observers believe that the new National Security Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari would confront the Boko Haram terrorists headlong. There are allegations of sabotage within the military hierarchy, lack of political will, absence of serious support from the international community and the lack of cooperation from residents of local communities in the fight against insurgency. For instance on January 28, the Amnesty International issued a damning release titled: Nigerian authorities were warned of Boko Haram attacks on Baga and Monguno.
According to Netsanet Belay, Amnesty International’s Africa director, new evidence showed that the Nigerian military were repeatedly warned of impending Boko Haram attacks on Baga and Monguno which claimed hundreds of lives, and failed to take adequate action to protect civilians.
STAKEHOLDERS BELIEVE GENERAL MONGUNO CAN DELIVER
No one expressed confidence and optimism on the capacity of General Monguno in confronting the Boko Haram monster like Governor Kashim Shettima who said that the appointment of Monguno to the high position would spell and end to Boko Haram.
According to him, “Buhari’s choice of retired Major General Babagana Monguno and Major General Tukur Buratai as National Security Adviser and Chief of Army Staff respectively, was a classic case of putting square pegs in square holes because both men have been given the mandate of liberating their State which is at the centre of Boko Haram activities while they possess ancestral knowledge of the Borno terrain in addition to being direct victims of insurgency attacks with their relatives killed, their residences destroyed and their towns raided.
“President Muhammadu Buhari made a strong statement by his decision to appoint two highly competent sons of Borno to the offices of the National Security Adviser and the Chief of Army Staff. I think his strategy was to get people with ancestral knowledge of the Borno terrain. Major General Tukur Buratai is even a direct victim of Boko Haram attacks. He lost family members when his residence was attacked earlier this year in Buratai, a town in Biu Local Government Area. Monguno was destroyed and once occupied by Boko Haram and that is where the new NSA, retired Major General Babagana Monguno hails from.
“In fact, a key family member of General Monguno is still being held captive by Boko Haram insurgents. These two Generals are from Borno, they know exactly where it pinches and most importantly, they understand the terrain and can easily connect with communities to get local support.
Similarly, a member of the House of Representatives (Kaga/Magumeri/Gubio federal constituency in Borno state) Alhaji Mohammed Sanda Ngamdu, said General Monguno and others would bring an end to Boko Haram terrorism.
“These two top military brasses from Borno state do not only have the military professionalism and intelligence, but the duo know the terrains, including the nooks and crannies of this affected sub-region of our country, Nigeria. In war, you have to know all the aspects of the areas and people, so as to comprehend and fully understand the modus operandi of insurgents of destruction of lives and property,” he said.
Kime Yunus, an IDP in Monguno said he had known General Monguno in the last 30 years ago. “He was a rugged fighter even when he was young, he never gave up fighting, he always won. I see his appointment as a sign of new dawn for us; he will surely liberate us,” he said.
Speaking on the new NSA, Colonel Isa Kontagora, who was an artillery officer in the Nigerian Army, said “By his pedigree he is more than qualified. To start with, the man is knowledgeable. He commanded the Intelligence Defence Agency and he was in the Doctrine and Command. This is an asset to him. He is calm and calculative as a person. He is expected to bring these qualities to bear in his approach to the fight against Boko Haram. The NSA is a victim of Boko Haram. They overran his community many times. I think he has the advantage of environment to deal with the insurgency”.

Read the full article here: http://dailytrust.com.ng/sunday/index.php/top-stories/21359-monguno-a-no-nonsense-general-takes-on-boko-haram

Governor of Bauchi State, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, may have taken a cue from his Kaduna State counterpart as he announced a 50-per-cent cut in his salary and that of his Deputy, Nuhu Gidado.

Abubakar, who made this announcement in a state broadcast in Bauchi on Tuesday, attributed the decision to the huge debt profile of Bauchi state and the looting of the state’s treasury by the immediate past administration.

The governor, who also announced the dissolution of all Local Government Caretaker Committees in the state with immediate effect, directed the respective council administrators to hand over the affairs of the local governments to their respective heads of personnel managements.
According to him, “let me use this occasion to formally announce the dissolution of all local government caretaker committees with immediate effect.

“The respective administrators are directed to hand over all affairs of local governments to their head of personnel managements.’’

The Bauchi state governor noted that the decision to cut his salary and that of his deputy became necessary in view of the huge debt profile of the state “and the empty treasury inherited from the immediate past administration.

“As a mark of leadership by example, I hereby offer to reduce the salary to be earned by the deputy governor and my humble self by 50 per cent.
Source: http://dailypost.ng/2015/06/03/bauchi-governor-deputy-slash-50-per-cent-off-their-salaries/

The Police in Borno said five persons died when a suicide bomber attacked an abattoir in Maiduguri on Tuesday.
The Commissioner of Police in the State, Aderemi Opadokun, stated this when he spoke with journalists in Maiduguri.
Mr. Opadokun said the attack occurred at about 11.30 a.m.
“A suicide bomber, who was shouting “Sai Buhari”, and dancing in the abattoir, detonated Improvised Explosive Device strapped on his body when people had gathered around him.
“Five people, including himself, died, while eight others sustained injuries,” he said.
Mr. Opadokun added that policemen were mobilised to the scene to evacuate the corpses and the convey the injured to the hospital, adding that investigation into the blast was ongoing.
(NAN)
Source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/184247-suicide-bomber-screamed-sai-buhari-before-killing-5-in-maiduguri-police.html

Abubakar Shekau, leader of the Boko Haram sect, did not appear in the new video which the group released on social media – their first since February when they threatened to disrupt the general election. Unlike other videos, the men are all masked in the 10-minute footage posted on YouTube. The speaker in the footage denied the success recorded by the military in Sambisa forest, swearing “by Allah” that he was speaking from the location. The man, who neither identified himself nor made reference to the leader of the insurgents, said Boko Haram would soon counter the military. The video shows a soldier lying on the floor and also a clash with the military in an unknown location. The speaker calls Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger “the lying coalition partners” and said “most of our territory is still under our control”. The video bears the logo “Islamic State in West Africa”, which may be a proof of its allegiance to the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. “I swear by Allah that I am talking right now from Sambisa. Here in Sambisa you can travel more than four to five hours under the black flag of Islam by car or by motorbike,” the voice said. The reference to “President Jonathan” would suggest that the video was recorded before May 29 when President before May 29 when President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in.

Read more at: http://www.thecable.ng
Source:http://www.thecable.ng/breaking-boko-haram-releases-new-video

Gobe

For the sake of argument or debate, I think it's wrong for the schools to increase fee at this time when we have the issue of Boko haram in hand and unemployment at all time high, logically, the purpose of any action is to get best result, imagine in a case where by 30% of student couldn't afford to pay such school fee, don't u think it will serves as a breeding ground for terrorist and other social vices, I think timing matters, to those in support of fee increase, the only argument there is you people are comparing developed countries with a third world country which is illogical and cant stand the test of time, remember, those developed countries also past through all this and the minimun wage, population, patriotism, is entirely alien to us, recently Obama flag off community help programs, were the community will pay and the federal govt will also pay for your fee, you only need to pay some percentage, and we don't have such thing here but when we get there we will surely cross the bridge, must developed countries have programs to help those that can't afford to pay their school fee, they also provide scholarships not only to the best student but to those that are willing and ready to learn. So my questions to those people in support of fee increase, what would to do those brilliant student that can't afford to pay? What yardstick did u use to arrive at the conclusion that the schools are better off with increment? What of the standard and quality of education before and after the increment? And those that increment reduce the rate of unemployment? Why increment when a graduate in state and federal are collecting less than 100K a month? Do you want a situation where by u will graduate and get less reward for your investment? Why do you think the time is right now not may in the few years time?

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Jonathan leaves for Otuoke
Posted by: Faith Yahaya, Olugbenga Adanikin Abuja in News Update 1 min ago

Former President Goodluck Jonathan Friday left the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja for his home town Otuoke in Bayelsa State.
He took off on Nigerian Air Force Aircraft, flight 5N-FGW at about 12.03 pm
He left in company of his wife, Dame Patience Jonathan , his Aide-De- Camp (ADC) Colonel Ojogbane Adegbe, his escort and some of security personnel.
Some of those who bade him farewell at the Presidential wing of the airport are some members of his cabinet.
They were led by the former President, Arch. Namadi Sambo, Attorney General of the Federation Mohammed Adoke, the Aviation Minister, Osita Chidoka, FCT Minister Bala Mohammed and other members of his cabinet
Source: http://thenationonlineng.net/new/jonathan-leaves-for-otuoke/

When the just concluded general election was approaching, the out-going Goodluck Jonathan’s administration had reduced the pump price of premium motor spirit, otherwise known as petrol, from ninety-seven to eighty-seven Naira per litre. That was in anticipation of massive support from the electorate, but the gesture was counterproductive and failed to shore up the dejected government already in the bad books of the masses. What that measure really produced is the current unjustifiable fuel scarcity now causing untold hardship to the general populace. Unfortunately the unfortunate development continued unabated throughout the election period and has persisted till today.

It started like a minor development that everybody had wished away. The government which was obviously embarrassed by that situation could not offer any satisfactory explanation about why it was happening at a time when it was trying to lessen the difficulties associated with the exorbitant cost of fuelling vehicles. It kept on explaining that very soon the situation would be under control with the arrival at the nation’s shores of large consignment of the commodity which it had ordered from abroad.

However, after waiting for weeks on end for the delivery of the petrol, Nigerians were severely agitated due to the ensuing agonies and frustrations associated with the scarcity of petroleum products.
As a result, most filling stations across the country have suddenly become centres of illegal activities with unscrupulous middlemen having field days and making bona fide buyers feel that the just struggle to obtain the fuel was not worth the hassle. In the few places where the commodity is available, it sells at inflated and unaffordable cost and only well-heeled customers could pay for it, and even at that, through their noses.

As it is now, nobody can for sure predict how long that ugly situation would last, and from all indications it will outlive the Jonathan’s administration and linger on into the General Muhammadu Buhari’s administration could interfere with its proper and smooth take off.

Because of the seemingly unsure position of the marketers with regards to the prospective cost of petroleum commodities, they are currently pessimistic about what the future holds for them. That is why they are being cautious, taking reasonable care to avoid risks or possibility of profit loss while importing fuel. It is sad and ironic that Nigerians have been suffering rather than benefitting from a product they have been generously endowed with by God.

The nation’s marginalized citizens do not enjoy the benefits associated with oil wealth because they have been allowed by those at the helm of affair to wallow in abject poverty, eking out an austere existence bereft of luxury and decent living. It is only few politicians and the elite that are actually enjoying the oil wealth of the country as they engage in many dubious oil deals to the detriment of the citizenry.

Nigerian masses have always been at the receiving end of the senseless and gratuitous fuel price hike of successive administrations. Incidentally, every government has partaken actively in that superfluous venture by increasing the pump price of petrol at different occasions. The only time the proceeds from such exercise were utilized for the good of the common man was during the regime of General Muhammadu Sani Abacha of blessed memory; who found practical and effective use of the five-Naira price increase differential in the execution of important development projects by a special agency, the Petroleum Trust Fund, PTF.

Subsequent fuel price hikes did not provide any opportunity to the Nigerian masses to benefit; instead they were used in financing frivolous projects that have no relevance to their welfare or aspirations.
Interestingly, Nigerians are now heaving a sigh of relief because they will no longer continue to bear the burden of the incompetence of their rulers. It was bad enough that the lives of ordinary Nigerians had been terribly bastardized

and endangered as a result of security challenges brought about by the inequities of incompetent rulers. A typical example of that sorry state of affairs is the epileptic nature of our electricity supply which has defied numerous reforms, despite billions of dollars sunk into them. It is indeed sad that Nigerians must suffer before they could get fuel or steady supply of electricity.

It is hoped that the change yearned for by Nigerians will actually manifest with drastic reforms in the power and petroleum sectors when the incoming government take office. No doubt, it would look into the various allegations of incompetence and the rot that has rendered most Nigerian institutions ineffective and totally incapable of ending our various predicaments.

The time to sanitize these two sectors is NOW, by ensuring that probity and transparency become the order of the day. Fuel scarcity and its attendant problems ought to be a thing of the past, and Nigerians should not continue to suffer silently in the midst of plenty. By and large, the unending fuel scarcity is seemingly a conspiracy by the out-going Jonathan administration to punish Nigerians for overwhelmingly voting out the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
- Source: http://desertherald.com/unending-fuel-scarcity-a-conspiracy-to-punish-nigerians/#sthash.w7iY3fMJ.dpuf

In recent months, clichéd calls for reform of Islam, a 1,400-year-old faith, have intensified. “We need a Muslim reformation,” announced Newsweek. “Islam needs reformation from within,” said the Huffington Post.
Following January’s massacre in Paris, the Financial Times nodded to those in the west who believe the secular Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, “could emerge as the Martin Luther of the Muslim world”. (That might be difficult, given Sisi, in the words of Human Rights Watch, approved “premeditated lethal attacks” on largely unarmed protesters which could amount to “crimes against humanity”.)
Then there is Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The Somali-born author, atheist and ex-Muslim has a new book called Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now. She’s been popping up in TV studios and on op-ed pages to urge Muslims, both liberal and conservative, to abandon some of their core religious beliefs while uniting behind a Muslim Luther. Whether or not mainstream Muslims will respond positively to a call for reform from a woman who has described their faith as a “destructive, nihilistic cult of death” that should be “crushed”, and suggested Benjamin Netanyahu be given the Nobel peace prize, is another matter.
This narrative isn’t new. The New York Times’ celebrity columnist Thomas Friedman called for an Islamic reformation back in 2002; US academics Charles Kurzer and Michaelle Browers traced the origins of this “Reformation analogy” to the early 20th century, noting that “conservative journalists have been as eager as liberal academics to search for Muslim Luthers”.
Apparently anyone who wants to win the war against violent extremism and save the soul of Islam, not to mention transform a stagnant Middle East, should be in favour of this process. After all, Christianity had the Reformation, so goes the argument, which was followed by the Enlightenment; by secularism, liberalism and modern European democracy. So why can’t Islam do the same? And shouldn’t the west be offering to help?
Yet the reality is that talk of a Christian-style reformation for Islam is so much cant. Let’s consider this idea of a “Muslim Luther”. Luther did not merely nail 95 theses to the door of the Castle church in Wittenberg in 1517, denouncing clerical abuses within the Catholic Church. He also demanded that German peasants revolting against their feudal overlords be “struck dead”, comparing them to “mad dogs”, and authored On the Jews and Their Lies in 1543, in which he referred to Jews as “the devil’s people” and called for the destruction of Jewish homes and synagogues. As the US sociologist and Holocaust scholar Ronald Berger has observed, Luther helped establish anti-Semitism as “a key element of German culture and national identity”. Hardly a poster-boy for reform and modernity for Muslims in 2015.
The Protestant Reformation also opened the door to blood-letting on an unprecedented, continent-wide scale. Have we forgotten the French wars of religion? Or the English civil war? Tens of millions of innocents died in Europe; up to 40% of Germany’s population is believed to have been killed in the thirty years’ war. Is this what we want a Muslim-majority world already plagued by sectarian conflicts, foreign occupations and the bitter legacy of colonialism to now endure, all in the name of reform, progress and even liberalism?
Islam isn’t Christianity. The two faiths aren’t analogous, and it is deeply ignorant, not to mention patronising, to pretend otherwise - or to try and impose a neatly linear, Eurocentric view of history on diverse Muslim-majority countries in Asia or Africa. Each religion has its own traditions and texts; each religion’s followers have been affected by geopolitics and socio-economic processes in a myriad of ways. The theologies of Islam and Christianity, in particular, are worlds apart: the former, for instance, has never had a Catholic-style clerical class answering to a divinely appointed pope. So against whom will the “Islamic reformation” be targeted? To whose door will the 95 fatwas be nailed?
The truth is that Islam has already had its own reformation of sorts, in the sense of a stripping of cultural accretions and a process of supposed “purification”. And it didn’t produce a tolerant, pluralistic, multi-faith utopia, a Scandinavia-on-the-Euphrates. Instead, it produced … the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Wasn’t reform exactly what was offered to the masses of the Hijaz by Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab, the mid-18th century itinerant preacher who allied with the House of Saud? He offered an austere Islam cleansed of what he believed to be innovations, which eschewed centuries of mainstream scholarship and commentary, and rejected the authority of the traditional ulema, or religious authorities.
Some might argue that if anyone deserves the title of a Muslim Luther, it is Ibn Abdul Wahhab who, in the eyes of his critics, combined Luther’s puritanism with the German monk’s antipathy towards the Jews. Ibn Abdul Wahhab’s controversial stance on Muslim theology, writes his biographer Michael Crawford, “made him condemn much of the Islam of his own time” and led to him being dismissed as a heretic by his own family.
Don’t get me wrong. Reforms are of course needed across the crisis-ridden Muslim-majority world: political, socio-economic and, yes, religious too. Muslims need to rediscover their own heritage of pluralism, tolerance and mutual respect - embodied in, say, the Prophet’s letter to the monks of St Catherine’s monastery, or the “convivencia” (or co-existence) of medieval Muslim Spain.
What they don’t need are lazy calls for an Islamic reformation from non-Muslims and ex-Muslims, the repetition of which merely illustrates how shallow and simplistic, how ahistorical and even anti-historical, some of the west’s leading commentators are on this issue. It is much easier for them, it seems, to reduce the complex debate over violent extremism to a series of clichés, slogans and sound bites, rather than examining root causes or historical trends; easier still to champion the most extreme and bigoted critics of Islam while ignoring the voices of mainstream Muslim scholars, academics and activists.
Hirsi Ali, for instance, was treated to a series of encomiums and softball questions in her blizzard of US media interviews, from the New York Times to Fox News. (“A hero of our time,” read one gushing headline on Politico.) Frustratingly, only comedian Jon Stewart, on The Daily Show, was willing to point out to Hirsi Ali that her reformist hero wanted a “purer form of Christianity” and helped create “a hundred years of violence and mayhem
With apologies to Luther, if anyone wants to do the same to the religion of Islam today, it is ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who claims to rape and pillage in the name of a “purer form” of Islam - and who isn’t, incidentally, a fan of the Jews either. Those who cry so simplistically, and not a little inanely, for an Islamic reformation, should be careful what they wish for.

Hasan presents the current affairs Head-to-Head programme on Al-Jazeera English; this article was originally published in the Guardia (UK)

Source: http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/daily/index.php/columns/friday-columns/55348-why-islam-doesn-t-need-a-reformation

The Federal Government is still spending about N1.81bn daily to subsidise the Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise called petrol, notwithstanding the nationwide scarcity of the product.

Latest figures from the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency show that the government is paying N45.28 as subsidy for every litre of petrol consumed in Nigeria.

Specifically, the agency, in its pricing template released on May 21, 2015, based on prices for May 20, 2015, stated that the Expected Open Market price or total cost for petrol was N132.28 per litre.

This was against a retail regulated price of N87 per litre. The difference between the EOMP and the retail price is therefore N45.28.

According to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Nigeria consumes about 40 million litres of the PMS daily.

Multiplying the amount of fuel consumed across the country on a daily basis with the current amount spent on subsidising the product, it means that the government spends about N1.81bn on subsidy daily, provided the N45.28 per litre subsidy figure persists.

The PPPRA stated that the effective date of the approved pricing template was January 19, 2015, noting that the actual landing cost of the product was N116.79 per litre.

The cost elements that make up the landing cost include the product’s offshore cost, N104.87; trade margin, N1.47; lightering expenses, N4.19; NPA, N0.77; financing, N1.68; jetty depot throughput charge, N0.8; and storage charge, N3.

On the cost of the product’s distribution margin, according to the agency, retailers get N4.6; transporters, N2.99; dealers, N1.75; bridging cost is N5.85; marine transport average, N0.15; and the admin charge, N0.15. The sub-total margin stands at N15.49.

When added to the landing cost of N116.79, an EOMP of N132.28 per litre is arrived at. But this is subsidised and a flat official rate of N87 per litre is given.

Meanwhile, many independent marketers hardly sell at the regulated N87 price since the latest scarcity of petrol started.

Aside from the NNPC petrol stations and some outlets belonging to major oil marketers such as Conoil, Total, Mobil, Oando, Forte Oil, most other filling stations sell the product above the regulated price despite the fact that the subsidy by the Federal Government is still in place.

The scarcity of fuel has continued throughout the country.

In Abuja, many motorists spend quality man-hours in fuel queues, especially at filling stations where the product is sold at the regulated pump price.

Our correspondent, who monitored the situation in the Federal Capital Territory throughout last week, found that it was mainly petrol stations in the city centre that sold fuel at the regulated price.

Other stations in the satellite towns away from the city centre sold the product between N125 and N140 per litre, without any fear of being sanctioned by the Department of Petroleum Resources.

The situation worsened on Wednesday and Thursday in the city centre as virtually all stations in the town were closed.

On why fuel subsidy was not sustainable, a renowned economist and the Chief Executive, Financial Derivatives Company, Mr. Bismark Rewane, told our correspondent that the continued payment of subsidy was making it difficult for the government to have enough funds to run the country’s economy.

He said the country’s debt was rising, adding that the subsidy on petrol was not helping matters.

Rewane said, “The debt servicing burden is quite high. We are spending almost 25 per cent of our revenue to service debt, and again we have another large percentage that is spent on subsidy. When you consider all these, you will find out that there will be nothing left to run the economy.”

After paying N130 and above for a litre of petrol, some motorists, who spoke with our correspondent, also called for the removal of subsidy on petrol by the Federal Government.

Ayomide Abayomi, an official with a private security firm, stated that fuel marketers were getting richer at the expense of consumers, who empty their savings to fuel their vehicles and generators.

He said, “How can I pay N135 per litre and you are asking me if it is okay for the government to continue subsidising fuel? I don’t think there is still subsidy. But if there is, then this is the right time to stop it.”

Tobias Igbanugo, a resident of the FCT, also said, “Many people now know it is hard to get fuel at the regulated price of N87 per litre. If you want to buy at that price in Abuja, be ready to spend up to four hours in queue .

“A lot of us prefer paying the N140 for the product in most of the filling stations outside the city centre, than to spend quality time in queue. And you may end up spending such man-hours and still not get the product.”

When contacted, the Head of Operations, PPPRA, Mr. Victor Shidock, said, “I am not aware of that (N1.81m daily fuel subsidy). I cannot tell you about this and I’ve not been authorised to speak on it.”
Source:
http://www.punchng.com/business/despite-scarcity-daily-subsidy-on-petrol-hits-n1-81bn/

Ahmad Lawan, a senator representing Yobe central, has emerged as the “consensus candidate” of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for senate president of the 8th national assembly, according to Barnabas Ge‎made. Also, George Akume (Benue) is the “consensus candidate” for deputy senate president. Ge‎made, a serving senator and senator-elect, made the announcement at the two-day retreat for APC senators-elect in Abuja on Saturday. His address was titled: “Resolution of APC senators and senators-elect after a two-day retreat.” “We, the Senate Unity Forum comprising senators-elect from various zones of Nigeria, have met, held extensive discussions and resolved to support senator Ahmed Lawan as senate president and senator George Akume as deputy senate president of the 8th senate,” Gemade said. “Kindly take this to be our collective decision in the best interest of our party, APC, and our dear nation, Nigeria.” However, an aspirant, Bukola Saraki, from Kwara state, has denied that a consensus candidate has been picked by the party through his twitter @bokulosaraki The rumour going around about a consensus candidate for the position of Senate President and Deputy Senate President is false. — Bukola Saraki (APC) (@bukolasaraki) May 23, 2015

Source: http://www.thecable.ng/breaking-ahmed-lawan-apc-consensus-candidate-senate-president

A total of 34 infantry generals were pulled out of service on Friday at the Jaji Military Cantonment in Kaduna State. NAN reports that the officers comprised 20 Majors-General and 14 Brigadiers-General, who retired between 2005 and 2015. In a valedictory speech, retired Maj.-Gen. Joseph Shoboiki, former Director, Training, Nigerian Army, expressed appreciation for the gesture and pledged that the retired officers would remain committed to the service of Nigeria. Shoboiki admonished the serving military personnel to remain focused and resolute, and exhibit total loyalty to the constituted authorities. “Your loyalty to the Federal Republic of Nigeria can best be given through vigilance and security consciousness.
You must continue to demonstrate total commitment to your duty of defending our dear country. “These values are essential if you must continue to uphold and discharge assigned constitutional responsibilities and sustain our nascent democracy,” he said. He expressed conviction that the Nigerian military would overcome the current security challenges in the country. NAN reports that the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General, Kenneth Minima was represented at the event by the General Officer Commanding(GOC), 1 Division of the Nigerian Army, Maj.-Gen. Kenneth Osuji. He urged the retired generals to continue to support the military, saying that their departure would not create any vacuum as they were not retired on the same date.

Read full story here: http://www.today.ng/news/nigerian-army-pulls-34-generals-out-of-service/

I guess this pix says a lot about the president elect, he is younger than most of his mates and healthier than almost all of them. And that short man......lol

Ezenwammadu:
ls this the best picture they have DAMN IT

Nope what of this one