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Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh on Friday revealed that intelligence reports available to the Armed Forces showed that the Youths from the Niger Delta region have started taking up arms and engaging in criminal activities along the creeks and the water ways of the region.

Air Mashal Alex Badeh, who made the revelation during the inauguration ceremony of the permanent complex of the Headquarters of the Joint Task Military Force, Operation Pulo Shield, along Igbogene/ Okolobiri road in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, said the increase in illegal arms and ammunition possession by youths of the Region has led to an increase in cases of oil theft, kidnapping and other criminal activities in the region.

Badeh said though the Nigerian Armed Forces entered into an agreement with the Niger Delta youths and former militants to disarm and partner with the Federal Government on empowerment and development initiatives,the recent cases of criminality may force the military to review such agreement and turn its arsenal on the region.

According to Badeh, “Criminalities in the Niger Delta, we thought, have stopped but now they are on the rise again. But I know that our gallant men and women are equal to the task. We are after the bad men, we are good men and darkness can never overtake light. No nation can develop in the presence of so much criminality.”

barrnchedo:
love you too but I love my sai Baba more. Do you know that our dear Baba has been to 8 countries since his swearing in? I love my adventurous Baba.

mumu get your facts right he went to niger first chad second Germany third and south Africa 4th so how d hell did it become 8 country

Chai abomination asari is begging

must one be in the villa to rule

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One of the most respected Nigerian musicians from the north of the country, Adamu Wayya, best known as Danmaraya Jos, is dead, his friend and close associate, Ladan Salihu, has announced.[img]http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=JN.mSmhbKdqdZIMPdLEhNVFjg&pid=1.1[/img]

He was 69.

“Inaa Lillaahi Wa Innaa ilaiHir raaji’un. One of Nigeria’s foremost Hausa musicians, poet, philosopher and philanthropist, Dr Adamu Danmaraya Jos has answered Allah’s call about an hour ago,” Mr. Salihu, a zonal director at the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, announced at about 4P.M Saturday on his Facebook page.https://navarrerotary.org/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/d74a9_100216_jos.jpg

Mr. Salihu continued, “He died in Jos after a protracted illness. When I visited him two weeks ago, he spoke passionately about the Unity of the North and of one Nigeria. I remember when he insisted that my late father gave out the his (Danmaraya’s) adopted daughter’s hand in marriage some 15 years ago.

“We shared many moments. He was to me a brother and a friend. I am devastated. But I am proud he lived a very useful life, transforming society through music and silently through Islamic endeavours. May Allah grant him Aljannatul Firdaws. Amin. For the record he was a recipient of the National Honours of MON, OON and United Nations Peace Medal.”

DanMaraya is known for performing at key events across the country. His last known public performance was at the Peoples Democratic Party’s fund raising dinner in Abuja before the 2015 general election.

He performed brilliantly that Dec 20, 2014, and shook hands with then President Goodluck Jonathan and other dignitaries at the event after his performance.

His death has thrown a lot of his fans into deep mourning, with some taking to Facebook to mourn his departure.

Liz Asabe Ikilama, a lawyer, wrote, “A couple of days ago, I was telling Dami my son about him and his songs. I said to him ‘Dan Adam mai wuyan gane hali, ‘in anyi rana yace anyi, in anyi dare yace anyi dare’! I said when you are given hot potatoes and carrots,you’d say why is it too hot. If you are given the cold one, you’d complain too. I told him how philosophical Dan Marayan Jos Songs were! He asked if I have met him, do I know his house? I said when we were kids, he was staying around/off Bauchi road? I wasn’t too sure. But i told him that i met him when i was in Law school Lagos at 1004 housing estate in Uncle Ladan Salihu’s house.”

Below is Wikipedia entry on the late musician.

Dan Maraya Jos (born Adamu Wayya in 1946 – 20 June 2015) is a Nigerian Hausa Griot best known for playing the kontigi. Dan Maraya Jos, whose name means “The Little Orphan of Jos”, was born in 1946 and Died Saturday, 20 June 2015 in B’ukur, near Jos in Plateau State, Nigeria. His Islamic name is Adamu, but his father died shortly after his birth and his mother died while he was still an infant, hence the name by which everyone knows him. Dan Maraya’s father was a court musician for the Emir of Bukur, who took Dan Maraya under his care when his parents died. Dan Maraya showed an early interest in music and came under the influence of local professional musicians. During a trip to Maiduguri while he was still a pre-teen, he was impressed by musicians there and made a kuntigi, with which he has accompanied himself ever since.

The kuntigi is a small, single-stringed lute. The body is usually a large, oval-shaped sardine can covered with goatskin. Dan Maraya and other kuntigi players are solo performers who accompany themselves with a rapid ostinato on the kuntigi. During instrumental interludes they repeat a fixed pattern for the song they are playing, but while singing, they will often change the notes of the pattern to parallel the melody they are singing.

Like most professional musicians, the mainstay of Dan Maraya’s repertoire is praise singing, but Dan Maraya singles out his personal heros rather than the rich and famous. His first, and perhaps still his most famous song is “Wak’ar Karen Mota” [“Song of the Driver’s Mate”] in praise of the young men who get passengers in and out of minivan buses and do the dirty work of changing tires, pushing broken down vans, and the like. During the Nigerian Civil War, he composed numerous songs in praise of soldiers of the federal army and incorporated vivid accounts of scenes from the war in his songs.

Many of his songs incorporate social commentary. These include the songs on marriage in the study here, which probably date from the early 1970’s. One might argue that they are really one large song, and in performance, Dan Maraya incoporates lines from each of them. However, the recordings that serve as the basis for this study have three distinct musical settings, and the songs themselves have three different themes. “Jawabin Aure” [“Discourse on Marriage”] lists the problems attendant in divorce and admonishes married couples to try to patch up their differences. “Auren Dole” [“Forced Marriage”] decries the practice of families arranging marriages for their daughters rather than letting them decide on their own mates. “Gulma-Wuya” [“The Busybody”] describes a neighborhood gossip who works in collusion with a boka (a practitioner in casting spells, removing evil spirits, etc.) to disrupt marriages by sowing dissension between women and their husbands. The latter song is amusing in that Dan Maraya performs it as a drama, imitating the voices of the different characters as they speak, a technique that he has used in other songs as well.

Asari dokubu shildren

Capital of biafra

Yeepee

thank Allah

Civilized dudes

Sai godiya

ocelot2006:
That's EXACTLY my point. Intelligence training and field craft is TOTALLY DIFFERENT from Close Protection training. Two different beasts. The 1st involves Intelligence gathering using HUMINT, SIGINT, and ELINT assets, and processing plus analysis of collated data. And it's done covertly. Close Protection on the other is a bit more on the Ops side of things, is more overt, and involves a different skill set including offensive and defensive driving, intensive firearms training, CQB, hand-to-hand combat (Krav Maga), etc.

BTW, DSS agents are trained by the Isrealis.

am glad we are on the same page now but my offer still

ocelot2006:
Invite me for a tour? Last I checked, it wasn't easy entering DIA facilities. Anyway, I'm not saying that our spooks in Army Intelligence are incompetent. Far from it. But for this particular function, they are ill equipped and not trained to handle it. Their AKs aren't even good for CQB (close quarter combat) compared to DSS' s Tavor CTAR 21s. Maybe they'll have to borrow some Uzis from DSS.

Operatives within the Defence Intelligence Agency go under a 12-week training process at the Defence Intelligence School which was devised by the United States African Command (AFRICOM). This training is conducted by instructors at the European Regional Intelligence Training Facility of the United States

ITS EASY FOr me thats why am inviting you where do you stay in nigeria once i return i will take you round some of the locations you never thought you will see in nigeria

MAIDUGURI MY HOME

Bluffly:
Why use a disrespectful tone to correct. A sane person made a corrective statement as well and wrote reasonably. Is there no polite gesture in your reasoning.

TLK TO THE HAND

ocelot2006:
Our Army Intelligence Corps are not trained in Close Protection or Counter-Assault. Only the DSS and NPF-SPU are trained in that. This is a major mistake by GMB.

that is what you think where do you stay? I can invite you to a tour so that you will know how trained they are

Nigeria36:
I don't have time to educate you now, SSS performs 3 functions: intelligence (equivalent of the CIA)[i][/i][s][/s], counter-terrorism (FBI) and close body protection (presidential security service, South Korea or US Secret Security Service) they don't av uniform but dresses on black suit (jacket). It is their responsibility to offer close body security to the President and Governors and their immediate family. They also maintain the mobile fleets of the President except the air fleets. The Guard protects the seat of power not the DSS, but the DSS protects the interior of the buildings. When the President is on a move, the Guard acts as Vanguard, during functions they protect the perimeter of the event venue, while DSS maintains close body. During emergency, it is the duty of the DSS to extract the President while the Guard engages the criminal, providing cover for the evacuation of the President, and during the extraction, the DSS acts as body shield to the President until successful extraction while the Guard engages. Thank me later

intelligence (equivalent of the CIA)nope you are wrong here we have the NIA for intellgence thats the equivalent of the cia

Bluffly:
He should thread with care. In the USA, FBI does that and not the military, likewise other well meaning developed countries. Is he afraid. If he can't make all arms of the Nigerian security outfit trustable, then he has no business being the president. If he is not feeling safe with the current state of DSS, he should overhaul it rather than spitting on their face.

mr man the secret service in-charge o protecting the president not the Fbi which is controlled by the attorney general get your facts right

rawtouch:
Tread with caution is my own advise, Nigerians do not want to wake up one morning and hear 'my fellow Nigerians......'

chai that will be cruel

Our army intelligence corps is one of the best trained in their field

some people here are compering dss to cia,read books you wont

Nigeria's Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA)was created when, in 1986, fulfilling one of the promises made in his first national address as president, Ibrahim Babangida issued Decree Number 19, dissolving the National Security Organization (NSO) and restructuring the country's security services into three separate entities under the Office of the Co-ordinator of National Security. The Defence Intelligence Agency works as a secret Government Agent and are responsible for Intelligence gathering,their operations are more military styled unlike the NIA. The Agency may also be involved in intelligence sharing with the CIA and MI6,Most of their operations are classified and not publicly published they operate almost like 'Ghost' and they are well respected

The State Security Service (SSS), also known as the Department of State Services (DSS), is the primary domestic intelligence agency of Nigeria. It is primarily responsible for intelligence gathering within the country and for the protection of senior government officials, particularly the President and state governors. It is one of three successor organisations to the National Security Organization (NSO), dissolved in 1986. The SSS operates as a department within the presidency and is under the control of the National Security Adviser

3 The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) is a Nigerian government division tasked with overseeing foreign intelligence and counterintelligence operations

E don dey happen

Not everyday apc pdp

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Mixing

owobokiri:
Was he breifed that it is now AU and not OAU before he drops another gaffe that will only make ever Nigerian tighten his/her anus? Was he looking out for the likes of Jerry Rawlings and Thomas Sankara?

mumu read the speech first he even spoke about oau and Au

You fit die on top buhari matter oo ifeduba×2

am sending the interview to the adc

n furtherance of ongoing efforts to rout Boko Haram insurgency, which has ravaged parts of the country, President Muhammadu Buhari has mobilised the support of all African countries to help Nigeria win the war.

Speaking when he chaired the Peace and Security Council meeting at the 25th African Union (AU) Summit holding in Johannesburg, South Africa, yesterday, the president pointed out that Boko Haram had become a regional problem, affecting particularly, Nigeria’s neighbours in the Northern part of the country.
The summit is President Buhari’s first, since his inauguration as democratically elected president last month.
The president will also hold bilateral talks with other African leaders on the sidelines of the summit to consolidate his ongoing drive to secure Nigeria and neighbouring countries from Boko Haram, a statement by the presidency indicated.

“Boko Haram has extended its reach to Nigeria’s neighbouring countries, which makes it not limited to Nigeria.
“I am pleased to note that Cameroon, Chad and Niger are fighting side by side with Nigeria under the umbrella of the Multi-National Joint Task Force to defeat Boko Haram,” he told the UN Deputy Secretary-general, Jan Eliasson, Chairperson of African Union (AU) Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and heads of other African countries at the summit.

BUHARI-AT-AU22LEADERSHIP Sunday reports that talks at the meeting largely focused on security challenges facing some African countries, as participants sought better ways of tackling insurgency in some West African countries.
The crises in South Sudan and Burundi also formed part of discussions, with emphasis on the need for leaders of African countries to place the nation’s interest above their personal interest.

Nigeria’s security is at the core of the agenda of President Buhari, whose tenure began on May 29. It would be recalled that in his inaugural address, the president reiterated his resolve to end insurgency in the country. The country’s security challenges was also one of the items on the wish list presented by the president to the meeting of G7 countries, held in Germany, a few days back.
Recall also that before the trip to Germany, the president had also visited the Presidents of Chad and Niger Republic to discuss ways of ending insurgency in the country.

Meanwhile, Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, said that it is time Africa speeds up its industrialisation efforts.
Speaking at the summit, Mugabe urged Africans to take their fate into their own hands by making finished products from minerals mined on the continent before exporting them across the globe.

He formed part of a New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) panel, alongside President Jacob Zuma and President Macky Sall of Senegal. President Buhari was supposed to be part of the panel but did not make it to the summit on time.
“Surely the African people cannot continue to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, while others delight in their resources, in our resources. With unwavering courage and collective determination, Africa can also industrialise in the same manner other regions have achieved industrialisation within the shortest period possible,” Mugabe said.

He also said NEPAD and other African institutions must prioritise iindustrialisation.
Earlier in his welcome address, President Jacob Zuma of South Africa, who is hosting his counterparts from the continent until tomorrow, June 15, said they should celebrate the fact that a number of the world’s fastest growing economies are in Africa.
He acknowledged however that unemployment among the youth was one of Africa’s biggest threats and identified climate change as stifling development.

Zuma said there was “a huge difference to what Africa was decades ago. We have a commitment to challenge them on our terms,” even as he urged African leaders to work together, saying no African country could achieve prosperity on its own.
“We have one future and a shared destiny.”

Zuma further averred that the deaths of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe amount to an indictment of leadership in Africa.
“In recent times, we have all witnessed painful and shameful images of our African brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers and children dying during unsafe passage across the Mediterranean Sea,” he said.
“This is an indictment to all of us and calls on us to realise that although we have done so much to improve the living standards of our people, there is a need to double our efforts,” the South African president added.

Angelina Jolie tackles women’s rights at AU summit
Meanwhile, US Actress, Angelina Jolie, has advocated equal rights and a global fight against violence against women.
Jolie, who is also attending the conference, which theme focuses on women empowerment, was invited by AU Commission head, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
She praised the AU for taking the fight for women’s rights forward, saying, “you have put women’s rights at the heart of this summit and the AU’s agenda and that is unbelievably important.”
The actress however pointed out that the world has a long way to go.