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citizenisb: http://www.informationng.com/2012/06/el-rufai-claims-christians-are-behind-boko-haram-in-a-plot-to-destabilize-the-north.html

So, without doubt there is Boko Haram which aims to establish, according to them, a just social system of governance as they understand it, which path to its establishment is strewn with violence and there is a “Boko Haram” which uses the violence of the authentic sect as a cover for its own violence aimed at psychological warfare, the need to maintain the status quo of northern division and to, through massive propaganda, cast a select set of northern leaders or politicians as sponsors of terrorism “because they have lost political power.” Any objective observer couldn’t have missed how through massive propaganda certain northern politicians are being made to look like the sponsors of the terror group because of their insistence on President Jonathan to honour the zoning agreement of his party, the P.D.P., cleverly avoiding the fact that the terror group’s existence preceded the zoning debate. In fact, this deliberate misinformation and miseducation will benefit more those who want to perpetuate the ethno-religious division in the north as these select northern leaders are cast in the mould of the Hausa/Fulani enemies of Christianity bent on enslaving or exterminating the northern minority tribes to engender a Hausa/Fulani hegemony or oligarchy. This latter “Boko Haram” could possibly be a mix of some Christian and Muslim psychopaths who can do any work for money in the same fashion as there are gangs of armed robbers with memberships cutting across religious and ethnic lines.
Evidences of my claim are:

(1.) The reported arrest of the suspects that sprayed bullets on the Gombe Deeper Life Church worshippers of which the suspects arrested were alleged to be Igbos. Keen observers would remember that “Boko Haram” claimed responsibility for that attack. Noteworthy also is the fact that the arrested suspects were moved from Gombe to Abuja and since then nothing has been heard about them.

(2.) Shortly after the Gombe Deeper Life Church massacre, following quickly also after the Gombe township bombing fiesta two men, named Hassan Ojudu and Samaila Yakubu, all of them Christians, were arrested in the same Gombe town with a vehicle loaded with explosive devices and ammunitions. If they were part of those who did the bombing fiesta Christians should note that “Boko Haram” also claimed responsibility, and if they were not a part of the bombing fiesta be assured that if they had not been arrested and they succeeded in using their own merchandise “Boko Haram” would have claimed responsibility. Curiously, since they were moved to Abuja nothing has been heard about them.

lookmangiw: they have been arabised. Same thing applies to the egyptians.

chiover: Arrant Arabs,at the end of the day israel will still tidy them akpa skool

Al_Qaadir: The monarch of Oworonsoki land, Oba Bashir Oloruntodupefun, said the gods were angry because Oworosoki land had been desecrated by strangers and the government was taking over ancestral lands and selling them to non-indigenes.

He said, “It’s a pity the girl died. The circumstances surrounding her death are mysterious because the girl was never sick. From what happened, we can all see the gods are making demands.

“The shrines that should be used for sacrifices have been swept away in water. And the land we have is being sold by government officials to their friends and they send military men to threaten us.

“Government needs to give us our land back. The real Oworo is submerged in waters. We want them to help sand fill those places taken over by water because many cultural heritage has been lost. If this is done, evil will no longer occur.”

The Chairman of a community development association in the area, Chief Jelili Lawal, told PUNCH Metro that Celestina would be buried after necessary sacrifices and atonement had been made to appease the gods.


http://www.punchng.com/news/lightning-strikes-ss3-pupil-dead-on-exam-day/

wesley80: Badejo Ademuyiwa
Nigeria's dream of becoming a major player in the steel sector is finally coming to reality, as its first consignment of steel for export begins this month. African Foundries Limited, a foreign company operating in Nigeria, will begin export of steel to Ghana this April, to finally break the jinx and put the country on the global steel map. African Foundries Limited, with production capacity of 500,000 tons of steel billets, has a state of the art continuous rolling facility, and is the only TMT producing mill in Nigeria, and its first export consignment is about five metric tons. Sanjay Kumar,the company’s managing director, said exports would commence on April 27, 2013. “Today is a proud and pleasant moment, and we are showcasing our feat to announce the breakthrough, because we have started to produce for export,” Kumar declared, adding that the firm started with one five ton capacity induction furnace in 2010. Kumar added that the company now has multiple furnaces of bigger capacity, along with a re-bar mill and a structural rolling mill, with current capacity at 500,000 tons per year. “With this plant and the two others in Ikorodu, Lagos and Suleja, in Niger state, we are targeting 1 million metric tons per year to be able to position ourselves for the 1.5 million metric tons Nigerians demand for steel.”
African Steel mill has 200,000 metric tons capacity while Abuja Steel mills in Suleja which will be commissioned soon have 150,000 metric tons per year capacity. Kumar said the company's products are at par with what obtains in other parts of the world, adding that the main component is scraps sourced by about 5,000 otherwise unemployed youths. African Foundries' clients are drawn from the construction industry, where lots of heavy construction projects are on-going across the country. This is complemented by the normal market consumption from the 36 states. “Big construction firms depend on us and we produce to their specifications”, says Kumar who highlighted several challenges of which infrastructure and import duty regime are key. “The steel industry will develop better, if the import regime is favourable. Nigeria is one of the richest ,especially in iron-ore, and the development of the industry will put the country at par with others in five years,” Sanjay said, adding that infrastructure such as good roads is hampering production. The country’s feat is coming on the heels of the Federal Government’s protracted failures to develop the steel sector due to mismanagement and abandonment of its several steel companies.
The Federal Government in 1971 established an extra-ministerial agency called “Nigerian Steel Development Authority” (NSDA) and backed up by Decree to focalise efforts required to focalise a steel plant. The agency that was later dissolved, gave birth to Ajaokuta Steel Project, Ajaokuta, Delta Steel Company, Ovwian - Aladja , Jos Steel Rolling Company, Jos , and Katsina Steel Rolling Company, Katsina. Others are Oshogbo Steel Rolling Company, Oshogbo, National Iron Ore Mining Company, Itakpe, National Steel Raw Materials Exploration Agency, Kaduna, National Metallurgical Development Center, Jos and Metallurgical Training Institute, Onitsha. Today however, despite the huge resources ploughed into Nigeria’s steel industry, the sector has been comatose and Ajaokuta Steel Complex, Kogi State; Delta Steel Complex, Aladja, Delta State; Osogbo Steel Rolling Mill and Katsina Steel Rolling Mill, are in pathetic situations. But where the government has failed, African Foundries Ltd, a flagship of the African Steel Mill group, commissioned in 2011 and located in Ogijo, Ogun state has succeeded and will begin export of about 5,000 metric tons of TMT rebar to Ghana by the third week of April.

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E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/11/2016
TAGS: PGOV [Internal Governmental Affairs], PREL [External Political Relations], KDEM [Democratization], NI [Nigeria]
SUBJECT: FCT MINISTER'S UPDATE ON PDP ELECTION PREPARATION

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Classified By: Ambassador John Campbell for reasons 1.4 (b & d).

¶1. (C) SUMMARY: FCT Minister el-Rufai called on Ambassador
January 11 to provide a political update. He stressed the
importance of the upcoming elections and said the PDP
remained popular, but needed to exhibit "greater humility" to
win voter support. He commented that PDP candidates Umaru
Yar'Adua and Goodluck Jonathan were "the only two governors
that could scale the EFCC hurdle" and that President Obasanjo
was now busy "selling his reforms and his candidates to the
PDP." Dismissing Vice President Atiku, he said that the
election was a two-party race between ANPP's Buhari and PDP's
Yar'Adua, but that the PDP's "funding mechanisms and
structures" would carry the day. Off to a slow start, he
assured the Ambassador that progress towards free and fair
elections was "on track." His comments, while sticking to
the PDP line in general, left an impression that he
personally was opening up the Buhari issue, perhaps in
consideration of his own future post-Obasanjo. END SUMMARY.


¶2. (C) Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Nasir
el-Rufai requested a meeting with the Ambassador to provide
an update on Nigeria's political scene. He stressed the
importance of the upcoming elections to Nigeria's development
and outlined the need for an end to rigging and coruption in
the process. He said the ruling People's Democratic Party
(PDP) remained popular, but needed to exhibit "greater
humility" to win voter support. According to Rufai,
Nigerians will support the PDP and Yar'Adua because President
Obasanjo's economic reforms are "popular" throughout the
country and Nigerians want them to continue. "They are just
somehow tired of the President," he said. He also posited
that the PDP needed to show "greater humility" to the public
to ensure that Nigerians believe that the elections are
credible.

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Yar'Adua and Goodluck
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¶3. (C) Rufai said that the PDP's candidates, Governors
Umaru Yar'Adua from Katsina and Goodluck Jonathan from
Bayelsa, were "thrown up by the party." He characterized
Yar'Adua as "clean" and someone who has managed his state
well. According to el-Rufai, Yar'Adua was reluctant, but
acquiesced at the request of the President. On his own
candidacy, el-Rufai said he had never wanted the Presidency,
but others had promoted him. "When President Obasanjo called
me in to ask about my intentions, I told him that I would do
it, but that I had not campaigned for the position," el-Rufai
explained. According to el-Rufai, the President agreed with
him and told him that there were "other bridges to cross"
before el-Rufai was ready. The Minister said that the
Presidency has been working with Yar'Adua "from the
beginning," but they had wanted to keep his candidacy a
secret so that others could not frustrate his prospects. He

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described Yar'Adua as an "odd fellow" - an introvert who
rarely traveled and said that Yar'Adua had kidney problems
"in the past." He claimed that the Governor had not visited
Lagos "for many years," and said that some think Yar'Adua's
last trip to Lagos was in 1991. Rufai said he had known
Yar'Adua for over 25 years and that Yar'Adua had shown
himself to be an independent thinker since his decision to
oppose politically both his father and his late brother,
Shehu Yar'Adua, in the 1979 elections.

¶4. (C) The Minister said the PDP leadership had pushed for
Rivers Governor Peter Odili as the Vice Presidential
candidate, but that Odili, along wtih Governors Makarfi
(Kaduna) and Mu'azu (Bauchi), face "integrity issues" at the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), thus
eliminating them from contention. Yar'Adua and Jonathan
"were the only two governors that could have cleared the EFCC
hurdle," Rufai said. Further, he said that Gov. Goodluck
Jonathan of Bayelsa was the only candidate that met
Obasanjo's guidelines - honest and Ijaw.

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Party Politics
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¶5. (C) The Minister claimed that the PDP has a strong
candidate but that its "funding mechanisms and structures"
are the things that will ensure its win. Rufai pointed out
that the PDP is "not really a political party" but rather
like a franchise operation with 37 branches. He said that
the Governors control party structures in their respective
states and were virtually independent of the National
Headquarter's control. Rufai worried that PDP has internal
problems and its membership is currently in a bit of
disarray. As a result of the Party conventions, el-Rufai
said that 15 governors, 50 senators and 200 members of the
House of Representatives remain "disgruntled" for a variety
of reasons. "We do not know why sitting members of the
National Assembly failed to secure re-nomination and we (the
Presidency) do not know how that happened," he claimed. He
highlighted the fact that one of the most important issues
facing the PDP was "reconciliation" of the disparate groups
of PDP politicians. The Minister complained that "everyone
expects the PDP to rig" and the Government wanted to make
sure enough international monitors were in place to keep the
"opposition" from "setting us up as riggers."

¶6. (C) Rufai said the reconciliation was not only important
in order to win the elections, but also to ensure the passage
of "a lot of important legislation" coming in the next few
months. Further, he said, the President wanted to keep the
National Assembly from doing "something silly" like
impeaching the President. Rufai commented that the
impeachment process was already under way but dismissed the
likelihood that it could succeed.

¶7. (C) Another task facing the PDP, el-Rufai said, was to
"sell President Obasanjo's reforms" to the party membership.
Until now, he continued, Nigerians view the reforms as the
President's and not the party's. Rufai said that the PDP
"retreat" (reftel) was conceived to achieved this goal. He
said that the President wanted the PDP to be a political
party like one in the West. He said that either a U.K., a
U.S. or a Thai political consulting firm would be hired on a
"multi-million dollar" contract to make sure the PDP's
campaign was credible.

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Other Candidates
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¶8. (C) Rufai said that 2007 would produce "a first in
Nigeria's history" - both the opposition All Nigeria People's
Party (ANPP) and the PDP would have honest candidates on the
ballot. He characterized ANPP candidate Muhammadu Buhari as
"a strong candidate" and one that Nigerians view as both
credible and honest. Rufai claimed to be in "regular
contact" with Buhari and said that the race for the
Presidency was "between the ANPP and the PDP." He dismissed
the chances of Vice President Atiku Abubakar, his own former
mentor. The Minister commented that there had been
disagreement within the Presidency over declaring the Vice
President's seat vacant. "We wanted to wait for a court
decision," he said. Rufai claimed not to know what Atiku's
next step might be, but opined confidently that "INEC will
surely disqualify him."

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On Elections
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¶9. (C) The Minister acknowledged that there were problems
at first with the voters registration, but declared that
"everything is now on track." He dismissed the census as
"merely a distraction," saying that questions of
redistricting cannot be addressed in time for the elections.
He did register a complaint about the census, pointing the
the 1.4 million residents of the Abuja area as grossly low.
Rufai said that his own estimate of between 5 and 7 million
residents was arrived at through a comprehensive aerial
survey and the analysis of the pictures. Still, el-Rufai
went on, he was hesitant to complain loudly since "it is my
government that released the figures."

¶10. (C) COMMENT: The Minister exhibited his usual
self-confident demeanor and was never at a loss for words on
any subject. His assessment of the PDP's biggest challenges
was clear-eyed, identifying PDP arrogance and party cohesion
as two of the biggest problems. Aside from his propounding

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the PDP party line, though, was an undercurrent. His mention
of Odili, Makarfi and Mu'azu as having "integrity problems"
with the EFCC serves both the PDP interest in bolstering
Yar'Adua's viability as a candidate and, interestingly, his
own reported efforts to replace Yar'Adua in the event it
became necessary (although he did not say so.) His
platitudes for Buhari, though were equally interesting. It
may be that, seeing an end to his own career in politics, he
is seeking to soften his own landing in the event the PDP is
not successful in the upcoming elections.
CAMPBELL

PapaBrowne: This guy should be paid royalties for all this. His should trademark that phrase "my oga at the top"

Nice game! I played and scored 26500.

HAH: See where Boko Haram are needed to eliminate this rogues.

Rossikk: Oh I forgot. Abdulsalami Abubakar, IBB and Sani Abacha did so much to reduce maternal mortality, when they weren't looting the treasury and executing dissidents.

abes: The stats is between 1990 and 2011, that's 21 years. Before you congratulate GEJ, let us know the stats between 2007 and 2011.