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– Nigeria has been secretly exchanging its crude oil for refined petroleum products to the detriment of revenue accruing from sale of crude oil – This development was reportedly induced by government’s efforts at closing the gaps created by the inability of oil marketers to import fuel. Nigeria has been secretly exchanging its crude oil for refined petroleum products to the detriment of revenue accruing from sale of crude oil, Signal.ng is reporting. According to the report, rather than generate revenue through the sale of its crude oil, the Nigerian government is now importing and paying for imported fuel with…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to investigate the $16 billion spent by the Olusegun Obasanjo and the Goodluck Jonathan administrations in the power over the years. Despite the huge investment in the sector by the previous administrations, Nigerians are still grappling with poor power supply and most companies have closed down or relocated to other countries, due to non availability of electricity for production. President Buhari made this known in an interview in Katsina monitored on radio and television. While reiterating his administration’s desire to improve power supply in the country, President Buhari disclosed that he would look into…
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Oblong Media is bringing you live updates as hearing resumes in the landmark case of Senate President, Bukola Saraki, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal headquarters in Abuja. Today’s proceeding was expected to commence at 10:00 a.m., but the tribunal chairman has not arrived. Mr. Saraki arrived at exactly 10:00 a.m with his aides and supporters, who include his colleagues from the National Assembly. .The courtroom is already filled with mostly lawyers for both prosecution and defence teams, as well as reporters. What you need to know: The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) is a pioneer anti-corruption agency set up…
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History was made yesterday at Howard University 148th Commencement convocation in Washington D.C. Out of 96 graduating Doctor of Pharmacy candidates, 43 were Nigerians. Out of 27 awards given, 16 went to Nigerians. President Barack Obama was awarded a honorary Doctor of Science degree. Delivering the keynote speech at Howard University’s commencement ceremony, President Obama found himself lecturing the young African American graduates on the lessons he had learned of how to create change in their communities. Obama closed out his lecture on “change” by evoking another one of his signature campaign slogans, reminding students, “Yes we can.”
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Do not turn your personal businesses into an ethnic or regional political affair. Do not make your personal business one in which all Nigerians must bear your costs while you milk the profits for yourself. And when the people cry over the destruction of their own income, when they mourn the still warm bodies of their dead, do not warn and threaten them. Following a recent meeting, the Northern Senators Forum issued a communique threatening that there would be no country called Nigeria, if other parts of the country asked Fulani herdsmen to leave their communities and states. The communities…
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A prestigious United Kingdom, UK, Newspaper, ‘The Mail’ has on Sunday, May 8, released a report exposing luxurious mansions owned by some Nigerians, including those standing trial for corruption, while subtly exonerating the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, of any crime. The report came against the backdrop of a summit to be attended by President Muhammadu Buhari, as well as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, on Thursday, May 12, in London. In a report titled: ‘Palaces of Corruption’, the newspaper published pictures and locations of houses in the UK, belonging to…
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Spokesman of the Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Mr. Femi Fani-kayode, who appeared before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over the receipt of N840 million campaign fund last year, was questioned today for many hours by operatives of the commission. The former minister, who arrived the EFCC headquarters on Formella Street, Wuse 2, at 9:45 am, was still being quizzed at 7pm on Monday, although sources said he had been granted administrative bail on condition that he produces two sureties who must be serving directors in the federal civil service. As at the time of filing the story, Fani-kayode was yet…
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Emeka Ezeife, a former governor of Anambra state was embarrassed alongside Pat Utomi in Awka recently by officials of the Department of State Security Service (DSS). They were stopped from speaking at a book launch by the officials who claimed to be acting on an order from the presidency. In his words, Emeka Ezeife said: “The President does not seem to have some conscience by doing certain things against some people. He does it without thinking back as if there are some people that should be suppressed and some people who are above the law. Let me tell you what…
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The Panama Papers affair has widened, with a huge database of documents relating to more than 200,000 offshore accounts posted online. The database became accessible from 18:00 GMT at offshoreleaks.icij.org. The Panama Papers have shown how some wealthy people use offshore firms to evade tax and avoid sanctions. The papers belonged to Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca and were leaked by a source simply known as “John Doe”. The company denies any wrongdoing. Last week it issued a “cease and desist ” order to prevent the database being made public but the organisation that has the documents, the International Consortium…
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The Nigerian government has directed the country’s anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to launch full investigation into the alleged misappropriation of Global Fund Grants Nigeria received from 2010 to 2014. The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, said, “President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR gave the directive as part of government’s effort and commitment to fight corruption in the country. The President has also directed the Secretary to the Government of Federation to review earlier audit reports from the Office of Inspector General (OIG)”. Consequently, the Secretary to the Federal Government has set-up two investigative panels to look into…
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Niger Delta militants have launched another attack in the oil-rich region Royal Dutch Shell has been forced to evacuate most of its staff from the Niger Delta area. News coming out from the area says a shell facility has been attacked but details are sketchy and Oil and Gas People are waiting for more information. The news of this latest attack by the group comes after a Chevron facility suffered a similar assault last week. The Niger Delta Avengers, the newest militant group in the oil-rich region, has forced Royal Dutch Shell to evacuate most of its staff from a…
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“…president Buhari’s anti-corruption war is a sham!” Found this report on UK Daily Mail this morning. Ahead of the anti-corruption summit to be hosted by David Cameron, MailOnline has claimed that president Buhari’s anti-corruption war is a sham. They claim that his 16-year-old daughter, Hanah attends a top UK school at £26000 (N11.9million) a year, while £150000 (N69million ) has been spent on Zahra’s education. They also point out that the UK doles out foreign aid to Nigeria despite our government officials being the highest paid in the world. Read the report below… The presence of Nigeria’s president at David…
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The Panama Papers scandal will deepen around the world today when the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists puts most of the digital cache of documents online, accessible to all. The ICIJ said it will release the documents in a searchable database at 1800 GMT on Monday accessible to the public at offshoreleaks.icij.org. The US-based organization said the release “will not be a ‘data dump’” of the sort the Wikileaks group became known for. But it will reveal names and information on 200,000 offshore entities set up by wealthy individuals around the world. The documents are from 2.6 terabytes of…
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As Minister denies wrong-doing President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, to respond to an allegation that he refused to recover N300 billion allegedly hidden in some Nigerian banks after his attention was drawn to the money by Dr George Uboh and his company, Panic Alert Security System (PASS) engaged by the minister to trace the money. The president’s query followed two letters of complaint written against the AGF by Uboh and his company, PASS, accusing him of frustrating efforts to recover already identified funds. In his response, Malami…
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“Nigeria is awaiting receipt from Swiss Govt. of $320 million, identified as illegally taken from Nigeria under Abacha” When twitter addicted Nigerians stumbled on this posting on President Muhammadu Buhari’s Twitter handle last week, the whole Internet went abuzz, with most people expressing their dismay at Buhari’s refusal to call a spade by its correct name. Before we go on, let us try to reason out the meaning of this statement, especially against the backdrop of its nexus to our history where Abacha and Buhari’s paths crossed. It is obvious why the President or the operator of his Twitter handle…
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Niger Delta Militant, under the aegis of Concerned Militant Leaders (CMLs), have described governors in the region, particularly those in the South-east, as cowards, for keeping mute, in the face of repeated provocation by Fulani herdsmen. Also, they have threatened to bomb more oil installations in the region. The militants yesterday, lambasted state governors in the region, for cowardly allowing the Federal Government’s indirect war against their domains without any resistance. Spokesperson of the group, who preferred to be addressed as General Ben, said that their men were embittered that governors of the affected states could not rise up in…
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This is good news, but what I don’t understand is why Buhari always gives Nigerians important information only when he’s interviewed abroad? We have waited 11 months to get details of recovered loot and to know who returned them but neither Buhari nor the Finance minister could say a thing on it. We are Nigerians and we know that looting of public funds dates back, further than Jonathan’s regime, so the President should be kind and fair enough to bring all looters to book, irrespective of their party affiliation. We also want to know how those Governors who sponsored Buhari’s…
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Nigerian FLORENCE ESHALOMI has been confirmed as a newly elected member of the London Assembly after the final result confirmed her early lead delivered a Labour hold for the Lambeth and Southwark constituency. The proud mum of one and long standing Brixton resident quickly celebrated the good news with followers on social media tweeting: “Feeling proud 2be elected Assembly Member 4 Lambeth & Southwark. Thank u 2all 4voting & 2the fab campaign team. Now let’s turn City Hall Red!” Florence polled 96,946 votes while Robert Flint came second with 34,703 According to the official account for the London Labour assembly,…
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Since the All Progressives Congress (APC) made it to the seat of power in 2015, it has been doing what it knows how to do best: bristling and spewing propaganda. The unfortunate thing here is that while it got away with it as an opposition party, it is proving a different kettle of fish as the party in power. Its self-assured hubris and the potency of its magical abilities sold on a hypnotic propaganda are being challenged every day by reality. But the party is yet to come to terms with this reality and has continued to fiddle and…
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The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, has sided with Fulani herdsmen over the lingering violent clashes between them and landowners across the country, wondering where Nigerians expect cattle breeders to keep the over 20 million cows in the country. They spoke in Abuja on Wednesday during a meeting MACBAN had with the Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, General Gabriel Olonisakin represented by the Director of Administration at the Defence Headquarters, DHQ, Major General Fatai Ali. Senator Alkali Jajere, who spoke on behalf of the group, regretted that Nigerians have refused to pay attention to…
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The Integrity challenged government of President Muhammadu Buhari has suffered another blow, as the President himself has declared to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) that he will no longer make a public declaration of his assets as he promised Nigerians during the election. Buhari who has distanced himself from the over 201 campaign promises he made to Nigerians, reneged on his promise to make specific details of his assets public,and said that he will not release comprehensive particulars of the assets he filed to the CCB. The CCB claimed that the president intimated them that he would make…
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The All Progressives Congress, APC, caucus in Imo State House of Assembly, has summarily removed the member for Onuimo state constituency, Mr. Chinedu Offor, as the Deputy Majority Leader of the House. Announcing the change during plenary, the Speaker, Chief Acho Ihim, also said that the member representing Obowo constituency, Mr. Kennedy Ibe, is the new Deputy Majority Leader. Meanwhile, a six-man panel headed by the Deputy Speaker, Chief Ugonna Ozuruigbo, has been set up to investigate the activities of the three lawmakers recently suspended by the Assembly. The other members of the probe panel includes Marcel Odumze, Arthur Egwim,…
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“Spinning” is a police public relations methodology, designed to reduce deceitfully, the gravity of casualty figures, property destructions and distortion or suppression of general facts associated with social vices or disturbances; for the purpose of manipulating public opinion and saving police image or sustaining its mechanical legitimacy. In other words, it is a sustained distortion or corruption of facts of the matter or information by the police. “Spinning” is very common among policing entities of the third world or developing countries, owing to their failed intelligence, gross incompetence, lack of effective preventive policing, graft and inability to carry out their…
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Goodluck Jonathan was the vice president during the administration of Yar’Adua who was the President of Nigeria from 2007 to 2010 and he (Yar’ Adua) died on May 5 shortly after he returned to Nigeria following the treatment of pericarditis in Saudi Arabia. Umar Musa Yar’ Adua and Goodluck Jonathan. Jonathan was made acting president during his boss’ prolonged exit out of the country for medical treatment and later sworn in as president following his demise. Jonathan took to his facebook page to express regret at Yar’Adua’s exit who he described as a servant leader. He also prayed for his…
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Governors elected under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, arrived Enugu State Tuesday afternoon to commiserate with the people over the recent attack on Ukpabi Nimbo by suspected Fulani herdsmen. News media reports state that the Governors were led by their chairman, Owelle Rochas Okorocha of Imo State and chairman of Northern Governors’ Forum, Kashim Shettima. They assured Nigerians that the Nimbo killings would mark the end of such criminality in the country. Okorocha, who addressed Enugu State stakeholders at the Government House said the delegation was in the State to re-assure the residents that they were greatly…
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The detained cousin of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Robert Azibaola, has urged a Federal High Court in Lagos to declare as unlawful any attempt by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to force him to cook up an indictment of the ex-President. In a fresh suit filed on Wednesday, Azibaola’s lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, claimed that any attempt to torture his client into falsely indicting the ex-President was a violation of Section 7 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, “which has outlawed the practice of arresting a citizen as ransom for the alleged offence of another citizen.” Azibaola, who claimed…
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. 1. Akwa Ibom – N8,945,542,072.36 2. Delta – N6,520,473,654.16 3. Lagos – N5,806,821,749.32 4. Rivers – N4,887,442,606.31 5. Kano – N3,613,387,002.51 6. Kastina – N 2,845,760,627.20 7. Kaduna – N2,803,408,785.61 8. Borno – N2,665,210,123.06 9. Jigawa – N2,563,114,698.48 10. Sokoto – N 2,327,122,322.29 11. Anambra – N2,313,676,693.37 12. Kogi – N2,294,573,542.45 13. Bauchi – N2,257,201,944.88 14. Oyo – N 2,209,928,509.99 15. Enugu – N2,207,795,207.12 16. Yobe – N2,202,678,657.54 3 17. Kebbi – N2,195,741,092.43 18. Bayelsa – N2,165,038,996.96 19. Adamawa – N2,032,039,683.90 20. Ondo – N2,063,521,671.24 21. Niger – N2,062,793,026.06 22. Edo – N1,997,007,555.15 23. Nasarawa – N1,993,193,531.74 24. Ebonyi…
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In an explosive interview, former CBN governor and current Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has revealed that former governor of Rivers state and current Minister for transport, Rotimi Amaechi was responsible for leaking Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo’s letter to Jonathan over a missing sum of $20 billion to the media. Sanusi had written to Jonathan to raise the alarm over billions of dollars from oil sale not remitted to the federation account. Obasanjo then followed suit with his own letter titled “before it is too late”, and the letter was published in full by online newspaper, Premium Times.…
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A bill for a law which prescribes five-year jail term for lecturers who engage in sexual relationship with students passed its first reading in the Senate on Wednesday. The bill, sponsored by Ovie Omo-Agege (Labour-Delta Central) and co-sponsored by 46 other senators, seeks to completely prohibit any form of sexual relationship between lecturers and their students. Briefing journalists after plenary, Mr. Omo-Agege said that the nation’s institutions of higher learning must be sanitised to rid them of lecturers who saw female students as “prize’’. According to him, when the bill is passed and signed into law, any lecturer found guilty…
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The Economic and Financial crimes commission,(EFCC) has nabbed a former governor of Imo state, Achike Udenwa for collecting N350 million of the so called arms fund through embattled ex-minister, Esther nenadi Usman. Nenadi was detained by the EFCC for allegedly receiving N2.5 billion of the N4 billion taken out of the Central Bank of Nigeria, on the orders of the ex-National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, ahead of the 2015 election. Nenadi was the Director of Finance of the Peoples Democratic Party. UPDATE : Udenwa was seriously interrogated by EFCC investigators for several hours at their headquarters. He admitted receiving the…
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It is official: Lagos state has finally become an oil-producing state, and will join states who get 13 percent derivation from the federation account. Reports confirm that Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum Company Limited (YFP), a wholly-owned indigenous firm and operator of the OML 113 offshore Lagos, on Tuesday announced the commencement of production of crude oil from the field. This is coming 25 years after the company was awarded an oil prospecting licence. Tunde Folawiyo, YFP chairman, was quoted to have said: “The attainment of this milestone is indeed a laudable achievement not just for the YFP, but for the Nigerian…
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The claims by a government-appointed recovery agent, George Uboh, that the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, is undermining efforts by the current administration to recover stolen money have degenerated into a dogfight, with the attorney general saying Mr. Uboh deceitfully obtained federal consent for the job by concealing his criminal past. At a press conference in Abuja Tuesday, Mr. Uboh, however, offered a different take on the matter, saying two weeks after he obtained a mandate to “trace, recover and remit Federal government’s funds that are allegedly trapped in Nigerian banks,” he was able to trace N324 billion…
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Moody’s Investors Service, better known as Moody’s, has finally downgraded Nigeria’s long-term issuer ratings from Ba3 to B1. B1, B2 and B3 are judged to “have speculative elements and a significant credit risk”, while Ba1, Ba2 and Ba3 are seen as “speculative and a high credit risk”. Moody’s has also assigned a stable outlook after concluding the review for downgrade initiated in March 2016. Announcing this on Friday, the company, which ranks the creditworthiness of borrowers, said the downgrade is based on Nigeria’s increased external vulnerability “brought about by the prospect of lower-for-longer oil prices”. The rating was also affected…
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Justice Mohammad Idris of a Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered President Muhammadu Buhari to hold all successive administrations since the return to civil rule in 1999 to account on the spending of the recovered loot” – Are you aware that in addition to the four refineries in Nigeria – Portharcourt I and II, Warri and Kaduna, that this country also had a 30 per cent interest in West African Refinery Sierra Leone, which was handed over to President Obasanjo’s government in 1999? Are you also aware that Obasanjo has so far failed to account for that national asset…
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This could be it for Cruz and company. Donald Trump won the Republican Primary in Indiana Tuesday evening, all but eviscerating the #NeverTrump movement and moving the New York Businessman tantalizingly close to the Republican nomination for president. To be clear, Trump has not yet reached the magic number of 1,237 delegates needed to secure the Republican nomination on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention in July. But with upcoming states, especially big delegate states like New Jersey and California, seeming favorable to Trump, it is looking more and more likely that he will win the delegates required.…
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The federal government on Tuesday issued a directive to medical doctors across the country to henceforth treat all patients and victims with gunshot injuries without any form of restraint or inhibition. Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, gave the order at the induction ceremony of foreign graduates organised by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN). According to him, government was considering reforming the health sector, with the objective to scale up service delivery across various sections of the sector. “Hospitals are sanctuary for the sick and injured, never must our hospitals be closed for whatever reasons; even…
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The Eko Electricity Distribution Company has said it will begin power rationing today (Tuesday) in Lekki, Ikoyi, Victoria Island and some parts of Ajah, Lagos State. The company made the announcement on Monday in a statement signed by its General Manager, Corporate Communications, Mr. Godwin Idemudia, saying the rationing would last for one month. It stated that the power rationing was to enable the Transmission Company of Nigeria to upgrade both line 1 and line 2 of the Ajah-Alagbon transmission line from 132kv to 330kv. According to the statement, during the upgrade operation, which will last between three and four…
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Nigerian billionaire Femi Otedola has lost more than $400 million of his personal fortune over the last 9 weeks as the stock price of Forte Oil, the Nigerian-listed energy behemoth he controls, shed off 43.5% in value within that period. In late February the share price of Forte Oil hit an all-time high of N342 per share after the Lagos-based utilities and petroleum marketing company released its impressive 2015 FY results and declared an attractive dividend of N3.45 per share. However, as at close of trading today (Tuesday), its share price has dropped to N193.46 after recording consistent daily losses…
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Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed saying, ‘let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us’. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision”- Psalm 2: 1-4. Everything that I said about President Muhammadu Buhari and his APC during the presidential campaign has come true. In less than one year I have been proved right in my continuous assertion that when it comes…
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• Ohaneze seeks self-defence • Stay off our territory or face war — Niger Delta militants • Iloh cautions against disintegration THE unrestrained invasion of communities and massacre of innocent citizens by the Fulani herdsmen across the country is now causing provocation for bloody uprising from the South East since the incident in Enugu State. Prominent Igbo leaders, at their meeting at the weekend, decided on urgent need for the Igbo nation to organize the people for self-defence against the invasion and killing of Igbo indigenes by the Fulani herdsmen. The dreaded Bakassi Boys, a violent vigilante group mobilized to…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has restated his administration’s resolve to deal decisively and expeditiously with reported cases of continued attacks on communities across the country by armed herdsmen. The president was speaking on Monday night at a meeting with members of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) held in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. A statement issued on Tuesday by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, said that President Buhari confirmed that heads of national security agencies had been ordered to take all necessary action to apprehend and expose those behind the heinous attacks. “We are…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday, May 3, said its effort to contact the Department of State Services (DSS) to produce the former national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki for trial was futile. Dasuki trial before Justice Hussien Baba-Yusuf was expected to commence today. But on assumption of the sitting, the prosecuting (EFCC) counsel, Oluwaleke Atolagbe told the court that he had made several efforts through the EFCC to facilitate the appearance of Dasuki in court today. Atolagbe, he regrets to inform the court that as at the sitting time, the former NSA might not be brought…
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“I acknowledge the fact that it happens in the core North too but if the leaders and people of the core North can live with it, the rest of us cannot… They have a duty to fight it and to put a stop to it more than anyone else because these beasts, militants and religious extremists that call themselves Fulani herdsmen are their kinsmen.” The following discusion took place on my Facebook friend’s page on May 2nd, 2016. Since it is already in the public realm I have taken the liberty of sharing it in my column as well. Though…
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Because King Yunfa, the Hausa sarkin in Gobir (Sokoto) permitted a Fulani immigrant called Usman Dan Fodiyo and his group in February 1804, the whole of northern region lost the kingdom to Fulani emirates from 1808! The king Yunfa was killed in 1808 and the Fulani warrior, Fodio established Sokoto caliphate, making himself Sultan! Lots of people were killed by the Fulani warriors then to overrun the Hausa kingdoms! Gradually, other Hausa kingdoms were pillaged and taken over by the Fulani emirs! They failed to overrun Borno kingdom, hence the Shehu remains paramount till today! Because the Afonja dynasty compromised…
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It is harder to do business in Nigeria now than it was in 2015, the World Bank Group’s ‘Doing Business Report’ has revealed. According to the report, Nigeria went up the ease of doing business ranking, yet doing business actually just got harder in the largest economy in Africa. In 2015, Nigeria ranked 170 of 189 countries, with a distance to frontier (DTF) or ease of doing business score of 47.33, against Singapore’s 88.27 and Eritrea’s 33.16. In the 2016 version of the report, Nigeria climbed one rung of the ladder to the 169 position, but its ease of doing…
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One thing I learnt in the last 3 months is that politics is not all about rights or wrongs, it’s about numbers and interest. PDP lost 2015 because we couldn’t get sufficient numbers from the North. Like Sule Lamido said last week, PDP was demonised and people who were supporting the party in the North were seen as infidels. It was that terrible. To change such tide and negative wave, a northern politician who is a strategist, fearless and cannot be intimidated by the APC or president Buhari would most definitely be needed to chart the way and lead PDP.…
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The insulting warning to the South from the 19 Northern governors just the other day made matters worse. That contribution did not help to calm the storm but instead it has further frayed nerves. Simply put the Northern governors have rubbed raw salt into our Southern wounds. Last week I wrote an essay titled “The Road To Kigali” which was widely published. The callous response of the Northern governors to the horrendous events in Enugu State has compelled me to write this contribution as something of a follow-up. These are difficult and troubling times and these are times that the…
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(34-POSITIONS & PRESENTATION OF CONCERNED IMEOBI MEMBERS) RE: UNPROVOKED MASSACRE OF OUR PEOPLE AT NIMBO, UZOUWANI LGA, ENUGU STATE BY FULANI HERDSMEN , ON MONDAY, THE 25TH DAY OF APRIL, 2016,. OUR 34 POSITIONS: 1. We have viewed with grave concern, the reckless and callous attitude of the Fulani herdsmen, who had the effrontery to bring down their violence to our peaceful south-eastern states of Nigeria, by recently attacking our defenseless kiths and kin at Nimbo Community, Uzouwani, LGA, Enugu State, MASSACRED AND DISMEMBERED a lot of them, without any respect or value for human life. 2. These itinerant herdsmen…
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RESOLUTIONS OF THE 70TH MEETING OF THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (NEC) OF THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP) ON APRIL 28, 2016 AT THE NATIONAL SECRETARIAT, ABUJA. The Meeting was presided over by the National Chairman, H.E. Sen. (Dr.) Ali Modu-Sheriff. The Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, PDP State Governors, members of the National Committee (NWC), Members and leaders of the National Assembly and other members of NEC were in attendance. NEC commended the Rally in Jigawa State and thanked the former Governor, Alh. Sule Lamido and his team for the overwhelming crowd that welcomed the leadership of the Party…
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Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has called on the Nigeria Labour Movement to lead campaign for recovery of stolen wealth and the prosecution of all indicted looters. He made the call Saturday at the 2016 Pre-May Day Lecture with the theme, “The fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy’’, organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC). Falana who was represented by Mr Ezenwa Nwagwu, the Chairman, Partner for Electoral Reforms said that the need to prosecute indicted looters had become imperative, as there had been diversion of public funds by a handful…
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For seven days now, Nigeria’s number one youth leader has been in detention with no reasons adduced for his detention. Youths from across Nigeria have been protesting here and on the ground, seeking that the young legal practitioner and political activist, who was at a time the Senate President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, be either charged to court or released unconditionally by the DSS who are said to have kept him in the most dehumanizing condition for one week now, without access to his food, drinks, lawyers or family members. This is a democracy, and in every…
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The embattled publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, has taken his blackmailing business to a new height, this time, by accusing the CEO of facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, of collecting bribe from the Nigerian Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki. Over the last few years, Sowore has accused prominent Nigerians of either trying to assassinate him or pull his platform down for reasons best known to him. He has severally accused former ministers, Obanikoro, Madwekwe, Oduah etc of varying crimes. All efforts by these individuals to get at him through litigation have proven abortive as a result of his non-residence in…
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The Office of the Special Senior Assistant to Governor Okorocha on Media, Chinedu Offor just released these videos. In this 3 part clip recorded 35,000 feet above sea level aboard Governor Okorocha’s private jet, His Excellency lectures on Leadership Ideology. Also on board was Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Rt.Hon Benjamin Uwajumogu and Chief Martin Agbaso. It is a peek into the mind of Gov.Okorocha which many of us have not seen before. Find out what he had to say about the “Principles of Kwashiokorism” and how it relates to instability in the economy of Africa.…
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A former presidential candidate of the National Conscience Party (NCP), Chief Martin Onovo, has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of promoting corruption in Nigeria while claiming to be waging war against it. Onovo, who spoke in an interview, also claimed that the anti-corruption war of President Muhammadu Buhari is one-sided and targeted at the opposition. According to him, most corrupt politicians in Nigeria today are in the ruling party. “Everybody is saying the anti-corruption war of the APC is one-sided. Even the UK Telegraph said that it is political and is targeted at the opposition. The Office of…
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Ndigbo Unity Forum, an Igbo socio-cultural group, has given Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo an ultimatum of 60 days to pay workers outstanding salaries and allowances. This is contained in a statement signed by the President of the forum, Mr Augustine Chukwudum, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Sunday. It described as unfortunate that after receiving 26 billion naira bailout funds from the Federal Government, which the governors and their cabinets agreed was enough to settle workers, would divert such money. The statement said such action was the height of criminality and insensitivity…
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY NATIONAL CHRISTIAN ELDERS FORUM (NCEF) APRIL, 2016 Christians have no choice but to transform CAN into an established Organization for the promotion and protection of Christianity in Nigeria in the face of the threat of Islamism otherwise known as – Political Islam, which has no single creed or political manifesto but certain common beliefs such as that (1) Nigerian Society should be reconstructed in line with the Religious principles and ideals of Islam. (2). The Islamists are demanding that Section 10 should be replaced by an Islamic State in which Religious principles and authority have primacy over…
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The Catholic Archbishop of Benin City, Dr. Augustin Akubueze, and the Catholic Bishop of Uromi Diocese, Dr. Donatus Ogun, have both appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to tackle the issue of the growing attacks of hoodlums in Edo State. The Bishops spoke against the backdrop of last Friday’s attempt on the life of John Cardinal Onaiyekan, the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja. Akubueze and Ogun said the appeal became urgent following the brazenness with which the herdsmen commit atrocities in the state without adequate security checks. Cardinal Onaiyekan was attacked by suspected herdsmen along the Benin-Ekpoma Road while returning from…
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•Afenifere, Ijaw youths fault them The 19 northern governors came under criticism yesterday over their position that the Fulani should not be labelled as criminals. The Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, asked the governors to bury their heads in shame over their position which came in the wake of the heat generated by the attack on Ukpabi-Ninbo community in Enugu State by suspected Fulani herdsmen, last Monday. Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) also condemned the governors. The northern governors, who met in Kaduna, on Friday, had taken a strong exception to the branding of perpetrators of crimes around the country as Fulani.…
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lol!!! lol!!! Ihiagwa and Nekede ( uzii na Abosi) are two (2) neighboring communities in Owerri hosting the Federal Polytechnic Nekede and Federal University of Technology Owerri. Sometime last year, the activities of these Fulani herdsmen became so unbearable with destruction of farms and rape. The women gathered and thought of what to do to stop these killer Fulani herdsmen wielding AK 47s. In contrast, the women had no gun, knife nor any other weapon but their brains. They came together and reasoned what to do to drive them from their communities without firing a shot. They agreed and tasked…
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The federal government is set to reintroduce toll on some roads that will be built or reconstructed. The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola SAN, made the declaration while fielding questions as guest on the popular Channels Sunrise Daily programme. The minister said it would be pretentious to assume that the roads would get better if we continued to make our roads absolutely toll free. He added that, there would however be alternative roads to the ones that would be tolled. Fashola declared, “We should stop being pretentious that roads can be had for absolutely free everywhere.…
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•‘No evidence I lost June 12, 1993 election to Abiola’ •Asks FG not to give impression Saraki is being punished •His life in ‘retirement’ •Says Ganduje and Kwankwaso haven’t disclosed cause of figh Remember Alhaji Bashir Tofa? He was the man who contested the June 12, 1993 presidential election against the late Chief MKO Abiola. Abiola was generally believed to have won that historic election which was unfortunately annulled by the military. In this interview, Tofa wonders whether anybody said Abiola won the election and he lost. Now a member of the Board of Trustees of the ruling All Progressives…
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President Muhammadu Buhari says it is “a matter of great concern” to him that nearly two-thirds of states of the federation are still having difficulties with paying salaries, despite the bailout funds provided to them by the federal government. He therefore said he would “strive to make more funds available to the states”. This, he said he would do by specifically “expediting action on refunds due to them for the maintenance of federal roads and other expenses incurred on behalf of the federal government”. According to a statement by Garba Shehu, senior special assistant (media and publicity) to the president,…
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Former presidents, Goodluck jonathan and Olusegun Obasanjo President Buhari has extended the investigation of corrupt practices beyond Jonathan’s administration. – There are indications that administration before Jonathan began the scheme of adding non-exiting projects to budget. – The minister of justice says there is a compilation of agencies that have allowed these corrupt practices to thrive. – There are strong indications that President Muhammadu Buhari will extend his crackdown on corruption beyond the administration of former president, Goodluck Jonathan. According to Sources, the probe is expected to begin from 1999 when Nigeria returned to democratic rule. According to a…
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THE 19 northern state governors on Friday agreed to commence the issuance of licences to all religious organisations and preachers in all states in the region. Only Kaduna state had, hitherto, proposed the new measure. The governors, who said they were alarmed by the proliferation of sects and preachers in the region, also agreed to close down all religious organizations and institutions that refused to be registered with the respective state governments. These were part of the seven-page communiqué issued by the governors after a meeting in Kaduna on Friday. The governors also said they noted the proliferation of Islamic…
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Republican voters should unify in support of Donald Trump because he is almost certain to become the party’s presidential nominee, Newt Gingrich argued in a guest editorial the Washington Times published Wednesday. “Every analysis of the next few weeks indicates Trump’s margin will widen and he will move steadily closer to 1,237,” the former speaker of the House wrote, referring to the number of delegates required to secure the nomination in the first round of balloting at the GOP national convention. “These are the numbers of a presumptive nominee, not a front-runner,” Gingrich added. “If this were any candidate but…
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. Chieftains and members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are upbeat about the reluctance of President Muhammadu Buhari to make appointments into federal parastatals as well as Government Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs). Few days to the first anniversary of the administration, the APC bigwigs are displeased that Buhari is yet to overhaul the parastatals and compensate loyal party members with appointments. The situation, according to those who spoke with online reporters under condition of anonymity, is affecting morale among party members. They claimed many of their supporters are restive they have not been compensated for the emergence…
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Customers in the United States have Begun to Receive Deliveries of the HondaJet The HondaJet can transport five passengers up to 1,360 miles without refueling, at cruise speeds of up to 483 mph. Honda Aircraft Company has been working on the HondaJet for more than 20 years and now has started deliveries of the $4.5 million airplane in both North America and Europe. In April, at the Aero Friedrichshafen general-aviation show in Germany, the first European delivery was made to Rheinland Air Service, a dealer who will promote the airplane to the business-aviation market. Customer deliveries for the United…
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Did you know that eastern Nigeria had a very big cattle industry till the civil war wiped it out? As a matter of fact the Hausa/fulani cow could not survive down in the east or southern states due to tse tse fly. It was only because it was eventually cross bred with the west African short horn cow (ehi igbo) which was only found in eastern and south west Nigeria did the northern Nigerians start bringing cows to the south. Did you know that the Obudu cattle ranch was specifically set up by the Micheal Okpara government to cross breed…
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Mr. George Akinola wrote: “When the Fulani exploded on the geographic space later christened Nigeria, in 1804, they did not negotiate power with the Hausas, they seized it from them on the battlefield. 1804 to 1810 When the same Fulani appeared in Ilorin in 1823, purportedly to assist Afonja, the Are-ona-kakanfo of Oyo and the ruler of Ilorin, in revolt against his sovereign, Alafin Aole, the Alafin of Oyo, it was to gain his confidence for a while and a vantage position to murder him. Ilorin has been under Fulani rule since. 1825 to 2014. When the British colonised all…
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President Muhammadu Buhari said Thursday in Abuja that it was a matter of great concern to him that nearly two-thirds of states of the federation are still having difficulties with salary payments despite the bail-out funds provided to them by the federal government. Speaking at a meeting with members of the Nigeria Governors Forum at the Presidential Villa, Mr. Buhari said he was very disturbed by the hardship which state government workers across the country and their families were facing due to the non-payment of salaries. To ameliorate the hardship being faced by affected workers, the president said the federal…
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In the words of a colonial government report of 1947, “The African’s background and outlook on public morality is very different from the present day Briton. “The African in the public service seeks to further his own financial interest.” The colonial report concluded that only public opinion could deal with corruption. The problem was that there was no responsible public opinion to check corruption in Nigeria. From as early as 1947, commissions of inquiry were held to investigate cases of corruption. The purpose of the inquiries was to expose wrong-doing and to punish the culprits. Today, we hear much of…
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Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has lashed out at the presidency for its seeming inability to rein in the violent activities of herdsmen across the country. In his address to the National Conference on Culture and Tourism, Wednesday, Mr. Soyinka said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government was yet to come up with an articulate solution to tackle the menace. “I have yet to hear this government articulate a firm policy of non-tolerance for the serial massacres that have become the nation’s identification stamp,” said Mr. Soyinka. “I have not heard an order given that any cattle herders caught with sophisticated firearms…
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In 56 years, Nigeria has consolidated a dubious political culture that emphasizes the primacy of sectional interest over and above the national interest. Recently, the media (print and electronic, including social media) have been awash with outcries on the proposed `National Grazing Reserve Establishment and Development Commission Bill (SB. 60)’, which the 8th Senate has come out strongly to deny. But we need to make certain clarifications here. The Senate denied the presence of such a bill in this 8th Senate; it did not deny the existence of such bill. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Senator Babajide…
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President Muhammadu Buhari’s current economic policies are similar to those he promulgated during the military regime he led in the 1980s, a former Minister of Education and social critic, Oby Ezekwesili, has said. Mrs. Ezekwesili said Mr. Buhari’s “archaic” and “opaque” economic principles are not only encouraging massive corruption and abuse of power, but also hurting the poor they were intended to help. Mrs. Ezekwesili said this at The Platform, a public policy forum that is currently underway in Abuja. “During the first coming of this our new president, a command and control economic system was adopted. “During that era,…
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Former governor of Kaduna State Alhaji Balarabe Musa, said that the only explanation for President Muhammadu Buhari’s silence over renew attacks by armed men suspected to be Fulani herdsmen resulting in the deaths of several Nigerians is absolute weakness, incompetence and lack of focus. About 40 persons have so far been reportedly killed in the recent attacks by suspected Fulani herdsmen at Nimbo in Uzo- Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State. He laments in an interview with Newsmen in Kano, that not only are the Fulani herdsmen killing and attempting to forcefully take over other peoples’ land, they also…
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The Oba of Benin, His Royal Majesty Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Erediauwa, has joined his ancestors.The Iyase of Benin, Chief Sam Igbe, yesterday, announced the passing on of the great monarch at the palace ground in Benin City, saying, “Osorhue Burun” in Edo, meaning “the chalk has broken.” He added: “Oba Erediuwa of Benin Kingdom, the Prince of Peace, Ebo, Ayamwirhe, Emini Mini Mini, has reunited with his ancestors. May he find perfect peace with God.” His Royal majesty Oba Erediauwa was born on June 22, 1923, son of Oba Akenzua II. He was the 38th Oba of Benin,…
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The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress, TUC, have maintained stance on N56, 000 as new minimum wage with other demands to raise workers’ standard of living. This declaration was made by Deputy President, NLC, Comrade Peters Adeyemi, during a press conference on the activities marking May Day with theme, ‘The Working Class and the Quest for Socio-Economic Revival’, on May 1, 2016 to hold at the Eagle Square, Abuja, and across the 36 states of the federation. Adeyemi said with the current N18, 000 minimum wage workers in the country can no longer cope with…
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Governors of 19 Northern States have risen from their meeting in Kaduna Friday, condemning labelling perpetrators of crimes around the country as Fulani people. The Governors who met behind closed doors said, as much as they condemn the recent attacks in Enugu and other parts of the country, they condemned labelling the criminals as Fulani people. Briefing newsmen shortly after the meeting at the Kaduna Government House Friday evening, Chairman of the Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF) and Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Kashim Shettima said, it is an insult to label criminals as Fulani. According to him, “We want…
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It was a moment of truth telling and reality check at the just-concluded 5th Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa when former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan insisted that African countries must stop begging, cap-in-hand, for assistance from foreigners to address challenges confronting the continent. Annan, who gave the keynote address at this year’s forum in Addis Ababa, said the solutions to the problems the continent is facing must come from within. He added, however, that the continent must build up its ability to do so, including in financing its institutions. “We cannot always pass a hat around…
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The Igbo Improvement Union (Oganiru Ndi-Igbo) a socio-political and cultural organization of Igbo speaking people in Abia, Anambra, Delta, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo and Rivers States of Nigeria yesterday met with Igwe John Ikemefuna Akor, Agaba Idu XXIV of Ukpabi-Nimbo Community in Uzo-Uwani LGA of Enugu State. Addressing the press after the closed door meeting the Union expressed shock and disbelief on the wanton destruction of lives and property in Ukpabi-Nimbo, the Union said it is scandalized that such ethnic cleansing and palpable act of brigandage could take place in a twenty first (21st) century Nigeria. Igbo Improvement Union (Oganiru…
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Apprehension heightened in the equities market yesterday as the deadline for withdrawal of Morgan Stanley Capital International, MSCI, foreign investment index from the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, expires today. The US-based provider of equity, fixed income, and hedge fund stock market indexes, announced earlier in the month that it was considering yanking off Nigeria from its MSCI Emerging market index. Though a decision is expected to be announced today, April 29, 2016, feelers from the NSE indicated that MSCI authorities may postpone the decision while keeping close watch on the investment climate in Nigeria. Equity investors in the Nigerian bourse…
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My Dear People of Enugu State, Four days ago on Monday April 25, 2016 many of our brothers and sisters in Nimbo in Uzo Uwani Local Government Area of the state were murdered in cold blood by suspected Fulani herdsmen who have been grazing their cattle in that area for a while now. May their souls rest in peace. Amen. On Sunday, April 24, 2016, by 7 pm, the night before this carnage took place, I got security information from Uzo-Uwani Local Government Transition Chairman, Hon. Cornell Onwubuya that such an incident was likely to take place in the state.…
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I have just been reading one of the most recently published books on the Biafran War in which Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon was quoted as saying, through his August 3, 1966 broadcast to the nation, that the basis for Nigeria’s unity no longer existed. Gowon was then Nigeria’s Head of State. His broadcast was fallout of the ominous events of the period. A revenge coup had just taken place in which Igbo military officers were systematically eliminated by their northern counterparts. Because Gowon, a lily-livered officer from the Middle Belt, could not but do the bidding of the northern oligarchs…
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The Federal Government on Thursday re-arraigned Senate President Bukola Saraki on amended three charges of alleged false asset declaration before the Code of Conduct Tribunal. Saraki pleaded not guilty to the charges. In the fresh charge, the Federal Government accused Saraki of abusing his office while serving as Governor of Kwara State between Oct.2016 and May 2007 by obtaining a loan from GTBank to acquire property at No. 17A and 17B McDonald Street Ikoyi, Lagos. The Federal Government, through its counsel, Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), said Saraki failed to declare the property which was allegedly acquired in at N497.2 million. In…
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In its one-year in office, the government has not established a single institution or passed any legislation necessary to fight corruption. The much-ballyhooed Whistle-blower Act is still blowing in the wind. In Buhari’s first coming, he bamboozled Nigerians with a so-called War against Indiscipline. This entailed treating Nigerians, young and old, like primary school children. We were forced to queue at bus-stops under the watchful eyes of soldiers wielding whips with orders to flog publicly those deemed unruly. Late-coming civil-servants were required to do frog-jumps. The pathetic thing about this was that the government actually believed such charade constituted cogent…
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What we have is a government attempt to decimate the opposition and create a de facto one-party state under the guise of fighting against corruption. I was invited to a Roundtable on Corruption by the Law Faculty of the University of Lagos, only to discover that some “Buharideens” had highjacked the occasion and were inclined to use it as a platform to promote the onslaught of “democratic dictatorship” in Nigeria. The topic was on corruption in Nigeria, but the mast-head in the hall was more specific. It read: “Winning the War against Corruption. This was easily seized on by government…
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I have not heard an order given that any cattle herder caught with sophisticated firearms be instantly disarmed, arrested, placed on trial, and his cattle confiscated… Let me repeat, and of course I only ask to be corrected if wrong: I have yet to encounter a terse, rigorous, soldierly and uncompromising language from this leadership, one that threatens a response to this unconscionable blood-letting that would make even Boko Haram repudiate its founding clerics. Herdsmen, let us appreciate, are perhaps humanity’s earliest known tourists. They must be taught however that there is a culture of settlement, and learn to seek…
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About eight months ago, some Igbo social media and political activists invited me inbox to discuss the way forward for Ndigbo. I will copy and paste my contributions to that meeting: “I have personally moved on from nice guy to “say it as it is” in my analysis of Nigerian issues. What I will never do is publicly insult any one Igbo person. However, I will continue to abuse Igbo efulefus generally.” “Finally, the only Igbo project in my radar now is a call for referendum. I am not saying it will work out fine. But it will rally Igbo…
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In fact it’s a JIHAD! This video was made on the morning of the Agatu attack, by one of the attackers. The same man took part in the Logo attack two weeks later where he was killed and the video was found on a mobile phone retrieved from his body. This menace has superceded Boko haram as the biggest existential threat to the country. these guys are terrorists pure and simple.
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Governor Shettima is indeed lucky. Apart from Obasanjo who was so friendly with fortune to have been a president two times, Shettima is one of the luckiest men to have come from Nigeria. He should thank his Creator or whatever god he serves for making him a Nigerian. In saner climes, Shettima will be facing fierce public prosecutors, he will be put under the fire of cross examination while he is behind dock, answering questions as to the Chibok drama. None of these happened because he is from a country where governors are prohibited from any form of court trials…
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The Head, Defence Headquarters Committee on Persistent Clashes between Herdsmen and Farmers, Maj. Gen. Edward Nze, has said attacks on some communities could assume the menace of the Boko Haram dimension if not checked. Nze, who paid a courtesy call on the acting Governor of Benue State, Benson Abounu, at the Benue Peoples House on Wednesday, told journalists in an interview that the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Olonishakin, was worried that the clashes between herdsmen and farmers were beginning to threaten national security. He said the committee had visited Nasarawa State, adding that it would proceed to Enugu…
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The Chairman of the NGF, Alhaji Abdulazeez Yari of Zamfara State A meeting of state governors held Wednesday night to address the nation’s economic crisis was again inconclusive. That was the second time in a week that the Nigeria Governors Forum could not reach a conclusion on the crisis which has led to the inability of many state governments to pay salaries. The forum’s Chairman, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, told State House correspondents at the end of the meeting held inside the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja that no conclusion had been reached on the matter.…
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THE South East Senate Caucus yesterday warned against what it termed imminent danger and possible attack on the unity of Nigeria if the Federal Government fails to urgently address the Enugu massacres by the marauding Fulani herdsmen. Rising from an emergency meeting in Abuja yesterday, the Senators not only condemned the attack, which left over 50 persons dead and scores driven out of their homes, they also called for a summit of South East and South South State Governors, members of National and State Houses of Assembly, Socio-Cultural associations, traditional rulers and major stakeholders immediately. In a statement by Senator…
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A news report has disclosed that there are about 21 senators currently receiving pensions from government as ex-governors and deputy governors. The current senators who once served as governors are Bukola Saraki of Kwara, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano, Kabiru Gaya of Kano, Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, Theodore Orji of Abia, Abdullahi Adamu of Nasarawa, Sam Egwu of Ebonyi, Shaaba Lafiagi of Kwara, Joshua Dariye of Plateau Jonah Jang of Plateau, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto, Ahmed Sani Yarima of Zamfara, Danjuma Goje of Gombe, Bukar Abba Ibrahim of Yobe, Adamu Aliero of Kebbi, George Akume of Benue and…
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Protesters, under the aegis of Okigwe Zonal Development Association, Abuja (OZDA), yesterday staged a demonstration at the National Assembly, over the delay in conducting Imo North Senatorial rerun polls. His Royal Highness, Eze O.J. C. Anyanwu, of Ehime in Mbano Local Council area, led the protesters, dominated by elderly people from the affected areas. OZDA vice chairman, Chief Asomugha, who spoke for the group, said their protest became necessary, to convey their displeasure at the continued breach of their right to representation at the Senate. The group asked the Senate to summon the Inspector General of Police, Commandant-General of the…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the inspector-general of police (IGP) and security agencies to stop the killings by suspected herdsmen across the country. The president, who broke silence on the carnage by herdsmen in Enugu state, said that the development has become a priority in the agenda of his administration. “Following continuing reports of attacks by ‘herdsmen’ on communities across the country, particularly Monday’s attack on Ukpabi Nimbo in Enugu State, President Muhammadu Buhari assures all Nigerians, once again, of his administration’s continued commitment to ensuring the safety of lives and property in all parts of the country,” a…
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In a shocking move likely to eventually crush the US economy, China is refusing to make its new gold-backed Yuan, convertible from or to US Dollars. The new Yuan was introduced last Tuesday, April 19. When the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreed to add the Yuan to the basket of world currencies used for Global Reserves and International Trade, they wanted China to make the Yuan more reliable as a currency. Since then, China has almost un-pegged its Yuan from the Dollar, allowing its value to fluctuate on world markets. But for years, China has been amassing huge amounts of…
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“We will write this for all to read. Anyone, soldier or not that kills the Fulani takes a loan repayable one day no matter how long it takes.” Nasir Ahmad El Rufai 7:51pm – 15 Jul 2012 This chilling video sent out by the militia arm of the Fulani herdsmen currently terrorising Nigeria claims that the group is supported and protected by the government of General Muhammadu Buhari. The announcer in the video claims that the group is “everywhere in Nigeria”. The 6.37-minute video was sent to us by a reader on Wednesday, April 27, 2016. According to our investigations…
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