Mourinho blasts Manchester United players after another poor result - 'You must play with brain and heart'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKKg76n6OgZIBDfsMl0n4-lA5UMV-tQUZVVgOLudvj-KcIxDdLTAgX6oGyHmZT-cwIJJ_rUvcg2fy1tffGe8WFFDv2_TuMjJBb-YWxpN08PAF7GvK6wgZAtGmluSwkTKL7GHkAb5PvFn_I/s1600/mourinho+sad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="460" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKKg76n6OgZIBDfsMl0n4-lA5UMV-tQUZVVgOLudvj-KcIxDdLTAgX6oGyHmZT-cwIJJ_rUvcg2fy1tffGe8WFFDv2_TuMjJBb-YWxpN08PAF7GvK6wgZAtGmluSwkTKL7GHkAb5PvFn_I/s320/mourinho+sad.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> Jose Mourinho accused his Manchester United players of lacking heart after their hopes of a push for the Premier League’s top four were dented by a lethargic 0-0 draw against Crystal Palace on Saturday.<br /> <br /> Mourinho’s side were booed at the end of a match that left them seventh in the table, well adrift of the Champions League qualification positions.<br /> <br />  Paul Pogba was unable to inspire United on his return from a muscle injury, playing for 67 minutes before he was replaced by Alexis Sanchez, with Mourinho left frustrated that his attacking selection had failed to produce enough to break down obdurate opponents.<br /> <br /> The Old Trafford stalemate was the first of eight games United will play in the league between the recent international break and the end of the calendar year.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Mourinho had been hopeful a strong showing would help to build the momentum that could carry them back into the top four before 2019 begins. Instead, he was left to warn his players that a similarly lethargic showing at home to Swiss side Young Boys on Tuesday could leave United struggling to progress from this season’s Champions League group stages.<br /> <br />  Mourinho claimed that his players should have treated the Palace match as “special”, arguing that they failed to do so.<br /> <br /> “If we play with the same philosophy against Young Boys, then we won’t win and we will have to go to Valencia (in the final Champions League group game) and win there,” he said. “There are games that are special games and not just one more match. This was a special game, the first of eight Premier League games before the end of December and one we needed to win. “There was not enough from the heart. You must play with brain and also with heart and I think there was not enough heart.”<br /> <br /> – Reckless –<br /> <br /> Mourinho’s frustration was evident at the lack of clear chances created. Romelu Lukaku, who has not scored for United since September 15, had a goal disallowed early in the second half when he was judged narrowly offside as he tapped in a loose ball following goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey’s save from an Ashley Young shot.<br /> <br /> Palace, however, had already had a goal of their own ruled out by a similarly tight offside call shortly before the interval, when Cheikhou Kouyate diverted in Luka Milivojevic’s free-kick with his shoulder. Patrick van Aanholt failed to take good chances in either half for the visitors, with Andros Townsend steering just wide in the final 15 minutes after a bludgeoning run through the United defence. United’s performance led Mourinho to question whether his players would be as disappointed as him about the result. “There are people that will have a bad dinner, there are people who will have a nice dinner and there are people who will have a party,” he said.<br /> <br /> The match’s other main talking point saw Marouane Fellaini, just on as a United substitute, escape without a booking for a reckless challenge on Milivojevic. Palace manager Roy Hodgson, though, preferred to focus on the positive side of a performance that suggested his team’s eight-match winless run will end sooner rather than later. “At least today I have got the satisfaction of believing the team played extremely well,” he said.<br /> <br /> “At least we got something and on another day, if fate had been kinder and we had been a bit more clinical, we could have won it. “There aren’t many teams in our part of the table that will come to Old Trafford and win and even fewer that will come and get a point in the way we did today.”

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2019: Presidential candidate promises to scrap EFCC, ICPC

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="284" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr5AOHB2H1xgXc-RtO-CbMNYFpoO_F51oUjPCAnmqgMhgdv2gcFg4viqZOOJ-1bRDjybDsEDzCEa_BKjuvfAGY3KqPphlEBfzrgaeT8wlxfUY3KgfgBxy44BJbjKxoxmB_69jVeFZ4TNji/s400/icpc+efcc.jpg" width="400" /></div> <br /> <br /> The presidential candidate of the Accord Party, Isaac Ositelu, on Saturday, promised to scrap the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission if elected in 2019.<br /> <br /> He said he would collapse the operations of the commissions into the Nigeria Police under a reform programme of his administration.<br /> <br /> Ositelu made the promise in a statement made available to journalists.<br /> <br /> He said, “The radical restructuring of the internal security apparatus of the country would give birth to an efficient and effective police service that would be technology-driven and people oriented.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “The reformed police service would be made accountable, decent, responsive and responsible to the Nigerian nation and not to the few elites who seemed to undermine the discipline required in the police as an institution of the state.”<br /> <br /> Justifying the need for the harmonisation of the work of the EFCC and ICPC with that of the Police, Ositelu said the creation of these agencies had led to needless envy, corruption and even insubordination among the rank and file deployed from the Police to EFCC and ICPC which are considered ‘juicy’ agency to work for because of the special incentives available to the operatives.<br /> <br /> Rather than create room for animosity among the security operatives, the presidential candidate a reformed police would live up to its responsibility of curbing criminalities across the country.<br /> <br /> He wondered if the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police cannot effectively and efficiently carry out its legal mandates if properly mobilised.

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Metele Attack: Surviving soldiers accuse military authorities of procuring outdated, low-quality weapons

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="553" data-original-width="853" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkI32RJSmJWLtM62iAp_VEgfXVkhAJAvYR8RiLcvbb7Re76Dp9G5i0QcfGOg_x_mECTZgrUOt7k_7SyaX7a_H7lSTsHtgZG2RdIcLQqey3_slTMakEC9t-71qOgd3Roj7pLaxYxDKo6Z9f/s400/Nigerian-Soldiers-Army-In-Sambisa-Forest+jtf.jpg" width="400" /></div> <br /> Some soldiers who survived the attack by Boko Haram on the military formation in Metele have sent an SOS to President Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to probe the quality of weapons procured by the military authorities and save them from further avoidable deaths.<br /> <br /> In a video sent to journalists in Maiduguri, the soldiers accused the military authorities of providing them with obsolete weapons, which they said are grossly inadequate to effectively confront the insurgents in the ongoing counter insurgency campaign in the Northeast.<br /> <br /> In the amateur video footage, the soldiers also levelled allegations against the military authorities accusing them of negligence which resulted into the death of scores of their colleagues in a series of attacks coordinated by the Albarnawi faction of the Boko Haram at Metele in Guzamala Local Government Area of Borno.<br /> <br /> Foreign wire agencies reported that dozens of soldiers were killed when the insurgents attacked Metele military base on November 18.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> In the video, two soldiers, who claimed to be among the survivors of the attack, narrated the precarious condition of the troops and obsolete equipment which made it difficult for them to repel the insurgents’ attack.<br /> <br /> The video footage showed the level of destruction of military equipment and makeshift shelters, while soldiers were seen packing their luggages, apparently preparing to live the camp.<br /> <br /> In the video, the soldiers appealed to President Buhari—they repeatedly appealed to him— to intervene to save the situation from deteriorating.<br /> <br /> “See what the Nigerian Army has been doing to us, they brought us here. See how they killed our fellow soldiers, they burn them inside the tanks”, a narrator in the video said.<br /> <br /> “They are using us to make money; why? Are we not human beings? They can kill soldiers inside a tank; if Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) can penetrate M-RAG vehicle, what of a fellow human being?<br /> <br /> “This is the location called ‘Metele’, This is a place they (the insurgents) took over 40 barrel and these people want to use us, and within one week they killed over 200 soldiers and we are now 147, they want to waste us here. It is a lie, our blood is not here.<br /> <br /> “This is a Third World vehicle, a tank manufactured in 1972; and Albarnawi broke all of it.They want to use us and we are not getting anything from them.We want to tell the government of our condition.<br /> <br /> “Please; the Federal Government should intervene before the insurgents come and kill us. They mocked us and said we are Zombies; animals, we do not know our rights, any order given to us we will follow.<br /> <br /> “We are millennium soldiers, most of us are graduates.<br /> <br /> “Look at what they did to this T12 tank; it is obsolete. It was a 1983 Czechoslovakian tank procured during Shagari’s regime. Is this the money the Federal Government provided to procure weapons?<br /> <br /> “All the equipment are not working. When it fired two shots it stopped. All the weapons are obsolete and bought during Shagari(1979-1983).<br /> <br /> “We know about the money the Federal Government gave to them but the Nigerian Army had turned us into a business”.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> “All the money federal government gave them to buy weapons… Nigerian Army is buying INNOSON…. All these are obsolete… Oyinbo came here and said they are obsolete. All these weapons were bought during the Shagari regime in 1983… They have turned us to business…. Federal Government you will hear about it….<br /> <br /> “All these weapons are not genuine…if you fire two times you have stoppages. This is 1983 when Shagari was head of state… Federal Government give them money, they go and buy INNOSON, Nigerian made… Federal Government please help us. Help us.”<br /> <br /> The Nigeria Army on Friday, confirmed on its Twitter handle the attack on 157 Task Force Battalion at Metele, on November 18 by Boko Haram insurgents.<br /> <br /> However, the military authorities response, which came five days after, was short on details and the extent of casualties.<br /> <br /> The army said that it has laid down procedures for reporting incidents that involve its personnel who become casualties in action, as a form of respect to the families of the gallant troops.<br /> <br /> It noted that the families were first to be notified before any form of public information so as to avoid exacerbating their grief were they to discover it from unofficial sources.<br /> <br /> “It is suffice to observe that several social media, print and online publications have been brandishing false casualty figures as well as circulating various footages of old and inaccurate Boko Haram terrorists’ propaganda videos, and alluding it to be the attack on 157 Task Force Battalion.<br /> <br /> “While; it is understandable how such misinformation can spread in this era of social media frenzy, the spurious circulation of some of these videos only contribute to further propagate the propaganda intent of the terrorists, misinform the populace and portray themselves as what they are not?<br /> <br /> “So far, the situation in the location is under control as reinforcing units had been able to repel the terrorists and stabilize the situation.<br /> <br /> In his reaction, President Muhammadu Buhari expressed deep shock over the killing of military personnel in Metele village by Boko Haram terrorists.<br /> <br /> He gave an assurance that immediate measures are being taken to ensure that the loopholes which led to the fatalities are blocked once and for all.<br /> <br /> Reacting to the tragic incident, the President said that his administration remains ever committed and focused on the security of military personnel and other citizens.<br /> <br /> According to President Buhari, “No responsible Commander-in-Chief would rest on his oars or fold his hands to allow terrorists to endanger the lives of its military personnel and other citizens. Our loyal forces have proved their strength over the terrorists and we are ready to give them all the needed support in terms of equipment and manpower to succeed in ending the renewed threat. In the coming days, I am engaging the Military and Intelligence Chiefs in extensive discussions on the next steps we shall be taking.”<br /> <br /> The President noted that fighting terrorism has taken a global dimension, which necessitates international collaboration among states facing similar security challenges.<br /> <br /> President Buhari reassured Nigerians of his continued commitment to their security and of his efforts to sustain the momentum in the previous significant successes recorded against the terrorists.<br /> <br /> He, however, advised Nigerians against making a political capital out of national tragedy, stressing that members of the armed forces are one family who are commonly committed to the security and safety of all Nigerians.<br /> <br /> (NAN)

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Melete Attack: Buhari condemns killing of Nigerian soldiers

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM8FL-Z-cm8LfK_o_gM61aZjEzBPhp6IGD4xdIdU1WAWNCbm72B0YE5JBwX-_KqIFkMjZOgijUO7lbBdpVzQZY7RjYeWDG1dLSNaZm_Eerw7caqo50FKFKzNifGJFI8-8r9Z3guLxXwc-p/s1600/Buhari+Thinking+new+sad+tired+vex.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM8FL-Z-cm8LfK_o_gM61aZjEzBPhp6IGD4xdIdU1WAWNCbm72B0YE5JBwX-_KqIFkMjZOgijUO7lbBdpVzQZY7RjYeWDG1dLSNaZm_Eerw7caqo50FKFKzNifGJFI8-8r9Z3guLxXwc-p/s320/Buhari+Thinking+new+sad+tired+vex.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed deep shock over the killing of military personnel in Metele village of Borno by Boko Haram terrorists, saying his administration remains committed to the security of military personnel and other citizens.<br /> <br /> The president stated this in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu in Abuja on Saturday.<br /> <br /> Buhari, who was reacting to the tragic incident, assured that immediate measures had been taken to ensure that “the loopholes which led to the fatalities were blocked, once and for all.’’<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> He said: “No responsible Commander-in-Chief would rest on his oars or fold his hands to allow terrorists to endanger the lives of military personnel and other citizens.<br /> <br /> “Our loyal forces have proved their strength over the terrorists and we are ready to give them all the needed support, in terms of equipment and manpower, to succeed in ending the renewed threat.<br /> <br /> “In the coming days, I am engaging the military and Intelligence Chiefs in extensive discussions on the next steps we shall be taking.”<br /> <br /> The President noted that fighting terrorism had taken a global dimension which necessitated international collaboration among states facing similar security challenges.<br /> <br /> He, therefore, reassured Nigerians of his continued commitment to their security and of his efforts to sustain the momentum in the previous significant successes recorded against the terrorists.<br /> <br /> The president, however, advised Nigerians against making a political capital out of the national tragedy, stressing that “members of the armed forces are one family, commonly committed to the security and safety of all Nigerians.’’(NAN)

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2019: We will end APC’s reign in Lagos — PDP

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="540" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSc1RNSfIL_CWiEgBW60w-0QivwW_jrRtxi3P3Q7ismR26ATYbspNCw5YPSMnAbn3ysUOr0QLFkxbbynpbWnH-W3TZ5LtOKE-tbAdwZNSLL70QvWaki4SNDDz8SPf24bcnUrlN_eKM-PRH/s640/Mr.-Jimi-Agbaje.jpg" width="640" /></div> <br /> The Lagos State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday said it was sure to defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC) to capture the state in the 2019 elections.<br /> <br /> The state Organising Secretary of the party, Mr Johnson Agbaje, spoke in Epe during the campaign flag-off of Princess Abiodun Oyefusi, the Lagos East Senatorial candidate of the party.<br /> <br /> He said the party had been repositioned for greatness and the confidence of residents in the party was growing by the day.<br /> <br /> Agbaje said that residents were tired of what he called the failures of the APC administration in the state.<br /> <br /> “The PDP will win in 2019. We are very confident.The people are tired of the APC and their failed promises and they want us to give them hope.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “We are the party of the people for the people. We are the party to deliver Lagos and give it to the people.<br /> <br /> “With the growing confidence in the PDP, we will surely win in 2019,” he said.<br /> <br /> Agbaje said all the candidates of the PDP for the general elections in the state were people of integrity with the capacity to deliver.<br /> <br /> He described Oyewusi as a candidate with a very rich pedigree, saying the party trusted in her capacity to give better representation to the Lagos East in the Senate.<br /> <br /> “We have given the Lagos East a woman with great capacity. A woman who will bring the needed development for the people of this area.<br /> <br /> “We have given you a woman with proven track records. We need you to support her and vote for her for better representation,” he said.<br /> <br /> Oyefusi, a daughter of the late Ayangburen of Ikorodu, Oba Salaudeen Oyefusi, said she was contesting the Senate seat to bring development to the Lagos East Senatorial seat.<br /> <br /> She said she was contesting to contribute her quota to nation-building and create opportunities for women.<br /> <br /> The candidate urged people of the area to give her the required support, promising not to disappoint if elected.<br /> <br /> “I am going to the Senate to contribute to laws that will strengthen our communities and bring development, not only to our people here, but to the entire nation.<br /> <br /> “I will create opportunities for our youths. I will fight for increased representation of women in politics.<br /> <br /> “I am for the development of this area. By the grace of God, I will make you proud”, she said.<br /> <br /> Oyefusi urged the people of Lagos East to vote for the PDP, as the party would not disappoint them in 2019.<br /> <br /> The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Oyefusi and her campaign team, after her official flag off at her Marina area of Epe, later moved from one part of the ancient town to another to sell her manifesto to the people. (NAN)

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Super Falcons trash Equatorial Guinea 6-0

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="700" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyABr6eFeW73_AxhD16d78AR6S7CVKIUXs7jcl84GBUfIEaJzAtNw6btvOKOOikdZxxwj1Lhw8A4qqp5tX5QEpvc6dJdB-0VAcbzd6qVYKGfUlMoRrhovgOmSnHmshv7QbgehrMFunv94F/s400/Super-Falcons.jpg" width="400" /></div> <br /> Defending champions Super Falcons Saturday made mincemeat of Equatorial Guinea to formally hit the semifinals of the ongoing African Women Nations Cup in Ghana.<br /> <br /> Falcons who hammered Shepolopolo 4-0 in the second group match again went goal crazy on Saturday completely tearing the Nzalang Nacional as the Equatorial Guinea girls are called apart.<br /> <br /> The goal bazaar began as early as the 10th minute when Francisca Ordega put the Falcons ahead. Asissat Oshoala who wasted begging chances in the match against Shepolopolo of Zambia in the second match, rediscovered her scoring boot grabbing a hatrick in a jiffy.<br /> <br /> Desire Oparanozie and Rita Chikwelu grabbed a goal each to hand Falcons a 6-0 victory. The rampaging Falcons appeared to have set a target at scoring 16 goals to spell Equatorial Guinea but ended up spelling Guinea.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> The second match involving South Africa and Zambia ended in a 1-1 draw thus pushing hard fighting Shepolopolo to the exit door. Nigeria will face Cameroon in the first Semifinal tie while South Africa will slug it out with Mali.

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Oba of Benin shuns UNIBEN honourary award

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj62hkr5S6Zzd3cPmxaZ65hs9BBhrZh5TbJ04FhHS_eWxYxnnVTqb-x1VeufRQPs4Es8XtILBCYfObYEkTaJNAyVsEH4eTllojKyj0K7X2mq727VyA3Ea8lpumFvrIsw5tn3Z5v0GMAsa4p/s1600/Oba-Ewuare+benin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj62hkr5S6Zzd3cPmxaZ65hs9BBhrZh5TbJ04FhHS_eWxYxnnVTqb-x1VeufRQPs4Es8XtILBCYfObYEkTaJNAyVsEH4eTllojKyj0K7X2mq727VyA3Ea8lpumFvrIsw5tn3Z5v0GMAsa4p/s1600/Oba-Ewuare+benin.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> The Benin Monarch, Oba Ewuare II, has shunned the event to confer honourary Doctor of Law Degree on him by the University of Benin.<br /> <br /> Oba Ewuare II was to be honoured at a special convocation ceremony on Friday but the event was put off.<br /> <br /> The Oba of Benin was said to have shunned the conferment because he was not consulted before the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Faraday Orhumwense went public with the announcement.<br /> <br /> Sources said the Benin Monarch was shocked to read about the honour to be conferred on him in the pages of newspaper..<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> But the University management explained that the Oba in a letter accepted the award, but informed them that the date of conferment was not convenient to him.<br /> <br /> The University said it will confer the degree on the Oba at a later date.<br /> <br /> Archbishop Margaret Idahosa of Church of God Mission International and Professor Augustine Orhue, were conferred with Honorary Doctorate Degree of Letters and Professor Emeritus, respectively, by the University of Benin during the Convocation ceremony.<br /> <br /> ‎Archbishop Idahosa was honoured for her contribution to Education and human capital development, while Prof. Orhue, a retired Professor of Medicine, was honoured for his outstanding contribution in his field.

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‘We will deliver 15 million votes to Buhari in 2019’ - Women and youths

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="600" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidUGx8040kPqNmcChIg9P7mqItkFlgUhyphenhyphenv04ToIaFiatbYJSHIyYIAvV0pZXaRY-OqDRzegrr93uY4X7v_HmJSQPm5tF-nSD1XL3yzi1PQEB7Om0nLqbV3lwc9H4-0vCBHOPH52AajSM5r/s400/Buhari+yoruba+2019.jpg" width="400" /></div> <br /> <br /> Women and youth leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the North West zone have risen from their meeting to strategize on how to deliver victory to the party in the zone, saying that, they will mobilize 15 million votes for President Muhammadu Buhari during the 2019 elections.<br /> <br /> The North West Youth Leader, Sadiq Sani Fakai while opening the meeting said, the presidential election was just 82 days away, hence the need to strategize on how to mobilize support for the party and ensure its victory.<br /> <br /> He said, President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has delivered good governance in all ramifications, but corrupt politicians are bent on rubbishing its achievements, therefore the youths must rise to promote the APC government’s achievements and canvass votes for it.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Briefing newsmen shortly after the opening of the meeting, leader of the youth caucus and Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Investment, Ismail Ahmad, said the meeting has mapped out strategy to deliver 15 million votes President Buhari in the forthcoming polls.<br /> <br /> He also vowed that they will work to reclaim Sokoto State and all legislative seats lost to other parties, both in states and National Assembly.<br /> <br /> According to him, “We have a lot of work to do, but we have a lot of opportunities to mine. As at January this year, there were 18.5 million registered voters in the north west zone and theere was opening again within the year, where we had encouraged more people to register and a lot of people were encouraged to collect their PVC as well, so the registered voters should be in the region of 20 million now.<br /> <br /> “We are going down to all the wards, all the local government area in all the seven states of the North West to mobilize for the people. Remember that in 2015, with the exception of Senator Danjuma Lah of Kaduna South, all the senators of The North West zone we were APC. All the governors of the North West for the first time since 1999 were APC, until recently when we had the defection of the Sokoto State Governor.<br /> <br /> “Our plan is to ensure that the party maintains that 2015 success and reclaim Sokoto State as well as all our legislative seats both at the national and state levels.<br /> <br /> “It is going to be a lot of work, what I have called on my colleagues at the north west level to do is not going to be easy, it is not going to be a tea party. We are aware that the contest is between two northerners, but we will do our home work well. Again, we know people appreciate performance that is glaring and the president has performed way above expectation in terms of real things on the ground, not just semantics.<br /> <br /> “This government has done a lot of work, but it doesn’t have many people speaking for it<br /> “So, we know in reality we cannot get hundred percent votes from the North West, but in 2015, north west alone delivered over eight million votes to the APC, this time, we will work hard and ensure that we deliver 15 million votes to President Muhammadu Buhari from the North West alone.<br /> <br /> “Talking about the aggrieved party members, Ahmad charged the youth not to leave the job of reconciliation to the reconciliation committees alone, but talk to aggrieved party members within their own domains.” He said.<br /> <br /> The zonal woman leader, Yahanasu Buba Ahmad in her own remarks at the meeting said, the women wing had concluded arrangements to organise 35,000 women rally for President Muhammadu Buhari next Tuesday.

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EPL: Tottenham stop Chelsea’s season unbeaten run

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="630" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhltEp0xE2P1UdvCd_gDMKGxdU7KhsJBFym3MX1W0SjC-TvS8km6DazDtYMEwdQy60KHca76csOAbG9QWgjxJN7FcUU31ZlaKRAjsBh9ywPypgIhhZHBQh69o8lydmrhfFciKNwLp9j2kG5/s640/Tottenham-e1543095262966.jpg" width="640" /></div> <br /> <br /> Tottenham outplayed Chelsea to inflict the Blues’ first Premier League defeat of the season which shows they are capable of “big things”, says Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino.<br /> <br /> Pochettino’s men displayed a terrific performance to move above their opponents in the table to third, five points behind unbeaten leaders Manchester City, while Chelsea drop down to fourth.<br /> <br /> BBC reports that Spurs deservedly scored two goals in the first 16 minutes through midfielder Dele Alli’s flicked header from Christian Eriksen’s cross, and Harry Kane firing in a drive from long range.<br /> <br /> “There’s no need for me to talk too much. I am so happy, so pleased,” Pochettino told Match of the Day. “I don’t need to analyse too much. All credit to the players because they were fantastic.<br /> <br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a>“The staff are so happy managing this group of players. We need to be humble and recognise playing like this, we can do big things.<br /> <br /> “Our challenge is to keep going and be consistent. That’s our challenge for the rest of the season.”<br /> <br /> Son Heung-min had struck straight at goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga when through on goal, and saw a volley pushed away before scoring a brilliant goal in the second half.<br /> <br /> The South Korean forward picked the ball up on the halfway line, outpaced Jorginho and darted past David Luiz before rolling a cool finish into the net.<br /> <br /> Son told Match of the Day: “It’s amazing. Our performance was very good and we deserved to win. It’s an unbelievable night.<br /> <br /> “We said it before – the first five minutes are so important. We played direct and scored an early goal. Afterwards we created a lot of chances. I need to be more clinical.”<br /> <br /> Chelsea did manage to pull a goal back with five minutes remaining through substitute Olivier Giroud’s powerful header low into the corner.

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Solari and Ramos feel heat as Real Madrid crash at Eibar

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMgBFJK9bAbF7sKaSGzd0dQnrPp3PkKPZkuaANoZq2U26geeIncHJMcCRa6RJTeM8yhn_-_1GuvCGSntMjyqkMrsnACPzc1CwQ3MaO1hGKDII1cUd_or4WO1gc3wimOkFMbtYlsrsnDXzL/s1600/real+esp.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMgBFJK9bAbF7sKaSGzd0dQnrPp3PkKPZkuaANoZq2U26geeIncHJMcCRa6RJTeM8yhn_-_1GuvCGSntMjyqkMrsnACPzc1CwQ3MaO1hGKDII1cUd_or4WO1gc3wimOkFMbtYlsrsnDXzL/s320/real+esp.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Santiago Solari proved the perfect caretaker but his debut as permanent coach of Real Madrid on Saturday ended in a disastrous 3-0 defeat at Eibar.<br /> <br /> Four wins while in temporary charge earned Solari a contract until 2021 over the international break, only for Real to revert to the kind of chaotic display that caused his predecessor, Julen Lopetegui, to be sacked.<br /> <br /> The defeat also brought into focus the mindset of Madrid’s players, after their captain Sergio Ramos faced allegations of an anti-doping violation on Friday night from German magazine Der Spiegel. The club denied any breach.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a></div>

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Boko Haram: Ohanaeze queries FG on billions spent to curb terrorism

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiONchjFNAFBkEDyqcubUo3Nmpuy2K7wv1yTswB8PP-e1ueeJ2cDvfm-G1ka-j0H8YX1y4AVcF2E221C35oREtpLK83bs8ihqriykygpM42VPJkCBTU5poE03qHuOFb8ydVPnclNG2BojgA/s1600/Ohaneze+Ndigbo.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiONchjFNAFBkEDyqcubUo3Nmpuy2K7wv1yTswB8PP-e1ueeJ2cDvfm-G1ka-j0H8YX1y4AVcF2E221C35oREtpLK83bs8ihqriykygpM42VPJkCBTU5poE03qHuOFb8ydVPnclNG2BojgA/s320/Ohaneze+Ndigbo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has asked the Federal government to tell Nigerians what has become of the one billion dollars it appropriated for the war against Boko Haram.<br /> <br /> The group noted that the rate of massacre of Nigerian troops at the war front was becoming alarming.<br /> <br /> Ohanaeze made the demand, in a statement issued by its deputy National publicity secretary, Mazi Chuks Ibegbu on Saturday.<br /> <br /> The statement said, “These soldiers complain of poor weapons and lack of proper welfare,so where are the billions the federal government claim to be spending in the war against corruption, which of course, politicians and religious and fundamentalists created.”<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> The Igbo body warned that, “These dying soldiers are children, brothers, sisters cousins and friends of people. They must not be allowed to be dying like flies in the North East.<br /> <br /> “And my worry is that we are busy politicking while these young men and women are sacrificial lambs of a war they hardly know the cause. And top officers make a lot money out of this war, while some politicians and military chiefs would even want the war not to end to continue fattening their deeply leaking pockets.”<br /> <br /> Ohanaeze, however, urged Nigerian soldiers not to allow themselves to be used for extra judicial killing of innocent people.<br /> <br /> “This will make Nigerians to be sympathetic to their plights. Soldiers win wars when they have public support and sympathy. But the attitude of Nigerian soldiers alienate ordinary citizens from them,” it said.</div>

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FG considers arming FRSC

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJjOuE1R4JwcQaL-Rzxqqud-z8ennX_GCe-i-IqC4zRJMI6SqPzqCsEA20vakIMUxvSiHfm_KEMPA3I24BuMFfbtEDS1nl2W0gmAet2k_swY4muD5gJndiBg-Va6x90rMtu0jDgtneFenH/s1600/frsc-logo.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJjOuE1R4JwcQaL-Rzxqqud-z8ennX_GCe-i-IqC4zRJMI6SqPzqCsEA20vakIMUxvSiHfm_KEMPA3I24BuMFfbtEDS1nl2W0gmAet2k_swY4muD5gJndiBg-Va6x90rMtu0jDgtneFenH/s400/frsc-logo.jpg" /></a></div> From dealing with daily traffic snarls and potholes to unruly drivers in rickety vehicles with expired documents, Nigeria’s highway patrol officers have a lot on their plate.<br /> <br /> At the same time, they have to face the risks from armed robbers who attack unsuspecting road users idling in monster traffic jams.<br /> <br /> But an increase in crime on the roads has sparked fresh debate over whether members of the Federal Road Safety Corps should be allowed to carry firearms.<br /> <br /> The chief marshal of the FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi, has said some 70 operatives were either shot dead by robbers or knocked down by hit-and-run drivers in 2016.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Those deaths would have been prevented if his operatives had guns, he claimed.<br /> <br /> FRSC spokesman Bisi Kazeem said officials were legally entitled to do so.<br /> <br /> “The provision is there in the FRSC Act but the government has to approve and gazette it before it can be implemented,” he told AFP.<br /> <br /> Nevertheless, industry sources said an armoury had been built for the agency in the capital, Abuja, should the green light be given.<br /> <br /> Last year, the lower chamber of parliament, House of Representatives passed a resolution urging the government to procure weapons for the road marshals.<br /> <br /> Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country of more than 180 million people, returned to civilian rule in 1999 after decades of military rule.<br /> <br /> Politicians having replaced generals are in charge of the country. But uniforms are still everywhere — and many of those who wear them are armed.<br /> <br /> They include the army, navy and airforce, the police, customs, immigration and prison service, officers from the anti-drug agency and the civil defence corps.<br /> <br /> Some believe adding to the list is a recipe for disaster — particularly for anyone dealing with Nigeria’s hot-headed and frequently frustrated motorists under the tropical sun.<br /> <br /> Opponents believe it will further militarise the country and aggravate tensions, as security forces deal with threats from Boko Haram jihadists or violence between herders and farmers.<br /> <br /> The gun is seen as the ultimate symbol of power in Nigeria and there have been well-documented cases of human rights abuses, including torture and extra-judicial killings.<br /> <br /> Recently, a police special anti-robbery squad was forced to change its name following public outrage at atrocities by its officers against civilians.<br /> <br /> “Allowing the FRSC to bear arms is tantamount to militarising the polity and unnecessary proliferation of arms,” said Don Okereke, a security consultant.<br /> <br /> “There are too many outfits carrying arms in the country such that people continue to live under constant fear. This is not healthy for the civil society.”<br /> <br /> Okereke said there would be more killing of innocent people in what the police claimed was due to “accidental discharge” if the FRSC is armed.<br /> <br /> A retired FRSC commander, who asked not to be identified, agreed.<br /> <br /> “The timing is wrong. Now that elections are approaching we should not encourage anything that can heat up the polity,” he added.<br /> <br /> Unscrupulous politicians could pay corrupt FRSC operatives to use their guns against their opponents, he added.<br /> <br /> Nigerians go to the polls on February 16 next year to elect a new president and parliament, with state governorship and local assembly polls held two weeks later.<br /> <br /> On the roads of Lagos, Nigeria’s biggest city where traffic is a constant headache and tempers flare, drivers already have a lot to deal with.<br /> <br /> They include over-zealous traffic police with sticks and spike strips to burst tyres, officers from the FRSC and its local equivalent the Lagos State Traffic Management.<br /> <br /> Add in the so-called “area boys” or gangs who run the bus stops and depots for the battered yellow minibuses or danfos, driving often resembles a city-wide shakedown for cash.<br /> <br /> “Without weapons, the FRSC is already a fearsome unit,” said Olufemi Oluwaseye, a communications student who is a regular user of public transport.<br /> <br /> “They (the FRSC) have this unique way of instilling discipline, even if temporary, into even the harshest drivers,” he said.<br /> <br /> The argument that they need arms to defend themselves does not fly, he said.<br /> <br /> “We know the argument from government would be that the privilege won’t be abused or that the lives of the FRSC officers on duty are always at risk without weapons,” he said.<br /> <br /> “But the issue is that we would only be creating more power-drunk officers and civilians, unfortunately, would be at the receiving end.”</div>

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Why Jonathan’s book ‘My Transition Hour’ is a disaster – Presidency

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-ZjahlV8MxTVKfOs9e3uu0yarO5VrEdCjVH1rwtYPrg21JWu3_KQkyefdc48fnvBGQn3Ysj1SzgacGqqsrej3eneZiea-4vmZz6VuGewKC9FELo0LOEdmXYNNsWZpbuGsMBIuecb23o47/s1600/goodluck-jonathan.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-ZjahlV8MxTVKfOs9e3uu0yarO5VrEdCjVH1rwtYPrg21JWu3_KQkyefdc48fnvBGQn3Ysj1SzgacGqqsrej3eneZiea-4vmZz6VuGewKC9FELo0LOEdmXYNNsWZpbuGsMBIuecb23o47/s320/goodluck-jonathan.png" width="320" /></a></div> The Presidency has described the book authored by the immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan, ‘My Transition Hour’ as a “disaster.”<br /> <br /> President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu said there were lots of confusion in the publication.<br /> <br /> Appearing on THISDAY sister television station, ARISE Television’s News Tonight at the weekend, Shehu stressed that the book should never have been written in the first place.<br /> <br /> According to Shehu, “I have read online that some of his former ministers have come out to say that they never said he must not hand over.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “And of course, we have seen some statements coming from him. So, we have seen a lot of confusions in the publication.<br /> <br /> “And then, was that what he was set out to achieve? I am not sure that anyone will write a book simply to cause confusion.<br /> <br /> “I think that from all the actions we are getting, I think the only person Mr. Jonathan didn’t blame in that book is his wife.<br /> <br /> “He blamed everybody under the sun for the things that went wrong with his election, for how he lost. So, therefore, I think that book is a disaster. It shouldn’t have been written.”</div>

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Atiku vs Buhari: Cleric reveals what God told him

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRSbZsS4hYco_L3oCbe61qRE6mqZeN9k2nJv3mr6nwqk1feZPvf_XbvGltEx3gQgxemKJzPNgNeC6Fi6RgvuCMb0VLZ1mpR5PdYoRNboPHCnYjY7J_-u6xxNN2UdtUFzp8hmzxIL1-0QET/s1600/Atiku-Buhari.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRSbZsS4hYco_L3oCbe61qRE6mqZeN9k2nJv3mr6nwqk1feZPvf_XbvGltEx3gQgxemKJzPNgNeC6Fi6RgvuCMb0VLZ1mpR5PdYoRNboPHCnYjY7J_-u6xxNN2UdtUFzp8hmzxIL1-0QET/s320/Atiku-Buhari.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> The General Overseer, Messiah New Life Church International Incorporated, Ipakodo-Ikorodu, Lagos, Archbishop Joseph Ehindero, has revealed what God told him concerning the upcoming 2019 presidential election.<br /> <br /> The cleric said it was divinely revealed to him that the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu Buhari will defeat Alhaji Atiku Atiku of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in 2019.<br /> <br /> The Pastor, in an interview with Sun, also warned leaders of apex Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere to stop endorsing or openly campaigning for individuals and political parties seeking elective offices in the 2019 general elections.<br /> <br /> According to him, “Atiku will suffer terrible defeat in the hands of Buhari. All those prophets predicting Atiku’s victory are fake.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “The vision they claimed to have seen is not from God. Atiku is going nowhere, that’s what my living God told me, and those prophets that are predicting his victory are not hearing from God but from the devil.<br /> <br /> “Buhari is the man God has ordained to win 2019 election, and his victory has been sealed by God.<br /> <br /> “These people are elders and leaders, and what people expect from them is to play advisory roles. They are supposed to play fatherly role to all. They are not supposed to be partisan.<br /> <br /> “But, it is unfortunate that Afenifere leaders today have become chief campaigners for the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. Not only that, they have openly endorsed him and have been asking Yoruba to vote for him.<br /> <br /> “But this is wrong. What is President Muhammadu Buhari’s offence that is making Afenifere leaders to campaign against him? It is very unfair what Afenifere leaders are doing against Buhari. Buhari, since assuming office, has been doing a yeoman’s job for this nation, and he has been able to turn round Nigeria’s fortunes.’<br /> <br /> “It is better Afenifere leaders retrace their steps before they lose respect among the Yoruba.<br /> <br /> “Contrary to the impression being created by these Afenifere leaders, President Buhari still remains very popular among the Yoruba, and he is the one they will cast their votes for in 2019 because the man Buhari has transformed Nigeria.<br /> <br /> “Not only that, Buhari also has divine support. His war against corruption, and achievements in the power sector and provision of infrastructures for Nigerians have been a good departure from 16 years of PDP wasteful administration of Nigeria. A second term for Buhari is a vote for continuity of good governance.’’</div>

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2019: Obasanjo’s son leads pro-Buhari youth group

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6rhR_u3J46FNlcZ895LJ3Pq5rYQ0UvWzpuqNKTM-d1uncueUBJBuen2mLO5TjqQAS2c5eNJOlnP205ptMDQ-Og619_z8MdJqE0222WPfThZykTCxtvL0Ja4WLWPcTDGgFbzdR8OPMl4ZT/s1600/bub+obj+son.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6rhR_u3J46FNlcZ895LJ3Pq5rYQ0UvWzpuqNKTM-d1uncueUBJBuen2mLO5TjqQAS2c5eNJOlnP205ptMDQ-Og619_z8MdJqE0222WPfThZykTCxtvL0Ja4WLWPcTDGgFbzdR8OPMl4ZT/s320/bub+obj+son.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> The son of former president Olusegun Obasanjo in the person of Olujonwo Olusegun Obasanjo has emerged the new national president of Buhari Youth Organization (BYO).<br /> <br /> Also elected was Engineer Garba Umar who was returned as the organization’s national secretary, Leadership reports.<br /> <br /> Immediately emerging president, Olujonwo reportedly unveiled the BYO Next Level T-shirt to mark the launching of 2019 presidential campaign for President Muhammadu Buhari.<br /> <br /> It had been previously been reported that despite his father's insistence that President Buhari should not seek re-election, Olujonwo joined the campaign team of the president ahead of the general elections. He was officially received in Abuja, on Wednesday, October 17, by the director of strategic communications and official spokesperson of PMB campaign headquarters, Festus Keyamo and the Dan Amarna of Dutse and director of logistics, PMB campaign organisation, Alhaji Nasiru Danu.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> He had earlier expressed his willingness to work for the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari.<br /> <br /> In a letter addressed to Festus Keyamo, Olujonwo called on Nigerian youths to support President Buhari. He said the Buhari government is serious about the country's development and called on all Nigerians to support him.</div>

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South-East has right to develop along with other regions, says Osinbajo

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibHjMyxH9749JnhPnq7yXsSLblA13xjO-7frxkEp9LQnjpp3ladMYxC7ABgF1ia4_JZ8qLu4EHIoYPvEXzT8c4AMFjaRXWfLh5YjIRts1Lz7NujnXi38EceqU6lOJxscLKRkTeagKUhlB3/s1600/yemi+osinbajo.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibHjMyxH9749JnhPnq7yXsSLblA13xjO-7frxkEp9LQnjpp3ladMYxC7ABgF1ia4_JZ8qLu4EHIoYPvEXzT8c4AMFjaRXWfLh5YjIRts1Lz7NujnXi38EceqU6lOJxscLKRkTeagKUhlB3/s320/yemi+osinbajo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says it is the right of the South-East to develop along with other parts of the country.<br /> <br /> Osinbajo made this known during the opening of the All Progressives Congress governorship campaign office on Friday in Enugu.<br /> <br /> He noted that the posture in some quarters that President Muhammadu Buhari had a disdain for the South-East was not true and a misplaced statement.<br /> <br /> The V-P added that it was the right of the South-East to get good governance and develop evenly with other parts of the country, adding that citing infrastructure in the zone was not a favour.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> He reinstates the Federal Government’s commitment to completing all ongoing projects in the zone, particularly the Second Niger Bridge.<br /> <br /> He expressed dismay at the successive administration in the country for not completing various contracts which they awarded.<br /> <br /> “Our commitment is that we will not steal the resources of the state. Previous administrations awarded contracts but nothing happened,” he said.<br /> <br /> Osibanjo explained that the present administration was led by a group of people who could deliver on its mandates, adding that such would ensure the party’s victory in the 2019 general elections.<br /> <br /> The vice president said their administration would deliver on its entire mandate, adding that “your support for the APC must increase day by day”.<br /> <br /> The governorship candidate of the party in the state, Sen. Ayogu Eze, said the people of the South-East would give the necessary support to the president for his re-election in 2019.<br /> <br /> Eze urged the president to discountenance the antics of some people in the zone who claimed to have endorsed the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party.<br /> <br /> He added that such people spoke for themselves and not for the region, adding “our people have not met to endorse anybody.<br /> <br /> “These are people speaking for themselves,” he said.<br /> <br /> Eze said the South-East was poised to give the Party over 90 per cent of their mandate, adding that the president had done so well for the people.<br /> <br /> Also, the Enugu West Senatorial candidate of the party, Mrs Juliet Ibekaku-Nwagwu, described the reception accorded to the Osinbajo as unprecedented.<br /> <br /> Ibekaku-Nwagwu described the reception as an honour for the APC led administration and an acceptance of the president.</div>

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2019: Atiku speaks on govt making money from crypto-currency

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlvEdxjWQmli7sagyIHi25q2aZS4frNEAf_GJAXjAFfnw1-F1RuGh33SdAjiUXxRrxf8o94KJSnsPn2yE0TdQKXxXCqu08fhZ75d2gr1_voFDGYkgazod8C7VIB7bCqwh-dNEmHJt3jVPm/s1600/Atiku+Abubakar.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlvEdxjWQmli7sagyIHi25q2aZS4frNEAf_GJAXjAFfnw1-F1RuGh33SdAjiUXxRrxf8o94KJSnsPn2yE0TdQKXxXCqu08fhZ75d2gr1_voFDGYkgazod8C7VIB7bCqwh-dNEmHJt3jVPm/s400/Atiku+Abubakar.jpg" /></a></div> Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has said the the Federal Government will support blockchain and cryptocurrency if he is elected as president in 2019.<br /> <br /> He stated this in his ‘Get Nigeria Working Again’ policy document analysed on Saturday in Abuja.<br /> <br /> Under the section on promoting the new economy, the ex-Vice President revealed that he aims to speed up the economy positively through blockchain and cryptocurrency.<br /> <br /> To achieve this, Atiku said he will direct the production of a comprehensive policy on blockchain and digital currencies by relevant government agencies to ensure that those areas were regulated and managed in a way that provides job opportunities as well as income for the government and people of Nigeria.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> He said: “In harnessing the potentials of the new economy, we shall promote the Production of a comprehensive policy on block chain technology and crypto-currencies by the relevant government agencies.<br /> <br /> “The terms of this mandate will ensure that these areas are regulated and managed in a way that provides job opportunities as well as income for the government and people of Nigeria.<br /> <br /> “Regulation will provide clarity for informed decision making, in this $278 billion industry that consists of 1,800 currency types.”<br /> <br /> He also vowed to enhance ICT literacy initiatives from early school programs to adult education.<br /> <br /> “My mission is to ensure that Nigeria’s economy is responsive to the challenges of the 21st century knowledge economy by keeping with the amazingly dynamic technological pace,” Atiku said.<br /> <br /> Nigeria’s presidential election is scheduled for February 16, 2019.<br /> <br /> However, the incumbent All Progressives Congress (APC)’s President Muhammadu Buhari, Atiku Abubakar, Ezekwesili of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Donald Duke of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and Kingsley Moghalu of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) will engage in a public debate on December 14.<br /> <br /></div>

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2019: Shehu Sani reacts to President Buhari’s vow to deal with corrupt leaders

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHIgBCpeSYCzFpu2VmYle9vwS-rCePF2_C5ci5Lhfl38itgyzhw-2PTE2R8VC4wr44VatzTSNaAIO5-rbnc_fWnLyaqyLVilGVMnOXqt4pRob5_ti4LPjoiMNe18yJ-GratgpQgTciHpbq/s1600/Shehu+Sani.jpeg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHIgBCpeSYCzFpu2VmYle9vwS-rCePF2_C5ci5Lhfl38itgyzhw-2PTE2R8VC4wr44VatzTSNaAIO5-rbnc_fWnLyaqyLVilGVMnOXqt4pRob5_ti4LPjoiMNe18yJ-GratgpQgTciHpbq/s320/Shehu+Sani.jpeg" width="213" /></a></div> Shehu Sani, the lawmaker representing the Kaduna Central at the National Assembly has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s vow to deal with corrupt leaders.<br /> <br /> It was reported yesterday that the President, in statement by Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, vowed to deal with corrupt leaders.<br /> <br /> Reacting, Senator Sani noted that President Buhari should explain how he intends to carry out the threat<br /> <br /> According to him, “The President reaffirmed his promise and determination to deal with corrupt people in power.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “The problem with the word ‘deal’ is that it has many meanings.<br /> <br /> “Further clarification needs to be made. After clarification, then he deserves commendation and applause.”</div>

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President Buhari summons service chiefs over killing of soldiers by Boko Haram

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4vZ7zkRSzLqm7mcCtrciFEOZW0HimgH1KTc4d0F_Ftd9kDUFg-fWQ4Ts0XWc-Y7q2VwbtKvhKcBBYzHprjEsgpoO9tIwfsrQ3kPObFi-nIJtKyLSgt4dNgAwYRbLCu-a9chGaR1JpRN1-/s1600/buhari2.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4vZ7zkRSzLqm7mcCtrciFEOZW0HimgH1KTc4d0F_Ftd9kDUFg-fWQ4Ts0XWc-Y7q2VwbtKvhKcBBYzHprjEsgpoO9tIwfsrQ3kPObFi-nIJtKyLSgt4dNgAwYRbLCu-a9chGaR1JpRN1-/s320/buhari2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> President Muhammadu Buhari has summoned the service chiefs to an emergency security meeting over the killing of Nigerian soldiers by Boko Haram insurgents.<br /> <br /> NAN report that a source, who preferred not to be named, confirmed the development in Abuja on Friday.<br /> <br /> Scores of soldiers were killed during the attacks, which occurred at Metele, a remote village bordering Nigeria and Chad.<br /> <br /> Although some estimates put the death toll at over 100, the army failed to state the casualty figure when it spoke on the attacks on Friday.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “The president has called an urgent meeting with the service chiefs,” the source was quoted as saying.<br /> <br /> “And the families of the latest victims of the Boko Haram are being identified and contacts made before a government pronouncement on the tragic attacks.<br /> <br /> “This, it is understood is the reason for the silence of the government over the incident,’’ the source added.<br /> <br /> The president had earlier dispatched Mansur Dan-Ali, minister of defence, to Chad for an emergency meeting with Chadian President, Idris Deby, on the deterioration of security at the Nigeria-Chad border.<br /> <br /> Dan-Ali had earlier briefed the president on security development across the country.</div>

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What Jimi Agbaje said about Nigeria disintegrating

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY8MZgTu1Ur2ovn0kNYkMlbYXk-h1yJX5eJoBPLvBIrc2yz2Sm824GdYlKjiY0rxUY3Mi6PoWXavV8O7l3j5w5ISz6ojkNuVVlGUpX19IKQ-X4e-Hamrdssx1fCqaV_IXOc9Wywtv4Wvk3/s1600/Jimi+Agbaje.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY8MZgTu1Ur2ovn0kNYkMlbYXk-h1yJX5eJoBPLvBIrc2yz2Sm824GdYlKjiY0rxUY3Mi6PoWXavV8O7l3j5w5ISz6ojkNuVVlGUpX19IKQ-X4e-Hamrdssx1fCqaV_IXOc9Wywtv4Wvk3/s320/Jimi+Agbaje.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje, has urged Nigerians against calling for the disintegration of the country but to clamour for good governance through restructuring.<br /> <br /> According to him, without restructuring, there can be no democratic society in the country.<br /> <br /> He said this yesterday at the Nnamdi Azikiwe’s 114th posthumous birthday celebration in Lagos.<br /> <br /> Agbaje, who spoke as a guest speaker at the event, was reacting to the perceived fragility of the country.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> He said it was more beneficial to all ethnic and religious divides when the country is united and there is equity than when disintegrated along parochial lines.<br /> <br /> “Nigeria is a good country, pray for it, it cannot be divided, it will not split. That we are united is a prestige, it would be more beneficial when we are united than when we disintegrate,” he said.<br /> <br /> He, however, urged the government to promote equity, social justice and create an egalitarian society.<br /> <br /> On restructuring, Agbaje emphasized that it was pivotal to the general well being, development and stability of every nation, including Nigeria.<br /> <br /> On his part, the Eze Ndi Igbo in Lagos, Nwabueze Ohazulike argued that restructuring in the face of corruption without good governance would yield little or no results.<br /> <br /> He said that the call for restructuring should not be misconstrued to be what would affect the unity of the country.<br /> <br /> “Restructuring will open up opportunities and new ideas because Nigeria is too large with so many tribes, traditions and cultures, to be governed under this present arrangement.<br /> <br /> “Our founding fathers realized these problems and this is the reason why they deliberately fashioned a constitution, which allowed each section of the country to develop at its own rate,’’ he counseled.</div>

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BREAKING: Boko Haram kidnaps 15 girls

<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="663" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF3sV740PwBhBPBWWFhi784Cy6jyww47gSSJRdNrL3h6gkxuqq0S2Sbx4Lb6px6zcfZhSv1TIBN3KaN3p9nitgKGEi6EmR_PiCIkT56GOz3xoWBLiMgiZMHbehtfiYSURuIlRxdEZQgpDU/s640/Boko-Haram+%25283%2529.jpg" width="640" /></div> <br /> Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped 15 girls overnight in a village near Toumour, southeastern Niger, the local mayor said on Saturday.<br /> <br /> Boukar Mani Orthe, the mayor of the town in Niger’s Diffa region near the border with Nigeria, said about 50 unidentified armed men seized the girls in a village about nine kilometres from the town centre.<br /> <br /> On Thursday suspected Boko Haram fighters killed eight people working at French drilling company Foraco’s water well site in Toumour.<br /> <br /> Boko Haram has been waging an insurrection since 2009 aimed at establishing an Islamic state in northeast Nigeria. It has launched repeated attacks into neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon.<br /> <br /> The violence has killed thousands of civilians and forced millions to flee their homes in the large Lake Chad basin region.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Kidnapping of schoolgirls has been a Boko Haram horror mark, since its fighters in 2014 kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, in Nigeria.<br /> <br /> It also staged this year, another major kidnap of schoolgirls in Dapchi, Yobe state.<br /> <br /> In Mali, French forces said they “put out of action” some 30 Islamist militants, possibly including veteran Malian jihadist leader Amadou Koufa, during a raid in the central Mali region of Mopti.<br /> <br /> The French army, which has about 4,500 troops in West Africa battling Islamist militants, did not specify whether the jihadists had all been killed or taken prisoner. The operation took place with air support on Thursday night, it said.<br /> <br /> “At this stage of the evaluation of the operation, it appears that about 30 terrorists were put out of action,” the army said in its statement on Friday, adding that Koufa and other prominent militants were probably among them.<br /> <br /> Koufa, a radical preacher, inspired the Massina Liberation Front (MLF), a group blamed for a wave of attacks that has shifted Mali’s six-year-old Islamist insurgency from the remote desert north ever closer to its populous south.

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NANS threatens to shut down customs over foodstuffs meant for IDPs

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL5kMelJm8jtbj-hU2RNGON8z1wN8tnKWtUzQii7S-U6apH0kNDrSUxgf1NYBYDdjto96nKvLROvfvqG-xaM7f0aGND6-eBD_0Rrd9D42VKkOT0MuDPg6jGm_ekQCQRhh2vl_cKyGW41vw/s1600/NANS.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="602" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL5kMelJm8jtbj-hU2RNGON8z1wN8tnKWtUzQii7S-U6apH0kNDrSUxgf1NYBYDdjto96nKvLROvfvqG-xaM7f0aGND6-eBD_0Rrd9D42VKkOT0MuDPg6jGm_ekQCQRhh2vl_cKyGW41vw/s320/NANS.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has threatened to shut down Customs Command in Ikeja, Lagos if food stuffs meant for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are not released.<br /> <br /> “NANS will be considering occupying the customs office on Monday, Nov. 26, to demand justice for our Diaspora Zone,’’ NANS National Public Relations Officer, Mr Bestman Okereafor, said in a statement on Saturday.<br /> <br /> Okereafor noted that the foodstuff meant for the IDPs were purchased from Iddo Rice Market in Lagos State.<br /> <br /> “And not from outside Nigeria with receipt to the effect, contrary to what should have constituted an act of smuggling which is against the law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as stipulated under section 147, 148 and 158 of the Customs Excise Management Act, Cap C4 LFN, 2004,” he said.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Okereafor further explained that the seized items were bought by the leadership of NANS, Sierra Leone Chapter, on Oct. 27 but were confiscated by men of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘A’ Command, Ikeja, Lagos.<br /> <br /> “The foodstuff items were bought for the purpose of donating them to IDPs camps in Maiduguri, Ogoja and Bakassi as our little way of complimenting the efforts of Federal Government, NGOs and other well-meaning Nigerians in caring for our brothers and sisters that are victims of insurgency and other internal crisis.<br /> <br /> “Frantic efforts have been made and letter of appeal for the release written to the Comptroller in-charge of the Zonal command; follow up has been done as well and they are yet to grant our request by releasing these items so that we can use them for the intended purpose.<br /> <br /> “As at yesterday, they have established that they seized the items on the stated date, in the process, it was discovered that the operation team that arrested the items offloaded the items, released the vehicle conveying the items to the driver.<br /> <br /> “While the operation team under the command had mixed our items with a golf car that was arrested at Ibadan Toll-Gate with contraband so as to make it look like a smuggled goods.<br /> <br /> “At the discovery of this, the Zonal Co-ordinator of customs told us that they will only give us a document to show that they seized the items but they cannot release them,’’ he said.<br /> <br /> According to him, the question now is, if rice and vegetable oil that were bought from a Nigeria market can be seized by customs as contraband, how did they enter into Nigeria and are being displayed for sale openly at Iddo Market, Lagos.</div>

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'I’m CEO of the party, you’ll take directive from me' - Oshiomole tells APC legal adviser

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="644" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1aZtbwnf37eTWrB93nFPiy0K8CDKyh6jee-76ppw5P3vxPjsq5tCtQ4VeOQqICfiqsVkFye3BXjoOJsee0RGHlitUlCF35Q-2u4EiHGEGj9EUIh_YQzyKLEeJG_uKUhYjpnWPwGc39G1/s400/Oshiomhole.jpg" width="400" /></div> <br /> Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says every member of the party’s national working committee (NWC) must take directive from him.<br /> <br /> Babatunde Ogala, national legal adviser of the party, had accused Oshiomhole of usurping his office.<br /> <br /> In an internal memo addressed to the chairman, Ogala said the national chairman is fond of sidelining the party’s legal department.<br /> <br /> He alleged that Oshiomhole had refused to consult him over issues his office should handle.<br /> <br /> But in an interview with <i>Daily Trust</i>, Oshiomhole said the constitution of the party provides that he is the chief executive officer (CEO) of the APC.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> He said: “We have a constitution. It’s very clear that nobody is an island to himself or herself. Yes, we have 21 elected members of the NWC. We constitute an organ. It is not 21 NWCs, it’s one, and the duties and responsibilities of the chairman are well-stated. Among others, it provides that the chairman is the chief executive officer (CEO) of the party. He is also the chief accounting officer.<br /> <br /> “The word CEO has the same meaning everywhere in the world. The fact that you are the head of a department or a division, or a unit, does not isolate you from taking a directive from the CEO. So, if there is anyone, including a legal adviser, who thinks that he is running a different system that is not accountable to the internal structures and power and control within the party, the challenge may be his.<br /> <br /> “But again, those are all part of the distractions. What happens in government and some organisations is that if you don’t pay attention to some minute areas, they become the entry point for opponents to infiltrate and create maximum damage. What are the issues? The right to nominate who represents us, the right to be consulted.<br /> <br /> “If I am taken to court as national chairman, and my name is mentioned, or they just write national chairman and write All Progressives Congress, common sense should ask, should I have the right to be informed and to approve who represents the party in a lawsuit? Why would anybody want to monopolise that? For me it’s straightforward. I have seen ridiculous situations in which people who took our party to court come to me to say, ‘Allow me to nominate the person who’ll represent the APC’ so that they are guaranteed of the outcome of the case.<br /> <br /> “I cannot oblige such a request, and if insisting that the right thing is done leads to internal memos that some choose to publish, my eye is on the ball, to protect the corporate interest of the APC.”<br /> <br />

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2019: IPOB declares readiness to boycott polls

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2019: IPOB declares readiness to boycott polls

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBCIEM0edt62q4uzK8VfG7hElFrQd15A7VU23RRraWI0SCPjh73IkXHo0fkNa8kHQLTs0Da93SNi14HJoHCDAzMNDwP2ODhD0tS0qHf7GLkY8_PhGHPZkyGwgTprMdXqHCz6KIYXEFAEji/s1600/IPOB2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="265" data-original-width="412" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBCIEM0edt62q4uzK8VfG7hElFrQd15A7VU23RRraWI0SCPjh73IkXHo0fkNa8kHQLTs0Da93SNi14HJoHCDAzMNDwP2ODhD0tS0qHf7GLkY8_PhGHPZkyGwgTprMdXqHCz6KIYXEFAEji/s320/IPOB2.png" width="320" /></a></div> The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday restated its resolve to boycott the 2019 polls with members marching along some major streets and roads in the South-East and South-South zones.<br /> <br /> Some members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, making brisk appearance along some streets in Onitsha, Anambra State, yesterday, in what it called Show of Force in its determination to carry out its Sit-at-Home directive against Operation Python Dance 3.<br /> <br /> Comrade Emma Powerful, in a statement, said the march was to register the happiness of the group over the reappearance of its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in Jerusalem more than a year after the security agencies invaded his Afaraukwu Ibeku, Umuahia country home, and to restate IPOB’s readiness to boycott the 2019 general polls.<br /> <br /> "Biafrans are equally today showcasing to the world that we are ready to boycott every Nigerian elections come 2019 especially presidential election next year," he said.<br /> <br /> IPOB rally and march today November 23, 2018 is ongoing in all the states across Biafraland like Rivers, Enugu, Abia, Anambra, Delta, Imo, Ebonyi, Cross Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa and other Biafra clans and tribes fraudulently caved into Kogi, Benue and Edo states.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a></div>

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Ember Month: There are no blood-sucking demons on the road – FRSC

<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="231" data-original-width="400" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjtDc1S2tRBf3uLTYXcNsJhQeJDqqNLZrf83g69ulGxx-Z5TNFbufNv44C568shBMzBg9d8ehkuI0DueT2AZvBFrPln276taJw8hRyuIX2HkYPtyR8gCXQEDq9HlVtilXYxFeJzkXd_ku7/s400/FRSC-logo-0310.jpg" width="400" /></div> <br /> The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has cautioned against the belief by some people, including commuters, of the existence of blood-sucking demons that kill travellers on the road during the yuletide.<br /> <br /> Mr Samuel Obayemi, FRSC Zonal Commanding Officer, Zone RF9 Enugu, gave the caution in Owerri on Thursday, during the flag-off of this year’s “ember month” campaign.<br /> <br /> Speaking on the theme, ‘Safe Driving, Safe Arrival,’ the zonal commanding officer described such belief as erroneous, and said human factors were responsible for most of the road crashes in the country.<br /> <br /> “There are no blood-sucking demons on the road to kill you; stop believing that someone from your village wants to send accident to you through the air.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “If you drive safely, you must arrive safely.<br /> <br /> “That is why we are sensitising the public, especially for this year’s yuletide, which is fast approaching,” he said.<br /> <br /> Obayemi gave the number of road crashes in the zone for September and October as 26 and 34 respectively.<br /> <br /> He said 51 persons were injured in road crashes in September while 108 were injured in October.<br /> <br /> “In addition, 44 lives were lost in September, while October claimed 206 lives,” he said.<br /> <br /> According to the road safety boss, the campaign is targeted at reducing road crashes by 15 per cent and fatality by 30 per cent.<br /> <br />

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REVEALED: Why North dumped Jonathan in 2015

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="495" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8cm9t0FSwzGHxM5sOGpHMk8Iiij8VL24RsVrDImlyjNGZ0MBGqESiKtVjXDpFGmeWICpua1qdyOxdvcLr6pzr1KAoUEBFTa47yumd4U6p_QONXzS4XctXlzL-dpaw68_9SmFWdvj88r17/s400/Jonathan++tired+sad.jpg" width="400" /></div> <br /> The controversy generated by the new book launched by former President Goodluck Jonathan continued yesterday with more Nigerians berating him over some of his claims in the book.<br /> <br /> The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) last night berated the former president over his claim that many individuals and groups conspired against his re-election in 2015.<br /> <br /> The group described Jonathan as the architect of his failure for refusing to honour the arrangement of his party which zoned the presidential slot to the North.<br /> <br /> Jonathan on Tuesday in Abuja launched the book titled ‘My Transition Hours’ with eminent personalities within and outside the country in attendance.<br /> <br /> The book contains his views on various issues till he left office on May 29, 2015.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> The former president, among other issues, had indicated that corruption is worse under the present government than it was during his tenure and that the Chibok school girls’ abduction was a product of conspiracy by the then opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in connivance with the Borno State Government.<br /> <br /> He also accused the Borno government and then President Barack Obama’s administration in the United States of undermining the efforts made to rescue the Chibok girls in 2014.<br /> <br /> In a swift reaction, Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima, described the work as an elementary book of fiction which “fell short of the courage required of him to publish findings by his own panel in Chapter Four of his book.”<br /> <br /> Explaining while the North withdrew its support from Jonathan, the ACF National Publicity Secretary, Muhammad Ibrahim Biu, said even though he had not read the book, “it is on record that Jonathan contested the 2011 and 2015 elections against the zoning arrangement of his party, which zoned the presidential slot to the North.<br /> <br /> “Therefore, his assertions that Northern leaders and socio-political groups in the North worked against his presidency is rather odd, considering the circumstances at that time.<br /> <br /> “Yet he won the presidency in 2011 and the ruling party also secured 25 per cent in some states of the North in the 2015 presidential elections.<br /> <br /> ”It may interest you to know that his party has since admitted the oversight in the party’s 2015 winning game plan.<br /> <br /> “This clearly means that leaders should always honour their words with deeds if they want to earn the respect of their followers.”<br /> <br /> In the same vein, former Kaduna State PDP chairman and Northern Elders Forum member, Alhaji Yaro Makama Rigachikun, said two factors were responsible for Northern elites dumping the former president during the 2015 elections.<br /> <br /> Rigachikun, who had defected to the APC prior to the 2015 general elections, disclosed that the first reason the North rose against Jonathan in 2015 was the fact that the former President had taken oath of office twice.<br /> <br /> According to him, “he was sworn in when the late Umaru Yar’Adua died. He was again sworn in in 2011 when he won that year’s presidential election.<br /> <br /> “To the Northern establishment, he was sworn in twice, which was in tandem with the constitution.<br /> <br /> ”So, to allow the former leader to be sworn in for the third time was against the spirit of the constitution, and the Northern establishment would not take that.”<br /> <br /> According to the Northern elder, the second reason was the issue of suspicion and distrust because the Northern establishment believed that the former leader had a hand in Boko Haram.<br /> <br /> “However, event later proved that the former leader was not behind the insurgency. As a former member of APC, we came to realise that Jonathan’s hand was never in Boko Haram.”<br /> <br /> The National Chairman of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Chief Chekwas Okorie, flayed the ex-president for saying that corruption is worse under the present regime than it was under his administration.<br /> <br /> In a telephone chat with newsmen, Okorie said: “I heard him say that corruption is worse now than when he was in office. Many of us don’t think so.<br /> <br /> “We know that millions of dollars were recovered from some of the people that served under him in raw cash.<br /> <br /> “He even boasted that 200 aircraft were flying about in Nigeria. Where are those aircrafts now?<br /> <br /> “Those people just ran away, knowing that they can’t account for those aircraft.<br /> <br /> “He should know better what the foreign reserve was when he left office and what it is now.<br /> <br /> “He has written his book based on his own perspective, according to his own experience and interpretation of things that happened around him as the president of Nigeria towards the end of his tenure.<br /> <br /> “People are free to criticize the book. If somebody feels so strongly about it, he can write his own too to enrich our literature and knowledge.<br /> <br /> “It is for discerning mind to know which one is the truth and the one that is a lie.”<br /> <br /> While calling for caution over the matter, the President of Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), Okechukwu Isiguzoro, aligned with the former president’s claim that some PDP governors worked against his re-election.<br /> <br /> “Former President Goodluck Jonathan is the one wearing the shoe and he knows where it pinches.<br /> <br /> “There is no lie in his claim that some PDP governors worked against his re-election. We are all living witnesses to what happened in the build up to that election.<br /> <br /> “We saw how many governors and trusted allies of former Goodluck Jonathan betrayed him.<br /> <br /> “We saw how people came up with all manner of propaganda to smear the image of GEJ.<br /> <br /> “I personally believe in GEJ because he has proved to be a man of candour in all he does.<br /> <br /> “He has moved from being a national hero to becoming an internationally respected figure. No amount of mudslinging can bring him down.<br /> <br /> “Many of the reactions to the publication are mere afterthoughts.<br /> <br /> “Be that as it may, I will urge everybody to put the past behind.<br /> <br /> “Let us focus on the future by working together to tackle the humungous problems facing us as a people and as a nation.<br /> <br /> “The brickbats over what happened before and post 2015 is needless, especially at this time that we are approaching the 2019 general elections.”

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Problem with Nigeria is finding upright men in authority - Osinbajo

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmcUCFe49hI9ZObxqsgOBhbv1TqkTRyOuzmiMBAaOIh2nUu0JVKxZDE8dqlKpVxEryrDVrD0bsgT4rmIJ0tkC6l4JrMwQAnGiMsl9fBhml_4LU7Cwzd8AalVaJTp-BZ4Y7Pvr0dPZnEODO/s1600/osinabjo3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="412" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmcUCFe49hI9ZObxqsgOBhbv1TqkTRyOuzmiMBAaOIh2nUu0JVKxZDE8dqlKpVxEryrDVrD0bsgT4rmIJ0tkC6l4JrMwQAnGiMsl9fBhml_4LU7Cwzd8AalVaJTp-BZ4Y7Pvr0dPZnEODO/s320/osinabjo3.png" width="320" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div> The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, says that the problem with Nigeria is finding upright men in positions of authority.<br /> <br /> Osibanjo said this on Friday in Enugu during a book presentation by former governor of Enugu State, Mr Sullivan Chime.<br /> <br /> The vice president said that the widely held belief that the problem with the country was ethnic and tribal based was wrong and misplaced.<br /> <br /> He said that those who wanted to privatise the resources of the country and build human capital were the major cause of friction in the country.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> He said that such leaders instigated the division of the country along ethnic and tribal lines in order to sustain their empire.<br /> <br /> “The problem of our country is finding forthright men in positions of authority,” he said.<br /> <br /> Osibanjo described Chime as a man with strong values who made the desired change in the state during his time as governor.<br /> <br /> He called on political office holders to discharge their responsibilities with good conscience and responsibility.<br /> <br /> Osibanjo said that the country would be a better place if politicians think of what the future would hold for their people rather than how to win their next election.<br /> <br /> “At the end of the day, integrity pays and I congratulate Chime for the successes he recorded during his time as governor,” Osibanjo said.<br /> <br /> In the book review, Prof. Chidi Onyia said that the book, written by the former governor, filled the gap in contemporary history of the state.<br /> <br /> Onyia said that the book, which encapsulated the good and rough times of the Chime administration, covered how to achieve growth in governance.<br /> <br /> He said that the book covered the achievements of the former governor, including the construction of 332 km rural roads, 222km rural connecting roads and 471km Enugu urban roads.<br /> <br /> Onyia also lauded the construction of bus stops, installation of street lights as well as implementation of a new waste management scheme in the state under the former governor.<br /> <br /> He pointed out that it was under the Chime administration that the Rockefeller Foundation named Enugu as one of the resilient cities in the world.<br /> <br /> “The efforts of the governor paid off and opened up the state for massive investments,” Onyia said.<br /> <br /> Earlier, the chairman of the event, Prof. George Obiozor, described Chime as an unsung hero who preferred to be a hero in thought and action.<br /> <br /> Obiozor said that the accomplishments of the former governor would remain a monument in the South East, adding that the continuity in developmental strides in the state was a pride to all Igbos.<br /> <br /> In a vote of thanks, Chime said that his administration did its best to bring smiles to the faces of residents of the state.<br /> <br /> The former governor said that he worked with an excellent team that saw one another as equals.<br /> <br /> “I am happy that after that, rather than people throwing stones at you, they see and appreciate what you did,” he said.<br /> <br /> The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the launch of the book titled ‘An Honour to Serve: Enugu State in the Sullivan Years’, drew attendance from across the country, including the spokesperson of the Buhari Campaign Organisation, Mr Festus Keyamo (SAN).<br /> <br /> Others that attended the event included Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, deputy governors of Enugu and Ebonyi, former ministers, some members of the National Assembly and chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC). </div>

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NBA star Steve Curry escapes death in auto crash

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8RGXw5j-kmKgl3RS6MbS6sLT7oWL7KJQ5Q_cDKwiIL6wi_03EAEgOl_tj3oFKWgZqY95O0LaJ-c5W49qyRSpiElyWOEe5Ba7hm3k4D0uUiPP5fOQMD4XVEQRmkqo-D_JGJnKsM73z1ZWo/s1600/steph+curry.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="679" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8RGXw5j-kmKgl3RS6MbS6sLT7oWL7KJQ5Q_cDKwiIL6wi_03EAEgOl_tj3oFKWgZqY95O0LaJ-c5W49qyRSpiElyWOEe5Ba7hm3k4D0uUiPP5fOQMD4XVEQRmkqo-D_JGJnKsM73z1ZWo/s320/steph+curry.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /></div> Two-time NBA MVP Stephen Curry escaped serious injury Friday morning after being involved in a multi-car smash while en route to the Golden State Warriors’ practice facility.<br /> <br /> The Warriors guard was westbound on Highway 24 near Oakland at around 9 a.m. PST when his black Porsche Panamera collided with two other vehicles, damaging both the front and back end of his vehicle, US media reported.<br /> <br /> An Oakland television station reported a California Highway Patrol spokesman as saying a Lexus car spun out on the freeway and collided with the front of the Porsche before a second car rear-ended it.<br /> <br /> Curry’s sports car suffered major front-end damage. But he was not hurt and eventually made it to the Warriors’ morning practice and said he was fine.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “Don’t need any reminders but All the Time God is Great and God is Great all the time! Appreciate all the texts,” Curry wrote on his Twitter account.<br /> <br /> Police said the wet weather was likely a factor and that no charges have been laid.<br /> <br /> Curry will not play in Friday’s game against the Portland Trail Blazers as he continues to recover from an injury to his left groin.<br /> <br /></div>

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Six die in IPOB protest in Anambra

<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="690" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzWzNq0Bsiy73SKAiJdyTZCvCcbi8poeBd50PHCjsvJK-YkwGUxU_TQLq9zfG6gokZGUJTDODGM38SHBZbnCHTEPhVshgMHOjCSqQQgoryxAwtRawLdZGj2dMxqdmijBqLdJr9SMbULfW0/s400/IPOB-CLASH.jpg" width="400" /></div> <br /> Two policemen and four others believed to be members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra on Friday died during the group’s protest in Nnewi, Anambra State.<br /> <br /> But the Anambra State Police Command said only one policeman died in the protest while a Divisional Police Officer in the area was hospitalised after sustaining injuries in the clash that erupted when security agencies stormed the venue of the protest.<br /> <br /> Speaking with our correspondent on the telephone, the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of operations, Mike Okoli, said, “I will confirm to you that we lost a policeman, an inspector in the clash. The DPO who went with him to that operation is hospitalised. I can’t tell you of any other casualties; this is the much I know.<br /> <br /> It was gathered that the pro-Biafran agitators marched round Nnewi and environs on Friday sensitising the people about the need for a referendum to highlight the need for the Sovereign State of Biafra and the rejection of the 2019 general elections.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Members of the group numbering about 2000 had stormed the Nnewi market, shouting “No referendum, no 2019 election.”<br /> <br /> Waving the Biafran flag as they moved round, the protesters asked people in the market not to participate in the 2019 general elections unless the Federal Government heeded their demand for the conduct of referendum to actualise Biafra Republic.<br /> <br /> Our correspondent gathered that trouble started when security operatives arrived at the scene in three Toyota Hilux pick-up vans and attempted to stop the protesters.<br /> <br /> Members of the group were said to have pounced on the policemen and destroyed their vans, with two people dead in the process. The development forced traders in the Nkwo Nnewi market to close their shops and scampering for safety.<br /> <br /> The IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, in a statement made available to our correspondent in Awka, said members of the group went on a peaceful demonstration to express their joy over the “second coming and appearance” of the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, in Israel.<br /> <br /> Powerful said the reappearance of their leader was a testimony that the struggle for Biafra was divine.<br /> <br /> The statement partly read, “Our leader’s reappearance in Israel after the Nigerian government and her security forces, including the Nigerian Army, Air force and Naval forces invaded his compound at Afaraukwu Ibeku in Umuahia, Abia State, last year September is clearly an indication to all and sundry that God Almighty is behind the struggle for Biafra liberation.<br /> <br /> “Biafrans are equally today showcasing to the world that we are ready to boycott every Nigerian elections come 2019 especially the presidential election next year.<br /> <br /> “Our march today on the roads and streets across Biafraland must send signals to politicians and saboteurs among us that Biafrans are determined to leave the prison called Nigeria where British government experimented to lead black Africans and other black nations across the globe but failed to live up to the expectations for over 100 years because of the Hausa-Fulani caliphate dominations.<br /> <br /> “IPOB rally and march today (Friday) being November 23, 2018 is ongoing in all the states across Biafraland like Rivers, Enugu, Abia, Anambra, Delta, Imo, Ebonyi, Cross Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa states and other Biafra clans and tribes fraudulently carved into Kogi, Benue and Edo States.”<br /> <br /> He said the group would not rest until a date was given for Biafra referendum to hold so that its people would decide whether to stay in Nigeria or not.<br /> <br /> He added, “IPOB is divinely ordained to retrieve Biafra sovereignty from this enclave called Nigeria. We are coming to show Nigerians and its handlers including their security apparatus what is called civil disobedience because IPOB is more of intellectuals.”

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’How Boko Haram attackers disguised as friendly soldiers and killed 100 military men’

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="510" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7zPzd5C38rjyzXPayjSKY720eowpQSo1IWoz8pxV7iWTiu5LdDgaDUFoGVbY_SB4M5gPvEqJd0R9sbJzu8LyaLY4A8RafJBdZk2lZzqd9i7Idg81BibqAwpVxHkPmLYBYPeykW0ZJJAQR/s400/Chief-of-Army-Staff-Lt.-Gen.-Tukur-Buratai.jpg" width="400" /></div> <br /> <br /> Indications emerged yesterday that the attack on troops by Boko Haram insurgents at Metele village, Guzamala Local Government Area, Borno State, which claimed many lives on Sunday, was possible because the attackers disguised as friendly soldiers.<br /> <br /> A soldier, who escaped the attack by a whisker, said an advanced team of the insurgents had come into the base as friendly forces and went into the office of the commander where they fired him and five other soldiers that were with him in the office.<br /> <br /> According to the source, the troops became confused when they heard the sound of gunshots from their commander’s office.<br /> <br /> He said: “We saw some people dressed in full military uniform who came into our camp, but we thought they were friendly forces.<br /> <br /> “They went straight to the office of our commander and shortly after, there were gunshots in the office.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “We became confused, waiting for orders but it was too late. Boko Haram had already surrendered us.<br /> <br /> “They killed the commander with five other soldiers that were with him in the office.<br /> <br /> “Before we knew it, there was heavy fire from Boko Haram from all sides of the camp with more fire at the entrance.<br /> <br /> “One of our anti-bomb vehicles tried to charge through the barbwire but got hooked. It was a terrible fight.<br /> <br /> “We couldn’t do much because their number and fire power were more than our own.”<br /> <br /> Meanwhile, the army command in Maiduguri has evacuated the bodies of the soldiers that were killed by Boko Haram insurgents.<br /> <br /> A military source disclosed that more than 70 bodies were evacuated to Maiduguri by the military after the Theatre Commander Operation Lafiya Dole and the GOC, 7 Div yesterday went to Monguno and strategised on recovering the bodies.<br /> <br /> NE checks revealed that the first rescue and evacuation team was foiled after Boko Haram launched an attack on them and they were forced to withdraw.<br /> <br /> The military source who spoke on condition of anonymity said more than 100 soldiers were feared dead in the Metele attack.<br /> <br /> He added: “As at today, the bodies of some of the dead soldiers have been evacuated and brought to Maiduguri. More than 70 bodies have been brought, but I am sure many may not have been recovered.<br /> <br /> “I am not sure, but the soldiers that died in that attack will be more than 100.”<br /> <br /> NE could not verify the story with the army authorities yesterday as calls and text messages to the Army spokesman, Brig. Gen. Chukwu Texas, were not responded to.<br /> <br /> NE checks also revealed that Boko Haram has sacked six military formations from that axis since September, each coming with a heavy casualties on the side of the Nigerian troops.<br /> <br /> It will be recalled that Nigerian troops in Metele suffered a similar attack in September this year when about 18 Nigeria soldiers were killed while another 151 soldiers and six officers were declared missing in the same area in another devastating attack on 157 Battalion on October 8, 2018.<br /> <br /> However, the official figure released by the military was that only seven soldiers were killed while 16 others were injured. They claimed to have killed at least 76 Boko Haram fighters in Metele as at then.

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I regret joining APC - Atiku laments

<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="748" data-original-width="1056" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxMGALsgZC4Osr2hHo5AMZt6pV-askfm9US5SqzwNgCHIGFqFKcPGpT7x9hr9lqLV91fspsDXyTDhjG2Nbn_73ppMakJ64D95r1uKEJo0NyHY5tgqPQZYyr3MSHdRr7KFU0Oz0_qj9Eh-E/s400/Atiku-Abubakar-5.jpg" width="400" /></div> <br /> Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has apologised for joining the groups, who came together to form the All Progressives Congress.<br /> <br /> He said the apology had become necessary because of the sufferings Nigerians had been subjected to in the last three and half years from a party he played a role in bringing to power.<br /> <br /> Atiku, who spoke on Thursday in Yola, Adamawa State, during a town hall meeting with residents of Jimeta, described the APC as an assembly of ‘elements’ that came together to defraud the country.<br /> <br /> He said the party had failed in changing the fortunes of Nigerians for good.<br /> <br /> He said, “I regretted being a part of the party which never deemed it fit to fulfil all of the promises it made to Nigerians.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “If I had known that the APC would be such a colossal failure and disgrace, I would never had joined the party.<br /> <br /> “The APC has failed to fulfill even one of the promises it made to Nigerians. The APC is simply an assembly meant to defraud Nigerians.”<br /> <br /> Speaking further, the former Vice-President said that the country would not survive another four years if the APC was returned to power in 2019.

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I'm not accepting honorary awards anymore - Wole Soyinka

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh63FBpry3TdqFbeHZJeDmXRGl7X-NzU39chFHEfRsYudFJK7bLhijyz8qrptUjU_wOs_KIWM_ilty91T-YK34GaWUYgxy95mWABvobThht02bm67Va5tIqLWd6muZUqov2YQI2PXxQFeMy/s1600/wole+soyinka+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh63FBpry3TdqFbeHZJeDmXRGl7X-NzU39chFHEfRsYudFJK7bLhijyz8qrptUjU_wOs_KIWM_ilty91T-YK34GaWUYgxy95mWABvobThht02bm67Va5tIqLWd6muZUqov2YQI2PXxQFeMy/s1600/wole+soyinka+4.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> The Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka on Friday said he was done with the conferment of Honorary awards on him.<br /> <br /> He said this while receiving an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters at the convocation ceremony of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta.<br /> <br /> “This is an institution where in the same town and state is where I took my first steps to learning. So it is symmetrical, it is a closure. I said this is symbolical way to end my teaching career. But there is one thing which I thought that suppose this is the last honorary degree I receive from anywhere, what a beautiful closure it is” he said.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “The reason I am announcing it now is because I can always use you, this institution, this town, all the royalties present, the students will hear, as a witness to this day, that the next time I am invited to accept any honorary degree, I will politely decline. I would say I have made a promise not to accept anymore”.<br /> <br /> “So this is it, no more. I cannot think of a more appropriate place to say this is the last honor I am receiving from anywhere. This is it and you all are witness to it”.

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EFCC chairman meets UK authorities, begins Diezani’s extradition process

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQJj8RyFlx-GSIvoj0PiU2tCbA0qhxE0cCkhh5wzI5pRcEXu6IxxAvvfyRlN5UbfbPr9vS_HvWb7p71NctrxiTsf09ZxxEvRksy5ZeQSWdPmdQz1yLDGe2mjjBQyorJZww5STwlLf7gw4j/s400/efcc+chairman+magu.jpg" width="400" /></div> <br /> The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, has met with National Crime Agency in the United Kingdom to kick-start the process of extraditing a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.<br /> <br /> The EFCC said in a statement that Magu met with the UK official on Thursday to also discuss the efforts of the commission in the recovery of all ill-gotten assets domiciled in foreign jurisdiction by Nigeria’s Politically Exposed Persons.<br /> <br /> “Outside the recovery of assets, the EFCC boss in the course of the high power meeting with officials of the NCA will also present the commission’s position on ways to fast-track the extradition of all PEPs who have found safe havens in foreign jurisdiction,” the statement read in part.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Magu had explained why the anti-graft agency is bent on extraditing all PEPs.<br /> <br /> “For instance, speaking on the former minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Deziani Alison-Madueke, whose process of extradition from the UK has commenced, Magu explained that having waited for three years, the Nigerian government believes that it is time to initiate the extradition process,” the statement added.<br /> <br /> The EFCC said apart from Diezani, there were several other politically exposed persons who have fled the country 2015 when the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari came on board in May 2015.<br /> <br /> It would be recalled that in 2017, a Federal High Court in Lagos ordered the final forfeiture of N7.6 billion alleged loot recovered by the Commission from the Diezani. The order of final forfeiture to the Federal Government.

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Many feared dead as 7-storey building collapses in P/Hacourt

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="720" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPvU6etT2ibO6qHJziF7uHy3AdRUhX_q8E_1QRbFeFmGPQ_Mf7F5_oUQlTwYqf7d-37fABxUxGvZCuGodypGQuUKvv5cQjKuhW3Z_PnTA8PWGPItYLZ5bJltBPz-8yyiRs73t7-FxaVD1g/s640/ph+collapse.jpg" width="640" /></div> <br /> <br /> A seven story building under construction has collapsed in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.<br /> <br /> The building which collapsed around 7 PM had several persons suspected to be workers trapped under the rubbles.<br /> <br /> The Rivers State Government who confirmed the story in a statement by the State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Emma Okah said some persons have been rescued alive.<br /> <br /> “I can confirm that a multiple story building under construction at Woji Road, GRA Phase 2 (opposite De Planet Lounge), Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has collapsed” he said.<br /> <br /> “Cause of collapse is still speculative, but Rivers State government has since activated all emergency services to rescue those trapped in the debris. As of now, about 11 persons have been rescued alive, while efforts are intensified to rescue the rest.”<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Confirming the incident, Rivers State Police command Spokesman Nnamdi Omoni said no dead body had been rescued from the collapsed building.<br /> <br /> He said, “It is true that a seven story building under construction collapsed at the GRA area of Port Harcourt. The police and other security agencies have taken over the place to forestall any breakdown of law at the area”.<br /> <br /> “It cannot be ascertained at this point if those still under the collapsed building are dead, but our men have taken over the place to ensure everyone trapped under the building were rescued alive.<br /> <br /> “Some have been rescued and efforts are still on to rescued others. Pay-loaders from the state government, Nigerian Stop oil company and that of SHELL have been deployed to the place to ensure those trapped in the building are successfully rescued as soon as possible.”<br /> <br /> “It is too early now to predict that or how many persons killed since the rescue operation is still going on, it is until the operation is over and the number of persons in the facility at the time of the collapse hasn’t been ascertained. Only when we know the number of persons at the site before we can begin to talk about the number of life lost in the incident.”<br /> <br /> However, details of the project, including the owner and what the structure was meant to serve is yet to be ascertained at press time.

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