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About one thousand members of the People
Democratic Party in Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni local
government area of Rivers State have defected
to the All Progressives Congress.
One of the most prominent defectors is Prof.
Henry Ogboma.
Prof. Ogboma was a member of the Judicial
Panel of Inquiry set up by the state Governor
Nyesom Wike, to probe the administration of the
former Governor of State, Rotimi Amaechi.
Prof. Ogboma made damning revelations, not
just concerning the PDP as a party but also with
regards to Governor Wike and his Panel of
Inquiry.
According to him, “when I was proposed as
member of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry, I told
them that I was not disposed to such an
assignment, but after I appraised the nature of
those who came to my house to persuade me to
accept the job, their utterances and advice, I
came to the conclusion that the assignment was
not open for my election. So I took it.
“The private briefing was more shocking and
worrisome to me. It was more like, ‘you guys
must look for something, you must create
something to indict Amaechi’.
“The Report was adjusted several times without
success. At some point I felt pity for the
Chairman. He was helpless. Please, I don’t want
to say more about that Panel for now. All I can
tell you is that the PDP is an assemblage of
greedy elements, militants and touts who have
no interest of the State at heart. The Governor
and the PDP are desperate and wickedly
mischievous. You need to be extremely careful
to stay around them.”
In the same vein, seven members of the PDP in
Ndele community in Emuoha local government
and about fifty others in Elelenwo community in
Obio Akpor local government also defected to
the APC.
Receiving the defectors at the different venues,
the running mate of the Governorship candidate
of APC, Asita Asita encouraged the people to
work for the party and development of the state.
Asita expressed hope that Rivers people would
have elections where voters would exercise their
fundamental rights.

http://dailypost.ng/2016/01/10/panel-of-inquiry-forced-to-indict-amaechi-member-reveals-as-he-defects-to-apc/

PMB war on corruption is getting serious o. Naija must be great.

Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday, January 5, stormed
the Abuja home of the spokesman the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh and
whisked him away.
According to a statement by Richard Ihediwa, the
special assistant to the party’s national publicity
secretary, the anti-graft agency stormed the
compound this morning and asked Metuh to follow
them
to the commission’s headquarters.
He said the operatives who were four in number
came in a White unmarked Toyota Hiace bus, adding
that when they were asked the reason for the
invitation, the officials stated that he has some
issues to clear with the commission.
The special assistant said the commission, however,
stated that Metuh was not being arrested but friendly
invited.
Ihediwa further disclosed that as at the time of
issuing this statement, Metuh is still being
kept at the commission’s headquarters and his
lawyers were making frantic efforts to reach him.
He said though details of why Metuh was invited is
yet to be made public by the commission, he recalled
that severally the PDP spokesman had alerted in
various press conferences and statements that he
has been under threat and that the ruling party and
the government have been very uncomfortable with
his stance.
According to him, the latest being the outburst and
threats by the National Chairman of the APC, Chief
John Oyegun in reaction to Chief Metuh’s criticisms
of President Buhari’s widely criticized response on
government’s
disobedience of court orders, during the last
Wednesday’s Presidential Media chat.
The special assistant said the office of the national
publicity secretary will keep the public updated on
any development on the issue.
https://www.naij.com/686460-efcc-officials-storm-olisa-metuhs-abuja-home-whisk-away.html

TheFreeOne:
At KwhR2 - Rate:= N13.21(IKEDC) does it make sense to add N8 though less the fraudulent service charge

Why cant these discos provide prepaid meters for all before enforcing this policy.

When a govt keeps defrauding her people whither hope for justice

Bros d idea is well commendable.
Using BEDC with fixed charge of #750 & #14.82perkwh.
My last bill payment was #2000 and analysis were as follows:
Out of #2000; fixed charge=#750, vat=#95.24. Cost=#1154.75 for 78.0kwh@14.82perkwh.
Now, with same #2000 & increment by #9.26, the analysis will be thus:
14.82+9.26=#24.08perkwh,
The same 78.0kwh will cost 24.08*78.0=#1878.24, and vat=#95.24.
Therefore total payment will be 1878.24+95.24=#1973.48.
The difference now will be 2000-1973.48=#26.52 for the same unit of 78.0kwh.
That should be a good news
QED.

A minor candidate in next year’s Ugandan
presidential election said he will repatriate the
remains of dictator Idi Amin and build a museum in
his honour, local media reported Monday.
Abed Bwanika, a two-time election loser who
garnered less than one percent of the vote in 2006
and 2011, made the declaration during a campaign
visit to Amin’s homeland in northwest Uganda.
“Amin made significant contributions which should
be respected, and we shall bring back his remains
for a decent burial,” a report in the Daily Monitor
newspaper quoted Bwanika as saying.
“My government will construct a library and a
museum in memory of the former president,”
Bwanika added.
Amin died in exile in Saudi Arabia in 2003 where he
is buried and had lived since being overthrown in
1979. Amin’s eccentric eight-year rule was
characterised by buffoonery and brutality, helping
his name become a shorthand for African
dictatorship and violent misrule.
Since Amin’s death, periodic calls have been made
for the repatriation of his remains, most recently in
February when Catholic leaders said it would help
foster national reconciliation.
Burial abroad is also believed to bring misfortune on
surviving relatives and descendants.
In his campaign so far Bwanika has taken to crowd-
pleasing posturing in a bid to take on the incumbent
President Yoweri Museveni — in power since 1986
and widely expected to win the February 2016 poll —
and his two main challengers, both former allies in
the ruling National Resistance Movement.
Last month Bwanika told a rally in the capital
Kampala that homosexuals needed to have their
“demons” exorcised.
“We cannot accept to be pushed into homosexuality
by the West,” said the politician and Christian
pastor, referring to a common misconception about
the causes of homosexuality.
“All homosexuals will be rehabilitated because they
have demons and we have specialists to chase out
demons,” Bwanika said.
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/12/uganda-presidential-candidate-wants-idi-amins-remains-back/

Ecoplexus:
How many times will they clear this Sambisa

Remember Sambisa is a dangerous forest with a very wide area. The battle is not supposed to be so easy but I believe NA is winning the war. Our collective prayers are needed.
R.I.P to death Gallant Soldiers.

Reports reaching us indicate that three Nigerian
soldiers have lost their lives in a bloody battle
against Boko Haram members in the notorious
Sambisa forest.
This was reportedly made known by the Army
spokesman, Sani Usman, on Sunday, December 6, in
a statement obtained by Premium Times.
The spokesman said the tragedy occurred following
the commencement of attack against the terrorists
deep inside the Sambisa forest.
Usman said many of the terrorists were also killed
during the attack, adding that several captives were
rescued by the soldiers during the operation. He
further hinted that three soldiers also sustained
various degrees of injuries in the various military
operations against the demonic group.
Below is the full statement issued by the Nigerian
Army:
Military Commence Strikes Deep Into Sambisa Forest
The Nigerian Army has commenced strikes deep
inside Sambisa forest which is believed to be the
remaining strong point of the Boko Haram terrorists.
Various units of the Army have advanced deep into
the forest clearing most of the camps therein,
rescuing persons held captive, arresting some
terrorists and destroying most of their weapons and
equipment.
Advancing troops of the Nigerian Army, supported by
the Nigerian Air Force were able to clear and destroy
Boko Haram terrorists camps at Shuari, Adembe,
Yerimari Kura, Yerimari Gana, Gonin Kurmi, Kore,
Mainya Kore, and Lopere. Additionally, the Multi-
barrel Rocket Launcher Regiment has destroyed the
terrorists camps at Dure, Dure Kore, Jokwa, as well
as several other camps.
The troops recovered foodstuff, motorcycles, flags,
Improvised Explosive Making Devices (IED) materials
and military uniforms. Among other discoveries were
the terrorists tunnels, weapons and equipment. The
soldiers also recovered 2,000 cows rustled from
various persons over time and rescued women and
children held captives by the Boko Haram. While the
animals have been moved to Kanwuri, the rescued
persons have been evacuated and are being given all
the necessary support and assistance.
During the encounter with the terrorists at Yerimari
Gana a number of Boko Haram terrorists were killed
and some suspected terrorists were arrested who are
being interrogated. However, a soldier sustained
gunshot wound and fracture on the leg.
Similarly, while advancing to destroy Nefari terrorists
camp, troops discovered and cleared 3 IEDs laid
along the route. The camp was successfully cleared
and troops have continued their advance while a
blocking force has been deployed to prevent
infiltration and possible escape by the terrorists.
Unfortunately during another encounter with the
terrorists along the axis of advance, 3 soldiers made
the supreme sacrifice, while an officer and 2 soldiers
were wounded in action.
It is instructive to note that the troops morale is very
high and being conscious of their set objective, they
are unrelenting in their determination to defeat the
Boko Haram terrorists.
In a related development, troops have also destroyed
Boko Haram terrorists camps Bulagaije and Disa,
Gwoza Local Government Area, Borno State and
recovered motorcycles, Dane guns and ammunitions.
Sambisa forest is the major stronghold of the
terrorist group which has claimed the lives of no
fewer than 20,000 innocent people since 2009.
Just yesterday, December 5, reports have it that
about between 15 and 30 people were killed while
over 130 were injured after a suicide bombing
suspected to have been orchestrated by Boko Haram
members at Koulfoua island on the Chadian side of
Lake Chad.

https://www.naij.com/658439-bloody-battle-sambisa-forest-leaves-three-soldiers-dead-several-terrorists-killed.html

A retired United States naval officer Titilope Ayeni- Are was recently attacked in Ekiti. The Punch reports that the retired naval officer got
into Nigeria recently after along stay in the United
States. She was mean to assume her new role as
a lecturer in one of the tertiary institutions in the
state when the incident occurred.
Ayeni-Are’s residence, which is located at Charity
Street, behind Petim Sawmill, Adehun, in Ado-ekiti,
was invaded by robbers on Sunday, August 9. During
the robbery operation between 9:15 am and 1:45pm,
she was away in church. She however got back to
meet three laptops, two DVD players, three mobile
phones and a modem, missing.
Policemen however recovered a bunch of keys with
which the robbers gained access into the house.
When she decided to retrieve her stolen line three
days later, she got to know that the line is still in
use. This prompted her to request for the call log.
Investigation revealed that the most frequent caller of
the line was one Funke Adenowo, a cleaner at First
Bank, Opopogboro branch, suspected to be the
girlfriend of one of the burglars. Investigations by the
police later got two brothers, Bode and Wale
Fakorede as well as one Segun, who came from
Ibadan to buy two of the three stolen laptops, in
police net.
Wale and Bode were granted bail after they were
arraigned before an Ado-ekiti magistrate’s court.
Sadly, after their bail, Wale reportedly led another
robbery attack to the ex-naval’s house on November
24. He attacked her with a machete, attempting to
sexually molest her right in front of the her 5-year-
old son.
Recounting her ordeal, Ayeni-Are said: “My five-
year-old son was with me at the time. Wale, who led
the other gang members I could not identify, told me
to look at him very well. He said he planned to kill
me. I was left in the pool of my blood, after which he
went to ransack the bedrooms.
“He went back to switch on the generator and asked
about where I kept money, my ATM card and PIN
number. He asked about my husband and I told him
that he was in America. He asked from my son where
his father was and my son told him that his dad is in
America.
“He asked for my car keys, particularly that of a
Pathfinder SUV, I told him that I didn’t have any such
vehicle. He asked about the three laptops, which
were earlier stolen, I replied that I had given them
out. He then removed my necklace. He asked me if I
knew where they sent him after the first attack, I told
him that it was the court that sent him there. He said
that throughout the time, he never had the
opportunity of enjoying sex and that it was now an
opportunity to do it with me.
“The other accomplice, whom he came with, kicked
against what he intended to do but he threatened
him. He said he would do it right in front of my son
for him (my son) to see the action. He ordered me to
go back to the bedroom and unzipped his trousers
and it was in that process that my phone rang. He
dragged me out of the house to the back door and
dragged me to a well. He attempted to throw me
inside the well.
“When I fell off the well, he pinned me to the wall
and in the course of the struggle, a rope and the
cloth with which he gagged me removed and I
screamed ‘O ti pa mi o, oti pa mi o’ (He has killed
me, he has killed me). I ran towards the gate but
unknown to me, my neighbours had already called
the police.”
The suspects were later arrested. When contacted,
the police public relations officer in the state, Alberto
Adeyemi, said: “Yes, I am aware of the case. We are
still investigating the incident and it is being
handled by the DCI after the case was transferred
from the Oke-Ila Police Station which conducted
preliminary investigations. The investigation is still
ongoing and when we conclude our investigation,
the suspects involved will be charged to court.”

https://www.naij.com/657467-ex-us-naval-officer-escapes-rape-attack-ekiti-photo.html

Los Blancos have been thrown out of Spain's
domestic cup competition for fielding a suspended
player in the 3-1 win over Cadiz earlier this week
Real Madrid have been expelled from the Copa del
Rey after they fielded the ineligible Denis Cheryshev
in Wednesday’s 3-1 win over Cadiz.
The Russian winger picked up three yellow cards in
the competition last season while on loan at
Villarreal - the third in the semi-final defeat to
Barcelona - and was supposed to be suspended for
the first game of this season’s Copa.
However, Madrid did not realise and Rafael Benitez,
taking advantage of his squad, played him from the
start against the third division side.
Cheryshev opened the scoring, but was taken off at
half-time as word spread that he was not eligible to
play.
Cadiz confirmed on Wednesday they had made a
complaint to the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF)
regarding Cheryshev’s involvement.
And Francisco Rubio Sanchez, the competition
committee judge at the RFEF, has ruled in favour of
the Segunda B side, expelling Los Blancos from the
competition.
Madrid are now likely to appeal the decision and
fight for their right to remain in the Copa del Rey, as
Perez suggested they would do during a press
conference on Thursday evening.
"The penalty Cheryshev was given while playing for
Villarreal is ineffective in our view, no one had
mentioned the sanction to the player’” the Madrid
president said.
"As Article 41 of the RFEF's disciplinary code states,
the punishment is not effective unless it notifies
those to be punished.
"Real Madrid did not know of its existence, no one
reported it - neither the player nor Villarreal nor the
RFEF."
The club’s first move will be to take it to the Appeals
Committee, with the option to then take it to the
Court of Arbitration for Sport if they are knocked
back.

http://m.goal.com/s/en-ng/news/4100/copa-del-rey/2015/12/04/18001632/breaking-real-madrid-expelled-from-copa-del-rey

A man who accused Danladi Yakubu Umar, the
chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), of
demanding a N10 million bribe declined to show up at
a public hearing held yesterday by the House of
Representatives Committee on public petitions at the
National Assembly in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.
The petitioner, Ikenna Ekezie, and his lawyer, Osuagwu
Ugochukwu, were conspicuously absent at the venue of
the hearing, even though they had been fully notified by
the committee. Meanwhile the CCT chairman, Mr. Umar,
arrived at the public hearing with large number of
lawyers and documents meant to refute the bribe
allegation. But the committee prevented the CCT
chairman from making any presentation because of the
petitioner’s absence.
The chairman of the public petitions committee, Nkem
Uzoma Abonta, adjourned its sitting to December 9 and
10 to enable the petitioner to appear. He stated that the
spirit of fairness dictated that the petitioner be present
to either defend or substantiate evidence. .
A group known as Anti-Corruption Network had written
a petition against the CCT chairman alleging Mr. Umar of
receiving N10 million bribe and misappropriating N522.6
million allocated to the tribunal in the 2013 budget.
Mr. Umar is currently presiding over the Code of Conduct
Tribunal that is trying Senate President, Bukola Saraki,
over alleged false declaration of assets.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/12/04/petitioner-n10m-bribe-allegation-against-code-conduct-chairman-fails-show-hearing

There was massive show of solidarity, Tuesday by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State and its governorship candidate, Chief Timpre Sylva, to wrest power from the Governor Seriake Dickson-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on December 5. All road led to Yenagoa, the state capital, as mammoth crowd of party faithful, residents of the states and leaders of the APC thronged the Samson Siasia Stadium to shower love on Sylva’s ambition to become the next governor of the state. President Muhammadu Buhari represented by Vice- President Yemi Osibanjo; the National Leader of APC and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu and former interim National Chairman of APC, Chief Bisi Akande made the final rally of the APC grand and colourful. The National Working Committee of the APC temporarily relocated to Bayelsa as the National Chairman of APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun led other members of the committee to the rally described by people as APC’s icing on the cake ahead of the election.
Governors elected on the platforms of the APC such as Comrade Adams Oshiomhole (Edo); Aminu Tambuwa (Sokoto) and Rochas Okorocha (Imo) represented by his deputy, Eze Madumere, were all in attendance. The event was further spiced by the presence of the governorship candidates of the party in the Southsouth states, who are seeking justice in courts, such as Dakuku Peterside (Rivers), Otega Emerhor (Delta) and Umana Umana (Rivers) including Senator Magnus Abe. The Secretary to the Federal Government, Babachir Lawal, and some ministers and members of the federal cabinet graced the occasion. The ranks of the PDP were further depleted and the chances of Dickson narrowed following the defections of serving commissioners and other officials of the government to the APC at the venue of the event. The tumultuous crowd was entertained by the performances and presence of notable musical artistes such as Face, Maleke, J.Martins, Nollywood star and now member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Desmond Eliot. A group of beautiful maidens called Sylva Angels excited the crowd with their victory dance. Massive crowd of party faithful who endured scorching sun elbowed and shoved one another just to catch a glimpse of the programme. Speaking for the President, Osibanjo said it was time for Bayelsa to change from PDP to APC to realign with the centre. He said: “The time for change has come. The time of prosperity, the time of good governance has come. Don’t miss the train. What the President wants is that you will join what we are doing in the federal level. Bayelsa deserves its pride of place among the states of Nigeria. “This state and its people are great. But you must do the right thing. The right thing is to leave from the PDP to the APC. It is time to move. On Saturday, you deserve the right to go to the polling booth with your PVC and you will make that change on Saturday. “After that you will have the right to demand. You will have the right to ask our candidate who will be the next governor what he promised you. I promise you that you will see a real difference. “There will be job, progress in this state. Everyone one of us looking for promotion will have it by the grace of God. You will achieve great things”. Also speaking, Tinubu whose name and presence excited the crowd, asked the people of the state to send PDP with its 16 years of ineptitude out of power. He said after 16 years of government, PDP could only boast of hunger, unemployment, darkness and absence of basic amenities. The former Lagos state governor who gingered the crowd said APC is the cure for headache, unemployment and other societal ills brought about by the misrule of PDP. He said the people who had been led in the wilderness now have the opportunity to bring prosperity by voting out the party he described as Poverty Development Party. The APC National Leader who spent time to demonstrate to the people where and how they should vote on Saturday, however, enjoined them to eschew violence at the poll. He told the crowd to vote for the broom, the symbol of the party and defend their votes by waiting and ensuring that their votes are counted. He said the Saturday poll represents freedom for the people of the state and stressed that the road to freedom is not easy. He said: “For 16 years you have been led in the wilderness by poverty development party. Send PDP away with its poverty, no water, unemployment, darkness. “Vote and defend your votes. They are already afraid. You are already the master. Sylva is back. He has bounced back. Only you can make him win”. In his remarks, Lawal said the silver lining has come to the state and asked the people to return to the government at the centre. He said identifying with the centre would enable the state to have its fair share of dividends of democracy. Besides, Oyegun thanked the people for welcoming him with surprises each time he visits the state and urged them to give him the most important gift by returning Sylva to government house. He said the entire party and machinery of the federal government relocated to the state to demonstrate the value they value attached to Bayelsa by the APC government. Oyegun who called for a minute’s silence each for late Abubakar Audu and late Diepreye Alamieyeseigha said Sylva would give security, employment and other dividends of democracy to the state when elected. He said: “Saturday is the D Day. It will be the biggest present to our dear President when you return Sylva to the Government House. Victory is assured.” In his speech, the elated Sylva said he had come to rescue Bayelsa from the tight fist of darkness, dirt, unemployment and underdevelopment. He said: “The people of Bayelsa must be developed. Their salaries and pensions must be paid. We are going to focus on diversifying the economy, creating jobs, wealth and bringing security to Bayelsa. We will strengthen the civil service. “We will pay civil servants salaries and we will pay scholarships of our students. It is wicked to send our children abroad on scholarships and ask them to fend for themselves. Go straight and vote for APC and make sure your votes count. “We must not give room for violence. On December 5, Pharaoh will fall and the Egyptians will be under the Red Sea, that is the meaning of Opuabadi. My government will be about you and not about my family.”
http://thenationonlineng.net/bayelsa-dicksons-men-dump-pdp-at-apc-final-rally/

A group, Concerned Bayelsans for Good Governance and Transparency has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate the mother of Governor Seriake Dickson for allegedly falsifying her age to get employment in the civil service. This allegation is coming ahead of the gubernatorial election in Bayelsa state set to hold on Saturday, November 5 with a strong face-off expected between Governor Dickson of the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress candidate Timipre Sylva who is also a former governor of the state. Vanguard reports that the group issued a statement on Sunday, November 30 through Prieye Johnson. It accused the governor of collaborating with his mother to defraud the state by falsifying her age to be employed in the state civil service. The group noted that if the age provided by Mrs. Goldcoast Dickson during her job application should be believed then that meant she gave birth to the governor when she was just eight years old. “The scandal involves the mother of the Governor, Mrs. Goldcoast Dickson, who gave birth to the Governor, when she was only 8 years old. And this is official according to the available public service records which puts the date of birth of the mother at June, 1958 while the Governor was born on 28th January,1966. “The mother, a staff of the Tarakiri Rural Development Authority, was employed in 2004 as a Senior Cleaner with a possible forged age declaration and has been collecting salaries when in fact she would have been retired. The Governor has always portrayed himself as running a transparent government but the malfeasance around his immediate family has put a lie to that claim. “It however, took the petition written to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, by a group, Coalition for Good Governance and Accountability, for the Special Adviser to the Governor on Treasury, Accounts and Revenue, Mr. Timipre Seipulou, to direct the Chairman of the Tarakiri Rural Development Authority to stop the payment of the salary to Dickson’s mother from February, 2014. “The big question: When does she go to work to carry out her duties as a Senior Cleaner? In fact, the woman lives inside the Government House, Yenagoa with her son and does not go to work but collect salaries. This is not only fraudulent but clearly rubbish any sense of transparency in governance. “We are convinced that her engagement into the service wouldn’t have been without the knowledge and facilitation of the son, Governor Dickson. So, who helped her falsify the age? The Staff Nominal Roll as at February, 2014 captured the status of Mrs. Goldcoast Dickson.”
https://www.naij.com/652531-read-group-wants-governors-mother-probed.html

Ans = 10.
4+(3*2)=10. Final ans

The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa state have suffered a major setback ahead of the December 5 governorship election in the state as two ex-aides of Governor Seriake Dickson have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Furoebi Akene, the commissioner for lands and survey, who resigned his appointment penultimate week and Apreala Pereladei, the Dickson’s special representative to Southern Ijaw, dumped the PDP for the APC on Saturday, November 21, as the governorship candidate of the APC, Chief Timipre Sylva took his campaign tour to the Southern Ijaw local government area, The Punch reports. The two ex-aides, who said they had defected to the APC with their supporters, said that the APC represented the needed change that would fast-track the socio-economic and political development of the state. Among the major towns in the Southern Ijaw area, where Sylva and his entourage visited were Otuan, Amassoma, Koluama, Foropa and Oporoma, headquarters of the council. At Oporoma, there was a mild drama as an aged woman in her 80s, found her way to the podium, shouting Sylva’s name. Assisted by Sylva and Heineken Lokpobiri, the minister of state of agriculture and rural development, to the stage, the aged woman thrilled the crowd, dancing with the APC standard-bearer and the minister and was given a broom, the party’s symbol for her efforts, The Nation reports. Addressing supporters and the defectors, Sylva said that the APC had come to change their lives from poverty to wealth. He said that the Southern Ijaw was a strong stakeholder in APC because his running mate, Wilberforce Igiri, and the state chairman of the party, Tiwei Orunimighe, were indigenes of the area. Sylva said: “Oporoma people, Southern Ijaw people, if you want development and progress, it is APC. The opposition party is dead. We have buried it in Abuja. We will also bury it in Bayelsa. “On December 5, vote for me and my deputy. After victory, we will sit down and look at how to bring peace to Bayelsa, companies will come, and there will be jobs and enjoyment. “A party does not make people. Individuals make a party. The burial date for PDP is December 5. On that day, we will dance proper Owugiri and bury the party finally. President Muhammadu Buhari told me he loves Bayelsa and that Bayelsa should be controlled by APC. If we hold election today, APC will win by 75%.” The Southern Ijaw, home to Dickson’s strong allies such as his Chief of Staff, government House, Talford Ongol, late former governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha; and Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Konbowei Benson, is believed to be a major battle ground for Dickson and Sylva in the December poll. Of the total 663,639 number of registered voters released on November 5 by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the election, Southern Ijaw has 120,827 voters, second only to the Yenagoa local government, which has 139,777 voters.
https://www.naij.com/645434-dickson-ex-aides-others-blown-off-wind-change.html

Information reaching TheBreakingTimes indicates
that all the official cars and offices that would be
given to Presidential Aides and new Ministers
have been bugged with high-tech listening
devices.
Our source informed us that President
Muhammadu Buhari in pursuance of his anti-
corruption mantra ordered that all Official cars
given to the newly sworn in ministers should have
a ‘black box’ device fitted to track drivers’
movements and also to listen to conversations.
This same directive was given in the case of
Presidential Aides.
Despite serious concerns about privacy and cost,
The Presidency ordered that the Mercedez Benz
for all Presidential Aides and the Toyota SUV’s
that would be allocated to the Ministers should be
fitted with these device.
The sophisticated device uses mobile phone
technology and is capable of reporting the
occupants’ movements at all times. It also has a
powerful inbuilt microphone enabling it to pick up
conversations.
The “black box” is even capable of immobilizing
the car if instructed to by mobile phone.
This is not the first time a Government will bug
official cars given to ministers. It will be recalled
that the British Government had also bugged the
car of John Prescott .
Our source revealed that President Buhari got this
novel idea from his numerous visits to 10 Downing
Street in seeking ways to catch erring ministers in
the act.
President Muhammadu Buhari who is well known
for his dictatorial tendencies, seeks to control
every minister and aide of his, to know their
movements and also listen in to all their
conversations, if possible.
Our source also told us that President Buhari
secretly admires how Kim Jong-il’s North Korea
keeps a close tab on its ministers and government
appointees and seeks to replicate same here in
Nigeria.
http://www.thebreakingtimes.com/breaking-news-all-ministers-cars-and-offices-to-be-bugged/

ify2016:
Person go steal money dey go talk say he/she sick. I never hear say the money dey stole is sick. If they are sick our money should be returned whether in life or death. 9ja politicians, I hail una wella..

FTC for the first time after joining NL today.



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U try 2 hit FTC on ur first day o.
It took me 9 solid yrs to hit FTC after joining NL.
Some people said FTC are for jobless, so are u?
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According to fresh reports the immediate past Chairman
of the EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde has been flown out of the
country for urgent medical attention following his ailing
health.
The embatteld former Chairman of the anti-graft agency
may have been flown abroad for the treatment of
undisclosed ailment, The Nation gathered on Tuesday,
November 17.
Lamorde, who was billed to appear before the Senate
Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions
yesterday, failed to honour the invitation triggering
insinuation that he had fled the country to evade Senate
probe of the alleged diversion of N1 trillion leveled
against him.
An activist, Dr. George Ubah, wrote a petition to that
Senate claiming the Lamorde in his capacity as the EFCC
Chairman diverted over N1 trillion recovered by the
commission.
Lagos lawyer, Festus Keyamo, who stood in for
Lamorde, defended him, saying: “He (Lamorde) is still a
policeman, he has no reason to go on exile. Lamorde
has served this country very well and let me tell you
this if you don’t know. The only way to succeed as the
chairman of EFCC is for you not to succeed at all."
“Lamorde is not here today, not out of disrespect to the
committee. It is a matter of complete misunderstanding
of issues at stake. When Lamorde was invited to this
committee, he was invited as chairman of EFCC and
between then and now circumstances had changed.
“He is no longer the chairman of EFCC. So, because of
that, he thought that would be the end of his invitation
because he was invited in that capacity.
“He then handed over the case and traveled for
medicals. It was in his absence that the second letter
came and addressed as the immediate past EFCC
chairman. The fact that he is no longer the chairman, he
can no longer be invited except as a witness.”
The Chairman of the committee, Senator Samuel
Anyanwu, noted that Senate does not accept
representation when it invites anybody to appear before
it.
A member of the committee, Senator Obinna Ogba,
wondered why Lamorde failed to live by example being a
man who was a former boss of the anti-graft agency
that usually invited people to appear before it.
He said the non appearance of Lamorde at the probe
was disrespectful to the Senate.
Senator Tayo Alasoadura, who is also a member of the
committee, said: “We are in a situation whereby people
are showing their shamelessness.”
Alasoadura questioned the capacity in which Keyamo
was in the Senate being a lawyer to the EFCC “and the
man he claimed to represent is no longer in office as
chairman.”
The Chairman of the committee stopped Keyamo half
way insisting that anybody could be invited by the
Senate panel to come and give evidence.
Keyamo later told newsmen that the committee was
wrong to have insisted that Lamorde must appear before
it.
He said: “The constitution is very clear as to those who
can be subject to investigation by section 88, 89 of the
constitution. By section 88, 89 of the constitution the
Senate has powers over two categories of persons."

http://www.tori.ng/news/13618/embattled-former-efcc-chairman-lamorde-flown-abroa.html

Facebook has activated Safety Check again, this
time in the city of Yola, located in north-eastern
Nigeria, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on his
official account this morning.
The feature activation follows last night's bombing of
a market in the city, which killed at least 32 people
and injured dozens more, according to Al Jazeera.
Zuckerberg had previously announced that Facebook
would expand the use of Safety Check, after the social
network received criticism over its decision to
implement the service following last week's Paris
terror attacks.
"After the Paris attacks last week, we made the
decision to use Safety Check for more tragic events
like this going forward. We're now working quickly to
develop criteria for the new policy and determine
when and how this service can be most useful,"
Zuckerberg said in his Facebook post.
"Unfortunately, these kinds of events are all too
common, so I won't post about all of them. A loss of
human life anywhere is a tragedy, and we're
committed to doing our part to help people in more of
these situations."
Safety Check is still in its early days, and was first
rolled out in October last year. It allows Facebook
users to ‘check in' as safe if they are in an area
experiencing a disaster. Once someone has checked in
as safe, their friends are given a notification saying
that the user is safe. It has only been activated a
handful of times since it was launched as, previously,
it was reserved only for natural disasters.
In his post about activating Safety Check in Nigeria,
Zuckerberg offered words of encouragement to his
followers, explaining that while the frequency of these
terror events is alarming, violence, on the whole, is
declining.
"In times like this, it's important to remind ourselves
that despite the alarming frequency of these terrible
events, violence is actually at an all-time low in
history and continues to decline," he said.
"Deaths from war are lower than ever, murder rates
are generally dropping around the world, and -
although it's hard to believe - even terrorist attacks
are declining. Please don't let a small minority of
extremists make you pessimistic about our future."
http://www.itp.net/mobile/605540-facebook-activates-safety-check-in-nigeria-following-market-bombing

ABUJA – Nigeria’s president on Tuesday ordered
the arrest of the former president’s national
security adviser for allegedly stealing more than $2
billion meant to purchase weapons for the military
to fight Islamic militant Boko Haram rebels.
“Thousands of needless Nigerian deaths would
have been avoided” if the money had been
properly spent, Femi Adesina, an adviser to
President Muhammadu Buhari, said in a statement.
It accuses Sambo Dasuki, a key adviser to former
President Goodluck Jonathan, of awarding
“phantom contracts” to buy 12 helicopters, four
fighter jets, and bombs and ammunition that never
were supplied, worth a total of $2 billion.
Dasuki also got the Central Bank to transfer $142.6
million to a company with accounts in the United
States, the United Kingdom and in West Africa for
unknown purposes and without contracts, Adesina
said.
Dasuki denied any wrongdoing in an interview
Tuesday night with the PR Nigeria news agency,
and said he was proud that in the final months
under his watch Nigeria’s military ousted Boko
Haram from a self-declared Islamic caliphate set
up after the rebels had taken control of a large
swath of northeast Nigeria.
The offensive came as Jonathan faced elections.
Last year, soldiers told the AP they were going into
battle without food and armed with only 30 bullets
each.
The State Security Service has kept Dasuki under
house arrest for more than a week despite a
Federal High Court order allowing him to travel
abroad for medical care. The court had allowed
Dasuki bail after he pleaded innocent to other
charges of money-laundering, involving more than
$423,000 found in cash, and illegal possession of
arms seized at two of his homes.
The State Security Service, an agency formerly
under Dasuki’s control, said he refused to answer
questions about arms deals — charges Dasuki
denied Tuesday.
Social media buzzed with comments about revenge
and payback. Dasuki is said to have arrested
Buhari, a former military dictator who seized
power from a democratically elected government,
when he was ousted in a palace coup in 1985.
Tuesday’s development follows an interim report
by a presidential committee investigating arms
procurement, part of the fight against Nigeria’s
endemic corruption that Buhari has waged since
taking office in May after defeating Jonathan in
elections.
Dasuki, 60, had usurped the role of the Ministry of
Defense in procuring weapons. He was called
before a Senate committee last year to explain
South Africa’s seizure of $9.3 million in cash from
a private Nigerian jet that landed in Johannesburg
and a $5.7 million bank transfer that South Africa
said involved an illegal arms deal. Dasuki said the
deals were legitimate.
Dasuki, a retired army lieutenant colonel,
participated in every coup in Nigeria going back to
the 1980s
Adesina says Buhari has also ordered the arrest of
several others linked to the scandal.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/11/18/world/nigerian-ex-president-goodluck-jonathan-stole-2-billion-via-fake-arms-deals-current-president-says/#.VkwZbzNw0WQ

Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun,
has disclosed that raising the country’s non-oil
revenue is her top priority.
Forget about oil — we don’t control the price
of oil. That’s not where our problems lie,” Ms
Adeosun said according to Financial Times.
“Because of oil, we’ve ignored everything
else,” she said.
With a mindset of “we have oil” Abuja had practically
given up collecting the right amounts from other state
bodies, she explained, rattling off a list of federal
agencies she says had habitually under-reported their
revenues.
She added that she had already begun “drilling down
into the details” with ministry staff to assess how
much “parastatals” — state-run or affiliated agencies —
remit to the government.
She also praised the lack of pomp and circumstance at
the ministerial swearing in ceremony, a sharp contrast
to state ceremonies of past governments. “The
programme was a piece of paper, that’s it,” she said.
This isn’t the first time there’ll be calls for the
diversification of the country’s economy, ex Finance
Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala also mentioned it.

http://naijaparrot.com/finance-minister-adeosun-unveils-top-priority-for-nigerias-economy/

Mr Lai d only man that can face Fayose word to word.

Members of the State Working Committee (SWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), aides of Governor Seriake Dickson and about 2,000 PDP supporters yesterday defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State. The SWC members are the Assistant Secretary, Ben Oliver, the Assistant Organising Secretary, Miriam Kingsley and an ex-officio member, Diepreye Alagha. Two governor’s aides, Oberighakuma Yousou and Ayobegha James, resigned their appointments and shouted the change mantra of the APC during the campaign inauguration and presentation of flag in Sagbama town, Sagbama Local Government. Miriam attracted the crowd’s sympathy when she narrated her ordeal in the hands of her former party. She said: “I was in bondage, but now I’m crossing over to Canaan. I am happy that I have seen the light. I will no longer go back to Pharaoh.” The local government stood still and identified with APC and the aspiration of its governorship candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva. Crowds of party faithful and residents trooped to the Sagbama Secondary School playground, brandishing brooms and singing victory songs for Sylva and APC. The presence of the party’s national leaders and members of the National Campaign Committee added colour to the event. Members of the National Working Committee (NWC) were led by the APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and the National Vice-Chairman and ex-Ekiti State Governor Segun Oni. Others were a member of the National Campaign Committee and former Lagos State Military Administrator Buba Marwa and the APC National Organising Secretary, Osita Izunaso. The state Chairman of the party, Chief Tiwe Oruminighe and members of the SWC as well as chieftains, including ex-Acting Governor Chief Nestor Binabo and former two-time member of the House of Representatives Warman Ogoriba were at the event. Odigie-Oyegun, before handing over the flag to Sylva, joined other speakers to praise the people for leading a revolution to salvage their destiny on December 5. He said the last time Bayelsa experienced development was during Sylva’s tenure. Odigie-Oyegun said it was a pity that Dickson could not provide light, water and roads in his local government. He enjoined the people to vote for APC on December 5 and enjoy the dividends of democracy. While the APC national chairman was speaking, the crowd shouted that Sylva would provide water, light and other amenities. Sylva, who received the party’s flag amid jubilation, called for a minute’s silence for the late former Governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha and the late APC chieftain and former PDP Chairman, Col. Sam Inokoba (rtd). He likened APC’s train to the Biblical Noah’s ark, saying those who failed to enter the ark would be submerged by the o puabadi (sea). Sylva said if elected, his administration would bring prosperity and end poverty. Said he: “A new day is approaching in Bayelsa. We are going to bring prosperity and empower people, especially youths. It is our responsibility to look after youths.” The APC standard-bearer said his government would offer good governance, promising that youths would play roles. He said his administration would embark on ‘quick- win jobs’ to empower the people and reduce unemployment. Sylva vowed to stop over-taxation of civil servants, saying it was inhuman. He dispelled speculations that if he wins, he will relocate the College of Education to his town where it was sited before Dickson took it to his council. “I will not do that. I will show him (the governor) that I’m not vindictive like him. I love my people and I know that they love me. “There are unfinished projects that we are going to finish. I will ensure 24-hour power supply in Yenagoa before the end of my tenure.”
http://thenationonlineng.net/pdp-chieftains-dicksons-aides-defect-to-apc/

The Abia State government has banned street trading in the boisterous commercial city of Aba. The implementation of the ban, has however, been generating tension between the huge tribe of Aba street traders, and members of the Aba Urban Renewal Office, the authority, which is enforcing the ban order. The governor’s spokesman, Godwin Adindu, in a statement revealed that to ensure a smooth implementation of the policy, which is geared towards sanitising the chaotic commercial city, the governor, well in advance, establish alternative market places in the city for the street traders, including the Good Morning Market situated within the heart of the city. “The environmental sanitization exercise going on in Aba and which is being enforced by the Aba Urban Renewal Office, is only aimed at restoring decency and decorum to the city. Street trading and street hawking cause a lot of menace both to traffic flow and environmental decency and pose a great risk to the life of the traders and that is why government has provided alternative market places for these illegal street traders. Nowhere in the world is the culture of street trading tolerated anymore. and therefore Aba traders and residents must cooperate with government agents in the efforts to sanitize Aba and bring decorum to the city and its markets and desist from actions that could lead to confrontation with constituted authority.” http://leadership.ng/news/475184/abia-gov-bans-street-trading-in-aba

Some personnel in the nation’s Armed Forces
are apprehensive of a likely friction between the
new Minister of Defence, Brig-Gen. Monsur Dan-
Ali (rtd) and the current service chiefs, since he
is their junior in military hierarchy and order of
seniority.
It is feared that this friction in their working
relationship will become inevitable should Dan-
Ali attempt to assert his authority over the
service chiefs. Misgivings have already been
expressed in military circles over the seeming
confrontational and controversial manner with
which the Defence Minister resumed in office.
It would be recalled that Dan-Ali last week
reopened the old wounds when he openly
castigated the immediate past Chief of Army
Staff, COAS, Lt-Gen. Kenneth Minimah (rtd) and
the Nigerian Army for the manner they handled
President Muhammadu Buhari’s West African
Examinations Certificate, WAEC, scandal.
“Where is your integrity when your own Chief of
Army Staff (Minimah) stood up and say his
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces
(Buhari) has no WAEC. How? Please let us be
sincere with ourselves. Because you should
have stood up and said no, because you are
there you cannot. If you leave the job, is it the
end of your life. If you leave the job there are
other ways, better ways God can bless your life,”
he had reportedly said.
One of the inside sources, who expressed these
concerns to ThisDay that “this (the above
statement) smacks of braggadocio,” said this is
the first time a Minister of Defence with military
background would have to issue
(administrative) directives and orders to his
superiors (the service chiefs).
The source explained that Dan-Ali, who retired
two years ago, was a Short Course Service
equivalent to the Nigerian Defence Academy
(NDA) Regular Course 31, while the COAS, Lt-
Gen. Tukur Buratai, who is the youngest among
the service chiefs is from the Regular Course 29.
“He retired barely two years ago, in 2013, when
the services chiefs were major-generals then.
He is of the Short Service Course, equivalent to
the NDA 31st Regular Course and the present
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) is of the 25th
Regular Course. So you can see the gap, and
the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) is of the 26th
Regular Course, the Chief of Air Staff (CAS) who
also came through the Air Short Service is
equivalent of the 26 to 27th Course. Then the
COAS who is the most junior among the current
service chiefs, is even of 28th Course. So you
can imagine that they are all senior to this new
minister,” the newspaper was told.
Another senior officer expressed doubt if the
Defence Minister can equal the sterling
experience and intellectual capacity of the
service chiefs most of whom were directing staff
at one time or the other in different military
institutions.
The source wondered if the minister would have
the courage and professional grounds to reject
advice from the service chiefs, “and being their
junior, how will the service chiefs react if their
advice are being discarded by the minister.”
Meanwhile, the officer noted, “you can recall
that when they asked him during the ministerial
screening about his performance when at the
Bangladesh Staff College, where he had no
grades and he responded that it was not
compulsory.
“So that’s the new minister of Defence for you,
one who could not defend his course and
performance. I see him he is not going to last
because the people he is dealing with, have
high level of intellectual framework. They are all
directing staffs either in War College or Armed
Forces Command and Staff College. Some were
even Directors in Defence College,” the source
stressed.
Also, another officer further explained to the
publication that: “The fear is that President
Muhammadu Buhari wanted to bring down the
service chiefs to the 31st Course before he
appointed this present minister but people had
to intervene because the rate of retirement is so
high.
“That was why he had to stop at 29th Course,
but now that he is bringing in a 31st course
equivalent, is it possible that he wants these
ones to resign out of frustration or annoyance.
This is because if the CDS happens to write a
letter to this minister, who ordinarily is his
junior and he cancels it, he may react and not
take it lightly. You know in the armed forces our
junior officers give their utmost respect. So will
these ones now be telling their junior sir. When
you see him, he want to force talk in order to
assert his authority, I can see a man struggling
to get loyalty from his military seniors.”
“The limitations are many, one most of the
service chiefs will not feel comfortable working
with him. So there might likely be friction
because a leader will not want a subordinate to
give the impression that they are better than
him. So that is an area of friction because these
men may not be able to give him directly the
proper interpretation of things. We are in a
quagmire, I am telling you.”

http://dailypost.ng/2015/11/16/military-seniority-tension-over-likely-clash-between-defence-minister-service-chiefs/

SaharaReporters has gathered more details regarding
why members of the Nigerian Senate moved to clamp
down on President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration
over the Treasury Single Account (TSA).
Our investigation revealed that, in October, the
leadership of the National Assembly led by Senator
Bukola Saraki hatched out a secret arrangement to force
Central Bank of Nigeria officials to exclude National
Assembly accounts from the Treasury Single Account
(TSA). The legislative leaders claimed that the TSA was
hampering the National Assembly’s operations.
One source told SaharaReporters that some members of
the National Assembly were not pleased that members of
the executive branch would know details of their
hitherto opaque financial transactions. They consulted
CBN officials about ways of quietly opting out of the
TSA. Our source stated that CBN officials could not make
a commitment to remove legislative accounts from the
TSA opting to inform President Buhari instead. However,
when Mr. Buhari was informed of the arrangement, he
immediately objected to excluding NASS accounts.
On learning of the president’s objection, Mr. Saraki
mobilized other National Assembly leaders and invited
CBN officials to a meeting in October. At the meeting,
the legislators reportedly threatened to deal with the
CBN if the regulatory bank’s officials did not exclude
them from the TSA. A source familiar with the meeting
told SaharaReporters disclosed that the lawmakers told
CBN officials they had found out certain officials of the
Buhari administration were using a third party,
SystemSpecs Limited, to milk Nigeria through the TSA
policy.
Our source revealed that, following the testy meeting,
CBN officials decided to discontinue the 1% fee that was
deducted from the federation account and paid to
Systemspecs Limited for managing the TSA protocol.
Officials of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s
government had arranged for the 1% fee.
Our investigation revealed that the TSA protocol was
first mooted in December 2011. In January 2012, the
Jonathan Presidency signed an agreement with
SystemSpecs, owners of the software used for TSA
deposits. The implementation phase of the agreement
was then signed in December 2013 authorizing the use
of TSA as a payment platform.
Infuriated that they failed to get their accounts out of
the TSA, Nigerian senators have raised a motion calling
for a probe of the TSA. They claimed that the TSA was
President Buhari’s agenda to steal money from the
Nigerian treasury. However, CBN officials and the
owners of Systemspecs openly declared that Mr. Buhari
did not sign the service agreement between the
Systemspecs and the Federal Government. In a letter
sent to President Buhari, they explained that the service
fee paid to SystemSpecs Limited ballooned after the
Buhari administration ordered commercial banks to
surrender all government funds in their possession,
adding that the CBN then stopped the service charges.
A senator told SaharaReporters that Mr. Saraki was also
upset about the TSA because of its deep impact on
Heritage Bank, a commercial bank in which he and other
members of his extended family have significant
ownership stake. The source disclosed that Societe
Generale Bank, which Mr. Saraki’s family virtually
liquidated through reckless banking practices and
corruption, had re-emerged as Heritage Bank. The CBN
recently approved a merger of Heritage Bank and
Enterprise Bank. With the introduction of the TSA policy,
“the Senate President cannot just place the Senate’s
funds in a bank where he has financial stake.”
As Governor of Kwara State, Mr. Saraki often funneled
state funds into banks in which he had significant
interests.
Our senatorial source also alleged that Mr. Saraki’s
burgeoning legal fees had made the former governor
desperate to fight the TSA in order to have unfettered
access to the Senate’s budget. According to the
senator, Mr. Saraki had hired a score of lawyers to
scuttle his ongoing trial at the Code of Conduct
Tribunal. “His legal expenses are not a joke. That’s
another reason he does not like how the TSA policy is
standing in the way of his ability to dip his hands into
the National Assembly funds to help settle some of his
legal bills,” said the legislative source.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/11/16/how-saraki-national-assembly-leaders-secretly-opposed-treasury-single-account

Good nd educative write up.

lagmostkuit:
And so?

PDP may go into extinction.

The father of the current Commissioner for Environment in Bayelsa State, Chief Owazi Wills, has officially joined the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Nembe Local Government Area ahead of the December 5th Gubernatorial election in the state. The senior Wills, an old politician in the state at a formal defection of an ally of former President Goodluck Jonathan and former Commissioner in the state, Bishop Biobarakuma Degi Eremienyon and the former Assistant Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Douglas Samson Awudu, in Bassambriri, at the weekend, said the people of Nembe could not be left behind in the change movement. Mr. Iniuro Wills, a lawyer and former Commissioner for Information and Orientation in the state, and serving Environment Commissioner under the Governor Seriake Dickson’s administration is the first child of the family. The senior Wills, who spoke in his Nembe local dialect during the defection programme which had the APC Governorship candidate and former Governor, Chief Timipre Sylva in attendance, said “if you try somebody for some time and you are not getting result, you turn to another area. That is change. That is what you see in our son, Timipre Sylva. Our support to him should be total”. Also speaking at the occasion, the Deputy Director – General of the Sylva- Igiri Campaign Organisation, High Chief Jonathan Lionel-Omo, said the continuous defection of political big fishes into the change party, APC, has marked the demise of the PDP in Nembe. Lionel-Omo, said even the Ogbia people are trooping into the APC with the expectations that President Muhammadu Buhari, would bring development to the area. Said he, “If you go to former President Jonathan’s village, Otuoke, where you have a University which look like a glorified college with some new roads being opened up, yet it is still in a state of dereliction. Then go to Opume here where one of the best friends to the former President comes from, King A.J Turner, who is also close to Governor Dickson. After six years in the presidency and also supporting Dickson, there is no light or water in Opume. In the year 2015, when the people don’t have ordinary basic amenities after six years in Presidency. What are we saying? PDP is a rotten party.” Chief Lionel-Omo, who welcomed the decampees to the APC warned those planning to cause violence in the election to desist and that they were confident that Chief Sylva would win the election based on one-to-one voting. The APC Gubernatorial candidate and former Governor, Timipre Sylva, who is from Nembe, asked the people to point to any project undertaken by the Dickson-led administration in the past 3 years if any, to which the crowd chorused, None! Sylva said “These are my people. That is why I am a chief in this community of Nembe. Sometimes I wonder, if any right thinking person in this community will even contemplate the possibility of voting for any other person knowing that I identify completely with the aspiration of this community; knowing that I have stood for this community; knowing that there are development wars to fight for this community.
http://www.osundefender.org/?p=242517

TonyeBarcanista:
Buhari has agÀin disappointed Nigerians

Tell us how, everyday should not be for wailing na.

The crisis in the Senate over the emergence
of Senator Bukola Saraki and Senator Ike
Ekweremadu as Senate president and deputy
president respectively worsened yesterday as
some All Progressives Congress (APC)
lawmakers boycotted plenary to protest the
presiding of the session by Ekweremadu.
Ekweremadu, a Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) senator, was elected deputy Senate
president during the inaugural sitting of the
Senate in June to the chagrin of APC and
President Muhammadu Buhari.
Yesterday was the first time Ekweremadu
would preside over plenary since his election
as Senate deputy president on June 9, 2015,
as Saraki was at the State House to witness
the inauguration of ministers.
The APC senators, who are members of the
Senate Unity Forum (SUF) that opposed the
Saraki presidency and supported his rival,
Senator Ahmad Lawan, said they would not
subject themselves to the leadership of
Ekweremadu whenever Saraki was not
around.
On sighting that Ekweremadu was the
presiding officer yesterday, the SUF senators
walked out of the chambers while others who
were about to enter turned back. Some of the
senators who walked out on sighting that it
was Ekweremadu that was presiding included
Lawan, Oluremi Tinubu, Kabir Marafa and
George Akume.
Saraki took over from Ekweremadu midway
into plenary. The Secretary to the SUF,
Senator Sulaiman Hunkuyi (APC, Kaduna
North), in a statement, decried Ekweremadu’s
presiding over plenary in a legislature
dominated by the APC. It said the conspiracy
against the ruling party in the Senate had
been executed.
Describing the situation as a sad
development, the APC senators called on
party members and leaders to denounce the
act. In the hand-written statement circulated
to reporters and entitled, “The conspiracy
against the APC finally consummated,”
Hunkuyi said they would, henceforth, cease
from attending any sitting presided over by
the PDP.
The statement read: “We notice with joy, the
inauguration of the Federal Executive Council
(FEC) by Mr. President and Commander- in-
Chief, Muhammadu Buhari, today, the 11th of
November, 2015.
“In equal stance, we notice with grave
sadness, the handover of the hallowed
chamber of the Senate today to the
opposition party, the PDP, by the Senate
President to Ike Ekweremadu as PDP
helmsman to preside over the majority
membership of the APC-led chamber.
“It is a very sad development that must be
denounced by all wellmeaning APC members
and leaders alike. “With this, to show our
protest as APC senators of the 8th Senate,
we wish to announce that we shall cease to
attend any sitting presided over by the PDP
in an APC majority chamber of the 8th
Senate.”
But in a swift reaction to Hunkuyi’s
statement, Senate spokesman, Senator Sabi
Abdullahi, said there was no division in the
Senate. He stressed that the nation had
many challenging problems, which senators
should help to tackle rather than engaging in
egoistic political imbroglio. Abdullahi urged
Nigerians to disregard any purported
conspiracy in the Senate and support it in its
agenda to actualise the change agenda of the
APC.
He said: “The Senate wishes to state
categorically that there is no conspiracy of
any nature among distinguished senators of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The
consummation of a conspiracy is in the
figment of the imagination of those behind
the news release and should be disregarded
by Nigerians.
“The Senate wishes to reiterate its total
commitment to providing robust legislative
actions to support the change agenda of Mr.
President as he strives to move Nigeria to
new heights.
The bi-partisan stance of the Senate has not
and will not be an impediment. “The
distinguished senators are happy with the
inauguration of the Federal Executive Council
and look forward to having harmonious,
rancour-free, but inclusive and participatory
relationship that has at its heart the welfare
of Nigerians.
“Finally, as we await the unveiling of the
policy directions of Mr. President through the
members of his executive council, the Senate
is, indeed, poised to work harder and better
to support the emergence of a changed
Nigeria of our collective dream.”

http://newtelegraphonline.com/as-ekweremadu-presides-lawan-supporters-shun-senate-plenary/

johnsonjosbles:
We now see Buhari is an old man with wisdom! Ministarian position was delayed for a very good reason, 1) he studied the rot in all ministry got facts, sack all the permanent secretries. 2) he scruitnice all nominated ministers with the help of media hilabalooo to chalenge them of task ahead.3) this suprise stuff. He(buhari) now make office of the minister a serious stuff not a joke situation when PDP plays with ministries as source of income for politicians! Now we r geting there

You are right bro

Good luck to Naija.