seriously i am surprised people still believe sahara reporters. sahara reporters is a blog not a registered newspaper.

they recently told some lies abt Total which had no basis or iota of truth in it.

Beaf:

Perhaps, it is a last warning for the wise.

Which last warning u think Sahara is like Trust or Thenation that the govt can threaten to shut down. SR dey gidigba, nothing do them.
Honestly, just ask Abati to reveal the names of the delegates to prove SR wrong or simply ask him to shut up. Sowore's response was indeed a knock-out.

sahara reporters cook up stories like some one stranded and confused in sahara desert.

Beaf-The blind defender of gej.Isn't it obvious to you and your boss reuben abati that people are wiser?Provide the list na and stop wasting space if you have nothing reasonable to say

All these idiots bashing SR should just STFU. . . , . . . . SH response to GEJ's lie is here https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-858159.0.html#msg10078690

And jona DEMANDED WE SHOULD make SACRIFICES,while he and his wife live on in LUXURY UNCHECKED.
When will there ever be Leadership by example in Nigeria?

Eko Ile:


See as SR open den yansh as usual. GEJ the Ofa na lair, Abati the errand boy na lair. The  no even coordinate hin own lie,

Useless people,

eejit, the same fool that dissed sahara

when they attacked his master fashola, dey here dey post trash

Eko Ile:

I wonder why such story attributed to the federal government [size=16pt]exists on SR of all places.
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Somebody is playing a cruel joke on these AGIPA clowns.

Who sayz sahara reporters givs fake news?? U beta get ur facts straight n stop beleivin jst every tin d reuben guy says.who pays him? Aint it d government? And he iz expected to open d presidents yansh abi

only a fool would argue for Jonathan or the inglorious special adviser.
the solution to this problem is simple and not far fetched, a conversation is going on already and a question that requires an answer has been put forward for Prof. Abati, Let him answer,

Prof. Abati himself knows better that superfluous use of the country's resources is an habitual act in Nigeria.
Finally, the credibility and reliability of the news produced by Sahara reporters is definitely laudable and if otherwise Prof.Abati, a renowned media man will not be keen about the news reported, afterall many other new papers have write-ups and news that defeat and challenge the credibility of Abati himself as a result of his involvement in corruption, which he has turned deaf hears to,

Beaf,
Even by your propagandist standards, that was a weak response.
I expected better from you,really.
The sucker punch came from the fact that Reuben Abati has not been able to deny the fact that Patience Jonathan went with a hoarde of hangers-on under the guise of them being aides.
He was just replying for the sake of being seen as doing his job,not providing any concrete information.
Sowore simply has tied Abati up in knots that he (Abati) cannot answer.
If Abati is claiming there is a list of delegates,let him show it to us for the sake of transparency.Afterall, GEJ told us he would reduce these kinds of jamborees,but it was only in a bid to win political points during the strike period,not from the sincerity of his heart.

It's amazing how government appears to always contradict and embarrass itself,then employ spin-doctors to do image-laundry when doing the right thing would have sufficed.
SR may not be credible,but Reuben Abati is making them look like God.

I already lost faith with this abati guy when he took up that loudspeaker govt job. Several times i have read advanced report of presidential speeches in sahara reporters hours before the president even reads them out, several govt news they have released before now, so i believe sahara reporters and i say mr reuben abati u are a blooody lie. I rather believe sahara than any SURE fraud.

Sahara Reporter, re known 4 misinfomation, dey hv never seen anything good in dis govt. Der criticism on dis govt is very negative so nobody should take dem serious. Der aim is to pull down dis govt. Dey hv remove d shine from jounalism

ahah

where was abati during the subsidy fiasco?

Good God!! the stench of GEJ sycophants is thick in the air - you can even cut it with a knife.

Detongue:

Sahara Reporter, re known 4 misinfomation, dey hv never seen anything good in dis govt. Der criticism on dis govt is very negative so nobody should take dem serious. Der aim is to pull down dis govt. Dey hv remove d shine from jounalism

Detonate or whatever you call yourself,so we should not believe any news that amounts to criticism of an obviously incompetent government regardless of its veracity?I dey shake my head for you

There is no real need to join issues with SR
Every body knows their stock in trade
Hunger will surely erase them from the face of our earth
They are worse than gossip nd soft outfits

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Why is it so difficult for ABATI to reveal the names of delagates. Or is it confidential? if its so, let Abati voice out. SR is on point and kudos to them.

The president aid should stop responding to these low life reporters the fact he had bothered prolong the dam news in circulation. Sahara reporter is dam rude asking the presidency to publish the name of government entourage on the trip. When IBB was there no one dare talks things like this or how many people on government trips so Sahara reporter shot your face and report about those threatening the very exeitence of Nigeria as country, facts on corruptions not speculations and how Nigeria can get better.

^^^

Comparing this govt to IBB time has a military ruler Are u for real?
No big deal in revealing the names, thats transparency in action. abi na cult?

Perhaps, it is a last warning for the wise.

@beaf,
after the last warning, what will happen? see nigerians are watching closely and be reminded that all these stories will surely end somewhere.
in the first instance, this same reuben wrote a book against subsidy removal just in 1999 and become a party to the removal of fuel subsidy in 2012 - deceit.
labran mako lead a protest in 1986 against the removal of fuel subsidy only to be the mouth piece of the same crime he fought against as a students' leader. such a shameless man was bold enough to say he was sponsored to do same. how can such a man without conscience or cheap conscience be a leader?  double deceit.
someone that could be bought over easily is in charge of a system and u are expecting nigerians to believe u.
if sahara reporters are liars, what about jonathan that declared state of emergency on the power sector since 2010 abi 2009? what about jonathan that keeps telling nigerians that he knows the sponsors of boko haram? what about the jonathan that had a budget to spend N300B on fuel subsidy and ended up spending N1.3t? what about his wife that stole $13m belonging to bayelsa state ppl? incompetency is the name. let that get away.
nigerians are not fools.
what if jega was in charge of the election at au meeting, jonathan would have won with a land slide victory.
who on earth will believe that african leaders will floor jonathan the messiah for a benin republic president?
at least, with all the noise here and there by jonathan and his cabinet, he can now come back home and put his house in order instead of carrying himself up and down and the king of africa. he is as good as a nobody.
what we have in nigeria are self acclaimed this and that.
a jonathan that gave ringim a national award yesterday and sack him today is a total failure. we all saw ringim as a failure from the unset but it only took jonathan the disappearance of sokoto to know that the one he gave national award is a failure. these are the types of awards u want to share with chinue achebe. no it is a shame.

StarBoard:

Sahara Reporters has swung a sucker punch.

Beaf:

What is the soccer [/b]punch? That they weren't provided a list? Dem be God?

Uncle Beaf, Which wan be [b]SOCCER punch again?

Olodo Oshi!

And na You GEJ send to defend am online?! lmao Anyway sha, sebi imsef talk say e be Phd holder, so no surprises there, I guess.

The day Reuben was writing that rubbish that Nigerians in the Diaspora are holed up in shanty homes and do menial work was the day I concluded the man was completely out of his mind. If he is to be told the truth, majority of Nigerians in the United States are serious professionals in their own right. The era of Nigerians in the Diaspora engaging in menial work was in the 1980s. That era has since gone. Mr. Abati and his co-travellers should hide their inadequacies in government because that is the only means they can survive. Shame!

The sum of this write-up is that Mr. Abati is devoid of conscience. The Guardian motto is: "Conscience, Nurtured by truth." That conscience nurtured by truth has deserted Mr. Abati when he joined the looting government of GEJ that has continued to impoverish the Nigerian masses. Thank you, Sowore, jare!

Publishing GEJ speech before the broadcast doesn't make SR credible, it only makes them look very irresponsible. Sometimes, An advanced copy of the president's speech is made available to the press, with a clause that it should not be published until after the president's broadcast.
I'm surprised that people are using the fact that SR flouted that clause as a reason to show SR's credibility.

Mr Ruben should declare the Addis Ababa List without making fuss.

This aides him to prove his case.

Abati has been affected by the VIRUS in govt because he forgot to take immunization before his appointment.i dey laugh ooooooooooo

Saharareporters are really a comedy outfit. That a president of a country should hand over to you, an individual, the list with the names of people in his delegation? This guy is a comedian and they will soon nail him! He is sure exposing himself as a paid spy and international saboteur! Very funny!

Someone will soon be tried for treason.

And for those of you wondering why Abati replied. Abati used to write for SR. So he is not a stranger to SR. He isnt replying because SR is getting to the presidency but because he is probably a reader of SR and has been long before he joined government

^^^^^

Abati's "Spokesman". The man who knows Abati. 
This makes u the "spokesman" to the "spokesman" to the president
Ask him to release the list for public consumption and scrutiny and not for sowore alone, afterall na democracy we dey. The list isnt an official secret whatsoever and nothing is wrong with that.

Sowore should investigate issues before going to press. i watched him some days ago how he disrupted a town hall meeting with a minister during the fuel subsidy. Sowore should be careful other wise his out fit will loose credibility

Demdem:

^^^^^

Abati's "Spokesman". The man who knows Abati. 
This makes u the "spokesman" to the "spokesman" to the president
Ask him to release the list for public consumption and scrutiny and not for sowore alone, afterall na democracy we dey. The list isnt an official secret whatsoever and nothing is wrong with that.

Saharareporters are really a comedy outfit. That a president of a country should hand over to you, an individual, the list with the names of people in his delegation? This guy is a comedian and they will soon nail him! He is sure exposing himself as a paid spy and international saboteur! Very funny!

Someone will soon be tried for treason.

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No presidential entourage in the world would do such a stu.p.id thing. That will be the height of foolishness. Not even the pope can demand that! Except haters and saboteurs like you

What has naijeriya gain frm flighing 32/54 goons to famine-ridden ethiopia 4 AU conference while naijeriya burns with cockroach-brained,opium induced bokos runnin amoke setting up firecrackers all over the north our rulers shld knew how priority

dmainboss:


No presidential entourage in the world would do such a stu.p.id thing. That will be the height of foolishness. Not even the pope can demand that! Except haters and saboteurs like you

U really need to keep in touch with ur master Abati. i dont think he is thinking the way u are. Besides security details and spys that accompany the president (whose names can be withheld), nothing stops the names of those in this entourage to be published. there is nothing foolish in that. its not a threat to the nation whatsoever. Infact some of them were shown on TV.
Infact, Abati himself gave us an inkling of who and who went from the opening thread contrary to the message u are passing here.


3. The Nigerian Entourage list contains 35 names in total, however three of those whose names are listed did not join the delegation and the total number of delegates in Addis Ababa is not more than 32. This includes two Senators (the Chair of the Senate committee on NEPAD and another member), a member of the House of Representatives (NEPAD House of Reps), essential aides of the First couple, and Foreign Ministry Officials. Mr. President meant every word of it when he said that only persons who have work to do will be allowed to travel, officially.

The issue at hand is Sowore is claiming that Abati is lying. lets have the True official list from Abati from his hotel room (he can exclude the president's security) and Sowore/SR will be put to shame.