why did he not predict that FG will give amnesty to the militants all this born throw way pastors.

Nigeria pastors dagbo specialist

He has gone to join forces with mend  so that they can librate biafra

Aboki why are u talking like dis is it because you cattles control the military anyway am a vet doctor i have medicine for unruly cattles.

Simple question what has the north brought to the bargaining table.
Since the north has been ruling Nigeria what benefits have we gained can you name one.

Y u asking a daft question

Pauline Ikoni, 22, lives in a onebedroom apartment outside her university campus in Port Harcourt. She is a 200 level student of Languages. With her apartment furnished with a refrigerator, a plasma television set, home-theatre musical equipment, air conditioning unit and a luxury bed, Pauline also boasts of a fat bank account and a wardrobe rich in the latest fashion trends.

For her male colleagues, Pauline belongs to the rich and mighty in the society and, as such, they cannot come close to her or ask her for a date. But Pauline is not alone in her opulent lifestyle as a student because there are many out there socialising with the male aristocrats in the society.

These are rich and old males who prefer the ``good things'' of life in the company of ladies who are young enough to be their granddaughters. There is yet another class of girls who submit to any `customer' who can pay for their services. These are campus girls who are listed in a catalogue or photo album for men to choose from for the purpose of having a one or two-night outing. Usually the peddlers of the albums are fellow male students who serve as pimps, and make an income from the girls' earnings.

These girls have either poor, middle class or moderately rich family background, and they engage in what many regard as campus prostitution for various reasons raging from pleasure to insatiate appetite for cash. Some even do so due to peer influence, while others are involved as a means of funding their schooling. When female undergraduates discuss ``aristo'', it appears like an ordinary topic to the ears of parents, guardians and the ignorant, but to the initiated, ``aristo'' or ``aristocrat'' is the new name for ``sugar daddy''. Dating an aristo is the latest barometer among campus girls for assessing wealth and position. ``The name `sugar daddy' is best applied outside the campus for old men who date young girls. But on the campus, it is much more dignifying to call them `aristo','' says Aisha Haruna, an undergraduate.

``The act is fashionable and the girls do it with relish and pride as they flaunt their earnings by way of accessories and newclothing.'' A corps member, Emmanuel Akpan, says that ``for the girls, it is `thank God it is Friday' as they pack their big aristo handbags and move out of their hostels to spend weekends with their male friends who are old enough to be either their grandfathers or fathers''. Many undergraduates say it is a common sight to find luxury cars on campuses waiting to take girls out for weekend fun. They also say that it is a usual sight in the evenings to find cars and buses parked at the female hostels to pick girls for distribution to visiting dignitaries in town.

``This usually occurs during major political party activities in cities and towns across the country,'' says Emeka Nwachukwu, an undergraduate. But what makes young girls date older men? Janet Osifo, an undergraduate, says she prefers to date older men because they are more decent in the sense that they take the girls to quiet places where too many eyes will not see them. ``Older men are good in bed because they are more experienced. The older the man the better he is. Besides, I need the money to survive,'' she says. ``An aristo will never raise his hand to hit you because he appreciates that you are doing him a favour not minding the fact that he is paying most of your bills.''

A graduate, Buki Ajibola, says she dated older men for the money she could make from them. ``I lived off-campus while I was in the university. I made money from my aristo to pay my rent, buy new dresses and shoes as well as have enough to give out to my siblings,'' she recalls. Buki, who is an Abuja-based corps member, says dating an aristo may be bad, it could be useful as one does not have to run home often for parental assistance. ``My mother manages to send me some money for my upkeep; the rest I get from my aristo,'' she adds. But another corps member, Blessing Ajuks, holds a different view as she says that dating older men is unhealthy for a young lady. ``It is not the best; it is not good in the sight of God. It is like stealing someone else's husband.

``It undermines the dignity of a woman, which is supposed to be priceless,'' she says, adding that most of the men have their families and are rich, but are close to the grave. For many female students, the fear of being used for rituals is the reason to avoid an aristo. This was the experience of a female student in Benue who went out with an old male friend to a hotel for an allnight outing. ``The girl insisted that the man should use a condom, which he refused. She finally succumbed when the man offered her a mouth-watering sum of N500,000,'' says Grace Eneh. According to Grace, the girl confessed later that she experienced a strange movement in her lower abdomen, which medical doctors could not diagnose.

``She had to seek divine intervention that revealed she had been used for ritual purposes,'' Grace says. Observers attribute some of the reported cases of ritual murders involving ladies to aristo outings. Chidinma Eke, a corps member, blames poor parental upbringing for such immoral acts by ladies. ``If a young girl is properly groomed by her parents I do not see why she will fancy an aristo. If an elderly man tries asking her out, she should reflect on her own father trying to date her,'' she says.

For Chidinma, poverty, peer pressure, frustration, financial insecurity and greed are some of the reasons for girls dating old men. A mother, Mrs Adora Okon, agrees that peer pressure and the lack of good parental upbringing make girls date old men. ``Some girls, when they get to the university, decide to forget all the training they received from their parents. ``They behave like good girls when they return home, but when they return to school they turn to something else. ``When you date someone's husband, somebody will definitely do the same to you. Remember what God has joined together let no man put asunder,'' she admonishes.

But Okechukwu Nwoko, a student at the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, expresses dismay over the effect of aristo dating female students on their male counterparts. ``It is affecting us the guys adversely. Girls have become scarce because the available ones prefer dating rich old men in the society.'' A cleric, Rev. Fr. Solomon Bulus, of the Missionary of St. Paul, Gwagwalada, FCT, says that a relationship between a married man and a young lady is strange and should not be encouraged. ``I do not feel very comfortable with it. It is exploitative,'' he says, adding that God will never approve of men dating girls young enough to be their daughters.

``It is against the natural order of creation,'' he says, referring to mankind's first parents, Adam and Eve, according to the Bible. Bulus urges young ladies to reflect on their lives and focus more on their education while in school. ``There is no hurry in life because life is in different stages. ``Value what you have as a woman because if there is anything you treasure most, it should be your body. Never give anybody the opportunity to abuse it,'' he adds. Morality, they say, begins at home; and for female students and their aristo male friends, it behoves them to toe the path of godliness. This way, Nigeria will be free of moral decadence and depravity, moralists say.

Professor Soyinka, in a statement made available to P.M.News stressed that president Yar’Adua’s lukewarm attitude towards the Niger Delta imbroglio was too glaring to allow the effectiveness of the amnesty being dangled by the government before the militants operating in the area.

Soyinka, who claimed that Obasanjo’s administration thrived in deceit as the “Ota farmer fabricated a lot of deceitful motions… to provide a cover for ensuring the statusquo”, also maintained that President Yar’Adua on his own has decided not to be bothered with the problems of the region.

“As MEND statements have periodically emphasized, the Delta crisis is the more purulent tip of the Nigerian boil, now prodded into a violent eruption in a particular region.

“Over and over again it has been stressed that nothing but a holistic approach to internal restructuring will serve the nation,” Soyinka said, while maintaining that this approach would provide a context within which the aggrieved oil-producing area can feel a genuine relatedness to the national question.

The Nobel Laureate said that within the two years in the present administration, the president has shown several actions that have resulted in distrust among the country’s citizens.

He also expressed fears that the amnesty being offered the militants might just be another cocooned victim of purposed inertia owing to the non-implementation of several recommendations by the various committees set up to investigate the Niger Delta issue and come up with resolutions

WARRI— BARELY 12 hours after President Umaru Yar’Adua proclaimed amnesty for militants in the Niger_Delta on Thursday, the Movement for Emancipation of the Niger_Delta (MEND) blew up a well head (jacket B) of the Shell Afremo off_shore oil field in Delta State, claiming its action was in response to the razing down of the homes of some perceived militants at Agbeti community in the state by the Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger_Delta, earlier that day.


Before the militants struck, leader of the Ijaw ethnic nationality and First Republic Minister of Information, Chief Edwin Clark had in an interview with Saturday Vanguard welcomed the amnesty granted by President Yar’Adua and called on militants in the region to accept it.

He, however, called on the JTF not to do anything that would make the boys not to come out of the creeks voluntarily to accept amnesty already offered them by the Federal Government and surrender their arms accordingly, suggesting, particularly, that the security outfit should call off its Cordon and Search operation in the creeks of Gbaramatu kingdom.
However, former chairman of the Board of the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria and business mogul, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, yesterday, faulted the amnesty proclamation for militants by President Umaru Yar’Adua, saying it is structurally defective and is not a solution to the Niger_Delta crisis.

He said there was nothing tangible the Federal Government said it was going to do in the Niger_Delta beyond gracing the tube light to make unproductive and very undemocratic statements in the name of amnesty to militants.

According to him, “The problem is that our government is not straightforward in handing issues. We are a Republic, why should the Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), which is doing its business principally in Delta State, be taking the resources from the state to Lagos to spend. I am aware that for its Escravos_Gas_to_Liquid project, training is going on for some persons in a hotel, I think so, and it is spanning the next 10 years, why Lagos, is there no place the training can be done in Delta state, which is where the money is going to come from”.

Spokesman of MEND, Jomo Gbomo in an online statement, yesterday, confirming the attack on the Shell facility said, “ Nigerian military Joint Task Force began a punitive expedition on the Niger Delta oil bearing community of Agbeti in Delta state at about 2100Hrs, Thursday, June 25, 2009 some few hours after their Commander_in_Chief, President Umaru Yar’Adua made an amnesty proclamation”.

“Their mission was to seek the homes of perceived militants and raze them to the ground ahead of any amnesty.

“This action by the soldiers serves as an in_sight to what the region should expect in a one_sided balance of uncontrolled power from a military that lacks discipline and nurses hatred and seeks revenge for their humiliating defeat.

“In response, at about 2300 hrs the same day, Thursday, June 25, 2009, Piper Alpha continued its rampage on the Nigerian oil industry by blowing up the second remaining well head (jacket B) of the Shell Afremo off_shore oil fields in Delta state”, he stated.
Reacting to the amnesty package by Mr. President, Chief Clark said, “I listened to the broadcast with passion and gratitude, and was happy that it was granted unconditionally to those undergoing trial, including Henry Okah. It is a historic proclamation and is welcomed by all.

“It will help to usher peace, security and stability to the region. It will definitely create the forum for peaceful negotiation on problems of the Niger_Delta and also create the needed conducive environment for development of the region”, he asserted.
The elder statesman said the struggle by the boys was to draw attention to the degradation, injustice and underdevelopment of the region and since the point had been made, they should accept amnesty without much ado.

He said the repression of the freedom fighters had come to an end with the amnesty proclamation by President Yar’Adua and urged him to direct the JTF to stop creating situations that promote hostility between the task force and youths.

“Militants should not be scared away by the task force from coming out to accept amnesty. If the JTF continues with its current operation in the region, of course you know that the waterways of Delta state are still sealed, there is no free movement, people will think that the war is still on and will not come out to surrender their arms”, he said.

Chief Clark also appealed to oil bunkerers not to create scenes that would give the impression that Niger_Delta youths were still involved in criminal activities, saying the genuine struggle of the region has been contaminated by the oil thieves, who had made many to think that oil bunkering was synonymous with the agitation for development.

He appealed to President Yar’Adua to set up a powerful Judicial Commission of Inquiry to unravel those involved in oil bunkering and take necessary steps to stop them, noting that those engaged in the illegal act were powerful Nigerians from outside the Niger_Delta.
Recalling the African Pride saga in which some two Navy officers were named, he said what some youths in the region do would just be termed jerry_can bunkering and the real bunkerers should be unmasked

SIX days after he was declared wanted by the Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger-Delta over the disappearance of at least 16 service personnel of the Nigeria Armed Forces amongst other offences, top militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo says that even if he is captured and made to pay the ultimate sacrifice by the security outfit, the Niger-Delta crisis will continue except the Federal Government tackles the root cause of the problem, which is underdevelopment of the region.

Tompolo who spoke to Saturday Vanguard through one of his senior commanders (names withheld) weekend, said, “We will first appraise the amnesty package that was just announced by the President Yar’Adua before coming out publicly to say if we have accepted it or not, but, those of us in Camp 5 have accepted amnesty in principle two years, that was in 2007, before it was announced on June 25 by the Federal Government”.
According to him,

“My boss (Tompolo), however, feels sad about the bombardment of communities in Gbaramatu kingdom, the sufferings and hardship innocent old men, women, youths and children have been made to undergo by soldiers who invaded the communities.

He feels the people were made to go through pains by the military for no fault of theirs”.
“He is sorry that the Nigerian state decided to handle the matter the way it has done so far, provoking the bombing of oil installations belonging to the Chevron Nigeria Limited, Agip and Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) by militant groups, a development that has totally crippled oil production activities in the country”, the “commander” explained.

His words, “You know I cannot tell you whereabouts, so there is no need asking me where he is, I have comments on that but what I can tell you is that he is safe and secure in where he is. Leave me out of whether he is still in the country or in the creeks, I cannot give out my master”.

“We have heard from him and he is not afraid of being killed but he sent out words to us that even if the JTF gets him today, it will not kill the spirit of the struggle. He said that he (Tompolo) is only an individual and if anybody decides to use him as a sacrifice, it will propel more people to enrol in the struggle.
“As far as he is concerned, he has played his own role in the Niger-Delta struggle and anything that happens to him now is God’s divine arrangement but he would not be intimidated by the security outfit, which went about bombing and killing innocent people”, he said.

“Tompolo is very much worried that more than a month after thousands of people were displaced from their homes, there is no definite arrangement on ground for them to return to their homes a host of them are living like animals in the forest without food to eat”, he added.

“However, to answer your question on if he is not afraid that the JTF would soon catch up with him, I want to tell you that he is not afraid because they will not get him, they don’t know where he is, they only said they were inching nearer to him to deceive the people and justify the money they are spending for their operation.
“Master (referring to Tompolo) is safe and secure where he is, there is no problem.

It was strategic that he melted into the thin air at the time he did but we know that he is very relevant in the peace process in the Niger-Delta and that what happened on May 13, which the JTF is accusing him is not him that caused the problem, it is the soldiers themselves that caused the crisis”, he said.

For the umpteenth time, Niger Delta militants yesterday attacked another oil installation in the region, blowing up a wellhead in an oil field operated by the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC).
The current upsurge in attacks on oil facilities in Nigeria, and the political tension in Iran, which has resulted in the death of about 20 persons pushed oil prices to fresh highs of $71.23.
The main militant group, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, which claimed responsibility for the attack, said it attacked the wellhead in the Afremo Oilfield because the military had gone on a “punitive expedition in Delta State shortly after the Federal Government announced the amnesty offer. The military has however denied the allegation, describing it as false.
Afremo Oilfield is said to be located 14 miles from an export terminal through which crude oil from Shell’s Forcados fields is pumped.
A Reuters report yesterday said oil rose above $71 a barrel, after militants announced the attack on the Shell oilfield and as equity markets rallied on optimism that the global recession was easing.
MEND spokesperson, Jomo Gbomo said in a statement: “Nigerian military Joint Task Force began a punitive expedition on the Niger Delta oil bearing community of Agbeti in Delta state at about 2100Hrs, Thursday, June 25, 2009. Their mission was to seek the homes of perceived militants and raze them to the ground ahead of any amnesty.
“In response, at about 2300 hrs the same day, Thursday, June 25, 2009, Piper Alpha continued it's rampage on the Nigerian oil industry by blowing up the second remaining well head (jacket B) of the Shell Afremo off-shore oil fields in Delta state.”
According to the report, the benchmark August US crude oil contract was up 88 percent per barrel at $71.11, having hit a high of $71.23. London Brent also rose 85 cents to $70.63.
The report added that Exxon Mobil ’s announcement, that its huge Baytown Refinery suffered an operational glitch that triggered flaring, sparking worries that the largest US oil refinery could tighten gasoline stockpiles during this summer's peak demand driving season, helped push the prices up.
MEND recently shifted its offensive against oil installations located outside the Delta and had in the last three weeks claimed responsibility for attacks on oil installations including the Afremo oilfields.

Earlier, the group had attacked the facility of Italian oil giant Eni in Bayelsa State, prompting it to declare force majeure on exports from its Brass River terminal. The company was said to have shut off production of around 33,000 barrels of oil and two million cubic metres of gas per day following the Bayelsa attack.
The militants sabotaged Shell’s oil pipelines in Rivers State as well as a Shallow-water offshore field last Sunday.
MEND said the attack on the company’s pipelines at Adamakiri and Kula, both in Rivers State, early on Sunday was part of its operation, “ Hurricane Piper Alpha.”

Before last Sunday’s incident, the group had attacked Shell’s Trans Ramos pipeline at Aghoro-2 community in Bayelsa State, forcing the company to halt some chunks of crude production. Prior to the renewed attacks on oil facilities in the region, the country was said to have recorded a shut in of over one million b/d, bringing the country’s output to only about 1.6million barrels of oil per day. A recent statistics released by the Department o Petroleum Resources (DPR) about a fortnight ago, showed that production deferment due to the crisis in the oil-rich region was over 1 million barrels per day. The statistics indicated that both the reserves and the daily output are on the decline due to the restiveness in the Niger Delta, raising fears that the restiveness may deter the country from achieving its set targets of 4million barrels per day and reserves of 40 billion barrels by 2010. Nigeria has the capacity to produce 3.2 million barrels of oil per day, but was producing about 2.6 million barrels before the escalation of violence in the region in 2006. The output had hovered around 2.2million up to 2008, when production dropped to about 2million barrels per day. Prompted by the renewed unrest, some oil companies operating in the region have evacuated their staff from site, while others have since suspended further deployment of workers to the crisis region.


I don tell una say the gbege don set oko na movement of jah people ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

see maga
Nigeria government nai be maga now hahahahahahahaha

Rivers State militant, Mr Solomon Ndigbara, who goes by the moniker Osama Bin Laden, was the first to accept the federal government’s offer of amnesty yesterday when he laid down his weapons and formally handed them over to the Inspector General of Police, Mr Mike Okiro at Yeghe in Gokhana Local Gove-rnment Area of the state.
The ceremony which was expected to commence early yesterday morning did not start till about 6 p.m. when the IG arrived from Abuja and headed straight to the Primary School IV where every indigene of the area had gathered to watch the ceremony.
The handing over was considered symbolic as only ten automatic weapons were surrendered. Ndigbara had earlier in a chat with THISDAY said that he had most of his weapons in the creeks which would be handed over if he goes there.
The acceptance of the amnesty offer by Bin Laden, said to have been in charge of the Ogoni axis, came on what appears to be a division among the ranks of militants with some willing to accept the offer by Yar’Adua, while others are rejecting it.
For instance, the Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC), an umbrella body for militants in the Niger Delta region, dissociated its members from the amnesty deal, but some of its notable commanders have already gone ahead to address the press accepting it.
Cynthia Whyte, Spokesp-erson for the JRC in a statement said: “I wish to announce a complete dissociation of the Joint Revolut-ionary Council from the Umar Yar’Adua amnesty largesse even though we recognise that it would provide great succour for bandit elements within renegade criminal ranks.
“This so-called amnesty is the latest in a series of ‘Greek gifts’ awarded to the people of the Niger Delta to enable smooth access to the oil in our communities.
“Others include the Niger Delta Development Commission (which was designed to fail from the onset) and the Ministry of Niger Delta headquartered in Abuja.
“The Yar’Adua junta has failed the people of the Ijaw and Niger Delta region even as we recognize that the people of the region today constitute their own biggest problems.
“Fifth columnist elements, incompetent political leaders and outright stupidity have corrupted the minds of the people,” Whyte said.
Meawhile, while giving up his weapons, Bin Laden informed the IG that he was touched by God to abandon his former position and called on the federal government to “do whatever it has said it will do and we will keep to our own side of the bargain,”
Responding, Okiro who later went into a closed door meeting with the reformed militant assured him that the federal government would keep to its side of the bargain and would not renege on the terms of the amnesty.
He also stated that the handing over of the arms unconditionally was a proof that both sides were not only serious but had confidence in the process which he hopes will bring peace to the region.
He called on other militants to follow the example of Bin laden and hand in their weapons to benefit from the amnesty.
Weapons handed over included three AK47 rifles, three self-loading rifles, three pump action rifles, one P-Baretta and 1,000 rounds of live ammunition as well as 13 cartridges.
Lawyer to another militant, Ateke Tom, Mr. Ikenna Enekweizu, Com-missioner of Police in Rivers State and Evan-gelist Testimony Etteh were all on hand to witness the surrender of the guns and the destruction of his shrine.

we supose fall all these bargers

Look at the dirty aboki brainless bonfoon animal in human skin.
The only people taking this country backwards is your brainless people called abokis who think nigeria is there right and they own nigeria.
The time is near trust me my friend.
When water don pass garri watine you think say go happen.

Well i have seen the trash some people have written and it is pity that some of you cannot think properly.
The injustice that is taken place in nigeria today is it right.
What is federalism,is it not what nigeria should be praticing were every region contributes well now who is doing the major contribution.
No one is advocating for violence we all want peace.
Let every state contribute 30% of there income to the federal government it is simple as that.
Do you know that alot of people from the niger delta are ready to die for this cause what mend is doing now is a tip of the ice berg.
In the coming months watch out.
When the gbege set na from the north nia the fire go start to dey burn from.
If you don't know the niger delta people abroad are coming home in mass in preparation for the final show down.
Asawana
shot am make e pass

Mister knowall were ur brain dey na whao u leave am for bus stop try wise o abi dem dey worry u

Nigeria has an even bigger drug problem than Britain, or how else would you explain why anyone in his right senses will peddle drugs in some countries where the penalty for drug pushers is death. I dont think money is the only motivating factor. The pushers are either high on something greater than even drugs itself or are damn right stupid.
We are talking about UK not Nigeria okay mister
Don't bring Nigeria into this discussion except you don't have anything to contribute

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Former military ruler General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida was the moving force behind the crisis that recently engulfed the Niger State House of Assembly because he had a grouse against the state governor Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, Special Assistant to the Governor on Youth Network Malam Isa Lanpene said in Abuja yesterday. He said the former ruler’s political associates are preparing the way for Babangida’s son, Mohamed, to try to snatch the governorship from Governor Aliyu in 2011. Alternatively, he said, they will push the candidature of former Commissioner for Health Alhaji Dattijo Aliyu, who is General Babangida’s cousin. Dattijo was recently detained in prison for allegedly circulating inciting documents.

Lanpene said General Babangida is very angry with Governor Aliyu because his cousin was detained for a month. He is also angry, the special assistant said, because when Dr. Aliyu took over as governor in 2007, he stopped paying the salaries of some of the teachers of Mrs Mar Babangida’s private Al-Amin International School in Minna, who were paid by the Niger State government when Abdulkadir Kure was the governor. He also said under Kure, the Niger State government sponsored all Babangida-for-president political projects. Aliyu stopped it, he said, “which is why you don’t see IBB associations proliferating all over the country these days.”

Lanpene alleged that the Niger State Assembly members who were recently mobilised to impeach the Speaker Alhaji Mohamed Alkali were offered N5 million each. He said, “You know it was not the state government that did it. Who else in Niger State has N100 million to spend just to impeach the Speaker?” he said the speaker’s impeachment was meant to be a first step towards denying Governor Aliyu the chance to contest again in 2011.

According to him, the crisis erupted because IBB’s top lieutenants in Niger State, namely former governor Kure and former PDP National Vice Chairman Alhaji Abubakar Magaji were both indicted by the white paper of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry that probed the last regime. They therefore launched a political counterattack to stop Governor Aliyu from securing the PDP nomination for 2011, he said.

The governor’s assistant said the two court cases that Governor Aliyu, who is the Talban Minna, has had to grapple with, namely ANPP candidate David Umaru’s case at the election tribunal and former PDP aspirant Jibrin Alhassan Gunna’s case at the high court, were all instituted by IBB’s boys. He said IBB could have stopped them effortlessly. “What role did IBB play to end these cases?” he asked.

Lanpene denied charges that his boss the governor is fighting everybody in Niger State. He said, “Talba is not fighting anybody. He is only trying to be sincere with people. Kure was misled for 8 years by the political elite in Niger State. He was doing their bidding so much so that his regime could not achieve anything in two terms. Talba is therefore saying we should not repeat the same mistake again, we should use our little resources to develop Niger State, and he is concentrating all his energy in the revitalisation and development of Niger State.”

When contacted, a close associate of the former military ruler Alhaji Nma Kolo declined comments on the issues raised by the governor’s aide. “I won’t react to comments from Isa,” Alhaji Kolo told our reporter last night. Kolo had however spoken on the same issue last week, saying General Babangida did not even know that the Niger Speaker had been impeached until three days later, when Nma himself went and drew his attention to it. Even though Nma Kolo declined to speak, Daily trust learnt last night that he placed several calls to Governor Aliyu’s aides and urged them to disown the allegations against Babangida.

His pressure somewhat paid off because shortly before press time, the governor’s Senior Special Assistant on General Matters Alhaji Yahuza Abdullahi called Daily Trust and said Lampene’s comments were his personal views and not those of the Niger State government.

“He spoke on behalf of himself and not the government of Niger State,” Abdullahi said. He added that IBB and Governor Aliyu “are in the best of relationship at the moment. If at all there was anything, certainly not now.” Governor Aliyu also has no problem with his predecessor Engr. Kure at the moment, Yahuza added.

He blamed what he called recent insinuations on the failing relationship between Governor Aliyu and IBB “on those hangers-on who are thought they could only benefit when there is crisis.”

It would be recalled that the Niger State Assembly speaker Alhaji Mohamed Alkali was impeached on June 1 and a new speaker, Idris, was elected, but the Niger State Police Command, apparently prompted by the state government, declared him wanted for fraud. Idris resigned a week later, paving the way for the election of yet another speaker, Alhaji, who is pro-Governor Aliyu.

Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari has declared that he has no confidence in the amnesty being offered by the Federal Government to Niger Delta militants to give up arms.

Asari who is the leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF) spoke to journalists at a press conference in Lagos yesterday shortly after he was released by the State Security Service (SSS) operatives.

He was arrested on his arrival from Germany where he went for medical check-up, his lawyer Festus Keyamo has said.

The press briefing which took place in Keyamos’s chambers at Anthony village Village had Keyamo in attendance and other members of Asari’s group.

Asari said: “I cannot receive amnesty from anybody for carrying guns to protect my fatherland. My land is occupied and destroyed by a ravaging occupational force with genocide mindset” he said.

According to him, the so called list of sponsors’ found in the camps is fake. “Buildings were destroyed but pieces of papers were not burnt. You can see the lie” he said adding “they want to use so-called list to witch hunt some people.

“They have failed. I was in camp five with General Gubani, the man who wrote the report. He even held me aside and we discussed. The vice president has been there. Almost all the governors of Bayelsa and Delta have been there. So they are sponsors too. All key politicians in Delta and Bayelsa states have been in TomPollo’s camp so they are sponsors?”

He said, the only thing the Niger Delta people want is a sovereign national conference. “One day we will come to the realisation like South Africans did during the apartheid that this edifice of fraud and deceit called Nigeria cannot hold except with a sovereign national conference” adding “sovereign national conference is our minimum demand, nobody wants to die.”

On bunkering he declared “I don’t know what you call illicit oil trading. The owner of the oil owns it and he has the right to sell it just like plantain farmers”.

“I don’t believe in anything bunkering. Anybody in the Niger Delta Community who has the power and access to oil, I will support him to take it as long as the environment is not affected, I will support it with my life.” “What right has Tinubu, Dangote or Otedola has to our oil that they are given concessions to sell oil? If I have my way, I will also take.”

ABUJA—The Director General (DG), National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Professor John Udoko, has said about 3million Nigerians are living with the dreaded Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency syndrome
(AIDS), and out of this number 60% are women.

Prof. Udoko stated this yesterday, when he paid a visit to the Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili. He said the transmission is mostly through heterosexual sex in Nigeria.

According to the DG, “National Sentinel Studies estimated that in 2008, 2.95 million Nigerians were living with HIV and AIDS, which is mostly transmitted through heterosexual sex.

The national response to the HIV pandemic is addressed under the multi-sectoral and multi-tiered 2005-2009 National Strategic Framework (NSF).”

He said presently in Nigeria there are over 300,000 infected people that are receiving anti-retroviral drugs.

Got this piece from a news paper want you guys to read it.
MEND should continue until all economic activities are rendered stagnant so that government would do the right thing. And what is the right thing? Resource and Environmental Control. Although this isn’t a tribal struggle, that is, Niger Delta isn’t fighting any other tribe or ethnic group. The Hausa people-though few out of the population have ruled the nation with iron hand and greed-and other so-called majority ethnic groups own and control their land and environment. Why is Niger Delta’s different and when we talk they kill us?

Is it oil and gas? Yes! Why have they not filled their underground tanks and those in space with our oil after over 50 years so they will leave us alone? Why is the government of the Hausa; the Yoruba, and Igbo for themselves against all others so insensitive to the N-Delta question of resource control and true/fiscal federalism when they’re enjoying these rights? They’re bold to talk amnesty to the landlords whereas they’re tenants. Is this not armed robbery, putting the guns on N-Deltan’s head while our oil and gas are siphoned to develop their own homes and fill monies from our veins in foreign banks without end, while the N-Delta child is left in sqaulor; in painful poverty?

I charge MEND to intensify the destruction of all pipelines, flowstation, rigs, etc. so that the foreign oil rogues may also leave the country and do in their home-countries what they’ve done in Niger Delta. Let’s see if their own people will allow them degrade their environment, render their livelihood to zero percent and kill them for asking why to do the right thing.

The Federal Government, their sellout N-Delta states counterparts, dealers who call themselves leaders and the oil companies deserve amnesty and not the landowners. Sadly, it’s only in Nigeria that things like those happening to the weak and disadvantage of the Delta can flow without recourse. There will surely be recourse as we’re seeing with the good works of MEND.

This amnesty idea is another major folly that characterize the corrupt and poor- thinking Nigerian system. It is nothing more than the regular Nigerian maladministration of throwing money at problems, and if you are aware of the kind of money the militants were making, you will understand that no amount of money can buy those boys within this context.
It does not take a genius to understand the roots of the Niger Delta problems but the ruling elite who have ‘privatized’ the wealth of Nigeria refuses to face the truth. They want to eat their cake ans still have it. they want to continue ransacking the nations wealth, leaving millions of youths unemployed and uneducated without having to face the consequences of a national meltdown. When the people protest, their hope is to send in the armed forces to crush them. Now that the Nigerian military formations have been ignominiously defeated there, they are hoping to entice them with cash and buy over the consequences of years of injustice and cruelty to the Nigerian people.
Personally, I understand the dangers of a militarily compromised state. But nevertheless, I concede that, given our antecedents and the breakdown of trust between Nigerians and the government, I think it will be a greater loss to Nigerians if the militants are defeated. It will concentrate full power in the hands of the establishment. Already we no longer have any dignity and nearly no rights left. Only privileges. Our votes dont count and are not counted. Supreme Leaders dictate who run for elections and who win them. If we protest they send in their soldiers who open fire with live rounds. Nigerians have been too humiliated over the years and the sense of powerlessness has become so unbearable for a whole generation, a whole class of us. We live in the dishonor and humiliation of poverty. You can only advance in the society by associating with a corrupt political elite patron. It is their Nigeria, not ours. Such a Nigeria ought to be renegotiated by all means. By all means at all! The relative victory of the militants provides a kind of leverage with the establishment, some holy places of fear and even respect for the average Nigerian. At least, WE THE PEOPLE have a beachhead to cling to. And who knows the possibilities that we can launch from there!
I am saddened, as a normal human being that lives are being lost in this military engagements, but at a practical level, I am very delighted that the militants are able to shame the rude power of force and intimidation that has been used against the everyday Nigerian since independence to the present day. I am delighted that they have been able to hit the pride of the army and has forced them to come and negotiate. Why do you think the United States constitution allows for citizens to bear arms? So that the State will not oppress its citizens because of a monopoly of instruments of force. It is hardly the perfect thing to do, but in an imperfect world it is a good solution. That fosters an atmosphere of respect by evenly distributing the instruments of force and cohesion. Someone asks, why Europe is different and still successful. Europe and the United States dont have the same dreams and goals. The Americans want to go to the stars. Europe is satisfied with the sky. The goals of the American dream and vision can not be met by European regulations and concepts. That explains why the US economy is almost bigger than that of the entire EU and why their democracy is so superb as to throw up a minority and propel him into the Whitehouse. How many minorities are heading large corporations in Europe, not to talk of the likelihood of going into mainstream politics?
Nigerians should build on the relative success of the militants in the Niger Delta to seek a practical leverage from which to negotiate with the ruling elite on restructuring the nation for the good of all of us. the mirth of absolute power has been broken now. We should not proceed to the practical implications of using it to seek a leverage with Abuja. It is auspicious that the crises has a direct economic implications for the country. If they are broke and are counting their pennies, they can hardly be corrupt. They can hardly be more mischievous and devious with the people. At least they don’t have that level of leadership, coordination and self sacrifice among themselves. The full implication of the situation and the developments that may follow are sketchy, but if there is any soul-searching anywhere, the government should resolve and put structures in place that ensures that the nations wealth is evenly distributed and that the majority of Nigerians, especially the people of the Niger Delta regions profit from the oil wealth. Why leave the upstream and downstream sectors only to big entities who talk in nine figures? Create a room for mid class people the dominate the region to be able to participate in the oil business. They have been messengers and onlookers for too long. Fifty billion naira is nothing compared with an atmosphere of liberty to prospect, dream and prosper and put ones creativity into full use.

PORT HARCOURT — WHILE President Umaru Yar’Adua and other government officials were getting ready to announce amnesty plans for militants in the Niger Delta, the Shell pipeline in Bille/Krakrama, Rivers state was attacked by MEND, with a resultant
shutdown of the facility.

The attack has also put out of service the Shell operated Cawthorne Channels 1,2 and 3 flow stations supplying export crude to the Bonny terminal.

In a related development, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has denied paying Niger Delta militants any money to police or even protect petroleum pipelines.

A Shell spokesman who did not want his name in print said an emergency team was already in the area to minimise the likely environmental impact.

“We have received reports of an attack on an SPDC pipeline at Krakrama manifold in eastern operations. The facility has been shut down and an emergency team has been mobilized to limit the environmental impact.”

Meanwhile, Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, the main militant group in the religion has claimed responsibility for the midnight attack.

Nigerians animals in human skin will amnesty solve the sittuation well na sidon look be dis let see how it plays out

ABUJA — PRESIDENT Umaru Yar’Adua, yesterday, proclaimed an unconditional amnesty to all Niger Delta militants in the creeks as well as those facing prosecution in the law courts, including Henry Okah, standing a secret trial on a 62-count charge of treason, terrorism, illegal possession of firearms and arms trafficking and Government Ekpemupolo (Tompolo) and other militant leaders declared wanted by the Niger Delta security unit, Joint Task Force (JTF).

The President added that the Minister of Interior and Chairman of the panel on amnesty will release the details later today.

The amnesty offer was also ratified yesterday by the Council of State, and would take effect upon the surrender and handing over of all equipment, weapons, arms and ammunition in the possession of the militants, according to the President.

Centres are to be established in each state of the region for the execution of renunciation of Militancy Forms by the affected persons.

The President said the amnesty could only be effective if the militants were prepared to lay down their arms and therefore urged all those in hiding to take advantage of the proclamation and be re-integrated into the society.

His words, “the offer of amnesty is predicated on the willingness and readiness of the militants to give up all illegal arms in their possession, completely renounce militancy in all its ramifications unconditionally and depose to an undertaking to this effect.
“It is my fervent hope that all militants in the Niger Delta will take advantage of this amnesty and come out to join in the quest for the transformation of our dear nation.”

The President, however, gave an October 4, 2009, deadline for all those who want to enjoy the amnesty take advantage of government’s magnanimity.

The full proclamation:

Amnesty Proclamation

Pursuant to Section 175 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

•Whereas the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria acknowledges that the challenges of the Niger Delta arose mainly from the inadequacies of previous attempts at meeting the yearnings and aspiration of the people, and have set in motion machinery for the sustainable development of the Niger Delta States;

Whereas certain elements of the Niger Delta populace have resorted to unlawful means of agitation for the development of the region including militancy thereby threatening peace, security, order and good governance and jeopardising the economy of the nation;

•Whereas the Government realises that many of the militants are able-bodied youths whose energies could be harnessed for the development of the Niger Delta and the nation at large;

•Whereas the Government desires that all persons who have directly or indirectly participated in militancy in the Niger Delta should return to respect constituted authority; and

•Whereas many persons who had so engaged in militancy now desire to apply for and obtain amnesty and pardon.

•Now therefore, I, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, after due consultation with the Council of State and in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the provisions of Section 175 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, make the following proclamation:

•I hereby grant amnesty and unconditional pardon to all persons who have directly or indirectly participated in the commission of offences associated with militant activities in the Niger Delta;

•The pardon shall take effect upon the surrender and handing over of all equipment, weapons, arms and ammunition and execution of the renunciation of Militancy Forms specified in the schedule hereto, by the affected persons at the nearest collection centre established for the purpose of Government in each of the Niger Delta States;

•The unconditional pardon granted pursuant to this proclamation shall extend to all persons presently being prosecuted for offences associated with militant activities; and

•This proclamation shall cease to have effect from Sunday, 4th October 2009.

IBB, Buhari, Abdulsalami absent
The Council which comprises the president, Vice President and past heads of government, governors, former Chief Justices and the leadership of the National Assembly is the highest advisory body in Nigeria, according to the 1999 Constitution.

The council meeting which lasted over two hours was attended by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, retired General Yakubu Gowon, Alhaji Shehu Shagari and Chief Ernest Shonikan as well as 32 State Governors and three Deputy Governors from Ekiti, Rivers and Cross River States who were sighted around the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa.

However, three former Presidents, namely retired Generals Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar were absent at the crucial meeting.

Briefing state House Correspondents after the meeting, Governors Timipre Sylva (Bayelsa); Ikedi Ohakim (Imo) and Modu Sheriff (Borno) disclosed that the approval followed exhaustive deliberations and commendation of Yar’Adua for adopting the approach.

Sylva further declared that genuine militants in the Niger Delta have expressed willingness to take up the amnesty offer and that after the offer elapses, government would consider any other violent agitator as a criminal.

Sylva commended the boldness of the initiative of the Federal Government aimed at tackling the crises in the region.

Pardon for coupists not on agenda
Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Michael Aondoakaa, who was also at the briefing, described the action as evidence of the Yar’Adua administration’s commitment to respecting human rights and resolving the problems of the Niger Delta.

Aondoakaa, also speaking on the amnesty said that Mr. President’s action is based on Section 175 of the constitution.

He also noted that the endorsement by the country’s highest advisory body “is to assure the international community and all Nigerians that we are prepared to follow the due process, we are prepared to respect the human right and follow the law in resolving this issue of Niger Delta.”

On the purported presidential pardon to be approved by the NCS for certain convicted military officers, Aondoakaa said such never featured at the Council meeting as it was not on the agenda.

“One other issue is that I was surprised to see on the pages on paper today that the Council will today give pardon to certain categories of military officers. That did not come before Council today; it was not part of the agenda today. It can be considered on a later date after due consultation with military authorities, then it can be presented to Council,” the country’s number one law officer said.

Back amnesty with law, IYC tells Reps
The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) yesterday said that the best way of assuring amnesty for the proposed amnesty for militants in the Niger Delta is for the House of Representatives to provide it with legislative backing.

In a paper presented to the House of Reps ad-hoc committee on Niger Delta crisis chaired by Honourable Abdul, the Chairman Ijaw Youth Council committee on security and economic development, Felix Tuodolo, also said that the military action in the region has turned thousands of people into refugees in their own land paralysing economic activities and reducing the nation’s revenue from oil and gas.

“The glamour of amnesty is not the end of it”, he said.

“The proposed amnesty is alright, but it needs to be backed by law, to make it legal”, he said.

“I therefore plead with the House of Representatives to propose the right legislation and collaborate with the Senate to back up the amnesty with a law”, he said.

“This is one of the sure ways of having sustained peace in the region”, he said.

How the amnesty can work, by Ijaw Chief
The National Chairman, Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil & Gas, (HCNPOG), Chief Alfred Buhor yesterday gave a recipe on how the amnesty granted militants in the region by President Umaru Yar’Adua can succeed, saying that host communities should be given the responsibility of protecting oil installations.

Speaking during an interview in Vanguard office in Abuja, he opined that host communities should henceforth be held responsible for any attack on oil pipelines, flow stations and other oil and gas facilities in their domains.

Chief Buhor stressed further that, the amnesty package should be very clear on the role of community leaders in permanently addressing the menace of militants under which many unscrupulous elements have hidden to perpetuate criminality.

The relative peace enjoyed by the residents of Kano metropolis, the capital of Kano state, was shattered in the early hours of yesterday when hundreds of thugs barricaded the popular Bayero University, Kano (BUK) road to protest the clampdown on cannabis joint in the city by operatives of the National Drug Law Enfor-cement Agency (NDLEA).
At the end of the incident, no fewer than two people were feared dead while the ring leader of the drug trade and six others are currently cooling their feet at the state police command.
The miscreants were said to have barricaded the section of the road close to ‘Gidan Murtala’ for about 30 minutes after chasing away officials of the NDLEA who had earlier raided Kofar Nassarawa quarters, the popular Indian hemp smoking joint in the city.
Trouble began when the thugs protested loudly the NDLEA operatives raid on suspected drug dealers at Kofar Nassarawa quarters during which seven suspects were arrested while two people were feared dead during the melee.
According to an eye witness account, the raid resulted in a major clash between the NDLEA officials and the drugs dealers at their hide out which forced the NDLEA officials to beat a retreat as the drug dealers resisted the arrest and in the process smashed the windscreen of vehicles of innocent motorists.
The NDLEA officials were said to have opened fire on the drug dealers who quickly mobilized their supporters and in return attacked the NDLEA personnel which resulted in the killing of two of the hoodlums, before the intervention of a combined team of armed policemen from the state police command.
The state police commissioner who was on his way to Gwarzo local government council as part of his working tour of the local government areas of the state, was said to have made a detour with his convoy when the thugs took over the BUK road which he was to pass, a situation which prompted the immediate deployment of large number of policemen to the area.
Eyewitness account also said the skirmishes also left innocent passers by bearing the brunt with a private filling station in Kano being vandalised while a banker reportedly lost his car.
The eyewitness also stated that the hoodlums who were armed with machets and other dangerous weapons put a brave resistance to the invasion by the heavily armed men and in the ensuing melee forced them to beat a fast retreat.
The hoodlums were also said to have made a bon fire on the ever busy Gidan Murtala-BUK road attacking anyone in sight and thereby causing panic among the citizenry.
The intervention of the police eventually yielded result with the arrest of the ring leader of the thugs, Yaro Abdullahi and six of his boys,who are now in police custody in Kano.
Commenting on the incident,the state deputy commissioner of police , Alhaji Tanko Lawal, told reporters that armed policemen were drafted to the scene, after the miscreants over powered the NDLEA officials, saying the ring leader had for long been on the command’s wanted list.
Lawal said the ring leader and his men as part of their atrocities stabbed a journalist, Abdu Zango, with a knife and also diverted a company’s promotional vehicle before police arrested them.
He explained further that the state police command will not leave any stone unturned in sanitizing Kano of the dirty activities of thugs known as ‘Yandaba’ in local parlance.
Also commenting on the incident yesterday, the NDLEA Commander in Kano, Mr. Nicholas Salu, admitted lapses on the part of the agency while the operation lasted , pointing out that NDLEA’s refusal to seek police cover during the operation was not deliberate.
He, however , promised to prosecute all those arrested in connection with the incident, adding that the two people who were hit by bullet during the raid could not be confirmed dead except by certified medical personnel.

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