The Trump transition committee, Great Again, has denied reports in some sections of the media in Nigeria that President-elect Trump declined invitation to President Muhammadu Buhari and has instead invited former president Goodluck Jonathan to the U.S 45th presidential inauguration scheduled for Friday in Washington.

The official speaking to Per Second News in Washington Thursday morning said that the inauguration was mostly a domestic event for America.

“The US State Department has advised that as in the past, foreign delegations will not be invited to Washington for the President-elect Trump’s 2017 inauguration and that heads of state and governments will be represented by chiefs of diplomatic missions in Washington,” the official said.
https://www.abusidiqu.com/trump-team-denies-inviting-ex-president-jonathan-to-inauguration-see-list-of-invitees/

… ‘I trust Buhari, he won’t fail’

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday bade the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) good night, saying he will not return to the party.

Obasanjo spoke to journalists in Jalingo, Taraba, while assessing some projects initiated by his administration in the state.

The ex- President terminated his membership of PDP in February last year.

Speaking on the lingering crisis in the party which now has two national chairmen, Obasanjo said he had already bade PDP good night and cannot return to say good evening.

“In the part of the country where I come from, there is a saying that you cannot say ‘good night’ and come back to say ‘good evening’ in the same place.

“So for me, it is good night for the Peoples Democratic Party and that’s all,” he said.

He expressed confidence that President Muhammadu Buhari will surmount the present challenges confronting the country.

“So far Buhari has not disappointed us. I trust him (Buhari), he will not fail Nigerians. I know he will overcome the challenges the country is currently facing,” the ex-President added.

He also urged the President to complete the hydroelectric project on the Mambilla Plateau in Taraba
http://linkis.com/thenationonlineng.net/37R8q.

pular Enugu Catholic Priest and founder of the Adoration Ministry,Enugu, Nigeria (AMEN), the Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has again lampooned former President Goodluck Jonathan's government, accusing him of causing the chains of problems currently confronting Nigeria.

Fr Mbaka's recent declaration entitled, "FR MBAKA’S ASSERTION 'THERE IS HUNGER IN NIGERIA', NOT AN ATTACK ON PRESIDENT BUHARI," came as a reaction to recent media reports where he was reportedly attacked President Muhammadu Buhari over the level of suffering in the country.

In a statement he issued on Saturday through his spokesman, Maximus Ugwuoke, the cleric said he observed with keen concern the news in some sections of the media that he “attacked” President Buhari.

The Cleric insisted that he didn't attack Buhari but told him the situation of things in the country and also suggested ways out.

Mbaka said that "the news headline is not only sensational but also a censorious media colouration and hype of the message of the cleric titled 'Bless and Be Blessed' for whatever ends."

Saying that he lamented the level of hunger and suffering in the country, the priest stated that it was followed by another ‎message where he explained that Buhari was not responsible for the situation but the previous administration.

Mbaka declared that the “Bless and Be Blessed” message that was misunderstood was followed by a message titled “Mega Change of Conditions”.

He explained that the second message, where he absorbed the President of blames over the hunger situation in the country read:



“There is sword that is moving about in the country. People are dying like flies. The sword of Hunger is eating the land. And as I have told you this is just the beginning. If anybody is telling you it is going to be well very soon that person is deceiving you. This is because many of us were among those that were alive during the years of the past government. The past PDP government was a grasshopper and locus to Nigerian. The past Government was a disaster to the land of Nigeria; the past government was cancer to this country. There is no need trying to cover their incalculable and iniquitous mess. If you don’t feel it now, you will feel it later.

"The impact of their horrific mess is yet to be felt. It was a regime where hooliganism became a political slogan; where looting became the order of the day; where the neglect of youths became a pattern of administration. The result is what we are passing through now. Hunger is everywhere; the hunger was created before this new government came in. Buhari is not the maker of the hunger.

"The hunger was created during the Jonathan PDP administration but Buhari should abate the long procrastination, bureaucracy and slow methods in tackling it.

“Understand it very well. People will know the truth and the truth will set us free. Buhari is just an agent of change. The money in our treasury was nothing to write home about before this new regime came. The country was in an embarrassing mess.

"Apart from the petroleum that we sell and get money, what other means of foreign exchange do we have? The foundation of the Nigerian economy is oil which has now collapsed and the foundation once destroyed what will the just man do? Psalm 11:3. The past administration did not prepare this administration for this season. That is why the sword has risen. Many will die by this sword but there will be survivors.

"That is why I have been saying and I keep on saying that the past administration should publicly come to apologize to the Nigerians. They should not be foolhardy. They should not continue to perpetrate this type of iniquitous attitude planning about 2019 election for them to continue from where they stopped. All these years of Jonathan, nothing happened in Niger-Delta specifically to be recorded in the annals of history. What a shame? What an embarrassment. The place where the oil has been coming from remained underdeveloped under a man from the same soil. If you go to Niger Delta today you will cry. But what worries me is that our people are good in shifting blames.

"Somebody entered your kitchen carried your pot of soup, enter your store and farm raked everything in the store and farm and ran away. And another person enters the kitchen where there is no pot at all and you want the person to turn the kitchen into a magical kitchen that will produce a magical pot and a magical soup, which soup?

“I am just telling president Buhari that people are hungry because he cannot not come to the street like me and notice people’s feelings. But Buhari is not the author of the hunger. The past government planted the tree of hunger and they want to come back to water it. If it is in a developed country by now from the Senatorial to the reps to the governors, all who participated in the last administration should have resigned with apologies to our youths, otherwise the youths one day will begin to stone them.

“They will soon confuse you that present governments don’t want to feed you, feed you with what? It will surprise the whole Nigerians to know that even after Buhari was a petroleum minister and a military president of the country, he had no oil bloc. Is it not a shock? Don’t you hear the quantum of money that is being recovered from one person? Buhari just came as a redeemer. I don’t know if the people of this country are hypnotized.

"How can we be fighting somebody who is fighting for us? Apart from this Buhari, how can somebody talk to these political juggernauts and tell them to bring back what they have stolen? it is only a Beniah personality like Buhari that can enter into the cave and catch a lion and kill a lion in a snow season and come out. The president needs support. He doesn’t know where to begin because there are many holes dug for him by the past administration, and they carried the sand away expecting him to cover the holes with what?”.

"He, therefore maintained that ‎contrary to the media report Fr. Mbaka "merely reinstated the obvious sufferings that Nigerian are facing (which even the president himself had at points acknowledged and sued for patience and perseverance) and advised the president on the ways to tackle it i.e by engaging economic gurus and listening to good advisers.

"We wonder which portion of the message could be viewed as “an attack” or” bombing” of Mr President as twisted in the media. The acclaimed message of the cleric to Mr President to us is rather a further demonstration the cleric’s love to see that the president succeeds in his messianic rescue operation mission in Nigeria and that is why it is devoid of hypocrisy.

"It is obvious that those who are arm-twisting the said message of the cleric to Mr President as an attack on Mr President are those who want the president to fail or be blindfolded so as to use the obvious hardship Nigerians are facing as a weak point of his administration to ride onto power mindless of the fact that Mr President has done so well in fighting corruption and insurgency in the country, which are mega achievements that scores him above average in just few months of his administration.

"In the background of the message, Fr Mbaka encouraged the gallant warrior, President Buhari, to continue his battle against corruption and insurgency asserting that if not a man like President Buhari, by now people may have stopped going to church and mosques. Boko Haram might have wrecked this country. People might have equally stopped going to schools, markets etc. Kudos to Buhari .Fr Mbaka revealed that corruption, insurgency and poor governance by past governments gave birth to three horrible children (1) Hunger (2) Anger (3) Danger.

"He asserted that Buhari is not the cause of corruption and insurgency yet he is fighting them frontally and enjoined the president to extend same to hunger even though he is not the cause. He pleaded the President to begin a War against Hunger, as many are dying hopelessly. He stressed that if the hunger, anger and danger continue, Nigerians may not vote for him again, as they would mistake him for the cause of these maladies while in fact he is a solution.

"Fr Mbaka equally advised the President on being careful about how he appoints people to prominent positions, so that no region will appear marginalized- as happened in NNPC board and charged the President to make sure that those around him are not misguiding him. He advised the President on human empowerment and making sure that those who worked for him (Buhari) during the election ought to be empowered –as one good turn deserves another.

"For the purpose of clarity, granted that Fr Mbaka stated the obvious , that there is hunger in the land, he never attributed the cause of the hunger and economic hardship bedeviling the nation to Buhari rather he attributed it to the offshoot of the actions and inactions of the past administrations of this country.

"We recall that earlier this year, Fr Mbaka had during his New Year message predicted that hunger and hardship will come upon the country this year and so we wonder why this message should make a headline at this point of the year

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/news/mbaka-attacks-jonathan-denies-attacking-buhari/158073.html.

Popular Enugu Catholic Priest and founder of the Adoration Ministry,Enugu, Nigeria (AMEN), the Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has again lampooned former President Goodluck Jonathan's government, accusing him of causing the chains of problems currently confronting Nigeria.

Fr Mbaka's recent declaration entitled, "FR MBAKA’S ASSERTION 'THERE IS HUNGER IN NIGERIA', NOT AN ATTACK ON PRESIDENT BUHARI," came as a reaction to recent media reports where he was reportedly attacked President Muhammadu Buhari over the level of suffering in the country.

In a statement he issued on Saturday through his spokesman, Maximus Ugwuoke, the cleric said he observed with keen concern the news in some sections of the media that he “attacked” President Buhari.

The Cleric insisted that he didn't attack Buhari but told him the situation of things in the country and also suggested ways out.

Mbaka said that "the news headline is not only sensational but also a censorious media colouration and hype of the message of the cleric titled 'Bless and Be Blessed' for whatever ends."

Saying that he lamented the level of hunger and suffering in the country, the priest stated that it was followed by another ‎message where he explained that Buhari was not responsible for the situation but the previous administration.

Mbaka declared that the “Bless and Be Blessed” message that was misunderstood was followed by a message titled “Mega Change of Conditions”.

He explained that the second message, where he absorbed the President of blames over the hunger situation in the country read:



“There is sword that is moving about in the country. People are dying like flies. The sword of Hunger is eating the land. And as I have told you this is just the beginning. If anybody is telling you it is going to be well very soon that person is deceiving you. This is because many of us were among those that were alive during the years of the past government. The past PDP government was a grasshopper and locus to Nigerian. The past Government was a disaster to the land of Nigeria; the past government was cancer to this country. There is no need trying to cover their incalculable and iniquitous mess. If you don’t feel it now, you will feel it later.

"The impact of their horrific mess is yet to be felt. It was a regime where hooliganism became a political slogan; where looting became the order of the day; where the neglect of youths became a pattern of administration. The result is what we are passing through now. Hunger is everywhere; the hunger was created before this new government came in. Buhari is not the maker of the hunger.

"The hunger was created during the Jonathan PDP administration but Buhari should abate the long procrastination, bureaucracy and slow methods in tackling it.

“Understand it very well. People will know the truth and the truth will set us free. Buhari is just an agent of change. The money in our treasury was nothing to write home about before this new regime came. The country was in an embarrassing mess.

"Apart from the petroleum that we sell and get money, what other means of foreign exchange do we have? The foundation of the Nigerian economy is oil which has now collapsed and the foundation once destroyed what will the just man do? Psalm 11:3. The past administration did not prepare this administration for this season. That is why the sword has risen. Many will die by this sword but there will be survivors.

"That is why I have been saying and I keep on saying that the past administration should publicly come to apologize to the Nigerians. They should not be foolhardy. They should not continue to perpetrate this type of iniquitous attitude planning about 2019 election for them to continue from where they stopped. All these years of Jonathan, nothing happened in Niger-Delta specifically to be recorded in the annals of history. What a shame? What an embarrassment. The place where the oil has been coming from remained underdeveloped under a man from the same soil. If you go to Niger Delta today you will cry. But what worries me is that our people are good in shifting blames.

"Somebody entered your kitchen carried your pot of soup, enter your store and farm raked everything in the store and farm and ran away. And another person enters the kitchen where there is no pot at all and you want the person to turn the kitchen into a magical kitchen that will produce a magical pot and a magical soup, which soup?

“I am just telling president Buhari that people are hungry because he cannot not come to the street like me and notice people’s feelings. But Buhari is not the author of the hunger. The past government planted the tree of hunger and they want to come back to water it. If it is in a developed country by now from the Senatorial to the reps to the governors, all who participated in the last administration should have resigned with apologies to our youths, otherwise the youths one day will begin to stone them.

“They will soon confuse you that present governments don’t want to feed you, feed you with what? It will surprise the whole Nigerians to know that even after Buhari was a petroleum minister and a military president of the country, he had no oil bloc. Is it not a shock? Don’t you hear the quantum of money that is being recovered from one person? Buhari just came as a redeemer. I don’t know if the people of this country are hypnotized.

"How can we be fighting somebody who is fighting for us? Apart from this Buhari, how can somebody talk to these political juggernauts and tell them to bring back what they have stolen? it is only a Beniah personality like Buhari that can enter into the cave and catch a lion and kill a lion in a snow season and come out. The president needs support. He doesn’t know where to begin because there are many holes dug for him by the past administration, and they carried the sand away expecting him to cover the holes with what?”.

"He, therefore maintained that ‎contrary to the media report Fr. Mbaka "merely reinstated the obvious sufferings that Nigerian are facing (which even the president himself had at points acknowledged and sued for patience and perseverance) and advised the president on the ways to tackle it i.e by engaging economic gurus and listening to good advisers.

"We wonder which portion of the message could be viewed as “an attack” or” bombing” of Mr President as twisted in the media. The acclaimed message of the cleric to Mr President to us is rather a further demonstration the cleric’s love to see that the president succeeds in his messianic rescue operation mission in Nigeria and that is why it is devoid of hypocrisy.

"It is obvious that those who are arm-twisting the said message of the cleric to Mr President as an attack on Mr President are those who want the president to fail or be blindfolded so as to use the obvious hardship Nigerians are facing as a weak point of his administration to ride onto power mindless of the fact that Mr President has done so well in fighting corruption and insurgency in the country, which are mega achievements that scores him above average in just few months of his administration.

"In the background of the message, Fr Mbaka encouraged the gallant warrior, President Buhari, to continue his battle against corruption and insurgency asserting that if not a man like President Buhari, by now people may have stopped going to church and mosques. Boko Haram might have wrecked this country. People might have equally stopped going to schools, markets etc. Kudos to Buhari .Fr Mbaka revealed that corruption, insurgency and poor governance by past governments gave birth to three horrible children (1) Hunger (2) Anger (3) Danger.

"He asserted that Buhari is not the cause of corruption and insurgency yet he is fighting them frontally and enjoined the president to extend same to hunger even though he is not the cause. He pleaded the President to begin a War against Hunger, as many are dying hopelessly. He stressed that if the hunger, anger and danger continue, Nigerians may not vote for him again, as they would mistake him for the cause of these maladies while in fact he is a solution.

"Fr Mbaka equally advised the President on being careful about how he appoints people to prominent positions, so that no region will appear marginalized- as happened in NNPC board and charged the President to make sure that those around him are not misguiding him. He advised the President on human empowerment and making sure that those who worked for him (Buhari) during the election ought to be empowered –as one good turn deserves another.

"For the purpose of clarity, granted that Fr Mbaka stated the obvious , that there is hunger in the land, he never attributed the cause of the hunger and economic hardship bedeviling the nation to Buhari rather he attributed it to the offshoot of the actions and inactions of the past administrations of this country.

"We recall that earlier this year, Fr Mbaka had during his New Year message predicted that hunger and hardship will come upon the country this year and so we wonder why this message should make a headline at this point of the year

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/news/mbaka-attacks-jonathan-denies-attacking-buhari/158073.html.

A faction of the Peoples Democratic Party led by Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff has said that a former Minister of Works, Chief Tony Anenih, is no longer a member of Board of Trustees of the party.

It said Anenih voluntarily resigned from the Board instead of responding to the query issued to him for alleged anti-party activities in 2015.

Anenih, a former chairman of the Board was queried for alleged anti-party activities in Imo State in 2015, but instead of replying the query, he said he was resigning from the Board.

The then National Working Committee in a letter dated May 19, 2015, signed by the then PDP National Secretary, Prof. Wale Oladipo, requested him to appear before it, a summon Anenih shunned before he voluntarily relinquished the BoT chairmanship position.

But, the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee, in a letter dated July 22, and addressed to Anenih, informed him of the party’s withdrawal of the summon notice.
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The letter, signed by the Secretary to the committee, Senator Ben Obi, read in part, “With a view, to finally clearing all issues relating to this matter and based on your request to meet with the current Caretaker Committee, and the agreed meeting which took place on July 13, 2016, the Committee Chairman, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, wishes to thank you for appearing before it to finally clear all issues relating to this matter.

“Having heard from you, and made some consultations, the Caretaker Committee has reviewed the whole episode and decided to withdraw the said letter from and by the defunct National Working Committee.”

However, the Sheriff faction said on Sunday in Abuja, that its attention was drawn to the letter written by Obi and said there was no way the former minister would return as a member of the Board.

The statement, which was signed by its Spokesperson, Mr. Bernard Mikko, insisted that Anenih must reply the query and later re-apply before his case could be looked into

https://www.today.ng/politics/161048/anenih-longer-pdp-bot-member-sheriff

2019 Presidency And New Party With Mimiko: Atiku Issues Statement

Former Vice President and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Atiku Abubakar has debunked claims that he has formed a new political platform under which he would run for President in 2019, with Ondo State Governor Segun Mimiko as his running mate.

This was contained in a Sunday evening statement signed by his Media Adviser, Mazi Paul Ibe.

According to him, “the report bears all the features of a political hatchet job planted by his opponents who have desperately tried to invent events in order to draw a wedge between him and President (Muhammadu) Buhari on one hand and APC leadership as a whole”.

He said the “report was an incompetent product of fiction, so shallow and vacuous that even its authors could not validate its credibility with reliable and verifiable sources.”

The statement alerts Nigerians and APC leadership to the existence of “some people of bad faith trying tooth and nail to spread the seeds of discord in the party, and destroy the much needed unity, harmony and cohesion, which are the pillars of strength for every political organisation.”

The statement was quick to reiterate the Turaki Adamawa’s loyalty to President Buhari and the APC leadership.

“Atiku would ordinarily have ignored the malicious report, but says he chose to react, lest his silence would be mistaken as an admission of the falsehoods published against him”.

http://www.herald.ng/2019-presidency-new-party-mimiko-atiku-issues-statement/?utm_source=nnd&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=nnd

I thought the reason for leaving your number was for any interested buyer to call you. Now you are being called and you are not responding.

[b][/b]There is nothing like accidental discharge of a firearm . A firearm that is not primed to be discharged, is always in safety mode and in this mode, it cannot discharge except it is released from the safety mode. Releasing the safety mode is still not enough to discharge the firearm, you must place a bullet in the firing chamber by cocking the hammer and finally pulling the trigger. For any firearm to discharge therefore, a conscious effort must have been made to get it to discharge. The most important rule in handling a firearm, is that it should be in safety position always.

We can continue to agonise over GEJ's loss to PMB from now till thy Kingdom come. It won't change what has happened. We can continue to throw tantrums and shout inanities all we can. What's done is done. Why should we even be concerned about who takes credit for the former petroleum minister's arrest? What should concern us is , is she guilty as charged? and if she is, how is it that our institutions of state responsible for checking and containing such gross conduct became so impotent that such sleaze and malfeasance went on for a whole six years unchecked?

flipflop:
The best reply to "how do you do?" Is "Very well, thank you"

"Very well thank you" flipflop. You made my day.

Mileage, location and price to jmsdkp@gmail.com pls.

I can see its a manual shift. How much are you asking?

nekede11: Am nt talking abt recruitmt neither him,it s replacement we are talking abt,if you are n abuja,u wil understand better,wat is happening n ministry,so point of correctn ,it is replacement nt recruitment.d guy s disturbed b/c d list hav lingered,dat s why he came up wit dis thread.he shuld learn patience,espacially govt job,i knw 1 day d guy will come and say,he finally got dat job

My brother whatever name you want to give it , replacement or recruitment, nothing like that is going on in Civil defence pls. For now no replacement or recruitment is going on in civil defence. Nairalanders pls. beware.

nekede11: The topic contradicts his comment,read his comment well,d job list he s waiting 4,is nt yet released, am also waiting 4 d same list,he s curious

Bro. You are on a looong thing. NSCDC is not recruiting now . There is no list any where. Pls. People stop this habit of falling for scams with your eyes wide open and turning around to complain later.They have been shouting it every day, they are not recruiting. If you are truly looking for a job, then NIS has advertised for recruitment go to their portal and apply.

wellmax: Its just politics, the decision will soon be overturned. I said so

Only sensible comment I've read so far. There is already an appeal panel in place and you will soon hear that the decision has been overturned its all politics.

Pls. email pics of this ride to orduweadikpo@gmail.com asap.

nikkypearl: 136 floors!!!!!chei!am stil a learner o!d best design I ever did was 6floors! thumb up 4d Architect joor!

164 floors sis.

Billyonaire: This Amaechi of a guy sounds like a clown. Its one thing to contest, its another thing to even scale through the PDP Primaries.

Now you are sounding like a bigger clown, which law says he must be in pdp to contest for the presidency.

Some of these churches operate like secret societies. What is the big deal about a media coverage that a church will rinsist on accreditation. May be there is something they dont want prying eyes to see.

ramaju: All these grammar only to waste people's time. Try and become a reporter for ovation. How will all these English reduce the price of beans or better the health of those you wrote about?

Such stupefying illiteracy.

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Poor dan in a droop
Was it a cat I saw
Able was I er I saw elba

Clerverly: I thought the last time I checked, it was GEJ that has been deranged by corruption. Okupe get abreast of the new developments before you embark on this your kamikaze job. Goodluck!

When u meet Okupe, u would have met a buffoon at his buffoonry.

@Mxxpunkxx
Ur post is very informative tanx.

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aribisala0: Nothing wrong with our heads,she is being judged on results.Anyway the World bank job is quite different from a Minister of Finance.One is a technocrat whose main responsibility is to her boss(es),the main shareholders of the bank i.e. the US.
She is seen to do a good job to the extent that she serves US interest.That is the nature of the World bank as her recent failure to become President highlights
The MD does not set the World bank Agenda but plays out a US/European script.In that regard she did very well apparently. Creating jobs or prosperity in a Place like Nigeria probably requires a set of skills which I suspect elude the accomplished lady.Time will tell
We must remember that the World Bank is not a commercial banking environment like Citigroup e,g and is very much removed from where the often painful impact of its decisions are felt.
Finance ministers on the other hand are often politicians elected and have a sense of the suffering of the people as well as an eye on future elections.
So, because someone is a world class vet we cannot assume they will make a good doctor
Just to make this point further. Is there any example anywhere of a previous world bank MD being employed as Minister of Finance in any significant economy or Any country for that matter and what were the results

You' ve said it all.

Suswan Gabriel of Benue will leave all these guys at the starting blocks l bet yu.

A beg make una no forget Hembe for house of Reps.

Pls. send pix to this Email box jmsdkp@yahoo.com

Interested in the 22''. How much are you willing to deal ?

Interested in the Hp/compaq mini but I am in ABJ. How can we work this out?
You can call me on 08033355118.