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Politics / Northern Terrorists Collect Taxes Same Way Southern Area Boys Extort Commu by abouzaid: 4:54am On Oct 29, 2021
Imation minister Lai Mohammed on Thursday said violent extremists collecting taxes from citizens across the northern parts of the country constitute the same security threat as street thugs extorting cash from citizens in the southern parts of the country.

The minister said bandits and terrorists operating across the northern region should not be seen as running their own enclaves outside federal jurisdictions just because they have the ability to amass financial gains through violence and intimidation.

“The issue is not about bandits collecting taxes,’’ Mr Mohammed said. “But that’s not the same as saying there is a new caliphate.”

Mr Mohammed said there are several communities across the South where armed thugs impose levies on residents without consequences.



“Do you know how many places in this country where area boys collect taxes and there is no banditry there?



“I don’t want to mention names. In many of our cities, they carve out their own territories. So what they are writing is nothing. It is not indicative that the bandits have taken over,” the minister said at a press briefing in his office on Thursday.


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Northern terrorists collect taxes same way southern area boys extort commuters: Lai Mohammed
Mr Mohammed said there are several communities across the South where armed thugs impose levies on residents without consequences.

AHMED OLUWASANJO • OCTOBER 28, 2021
Lai Mohammed and bandits
Lai Mohammed and bandits
Information minister Lai Mohammed on Thursday said violent extremists collecting taxes from citizens across the northern parts of the country constitute the same security threat as street thugs extorting cash from citizens in the southern parts of the country.

The minister said bandits and terrorists operating across the northern region should not be seen as running their own enclaves outside federal jurisdictions just because they have the ability to amass financial gains through violence and intimidation.



“The issue is not about bandits collecting taxes,’’ Mr Mohammed said. “But that’s not the same as saying there is a new caliphate.”



Mr Mohammed said there are several communities across the South where armed thugs impose levies on residents without consequences.



“Do you know how many places in this country where area boys collect taxes and there is no banditry there?



“I don’t want to mention names. In many of our cities, they carve out their own territories. So what they are writing is nothing. It is not indicative that the bandits have taken over,” the minister said at a press briefing in his office on Thursday.



Whereas there are street thugs in Lagos and other southern cities, they operate largely under the shadows. But insurgents and bandit gangs in northern communities often sack security forces and introduce quasi-administrative roles to government trapped locals.


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Northern terrorists collect taxes same way southern area boys extort commuters: Lai Mohammed
Mr Mohammed said there are several communities across the South where armed thugs impose levies on residents without consequences.

AHMED OLUWASANJO • OCTOBER 28, 2021
Lai Mohammed and bandits
Lai Mohammed and bandits
Information minister Lai Mohammed on Thursday said violent extremists collecting taxes from citizens across the northern parts of the country constitute the same security threat as street thugs extorting cash from citizens in the southern parts of the country.

The minister said bandits and terrorists operating across the northern region should not be seen as running their own enclaves outside federal jurisdictions just because they have the ability to amass financial gains through violence and intimidation.

“The issue is not about bandits collecting taxes,’’ Mr Mohammed said. “But that’s not the same as saying there is a new caliphate.”

Mr Mohammed said there are several communities across the South where armed thugs impose levies on residents without consequences.

“Do you know how many places in this country where area boys collect taxes and there is no banditry there?

“I don’t want to mention names. In many of our cities, they carve out their own territories. So what they are writing is nothing. It is not indicative that the bandits have taken over,” the minister said at a press briefing in his office on Thursday.

Whereas there are street thugs in Lagos and other southern cities, they operate largely under the shadows. But insurgents and bandit gangs in northern communities often sack security forces and introduce quasi-administrative roles to government trapped locals.

Mr Mohammed’s comments come as the regime ramps up its pushback against The Economist’s latest issue that criticised President Muhammadu Buhari. The publication noted that under Mr Buhari, Nigeria had become a crime scene of destructive magnitude on the African continent, pointing out that terrorists and armed bandits are running wild because the president is corrupt and lazy, failing to do anything but render lip service following every deadly attack.


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Northern terrorists collect taxes same way southern area boys extort commuters: Lai Mohammed
Mr Mohammed said there are several communities across the South where armed thugs impose levies on residents without consequences.

AHMED OLUWASANJO • OCTOBER 28, 2021
Lai Mohammed and bandits
Lai Mohammed and bandits
Information minister Lai Mohammed on Thursday said violent extremists collecting taxes from citizens across the northern parts of the country constitute the same security threat as street thugs extorting cash from citizens in the southern parts of the country.

The minister said bandits and terrorists operating across the northern region should not be seen as running their own enclaves outside federal jurisdictions just because they have the ability to amass financial gains through violence and intimidation.

“The issue is not about bandits collecting taxes,’’ Mr Mohammed said. “But that’s not the same as saying there is a new caliphate.”

Mr Mohammed said there are several communities across the South where armed thugs impose levies on residents without consequences.

“Do you know how many places in this country where area boys collect taxes and there is no banditry there?

“I don’t want to mention names. In many of our cities, they carve out their own territories. So what they are writing is nothing. It is not indicative that the bandits have taken over,” the minister said at a press briefing in his office on Thursday.

Whereas there are street thugs in Lagos and other southern cities, they operate largely under the shadows. But insurgents and bandit gangs in northern communities often sack security forces and introduce quasi-administrative roles to government trapped locals.

Mr Mohammed’s comments come as the regime ramps up its pushback against The Economist’s latest issue that criticised President Muhammadu Buhari. The publication noted that under Mr Buhari, Nigeria had become a crime scene of destructive magnitude on the African continent, pointing out that terrorists and armed bandits are running wild because the president is corrupt and lazy, failing to do anything but render lip service following every deadly attack.



The minister also criticised the Nigerian media for publishing Western outlets. Peoples Gazette was the first Nigerian outlet to publish a follow-on story based on The Economist’s report, which was soon followed with two additional stories, including the military’s rebuttal.

“The point is about you (Nigeria media) swallowing hook, line and sinker, a report by a foreign organisation, which you have not even interrogated yourself, that’s my problem,” the minister said.



Mr Mohammed’s new position on the credibility of Western media marked a stark breakaway from his days as opposition spokesman, especially between 2013 and 2015 when he was in charge of talking points for the then-opposition APC. Many party members repeated Western media claims that Boko Haram was controlling large swathes of the country’s territory the size of Belgium.

The minister also used several Western media reports to knock President Goodluck Jonathan. And when The Economist endorsed Mr Buhari ahead of the 2015 presidential election, Mr Mohammed held media tours on the back of the report to mock the then-ruling PDP as a failure.

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Politics / Re: Buhari Approves N21bn For 14-bed Presidential Clinic. by abouzaid: 8:02pm On Oct 28, 2021
Funny enough, i just laughed to this news instead of expressing anger, the state house clinic have become a yearly pipeline of corruption, if they're not building the state house clinic, they would be building the vice presidential arm or the presidential arm with billions of Naira meanwhile, Aisha Buhari and later her daughter keeps insisting that the clinic lacks Panadol and Syringes thereby forcing the first family to seek treatment from a foreign owned private hospital. The bitter truth remains that Nigeria is hopelessly hopeless.

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Travel / Re: Am Investing 9m For Msc In University Of Aberdeen by abouzaid: 10:19am On Oct 25, 2021
elijah101:
some people might not mind getting a place not close to the city centre ..like me .. with a tapu you dont need to show any other doc to get permit , and after a few years one can apply for the main residency ... but the tapu gives you right to stay as long as you want ... as long as its not a land or inhabitable place you bought ooo ... to me , turkey and serbia are the most easiest path to residency ...
good day, please, can you give a pointer on how to migrate legally to Serbia and or Turkey? Help your brother out, i wanted to apply for an msc in Germany this year but the embassy was not giving visa appointments so i abandoned the idea and decided marry and establish small here for the mean time before trying to move again in a few years time. Please, give me pointers, i can't see anything good in Nigeria's future, i'm not going to make quick money but aims to settle down permanently there and live a decent life with my family.
Politics / Re: 2023: Yoruba Muslims Will Not Vote For Christian Presidential Candidates – MURIC by abouzaid: 9:40am On Oct 25, 2021
This man is the Yoruba version of Governor Umahi, a Fulani mole.
Politics / Re: Nigeria Will End If Buhari Declares Bandits As Terrorists: Sheikh Gumi by abouzaid: 9:30am On Oct 25, 2021
The foolish southeast governors asked Buhari to proscribe the then unarmed IPOB as a terrorist organisation while the Fulani headed North is doing everything possible to avoid proscribing the Fulani miltia as terrorists.

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Politics / 2023: Yoruba Muslims Will Not Vote For Christian Presidential Candidates – MURIC by abouzaid: 9:28am On Oct 25, 2021
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has reaffirmed its preference for a presidential candidate from the Yoruba Muslim stock.

The group warned that any party that picks a Yoruba Christian as its 2023 candidate should forget Muslim votes.

“No political party should tell us that they cannot find competent Yoruba Muslims”, Professor Ishaq Akintola said on Monday.

A statement by the Director said no Yoruba Muslim ever occupied the State House either as president or vice president since 1960.

MURIC advised presidential aspirants and parties mapping out strategies for the next general elections to heed its call.

Akintola condemned the “stigmatisation galore” for Yoruba Muslims in Nigeria since independence.

The organization claimed they are denied almost all civil liberties, including admission into schools.

Akintola alleged many cannot get international passports, driving licences and voter registration cards because they are asked to remove their hijab for capturing.


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POLITICS2023: Yoruba Muslims will not vote for Christian presidential candidates – MURICPublished on October 25, 2021 By Wale Odunsi


The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has reaffirmed its preference for a presidential candidate from the Yoruba Muslim stock.


The group warned that any party that picks a Yoruba Christian as its 2023 candidate should forget Muslim votes.

“No political party should tell us that they cannot find competent Yoruba Muslims”, Professor Ishaq Akintola said on Monday.

A statement by the Director said no Yoruba Muslim ever occupied the State House either as president or vice president since 1960.

MURIC advised presidential aspirants and parties mapping out strategies for the next general elections to heed its call.

Akintola condemned the “stigmatisation galore” for Yoruba Muslims in Nigeria since independence.

Insecurity: Nigeria is heading to total collapse, unless help from God – Don

The organization claimed they are denied almost all civil liberties, including admission into schools.

Akintola alleged many cannot get international passports, driving licences and voter registration cards because they are asked to remove their hijab for capturing.


He said schools humiliate hijab-wearing female Muslim students while the courts in the South-West are littered with litigations “on this ignoble stereotyping”.

“It is our belief that Yoruba Muslims need federal might to eliminate or at least scale down the tornado of oppression and the Tsunami of anti-Muslim sentiment.

“Only a Yoruba Muslim president who knows what has been happening can do this effectively. Who feels it, knows it”, Akintola insisted.

MURIC added that its position was not a categorical rejection of a Christian presidential candidate in 2023.

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Politics / Re: IPOB: Enough Is Enough! by abouzaid: 5:24am On Oct 25, 2021
AchalugoNwa:
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neither did I read yours too because it's badly constructed
lol, i have removed the offending part, read it now, biko gbaghalu.
Politics / Re: IPOB: Enough Is Enough! by abouzaid: 5:10am On Oct 25, 2021
99% of Anambra state residents believe that the next governor already knows himself so they're not really interested in voting secondly, the sit at home order is purely voluntary especially with the heavy security presence that would be provided that week third, men have paid bigger sacrifices in lives and properties lost, so sitting at home for two or three days shouldn't be an issue fourth, the sit at home only affects Friday and Monday ij Anambra state as Saturday is election proper meaning people would have sat at home by government order. Fifth, schools would be on mid term break by then so education wouldn't be affected. In summary, we have little to nothing to lose. After voting in the last presidential, we saw how it was rigged and further twarted in court by the sharia chief justice of the federation after a deserving southern chief justice was illegally removed, we saw what happened in Imo state governorship election when an election failure called Uzodimma was installed by the sharia chief justice. Any Nigerian looking forward to salvage this country through free and fair elections is living in self deceit. The Fulani have taken over the reins of national leadership and they're abusing it with impunity and reckless abandon without intention of ever loosing it again. The Muslim North must not accept to be ruled by an unbeliever.

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Politics / Re: Biafra: How IPOB Can Get Nnamdi Kanu Released – VON DG, Okechukwu by abouzaid: 8:48pm On Oct 24, 2021
This guy have always said nonsense, which Ohanaeze? The one that most southeast governors no longer attend since Umahi and Uzodimma hijacked their election to install their puppets as the leaders?
Politics / Re: Boko Haram Terrorists In 10 Gun Trucks Attack Yobe Military Base by abouzaid: 6:21pm On Oct 24, 2021
How can terrorists raise ten gun trucks without been detected? If it was in the east, both air and ground forces would be ones attacking the fighters in the bush.

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Politics / Re: Nigeria Can Become Choice Destination For Medical Tourists – Osinbajo by abouzaid: 11:36am On Oct 24, 2021
This man is a typical double talking politician. We don't even have a single highly rated medical school in Nigeria not to talk of a world class teaching hospital that would attract foreigners. Maybe it's time someone compiles some of this man's most ludicrous claims and statements as well his silence over issues that he should have commented on as a law professor.
Politics / Re: FG Budgets ₦900bn For Agencies Recommended For Scrapping - Oronsaye Report by abouzaid: 5:42am On Oct 24, 2021
DubaiLandLord:
GEJ really messed up.

I was so disappointed in him cause I believed in him.

Is time for GMB to look into this orasanya report
Weyrey wer de disguise be your name, who doesn't know that you're a government paid troll, going by your name, you're probably Laurreta Onochie, the media assistant to Buhari that is wanted for sexual trafficking of young ladies to Dubai.

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Politics / Re: FG Budgets ₦900bn For Agencies Recommended For Scrapping - Oronsaye Report by abouzaid: 5:36am On Oct 24, 2021
Buhari wouldn't do it, the report recommended the scrapping of both the Muslim and Christian pilgrims board and the government should stop funding pilgrimages. This great recommendation wouldn't be implemented by Buhari because most pilgrims are Muslims. Nigeria is heading to an avoidable but necessary economic destruction under Buhari.

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Politics / Re: Buhari’s Govt Incompetent, Failed To Curb Corruption —the Economist by abouzaid: 7:11pm On Oct 23, 2021
Lalasticlala come and see something
Politics / Buhari’s Govt Incompetent, Failed To Curb Corruption —the Economist by abouzaid: 6:51pm On Oct 23, 2021
…Says Nigerian Army sells weapons to insurgents

London-based news magazine, The Economist, has described the government of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), as inept and high-handed, adding that he had also failed to tackle corruption.

The 178-year-old magazine said this in an editorial titled, ‘The Crime Scene at the Heart of Africa,’ which was published in its October 23, 2021, issue.

It said due to Buhari’s mismanagement of the economy, food prices had soared while life had become more difficult for Nigerians.

The editorial read in part, “Economic troubles are compounded by a government that is inept and heavy-handed. Mr Buhari, who was elected in 2015, turned an oil shock into a recession by propping up the naira and barring many imports in the hope this would spur domestic production.

“Instead he sent annual food inflation soaring above 20 per cent. He has failed to curb corruption, which breeds resentment. Many Nigerians are furious that they see so little benefit from the country’s billions of petrodollars, much of which their rulers have squandered or stolen.”
The Economist stated that even before COVID-19 last year, Nigeria was already witnessing unprecedented poverty.

The news magazine opined that this economic hardship was fuelling the current insecurity in the country.

“Two factors help explain Nigeria’s increasing instability: a sick economy and a bumbling government. Slow growth and two recessions have made Nigerians poorer, on average, each year since oil prices fell in 2015.

“Before COVID-19, 40 per cent of them were below Nigeria’s extremely low poverty line of about $1 a day. If Nigeria’s 36 states were stand-alone countries, more than one-third would be categorised by the World Bank as “low-income” (less than $1,045 a head). Poverty combined with stagnation tends to increase the risk of civil conflict,” it argued.

The Economist gave the Nigerian Army a dressing down, describing the military organisation as only strong on paper.

citizens in order to augment their salaries.

The editorial further read, “When violence erupts, the government does nothing or crack heads almost indiscriminately. Nigeria’s Army is mighty on paper. But many of its soldiers are ‘ghosts’ who exist only on the payroll, and much of its equipment is stolen and sold to insurgents. The army is also stretched thin, having been deployed to all of Nigeria’s states.


“The police are understaffed, demoralised and poorly trained. Many supplement their low pay by robbing the public they have sworn to protect.”

It called on the Department of State Services to stop disobeying court orders and release all those being detained illegally.

The Economist described as scandalous the refusal of the Nigerian government to arrest and prosecute any of the security operatives that killed protesters in Lagos last year.

The news magazine said in order to stop the slide towards lawlessness, Nigeria’s government should make its own forces obey the law.

The editorial further read, “Soldiers and police who murder or torture should be prosecuted. That no one has been held accountable for the slaughter of perhaps 15 peaceful demonstrators against police abuses in Lagos last year is a scandal. The secret police should stop ignoring court orders to release people who are being held illegally. This would not just be morally right, but also practical: young men who see or experience state brutality are more likely to join extremist groups.”

The news magazine noted that Nigeria was home to one of the largest film industries in the world and had the most successful start-ups in sub-Saharan Africa.

It argued that despite the great potential of the country, youths were beginning to emigrate in droves because of the sorry state of Nigeria.


https://punchng.com/buharis-govt-incompetent-failed-to-curb-corruption-the-economist/?amp

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Taliban Honours Suicide Bombers Who Killed US Soldiers In Twisted Ceremony(Pics) by abouzaid: 7:39pm On Oct 21, 2021
In other words, the Afghan currency is worth more than the Naira.If £80=10,000 Afghan money then £1=125 Afghan money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?!?!?!!!!!!! AFGHANISTAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked

In Nigeria £1=#780
£80 = 80 X 780 = #62,400!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This country don cast finish.

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Politics / Re: Herdsmen With Ak-47 Kill Woman On Her Farm In Nimbo, Enugu by abouzaid: 10:22am On Oct 21, 2021
ezechi24:



I know Benue people are fQQLISH in thinking ...but yours fQQlishness is as high as the heavens ....you actually reason like a cow with dung all over its brain.
oga, you quoted the wrong person and benueJosh can't possible be from the benue, he's likely Fulani working with the Buhari media centre as weyrey wer de disguise.
Politics / Re: Herdsmen With Ak-47 Kill Woman On Her Farm In Nimbo, Enugu by abouzaid: 8:08am On Oct 21, 2021
loveth360:
ESN should pls take action.
you can be sure that soldiers have been deployed to avert a reprisal attack. This country is getting useless everyday, they're using terror to take over people's farms.

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Politics / Re: Herdsmen With Ak-47 Kill Woman On Her Farm In Nimbo, Enugu by abouzaid: 7:53am On Oct 21, 2021
If a herdsman was killed in the community, soldiers and policemen would arrest anybody found in the community and burn their houses with the state governor's support. But since it's Fulani that did the killing now. Nothing must happen to them. The south are gradually been overrun by these vampires from Futa djallon highlands due to the willing complicity of our political class who're only out to satisfy their selfish aims while using our name. Look at governor Makinde that started his tenure so well is now a shadow of his very self by even lying to exonerate the Fulani from the murder of a German doctor returnee turned large scale farmer.

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Politics / Re: Nothing Wrong In Accumulating Debts For Unborn Children: Fashola by abouzaid: 7:53am On Oct 21, 2021
As long as Nigeria exists as a country that nobody actually sees as his own, all manners of rubbish would be done by politicians without thinking of the consequences, break up this country and watch as the new smaller countries would end up been better run than the current shithole we call a country.
Politics / Re: How Kidnappers, Zealots & Rebels Are Making Nigeria Ungovernable - Economist UK by abouzaid: 5:13am On Oct 21, 2021
It's best that we peacefully balkanise Nigeria through a referendum than through the slow spreading violence that we're seeing now. Nigeria have never worked, is not working currently and would never work because we're in the words of Awolowo, "a diabolical ( evil) contraption set up by the British for their own selfish purposes, thus there is no Nigerian like a French or Italian because we're s marriage of strange bedfellows"
Lord Lugard said that "The North and the south would never mix together just like oil and water can never mix together". Let's peacefully go our seperate ways now.

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Politics / Re: CBN: Enaira Will Make Government Be Able To Send Payments To Citizens Directly by abouzaid: 5:11am On Oct 21, 2021
Rubbish, the attempted digitalisation of the naira failed because the cbn and the banks turned it into a means to extort the citizens, this E-Naira nonsense wouldn't be different. The CBN under Buhari is only interested on how to extort money from Nigerians not how to aid Nigerians to survive financially.

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Politics / Re: South East Traditional Rulers Demand Release Of Nnamdi Kanu by abouzaid: 5:10am On Oct 20, 2021
This whole problem was caused by the southeast governors when they planned operation python dance and asked Buhari to proscribe an unarmed IPOB because Nnamdi Kanu have taken over the mantle of leadership in the southeast from the useless governors. The current set of Igbo governors are a big disappointment to the entire southern governors forum. Idiots.

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Celebrities / Re: Blackmail: Fans React As Video Of Tiwa Savage, Lover Surfaces by abouzaid: 7:39pm On Oct 19, 2021
StUriah:
After seeing the act as it was being performed by the two entertainers & the repeated mourning of the most popular female Singer in Nigeria i can't get it off my head since it shows how someone like Tiwa that we regarded so much could be so irresponsible. By the way, how does she think her own child, family, close relations & business partners would feel at this moment?

Tiwa really fvcked up gan an ni o!

You left your marriage because your poor husband cheated on you only to be fvcking random boys of lesser age here & there.
correct me if i'm wrong but it's her husband that accused her of cheating on him so he left the marriage?
Politics / Re: FG Files Fresh Charges Against Nnamdi Kanu by abouzaid: 8:37pm On Oct 18, 2021
Whether they like it or not, Nigeria is bound to disintegrate and very soon too. Seven charges or seventy charges wouldn't change that. God bless Biafra, the land of the rising sun.

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Politics / Re: Don’t Report Insecurity As Rising, Buhari Begs Journalists by abouzaid: 8:17pm On Oct 18, 2021
Both Buhari and Osinbajo de mad, that's how the short man devil Osinbajo said that people are now owning houses in Nigeria with #30,000 when we complained of inflation.
Politics / Don’t Report Insecurity As Rising, Buhari Begs Journalists by abouzaid: 7:31pm On Oct 18, 2021
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has urged the media to address the tone, content, and standards of reporting into security and safety measures.

In a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, on Monday, Buhari said the term “rising insecurity” should be replaced with the “reality of declining insecurity.”

The statement was titled, ‘President Buhari Felicitates With Muslims On Eid-el-Maulud, Reassures That Significant Gains Are Being Made In Combating Insecurity.’

It partly read, “The President urges Muslims to strive for forgiveness and closeness to the noble life and teachings of the Prophet (SAW) whose birthday is being marked on this blessed day. On this auspicious occasion, I wish you all the blessings of today.

“The President uses the occasion to give a snapshot of the increased activities the Armed Forces, Police Force, and intelligence agencies have embarked upon to effectively respond to the security challenges in the nation.

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Don’t report insecurity as rising, Buhari begs journalists
Segun Adewole
18 October 2021
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The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has urged the media to address the tone, content, and standards of reporting into security and safety measures.

In a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, on Monday, Buhari said the term “rising insecurity” should be replaced with the “reality of declining insecurity.”

The statement was titled, ‘President Buhari Felicitates With Muslims On Eid-el-Maulud, Reassures That Significant Gains Are Being Made In Combating Insecurity.’

It partly read, “The President urges Muslims to strive for forgiveness and closeness to the noble life and teachings of the Prophet (SAW) whose birthday is being marked on this blessed day. On this auspicious occasion, I wish you all the blessings of today.

“The President uses the occasion to give a snapshot of the increased activities the Armed Forces, Police Force, and intelligence agencies have embarked upon to effectively respond to the security challenges in the nation.

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“He says the government fully expects and intends for these trends to continue, and calls on the media to address the tone, content, and standards of reporting into security and safety measures. Time has come to revise the prefixes “rising insecurity” with “declining insecurity.”

“The President adds that increased cooperation and collaboration from the citizenry, coupled with reinvigorated, dynamic, and energised police, security and military leadership is helping the administration score more victories against terror, criminality, and economic sabotage. The reality of declining insecurity should replace the inaccurate narrative of rising insecurity in the country.”
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Segun Adewole
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The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has urged the media to address the tone, content, and standards of reporting into security and safety measures.

In a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, on Monday, Buhari said the term “rising insecurity” should be replaced with the “reality of declining insecurity.”

The statement was titled, ‘President Buhari Felicitates With Muslims On Eid-el-Maulud, Reassures That Significant Gains Are Being Made In Combating Insecurity.’

It partly read, “The President urges Muslims to strive for forgiveness and closeness to the noble life and teachings of the Prophet (SAW) whose birthday is being marked on this blessed day. On this auspicious occasion, I wish you all the blessings of today.

“The President uses the occasion to give a snapshot of the increased activities the Armed Forces, Police Force, and intelligence agencies have embarked upon to effectively respond to the security challenges in the nation.

Read Also
Eid-ul-Maulud: Buhari felicitates Muslims, preaches forgiveness
Eid-el-Maulud: Lawan preaches peace, love, tolerance
Buhari’s scorecard decidedly not good enough
“He says the government fully expects and intends for these trends to continue, and calls on the media to address the tone, content, and standards of reporting into security and safety measures. Time has come to revise the prefixes “rising insecurity” with “declining insecurity.”

“The President adds that increased cooperation and collaboration from the citizenry, coupled with reinvigorated, dynamic, and energised police, security and military leadership is helping the administration score more victories against terror, criminality, and economic sabotage. The reality of declining insecurity should replace the inaccurate narrative of rising insecurity in the country.”


Shehu quoted Buhari as saying, “While there is work to do, the men and women in uniform who are helping the nation to achieve this goal, desire our collective appreciation and encouragement to do even more. The whole country and its mass communication systems have a duty in this regard.”

The President concluded his message by appealing to road users to drive with care and avoid needless accidents.

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Politics / Re: BBC.Nnamdi Kanu An Idol,The Only Respected Leader In South East -Chiwetalu Agu. by abouzaid: 11:24am On Oct 17, 2021
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Politics / Re: Scrap Office Of First Lady – Peter Obi by abouzaid: 11:11am On Oct 17, 2021
Mr Peter Obi deserves to be the country's next president, let us support him. His track record as a governor speaks volumes of good about him.

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Politics / Re: Scrap Office Of First Lady – Peter Obi by abouzaid: 11:02am On Oct 17, 2021
Bonesbreaker:
We have stupid low mentality young and adult in this forum look at the comments from top and going down you will understand why Nigeria is so fucking messed up how do u have so many stupid people in a country undecided what obi said is true you may hate him obi but accept the message dammit people
most of the posters are paid online influencers, nigerian youths are very smart.

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Politics / Re: Scrap Office Of First Lady – Peter Obi by abouzaid: 11:01am On Oct 17, 2021
otokx:
That was how they said, they said, they will sell some of the presidential aircraft but alas it is like they even bought more and added.
Peter Obi is not that type of person, he scraped it as a governor and doesn't support any form of waste during his tenure. He's well known for been extremely frugal with resources.

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Politics / Re: Scrap Office Of First Lady – Peter Obi by abouzaid: 10:57am On Oct 17, 2021
seunmsg:
This Pandora clown was with Jonathan all through his presidency and he saw how powerful and influential Mama Piss was but never gave this advice. He’s out of favor now and suddenly has the best advice on how things should be done. Advice they didn’t have while in office.

Anyway, he can keep deceiving sheeples with nonsense like this. He’s a liar and a corrupt politician like the rest of them.
As the governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi scrapped the office of the first lady. Anybody from Anambra state would tell you that Peter Obi is against any form of waste, he's also a very reasonable human being unlike most Nigerian politicians.

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