₦airaland Forum

The Network of Internally Displaced Persons (NIDP) has been monitoring and following the trial of former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Sabundu Badeh under the trial judge, Justice Okon Abang. The network is not happy that up till now the trial seems to be too lengthy and as such no meaningful development whatsoever has been achieved because the current fate of our association was caused by the behavior and nonchalant attitude including the usage of outdated weapons against Boko Haram insurgents and the numerous hardships faced by the association are as a result of Air Marshal Badeh’s love for self rather than the nation including the scourge of human lives lost fighting insurgents. The Network of the Internally Displaced Persons (NIDP) are compelled to issue the following statements:
1. That Air Marshal Badeh should be re-arrested forthwith, his freedom denied so that he will not compromise the outcome of the trial and that the security agencies should be on him 24 hours surveillance so as to serve as deterrant to other senior officers in the future and send a signal of its seriousness with the trial.
2. Justice delayed is justice denied. We crave the indulgence of the learned judge to fast track the trial so as to pronounce judgment so that Air Marshal Badeh will pay for the soldiers that have lost their lives and the hardship of the people currently living. As we can no longer enjoy the privileges of being alive because our joy and happiness have been cut short including all forms of human habitation from us since the war started.
3. That the anti-graft agencies should go after his families and any other bank account outside the nation and freeze all his ill-gotten wealth so that he will feel the pains and hardship we are currently facing.
4. We have it on good authority that most of his properties are still at large and that forensic investigation should be carried out to know the where about of others so government can seize them accordingly.
5. The Network of the Internally Displaced Persons passes a vote of confidence on Buhari’s led administration and his anti-corruption war but warns that the anti-graft agencies should go all out to make sure that every kobo stolen from the nation’s coffers are retrieved by any means necessary. We implore that EFCC should spread its nets across the length and breadth of Nigeria so as to arrest those people assisting Badeh to invade prosecution and hiding of his properties embezzled under dubious means.
6. That Badeh’s case should be treated henceforth with all the seriousness it deserves so as to send a message to the Nigerian public. That people who are given position of authority to serve the nation but do otherwise should be considered enemies of the nation and their freedom denied including making sure that such cases are quickly dispensed with to avoid wasting of tax payers resources.
7. The Network of the Internally Displaced Persons is also passing a strong word to Justice Okon Abang, that Nigerians and indeed the international community are watching and it behoves on him to act swiftly as to further his career by making sure that Badeh’s case is seriously dealt with and taken as a high profile case that will make or mar the judiciary vis-à-vis the lives of lost ones and those that are living. Of particular concern, he should treat the case with all its seriousness and give judgment as soon as possible.
8. The NIDP passes a vote of confidence on Magu led administration of EFCC and call on all Nigerians to join hands with the National Assembly to confirm this hardworking and tireless Nigerian, who has given his life to the fight against graft and to reclaim our destiny from the hands of these corrupt persons.

Signed
Farouk Ibn Nallah
National Cordinator (NIDP)

After eight months of wrongful suspension based on allegations of fraud, the Federal Government has finally acquitted the pioneer Director General of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Department (PTAD) Mrs Nellie Mayshak of any wrong doing and commended her for her contribution to the development of the country. READ MORE: http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/10/fg-exonerates-former-ptad-dg-in-secrete.html

The former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, has arrived in Nigeria from his base in the United States to respond to an invitation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in relation to N4.75bn arms funds traced to him. READ MORE: http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/10/just-in-n47bn-arms-probe-obanikoro.html

The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria has condemned the arrests of the judges, saying Nigeria is not a banana republic.
The President of CBCN and Catholic Archbishop of Jos, Ignatius Kaigama, who said this, stated that the rule of law must be followed, especially while dealing with cases concerning corruption.
Kaigama said, READ MORE: http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/10/nigeria-is-not-banana-republic-catholic.html

By Gabriel Onoja
The economic recession is keeping Nigerians busy as focus shifts to daily survival to the extent that we carry on, unaware of threat greater than hunger and deprivation. The Islamic Republic of Iran! There it is. The threat greater than the prospect of starvation. Yet, those Nigerians who do not identify this country as a threat to the future of our fatherland can be forgiven. READ MORE: http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/10/how-iran-betrayed-our-diplomatic.html

Financial crises have crippled the activities of kogi government aftermath of the controversial victory at the apex court as contracts awarded at the state executive meeting had no cash backing READ MORE:http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/10/scarcity-of-funds-encapsulates-kogi.html

The Federal Government of Nigeria has filed a motion to withdraw the charge of criminal conspiracy against Senate President Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu. READ MORE: http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/10/just-in-nigerian-government-withdraws.html

........ FALEKE’S GROUP MAKES DEMANDS FOR RECONCILIATION WITH GOVERNMENT
News can authoritatively gathered that the camp has been having series of secretes meetings spearheaded by Tom Ohikere, Duro Meseko and Isah Daniels, whose primary aim is fashioning out how the group will reclaim the deputy governorship seat and remove possible stumbling blocks ahead 2019 elections. http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/10/bello-to-sacrifice-edward-onoja-and.html

High-spending Nigerian senator, Dino Melaye, has acquired a 93-year-old Rolls Royce estimated at N180 million, amid a national recession that has left millions of his compatriots struggling to feed daily.READ MORE: http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/10/as-recession-bites-harder-dino.html

In what appeared to be a surprise appearance Sunday night in Abuja, Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State and Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State, who recently defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the ruling Peoples.READ MORE: http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/10/surprise-as-kwankwaso-wammako-attend.html

That Nigeria’s prison system is utterly broken and dysfunctional is common knowledge. Prison inmates of varying categories live in utterly sub-human conditions that inflict further damage on their psyche than when they were admitted. The cells are overcrowded and unhygienic. The food is insufficient and of negligible. READ MORE:http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/10/women-awaiting-trial-pregnant.html

Some of the internal problems besieging the All Progressives Congress (APC) have begun to transit to full blown problems. READ MORE: http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/10/apc-crisis-atiku-faction-plan-to-break.html

The court of the Economic Community of West African States‎ (ECOWAS) has ordered the federal government to pay N15m as compensation to Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser (NSA), for his “unlawful arrest”. READ MORE: http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/10/just-in-court-orders-fg-to-pay-n15m-for.html

The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) sitting in Abuja has pronounced former Minister of Niger Delta, Godswill Orubebe, guilty of non-declaration of asset. READ MORE: http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/10/tribunal-finds-orubebe-guilty.html

A member of the Senate representing Kaduna South Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to extend his anti-corruption war to the governments before the Goodluck Jonathan-led administration. READ MORE: http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/10/probe-babangida-obasanjo-others-sani.html

...."I got N650 million as my running cost as the Chairman of Appropriation Committee.
■Speaker Yakubu Dogara got N1.5 billion,
■His Deputy Yusuf Lasun got N800 million.
■House Majority Leader Femi Gbajabiamila got N1.2 billion,
■Deputy Majorty Leader Buba Jibrin got N1.2 billion. READ MORE:http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/10/how-we-shared-nigeria-money-by-hon.html

Paris is set to have an official nudist park after officials voted in favour of the plans on Monday night.
The park could open as soon as next summer, AFP reports, and two main wooded areas on the outskirts of the city, the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes, are being considered as possible options. READ MORE http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/10/paris-government-approves-creation-of.html

Why are people so wicked Is beyond me. This woman should be arrested. Beautiful outside but serpentine inside. READ MORE: http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/10/wicked-see-what-this-woman-did-to-her.html

Sex with a humanoid robot will become common practice by 2025, even overtaking sex between humans, says futurologist Ian Pearson. His report on the future of sex has been published in partnership with Bon… READ MORE http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/09/sex-robots-are-being-made-to-replace.html

A Nigerian militant group claimed on Thursday an attack on a crude pipeline operated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in the restive Niger Delta. READ MORE http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/09/militant-group-claims-attack-on-niger.html

Ballot box and papers has just been snatch by suspected thugs in igiwa polling unit ward 10 in Ugboha, esan south east LGA. READ MORE: http://elendureports.com/n/news/just-in-ballot-snaching-in-igiwa/

The season of celebrations continues in the family of Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State as his wife, the First Lady, Dr. Rachael Dickson just put to bed in the United States of America. READ MORE ON http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/09/bayelsa-first-lady-dr-rachael-dickson.html

A consultant pathologist, Prof. Femi Ogunbiyi, on Friday said that 50 per cent of adults had symptoms of haemorrhoids, by the age of 50. READ MORE ON http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/09/50-of-adults-have-symptoms-of-pile.html

United States President Barack Obama yesterday praised President Muhammadu Buhari for allowing flexibility in exchange rates. Read more http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/09/obama-hails-exchange-rate-flexibility.html

Deeply disturbed by the current level of decay in the nation’s economy, the Senate yester­day asked President Mu­hammadu Buhari to stop playing politics with the economy and deliver Nige­rians out of the current hard­ship they face.
READ MORE: http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/09/economic-recession-stop-blame-game.html

Airtropolis, a construction company owned by Sen. Stella Odua, former Aviation Minister under President Goodluck Jonathan who was sacked for purchasing 200 million Naira official car when the nation is undergoing economic recession has secured a cargo airport construction in Benue State, under governor Samuel Ortom.
Airtropolis was the company given the mandate to contruct cargo aiport in Lafia, Nasarawa State two years ago but up till date could not so more than grading of site, a situation Nasarawa State is lamenting and themed fraud.
It is a known fact that, Stella Odua during her tenure as the Aviation Minister, proposed consruction of cargo Airports across the six geo- political zones of the country. As the major shareholder in Airtropolis, Odua has resurfaced in Benue to perform thesame fraud that was mated on Nasarawa, a neighboring State to Benue.
However, the State Governor, Dr Samuel Ortom was not present at the event which seems like mortgaging the future of the State to the former Aviation Minister in a ceremony that suggest handing over of the proposed site of the Airport to Airtropolis .
Assessing the capacity of the said company, some Benue indegens have come out to say the Cargo Airport is not even necessary because the said company will only get some money from the poor state and go away as in the case of Nasarawa State. Bede Bartholomew who took to Facebook insisted that,...
"Why don't they bring in investors who'll sponsor more viable and people friendly projects, please go and tell people who don't know, this cock and bull stories.
He emphasied that since the land was acquired for free, there are other hidden committment that must come from the State.

Two mobile policemen were killed in the early hours of Tuesday at Hawan Kibo along Jos – Abuja road as armed robbers attacked a convoy of bullion vans belonging to the Central Bank of Nigeria.

Our correspondent gathered that the bullion vans and their retinue of armed mobile policemen escorts had left Jos in the early hours of Tuesday enroute Abuja. READ MORE http://capitalpost.com.ng/robbers-attack-cbn-bullion-vans-kill-two-policemen/

… ‘I made personal sacrifices for Chibok girls’

Wanted citizen journalist, Ahmad Salkida, has declared his readiness to return to Nigeria to answer questions on his alleged association with the Boko Haram sect.

Salkida was declared wanted by the Nigerian Army hours after Boko Haram uploaded another video showing some of the abducted Chibok girls. Read more http://capitalpost.com.ng/wanted-journalist-replies-army/

Former Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) have appealed the July 26 judgment of the election petitions tribunal which upheld the victory of Seriake Dickson in the state governorship election. Read more http://capitalpost.com.ng/sylvas-apc-urge-appeal-court-void-dicksons-election/

By Okanga Agila
He is one remarkable Nigerian soldier. Even his opponents agree that he has paid the proverbial dues in the service of the nation. No doubt, Nigeria is endowed with soldiers, who are famed in multiple ways. The United Nations amply attests to this by its uncommon extension of accolades and awards to Nigerian soldiers on international peace keeping missions. Read more http://www.metrodailyng.com/2016/08/buratai-and-eagle-perches-on-africa.html

Protesters under the aegis of Citizens Advocacy for Equity and Educational Development yesterday in Abuja kicked against the appointment of Prof. Charles Uwakwe as the new Executive Secretary of the National Examination Council (NECO).
The protest which was held at the ministry of education, saw the protesters decrying what they described as "ethnic emasculation and colonization of the National Examinations Council by the Southern section of the country over successive years as the respective Registrars from the South have made it a bounden duty to massively recruit individuals of similar ethnic extraction without recourse to sacrosanct principle of Federal Character."
Addressing the protest Comrade Danesi Momoh said the lopsided appointment of NECO Registrar in favor of the Southern region has also made favoritism and nepotism to become the order of the day in terms of promotions and transfers in this sensitive education Agency
He said, "since the establishment of NECO, four out of the five Registrars appointed so far have been from the Southern region. While we do not begrudge the appointment of any individual, it has been brought to our consistent notice that the streak of appointments since the reign of Prof. Promise Okpala was nothing but a conduit for ethnic perpetuation and ingratiation which continued with the subsequent appointment of Prof. Tommy Joshua.
"The acts of nepotism perpetrated by this duo resulted in sustained massive outcry against their actions. Especially when viewed against the backdrop of the fact that the National Headquarters of NECO is instructively sited in the Northern region of the country.
It therefore urged the Minister to "save NECO from the fever and fear of another crisis by swapping Prof. Charles Uwakwe with another appointee among those from the North."

The Catholic Priest and Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, on Sunday, said he had no regrets about a message in which he expressed support for President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 presidential election. read more http://elendureports.com/n/news/no-regrets-about-2015-poll-prophecy-mbaka/