering of $40million or the $100,000 bribe allegation over which a Congressman, William Jefferson, was convicted. Atiku said the $40million was his legitimate cash which he transferred to the United States. He said since his wife, Jennifer, was no longer living in the US, he had no reason to go there. Atiku is said to own a mansion in Potomac which he has not been…
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Former Vice-president Atiku Abubakar has insisted that ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo wanted to pave the way for a lifetime presidency and not just a third term in office. Atiku said this in an interview with a quarterly magazine published by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Zero Tolerance. The former vice-president said, initially, it was assumed that the plan was to modify the constitution so that Obasanjo could serve a third, four-year term as President. He, however, said the aspect of tenure limitation was carefully removed so that Obasanjo could be President for life. When asked why he and Obasanjo were…
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Russian Defence Minister Shoigu reports on start of massive air campaign against Al-Qaeda in Syria. The long awaited Syrian and Russian offensive against Aleppo has now finally begun with massive Russian strikes on Al-Qaeda bases in Homs and Idlib provinces. Information about the precise nature of the strikes is for the most patchy. However Russia’s Defence Minister Shoigu has reported to Putin and has confirmed that aircraft from the Admiral Kuznetsov carrier are taking part, and that cruise missile strikes launched by the frigate Admiral Grigorovich are are also taking place. Shoigu reported on the targets of the strikes as…
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The Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has threatened to dethrone traditional rulers who fail to register a minimum of 2000 adults for a N3, 000 per head levy. The traditional rulers have till January 2017 to comply or be sacked. The governor gave the hint in Owerri, the state capital while addressing officials and members of the Community Government Council; State Development Council, traditional rulers; and other stakeholders. The governor also said traditional rulers would be recognised based on the amount raised through the levy. Okorocha promised that his government would give each autonomous community N4m to make a total…
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– Senators from the South east have resolved to stick out their neck for their people – The senators will make an attempt to engage detained Radio Biafra director, Nnamdi Kanu – This is part of their resolve after meeting President Muhammadu Buhari Reliable sources in the Senate have disclosed that South east senators have resolved to visit detained Radio Biafra director, Nnamdi Kanu in prison. Kanu, 46, is currently being detained at the famous Kuje prison, located in the suburbs of Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja. The senators were the guests of President Muhammadu Buhari last week at the Aso…
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The 18th Sultan of Sokoto, Ibrahim Dasuki, is dead. Mr. Dasuki died in a private hospital in Abuja on Monday night, family sources told PREMIUM TIMES. The deceased is the father to former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, who is currently facing corruption charges. The ex-Sultan died at the age of 93. He was deposed as Sultan by the former military dictator, Sani Abacha, in 1996. Prior to becoming Sultan, he held the traditional title of Baraden Sokoto. Mr. Dasuki was the first Sultan from the Buhari line of the house of Uthman Dan Fodio. Mr. Dasuki was a close…
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– The Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport will be closed temporarily. – The federal government has approved about N1 billion to rehabilitate the airport’s runway. – The Kaduna airport has been designated as an alternative to Abuja airport while the repairs last. The Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja will be closed temporarily for rehabilitation to commence at the airport’s runway. The Abuja airport is Nigeria’s second busiest airport The federal government has approved about N1 billion for the project, while the Kaduna airport has been designated as an alternative to Abuja airport while the repairs last. As part of steps to…
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Iranian foreign ministry calls deadly clashes between Nigerian army and Shia Muslim movement “unacceptable”. Iran’s foreign minister expressed his ‘deep concern’ about the deaths to his Nigerian counterpart [Vahed Salemi/AP] Iran has summoned the Nigerian Charge d’Affaires in Tehran to protest against deadly clashes between Shia Muslims in the country’s north and the army. Iran’s foreign ministry called the violence between the military and followers of the Shia Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) “unacceptable”, the official ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif had earlier contacted his Nigerian counterpart Geoffrey Onyeama to express his “deep concern”…
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– Nigerians could face serious famine in January next year unless drastic steps are taken immediately – The ministry of agriculture has raised concerns about an excessive rate of exportation and warned the president – Nigeria is currently Africa’s largest producer of cereals and grains Malam Garba Shehu, the senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, has notified the general public about possible famine in the country during his radio interview in Kano on Monday, November 14. Export and hunger According to Mr Shehu, Nigeria would highly likely face a shortage of grains by January 2017 due…
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A former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, has said shortage of idea and not shortage of money is the problem of Nigeria. Duke, who identified personal and collective visions as essential requirements for leading a state, said many governors in the country lacked them. A statement on Sunday quoted Duke as saying this in Lagos at the 11th edition of the ǼLEX Annual Lecture series. The lecture, with the theme, ‘Making states work,’ was organised by ǼLEX, a full-service commercial and litigation law firm, to stimulate debate on the strategies for making states in the country more efficient,…
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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) was first diagnosed in an NFL player in 2002, and it has since been confirmed by postmortem examination in dozens of American athletes. The physician who made the initial discovery, forensic neuropathologist Bennet I. Omalu, MD, MBA, MPH, overcame massive efforts to discredit him and his research, and today CTE is widely recognized as a health risk in millions of patients with histories of repetitive brain trauma, including military veterans. The AMA on Saturday honored Dr. Omalu with its Distinguished Service Award during the opening session of the 2016 AMA Interim Meeting, in Orlando, Fla.…
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You know how desperate President Obama is — as he contemplates all his accomplishments going down the drain at the hands of a man he has total contempt for — when he is willing to do something so against his nature. He tried to persuade Donald Trump. We saw that unicorn glimpsed only fleetingly in the last eight years: the cajoling Barack Obama. The president flattered the president-elect by letting Trump rack up the ego arithmetic. “This was a meeting that was going to last for maybe 10 or 15 minutes and we were just going to get to know…
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An Arik Air aircraft lost one of its two engines mid-air with over 100 passengers on board at the weekend. The aircraft, a Boeing 737 with the registration number 5N-MJD, departed Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos, for Jos when the pilot discovered that the plane had lost one of its engines during the flight. It was gathered that when the pilot discovered the problem, he contacted the Lagos control tower, which granted him emergency landing status. The aircraft also could not taxi out of the runway until Airport Rescue and Fire-Fighting Services (ARFFS), tow the aircraft to the hajj and…
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There is a confession I’ve been longing to make: I never expected Candidate Muhammadu Buhari to win the 2015 presidential election. Although I have never hidden my soft spot for him for decades, I somehow expected President Goodluck Jonathan to be returned by any means. I had my reason: I thought no sitting president could be defeated in Nigeria. He has CBN, NNPC, INEC, police, military and even FRSC at his beck and call. How would he lose? We all saw the ridiculous results that returned President Olusegun Obasanjo to office in 2003. That made me conclude that it was…
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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, has disclosed plans by the Federal Government to refund debts owed the 36 states by paying them N20billion apiece, a total of N720bn. Dogara said the money would be used for the provision of infrastructure by the states. Many states had in the past undertaken to rehabilitate failing federal government infrastructure in their domain, especially road projects with the understanding that they would be repaid by the latter. Statement on Sunday by the Speaker’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Iliya Habila, quoted Dogara as making the…
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Bill Gates has said that capitalism isn’t working, and that socialism is our only hope in order to save the planet. During an interview with The Atlantic, the Microsoft founder said that the private sector is too selfish to produce clean and economical alternatives to fossil fuels, and announced his intentions to spend $2 billion of his own money on green energy. The Independent reports: The Microsoft founder called on fellow billionaires to help make the US fossil-free by 2050 with similar philanthropy.
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Nigeria is contending with so many challenges and is in crisis situation. There is no doubt that the violent crises rearing its ugly head in different parts of the country today is a manifestation of impending political crises. The challenges are multifaceted encompassing corruption, dwindling revenue due to drop in oil production and crude oil price, small arms proliferation, abduction, terrorism in the North-East, criminal destruction of pipelines and oil installations in the South-South, civil agitation and consistent clamour for independence or sovereignty of South-East and South-South by various groups, violent usurpation of farm lands and coordinated destruction of lives…
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The false federal system of government is what was handed over to the democratic regime that assumed office in 1999. As at 1999, Nigerians have gotten used to the false impression of federalism and its practice thereof. The wrong trends have eaten deep into the fabrics of the Nigerian nation. The early stage of an individual or a nation is the formation stage. This stage in the life of Nigerian Nation was moulded by military recklessness and extravagance. Lawlessness and impunity became the norm upon which corruption bred. What Nigeria is practicing today is a version of federalism as imposed…
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Bishop Abraham Chris Udeh has warned that Nnamdi Kanu must not spend this year’s Christmas in Kuje prisons. Bishop Udeh, who doubles as the General Overseer of Mount Zion Faith Global Ministries blamed Kanu’s incarceration on lack of interest of the international community. He particularly called on Britain to assist the Indigenous People of Biafra gain their independence. Bishop Udeh said if the United Nations, USA and United Kngodom had questioned Kanu’s detention, he would have been released by now. He said that the British government was only trying to protect her economic interests in Nigeria. Bishop Udeh described Nnamdi…
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Sources in the Nigerian military, have blamed President Muhammadu Buhari, and the Department of State Security Service, DSS, over the recent ransom paid to Boko Haram, in exchange for the release of some Chibok girls. According to the sources, the recent upsurge in the killings, and disappearance of soldiers engaged in the fight against the insurgents, was as a result of the alleged $50 million. The military men, told Saturday PUNCH, that despite denials by the Federal Government, money was paid to the sect, to secure the release of the abducted girls. It was learnt that the Federal Government, paid…
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“The Igbo people of Nigeria have made a mark in the history of this nation. They led the first successful military coup which eliminated the Military and Political leaders of other regions while letting off Igbo leaders. Nwafor Orizu, then Senate President, in consultation with President Azikiwe, subverted the constitution and handed over power to Aguiyi-Ironsi. Subsequent developments, including attempts at humiliating other peoples, led to the counter-coup and later the civil war. The Igbos themselves must acknowledge that they have a large part of the blame for shattering the unity of this country. Having said that, this nation must…
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The President of Imo Union in the United Kingdom, Mr. Adolph Agbasonu, has called on the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, to tread with caution and stop inflicting hardship on the people of the state. He said some of their members who visited the state recently described the rate of disregard for the Owerri Master Plan by the incumbent administration as callous and unprecedented. According to a statement issued after a meeting in London, Agbasonu condemned how people’s property and investments were being destroyed under the so-called developmental programme of the state government. He noted that all the roads in…
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Russia have officially declared that Billionaire George Soros is a wanted man in their country, citing him and his organizations as a “threat to Russian national security”. Putin banned Soros from Russia last year due to the fact that Soros helped to nearly destroy the Russian economy in the early 1990’s. “The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. “In fact, the history of the recent…
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Fresh facts have, indeed, emerged on the alleged tearing of the Peoples’ Democratic Party membership card by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Our source who spoke recently to the aide of the former President of Nigeria in Abuja, Nigeria said Chief Olusegun Obasanjo did not openly tear his PDP membership card as widely reported by the Nigerian press. Recall sometime in 2015, the ex-president while speaking at the Global Education and Skills Forum, (GESF) in Dubai, the United Arab Emirate, said he did not tear his PDP membership card adding that he is not aware, maybe somebody else did it if the…
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Indications have emerged that South East Senators, who recently visited President Muhammadu Buhari presented a list of demands as a condition for supporting the $29.9 billion external loan being sought by the President through the National Assembly, NASS. The proposals, which Saturday Vanguard had knowledge of focused on poor state of infrastructure in the South East geopolitical zone, security and accommodation of the zone’s interest in the proposed loan, detention of leader of Independent People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu and construction of a rail Standard Gauge Spur from Agbor to Onitsha, Others included a request to address the…
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London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) was the venue on Friday 11 November for the launch of Chudi Offodile’s controversial book: The Politics of Biafra and the Future of Nigeria. Several UK-based Nigerians, pro-Biafran separatists, and academics with an interest in Nigeria turned up to hear the author speak about the book and then take questions from the audience, drawing on his experience as a member of Nigeria’s House of Representatives for four years when the country returned to civilian rule in 1999. Chudi Offodile signs copies of his book The book is 279 pages long but…
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Politics has always been a game that the elites play ostensibly on behalf of the rest of us. As in all games, there are rules and methodologies that players rely upon. Nigerian politics is replete with written as well as unwritten rules about how the game is to be played. Terms like “rotational presidency”, “power shift” and “zoning” are examples of such rules that, though unwritten and thus extra-constitutional, feature routinely in the lexicon of Nigerian politicians. These terms, which are more implicit than explicit in nature, have been bandied about for so long that the mass media and the…
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When I read in many nigerian newspapers today, 15/04/2016, that the Peoples Democratic Party-PDP, has zoned the party’s Vice Presidential slot for 2019 to the Igbo people of the South East geo-political zone, my mind ran back to the second Republic in 1979 when the National Party of Nigeria-NPN zoned the same Vice Presidential slot to the Igbo people of the old Anambra and Imo States, with the promise that the Vice President would be supported by the Party, to be elected President at the expiration of the tenure of his boss. President Shehu Shagari and Vice President Alex…
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The power above the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the US Attorney General, and, above that person, the US President. That’s whom the FBI actually serves — not the US public. This is the reason why the FBI is having such internal tensions and dissensions over the investigation of Hillary Clinton: Not only is she the current President’s ardently preferred and designated successor — and overwhelmingly supported also by America’s aristocracy and endorsed by the aristocracy’s press — but the top leadership of the FBI have terms-in-office that (unlike, for example, the term of the US Attorney General) do…
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“Reform always provokes rage on the part of those who profit by the old order.” Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Crisis of the Old Order Who are the anti-Trump protesters besmirching the name of progressives by pretending to be progresives and by refusing to accept the outcome of the presidential election? They look like, and are acting worse than, the “white trash” that they are denouncing. I think I know who they are. They are thugs for hire and are paid by the Oligarchy to delegitimize Trump’s presidency in the way that Washington and the German Marshall Fund paid students…
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If you look at the two candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, regardless of your political orientation you are forced to conclude that Hillary is smarter and is the more polished of the two. She appears well schooled in the ways of the political world; she says all the right things. Donald appears like an uneducated bum from the boondocks, a Hilly Billy from the Appalachian backwoods of Kentucky; Trump seems so dumb that you wonder what he is doing wanting to be the president of the world’s greatest economic and political power. However, what this facile assessment of…
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A former US state department top expert on Nigeria has asked the American government not to sell 12 warplanes worth $500 million to the Muhammadu Buhari administration. TheCable understands that the order for 12 A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft was to enable the Nigerian military to “finish off” Boko Haram insurgents who are still operating in Borno state. But Matthew Page, writing in War on The Rocks, an online policy discussion platform, accused the Buhari government of violating human rights and misplacing his priorities. He also alleged that the Nigeria air force officer who went to the US to…
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(Being the text of a Statement By the Lower Niger Congress, on the visit of Senators from Eastern Nigeria to President Muhammadu Buhari to present a list demands, November 9, 2016). The attention of the Lower Niger Congress has been drawn to media reports relating to a visit to the Aso Rock Presidential Villa by seven Senators of South-East Nigeria, at which they made representations to President Muhammadu Buhari concerning the decayed infrastructure in the East, particularly roads and pleading that dialogue be deployed by the Federal Government in the handling of the Biafra Agitation, and we wish to state…
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday administered an oath of office to Justice Walter Oonoghen as the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria. He takes over from Justice Mahmud Mohammed who bowed out of the bench of the Supreme Court yesterday after attaining the mandatory retirement age of 70 years. Onnoghen is expected to act until the name of substantive CJN is forwarded to the Senate and it is confirmed. Justice Onnoghen becomes the first southerner since 1980 to as assume the position of the chief Justice of Nigeria. It would be recalled that by virtue of Section 231 of the 1999…
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Officers of the Department of State Services (DSS) have raided two major Bureau de Change markets in Lagos and Abuja in a fresh attempt to end speculation in the foreign exchange transaction at the parallel market.Sources at the market told Daily Trust that the DSS have earlier directed the officials of the BDCs association to peg the dollar at N400 while selling and N390 while buying from customers. Immediately after the directives, the DSS operatives commenced the enforcement of the order by arresting those erring members that sold the dollar above N400 and or bought above N390 a dollar. During…
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Intelligence services on both sides of the Atlantic have struggled to come to terms with new technology and a new mission. They are not done yet, writes Edward Carr In the spring thaw of 1992 a KGB archivist called Vasili Mitrokhin walked into the British embassy in Riga. Stashed at the bottom of his bag, beneath some sausages, were copies of Soviet intelligence files that he had smuggled out of Russia. Before the year was out MI6, Britain’s foreign-intelligence service, had spirited away Mitrokhin, his family and six large cases packed with KGB records which he had kept hidden in…
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While the eyes of the world are focused intently on the 2016 presidential election, the White House has made a dramatic, potentially game-changing move that has once again almost completely eluded the mainstream media — leading many to wonder what they may be hiding. On Friday, November 4, a new executive order was signed titled “Advancing the Global Health Security Agenda to Achieve a World Safe and Secure from Infectious Disease Threats,” giving the United States government, military and other worldwide partner organizations new powers to respond to what they deem as “biological threats” that may potentially emerge. Usually…
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U.S. President Barack Obama met with President-elect Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday to coordinate a smooth transfer of power after the New York real estate developer scored a stunning election victory. The two men have had almost no one-on-one contact previously. Trump, a Republican, led the “birther” movement that questioned Obama’s U.S. citizenship and has pledged to overturn the Democrat’s signature policy achievements after he takes office on Jan. 20. Obama campaigned vigorously for Trump’s Democratic rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and called Trump both temperamentally unfit for the presidency and dangerously unprepared to have…
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The immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, on Thursday said he had no apologies for refusing to do the bidding of politicians who wanted to intimidate the judiciary. He spoke in Abuja at a valedictory court session held for him by the Supreme Court to mark his exit from the bench. He said the nation owed the judiciary a debt of gratitude for standing firm in the face of contrary winds that threatened to blow the country’s democracy off course. According to him, it took the steadfastness of the judiciary to avert a replay of what happened…
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Gombe State Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, has approved the appointment of 229 people as his Special Assistants (SAs). A letter by the Acting Secretary to the State Government, Mr. James Pisagih, said the appointment of the new special assistants took effect from the day they resumed duty. The new SAs, who are categorized into SA I, II, III and IV, were announced without any specific portfolio or assignment. Those who served as SA I during the governor’s first tenure collected N80,000 as monthly salary, while SA II got N56,000 every month. Monthly salaries of SA III and SA IV…
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Nigerian lawmakers on Thursday threw out a bill seeking to make history a core learning subject in the nation’s primary and secondary schools. The proposed legislation was rejected by the House of Representatives after members raised concerns about the implication of a language in it. The bill, titled “A Bill for an Act to Make History a Core School Subject in Nigeria’s Primary and Secondary Schools and for other Related Matters,” was proposed by Ayodeji Oladimeji from Oyo State. Mr. Oladimeji said he crafted the bill to address widespread ignorance of Nigerian history – and even major historical events around…
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No fewer than 78 construction companies are competing for contracts for construction of 90 mosques in Jigawa. Alhaji Muhammad Musa, Chairman, Tender Board Committee for the project, made this known in a statement on Thursday in Dutse. Muhammad, also the Permanent Secretary, Administration and Finance, Office of the Secretary to the State Government, said that three mosques would be constructed in each of the 30 constituencies of the state. He gave the assurance that due process would be followed in awarding the contracts, adding that the Technical Evaluation Committee for the bidding would be fair. The dailytrust
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Is John Kerry actually representing the United States or is he serving some incomprehensible interests? ■ These organizations might be right in their discontentment of Kerry’s itinerary. In a country divided since its independence in 1960 over ethnic and religious differences, it was awfully intolerant for Kerry to have flown in, socialized with Muslim clerics and winged off. He was in Nigeria on Monday and Tuesday and was hosted by the Sultan of Sokoto, the most senior Islamic cleric in the country. He also met with 19 governors of Nigeria’s northern states and held talks with President Muhammadu Buhari, who…
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Now, am talking to the man in the mirror. Listen up; There’s a way and manner you’ll grieve and weep at someone’s funeral it will raise certain level of suspicion as if you knew what may have been responsible for that person’s demise. I wish our people had expressed or still should express the same outrage they have expressed about this election in the last 2015 Presidential election in Nigeria. Some of us amusingly have called the Americans all manners of condescending names simply for responding to what they clearly saw as a clear and present danger with the Democratic…
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RE: BIAFRA; “IT’S A PLOT BY IGBO TO COLONISE SOUTH SOUTH – Alhaji Sagir Ringim Sir, I want to thank you for your concern about the welfare of the people of the South-South by exposing the plans of the Igbos to recolonize the region. But I am worried about the sincerity of these your concerns. Because of these worries, let us dissect and carefully assess your statements of fear and concerns in four (4) segments, so as not to repeat the mistakes of 1964, 1966 and 1967-1970s till date. In your carefully written letter or chat with the Journalists as…
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President Buhari had paid a visit to Washington, D.C., to discuss the fight against Boko Haram. His visit provoked critics to again question why Hillary Clinton refused to label Boko Haram as terrorists during her State Department tenure. Presidents Obama and Muhammadu Buhari deliberated U.S. support of Nigerian counterterrorism efforts. The discussion was facilitated by Secretary of State John Kerry’s decision to place Boko Haram on the terrorist watch list in 2013. The State Department under Clinton had resisted congressional calls to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist organization. Robert Jackson, acting assistant secretary of state for African affairs, testified…
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There is confusion, fear and anxiety in the Judiciary as Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Mahmud Mohammed retires today, without handing over to a successor. At the close of work, yesterday, he did not officially hand over to any successor. It was also gathered that, on October 10, Mohammed forwarded the name of Justice Walter Nkanu Onnoghen, as his successor, to President Muhammadu Buhari, who will then forward same to the Senate for confirmation next CJN. Anxiety is high in the Judiciary over the lacuna, giving that Mohammed’s tenure as CJN lapsed by 12:00am today, upon clocking the mandatory retirement…
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The controversial bill for an Act to provide for establishment of grazing areas management agency and other related matters, yesterday on the floor of the Senate, suffered a major set back as it was stood down for discussion and further deliberation. The bill, sponsored by Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, APC, Kano Central, titled A Bill for an Act to provide for the Establishment of grazing Areas Management Agency and for other related Matters, 2016, failed to scale second reading as it was rejected. It further seeks to create a mechanism for prevention of crises on getting early warning signals by setting…
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The Senate has screened President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominees as Justices of the Supreme Court. The Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters screened the two judges on Wednesday. The justices screened by the Senator David Umaru-led committee were Justice Sidi Dauda Bage (North-Central) and Justice Paul Adamu Galinje (North-East). Based on the recommendation of the National Judiciary Council in conformity with Section 231 Subsection 2 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), the President forwarded the names of the judges to the Senate for confirmation as Supreme Court Justices. A statement from the office of the Senior Special Assistant…
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On Election Day 2016, I urged all my friends to go out and vote for Donald Trump with the following message: ‘Get out and vote for the unborn fetus, get out and vote for God ordained marriage between a man and a woman, get out and vote against transgender bathrooms, get out and vote against Roe V Wade, get out and vote for Donald J. Trump! He might not be perfect, but he will promote those conservative values that have kept a check on the moral fabric of society and nominate conservative Supreme Court Justices.’ So many African Americans and…
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The federal government on Tuesday brought a 9-count charge of money laundering and corruption against Sylvester Ngwuta, a supreme court judge. Ngwuta and six other justices were suspended over allegations of fraud. The Department of State Services (DSS) raided the homes of the judges between October 7 and October 8. The charge filed in federal high court, Abuja, alleged that Ngwuta illegally retained in his possession N35,358, 000.00 contrary to the money laundering (prohibition) Act 2011. It was also alleged that the defendant retained in his possession $319,596.00 and 25, 915. pounds. According to the charge, the prosecution alleged that…
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A senior lawyer who has worked for the anti-graft commission, EFCC, in the past has been questioned for allegedly giving a judge N5 million. Godwin Obla, a former EFCC prosecutor, arrived the commission’s Lagos office on Tuesday afternoon, a source said. Mr. Obla is being queried in relation to an allegation of the payment of N5 million to a Federal High Court judge, Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, through a company in which the embattled judge has an interest. The High Court judge had earlier told operatives during interrogation that the money was a part payment for a property she sold to the…
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The Senate has resolved to probe the country’s Ministry of Transport headed by Rotimi Amaechi over the procedure leading to concession of Port Harcourt-Maiduguri and Lagos-Kano rail lines to General Electric, GE, a U.S. conglomerate. Amaechi had in an interview with CNBC in June announced Nigeria’s engagement with GE regarding the concession of Western and Eastern rail lines – Lagos to Kano and Port Harcourt to Maiduguri respectively – worth around $2 billion. “GE is already in; we are trying to get the government agencies to allow us negotiate with GE. The company is going to bring in over $2…
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Despite the payment of fines by some companies, fresh facts emerged yesterday that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may soon bring prominent Nigerians implicated in the $180m Halliburton bribe to justice. About four former Heads of State and 89 prominent Nigerians were allegedly linked with the scandal. In all, 76 prominent Nigerians are listed in the five notebooks submitted by the Halliburton Group to the EFCC. There were indications yesterday that the anti-graft agency may quiz some of those listed. A former Minister of Petroleum Resources has admitted collecting inducement from the bribery agent, Jeffrey Tesler/TSKJ. It was…
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Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mahmud Mohammed, has given reasons the National Judicial Council (NJC), which he heads, suspended judges accused by the Department of State Services (DSS) of corruption and falsification of assets. The CJN said the NJC’s action was informed by the desire of the Judiciary to preserve its independence. He said the NJC had to act because the Attorney-General of the Federation and Justice Minister, Shehu Malamai SAN, had said the ministry was ready to prosecute the judges. According to the CJN all courts were empowered to adjudicate with utmost fairness and justice as prescribed in…
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There has been a clash between suspected Fulani herdsmen and the people of Ndi Okereke Abam in Ovukwu autonomous community, Arochukwu local government area of Abia State, which has left about five people badly injured and battling for their lives in an undisclosed hospital. The injuries they sustained was said to have arisen from bullet and machete wounds inflicted on them by the suspected Fulani herdsmen during the clash between them and the indigenes of the Arrochukwu community. Speaking with newsmen the President General of the town union, Chief Chukwuma Egbuta Okubi, said that the incident happened last Friday when…
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Gov. Nasiru El-Rufai of Kaduna State would flag-off the distribution of 20,000 electricity prepaid metres for customers in the state. This is contained in a statement issued by the company’s Head, Corporate Communication, Mr Abdulazeez Abdullahi, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Kaduna. Abdullahi said the metres are part of the 50,000 the Kaduna Electric metres earmarked for distribution in its franchise states of Kaduna, Sokoto, Zamfara and Kebbi. “After the successful flag-off of the mass deployment of 50,000 prepaid smart metres in its franchise states at a ceremony in Sokoto in October, Kaduna…
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The crisis in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is taking a turn for the worse. It was learnt that a meeting scheduled for last week Tuesday to resolve the controversy trailing the September 3 governorship primaries in Ondo State won by the former President, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, did not hold. A source from the party said he was not aware of any meeting scheduled for last Tuesday, but confirmed the one scheduled for today at the instance of the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun. The Guardian learnt that the National Leader of…
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His political achievements are already unprecedented, and his insight amounts to genius Almost anyone who has followed the US presidential selection process closely could realise what a brilliant campaign Donald Trump has conducted. He saw that in its self-absorption, the US political class had completely failed to grasp the extent of public anger at the deterioration of almost everything. American public policy has brought about the greatest sequence of disasters since the 1920s, when the liquor business was given to gangsters by Prohibition, followed by the equities debt bubble and the Great Depression. In the past 20 years, both parties…
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President Muhammadu Buhari’s avowed determination to punish culprits, who smuggled foreign items into the 2016 budget, and who caused both National and International embarrassment, is back at work, Economic Confidential has confirmed. Investigation by the Economic Intelligence Magazine, indicates that the officials who were sanctioned by their deployment outside Federal Ministry of Finance, have since resumed duties in the same Ministry, without the highly publicized punishment the President promised, while speaking to Nigerians resident in Saudi Arabia. Buhari, had in February this year, while speaking in Saudi Arabia, threatened to punish all those who were involved in the padding of…
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Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mr. Femi Adesina, has claimed that he would have turned down his appointment as the president’s media aide if he had seen it coming. According to Adesina, his appointment came as surprise to him, adding that he would have done all he could to, perhaps, stop the appointment before his announcement. Adesina made this disclosure during a feature on Sweet FM’s Flagship programme, The Podium. “I was not expecting it. Maybe if I knew, I would have done all in my powers to make sure it did not happen,” Adesina…
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Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, says President Buhari cannot order EFCC to investigate any of his Ministers accused of corruption because the anti-graft agency is an independent body and is not controlled by the Presidency. Adesina said this in a recent interview with Naija Standard when he was asked why President Buhari has not ordered EFCC to investigate Rotimi Amaechi and Abbah Kyari who are both ministers and have been accused of corrupt practices. Adesina in his reply said “President Buhari does not direct the EFCC. He maintains a critical distance from all the…
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Detained immediate past Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed, has turned to a political idol in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Mohammed was arrested two weeks ago alongside Dr. Reuben Abati, former spokesman to immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan over alleged land swap deal. Since the former minister’s arrest, the EFCC headquarters, also known as Tunde Idiagbon House in Abuja, has become a Mecca of sort to politicians from his home state of Bauchi and other neighbouring states of Gombe, Kano, Kaduna, Plateau and Jigawa. “On a good day,” said an…
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The Senate has asked the Department of Petroleum Resources to henceforth prepare and forward to it daily records of oil and gas production and sale in the country. The Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream) said the records must be submitted to it every month. The records will include those of petroleum industry activities, data on seismic activities, crude oil production, lifting, allocations, exports by destination and receipts, gas production, utilisation, sales, transmission and exports. The Chairman of the committee, Senator Tayo Alasoadura, who led members to the headquarters of the DPR in Lagos on oversight visit, said the data…
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The Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission and the Nigeria Police of colluding with the All Progressives Congress to rig the December 10, 2016 legislative rerun in the state. Wike specifically accused the state APC of printing fake result sheets and other election materials inside a building located at No. 12, Isiokpo Street, D-Line, Port Harcourt. The governor, who spoke with newsmen on Sunday at the Government House in Port Harcourt, also alleged that the police had refused to charge those behind the crime to court. But the state APC insisted that they…
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The efforts by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to bring lasting peace to the troubled Nigeria Delta region, hit the rock on Saturday, November 5, as Government Ekpemupolo, also known As Tompolo and Asari Dokubo, threatened war. The Niger Delta Militants, clearly dissociated themselves from the meeting of elders from the oil-rich region with President Buhari, in Abuja, last Tuesday. Apart from distancing themselves from the meeting, they warned the Federal Government, not to rejoice yet over the recent rise in oil production in the country, threatening that a series of attacks await oil facilities in the region in the…
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The House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee on Insurance has threatened to issue a warrant for the arrest of the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (retd.), over an alleged N250m insurance fraud committed by the NCS. The infraction reportedly took place between 2013 and 2015. Details of the committee’s proceedings, which The PUNCH obtained on Sunday, indicated that Ali was given up till Wednesday, November 9, to appear before the committee or risks being arrested. The committee, which is chaired by an All Progressives Congress lawmaker from Ogun State, Mr. Adekunle Akinlade, had earlier summoned the…
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It was Gaddafi’s Libya that offered all of Africa its first uprising in present day times – linking the whole Africa by phone, TV, radio telecom and a few other innovative applications, for example, telemedicine and separate instructing. What’s more, on account of the WMAX radio extension, a minimal effort association was made accessible all over Africa, incorporating the rural areas. It started in 1992, when 45 African countries built up RASCOM (Regional African Satellite Communication Oranization) with the goal that Africa would have its own particular satellite and slice correspondence costs in the landmass. This was a period when…
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Despite the Federal Government’s consistent calls on Nigerians to patronise Made-in-Nigeria products in order to strengthen the economy and aid national development, SUNDAY PUNCH’s investigation has shown that President Muhammadu Buhari and members of his team are using foreign products. The investigation showed that except their clothes, the President and his team have been using foreign products ranging from their shoes to their cars. For instance, there was outcry especially on social media platforms recently when Buhari was spotted in a pair of Gucci 1953 horsebit loafer shoes. The price of the shoes was put at $640 at that time.…
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A former Minister of Health, Prof. A.B.C Nwosu, has said that Nigeria would no longer exist as a nation if it was not restructured in a way that would weaken the power of the Federal Government. According to him, the present political arrangement where there is too much pressure and over-concentration of power at the centre was not the dream of the founding fathers of Nigeria. Nwosu, who also served as Political Adviser to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, bared his mind to SUNDAY PUNCH, during the public presentation of a book entitled, “Dan-Nzelu: The biography of one of Nigeria’s foremost oil…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has frozen a bank account belonging to Mrs. Bola Shagaya, a businesswoman which Forbes Magazine described as one of the wealthiest in Africa. It was learnt that Shagaya, who is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bolmus Group International – a diversified Nigerian conglomerate with interests in oil, real estate, banking, communications and photography – had become a subject of investigation due to her links to Dame Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan. Sources within the EFCC told SUNDAY PUNCH that Shagaya’s account with Unity Bank with a balance of N500m…
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Your Excellency, Mr. President, permit me to use this open letter as an appropriate channel to convey this message to you for the obvious reason of reliability. For fear of being misunderstood, I should state from the onset that I have been your hardened fan since the 80-90s while I was a student and contributing articles featuring the famed incorruptibility and discipline of you and your former lieutenant, the late General Tunde Idiagbon. (Link: http://yashuaib.com/1991/11/haba-governor-madaki/ It may interest you to note that immediately after your election, I was approached by well-wishers requesting my services on communication strategies for…
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Yakubu Dogara, may be facing one of his biggest hurdles as a Lawmaker, since assuming the position of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, as emerging reports reveal that the Economic and Financial crimes Commission, EFCC, is requesting for his asset declaration form, among 30 other Lawmakers.“They may be forced to resign, or be charged to court, if it is discovered that their asset declaration is false,” a source confirmed on Friday, November 4. This is coming, following allegations of budget padding leveled against Dogara, by the suspended Chairman, House Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumuni Jibrin. According to an online…
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The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Usani Nguru Usani, has on Friday, November 4, described as fraud, the latest Amnesty Programme organised by Governors majorly from the All Progressives Congress, APC, controlled States, maintaining that the programme was ill conceived. Usani, expressed displeasure over the manner the State Governments granted pardon to criminal elements parading as militants, adding that, the exercise does not enjoy the backing of the Federal Government, or his Ministry, and therefore, is “null and void”. The Minister, who was apparently referring to the recent Amnesty programme organised by Imo, and Benue States Governors, Rochas Okorocha, and…
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OUR VIEW AFTER THE PEACE TALKS. The Niger Delta Elders and leaders under the leadership of Papa (Dr) Senator Edwin Kiagbodo Clark Pan Niger Delta Elders and stakeholders Forum deserves Kudos by all well meaning Nigerians for presenting such minimal demands before the government of Nigeria to pacify a people and region that has being continuously raped and dehumanized since 1914, because the Golden Egg she lays is the commonwealth of the nation. These demands will lead the roadmap to engender desired peaceful atmosphere that Nigerian state so need if there is sincerity. The days of buying peace through unpatriotic…
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Name your dog Buhari and you will be diligently prosecuted in today’s Nigeria but kill a harmless wife of an evangelist preaching the Gospel of Jesus and you will be acquitted! Welcome to the new improved Nigeria! This may sound surreal but it is the present day reality we live in in Nigeria. The injustices in today’s Nigeria are just too glaring. For instance, Reuben Abati ALLEGEDLY got ₦50 million from Dasuki and goes to jail. Rotimi Amaechi ADMITTEDLY spends $500k (₦235 million at today’s rate) on a one day dinner for Soyinka and becomes a minister! Yet we say…
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Leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, Mr. Uchenna Madu, has said that Igbo leaders are cowards because they cannot defend the cause of Ndigbo In view of this, he said MASSOB would soon embark on an internal revolution in the South-East, starting with all Igbo leaders. Madu stated this on Friday at the National Headquarters of MASSOB in Okwe, Onuimo Local Government Area of Imo State, during the 83rd posthumous birthday celebration of the Biafran warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu. He attributed the current deplorable plight of Igbo people to their leaders, adding that they…
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