₦airaland Forum

Noshitboi:
Al Jazeera, the media outfit for terrorists. How on earth will she be reporting on such volatile area without using helmet

This is stupidity to the highest order. Why the use of gun in the first place?

okuta007:
WHY DO WE NEED HIM NOW?

1. The man is the smartest Northerner alive and One of the smartest Nigerians too

2. He can fix our monetary policies and by effect fix our the devalued state of the naira

3. We all know the sorry state of the naira is the reason why we have issues in our economy

4. He will be better than Buhari in dealing with the insurgents because he was once a northern traditional ruler (of one of the largest emirates) with lots loyalist that will help him genuinely navigate the expulsion and defeat of the terrorists.

5. He is a detribalized Nigerian and he is westernized and not a bigot


6. He has the leverage to connect the elite class and talakawas or commoners all over Nigeria

7. The north will have the opportunity of having equal years of leadership in the political dispensation as the south at the end of his first term


8. If Emefiele, the current CBN governor can aspire to rule Nigeria, why not a former CBN governor ?


9. All those who were disappointed he became a King instead of seeking political office will. have the opportunity of electing him as President


10. His emergence will encourage other traditional rulers to be good kings because if they are popular enough to gain wide acceptance- they too can relinquish their thrones and run for office


Please before anyone insults me- realize I am a free citizen who has the right to air my view even if no one agree to it



THANK YOU

The same Sunusi Lamido that persistently ask this Govt to devalue naira and remove fuel and electricity subsidies?

All those technocrats and economists are very dangerous to our economic system, culture and traditions.

kenzysmith:
Kwankwaso and sheakarau in same party? Tell another lie

Kwankwaso and Shekarau are in very good terms recently.

This link tells their long secret alliance though Shekarau already bought APC Sente form.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021/12/25/kwankwaso-gives-out-shekaraus-daughter-in-marriage/

Dreal1247:
The North (Fulani in particular). The simple agenda is to get a Southerner who will serve for the shortest possible period of time for them to continue destroying the country. Imagine recruiting Boko Haram into Nigerian army and offering amnesty to the terrorist group just to repeat what was done to the Niger Delta militants. I'm happy that Jonathan has outsmarted them. But we should not rest on our oars in ensuring that sanity is brought back to our system.

You people have been completely brainwashed about Fulani issues and ur education is rendered useless for accepting every nonsense feed to ur empty head!

Let me give u this free insight, Badaru and Buni sponsored all these Jonathan saga during their visit to Makkah for Umrah and conspired to come with this agenda that is why Badaru bought Presidential ticket immediately after coming back so that he can force his way to be VP and subsequently become APC flag bearer after GEJ's 4yrs term. ​Now, tell me who is Fulani among them?
Badaru is Buzu by tribe while Buni is kanuri!

Is very unfortunate how some congregations feed u with so much lies and disinformation abt how North reslly is. From 1999-2023 Buhari is the only Fulani President, why these hate and falsehood within just 7yrs

OyeofIkoTuN:
Hausa are indigenes..Foolanis are from the sahel

Nigeria was created and demarcated an a Nation in 1914. At that time some part of present day Nigeria was in Cameroon before later joined Nigeria around 1961. Therefore, it is highly impossible for significant number of people to come to Nigeria and naturalised unnoticed to the extent of having roles and authority in the settled country. No way, someone will come to Nigeria amidst intense political competition and contest election without been publicly call out.
Differentiating Hausa and Fulani is very difficult for someone who doesn't even know the difference between Northerners just because they are wearing Hausa attire!

Samunique:
I was expecting this, so pls tell me why ?

God doesn’t have a son; it all depends on what you mean by the word son. In the Hebrew Bible, Israel was called God’s son, the king was called God’s son, and the angels were called God’s sons. Is it any wonder that the Messiah, the ideal representative of Israel, the king of all earthly kings, and the one more highly exalted than the angels, should be called God’s Son? More than anyone else (in the sight of Christ believers) who has walked this earth, Jesus the Messiah is uniquely entitled to be called the Son of God.

Obviously, none of us believe that God had a son in the same way that a human father would have a son. We are fully aware that the creator of the universe wasn’t married. What then do we mean when we say that Jesus is the “Son of God”?

Christian theologians often explain that Jesus was “eternally begotten of the Father,” yet that is not the easiest concept to grasp. Technical terms such as circumincession, coinherence, subordinationism, and prolation don’t help us much either. (To tell you the truth, I’m not too sure I can even tell you precisely what each of these words means.) So rather than getting too theological, let’s think through some issues with regard to the concept of “son of God” in the Bible, and as we study these issues, remember this one important fact: We believe that the Son of God is truly divine, eternal, and not created. When he came down to earth, he took on human form, and from that point on, we have known him as Jesus the Messiah. The eternal Son of God made himself known to us as Yeshua, the Jewish carpenter, rabbi, Messiah, and Savior of the world.

Turning to the biblical concept of “son,” any student of the Semitic languages knows that the word son (Hebrew, ben; Aramaic, bar; Arabic, ibn) has many different meanings. It can refer to literal offspring (such as one’s physical son or distant descendant) as well as to metaphorical offspring (such as “the sons of the prophets,” meaning the disciples of the prophets). When applied to the Israelite king, it means “son” by divine adoption (e.g., 2 Sam. 7:14: “I will be his father, and he will be my son”), and it can even apply to the people of Israel as a whole, since they were specially chosen by God (see Exod. 4:22–23: “Then say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the Lord says: Israel is my first born son, and I told you, “Let my son go, so he may worship me” ’ ”). In this sense, it could also apply to the obedient people of Israel as individuals (Hosea 1:10: “They will be called ‘sons of the living God.’ ”).

Another meaning of “son” has to do with those who belong to the same class of being. Thus the angels are called benei ʾelohim, “sons of God,” meaning those who share in the qualities of ʾelohim: partaking of heavenly, spirit nature as opposed to the earthly, flesh nature of humans.

Therefore, the angels, the kings, and the nation could be called “sons of God.” In the Hebrew Scriptures, it seems that God had many sons! And Israel was even called his “firstborn.” But neither the angels nor the king nor the people of Israel were literally sons of God, as if the Lord consorted with a goddess who then gave birth, the way the gods and goddesses did in pagan mythology. Unfortunately, some traditional Jewish teachers have understood the concept of Jesus the Messiah as “Son of God” in a crassly literal way, and some segments of the church may have contributed to this. It is important, then, that we understand in exactly what ways the Messiah is the Son of God.

Israel, the Lord’s “firstborn son,” was specially singled out by God and appointed to a specific mission. In a unique sense, God himself was Israel’s Father. So, too, Jesus the Messiah was specially singled out and appointed to a specific mission, and in a unique sense, God was his Father. But, quite obviously, the sonship of Jesus goes well beyond the sonship of Israel. What about the sonship of Israel’s king? There are a number of important Scripture passages to consider.

In Samuel 7:14, in which the Lord tells David that he will establish a dynasty for him, treating the future ruling sons of David as his own sons. Speaking of Solomon he said, “I will be his father, and he will be my son.” In Psalm 2:7, the king (David? Solomon? a later descendant of David?) says, “I will tell of the decree. The Lord said to me, ‘You are My son; this day have I begotten you.’ " When did the Lord utter those words? They were probably spoken by a prophet at the time of the king’s coronation, when the descendant of David became recognized as a “son” of God, and they may have become a regular feature of that momentous ceremony, whenever a new king would begin his reign.

But there’s something more. Note carefully those final words: “today I have begotten you” (ʿani hayyom yelidtika; yalad is the standard Hebrew verb used for a woman giving birth to a baby or a man fathering a child). Either this is a direct prophecy of Jesus (and there are many Christians who would say it is!), or else it indicates that when David (or one of his sons) became king, his adoption by God was recognized as some kind of divine begetting. The choice of words is quite bold! “Today I have begotten you.”

But the plot thickens. Many times in the psalms, the Lord and his anointed king are described in equally exalted terms, and similar reverence is required for both. Consider these following clear parallels (which is translated for greater clarity): In Psalm 83:18, God is “the Most High over all the earth,” while in Psalm 89:28, it is the Davidic king, designated significantly as “firstborn,” who has been appointed “the most high of the kings of the earth.” In Psalm 86:9, “all nations will bow down” to the Lord, yet in 72:11, the foreign kings will bow down to the Davidic king. First Chronicles 29:20 is even more to the point: “They [i.e., the people] bowed down and did obeisance to the Lord and to [David] the king.” So also in Psalm 2:11 and 100:2, the rulers and peoples are exhorted to worship/serve the Lord, while in 18:44 and 72:11, it is the Davidic king whom they must worship/serve.

Both God and his anointed king are worthy of praise (see Ps. 67:4, where the peoples are called on to extol God, and 45:17[18], where it is the king whom they will extol forever), and both are clothed with “glory and honor” (cf., e.g., Ps. 96:6 with 21:6). Of the royal king it can be said, “All kings will bow down to him and all nations will serve him” (Ps. 72:11); for “I will also appoint him my firstborn, the most exalted [elyon] of the kings of the earth” (Ps. 89:27[28]). “I will set his hand over the sea, his right hand over the rivers” (Ps. 89:25[26]), and “I will establish … his throne as long as the heavens endure” (Ps. 89:29[30]). “Therefore the nations will praise [him] for ever and ever” (Ps. 45:17[18]).

God’s “son,” the Davidic king, was quite an exalted figure! Is it any winder that Scripture declares that in the Messianic era the people “will serve the Lord their God and David their king” (Jer. 30:9)?

Let me state these facts again clearly: According to the Hebrew Bible, the Davidic king was called God’s son and firstborn, and he was described as begotten by God. He was to be praised, extolled, served, and adored. How much more could this be said of the supreme Davidic king, the Messiah, the ultimate “Son of God”?

We know, of course, that Jews have no other gods aside from the Lord. That is the first of the Ten Commandments, and, as we saw in answering the last objection, a true, New Testament faith in Jesus the Messiah agrees with this both in letter and in spirit. But here is something interesting to consider: Even if you didn’t understand that the Messiah was both divine and human (and therefore, in praising and adoring him we really are praising and adoring God), you would still need to recognize that every major Hebrew word for worship, praise, service, adoration, and obeisance that is used in the Bible with reference to God is also used with reference to the Messiah, the Davidic king. These are indisputable facts.

A governor of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) bought the nomination and expression of interest forms for former President Goodluck Jonathan, according to sources.

A group called Nomadic Pastoralists and the Almajiri Communities led by one Ibrahim Abdullahi picked up the forms on Jonathan’s behalf on Monday, claiming they paid for them.

Speaking with newsmen shortly after picking the forms, Abdullahi said they decided to purchase the forms for Jonathan to enable him stage a comeback and continue with the good work he had started.

But hours after the news went viral, Jonathan’s Media Adviser, Ikechukwu Eze, said his principal did not authorise the purchase of the forms but thanked the donors for their concern.

He also said Jonathan was not in the presidential race of the ruling party.

Daily Trust gathered from sources that a serving northern governor credited the APC Collection Account domiciled with Heritage Bank, with N100m.

The bank had also in a letter dated May 9, 2022 told the APC that it received the amount.

The letter was titled, ‘Notification of credit into account: All Progressives Congress (APC) Collections Account: 5600007616’.

Daily Trust had reported how two influential governors from the northern part of the country are plotting the return bid of Jonathan.

Multiple sources, who are in the know, said the two governors, close to President Muhammadu Buhari, have secured the buy-in of a section of the presidency to actualise their agenda of drafting the former president into the presidential race.

While one of the governors is from the North West, the other is from the North East geopolitical zone.

The two governors have been playing key roles in the affairs of the APC in the last few years.

In the last seven years, the former president has not been attending activities of his party.

This is just as his romance with President Buhari and top shots of the ruling party takes the centre stage, a development that has pitched him against opposition leaders in the country.

The purchase of presidential forms for Jonathan changed the whole discussion around the 2023 presidency.

https://dailytrust.com/sources-apc-governor-bought-presidential-forms-for-jonathan

Whiteangel1234:
The are lucky , that Unknown Gunmen don't attack Hausa People mostly , Fulani Seems to be the target

How can they differentiate the two tribes?

Samunique:
Your life your choice, it's your own business.

But as for me and my household, we shall serve the Lord !!!

Jesus is the Son of God, He's alive forever more !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is it not absurd for God to have a son?

I don't think it make sense for God to have a son!

ekesol:
Fulani stooge. Rubbish man.

So all NORTHERNERS are Fulani?
Wetin make Yobe man come be Fulani

PhilGreen:
So its true, Oga Jona you have manage to let down your loyal comrades. Am in sivereeeeeee pain

Na now u go learn how politics is played....

The question should rather be, ‘Is Jonathan capable of running’? The fuss should not be about the constitutionality of his candidacy but on his capabilities. On both counts of constitutionality and capability, Dr Jonathan Goodluck still remains a problem candidate

Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan handed over power to President Mohammadu Buhari in 2015 without hesitation and that stamped a tag of a hero on him, which was unfortunate, as well as a huge surprise to many who were privy to his administrative weakness, his multidimensional failure, poor economic choices and disastrous handling of power, energy, and insecurity the main reasons Nigeria has remained underdeveloped today.

The same person Wole Soyinka described in 2015 as a “problematic candidate”: In a BBC interview where the Noble Laureate laceratingly presented a robust proof of the former president’s encagement by what he called ‘sinister forces’ of evil and obvious doom. He was unimpressively controlled by people who never understood the relevance of power, energy and security in an economy.

In a time of economic boom between 2012 and 2015 that Goodluck Ebele Jonathan couldn’t fix power generation once and for all in Nigeria, and build a lasting energy security model, should have been tagged the worst crime in the history of leadership in the world.

A man whose 6 years political peregrination oozed overwhelmingly of grace misused, opportunity squandered, waste amplified, corruption maximized, insecurity escalated, cronyism in governance entrenched should be tagged incapable of a return to power.

That legal luminaries such as Femi Falana are only denouncing his candidacy based on constitutionality is not bright enough at all given that the constitution is as vague as ever on this matter.

Femi Falana is missing the point after all for arguing that Goodluck Ebele Jonathan isn’t eligible to run for Presidential election in 2023 citing a law that was just enacted 4 years ago. Based on the constitutionality argument alone former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan would rise to power again to worsen Nigeria’s predicament. People hardly change. The subtle reoccurrence of 1984 between 2015 and 2022 should have taught Nigerians a lesson.

Take a look at the item in the constitution added in 2018 that Mr Femi Falana deployed in his argument last week: “Section 137(3) of the fourth alteration to the 1999 constitution reads: “A person who was sworn in to complete the term for which another person was elected as president shall not be elected to such office for more than a single term””.

He argued that Goodluck Ebele Jonathan isn’t fit for presidency based on that law. His argument attracted many commentators who disagree with him, based on the same piece of legislation.

This section of the constitution which the learned Senior Advocate of Nigeria deployed was an addition to the constitution, and that section clearly excluded the possibility of retrospectivisation because it was enacted three years after Jonathan had left office, and the legislators didn’t expressly clarify whether it will apply from when it was enacted in the Electoral Act Amendment 2018, in their bid to stop VP Yemi Osibanjo and any other Vice President in the future who may take over from a sitting President as former president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan did.

The law was enacted in the heat of President Buhari’s illness. The law took its validity from Act number 16, already approved speedily by President Buhari, which was to ensure that a Vice President or a deputy governor who succeeds and completes the tenure of a president or governor can only run for the office one more time.

Goodluck Ebele Jonathan had already ran for the second time in 2015. Act 16 has a specific intent to ensure that where a Vice President succeeds the president and where a deputy governor succeeds a governor, he can no more contest for that office more than once more. This perhaps should begin from 2018 when it was enacted.

Shouldn’t it? Unless it is clearly stated or it is targeting particular persons and that person should be Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan or the current Vice President Prof. Yemi Osibanjo (SAN). And the fact would be that Mr Goodluck Jonathan having taken the oath as President once, and can only contest for once again and no more.

His contest in 2011 would be tagged enough. That is the intent of this amendment. But Jonathan had already contested in 2015. The law didn’t specify that it affects those in the past.

Mr Mike Ozekhome in his view agrees with this position that based on the constitution that former president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has the right to run for election in 2023. He argued that those trying to deny Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s legal, moral, constitutional rights are doing so out of selfish interests: “They have probably not adverted their minds to sections 141 of the Electoral Act, 2010, as amended, and section 285(13) of the same fourth alteration to the 1999 constitution, as amended, which they are relying on”, he added in an interview with Channels Tv last week. He also pointed that Section 137(3) cannot apply retrospectively. That that section didn’t clearly state that it included past leaders means that it cannot be applied to President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

However, the same Section 141 of the Electoral Act 2010 that Mr Ozekhome cited to further buttress his support for Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has been a subject of controversy.

On July 22, 2011, an Abuja Federal High Court voided Sections 140(2) and 141 of the Electoral Act 2010 as amended. The court also declared the two sections null, void and unconstitutional. The court therefore ordered that the two sections should not be binding on any ongoing election tribunal following the April general elections held across Nigeria.

Uwakwe and Nwabuchili in a 2017 paper published by the European Centre for Research, Training and Development contended that the National Assembly acted in excess of its legislative powers when enacting Sections 140(2) and 141 of the Electoral Act 2010 as Amended, and any action taken by any of the authorities without or in excess of its legal authority or power is ultra vires the Constitution and therefore void.

In the same line of argument, the section 137(3) cited by Mr Femi Falana was not clearly written as to who it applies to and when it begins to apply. Even at that we can see that both amendments namely 2010 and 2018 Electoral Acts were done in bad faith without clarity. The constitution is full of contradictions. Which makes for heavy legal consequences even when arguing about the eligibility of former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

As I have been suggesting, Nigeria needs an improved constitution. The current constitution is so muddled and messy. It really hampers the maintenance of justice and make the job of lawyering and citizenship hard.

The best argument to stop Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is on the grounds of capacity. When he was a president what did he do that would warrant PDP or APC to give him the opportunity to come back to Aso Rock?

That he even intends to go back to APC that pushed him out of power indicates extreme lack of integrity and policy, stability and capability to stand with what he believes. It is like President Donald Trump joining the Democratic Party. It is never done by any serious leader.

Under Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Nigeria couldn’t fix its power and energy generation problem, we had worst level of fuel scarcity annually, oil theft was enormous, insecurity was the norm as it is today.

Nigeria needs a new breed, a detribalized individual who eligible and capable to solve the power problems in the north and south of Nigeria. Nigeria needs a strong-willed leader who can unite Nigerians. Nigeria needs a man who has the capacity to respect freedom of speech, rebuild the educational system, revolutionize agriculture, railways and transportation system and other infrastructure. A man who will not come and begin to argue that stealing isn’t corruption.

In terms of constitutionality and capability former President Goodluck Jonathan is a problem candidate.

Goodluck Ebele Jonathan could be a hero, but he is not the most capable hand or most constitutionally eligible personality in Nigeria today for the Presidential office. There are many people who are capable and more constitutionally eligible. I ask again: Is Jonathan capable to run?

Chinonso Ndukwe PhD, wrote from Abuja.

https://dailytrust.com/is-jonathan-constitutionally-allowed-to-run

dialfa:
A yoruba muslim will never sight the moon. Inferior people.

Here are the top leaders of NIGERIAN SUPREME COUNCIL FOR ISLAMIC AFFAIRS (NSCIA) and NEC elected members of moon sighting committee:
1. President-General: His Eminence, The Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar CFR mni
2. Deputy President General I HRH,Alhaji Abubakar Umar Ibn Garbai EL-Kanemi, CFR. Shehu of Borno
3. Secretary-General: Prof. Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede
Check the link below and see that Yoruba have the highest number in the EXPANDED GENERAL PURPOSE COMMITTEE (EGPC) OF THE NIGERIAN SUPREME COUNCIL FOR ISLAMIC AFFAIRS (NSCIA). You are so blind and ignorant to understand how the things operate. It isn't a big deal at all!
https://nscia.com.ng/index.php/governance/committees/11-governance

Terms of Reference of the Moon Sighting Committee
To draw up standard criteria for moon-sighting in Nigeria based on the Shariah.
To harmonize the Shariah and scientific methods of moon-sighting with a view to making a credible announcement of the commencement and termination of each lunar month.
To facilitate the setting up of observatory sighting posts in strategic areas across the country.
To identify the most effective state- of-the-art moon-sighting equipment for the Moon- Sighting Committee and recommend to GPC it's procurement.
To create in-depth awareness of the movement of the moon through sensitization, enlightenment and information dissemination to the general public and the Muslim Ummah in particular.
To collaborate with the Media Committee of NSCIA in organizing periodic seminar, workshop and conference on moon-sighting in Nigeria.
To collate and harmonize the results of the different moon-sighting committees in the country and make monthly announcement of the commencement and termination of each lunar month through the Office of the President-General, NSCIA and the Media Committee.
To network and collaborate with similar national and international bodies in actualizing the goals of the Committee.
To assist new and existing mosques in locating the correct Qiblah and how to rectify in areas where errors of Qiblah locations are observed.
To sensitize and educate Muslims and the general public on the dynamics of prayer times which are influenced by changes in the weather seasons.
In collaboration with the NSCIA Media Committee, to advise both the electronic and print media organizations periodically on the release of prayer timing in Nigeria.
To consider any other issues related to Moon-sighting, Salat timing and Qiblah finding among others as may be deemed fit from time to time.

Praxis758:
Hmmm, you made a lot of sense.

Good analysis.

Thanks bro.

Uwc

The only sate with conscious students!

Praxis758:
With this your submission, is Yerima profiting from the Marafa and Yari’s rift?

Yerima has not been in the spotlight for some years now, so how come he’s a godfather and dictate the electoral direction in Zamfara.

Just asking for knowledge purpose.

Thanks.

He may not be on news for political reasons but is always in the minds of Zamfara people and politicians.
Yarima isn't profitting in their fights but u need to know that should Yarima say no to the candidature of current Governor, Matawalle I'm very much sure he will fail. He so often take neutral position in most recent political crises because they're driving by personal gains and can't stop his next moves if they decide to leave his party.

Praxis758:
Is Sanni Yerima still relevant and popular in today’s Zamfara politics?

If so, why couldn’t he resolve the Marafa and Yari Imbroglio?

Just asking.

He isn't in a position to do that and he is fully aware of how human beings can change overtime. All past Zamfara Governors were Yarima's Commissioners and have high respect for him zamfara is a docile state and in total submission to Yarima. Satan can easily win election in zamfara with Yarima in the same party than saint in another party

Mooh247:
This man seem to have knowledge in resolving APC issues like an elder

He was APC chairman committee of reconciliation prior to his new post.
Among their party Chairmen, only Bisi Akande and Buni avoided mass exodus from APC and resolved many crisis that could destroy the party!

Stupid terrorists who are burning the businesses of innocent traders instead of confronting the man they so much hate with passion when he visited their location but chose to hide like rats under the guise of sit at home

The guy has done nothing to his people and will find it difficult to win the seat. He needs to work harder!

APC can't win Kano in 2023 General Elections with the emergence of NNPP.
Contesting Govership Election in Kano under APC or PDP is a big suicide and waste of resources, State Assembly and NASS can be shared in other zones of the state but Governor's seat is a full stop!

Police burst kidnapper’s hideout in Imo, arrest 9, rescue 2 victims

The Imo State Police Command has busted a criminal hideout in Ahiazu Mbaise LGA of Imo State, arrested nine suspected kidnappers and rescued two victims.

The State Police Commissioner, CP Mohammed Ahmed Barde revealed this in a press release made available to newsmen in Owerri, Imo State.

Narrating the incident, the police said its operatives on 5/5/2022 at about 23: 50 hours, stormed the kidnapper’s den and arrested one Obinna Onuoha age 35 years, a native of Umuegwu Mpam and Igbokwe Joseph age 35 years, a native of Umuchoko Ihitte Aforukwu, both natives of Ahiazu Mbaise LGA of Imo State and the victim held in captive was gallantly rescued unhurt.

According to the Police statement, “Following a report of the kidnapping of one Dominic Chukwuma and Silas Nnawubia respectively, received by the Command’s Anti-Kidnapping Unit on 30th April 2022. The Operatives immediately swung into action.

” In the course of interrogation, the suspects confessed to the crime of kidnapping and revealed how they escaped from Imo Correctional Centre Jailbreak of 5th of April, 2021, and after their escape, got a safe hideout in Ahiazu Mbaise, formed a kidnapping syndicate with their hideouts in strategic areas in the state. And have been the ones involved in most of the deadly kidnapping incidents recorded in the state.


The CP said the suspects later took the police operatives to their various hideouts in the state where most of their gang members were arrested. Those arrested include Tochi Chilak, 27 years, a native of Ezeala Ihitte in Aboh Mbaise LGA of Imo State, Sunday Richard, 32 years, a native of Ikom in Cross River State, Comfort Ogboage, 35 years, a native of Gwer West in Naka LGA of Benue State.

Others are Igbo Simeon, 33 years, a native of Gwer West in Naka LGA of Benue State, Cyril Iwuagwu, 65 years, a native of Umegwu Mpam in Ahiazu Mbaise LGA of Imo State, Nkechinyere Ibe, 35 years, a native of Umuoyoka Ihitte Aforukwu in Ahiazu Mbaise LGA of Imo State, Ebo Ubochi, 26 years, a native of Umuaraku in Ehime Mbano LGA of Imo State.


The police statement said, “searching the kidnappers’ hideouts thoroughly, the following items were recovered; one AK47 rifle, breech number 1142 with eighty-four rounds of live ammunition, four locally made pistols, forty-six rounds of live cartridges, one Toyota 4Runner SUV vehicle belonging to the victim, multiple banks ATM cards stolen from their victims and the personal belongings of the victim.

Meanwhile, the victims have since been reunited with their family members and an aggressive manhunt is on to arrest the remaining members of the syndicate at large.

The Commissioner of Police, Imo Command, CP while commending the officers and men for their proactiveness and gallantry, thanked Imolites for their continuous support to the Command.

He enjoined them not to allow criminals and their cohorts use their communities as a haven to perpetrate heinous crimes.

He appealed to them to make sure they report any suspicious person or persons seen within their neighbourhoods to the nearest police station.

He then, tasked the Hunters Association to always assist the police and other security agencies with credible and timely information on their findings in the bushes. Emphasising that, most criminals have their hideouts located in bushes.

https://dailypost.ng/2022/05/08/police-burst-kidnappers-hideout-in-imo-arrest-9-rescue-2-victims/

GreyLaw:
This religious bigot! I remember him bringing the useless sharia to the core North. He wants to fight "ignorance of the mind". Who is more ignorant than himself? A man who couldn't separate politics from religion and is partly the cause of the Boko Haram we have today.

You need to educate urself before spitting this nonsense. Yerima is neither Imam nor religious leader. Boko Haram is purely Kanuri affair which are only in Borno and Yobe state and u are spreading falsehood about what you don't know.
If u are talking about politics and religion go and talk to the 3 Pastors; Felix, Bakare and Osinbajo who can't separate politics and religion which never have ever happened in the North u are aspersing.
Bigotic daft!

ICC prosecutor visited Buhari after shunning letters on Christians’ persecution in Nigeria – CAN

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has expressed its displeasure with the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor, Karim Khan.

Khan, who was in Nigeria a fortnight ago, held talks with President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the State House in Abuja.

In a statement on Friday, CAN General Secretary, Joseph Daramola said the body wrote to Khan twice in 2021 to engage him on religious violence affecting Christians.

“Till this day, we have not heard any response. Mr. Khan failed to make any contact with us before, during or after his visit to Abuja.

“To our consternation, we found out about his visit in the media. It appears that this Prosecutor engages in political games and is unwilling to engage with victims of atrocity.”


The Christian leadership maintained there is a great deal of explaining to be done because Khan only met with Nigerian officials.

CAN accused Khan of playing a political game, prioritizing relations with the government and not interested in standing up for those being attacked.

The statement noted that for many years, the Christian community has borne the brunt of the religious violence in Africa’s biggest nation.

“We have, in a communication that was ignored by the Prosecutor, pointed out flaws in the approach taken by his predecessor in relation to Nigeria.”

CAN vowed to vigorously challenge the murder and targeting of Christians even if the ICC does not take a decisive action as expected.

Noting that the search for justice and redress for “persecuted and brutalized Christians” will not stop, the body said it remained willing to engage Khan and his office.

https://dailypost.ng/2022/05/06/icc-prosecutor-visited-buhari-after-shunning-letters-on-christians-persecution-in-nigeria-can/

Roysnickz:
Which doubt exactly did you thread cleared? For goodness seek, what has the ACT your thread quoted got to do with the CBN Governor's political aspiration.
Be inform that the office of the President which the CBN Governor is aspiring for is an elected political office hence it's guided by the ELECTORAL ACT/LAW and not the CBN ACT.
You should have rather qouted provisions of the electoral act to clear the doubters. Thanks.

Electoral Act is silent about CBN Governor's position and only technicalities can clear that issue except using legal ruling on his candidacy. Emphasis is made on what CBN's Acts because most Nigerians know electoral Act's position on people holding political appointments.
FAQs drew the journalist's attention to publish the article and I'm very much sure many people are eager to know the side of CBN concerning his candidacy since they know the position of Electoral Act!

Tokskob2008:
I just still don't get the way people reason in this country at all, bring out few wads of Naira notes and they put their brains under their feet immediately... One would think with the way things are presently in this country any politician who comes out to campaign ought to be stoned and chased away but here we are singing and dancing for the same oppressors under the rain....Smh!!!

Those people were there to collect the share of his loot, nothing more than that!

gr8ofnnetwork:
Since you quoted the act, can you now tell us how this act affect Emefiele in all ramifications?

I didn't report the news, just created the thread to clear the doubt of the doubters about his candidacy

KUNZEH:
Northerners make sense the problem na Southern Representatives

Sad Babba Kai ta, Senator Representing Buhari constituency gave more than 500 offer letters in his less than 5yrs in the senate. He will just mention like 20, 30 or 50 names on his FB post and ask them to check their phone messenger.
In the North, the easiest way for NASS members to lose election is to fail to find job for their constituents. Some law makers have recently done wonderfully!

In the North, sometimes u don't necessarily need to know a NASS member but have a good degree certificate in good field if u don't know anybody, they'll just ask their PAs to find certain number of candidates who have first class or 2:1 in some disciplines and send them straight to Abuja. Exams and interviews are of no important to them.
However, this has been a big problem to the most qualified candidates who aren't sent by anybody because before u go there the quota system of ur state might be taken.

The United Kingdom is set to commence issuance of a new visa that allows holders of bachelor degrees, masters and doctorates to travel to the country and work in fields such as science, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship.

The visa allows applicants to relocate to the UK without a prior job offer or sponsorship but some of the requirements exempt those who graduated from Nigerian universities.

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UK is one of the choice destinations for many Nigerians seeking to relocate abroad.

The new visa policy, which is expected to take off on May 30, requires prospective applicants to have graduated from top 50 schools featured in renowned world university ranking.

According to the UK Minister of Safe and Legal Migration, Kevin Foster, the “High Potential Individual” visa route is targeted at attracting high-skilled foreign university graduates, who will be allowed to work and stay in the UK for two or three years.

On the expiration of the visa, the holders can switch to “permits under the skilled worker, start up and innovator, exceptional talent, or scale up route” for continued stay in the UK.

Checks by Daily Trust, however, revealed that no Nigerian university features among the top 50 universities in the latest reports of the three global university rankings recognised by the UK government.

The government said the list would be compiled annually and would comprise institutions included in the list of “the top 50 universities in at least two of the following ranking systems.”

The ranking systems are: Times Higher Education World University rankings, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University rankings and the Academic Ranking of the World Universities.

Also, the applicants must have been awarded a degree, equivalent to “not less than UK bachelor’s degree.”

“The new High Potential Individual route will make it as simple as possible for internationally mobile individuals who demonstrate high potential to come to the UK. It will enable those who have already demonstrated their potential through academic achievement to come to the UK without a prior job offer,” Foster said in a statement.

Applicants are also required to show the equivalent of at least £1,270 in their bank account for a continuous 28-day period no later than 31 days prior to making the High Potential Individual visa application.

The statement further read, “If you’ve been resident in the UK for more than 12 months, you might not need to meet this requirement. Graduates with a bachelor’s or a master’s degree will be given a two-year visa. PhD or another doctoral level graduates will get visas valid for three years. This visa can only be granted once and will not be available to those who have already had Graduate visa.

“You will be able to bring your dependants, such as a partner or children under the age of 18, with you. “Partner” refers to either a spouse, civil partner, or unmarried partner. However, unmarried partners must show that they have lived together for at least two years, and that their relationship is genuine, according to reports.”

https://dailytrust.com/new-uk-visa-exempts-graduates-from-nigerian-universities

nzeobi:
Stop talking rubbish 35 % of people in the list are not Igbos

Only 35%?
Well, thank God u admit to the huge lopsided appoinments but I'm very much sure all those u claim or call Fulani aren't Fulani. You call them Fulani just to disguise ur anger against Islam/North but wearing similar attire and bearing similar names shouldn't make ur people spread such aspersions...

After months of speculation, Governor Godwin Emefiele of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) joined the 2023 Presidential race, obtaining the forms of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Prior to Friday, the CBN governor neither confirmed nor denied his interest in succeeding President Muhammadu Buhari.

However, there have been calls on him to step down because of the position that he holds.

The discussion has generated mixed reactions. To take the conversation further, Daily Trust checked the CBN Act.

According to the Act,

– (1) A person shall not remain a Governor, Deputy Governor if he is –

(a) a member of any Federal or State legislative house; or

(b) a Director, officer or employee of any bank licensed under the Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act.

(2) The Governor, Deputy Governor or Director shall cease to hold office in the Bank if he –

(a) becomes of unsound mind or, owing to ill health, is incapable of carrying out his duties;

(b) is convicted…
(d) is disqualified or suspended from practicing his profession in Nigeria by order of a competent authority made in respect of him personally: (e) becomes

(0)

bankrupt;

removed by the President: Provided that the removal of the Governor shall be supported by two-thirds majority of the Senate praying that he be so removed.

RESIGNATION

The acts states that the Governor or any Deputy Governor may resign his office by giving at least three months’ notice in writing to the President of his intention to do so and any Director may similarly resign by giving at least one month’s notice in writing to the President of his intention to do so.

It adds that if the Governor, any Deputy Governor of Director of the Bank dies, resigns or otherwise vacates his office before the expiry of the term for which he has been appointed, there shall be appointed a fit and proper person to take his place on the Board for the unexpired period of the term of appointment in the first instance.

https://dailytrust.com/2023-presidency-will-emefiele-resign-heres-what-the-cbn-act-says

Maxymilliano:
Ganduje 2023 ?

What could the babarigan thief have up his sleeve

Gandune is going for Senate...