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A house belonging to former Governor and now
Minister for Youth Development, Mr. Boni Haruna
was yesterday, confirmed to have been destroyed
by the Boko Haram insurgents who wrecked havoc
at his country home in Michika Local Government,
Adamawa State.
The towns which were allegedly attacked by the
insurgents included Kuburshosho, where the
minister hails from as well as Garta.
A resident of Garta, who identified himself as
Joseph said the insurgents arrived his village
about 6 am yesterday and looted people’s homes
and shops before setting them on fire.
“They burnt most of the shops and houses after
looting them. People had to climb the nearby
mountains to save their lives.
“For now, I can’t say the number of casualties as
we are still in the bush from where we have just
learnt that the attackers had left.”
“They told us that the insurgents attacked
Kuburshosho village where they burnt the family
house of former Governor of the state and current
Minister of Youth Development, Boni Haruna,”
Joseph said.
However, it was learnt that attempts by the
insurgents to enter Kamale village were thwarted
due to the River Kamale which was now
overflowing due to the recent downpour in the
area.
Meanwhile, no fewer than 10,000 Higgi people of
Michika Local Government Area are now said to be
living as refugees in Yola, the state capital while
Michika and other towns in the local government
having deserted their houses.
A pressure group under the aegis of Higgi People’s
Initiative Organization said this, adding that they
were ‘’crying out so that the whole world will be
aware of their plight following the attack by Boko
Haram.’’
Addressing a news conference at the NUJ Press
Centre yesterday in Yola, the Spokesperson for the
group, Mr David Barau explained that the
wreckage and destruction of their local
government led to the death of hundreds of the
Higgis.
Barau, a one-time deputy governor of the state
said, “there are today more than 10,000 Higgi
people living as refugees in Yola and its environs,
while Michika and all other towns in the local
government area have become ghost towns.
“We would like to draw attention to a part of the
1999 Constitution pertinent to our outcry. In
chapter 11 (14)(2b) of the First Schedule of the
constitution it is clearly stated that the security
and welfare of the people shall be the primary
purpose of government.
“But it can be explained by the fact that the Higgi
are now in Diaspora and are generally guided by
the principle of being their brother’s keeper. Thus,
it is common to find one home hosting 60-100
people in Yola today. Needless to add that both the
refugees and their hosts are in very unpleasant and
difficult conditions,to put it mildly,” he added

Newly elected NFF president Amaju Pinnick has
over time shown he is not a big fan of Stephen
Keshi and this could well decide the future of the
coach.
*Pinnick
Keshi does not have a contract after his initial deal
ran out after the World Cup. He will take charge of
Nigeria’s two AFCON qualifiers against Sudan this
month after which the new NFF executive
committee led by Pinnick will decide on his future.
However, the early signals are not promising for
Keshi. It is feared that he will not keep his job
much longer at least going by what Pinnick thinks
of him.Pinnick questioned Keshi’s competence
during the World Cup in Brazil.
“I like Keshi as a person, but the Eagles run-up to
the World Cup and their first game (vs Iran) has
proved to me that Keshi has reached his limit,” the
new NFF chief told Saturday Vanguard Sports in an
interview after the last FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
That was before he became NFF boss.
“He is a national hero. I celebrate him for all he
has achieved with the team in such a short time,
but it appears he can’t move the Eagles forward
unless he improves on his abilities.”
Pinnick also blamed Keshi’s coaching staff for not
adopting the scientific approach and so Nigeria’s
failure to go past the knockout stage of the last
World Cup.
“We failed to go further in Brazil because our
coaches did not adopt the scientific approach to
winning matches. Football has gone beyond
having a coaching crew on the bench,” he said.
“The trend now is to have the technical back-room
staff, peopled by expert coaches, who win matches
from the bench.”

The chairman of the Independent Oil Marketers in
Benue State, Chief Matthew Agbason, has been
kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Gboko local
government area of Benue State.
His abductors are demanding for the sum of N15
million as ransom from the family of their victim.
Saturady Vanguard gathered from reliable sources
that Agbason was kidnapped Thursday evening, at
the front of his Mkar, Gboko residence while
driving in an Highlander SUV, adding, “his car was
later abandoned on the road and nobody knows
where they took him to,” he said.
It was further gathered that the incident has
prompted a major protest by his friends and oil
marketers who are demanding his unconditional
release.
The marketers in protest have also resorted to
closing down all service stations in Gboko and its
environs leading to an acute fuel scarcity in the
town.
As at the time of filing this report, a litre of the
product was selling for as high as N300 at the
black market where motorists now source the
product.
Meantime, there were indications that oil marketers
in Makurdi were also holding series of meetings in
the state capital and may be forced to close shop
until Agbabson is released.
When contacted, the State Police Public Relations
Officer, PPRO, Superintendent, SP, Daniel Ezeala
confirmed the incident, explaining that the police
had recovered the Highlander SUV the victim was
driving before his kidnap.
Ezeala said officers at the State Headquaters were
working in conjunction with the Area Command in
Gboko to ensure the release of the victim, and also
apprehend the masterminds of the act.

a friend of mine no buy any ram and dem no dey sell ram for my area but is u are so interested in animal farming u can ask me how much dey sell monkeys. cos d kain monkey wey dey here eh chai. stories have it dat people released dem cos of ebola

make e be lie o I can't do without street ball for morning on sanitation days

op u made me remember my legendary pant known as nwafor 7 colours aka mau mau dat pant strong die and e get pocket. but I prefer boxers to pant o

they have an African president in Obama so they should gladly accept African gifts without panic

blood money dey exist o.. all dese people wey dey sell human parts wetin dem dey use am do ..








why do blood money sef y u no go rich pass dangote?

Jonathan has promised improvement so keep calm and let d fresh air touch u

Iggy is a good rapper but I think Nicki is a better rapper.what do you think?

I no fit read am finish @op but my own be say Gej till 2019 whether election dey abi no election or northerners vote abi dem no vote we. are for Jonathan
Moreover d northerners are senseless and I don't consider dem part of this great nation.
As for dese supporter of APC party I saw a thread concerning atiku and buhari conflicts.hahahaha dats what happens when two power thirsty confused people represent a party. Apc are really d clueless ones

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Did they consider this move before or after the ebola outbreak?

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This is the case asari dokubo would have been fighting to address rather dan fighting for gej...As much as i want to see jonathan remain in power as long as possible i just cant allow his govt be dis toothless..something must be done and d only thing to be done is keep our peace and


































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Dis fin no be lie na compare to d kain thing Tinubu dey plan do us wen dey enter power..better learn from north korea nd chase awt apc

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kingston277: "The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see."
-- Winston Churchill
It has always been intuitively obvious to me that the past and the future cannot be severed from each other. Back when I was a young, naive liberal, it never occurred to me that I should despise the old simply because it is old; when I grew older, wiser, and more "conservative," I never felt that the new is bad, simply because it is new. The only problem, for me, has been to understand how "tradition" and "progress" came to be considered contrasting rather than complementary opposites, and to articulate the reasons why this contrast is unnecessary, and even dangerous.
At first glance, it seems that "conservatism" and "progressivism" are equally self-evident, yet equally vacuous. Who will deny that good things ought to be preserved, and that evils ought to be abolished? It makes no sense to distinguish between "progressives" and "conservatives" without indicating what kind of progress, or conservation of what. It makes no sense to want to change everything all at once, or to preserve everything forever.
Although conservatives rarely if ever want "to preserve everything forever," conservatism emerged historically as a defensive reaction against people who did want "to change everything all at once." The political Left is defined, first and foremost, by its desire to tear down the existing society and build some preconceived utopia on the ruins. No wonder the Right has habitually regarded the future as a menace.
The irony is that it's the utopians, from Plato on down to the feminists and environmentalists, who believe that society is, or can be, eternally fixed and inalterable. The utopian, exactly like the caricatured conservative, intends to "stand athwart history yelling Stop!" -- once he has recast society on his own design. Utopians underestimate the complexity and dynamism of the world, and overestimate the power of a simple and static order. Society is too complex, unpredictable, and deeply rooted to be designed or recreated by anyone.
Every plan for the complete reconstruction of society must be rejected outright, no matter what goals it aims at. The attempt to level society and rebuild it from the ground up will only lead to death and destruction; society will be damaged, but no utopia will replace it. Nor can the evolution of society be predicted or planned: there are too many variables. The world has a certain resistence to the force of human intentions, a certain inertia, even a certain perversity.
There are two reasons for this. The first is that man is not omniscient, and therefore all our actions have unforeseeable consequences. The second is that man, by nature, is free; that is to say, he has free will.
The intentions of social planners will always run up against the wills of the rest of us -- us, the planned. Whenever a self-selected few set themselves up to plan the destiny of all mankind, as the Communists did and as the liberals still do, they set themselves against every other human being; every one of us, to some extent, is going to resist being treated like inanimate matter to be shaped according to some planners' notion of how the world should be.
Now, "progress" must have a particular direction, which is itself a matter of debate. There are different kinds of "progressives": nowadays, there are liberals and libertarians. Liberals want to "progress" towards an all-powerful government; libertarians want to "progress" towards anarchy. The good news is that "progress" is indeterminate: we are free to decide for ourselves what it means -- what we want to progress towards. We can re-examine the idea of "progress" and redefine it as the continuation and enlargement of our inherited culture, rather than its contradiction and destruction.
Progressivism and conservatism, as such, do not contradict each other: in fact, each is necessary for the other. Tradition, Chesterton said, is democracy for the dead; progress, then, is democracy for the unborn. We owe a kind of filial piety to the past -- to the ancestors who slowly built up our civilization over the generations; and surely the best homage we can pay them is to continue to increase the civilization we have inherited, which we in turn will hand down to our descendants.
Conservatism is pointless with nothing to conserve; it is dependent on prior discovery and creation. Tradition, the inherited wisdom of the race, is simply the accumulation of the wisdom of individuals. A hallowed past is not a dead past -- it is the foundation for the works of the present and future. The past dies when its heirs fail to increase it.
It is futile and pointless simply to try to preserve the status quo, which is always doomed, sooner or later, to go the way of all mortal things. Progress is necessary for our very survival: history shows that a relatively static society is doomed to be overrun by more innovative competitors. Innovations strengthen the established order by adapting it to changing circumstances.
On the other hand, tradition and order are needed to consolidate and preserve past accomplishments. Innovations are only enduring when integrated into an established order. No matter how desirable any reform may be, the preservation of social order and the rule of law must always have greater priority. Given this basic stability and continuity, one may effect gradual and prudent reforms, as necessary.
It is a basic requirement of human action to have stable and predictable social conditions. Any rapid change or violent disturbances, even in the name of "progress," can only threaten the security that individuals and societies require to survive and flourish. The complexity of civil society is such that any attempt to impose sudden, drastic changes will only lead to chaos. Stability and law are inherently necessary and good, even if a stable order is less than perfect, and even if there are some bad laws.
Society is natural; types of society are conventional. Given the existence of society and human nature, and their requirements, it is possible to evaluate the many possible forms of society. The problem is to discover how to make convention conform to the standard set by nature, without disrupting the social order as a whole.
Some things are bad and wrong, everywhere and always, and one should try to eliminate them when they exist, and prevent them when they do not. But in the gray areas, which are most areas, we should accept that which is, simply because it is. "When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change."
The habit of questioning traditions is a dangerous one. The very fact that a particular institution or custom has existed for a long time, creates a very strong presumption in favor of continuing it. This is true for two reasons.
First, human beings are imperfectly and unequally rational. Therefore, most human behavior is determined by the forces of imitation and habit: in a word, tradition. Reason is embodied in history by means of tradition, and tradition must in turn be guided by reason. Reason discovers new facts, ideas and techniques; this knowledge gradually becomes taken for granted, habitual, quasi-automatic, freeing the mind to discover new things. Very few people discover or invent anything; they learn from those who do, by imitation. Nor could even the creative minority recreate the whole body of knowledge they have inherited; they have to take it for granted just as much as the inert majority.
No one person, no one generation, can independently discover all truth. No one can even guide his own individual life solely on the basis of reason, without the support of tradition. Reason alone, then, is even more inadequate to create a whole social system. Reason must operate on the substance of a given situation: an individual life, or a common culture. Individuals and societies must take their inherited beliefs and customs for granted, and only examine and change them in exceptional circumstances.

Ordinarily a tradition is not recognized as such: it is simply "the way things are done." When a tradition is recognized, it can be either rejected, modified, or affirmed. The last course is the safest, because there may well be reasons for a tradition that we have forgotten, and relearning those reasons the hard way would be unnecessary, and probably painful.

Thus, rationalism is not necessarily opposed to tradition. It is precisely reason that reveals the importance of tradition, a fact of human nature that must be reckoned with.

Second, traditions have value in and of themselves, regardless of their content: they are social landmarks that give us our bearings in the world. Inherited patterns of behavior connect us spiritually to the past from which we inherited them, to those around us who share the same ways of doing things, and to those in the future to whom we shall pass our inheritance on.

It has often been said that rapid technological change requires us to change our morals, customs, and institutions. This is plausible only if we assume that man was made for the machine, not the machine for man. Technology only gives us new means to pursue ends: it is up to us to decide what we will do with it. If anything, technological progress makes cultural conservatism more necessary than ever. We need to hold on to our old standards and purposes, lest we be lured (as so many have been) into making idols of our machines.

Conservatism is not (or need not be) merely a resistance to change in general, but a positive attachment to some particular way of life and the community that embodies it. Because communities, traditions, and nations do exist and are important, conservatism is not merely temperamental and insubstantial. Shared traditions are essential for social cohesion, and therefore a primary and permanent good. Any conception of "progress" that undermines social cohesion is flawed -- it is not progressive at all, but destructive.

It is this attachment to particular traditions that allows us to maintain the thread of continuity through the changefulness of the world. The most politically relevant attachment is patriotism, loyalty to one's country: in the modern Western context, this means loyalty to one's nation-state. America has changed amazingly (not always for the better) since we became an independent nation, but we are still the same country we were in 1776, and if we are willing, we shall still be the same country in 2776.

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The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Kenneth Minimah,
has assured that government would put an end to
terrorism in Nigeria and canvassed collective
support for the military in the fight.
Minimah said this on Sunday at the Inter-
Denominational Church Service held at Our Lady
Queen of Martyrs Catholic Church, Mogadishu
Cantonment in Abuja.
The service, which was to mark the 2014 Nigerian
Army Day Celebration (NADCEL), had the
“Combating Current National Security Challenges
through Collective Effort’’.
“We are going through troubled times but they will
soon come to an end and we shall be glad at the
end.
“I promise you it will come to an end and we will
be victorious.
“The war against terrorism is a collective effort of
all Nigerians and I appeal to all Nigerians to join
hands in fighting this new war of terrorism.
“I want to thank Nigerians for standing by us, for
their perseverance.
“I also appeal to them that terrorism is a new
warfare. It requires time and patience for us to
defeat it.
“I am very much optimistic that we will deliver. We
will win the war.
“What we have in the North-East will certainly
come to an end soon.
“Our job is to continue to protect and preserve the
unity of this country and making it stable for
prosperity.
“Our job is also to uphold our constitutional role,
which is to defend the country’s territorial integrity
from insurgency and external aggression, and
provide aid to civil authority. That, we will continue
to do,’’ the Army chief said.
Using the Niger-Delta area, and Abia and Benue as
instances, Minimah said peace had returned to
these places and everywhere there were peaceful.
He said the army would prevail over insurgents as
it used to be in the past, saying they would win
the war against terrorism.
Minimah said the army was acquiring new
equipment, training its personnel and providing
welfare for the troops, all in a bid to end terrorism.
He, however, said the army decided to have a low-
key celebration for NADCEL 2014 because of the
current security challenges facing the country.
“A man does not celebrate his birthday if he is
bereaved. He has to just mark his birthday.
“I want to salute the gallantry of our troops, who
have paid the supreme price in the course of
defending their fatherland.
“These officers and soldiers had died in their duty
posts and we will not forget them.’’
In his sermon, Rev. Dawuk Danfulani, the Director,
Army Chaplain (Protestant), said Nigerians must
unite to faithfully seek God’s support if they were
to end terrorism.
Danfulani urged all Nigerians to collectively
condemn and expose evil deeds in the society,
even if the person perpetrating it was a close
relation.
“If a person is pulling down the system that is
supposed to stand, you have the right to expose
him or her.
“If we condemn collectively and expose evil-doers,
they will be afraid to do evil.’’
Taking his text from the second book of
Corinthians, chapter 2, verse 11, Danfulani said
Nigerians should not be ignorant as children of
God.
“So, we should unite and fight these perpetrators of
evil.
“As Nigerians, as Christians and as members of
the Armed Forces, since we have known the source
of our problem, we should unite spiritually to fight
the enemy.
“We must patriotically defend what God has given
us,and God will ask us and punish us if we fail to
defend it,’’ he said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that
prayers were offered for the country, President
Goodluck Jonathan, the Armed Forces and
deceased military officers and men.
The Nigerian Army, which celebrated its 151 years
of existence, was established in 1863.
However, the name Nigerian Army was first used
100 years later when Nigeria became a republic in
1963.(NAN)

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has decried
the delay in distributing the permanent voters
cards to registered voters in the state ahead of the
Aug. 9th 2014 governorship election in Osun state,
warning that it might be a ploy to disenfranchise
voters.
”INEC has been painfully slow in processing the
permanent voters cards, and one can only hope
that the electoral body is not doing this
deliberately to disenfranchise voters, especially in
opposition strongholds,” the party said in a
statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its
National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
”The slow processing of the permanent voters
cards has in particular hit the Central Senatorial
District of the State, and has affected those who
had earlier registered as well as those who
registered this year,” it said.
APC said INEC has continued to tell those who
throng its offices in the state to collect their
permanent voters cards that the cards are not
ready, without giving an indication of when they
will be ready for collection.
”If INEC has no diabolical plan, then it should
speed up the processing of the permanent voters
cards. We say this based on
the reported announcement by the REC in Osun
State that whoever does not possess a permanent
voters card will not be allowed to vote in the Aug.
9th election,” the party said.
It urged INEC to maintain its neutrality during the
forthcoming election, and to ensure it does not do
anything that can affect the credibility of the
commission or the integrity of the election.
APC recalled that a few days before the Ekiti
governorship election on June 19th, INEC Chairman
Attahiru Jega had told stakeholders that the
commission would use colour-code ballot papers
to ensure that ballots meant for one local
government are not taken to another.
”However, not only did INEC not use colour-coded
ballot papers in the Ekiti election, it never felt the
need to explain its sudden volte-face. This is a
blow to the integrity of INEC and we hope it won’t
be repeated,” the party said.
Meanwhile, the APC has raised the alarm over a
multi-pronged strategy by the federal authorities to
skew the forthcoming gubernatorial election in
Osun State favour of the PDP, just like they did in
Ekiti State last month.
The party said the dubious strategy by the federal
authorities involves using the military and other
security agencies to lock down the state days
ahead of voting as well as an ongoing starving of
the state of funds so it cannot meet its obligations.
”Whereas Ekiti was locked down about three days
to the election in the state, indications are that
Osun will be locked down at least a week before
the state’s poll, while the security agencies will
again be used to harass, intimidate and arrest
opposition politicians just like they did with
impunity in Ekiti.
”We are raising the alarm now so the world can
see that any election can only be described as free
and fair if the entire process is transparent and not
skewed in favour of any of the parties. We insist
that election is a process, and that whatever
happens on election day is only but a part of the
whole.
”Therefore, we demand a level playing field for all
the candidates before, during and after the Osun
election. We reject any plan to use of the military
and other security agencies to lock down the state
and to harass, intimidate and arrest opposition
members. We call on local and international
observers to take note of these and other
anomalies ahead of the Osun poll,” it said.

The Gunners are hopeful of wrapping up the
signing of the in-demand Chile star ahead of
Liverpool, Manchester United and Juventus, with
further talks scheduled over the coming days
EXCLUSIVE
By Wayne Veysey | Chief Correspondent
Barcelona have accepted a bid of €40 million
from Arsenal for Alexis Sanchez , Goal understands.
The Gunners will now try to wrap up the transfer of
the in-demand forward with further talks in the
next 48 hours aimed at convincing the player to
choose a move to Emirates Stadium ahead of his
other suitors.
Sources have told Goal that the financial package
offered to Alexis has been agreed in principle by
the player and his representatives.
Arsenal will attempt to clinch the signing by
obtaining an official agreement from the Chile
World Cup star, with the possibility growing that a
deal could be finalised in the coming week.
The indications from the player's camp during
negotiations are that he wants to move to Arsenal
ahead of Manchester United, Liverpool and
Juventus, who have all tabled offers to the Chilean.
The timing of the deal could depend upon
Barcelona's pursuit of Luis Suarez , with the Catalan
club unlikely to formally sanction for the 25-year-
old departure until they have finalised the signing
of the Liverpool forward, who is set to cost just
over €88m.
As revealed earlier in the week, the north
Londoners' bid €40m for the former Udinese star
after Arsene Wenger made him his priority forward
target this summer.
Barcelona have accepted the offer, which matches
their valuation, and agreed the structure of
payments proposed by Arsenal.
Wenger has been busy attempting to convince
Alexis, whose World Cup ended a week ago when
Chile were eliminated on penalties by Brazil, that
he should choose Arsenal ahead of the rival clubs
competing for his signature.
Barca's sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta
admitted last Tuesday that the Spanish giants are
willing to cash in on the 25-year-old, who has
been hotly pursued after a series of outstanding
World Cup displays and a season in which his 21
goals were bettered at his club only by Lionel
Messi.
It was reported in May that Arsenal had sent a
delegation to Madrid to hold talks with a mystery
forward, who is understood to have been Alexis .
Wenger and his scouts believe the forward has the
attributes to be developed into a centre-forward at
Emirates Stadium.
The Gunners' top priority this summer is to clinch
the signing of an elite forward who can provide
competition next season for Olivier Giroud, the
only senior striker at the club.