Speaking truth to power since 1914!

A Senator of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Shehu Sani, has called for the situation of a “graveyard” around Nigeria’s three arms zone so that victims of Fulani herdsmen killings can be buried close to the country’s “seat of power”.
According to Senator Sani who represents Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, only by citing the burial ground close to the three arms zone would the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary arms of government feel the plight of those they “failed to protect” from herdsmen attacks.
The Senator tweeted on Tuesday, “We need a graveyard in the three arms zone of Abuja so that victims of the mindless killings in the country can be buried close to the seat of power. Then the Executive, Legislators and the Judiciary can feel the pains of the helpless widows and orphans we failed to protect.”
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We need a graveyard in the three arms zone of Abuja so that victims of the mindless killings in the country can be buried close to the seat of power.Then the Executive,Legislators & the Judiciary can feel the pains of the helpless widows and orphans we failed to protect.
— Senator Shehu Sani (@ShehuSani) June 26, 2018
Senator Sani gave the suggestion in reaction to the deadly attack on several communities of Plateau State by suspected Fulani herdsmen on Saturday.
https://thewhistler.ng/amp/story/we-need-burial-ground-around-aso-rock-for-herdsmen-victims-apc-senator/

PHILipu1:

Was he not talking of the 2017 budget?
Get your facts.

Yes, it was in the 2017 budget. According to the minister, N1.7b had been disbursed for the terminal building out of the contract sum of N2b. Why should Buhari allocate another N2b for the same terminal in 2018 budget. They ought to appropriate the balance of N300m. The nass corrected this by allocating N500m.

gurnam:

Terminal only, not the entire airport.
Keep doing yourself thinking you are doing Buhari

The N2b the president mentioned is for the Airport terminal only.

Buhari's minister, Sidika told the Enugu state governor that the sum of N1.7b had already been paid by the fg for the terminal out of the N2b required. And that the balance of N300m will be paid soon. If the NASS approved N500m, when only N300m is required were the nass members not too generous?

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/04/13/giving-enugu-airport-a-facelift/amp/

This was during the ground breaking ceremony of Oritsejafor's Eagle Heights University in warri. Not the commissioning of a bridge.

http://naijatodaynews..com/2014/06/photos-ground-breaking-ceremony-of.html

Are you from Ethiope west? Oghara? I work there.

In a statement, he personally signed, Nwabueze described the declaration as “unconstitutional, a masterstroke of mischief and insincerity and a deceitful contrivance”.
On June 6, Buhari announced the conferment of the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR), the highest honour in the land, on MKO Abiola, while the investiture held on June 12.
The president also declared June 12 would replace May 29 as Democracy Day.
The development had generated mixed reactions among Nigerians.
Nwabueze said the president’s declaration “raises several issues concerning, first, the intention behind it, whether it is motivated by the public interest or by a political desire to secure the votes of Nigerians in the 2019 election, especially the votes of people of the south-west or to sow the seed of division among the members of the national assembly”.
“A motive of mischief seems evident on the face of the declaration,” he said, adding: “It is indeed a masterstroke of mischief and insincerity, a deceitful contrivance, suddenly and mischievously trumped up to rescue his dying image three years after his installation as president.”
The jurist said the annulled June 12 election deemed in law not to have taken place, and as such June 12 cannot be declared Democracy Day and a public holiday.
He also argued that Abiola, the presumed winner of the election and Babagana Kingibe, his running mate, cannot be awarded the national honour of GCFR and GCON respectively.
Reacting to the senate resolution that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should declare Abiola the winner of the 1993 presidential election, Nwabueze said the commission lacks the power to do so.
He said the powers of INEC, as conferred on it by paragraph 15 of the third schedule to the 1999 constitution, is “to organise, undertake and supervise” presidential and other listed elections, and that section 70 of the Electoral Act stipulates that the winner in an election “shall be declared elected by the appropriate returning officer”.
Nwabueze’s full statement has been reproduced below:
In a special press statement signed by himself personally, which is unprecedented, President Buhari made the following momentous announcement:
“For the past 18 years, Nigerians have been celebrating May 29th, as Democracy Day. That was the date when for the second time in our history, an elected civilian administration took over from a military government. The first time this happened was on October 1st, 1979.
But in the view of Nigerians, as shared by this Administration, June 12th, 1993, was far more symbolic of Democracy in the Nigerian context than May 29th or even the October 1st.
June 12th, 1993 was the day when Nigerians in millions expressed their democratic will in what was undisputedly the freest, fairest and most peaceful elections since our Independence. The fact that the outcome of that election was not upheld by the then Military Government does not distract from the democratic credentials of that process.
Accordingly, after due consultations, the Federal Government has decided that henceforth, June 12th will be celebrated as Democracy Day. Therefore, Government has decided to award posthumously the highest honour of the land, GCFR, to late Chief MKO Abiola, the presumed winner of the June 12th, 1993 cancelled elections. His running mate as Vice President, Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe, is also to be invested with a GCON. Furthermore, the tireless fighter for human rights and the actualization of the June election and indeed for Democracy in general, the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi, SAN, is to be awarded a GCON posthumously.
The commemoration and investiture will take place on Tuesday, June 12, 2018, a date which in future years will replace May 29th as a National Public Holiday in celebration of Nigeria Democracy Day”.
LEGAL ISSUES ARISING FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DECLARATION
The President’s Declaration raises several issues concerning, first, the intention behind it, whether it is motivated by the public interest or by a political desire to secure the votes of Nigerians in the 2019 election, especially the votes of people of the South-West or to sow the seed of division among the members of the National Assembly in order to scuttle the threat to impeach him or to throw the country into turmoil or to smear the polity with the taint of illegality. A motive of mischief seems evident on the face of the Declaration. It is indeed a masterstroke of mischief and insincerity, a deceitful contrivance, suddenly and mischievously trumped up to rescue his dying image three years after his installation as President.
But the question of primary interest to us here concerns the legal aspects of the President’s Declaration, which raise three issues of some intricacy , viz (a) whether what he calls the cancellation of the June 12 election by the then Military Government is binding legally on him and Nigerians generally, or putting it differently, whether as President he has the power or competence to overturn or disregard the cancellation without an Act of the National Assembly repealing it; (b) the legal effects of the cancellation; and (c) whether the President’s 6th June Declaration does not require, as a condition for its effectiveness in law, that the results of the June 12 election should have been officially announced and Chief Abiola officially declared its winner.
Binding force of the annulment of the June 12 election by a Decree of the Federal Military Government (FMG)
It is as indisputable that a presidential election was, as a matter of fact, held on June 12, 1993 as that the said election was, as a matter both of fact and law, annulled by a Decree of the Federal Military Government (FMG) Decree No. 61 of 1993. The binding force, or rather the supremacy, of Decrees of the FMG has a history which it is appropriate to recall here. The issue of the binding force or supremacy of Decrees was settled with finality 48 years ago by the Federal Military Government (Supremacy and Enforcement of Powers) Decree 1970 re-enacted by Decree 13 of 1984 made by Gen Buhari as the then Head of the FMG. (He, Gen Buhari, enacted 37 Decrees during his one year rule in 1984 as Head of the FMG). Even the 1999 Constitution from which he derives his authority as President to make the June 6 Declaration is the product of a Decree, Decree 24 of 1999 to which that Constitution is scheduled. The 1999 Constitution itself, in its section 315(4)(d), recognises the annulment Decree 61 of 1993 as an existing law. So President Buhari has no moral right or justification to disregard or disdain Decree 61 of 1993 or to do things as please him, as if that law does not exist.
Nigeria is or is supposed to be a law-governed state, a state of law where the Rule of Law reigns and governs not only the lives and affairs of people in society, but also the actions of government. It is an axiomatic principle, accepted nearly by all, that democracy cannot meaningfully exist or function without the Rule of Law any more than it can meaningfully exist or function without Justice. Nigeria itself cannot exist without the Rule of Law – and Justice too.
Of the two cardinal principles of governance, the Rule of Law is more fundamental and overriding, since the Justice talked about is justice according to law. The alternative to the Rule of Law is anarchy and the ruin of communal life. Respect for the Rule of Law must not therefore be sacrificed to the need for Justice. We must strive to pursue and maintain both subject to the more overriding demands of the Rule of Law.
Nigeria, our dear country, should not be turned into a state where the President can, in his unfettered whim, set aside the law or do things contrary to the law; his June 6 2018 Declaration clearly affronts the law. The annulment of the June 12 1993 election is admittedly loathesome to millions of Nigerians because of its injustice, inhumanity and its culmination in the sad death of its presumed winner, Chief Abiola; its error has been acknowledged and duly apologised for by its author, Gen Babangida. The annulment should therefore be set aside, but that should be done in due form of law, i.e. in a manner required by law, meaning by an Act of the National Assembly, not by the President’s unilateral Declaration unbacked by an enabling law. The process of getting an enabling law enacted may take more time than is agreeable, but it is better to follow the process dictated by law.
Legal effects of the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election by a Decree of the FMG
The legal effects of nullity are authoritatively stated by Lord Denning in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in an appeal from the West African Court of Appeal in Macfoy v. United Africa Co. Ltd [1961] 3 WLR 1405 at pp. 1409 – 1410:
“If an act is void, then it is in law a nullity. It is not only bad, but incurably bad. There is no need for an order of the Court to set it aside. It is automatically null and void without more ado, though it is sometimes convenient to have the court declare it to be so. And every proceeding which is founded on it is also bad and incurably bad. You cannot put something on nothing and expect it to stay there. It will collapse.” (emphasis supplied).
Lord Denning’s statement of the law on the point was echoed by Oputa JSC in Adejumo v. Ayantegba [1989] 3 NWLR (pt. 110) 417 at p. 451. Said he:
“If a transaction is void, it is in law a nullity, not only bad, but incurably bad and nothing can be founded on it, for having no life of its own, it cannot vivify anything.” (emphasis supplied).
The legal implication is thus that an act or transaction which is a nullity is in law regarded as having no existence or never to have come into existence at all. Both Lord Denning M.R. in Macfoy v. United Africa Co. Ltd [1961] 3 WLR 1409 – 1410 and Oputa JSC in Adejumo v. Ayantegbe [1989] 3 NWLR (Pt 110) 417 at page 451 describe it as amounting to “nothing”. Its non-existence or nothingness arises from operation of law and does not depend on a court’s decision declaring it null and void, which only re-affirms and reinforces its inherent nullity. The dictionary definition is at one with the law on this. Collins English Dictionary defines “nullify”, and “void” as “having no effect or existence”. “Nullity” is defined in New Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language as “nothingness”.
It follows that the annulled June 12 election, deemed in law not to have taken place and to have no existence and therefore to amount to nothing, cannot vivify or give life to anything; June 12 cannot be declared Democracy Day and a public holiday, and Chief Abiola the “presumed” winner of the June 12 election and his running mate, Amb. Kingibe, cannot be awarded the national honour of GCFR and GCON respectively based on their presumed victory in the June 12 election. Both the declaration and the award are illegal, null and void; the annulment Decree, No. 61 of 1993, an existing law under section 315(4)(d) of the 1999 Constitution, must first be repealed – with effect from a date before June 12, 1993 – before the declaration and the award can legally or lawfully be made. The point being made here, and on which we insist, is that, as a country committed to respect for the Rule of Law, the law should be duly followed and not disregarded, as if we are still in a military dictatorship.
Whether the President’s 6th June Declaration does not require, as a condition for its effectiveness, that the results of the June 12 election should have been officially announced and Chief Abiola officially declared its winner
The repeal of the annulment Decree, No. 61 of 1993, does not dispose of all the legal issues arising from President Buhari’s 6th June 2018 momentous Declaration. It is not enough for the purposes of the law to presume Chief Abiola as the winner of the June 12, 1993 election, whatever that means. To presume something means, according to its dictionary definition, to “suppose or believe without examination; to assume beforehand”. The results o the June 12, 1993 election should have been officially announced and Chief Abiola should have officially declared its winner to form a legally valid basis for the declaration of June 12 as Democracy Day to be henceforth observed and celebrated as a public holiday in the country, and before Chief Abiola can be awarded and invested with the national honour of GCFR, the highest honour that is reserved for a President of Nigeria. He cannot be President-elect, which is necessary to qualify him to be so to be treated, unless the results of the election have been officially announced and he has been officially declared elected.
The law is clear and emphatic on the matter. Section 70 of the Electoral Act in force today (June 11, 2018) provides:
“In an election to the office of the President or Governor whether or not contested and in any contested election to any other elective office, the result shall be ascertained by counting the votes cast for each candidate and [the candidate that satisfied] the provisions of sections 133, 134 and 179 of the Constitution……..shall be declared elected by the appropriate Returning Officer”;
The word “declared” is italicized to emphasise that a candidate “deemed duly elected” under section 179 of the Constitution must formally be “declared elected by the appropriate returning officer” under section 70 of the Act.
The National Assembly has proposed that the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) should now formally announce the results of the June 12 1993 election and declare Chief Abiola its winner. This proposal raises the question whether INEC, constituted under the 1999 Constitution (section 153), has the competence to announce the results of an election that took place 25 years ago, and declare a candidate under it the winner, so as to constitute him President-elect. The power of INEC, as conferred on it by paragraph 15 of the Third Schedule to the Constitution, is power, among other things, “to organise, undertake and supervise” presidential and other listed elections. By its terms, the power is power to organize, undertake and supervise elections in the present and in the future; it does not authorize or enable the Commission to do anything in relation to an election that took place in the past – 25 years ago – and organized and conducted by a differently constituted Electoral Commission. It may be that under the residual clause of paragraph 15 above authorizing INEC to “carry out such other functions as may be conferred upon it by an Act of the National Assembly”, the Assembly may make a law enabling INEC in the behalf. Even so, the problem will still remain as to how the provision of section 70 of the Electoral Act is to be complied with, having regard to the specificity of the words “shall be declared elected by the appropriate Returning Officer”; the reference is to the particular returning officer involved in or who took part in the conduct of the particular election.
President Buhari’s 6th June 2018 Declaration disdains the law of the land in other respects
The sacroscanctity and supremacy of the Rule of Law, as a principle in the government of society, need to be reinterated. Although not expressly enshrined by name in our Constitution, as is done in some of the modern constitutions in the world, like the Constitutions of Romania and Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia’s Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, all three adopted in 1991 after the collapse of communism in the 1989 – 90 world-wide democratic revolution, the Rule of Law is embodied and incorporated in our Constitution as an inarticulate major premise, to borrow the pithy phrase of the great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the U.S. Supreme Court. Thus, the supremacy of the Constitution, as provided in its section 1(1), enures, by extension, to the Rule of Law, as incorporated in it as an inarticulate major premise, overriding any action or declaration of government that is inconsistent with the principle: section 1(3).
The question again arises whether the posthumous awards of the national honours of GCFR and GCON to Chief Abiola and Chief Fawehinmi respectively accord or are consistent with the law of the land – National Honours Act. The Act does not, by its express provisions, authorize posthumous awards, nor do those provisions give any indication that they contemplate posthumous awards. The indication is indeed to the contrary; it (the indication) comes from the provision that “a person”, meaning a living, not a dead person, “shall not be eligible for appointment to any rank of an Order unless he is a citizen of Nigeria”, and that “a person shall be appointed to a particular rank of an Order when he receives from the President in person at an investiture held for the purpose (a) the insignia appropriate for that rank; and (b) an instrument under the hand of the President and the public seal of the Federation declaring him to be appointed to that rank”.
The words “when he receives from the President in person” exclude posthumous awards, a view that derives support from the fact that no posthumous award had ever been made in the past to any one before the awards to Chief Abiola and Chief Fawehinmi. There is, however, a provision in the Act that seems to give a lot of leeway to the President. It says : “The President may, by warrant, make provision for the award of titles of honour, decorations and dignities”. It may be that posthumous awards are not authorized by the Act as a matter of policy decision. If so the Act needs to be amended to change the policy.
President Buhari could not have been more disdainful, and more careless, he could not have made a greater mockery, of the Rule of Law than by his announcement on June 6, 2018 of the decision of the Federal Government that “henceforth June 12 will be celebrated as Democracy Day”, knowing, as he well does, that May 29 is enacted by law, the Public Holidays Act, as Democracy Day, and that that could not be changed to June 12, except by amendment of the Act, not by mere presidential Declaration; and that his wishes, intentions and whims, however pure and benevolent, are not law, as in the days of the absolutist military dictatorship when laws could be made simply by word of mouth, later to be put in written form by Decree or Edict. It is incredible that, knowing all this but still believing himself to be an absolute ruler, he went ahead to organize the farce of commemoration ceremony on June 12 at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa. His perception of himself as absolute ruler is antithetical to constitutional democracy, and constitutes a danger to the country. He should be made to shed that perception of himself.
https://www.thecable.ng/nwabueze-june-12-declaration-illegal-mischievous-buhari-trying-rescue-dying-image

"I would rather Buhari jail me than allow Jonathan to destroy the economy." - Obasanjo. Why are you afraid now? Be careful what you wish for yourself.

Rich man marries and have 4 children. Poor man marries and start mass production of children that he can't afford to train because the only thing that gives poor man joy is the body of his wife.
The country has beaten him to the level that sex is his only idea of enjoyment.

Politicians steal your money, sleep with your wife and girlfriends and sister, make sure you don't go to school, even when you struggle to, he makes sure you don't finish on time let alone getting a job.

He sends his children to the best schools abroad so they will take over from him when he is done playing with your future.

He initiates a poverty alleviation program, videos himself cutting tapes during the mounting of an electric pole. He gives you N4000, bags of rice at rallies and arms to fight his opponents.

He paints the roads and puts Street lights when there are no light in your home. You hail him!

He spends millions on billboards of his fake projects, hires the best PR experts to keep you drooling with hunger and uninformed and keep on doing damages to your common sense. You defend him.

Second tenure, no jobs, no food, the N4000 has finished and the bag of rice wasting in the pit of your toilet. He must recover the billions he spent buying your votes. For he is not qualified to lead but you qualified him.

You start making use of the guns he bought you. You kill the poor like yourself who is suffering the effects of the N4000 and bag of rice that you took. You try to Kidnap his friends, their police orderlies fire back at you.

His friends tell him that there is insecurity in town and it will affect their mobilisation for him for second term.
He shouts ahhhh, second tenure is like the second round of sex that puts one to sleep after, except, perhaps, he works for vivid entertainment or one of those Hollywood porn industries.
He complains of lack of security to the commissioner of police and General Officer Commanding, Air Officer commanding or the Flag Officer Commanding.

He spends millions hosting them. They tell him what to do. By now, you have become a threat.

He buys even a bigger gun for the police and the military plus operational vehicles.

He pays for radio and TV jingles to warn you.

You rob, you die. You protest, you die. You stay at home, you die of starvation.

Then, you get recommended to a church and since you can't pay tithes, pastor turns you into an errand boy.
He sends you to buy biscuits for his children, wash pants for his wife and clean his cars.

You sweep the church for free while awaiting your heavenly reward while the pastor fly private jets and drive flashy sedans.

You are happy that your pastor is rich and argue for him in midst of your friends.

He runs to the UK at the slightest symptoms of headache but prays for you when you are sick and tells you to bring your sick mother to church for prayers instead of taking her to hospitals to waste money.
She dies and he tells you that it was God's will while his mother has been in the UK for months receiving the best treatment that tithes can buy.

He buys a new land for a new church branch, you help to carry blocks and turn concrete, then collect blessings as reward. You are happy to be working for the salvation of your soul, heaven will pay.
The pastor lives his heaven on earth.

The new church building is completed on your sweat.

He invites the president, governor, senator, house of representative member and every other person who made sure that you are poor by design.

The whole area is policed with guns and armoured cars. You are comfortably seated at the back while straining your neck to see who and who came.

The president and governor and senator plus their contractor friends donate hundreds of millions for the new church while you cheer from the back.

The food they shared didn't get to you but you are happy the president and governor and senator came to your church. You even brag to others of how your pastor is well connected.

You get home, hunger Knocks angrily on the belly door, your neighbour bails you out while you wait for heaven to pay.

10 years on the jobless job, pastor's children have been sent abroad for studies. Age is no longer on your side, pastor hooks you up with another aunty that sweeps the church for free with no education just like you and Weds you both on a Friday evening church service and you are happy. Your children starts the cycle all over again.

What is the difference between an Ordinary Thief (OT) & a Political Thief (PT) ?*

*1)* The *Ordinary Thief* steals your money, bag, watch, gold chain etc.;
But the *Political Thief* steals your future, career, education, health & business! �

*2)* The hilarious part is: The *Ordinary Thief* will choose whom to rob; But you, yourself chose the *Political Thief* to rob you. �

*3)* The most ironic one: Police will chase and nab the *Ordinary Thief;* while the Police will look after and protect the *Political Thief!*

That’s the *travesty cum irony* of our current society!

*_And, we blindly say we are not blind!_* �

I subscribe to a civil society coalition whose membership is drawn mostly from the North-east. When the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance in Nigeria invited me and one Ambassador Ahmed to a meeting, in preparation for the Oslo Humanitarian Conference for Nigeria and Lake Chad region, to organise the CSOs, I suggested the creation of a WhatsApp group, which Ahmed did so efficiently, tagging along most of the CSOs in Borno, including some from Adamawa and Yobe. It is supposed to be a neutral platform for the expression of ideas concerning the humanitarian situation in the North-East, including peer learning, future opportunities, and so on. As it is with every platform, the administrators have to keep issuing warnings concerning the terms of engagement. Unfortunately, no matter the number of warnings on politics, it keeps surfacing.
As a member of this forum, I began to understand the perspective of those who actually live in these regions. One point of departure was the recent statement credited to President Muhammadu Buhari concerning Nigerian youths. While social media were busy making a caricature of the President, the consensus I got from this forum was that the President did no wrong at all. And, because, the president did not exactly use the word “lazy”, those who accused him of saying Nigerian youths are lazy were misrepresenting reality.
The point I want to make is that those who think that it is a general consensus that Buhari is not doing well, are wasting their time. Curtailing Boko Haram may not mean much to those in the South, much as the civil war did not mean much to those living in the North, but it struck a deep chord in me when Ahmed sounded so grateful that now they in Borno and many parts of the North-East could go to sleep in their homes and be at rest. These were things we took for granted in other parts of the country, but which many had to struggle with in the North-East. And now with the returnee stage, where many IDPs are being facilitated to go back home – although it is wrong to force those who do not want to go – it is a great relief, even though terrorists still carry out devastating attacks.
Similarly, with the establishment of the North-East Development Commission, and the Presidential Initiative for the North-East, where funds are budgeted for the reconstruction of the zone, the federal and state governments are doing a lot in the region; so also the UN agencies and civil society organisations working to ameliorate the situation in the North-East.
There is, therefore, a reverential perception of President Buhari in the North-East. Can we then imagine how he is perceived in the North-West where he comes from? Down south, people can make the separation of state and Church and live quite comfortably with it. Up north, cultural factors influenced by religion make that separation quite difficult. Down south, affinities are transient. South would be excited about a Goodluck Jonathan that had no shoes but when he is perceived as weak, especially with the ascendancy of Boko Haram, southerners spare no thought to dump him and go for a Buhari whom they saw as strong-willed. Even now, with the herdsmen crisis all over the place, culminating in the killing of two priests and 14 worshippers in cold blood, and many Muslim worshippers in Mubi, let no one think that the north would interpret the security situation under Buhari the way southerners interpreted it under Jonathan. The deep belief in destiny entrenched in the culture would only enable people see things as ‘God’s will’. Let no one, therefore, think that the competence of President Buhari is being called to question among the majority of northerners. As Bishop Matthew Kukah said, majority of northerners see Buhari as someone who is strong enough to defend them against the interests of their own vampire elites.
Now that Buhari has reconciled with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, even attending his birthday symposium in Lagos under the auspices of a state visit, that hurdle has been overcome. Politics is a matter of interests. For a long while, Tinubu was kept at arms’ length, so he wouldn’t hijack the government; now that he has been brought so close, my personal suspicion is that in 2023, the presidency will go back to the South-West. That is, if Buhari wins the 2019 elections. South-westerners are quite independent-minded. Unless there was a special magic Tinubu would perform, his reconciliation alone may not suffice to move the South-West
en bloc to Buhari’s side, as was in 2015. So, the prospect of the presidency returning to South-West in 2023 may be a strong enough persuasive factor.
When I prayed and wrote about Buhari and 2019 sometime ago, the two main hurdles why he wouldn’t win were Tinubu and the herdsmen-militia. While the Tinubu factor has been resolved, the recent killing of worshippers has, indeed, stretched the herdsmen’s matter to its limit. Judging by social media reactions, Buhari might as well forget the votes of the North-central, South-south and South-east. But then, southerners are not as politically stable as the north. Money will move minds, and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will have lots of it to spend. Come election-day, many may not even go out to vote, and even if they do, the statistics of PVC collection, along with under-age voters clearly puts the north in the lead. If government is serious about enforcing the recent declaration by the National Economic Council (NEC), banning open grazing all over the country, the perception of Buhari as President of all Nigerians may gain ascendancy. What increasingly gets me concerned, though, is whether there is a third force that uses terrorism to influence public perception, thereby ousting a government that is against its interests: because, it makes no sense how a government seeking votes from the people would be so helpless in defending them.
The north already is for Buhari. The assurance that beginning now, the herdsmen militia would be tackled with the seriousness Boko Haram has been tackled, is the last hurdle, because even if the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Social Democratic Party (SDP) field popular northerners, northern votes would hardly be divided because, anyone else risks being seen as a stooge of the south.

•Rev. Evaristus Bassey, Abuja-based Catholic Priest, is Director of Caritas Nigeria and Executive Secretary, Justice Development and Peace Commission: both of the Catholic Church.
http://newsexpressngr.com/news/53781-To-northerners-Buhari-is-doing-well-By-Evaristus-Bassey-

The dispute
Jews, Christians and Muslims all have religious claims on Jerusalem. It is:
Where King David of Israel conquered and died in around 1000 BC. There are historical evidences for this.
Where Jesus Christ was crucified and later ascended to heaven in the 1st century. There are also historical evidences for this.
Where Mohammed visited before he met Allah in his dream. He never actually went there. Mohammed eventually died in Medina.
The connections between Jerusalem and the Jews and Christians is strong. The connections between Jerusalem and Islam is rather weak.
Historical ownerships
Jerusalem is under Mandatory Palestine until 1948. In the UN partition plan of Mandatory Palestine in 1947, Jerusalem is neither in the Jewish state or the Arab state. From 1948 to 1967, west Jerusalem is in Israeli control and the east is in Jordanian control. After the Six-day War, Israel seized the whole Palestinian land.
To simplify, the ownership of Jerusalem:
Before 1948: Mandatory Palestine
1948–1967: Israel and Jordan (de facto)
1967–present: Israel (de facto)
“They tried to make it a totally Jewish only city , but they couldn’t succeed with that, […]”
– Othman Atari's answer to Doesn’t the city Jerusalem belong to Israel? Then why the dispute over it?
There is no evidence that the Jews have any intentions to bar Christians and Muslims from entering the city. After 1967, Jewish and Christian access to the holy sites inside the old walled city was restored. If Israel has intentions to bar non-Jews from the city, how could they let Christians access the city in the first place? Now, Christians can still visit Jerusalem. Muslims can still pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque. On the contrary…
Knowing the fact that non-Muslims are barred from entering Mecca and Medina, if the Palestinians take over Jerusalem, the third holy city of Islam, it’s likely that non-Muslims will also be barred from entering, thus making it a Muslim-only city, completely disregarding the fact that Jerusalem is also the most important holy city for Jews and Christians.
“Article 34 represents the Temple Mount in Jerusalem as the axis mundi , the sacred point where divine cosmology and temporal history meet.”
– Hamas Covenant
“When the Islamists controlled Jerusalem, it was forbidden to all Jews , not just Israelis. The Islamists of the Palestinian Authority are enemies of the Jewish people and it is foolhardy to share anything of great importance with an avowed enemy whose goal is your destruction.”
– Jack Sigman
“If Islam taught terrorism and enforced Sharia, this was the time to demonstrate this. Instead, Prophet Muhammad formed the Constitution of Medina with the Jews, establishing a unified secular state. […] And fighting wasn’t just to defend Muslims from persecution – but to defend Christians, Jews, and people of all faiths . […] The Quran permits killing terrorists in self-defence because they have waged pre-emptive war against you, or against Christians, Jews, or people of any faith. Yet, even then, if terrorists desist, the Quran forbids aggression against them. This teaching is not mere theory, it’s Islamic history. […] He did not force Islam. He did not wage war. He did not imprison the city. He forgave. ”
– The Independent
Now, look at what the Jordanian government was doing
during the occupation of the West Bank. [1]
Evicted all the Jewish residents of the Jewish Quarter ,
Destroyed all of its synagogues,
Desecrated and destroyed thousands of Jewish graves on the Mount of Olives ,
Forbade Jews from visiting holy sites in East Jerusalem in contravention of the 1949 Armistice Agreement which
required them to allow ,
Sorta-kinda left Christian churches and institutions in Jerusalem alone, but also place some heavy-handed restrictions on them.
All these actions are forbidden in the Quran. Not only they waged wars against the Jews and Christians, they were doing it first .
Since Jerusalem has never been ruled by the Palestinian government, the claim that “Jerusalem must remain the capital of Palestine” is invalid. Sadly, millions have signed a
petition of this premise-less claim.
In order to ensure that people of all three religions have fair access to Jerusalem, it is the best to remain in Israeli rule , unless Palestine promises the same thing (which is not likely to happen).
Not only the Muslims are rebellious to Mohammed, they are also rebellious to their God, the Christian God and the Jewish God at the same time.
So, sorry Palestinians, but Jerusalem is not yours to have .

https://www.quora.com/Doesn’t-the-city-Jerusalem-belong-to-Israel-Then-why-the-dispute-over-it

Ironic!!!

US opens embassy in Jerusalem: Which countries attended?
Thirty-three countries attend US ceremony to relocate its embassy to Jerusalem, says Israel's foreign ministry.
14 May 2018
The United States has formally
opened its embassy in Jerusalem amid deadly protests in the Gaza Strip.
The move on Monday followed a December 2017 decision by US President Donald Trump to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital and relocate the US mission there from Tel Aviv.
Trump's controversial declaration was widely condemned by the international community, with the United Nations General Assembly
rejecting by a huge majority the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Most countries say the status of Jerusalem - a sacred city to Jews, Muslims and Christians - should be determined in a final peace settlement and that moving their embassies now would pre-judge any such deal.
Israel's foreign ministry said all 86 countries with diplomatic missions in
Israel were invited to the embassy opening, and 33 confirmed attendance.
Here is a breakdown of the countries that attended the ceremony:
A: Albania, Angola, Austria
C: Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Czech Republic
D: Dominican Republic
E: El Salvador, Ethiopia
G: Georgia, Guatemala
H: Honduras, Hungary
K: Kenya
M: Myanmar, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
N: Nigeria
P: Panama, Peru, Philippines
R: Romania, Rwanda
S: Serbia, South Sudan
T: Thailand
U: Ukraine
V: Vietnam
P: Paraguay
T: Tanzania
Z: Zambia
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2018/05/opens-embassy-jerusalem-countries-attended

During the reign of Oba Ozolua (between 1483 and 1514 AD), two of his wives, Oloi Idia and Oloi Ohonmi, gave birth on the same day. They both had sons.

Oloi Ohonmi gave birth in the morning to the first son and he was named Idubor, who was fondly called Arhuanran (sometimes spelt Aruanran).

On the other hand, Oloi Idia gave birth later in the day. Her son was given the name Osawe (He later became Oba Esigie).

Here’s where the drama started.

When Idubor was born, he did not immediately cry. In that era, it was inappropriate to announce the birth of a mute baby to the monarch. However, Queen Idia’s baby cried as soon as he was born and thus, his birth was reported to Oba Ozolua, who instantly declared him his first son, automatically moving Idubor to the number two slot.

Idubor, while growing up was very bitter about his predicament. On many occasions, he asked his mother if the king was his true father and why he callously took away his birthright in such a mean fashion.

Idubor (Arhuanran) grew up to be a giant. Legend has it that he uprooted palm trees with his bare hands, sweeping the ground with the fronds. He turned out to be a great warrior who had the overwhelming advantage of size and stamina.

I must add here that another version of this story reveals that Idubor and Osawe were not actually the eldest sons of Oba Ozolua. They had an elder brother, Ogidigbo, who was said to have become a cripple following a combat competition between him and his brothers. His disability disqualified him from taking over from his father. Citizens secretly pointed accusing fingers at Oloi Idia as being responsible for Ogidigbo’s calamity, using her mystical powers to ensure that her son, Osawe (Oba Esigie) clinched the crown.

Before his demise in 1504, Oba Ozolua had already carved out dukedoms for his sons. This was to avoid anarchy in the next dispensation. As compensation, Arhuanran was therefore made the Duke of Udo; a town not too far from Benin.
Please, note that Idia's role in the nullification of the first son Ogidogbo was not lost on Arhuanran, whose enmity towards his brother Osawe ( Oba Esigie) intensified that he even tried to assassinate him.

A noted warrior and conqueror of the fierce town of Okhumwu, Arhuanran was bigger and stronger, and could easily have trounced the weaker Esigie, whom Oba Ozolua had sent to attend the Portuguese mission school after his baptism.

Arhuanran's assassination attempts could have succeeded were it not for Idia who was reputedly skilled in magical arts and whom he knew was a formidable opponent he had to overcome.

Realizing he had to acquire supernatural powers if he wanted to take on Idia who was her son's spiritual protector, oral tradition recounts that Arhuanran retreated to Uroho village to learn the art of black magic from an old sorceress, Iyenuroho (Okpewho).
That he chose a woman as teacher, is clear recognition that his opponent was a woman and that he had to learn the ways of female mystical powers to be assured of victory.

We should note that Esigie's possible lack of combat experience, is the result of having to attend the school of Portuguese missionaries, rather than join his father in fighting wars.

Failing to accept the facts on ground, the Duke (Enogie) of Udo, Ahruanran refused to play a subordinate role to his brother, Oba Esigie, and at first, tried to make Udo the capital of Benin kingdom, with himself as king. It did not take too long before the two brothers went to war.

The war was difficult, bitter and long drawn out. It was not until the third campaign that Udo was defeated.

The third campaign was timed to coincide with the planting season, when Udo citizen-soldiers, who were mainly farmers, would be busy on their farms.

Meanwhile, Arhuanran had two sons Kpamabira and Oni-Oni. They were ruling alongside their father, but before the war, Kpamabira died.

Prior to the last battle with his brother, Oba Esigie, Arhuanran told his surviving son, Oni-Oni to stay at home and wait for his return, alerting his household to listen out for the sound of the magical bell that he placed somewhere in the house. He explained that if it chimed, they will know that his brother, Oba Esigie had won the battle.

Later on, as he fought in the war front, Arhuanran was shocked to see a young man fighting just like himself. Without thinking twice, he used a powerful incantation, commanding the sword to immediately kill the copycat fighter (A GBE VBE NI ME GBE NE UMOZO GBEE RIE YOEWE).

At that moment, the warrior died, only for Arhuanran to discover that the man who possessed his fighting skills, was none other than his beloved son, Oni-Oni. Arhuanran had no idea his son had sneaked along to join in the war. In rage and pain, Arhuanran intensified his onslaught on his brother’s army, until there was no winner in the battlefield.

When victory was not forthcoming, Arhuanran decided to run home on time, but his movements were not swift enough…

By this time, the magical bell at home was sounding and therefore, Udo people believed Oba Esigie had conquered their duke.

This perceived tragedy caused his wife to jump into a river close to the lake (Odighi). She died.

As soon as Arhuanran got home, he found out that his wife had jumped into the river. He was so sad. His sons were gone, now his wife…

A depressed Arhuanran also jumped into the lake. He did not want to be captured prisoner and taken back to Benin.

Before jumping into the lake, he left his Ivie (coral beads necklace), the precious symbol of authority in Benin land, dangling from a tree branch were it could be easily found. Only the Oba could inherit such trophies of dead or conquered leaders and nobles.

Now, Oba Esigie, out of excitement, wore his late brother's necklace. He became mentally disoriented right after he put the necklace around his neck. Removing the necklace from his neck, made no difference.
The king was immediately taken back to Benin in that hopeless state.

His mother, Idia, immediately located a Yoruba Babalawo (mystic) at Ugbo/Ilaje, in the riverine area, and brought him to Benin to work on the king´s spiritual ailment.

He later cured the Oba of the shameful ailment and the Queen after rewarding him generously, prevailed on him, (the Yoruba mystical healer), to settle permanently in Benin, in order to continue rendering his services to Oba Esigie should the need arise.

The Yoruba traditional consultant agreed to stay in Benin and set up home at Ogbelaka quarters, where his descendants have thrived until this day.

Back to Udo:
Many believe that Arhuanran did not die inside the lake (Odighi). They claim he still comes out at night to parade the town of Udo, providing protection for his people.

Before now, the nights Arhuanran came out of the water, all the babies in Udo town would cry non-stop. This trend forced the people of Udo to appeal to Arhuanran spiritually.

After specific rituals, the children no longer cried when he came out of the lake.

Furthermore, the river the wife dived into, is directly opposite the lake. A road separates this river from the lake. Once every year, the river always crosses the road to meet the lake where Arhuanran committed suicide.

Even in 2017, it is forbidden to touch or drink the water from that lake. It is also forbidden to kill or eat any animal from or around the lake. The waters were declared sacred.


It was told that around 1955, a group of Udo people were returning from their farm when they saw a young boy shooting birds close to the lake and the stone dropped into the lake. Immediately, there was a loud voice from the lake that sounded like thunder and many trees around the place shook, as a heavy wind blew. At that moment, the boy became sick and he was rushed home for treatment.
Udo town used that opportunity to tell the public that Arhuanran did not really die, but still lives in the lake; especially as there was never proof of his death.

THE END

Sculpture, by Victor Amen Osunde.

#EDOcated

NO one was surprised by the acrimony that visited many of the ward congresses and Ekiti governorship primary organised by the All Progressives Congress (APC) last weekend. Under the scheming national chairman of the party, John Odigie-Oyegun, and the sometimes lugubrious President Buhari, party leaders have spent the better part of three years paying little or no attention to building and entrenching their party. Once they won the general elections, they threw away their party manifesto, dismantled the platform upon which they won the polls, fought like mad to grab whatever each leader could grab, and abandoned the party to nobody and to everybody, alias cabal. Having sowed the wind for three years, it is unlikely they are shocked to be reaping the whirlwind. Indeed, if anything, they must be shocked that they are still standing at all.

President Buhari is strictly and philosophically speaking not a politician. He remains at bottom  a military man, going by his constant sulking about the limiting influence of democratic strictures, particularly the parliament and the rule of law. That he did not pay attention to building the APC and forging a united and impregnable party out of its skeletal framework was, therefore, expected. He reposed more faith in a narrow clique of kith and kin with whom he felt conversant and comfortable than look to the party in order to broaden its base and widen its appeal. Obsessed with percentages, he looked for ways to compensate, by ginger ratios, those he felt showed him more loyalty than even those who worked hardest for the party’s unexpected victory in 2015.

It is often said that the APC’s legacy parties are the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), and a faction of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Little mention is normally made of the significant influence and role of the faction of the PDP that joined hands with others to wrest control from Dr Jonathan. Yet the nPDP played a major role in that election, but, as they complained last week in a letter they wrote in April, they were yet to receive commensurate compensation or attention. In the letter, which some APC leaders regard as nPDP’s casus belli, the complainants gave a week’s notice to the party to initiate dialogue and give assurances that the party would become more inclusive and operate like a real political party. They did not spell out what they would do if their warnings were left unheeded. In turn, schizoid party leaders have suggested that the nPDP was untrustworthy and had made destructive plans in anticipation of their migration to another party.

Some party leaders have suggested that the nPDP group should wait for ex-Edo State governor Adams Oshiomhole to assume the party leadership in June in order to get a redress for the injuries they claim to have suffered. It is not clear whether they will wait, or whether they think anything can come out of the effort. If the nPDP has not left by now, it is simply because they fear the punitive measures a government that exhibits contempt for the rule of law could bring upon them. They will stay for a little while, it seems, but they are unlikely to be in doubt about the party’s lack of capacity to remake itself and operate along inclusive lines. They know by experience that the president is the party’s lodestar, and everything virtually revolves around him. More, they know that his insularity would limit the flexibility of the next chairman and constrict the concessions they might get. They know that given the nature and capacity of the president and those he trusts, the party is unlikely ever to inspire anyone, let alone be remoulded into a great, modern party.

The acrimonious congresses, the aloofness demonstrated by the incumbent chairman, the dictatorship of antidemocratic governors widening the schisms in the party, and the strangulating control exercised by a shadowy group of individuals in Abuja, are not likely to bode well for the party. For a party that should have mastered the art of internal democracy, but whose leaders preferred to scheme for tenure elongation on the grounds that congresses would widen the schism in the party, there is nothing to indicate that sooner or later it would not implode. Indeed, that it has not imploded is perhaps due paradoxically to the influence and misplacement of priorities of President Buhari himself. Even if the party survives to win the 2019 polls, it already contains the seed of its own destruction far more poignantly than the PDP ever possessed in its crazy 16 years in power. Party leaders will prop up the APC for as long as they can; but in the end, except they can find a saviour, it will collapse. The signs were evident in their congresses; and though they may paper over the cracks, and even ensure a smooth transition to the Oshiomhole chairmanship, the party is too fractious, too undisciplined, too superficial, too callous to one another, and too badly led to endure for as long as some of their members fantasise.
http://thenationonlineng.net/apc-congresses-npdp-and-prophecies-foretold/amp/

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has fired yet another shot at President Muhammadu Buhari, saying “the mediocre performance of Buhari cannot be described as by anybody as superlative even by morons”.
Obasanjo said this while denying the reports that he has decided to endorse Buhari’s second term.
The elder statesman said he has made known his position about Buhari in a letter he wrote to the president in January.
In the letter, Obasanjo advised Buhari against seeking re-election, saying doing so would amount to overstretching the tolerance level of Nigerians.
In a statement issued on Obasanjo’s behalf by Kehinde Akinyemi, his media aide, the ex-president accused some “desperate elements” in Buhari’s camp of spreading falsehood against him.
Obasanjo said they are trying to create the impression that he is now in support of Buhari’s second term.
Below is the statement:
It has come to the attention of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo that some elements in the Muhammadu Buhari camp and or support group are desperate to secure a second term, fair or foul. In this desperation, everything is fair, including telling libelous lies against persons and institutions, instead of addressing the fundamental issues of statecraft and economic management.
In the last 24 hours the internet has been bombarded with deliberate falsehoods aimed at hoodwinking the unsuspecting Nigerians to believe that Obasanjo has now supported Buhari for his second term because of some perceived Buhari’s ‘superlative’ performance in his encounter with Trump during his visit to the White House in Washington DC.
In another breath, these blackmailers insinuated that Chief Obasanjo met with some Nigeria Labour Congress leaders in his house in Abuja on Workers’ Day. What a pathetic fallacy! Chief Obasanjo never met any Labour man or woman on May 1, 2018 to make any supposed volte face to support Buhari. Furthermore, neither was Chief Obasanjo in Abuja on that date nor does he own a house in Abuja. Any time he visits Abuja, he usually stays in a Guest House or hotel.
For the record, Obasanjo has not and cannot endorse failure. His position remains as stated in his January 23rd, 2018 statement on the state of the nation. Chief Obasanjo sympathises with the plight of those campaigners and supporters of Buhari. He doesn’t believe dishing out fake news that can only be believed by imbeciles will turn black into white.
Nigerians know that Chief Obasanjo has only spoken the truth about widening poverty, alienation and social disunity and near disintegration of the country through Buhari’s incompetence. Obasanjo will continue to exercise his right to free speech and no amount of hate speech will assuage Nigerians who are in need of a brand new leadership. The mediocre performance of Buhari cannot be described by anybody as ‘superlative’ even by morons not the least President Obasanjo.
From the Buhari/Trump meeting, Chief Obasanjo only saw through three points: One, the US will continue to reduce purchase of crude oil from Nigeria and there is nothing Nigeria under Buhari can do about; two, the US will export agricultural products to Nigeria and Buhari’s government will encourage that; and three – all the killings taking place in Nigeria by herdsmen are being done by expatriates trained by Gadaffi and no Nigerian is to blame and Buhari cannot do anything to stop it.
For whatever the meeting was worth, President Buhari again bungled another opportunity to self-redeem. No wonder President Trump ordered him in a rather condescending manner to go back home and stop the killings going on in Nigeria! We hope now Buhari will heed Trump’s advice which hopefully will be considered non-abusive.
Therefore, Chief Obasanjo is more convinced in his statement of January 23rd and will not change his position. No lies, fake news dished out by these desperate and unintelligent supporters is worth believing and these misinformation cartel and social media tigers will do more damage to the flint reputation of their principal.
Chief Obasanjo understands that the internet has good and bad uses. Those abusing the media should desist from this barbaric act as it will only expose them to greater ridicule at the end of the day.
Obasanjo will continue to speak out. He will continue to issue patriotic statements under his signature or cause them to be issued on his behalf under the signature of his media representative, Mr. Kehinde Adeyemi.
https://www.thecable.ng/just-even-slowpoke-knows-buhari-failed-says-obasanjo

Titogbanski:
The subject title is very misleading..it says "How Jonathan’s Aides Embezzle $6m Yearly From NPA – Okonjo-iweala" when in fact it should be saying how Jonathan government fought corruption.

It is so sad to imagine that amongst ordinary Nigerians like us who benefited from the reforms of the govt under Jonathan, we will still go about turning straightforward information upside down.

For a start even the opening paragraph says it all.. " Okonjo-Iweala said she became a target of very powerful interests after she sought and got approval from Jonathan for the implementation of the ports reforms, which include the abolishing of a Cargo Tracking Note (CTN) a regime which importers argued added costs to them for duplicate services

The fact that these reforms were made under Jonathan makes it clear the extreme efforts that the then govt made in general to reform this country. No wonder prices of essential commodities stayed the same for 4 years and in some cases even became cheaper....as bureaucratic bottlenecks and other black-market enhancing schemes were carefully eliminated. Today black market and profiteers are back to thriving

Most of all know the people and past leaders who have always benefitted and still benefit from the entrenched systemic corruption in the country. Is it not strange that all these people worked against the election of Jonathan? How can corrupt people work to remove "Jonathan who is "corrupt" to install a GMB who will "fight corruption".

Hear Nkonjo-Iweala again, "On October 14, 2011, the Minister of Transport and I sent a memo to the President that outlined the short, medium and long term problems of Nigeria’s ports, proposed solutions and requested approval for implementation shortly thereafter".......and, “About six weeks into the implementation of the port reforms, in early December 2011, I received a message that a top-ranking presidential aide wanted me to stop by his office anytime I was in the Villa.”

How can the same Jonathan govt that created the economic team and gave Nkonjo Iweala the free hand to implement all these changes that were approved by the president Jonathan himself....now be the same person to be accused again for corruption? How long had that scam been going on and in which govt.

We all felt the positive impact of these port reforms....24 hours operations and reduction of process from 13 to about 7.

Is this corruption....

I hail on sha

God will bless you for seeing through the op's mischievous headings.

Oshomhole miscreants!! Fools. Edo are solidly behind the senator.

Are you from Ethiope east or west?

Wish you were my representative. You try no be small. My senator can't boast of a single job in even grade 'C' establishment. Here you are getting your people jobs in grade 'A' parastatals. May God bless you.

lovely couple. I envy the man that have such a firebrand to himself. Bet she will be as aggressive in the 'other room' as she is in activism.

Aisha Yesufu, co-convener of BringBackOurGirls, BBOG, advocacy group on Wednesday made fresh claims on why Boko Haram abducted some students of Government Girls Science Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State.
Yesufu claimed that the abduction of the girls was a move aimed at paving the way for President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval of $1billion to purchase equipment for the fight against Boko Haram insurgency.
Buhari had earlier today, Wednesday approved the sum for the fight against insurgency.
In a tweet, the activist, insisted that the abduction, release and refusal of Boko Haram to free Leah Sharibu was scripted.
She tweeted, “Dear Nigerian Citizens,
this is what the recent heightened attacks by insurgents and killings have been about.
“This is why Dapchi happened. This is why Leah Sharibu is still in captivity. This is why parents had to lose 5 daughters. All for some to make money.

http://dailypost.ng/2018/04/04/dapchi-girls-scripted-make-buhari-approve-1bn-fight-boko-haram‎-aisha

Reno Omokiri never lied about the price of rice. He didn't say price of rice in November 2014 was N8000. He said price of rice in Jonathan 5 years in office was N8000. This was the average price for 5 years. In 2010 when Jonathan assume the presidency, a bag of rice was between N6000 and N6500. So if by end of 2014, the price had climbed to 10000, then the average price for the 5 years could be N8000.

Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso representing Kano Central in the Senate has vowed to retire Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje from active politics come 2019 general elections.

In an audio voice message aired on a private radio station in Kano (Express FM) on Wednesday, Senator Kwankwaso declared that no amount of persuasion would make him change his mind over the stance to remove Ganduje.
In ok

He said the level of betrayal meted to him by the Governor was enough yardsticks to stage a comeback into Kano politics and unseat Ganduje from Government House.

Senator Kwankwaso also boasted of dealing and retiring, from politics, “those who have any link to the Governor from any quarters within the Country, even if that person is in Abuja” (an apparent reference to Buhari).

The fire-spitting Senator was also quoted as saying, “go and write it down, I will retire this betrayer (Ganduje) and his collaborators from active politics in a simple arithmetic of 1 + 1 which you all know the answer.”

http://dailypost.ng/2018/03/21/2019-will-retire-ganduje-buhari-politics-kwankwaso

The letter justifies what the money was to be used for: To fight boko haram that your principal is their patron. What omokiri is telling the vp to do is tell us how the money was shared. Not how it was disbursed to the nsa. Let the vp tell us how Jonathan shared the money. That is who was given what. Show that evidence. Else he's a liar from the pit of hell.

PDP met telephony at N200,000 to get a nitel line in 1999 but left it at next to nothing in 2015 to get an mtn line.
PDP met an external debt of more than $30b in 1999 and left it in 2015 at $4b.

It is the blank passport booklet that is made in Malaysia. The information on the passports are done in Nigeria. So your information is not in Malaysia, but in Nigeria.

Do you know that BUHARI’S government acknowledges that
1. Between 2011-2015 Nigeria’s economy grew steadily?
2. The economy grew by 4.8% annually?
3. The non oil sector fueled the economic growth
4. The non oil sector accounted for 90.4% of total GDP
5. The non oil sector grew by 5.8% annually
6. The biggest contributor in the non oil sector include services (53.2% of GDP including wholesale and retail trade.), Agriculture (23.1%), and manufacturing (9.5%).?
7. The oil sector on the other hand did not grow under GEJ. ?
8. The oil sector contracted by annually by 4.5% under GEJ ?
These figures are not from an opposition website neither were they extracted from a Pro Jonathan blog. They are found in page 37 of BUHARI’S Economic Recovery and Growth Plan.
3[b] THE REAL SECTOR
Between 2011 and 2015, Nigeria’s economy grew steadily, achieving average annual growth of 4.8 per
cent. The non-oil sector fuelled economic growth; it accounted for 90.4 per cent of total GDP and grew by
an average 5.8 per cent a year. The biggest contributors in the non-oil sector include services (53.2 per
cent of GDP, including retail and wholesale trade), agriculture (23.1 per cent of GDP), and manufacturing
(9.5 per cent of GDP). In contrast, the oil sector, representing only 9.6% of total GDP, contracted by 4.5
per cent a year on average (Table 2.3)
Table 2.3: Sectoral contribution to GDP and GDP Growth Rates (Real)
Sector
Contribution to GDP
(N trillion, 2015)
Contribution to GDP
(per cent, 2015)
Average annual
growth rate 2011-
2015 (per cent)
Services 36.8 53.2 5.8
Agriculture 16.0 23.1 4.1
Manufacturing 6.6 9.5 13.3
Construction& real estate 2.7 3.9 11.4
Utilities 0.4 0.5 11.4
Solid minerals 0.1 0.1 14.7
Non-Oil Sector 63.0 90.4 5.8
Oil and gas 6.6 9.6 -4.5
Total 69.0 100.0 4.8
Source: NBS
Continued dependence on crude oil exports as a primary source of foreign exchange earnings makes the
Nigerian economy vulnerable to domestic and external shocks from the oil and gas sector. Indeed,
although the oil and gas sector represents about 10 per cent of total GDP, it still accounts for 94 per cent
of export earnings and 62 per cent of Government revenues. Diversification of the economy must
therefore extend to finding other sources of revenue and foreign exchange earnings.[/b]
https://www.thetrentonline.com/buharis-policy-document-goodluck-jonathan-grew-economy

Obasanjo did not visit Fayose in Ekiti state. Rather Fayose joined Obj to pay a courtesy call on the governor of Bayelsa state, Seriake Dickson in company of Sen Murrey Bruce.
https://www.ebalsblog.com/2018/02/photonews-obasanjo-fasoye-pays-courtesy.

deafeyez:
Where she from

Auchi, Edo state.