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December 2, 2011

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BY DANIEL IDONOR
ABUJA—PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, said government has raised the monetary value of the Nigerian National Order of Merit Awards, NNMA, from N5 million to N10 million.

President Jonathan, who made the announcement at the investiture for the conferment of the awards for 2010 and 2011, at the Presidential Villa, said the increment will take effect from 2010.

Professor Andrew Jonathan Nok and Prof. Isidore Okpewho received the NNMA awards for 2010, while Prof. Ebiegberi Alagoa, Prof. Francis Idachaba and Dr. Effiong Ibok Etukudo received the awards for 2011.

Speaking after the conferment of the awards, Jonathan said the Federal Government will continue to do everything possible to encourage scientific and technological research because of its importance for national development.

He said: “I personally attach great importance to research and development as I am convinced that no nation can prosper without them. We will continue to support potentially ground-breaking work in our tertiary and specialised research institutions.

“We will also continue to push for collaboration between the private and public sectors to boost cross-sectoral research undertakings.

“I wish to reassure you that this administration is fully committed to giving the recognition that NNMA deserves, by immortalising its recipients who have taken this country to greater heights both in Nigeria and in the Diaspora. We are a nation keen on fostering excellence across board and we will continue to celebrate those who have attained measurable levels of excellence in their professional life,” the President added.

Commending the five recipients, President Jonathan said they had all made the nation proud through their work in various fields.

He said: “By your achievements, you have all done Nigeria proud and it is my hope that you will continue to be a source of inspiration to the rest of us at home and the world at large.”

“I enjoin all our youths to emulate your good works by dedicating themselves to excellence and strive to contribute their quota to the arduous task of getting Nigeria on the top bracket of outstanding nations,” he said.

The 2010 and 2011 awardees were honoured for their works in the fields of science, engineering, technology, humanities and social sciences.

That fisherman callled gej has been talking about removal of fuel subsidy to increase economy. With this expensive government, he is so stupid to increase the award to 10 million naira. I guess it is high time Nigeria obey the first stanza of the national anthem. Arise O Compatriots!

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Boko Haram: North is helpless -ACF •SSS arrests fake Boko Haram scribe, 6 others over threat messages



Written by Hassan Ibrahim and Jacob Segun Olatunji Thursday, 01 December 2011


WORRIED by the incessant spate of violence in some states in the North as a result of menace from the Boko Haram sect, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has said that it will hold a peace and unity conference in Kaduna on December 6.

The ACF, however, said that it was helpless in curbing the sect as there was little or nothing that the group could do about the threat posed by the militant Islamic sect.

Addressing a news conference in Kaduna on Wednesday, the ACF National Publicity Secretary, Mr Anthony Sani said: “There is nothing we can do but to condemn, talk and appeal. We are making some efforts but I don’t want to say we have enough. We’ll continue to make efforts.”

Sani said that the conference became imperative so as to stem the high rate of violence in the region.

According to him, the activities of the Boko Haram sect had caused untold hardship to the people, adding that the attendant insecurity also constitutes hindrance to the socio-economic development of the entire country.

Sani, who said that the current security challenges confronting the Nigerian nation should not be misconstrued as solely a northern problem, stated that the Federal Government should see the rising wave of insecurity in some parts of the North as a national problem.

He said given the importance of peaceful co-existence to the country, national security is a collective responsibility and not that of government alone, adding that the ACF leaders, along with some other northern leaders, had thought it wise to organise the peace conference as part of their own contributions towards attaining permanent peace, not only in northern part of the country but also across the nation.

Sani also explained that the forthcoming peace conference was in line with the United Nations (UN) resolution which mandated people to address underlying concerns of those engaged in communal violence and acts of terrorism, adding that “this is more so when consideration is given to the reality that most of those who get involved in acts of terrorism believe they have nothing to lose on earth and more to gain in death.”

He argued that the resolutions at the peace conference could bring about lasting peace and security in the region.

Sani stated that the ACF has put up mechanism to ensure implementation of the resolutions of the conference.

Meanwhile, the Department of State Security Service (SSS) has smashed four different syndicates, which specialised in sending threat text messages to very important personalities (VIPs) in the society.

The spokesperson for the service, Ms Maryln Ogar, told newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday that already, seven members of the syndicates, including a fake secretary of Boko Haram, three fake military officers and three others, have been arrested.

Ogar listed the target of the syndicates to include “key government officials, foreign embassies and other strategic corporations in the country.”

The SSS spokesperson disclosed that the suspects were operating in different parts of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Niger, Kaduna, Cross River and Edo states, before they were arrested by the operatives of the service, following a tip-off and that many highly placed Nigerians had been victims of the syndicates before their arrest.

According to her, the suspects claimed that the telephone numbers of their victims were often obtained from refuse dumps of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), memos, correspondence, complimentary cards and the internet.

She disclosed that investigations so far had revealed that the suspects had only capitalised on the security challenges in the country to exploit, threaten and stir apprehension among the members of the public.

She said the SSS, in addition, discovered that improper disposal of official and personal documents also provided avenue through which the members of the groups exploited innocent Nige-rians.

According to her, “their sole intent was to instill fear and cause panic with the aim of defrauding unsus-pecting members of the public with text messages like: “someone wants me to assassinate you, but I will spare your life if you pay a ransom to me Intercon-tinental Bank account.’”

Ogar said in the case of the fake secretary of the Boko Haram, Mallam Haruna Alhaji Hassan, who disguised as Alhaji Madu Gana, he had threatened a former governor, who is now a serving senator; a federal permanent secretary; a woman party leader from Borno and another party chieftain from Maiduguri and collected huge sums of money from them before he was arrested.

She said one of the suspects also sent threat messages and e-mail to foreign embassies, which caused panic and anxiety, leading to the travel alert issued by some embassies to their citizens during the last Eid-el-Kabir celebration.

The seven suspects, who were paraded before newsmen, admitted their involvement in sending threat messages to highly placed Nigerians and organisations, adding that their actions were meant to extort money from their victims.

Ogar, who promised that all the suspects would soon be arraigned in court, stressed the need for the public to be more careful on how personal or official documents or issues were handled, to avoid falling victims of fraudsters.

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TEN REASONS WHY I MUST SLAP AN MOG. Coming soon,

Gbam gbam gbamu

These xtians are perpetually sad because their book is being used against them

have u answered the one posted above. take a look
:

alienvirus:
i guess you can distinguish between a moving bus when you have an important place to go and internet browsing. Do you open up to 10 pages on while on internet evangelising?

alienvirus:
i guess you can distinguish between a moving bus when you have an important place to go and internet browsing. [size=16pt]Do you open up to 10 pages on while on internet evangelising?[/size]

why are you so daft? dont tell me someone cursed you while disturbing him with yoou evangelism.

I don't think u board a public transport for boarding sake.

It is etisalat

A Lagos High Court has ordered that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) pay the whopping sum of N25 million in damages to Nigerian actor and comedian, Babatunde Omidina popularly known as Baba Suwe.

The ruling was given by Justice Yetunde Idowu, after a fundamental rights suit was filed by Mr. Omidina's lawyers, Mr. Bamidele Aturu.

Baba Suwe has been in a running battle with the anti-drug trafficking agency after he was detained on suspicion of drug trafficking on 12 October.

Agency operatives claimed that a body scanner at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport revealed that the comedian had more than a belly full of laughs and was allegedly trafficking narcotics in his system.

Baba Suwe, who had been on his way to France for a friend's child dedication service, was taken into NDLEA custody and held, without evidence, for over three weeks.

However, numerous bowel movements later, the NDLEA finally admitted that Baba Suwe had failed to excrete any drugs.

Enraged at the unfair treatment, his lawyer and activist Bamidele Aturu sued the NDLEA, and today's victorious ruling will ensure that the comedian Baba Suwe will be laughing all the way to the bank, N25 million richer.


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i guess you can distinguish between a moving bus when you have an important place to go and internet browsing. Do you open up to 10 pages on while on internet evangelising?

too bad, go to romance section

^^ whose soulk? RUBBISH

Judek2:
Thats why you kill with passion.

I wish i would see Mohammad(Curse Be Upon Him) today,i will ask him why he wanted to destroy the world by introducing Islam.His Son Osama did great,and they are still doing it,  CONGRATS!!

Then I will send my Puppy after him and watch how he runs with his Gown

This will make you sad forever. have a great look here: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-803613.0.html

^^ we shall call it the doomsday! Those that come here to defend this madness do that because they either fall into the category or because they wanted to defend their faith. Jesus himself was calm and never disturbing throughout his life

MADT! I am not intetested. Christianity is rubbish. Islam is the way. I love islam with passion

this is from lagoshia to you. deal with it and come back for discussion.

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you are joking. Jesus was a mortal man who hate from man's food and defecated like you (NOT MY LORD) and how can he save me when he himself asked for help. have you forgotten "eloi eloi lamasabaktani"

:-x :-x :-x

he should be thanking his God that someone like me was on in the bus. i would have made him [size=40pt]THE SUBJECT OF THE FORMULA[/size]

[quote author=kj_hova link=topic=806708.msg9600728#msg9600728 date=1321874006]I was on a BRT to CMS some months ago when 1 douchbag got up to preach! Loud voice, saliva sling shots and all!! The pilot and his stewards tried to shut the man down, reminding him of the "no-preaching" sign. For where? He grew in intensity and remained adamant. Funny enough, majority of the passengers rose in support of the marabout preacher!
Thus the guy went on preaching and declaring the wrath of god on those that want to hinder the spread of the gospel. At the end, I don't think much was achieved in terms of "saving" of souls, but the dude sure felt good with himself. Which to me seems to be what matters most to many really.[/quote]

wellheads:
Those guys are just looking for a way to make ends meet. But they should have just begged for alms instead of constituting nuisance to people. Those people dey smell die!

SMELL!!!

tampa1871:
When you get to hell you will love to be a Christian but it would be too late. The door is still open, you don't have to burn in hell, it's not worth it to do it to yourself, Jesus is waiting for u, don't waste your soul. Come is what Jesus says, just as you are.

seems you are crazy! i believe and follow the pristine Jesus teachings more than the faeces you are being fed. let us wait and see who Jesus will deny on the day of judgement.

Confusion! Check Quran for clarification. Good bye

Anyone found wanton again shall rot in the prison. Some people simply think upside down

Because they all want to make money. No offense

Another goat in the house just commented up there.

Tunde, I guess not me. I will thank God for turning down your offer and give you a public disgrace

To cap the madness up, the preacher would do everything possible to turn the bus into semi-church. Praying, singing songs of praise, not caring if someone is being disturbed or not. It must be 10 yrs in jail henceforth

If you detest others so much will they enter the kingdom of God? Where do you belong?

2buff what can you say about cele pple. May I know where you belong?