Governors and The Comic Approach To Governance By Philip Agbese

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAFpToWdCskKIEZufSQs44sUqegp4DxHd00-9KTZG71K3kc35FAxpLWb1O-_EHIFqTaXNUKI5NKV5EZ-14-9LPmKA2IUlf1U_uRGcnYq5RPjDrtfdxD1Bns-mdKq33acpWoLWmkAoBPCE/s1600/IMG_20150911_002437.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAFpToWdCskKIEZufSQs44sUqegp4DxHd00-9KTZG71K3kc35FAxpLWb1O-_EHIFqTaXNUKI5NKV5EZ-14-9LPmKA2IUlf1U_uRGcnYq5RPjDrtfdxD1Bns-mdKq33acpWoLWmkAoBPCE/s400/IMG_20150911_002437.jpg" width="240" /></a></div> At a time when all hands should be on deck in returning Nigeria back to the path of growth from the current economic recession, nothing can be as disheartening as the failure of the 36 state governors to realize that the times call for seriousness and not clowning.<br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> Yes. The entire 36 governors without exception. They have all failed to live up to billing and the ones that Nigerians may think are being useful appear so only by way of relativity. Their performance is so dismal across board that any governor that is able to complete and commission a culvert or a track road is deemed a performer.<br /> <br /> To be clear, the governors are a beneficiary of the failure of Nigerians to mentally migrate from the unitary mindset, a refusal to hold the other tiers of government other than the centre accountable for our wellbeing. The governors have thus been able to use the federal Government as a smokescreen to mask the joke that their stay in office have become.<br /> <br /> This cover provided by concealing their misrule under the Federal Government has opened the gateway for the absurd. Katsina State governor, Bello Aminu Masari thought the most pressing need of his state was to buy 3000 metal biers, used for conveying corpses for burial (which people have dubbed metal coffins). He must have concluded that his inept government would somehow kill off the state's population and they will need to simultaneously convey 3000 corpses to the cemeteries for burial so the need for that capital outlay – that macabre purchase would be retired under capital project by the way.<br /> <br /> In nearby Kano state, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje's preoccupation was with stopping mass weddings. He must have somehow come to the conclusion that the children that would be born from those marriages would increase the state's population hence the number of people that would demand good governance.<br /> <br /> In Ondo and Ekiti states, Olusegun Mimiko and Adams Oshiomole, practically took leave of absence to be on the campaign trail as they abandoned governance to ensure they plant pliant successors. It does not matter that they become so preoccupied with trouncing the opposition that they forgot the economies of their states were priorities.<br /> <br /> Neglecting the economy would have been good fortune for the people of Benue state since at least white elephant projects that will worsen the people's life would not be embarked upon. In that state, Samuel Ortom thinks building a cargo airport, in a state without finished goods to freight anywhere, would be the perfect excuse to ass to add to his numerous borrowings and attempt to the lack of desired response since the outrage over the airport is shifting attention away from the failure of governance across the state.<br /> <br /> Benue might have been dubbed "The Food Basket of the Nation" but it is now one of the places where the people have been forced to do 0-1-0 and some families 0-0-0 meal patterns resulting in numerous deaths across the state. Knowing that he has comprehensively failed in addressing the problems besetting Benue state, Ortom has chosen to blackmail "God" by forcing down the opium of religion down the people's throat. It is far easier to direct an impoverished people to take their problems to God when their prayer points are requests that should have been presented to the government.<br /> <br /> The people in neighboring Kogi state are being insulted to their own very faces as, Yahaya Bello decided that the best that can happen in a state where workers are owed in perpetuity is to borrow N3.7 billion from a commercial bank to buy 109 cars for officials. What happened to getting homegrown mechanics and artisans to overhaul the existing fleets – that would circulate much needed cash in the state's economy without having to borrow money that would be injected into the economy of the country from where those cars would be shipped.<br /> <br /> Ekiti and Rivers states have Ayo Fayose and Nyesom Wike, who, tired of irritating the people of their respective states have found added bonus in peeving residents of other states. It either they are spending their states' scarce resources in futility attempting to influence elections in other states  or they become the pro-corruption activists that prevent security agencies from arresting corruption suspect; while at it they whip up such media storm that the space for discussing productive issues are swamped.<br /> Bordering Ekiti is Kwara state whose governor manages to stick to only what concerns his state, which is basically to continue servicing the dynasty that installed him. Abdulfatah Ahmed, somehow found time off from his godfather to construct an underpass over a dilapidated road at the mind boggling sum of N3.7 billion. He has of course continued the tradition of illegal deductions from local government councils account like all his other colleagues and succeeded in bringing the amount so cornered to N33.6 billion from the reckoning of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) in Kwara state.<br /> <br /> Ahmed is also in the league of the junketeers-in-chief alongside the governors of Plateau, Sokoto, Taraba, Zamfara, Adamawa, Bauchi, Niger and Borno states who have no qualms about taking estacodes in USD to attend symposium in the almighty United States of America. They somehow lost that ability to demand the higher ground and demand the US specialists who want to educate them should come host the event in Nigeria. That would have given us a few hundred USD in tourists spending when the experts are done dispensing knowledge to our student governors. Of course, the governors know they could crack a few jokes about their trip and the citizens would keep quiet as they worry about the source of their next meal.<br /> <br /> Lagos may not be in the north but Akinwunmi Ambode caught the same travel virus as his colleagues. He thus makes it a point to duty to pop into those well run countries when he is not thinking of the latest way to sell his state short even though unlike his Imo state counterpart, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, he does not deliberately leave smelly refuse to punish residents. In Ebonyi state, David Umahi's preoccupation is shadow boxing perceived opponents while the state has nothing to show economically and the story is no less dismal in Abia state where Okezie Ikpeazu is an absentee chief executive officer.<br /> <br /> A complete list of the governors would yield stories of failures is so compiled. Some of them have even resorted to playing religion and sectarian cards to distract citizens from addressing the issue of incompetent leadership that has practically buried state economies.<br /> Sadly, the malady, as seen from the foregoing is spread across geographical and party divide, which means that it must be tackled as a national emergency. In all of the 36 states the media are reporting the bizarre extremes to which poverty has driven the poor ones.<br />  <br /> The state governors may be enjoying the joke they have reduced governance to – pictures of them at the National Economic Council always portray them laughing among themselves even when the economy is discussed in the most perilous terms. Citizens are however at their breaking point and something will give at some point. Directing attention to the federal government would not continue to work for ever and sadly for the governors they do not have state police to quell the pockets of uprisings that will herald the end of their misrule.<br /> <br /> Agbese writes from the United Kingdom.

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It seems I have developed mental problem - Nigerian imprisoned alongside Turkish soldiers

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzZjttk9ER_rUBTqhrUBg5WQy8mRfQlbPWa67YHYiGzoVWu3trZsuac44hOiFpo4J9vIZvNw27LCigikjRkRi_ZgZdP71ozPd-iD1ksmcnX7NrHL1mUszlXGxzENCCTSsrLRF-VqhEAnk/s1600/Hassan-Danjuma.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzZjttk9ER_rUBTqhrUBg5WQy8mRfQlbPWa67YHYiGzoVWu3trZsuac44hOiFpo4J9vIZvNw27LCigikjRkRi_ZgZdP71ozPd-iD1ksmcnX7NrHL1mUszlXGxzENCCTSsrLRF-VqhEAnk/s400/Hassan-Danjuma.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> Hassan Danjuma Adamu, a Nigerian from Yobe state, says he may be battling with a psychological problem after spending three months in a Turkish maximum security prison.<br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> Adamu, who studied computer education and instructional technologies at Bahcesehir University in Turkey, told TheCable in an interview on Monday that he now suffers from anxiety.<br /> <br /> He explained that he would suddenly wake up at night with a shock, and that he would be too terrified to go back to bed.<br /> <br /> Adamu revealed that he had graduated, and that he was waiting to get his certificate when he was arrested alongside Mohammed Alhaji Abdullahi, another Nigerian student, who shared a hostel with him.<br /> <br /> He said was he arrested on July 28, just a few weeks after the coup, which resulted in a crackdown on opposition elements with ties to Fetullah Gulen, the US-based cleric accused of sponsoring it.<br /> <br /> Adamu said the Turkish police found nothing on him, but they still held him for no reason.<br /> <br /> “I asked them why they were holding us – Mohammed and I, but they refused to give us an answer. We were held in the police cell for all whole day without food. We spent the whole night awake. The next morning they took us to court without an explanation. And from the court, they took us to Silivri maximum security prison in handcuffs,” Adamu said.<br /> <br /> “The guards at the prison told the police to deport us because foreign prisoners were not to be there, but they refused saying our offence was grievous. They asked us to do frog jump, and they would hit us in the back in the process.<br /> <br /> “I was really scared because I didn’t know the type of people I would meet there. It was when we got to prison that the guys there told us we were being incarcerated for being members of an armed group. It was shocking because I knew nothing. We were in that cell for 14 days, after which they moved us to another one where soldiers who were accused of plotting the coup were. The prison stank, there was no ventilation. I found it hard to sleep.<br /> <br /> “Within three months we were allowed to speak with our family only once. I think I may have a mental problem because I wake up with a shock every night now, and I cannot go back to bed because I am too terrified.”<br /> <br /> Mohammed, who also spoke to TheCable, said they left Turkey with nothing. He said their phones and laptop computers were seized, and that they were not returned to them.<br /> <br /> He also corroborated Adamu’s story.<br /> <br /> The two students returned to Nigeria last Friday.<br /> <br /> The Turkish government began a crackdown on Nigerian students in the country after the Buhari government refused to accede to its request of shutting down schools linked to Gulen.<br /> <br /> Last weekend, Hakan Cakil, Turkish ambassador to Nigeria, said reports of Nigerians arrested in his country were exaggerated, insisting that Nigerian students were safe.

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He is mentally unstable – Tunde Agbaje’s ‘lover’ responds

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7jia42wTLnViwDnM_67ZUktCAX-9GLQ9nFlYXA84GWEUi1VMoLasFtL-zEMnBwjZObOj5hZRMKxzJVVQ2k17GLT24tvCXzxij-LWDo8YY2WjdXnyyZLuNBiZphyClifP89t0_-oFt4YY/s1600/Agbaje-d-lover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7jia42wTLnViwDnM_67ZUktCAX-9GLQ9nFlYXA84GWEUi1VMoLasFtL-zEMnBwjZObOj5hZRMKxzJVVQ2k17GLT24tvCXzxij-LWDo8YY2WjdXnyyZLuNBiZphyClifP89t0_-oFt4YY/s320/Agbaje-d-lover.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Tunde Agbaje, cousin of a former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, gubernatorial candidate in Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje hit the news today for trekking from Lagos to Zaria to show love to a lady.<br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> The lady in question simply identified as Donald has responded to the courageous feat of the 26-year-old Agbaje.<br /> <br /> Donald said she knew Agbaje was embarking on the trek, adding that she warned him against it.<br /> <br /> She said, “Tunde (Agbaje) has been harassing and stalking me for the past six years and as far as I am concerned, this is just a new escapade in a series of his harassment.<br /> <br /> “I met Tunde at a church when I was living in Lagos and we were both part of the youth ministry. He never had a friendship, let alone a relationship, with me. I was in a music group and some of the youths had my phone number, including him.<br /> <br /> “He later found out where I lived and came to my house. My mum warned him to leave me alone, but he refused. ‎<br /> <br /> “I changed my phone number and moved to the US, but I don’t know how he got my contact. I have stopped picking calls from Nigeria because of him.<br /> <br /> “He later called me and said he was going to trek to prove his love for me in a non-violent way and I told him not to do it because he could die. I said that not because I cared, but just for Christian charity. This guy is mentally unstable, because how can you still be stalking a woman who has turned you down for six years?”

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Buhari orders IGP, state govs to investigate sexual abuses reported at IDP camps by HRW

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimwEjigPKe86t-NvoTYkvP0MZhoeAj1B9NQlSYsLHVMgMvVUehB_zqeNdSf8YiV4S4TEOxgmCNedcJ5Kb6i75W716O0MS6kvbJe6KBx9a3T5TxVLNlSkFxSUFItjpCAbmfWdG5OV7ld_Y/s1600/pensive+Buhari.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimwEjigPKe86t-NvoTYkvP0MZhoeAj1B9NQlSYsLHVMgMvVUehB_zqeNdSf8YiV4S4TEOxgmCNedcJ5Kb6i75W716O0MS6kvbJe6KBx9a3T5TxVLNlSkFxSUFItjpCAbmfWdG5OV7ld_Y/s320/pensive+Buhari.png" width="320" /></a></div> President Muhammadu Buhari has, Monday, ordered the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mr. Ibrahim Idris and the affected state governors to commence immediate investigations into the recent report by the Human Rights Watch alleging sexual harassments of girls and women at the Internally Displaced Camps, IDPs by some officials.<br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> In a statement issued made available to newsmen by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President, it said that president Buhari was shocked and worried at the news.<br /> <br /> “President Muhammadu Buhari is worried and shocked by the recently released Human Rights Watch (HRW) report which alleges sexual abuse and exploitation of women and girls in camps for those displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency.”<br /> <br /> “The welfare of these most vulnerable of Nigerian citizens has been a priority of his government. Nigerians and the international community can rest assured that the allegations raised in the HRW are not being taken lightly.”<br /> <br /> “President Buhari has instructed the Inspector General of Police and the state governors of the affected states to immediately commence investigations into the issue.<br /> <br /> Their findings will determine the next course of action for the government and define an appropriate response.”<br /> <br /> “While the Nigerian military continues to work hard so that these unfortunate victims of Boko Haram terrorism can soon return safely to their homes, the government will do its best to ensure their protection and welfare in the temporary IDP camps.”<br /> <br /> Human Rights Watch, Monday, released a report accusing Nigerian officials of sexually exploiting women and girls at the IDPs.<br /> <br /> It said it had documented 43 cases of women and girls in seven IDP camps in Maiduguri in July who had been abused by camp leaders, vigilante groups, policemen, and soldiers.<br /> <br /> “It is bad enough that these women and girls are not getting much-needed support for the horrific trauma they suffered at the hands of Boko Haram,” said Mausi Segun, senior Nigeria researcher at HRW.<br /> <br /> “It is disgraceful and outrageous that people who should protect these women and girls are attacking and abusing them,” he added.

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Fifa unveil Ballon d'Or replacement

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Image result for The Best Fifa Football Awards" height="359" src="http://img.fifa.com/mm/photo/ballon-dor/organisation/02/84/70/67/2847067_full-lnd.jpg" width="640" /></div> <br /> Global governing body Fifa have unveiled their own prize for the world’s most outstanding players, naming them “The Best Fifa Football Awards”.<br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> The prizes, which will be handed out on January 9 2017, take the place of the Fifa Ballon d’Or, a five year merger between France Football’s prize and the governing body’s own World Player of the Year Award.<br /> <br /> Prizes include The Best Fifa Men’s Player, The Best Fifa Women’s Player, similar prizes for Coaches, the Fifpro World 11 and the Puskas award for the best goal.<br /> <br /> Voting for the prize will be split 50-50 between the choices of captains and head coaches of national teams and an online ballot combined with the submissions of journalists.<br /> <br /> The 23 candidates for The Best Fifa Men’s Player prize will be announced on November 4, with voting running until November 22. A three-strong shortlist will be announced on December 2.<br /> <br /> France Football announced the 30 players in the running for the Ballon d’Or earlier this month. London stars Hugo Lloris and Dimitri Payet joined favourite Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Gareth Bale on the list of nominees.<br /> <br /></div>

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Kukah visits Obanikoro, Abati, Fani-Kayode in EFCC custody

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmEsJZLWLmW-AEVVTICF3TrIVaIzBW5kCkHH2kfE3E8q2wWs8cZwDwtIKvR2_Goau7TPYXCi5IenWAtAF0FN4t8sj9-tijiM-LZV_9OmFwTvuZecj2Waq0aN1qb3B86Qd8VnIzTgERYrI/s1600/Mathew-Hassan-Kukah.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmEsJZLWLmW-AEVVTICF3TrIVaIzBW5kCkHH2kfE3E8q2wWs8cZwDwtIKvR2_Goau7TPYXCi5IenWAtAF0FN4t8sj9-tijiM-LZV_9OmFwTvuZecj2Waq0aN1qb3B86Qd8VnIzTgERYrI/s400/Mathew-Hassan-Kukah.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Father Matthew Hassan Kukah, today, Monday paid an unscheduled visit to the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Abuja, where some top-ranking Peoples Democratic Party officials, are being detained over graft-related issues.<br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> Kukah, who was conducted round the detention facilities, described the detention facilities as which he described as ‘clean and orderly” and prayed for Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, Femi Fani-Kayode and Reuben Abati, who have been in detention for the second week running.<br /> <br /> The priest, who used the visit to assess the state of the detention facilities, said he was satisfied that the EFCC paid premium attention to the well-being of the detainees by ensuring that the facilities provided comfort to them.<br /> Kukah said after the inspection tour, “I discussed with some detained suspects like Femi Fani-Kayode, Musiliu Obanikoro and Reuben Abati; and I am quite pleased they are looking cheerful.<br /> <br /> “I was also happy with the humility of the acting Chairman who took me round and the way he interacted with the detainees. This is what is important for our country so that nobody takes these kinds of things personal. I am happy I came.<br /> <br /> “We are all staff of EFCC to the extent that we want a better country and we are doing what needs to be done. We’ll continue praying that God guides you, keeps you safe and ensure that we build a country that we all will be proud of.<br /> <br /> This country has suffered so much, but we hope and pray that we can bring the suffering and trauma to an end as we collectively fight corruption.”<br /> <br /> The revered priest, who was conducted round the facilities by the acting Chairman of the Commission, Ibrahim Magu, expressed delight that the detainees appeared in high spirits despite the discomfort of temporary restriction.<br /> <br /> He urged them not to be downcast and to see their current travail as divine. EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, told Kukah that the work the commission was doing for Nigeria was not personal but geared towards changing the country for the better. Magu also cleared the air on the detention of the PDP top shots, saying that it was not personal.<br /> <br /> “It is not personal. This is all about Nigeria and making it better. And I think there is a consensus around this,” he said<br /> <div><br /></div>

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Troops invade shrine of N’Delta militants, ‘arrest chief priest’

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjsWs6esAzaWybRvCs1PhCWI0IEnbczlfIZL6ss2GnRcoViXvGpDCmNt_Ha1ea7VzsmHI7792zvfeCE8Ld_RxkkOqVZJVG1O61i91UANip3xH-4y_a41vwsv1g5U-DU5b9YFlvRdiBH9w/s1600/Bakassi-militants.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjsWs6esAzaWybRvCs1PhCWI0IEnbczlfIZL6ss2GnRcoViXvGpDCmNt_Ha1ea7VzsmHI7792zvfeCE8Ld_RxkkOqVZJVG1O61i91UANip3xH-4y_a41vwsv1g5U-DU5b9YFlvRdiBH9w/s400/Bakassi-militants.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> Troops of Operation DELTA SAFE, a military outfit in the Niger Delta, have arrested the chief priest of Bayelsa Strike Force, a militant group in Cross River state.<br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> Olaolu Daudu, spokesman of the outfit, disclosed this in a statement issued on Monday.<br /> <br /> He said the shrine located in Ikot Offing Ambai in Akpabuyo local government area of the state, was destroyed.<br /> <br /> Daudu said a militant was also killed, while ammunition were recovered.<br /> <br /> “Troops deployed at Ikang border patrolled Ikot Offing Ambai in Akpabuyo local government area discovered militants shrine and also apprehended the chief priest of the group with empty box of ammunition at another shrine at Ekpri Ebutong Estate in Bakassi,” he said.<br /> <br /> “During anti-militancy operation, troops of sector 4 raided Efut Esighi forest and killed a notorious militant popularly known as Okon Iyo while he was trying to escape.<br /> <br /> “Troops discovered the dead body of one of the Bakassi Strike Force militant who was earlier engaged in Efut Esighi but escaped with gun injuries. His body was seen in a bush close to the main road in Effionsa, Bakassi local government area.<br /> <br /> “Meanwhile, troops also raided the compound of a suspected member of Bakassi Strike Force; Otobong Sunday Essien,  at Road 27 Resettlement Center Bakassi.<br /> <br /> “A Motor Bike was recovered from his compound. In addition, troops intercepted a Passat wagon car owned by a suspected Bakassi Strike Force militant known as “G1”. He is the sentry Commander of the group.”<br /> <br /> He added that an attack on an oil facility in Delta state was foiled.<br /> <br /> “On 31 October 2016, troops foiled vandalism of NPDC Well Head at Kokori Oil Field, Oil Mining Lease 30 located at Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State,” he said.<br /> <br /> “Operation DELTA SAFE will continue to ensure sanity of the Niger Delta Region as law abiding members of the public go about their legitimate daily businesses.”

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