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News coming to me from a friend working in State House stated that the PDP National Chairman Adamu Mu'azu has resigned his appointment. Please I don't know how true is this

@ least show us d pix of the house. Or don't you think that is worth sharing as well?

SUPPORT JUSTICE FOR THE KILLING OF PROF. A. M. FALAKI (FORMER E.D. I.A.R, SAMARU, A.B.U. ZARIA)
I am calling the following to find out the truth and make sure justice is done on the killing of Prof. A. M. Falaki former Executive Director Institute for Agricultural Research, Samaru Ahmadu Bello University Zaria.
1 Nigerian police force
2 Nigerian Bar Association
3 National Human rights Commission
4 Ministry of justice
5 Ministry of Police affairs
6 Academic Staff Union of Universities
7 Ahmadu Bello University Zaria
8 Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC)
9 All the Nigerian Newspapers
10 All Radio and television stations
11 ABU Zaria Alumni Association
12 National Association of Nigerian Students NANS
13 National Association of Kano State Students (NAKSS)
14 Students Representative Council of ABU Zaria
15 Ministry of Education
16 Ministry of Defence
17 State Security Services SSS
18 Dr. Bala Muhammad of Saturday Column,
Adamu Adamu, Mahmud Jega, Dr. Saidu Dukawa, Barrister Abdu Bukarti, Comrade Isah Aremu
19 Village Head and the People of Fala,
Yadagungume and Ningi
20 His Brother Abbas Mustapha Falaki and Driver that were with Him when the Unfortunate Happen
21 Me and You on Social Media by sharing,
commenting and liking till our voice was heard and Our call answered.
#SUPPORTJUSTICE4FALAKICAMPAIGN

STAY THE COURSE: ADDRESS BY GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI GCFR TO LEADERS AND ELDERS OF THE ALL PROGRESSIVE CONGRESS (APC) AT THE SHEHU MUSA YAR’ADUA CENTER - ABUJA ON TUESDAY 17TH FEBRUARY, 2015

The National Chairman Chief John Oyegun, thank you very much for your speech. Leaders and elders of our party, I want to join the Chairman in welcoming you all to this meeting. In the last two months, we have travelled the length and breadth of this country, we have heard the cry of our people and we have told them that we hear their cry - the cry for change.

As you are all aware, our country is passing through trying times imposed on us by the bad PDP administration. The imminent change in answer to the yearnings of our people has been delayed by the postponement of the February 14th, 2015 elections. Our patience and resilience will be tested in the days ahead. We must pass this test. In a time like this, which in football analogy can be referred to as extra time, we must avoid making costly mistakes. In the weeks ahead, I would like to implore you to remain true to the vision - to build a country that works for all of us and not just for the few. To rescue and stabilise our nation from the hands of plunderers. On this, I believe we are all agreed.

The important issue today is that we must use the next six weeks that have been imposed on us, to re-charge and re-focus on our goal. The goal is to win the elections now slated for March 28th and April 11th with a convincing majority. We should aim to achieve a victory that will be beyond dispute and proceed to form the next government and start work on the task of rebuilding our beloved country.

Our eyes must be on the objective to build a great society that works for all of us. A country where every child has an equal opportunity to get an education, where every young Nigerian who needs a job can find one. Where the sick are looked after and senior citizens are provided for. A country which gives value to human life, where the welfare and security of all is a national priority and corruption is defeated.

However, I must not fail to mention at this point, one issue which has become topical in the last few days and that is the worrisome revelations by Capt. Sagir Koli about how he, a serving officer at that time, was deployed, with other serving officers, some more senior in rank to work with key politicians of the PDP to rig the Ekiti elections. Up till now, there has been no official denial of this most unfortunate event. It makes me wonder, in the circumstances that led to shifting of the date of the Federal Elections, whether the security services are even now being prepared to play similar roles in the March 28th and April 11th elections. Let me reiterate once more that our security services have serious constitutional responsibilities to the people of the nation and so their importance to the health of the country cannot be under estimated. It is therefore imperative that their leaders must not drag these invaluable institutions into the realm of partisan politics.

I personally and, am sure, all Nigerians, have tremendous respect for our security services. I therefore urge strongly that they stick to, and concentrate on, their constitutional duties, otherwise they stand the risk of becoming part of our already complicated national situation.

I am deeply encouraged by the very high degree of cooperation and commitment to our common purpose of changing Nigeria for good that you all have exhibited in our campaign. I have noticed many of us embarked on our campaign trips without carrying a change of clothing hoping to return home the same day only to spend the night on strange beds because the dynamics of the campaign required that they spend the night away from home. You have ignored in some cases personal health challenges and given yourself to the campaign effort just to be part of the movement for change.

There are some of you who lost in the various primaries to choose candidates for our party during these elections and rather than being disappointed you have thrown your energies and resources to the campaign not minding your personal losses. And there are others who have been made mind boggling offers by our opponents in a bid to break our ranks and curtail our momentum in the march to change Nigeria for good, yet you have chosen to be on the side of a cause that is just.

I therefore appeal to you all party leaders and faithful not to rest thinking that all is won. Six weeks is a long time and we do not know the plans of the other side but with our strong resolve we will prevail.

Therefore let us keep our eyes on the ball. Let us work as we have never done before, and let us watch and help each other. The days and weeks ahead will be tough. Our resolve will be tested and all kinds of evil tricks will be on display. But do not despair. The goal is in sight. Change is coming. The people of Nigeria will prevail. God has destined Nigeria to be a great country. We shall overcome and Change shall be achieved.

God bless you all, God bless the APC and may God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Thank you.

General Muhammadu Buhari GCFR
(Presidential Flag Bearer of the APC, 2015)

Admin you mean to tell me that this thread does deserve to be on front page when so many useless threads are making it? An innocent intellectual (Prof. For that matter) is brutally murdered by in cold blood by the Police who are suppose to have protected him & yet you think it does not require the national attention. Please let's be humans for ones

Dis thread should be closed

Dats Naija 4 u

shadelek:
NPF is a mixture of human and animal but unfortunately, animal among the NPF carries the larger percentage. Boko Haram, they won't kill not until when the Army intervened. Na the same set of people go dey extort money from our poor drivers on the road, na dem go see arm robbers cum change to mufti unto say dem dey afraid.... And now, they ve wasted an innocent and notable man in our society. They are meant to be protecting us, is this how they want to be carrying out their responsibility? R.I.P prof

I wonder oh! If these culprits are left unpunished, this can make ASUU to embark an industrial action because Prof. was a very active member of the union. Moderators can you please do the needful. Push this to the front page. Let the whole world see what NPF is made up

May your soul rest in perfect peace Sir, Ameen.

AIG Orders the Arrest of Police that Killed Professor Falaki (Executive Director Institute for Agricultural Research, Samaru, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria), Villagers Said they Didn't Kill him.

Finally, the police have the difficult task of proving some of their own guilty.

As narrated by Abbas, who was in the company of the late Prof., they stayed for about two hours in the village of Fala, eating and interacting with the villagers while awaiting a vehicle to convey them to Kano. It was then a policeman advised them to go to the police station and write a statement on how they were robbed of their 4W-D earlier.

While in the police station, some policemen patrol vehicles arrived at the station. They accused the Prof. and his brother of being Boko Haram members.

The Prof. showed them his ID card as a director of an institute of the Federal Government and a lecturer at ABU. The police threw it back at him and said there are BH members even in governemnt. The next thing was beatings and attack with weapons by the police. The Prof. died instantly.

They dragged his body and that of Abbas whom they presumed was also dead and dumped them in their patrol van and headed for their headquarters at Bompai, Kano.

They arrived the city after stopping at every police station on the way showing their 'heroic' act against BH.

At the police headquarters in Kano, the police hooligans were given a hero's welcome as gallant officers who killed a Boko Haram member and arrested two. It made the headlines of radio stations in the city.

The following day, Sunday, yesterday, the story started to change...and change...while the police still insisting that the Prof and his brother were top members of BH. They refused to release the brother, the driver and the corpse of the Prof until the IG intervened. While releasing them, the police concocted the "mob theory" and tried hard to oush it down the throats of the Professors who went to receive them, almost pleading for acceptance.

The Prof was buried at 4pm yesterday and the brother finally released shortly before 6pm.

The latest is that the AIG in charge of the zone has ordered the arrest of the police team that killed the Prof. and for the DPO and all other officers at the station to report immediately to the zonal police headquarters.

NPF! Heroes or villains?

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Fellow Nigerians,

This letter of mine is going to contain a lot of apologies. I have sinned against God and against you all. I have transgressed. I apologize. I apologize for pissing down the many opportunities you gave me to be the greatest Nigerian ever. I apologize for a lot of things. I apologize.

I apologize because I had some of the rarest opportunities in public service anybody could get anywhere, which in other climes should have been a stepping stone to greater things if I was a man with an iota of humanity or decency. For you my countrymen allowed me a total of eleven years as the head of state and President of Nigeria.


I apologize for being a disappointment. I apologize for being a tyrant masquerading as a democrat. I apologize for being self-centred, obnoxious, vindictive and a crude man. I apologize for all the times I sought at all cost to always impose my will on the nation, even where it was detrimental to the laws of morality, decency, common sense and of national interest.

I apologize for the killing of Nigerian university students in cold blood and the invasion and razing of the home and business premises of Fela Kuti who was my number one critic as military head of state. I know now that he was never my enemy even though I treated him as my enemy and an enemy of the Nigerian state.

I apologize for supporting the annulment of the election of a democratically elected president, Chief MKO Abiola and colluding with my military colleagues and setting up all sorts of anti-democratic political contraptions to negate the mandate of the people in an election widely acclaimed to be free and fair.

I apologize to Jesus Christ for claiming to be born again when I came out of jail and to you my countrymen and women for playing on your intelligence that I had seen some light when my soul was still much engulfed in the spirit of darkness.

Businessman Eike Batista is a man whose rise and fall mirrors that of his country's economy.
Brazil's Eike Batista was worth about $30bn over a year ago, and confidently declared that he was on his way to becoming the world's richest man, surpassing Carlos Slim and Bill Gates.

Backing this up was his belief that he was sitting on oil fields off the coast of Brazil valued at $1tn. But four of the five fields were shut down after proving to be little more than duds, and Batista's oil and gas company OGX has now filed for bankruptcy protection.

On its own, Batista's is an interesting story. But it also speaks volumes about Brazil, and its economy as a whole.

Brazil saw protests earlier in the year, which demonstrated that people felt the last decade of economic growth had been wasted, with little investment made in infrastructure and education.

Back in 2010, its economy expanded by 7.5 percent - thanks in large part to foreign investors and a credit and consumption boom. But now, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), its economy is barely eking out 2.5 percent growth, and the Central Bank has stepped in to raise interest rates in a bid to tame inflation.

Carlos Caicedo, the principle Latin American analyst at IHS Country Risk in London, speaks to Counting the Cost about the Eike Batista story, while Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo reports from Brazil.

Responsible gold mining

Elsewhere, the big gold miners say they spend billions in developing nations, but with gold off its peak, how long will it last?

Accountancy firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers estimates that gold mining contributed $78bn in gross economic value to the 15 leading gold producing countries, with the creation of 530,000 direct jobs.

And the World Gold Council says its 15 members - all big mining corporations - spent $55bn last year in the countries they operate in.

That breaks down to $8.4bn in tax and royalty payments to governments, $35bn to local businesses, to provide essential services to mining operations, and $8.3bn to pay wages to the quarter of million people they employ.

But the price of gold has really fallen since 2012, which hurts the earnings of the big miners and, in turn, hurts the revenue of the developing nations where the gold comes from.

So how does it all balance out? Counting the Cost speaks to Terry Heymann, the director of Responsible Gold at the World Gold Council, to find out.

Airline alliances

Gulf air carrier Qatar Airways has joined one of the world's big three airline alliances - the groupings which bring together airlines, connections, lounges etc - all, they say, for the convenience of the passenger.

The big three alliances are SkyTeam, Star Alliance, and oneworld, which is the alliance Qatar Airways joined. The oneworld alliance now has 13 member airlines, including big players like British Airways, American Airlines and Qantas, plus another three which are in the pipeline to join.

Combined, it carries 475 million passengers a year to a thousand airports in over 150 countries. That translates into annual revenue of $150bn.

But for a long time Qatar Airways did not want to join any alliance - a view still held by the other major Gulf players, Etihad and Emirates, who want to keep more control over their own destiny.

We speak to Bruce Ashby, the CEO of the oneworld alliance, to discuss the recent move by Qatar Airways and whether it will pay off.

Amazon oil

Finally, we look at Ecuador, which is giving up on a controversial drilling plan in the Amazon.

It first wanted rich countries to pay it not to drill for oil in the rainforest, effectively saying they would not go after the oil riches if they were compensated not to do so.

However, the government is allowing oil exploration in one of the most pristine parts of the country, and many people are unhappy about it. Al Jazeera's Monica Villamizar reports from the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Source:http://m.aljazeera.com/story/2013111105157771444

Strong indications have emerged that the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, may end in the next one week, following a 13-hour meeting than ran from Monday afternoon into the early hours of Tuesday, between the union and the federal government.

The meeting which was led by President Goodluck Jonathan, had the leadership of ASUU, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, all present, with sources saying after the meeting that both the Federal Government and leaders of ASUU had shifted grounds and leaders of ASUU would meet with its National Executive Council to brief members on the outcome of the meeting and then take necessary action.

“Both the Federal Government and the leadership of ASUU are now on the same page. Both parties have shifted grounds. The leadership of ASUU will now meet with its appropriate organ to brief its members and take the necessary action.

“ASUU is in the right position to inform the public after meeting with its organ. However, I can tell you that all things being equal, the strike should be over in the next one week,” a source told Vanguard.

The meeting between the government and the labour leaders started at about 2:30pm on Monday and ended at about 3:30am on Tuesday with a 15 minutes break.



Speaking after the meeting, National President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Isa Fagge, told newsmen that his delegation was taking back a message from President Jonathan to their members.

He however declined to disclose what the message was and when asked whether he was satisfied with the outcome of the meeting, the ASUU leader told journalists not to put words in his mouth.

“We have had a lengthy meeting with Mr. President, rubbing minds on how best to address the problem of university education in this country.

“We now have a message from Mr. President that we are going to take to our members and we are expecting that our members will respond appropriately to his message,” Fagge said.

Source: Premium Times