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By SIMON EBEGBULEM,

Benin-City – The major reason for communal crisis, particularly in the seven local government areas of Edo South, is land. Youths, under the aegis of Community Development Associations (CDAs), allegedly took over the sale of land in most of the Bini communities and, in the process, scammed those who wanted to buy.
Apart from that, youths who believe their communities are more powerful than their neighbours often times encroach on the lands belonging to the neighbours and the result is bloody communal war in Edo State. One of such wars led to the beheading of the 81-yr-old chief priest of Aruogba community, Pa Clifford Omosonwa, who met his death in the hands of some youths in March.
The elders of the community were said to have relocated following threats from the youths alleged to be members of CDAs to eliminate them due to their opposition to the way community lands were being sold. The leadership of the CDAs allegedly train youths on how to engage in communal wars after which they are armed. Only recently, Edo State Police Commissioner, Haliru Gwandu, paraded two persons, including a 17-year-old boy who allegedly trained as community fighter. The boy, identified as Belief Iriore, told Sunday Vanguard that he dropped out of school after concluding his primary six and decided to become a community fighter.

The leaders of the CDAs are said to be in the habit of promising to compensate the fighters with plots of land if they win any war. 17 -year-old Iriore narrated his story: “I finished primary six before I joined the community fight. I don’t have brain for school and that was why I went to learn to become a mechanic.
But some of our leaders said we should go and fight the people of Ekiadolor community who allegedly took our land and that they will give us part of the land when we are through with the war.

But unfortunately the other community arrested us. We went there with cutlasses but the people called the police who quickly arrested us. We were trained for communal wars”.
The second suspect, Abraham Osifo, said, “I am a community fighter, I was arrested by members of the Ekiadolor community when we went for a fight. But when we were on the way, our opponents arrested us and said we were armed robbers but we are not armed robbers but community fighters”.

The Edo CP, parading the suspects, described as worrisome the activities of the CDAs and commended the Oba of Benin, HRM Oba Ewuare 11, who recently called for the scrapping of CDAs in Edo South. “Let me tell you that the law will not spare anybody who commits crime.
The issue of community clashes in Edo is increasing but we are checkmating the perpetrators’, the commissioner said.

“If you have been following events in the state, you will hear paramount rulers making some pronouncements on this issue.

You found a community appointing a young man as Chairman of CDA.

There should be rules guiding the conduct of the person but what we see today is that such CDA Chairman graduates into a monster, he sells the land of the community and amasses wealth.

In the process they, he leads his colleagues to stockpile arms and chase away the elders of the community or anybody who wants to stop them from selling land.

We have invaded one community and our SARS recovered eleven English guns and cache of arms and eleven persons were arrested. Those people are today in prison.

The same CDA people are financing rubbish and they succeeded in chasing away their chief priest. This aspect of Enogie, chief priest and Edionwere, they are the ones in charge of the lands. You don’t need a Chairman who will come and dispose all their lands. In future you may need a university or hospital but if you allow these unscrupulous elements to sell all your land, what are you going to use to develop the community? This is worrisome not only to the police but also to the state government. But very soon you will see plans that will checkmate the excesses of these land grabbers and I think it will be a thing of the past.
By the time it gets legislative backing, those who speculate or grab land will face stiff punishment. That will serve to send a message to others.

Unfortunately, we have some elders involved in this kind of scandals and it is bad”. Oba Ewuare had recently solicited the support of the state government to eradicate the activities of CDAs which, according to him, is creating crisis in Benin communities. “I want to use to opportunity to seek the state government’s support in eradicating the menace of Community Development Associations in Edo South in particular and Edo State in general. Most of their actions have created a lot of problems in the state and impeded the development of the communities”, the monarch told Governor Godwin Obaseki during a visit by Obaseki to his palace. “For the avoidance of doubt, CDAs really have no business with land. Community lands are under the Enogie, Odionwere or the Ohen as the case may be. So we must stop this madness which is destroying our communities”. The oba’s position that CDAs be banned in the seven LGAs of Edo South was received with wild jubilation because apart from the violence the CDAs allegedly perpetrate in the communities, their activities make it very expensive for visitors who bought lands to erect residential buildings. The CDAs collect levies from the foundation level till the building of structures are completed.

But with Oba Ewuare’s pronouncement, their end seems to have come.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/17-yr-old-communal-fighter-stuns-edo-as-oba-ewuare-orders-land-grabbers-out-of-benin/

tit:
Buhari has delegate himself to the dustbon of nigeria history.
Worse President ever.
Wor wor.

Na miz u dey talz to?......me a retired general ofz diz army

lordm:
I can't vote for atiku. I don't just like the guy

Where did you see Atiku there?

tit:
What was your godfather doing for 8 yrs
Importing wives from brazil?

So its his choice of wife dat is paining you...sorry oo

tit:
Who takes this stooge seriously?

See who is talking!!

Edo is already the most stable Economy in the South South

Governor Godwin Obaseki has expressed his administration’s desire to make Edo State the most prosperous economy in the South-South within the next three years.

Besides, Obaseki expressed confidence that in another seven to ten years, he will position the State as the number one economy in the country, a statement by the Chief Press Secretary, Mr. John Mayaki said.

Governor of Edo State, Mr Godwin Obaseki While declaring open a 3-day strategic policy dialogue workshop with the theme: Setting Agenda for the new Administration with Permanent Secretaries in the state civil service as participants as well as political leaders and critical stakeholders in the state, Obaseki said, “15 to 20 years, we want to be the number one investment destination in the continent,’’ adding that to achieve this vision for the state, “first class institutions capable of nurturing transformation policies must be built”.
“We must deliver on infrastructure that is better than what is available in the Federal Capital Territory. We must aim at generating revenues much more than Lagos without putting unbearable tax burden on our people. “We must therefore aim at developing our institutions because in the cause of this workshop, we shall be working on six thematic areas, which are the key pillars of our goal for the state.’

’ He said the workshop would address issues such as how the state would achieve economic revolution that would translate to having a developed world class infrastructure. “How do we ensure that Edo culture which is world class acclaimed is displayed and made available for the world to enjoy our tourism as well as sustain our environment”. The governor noted that in the case of the economy revolution, the thematic group should focus on how the State would establish investment bureaucracy that could begin to attract world class investment.

He added that focus should be on strategic plan that could create minimum of 200,000 jobs as well as many small scale and medium enterprise that was sustainable.

Obaseki further urged other thematic groups on their expectations from the government at the end of their three-day brain storming session, adding that their resolution would be the working document for developing the state.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/edo-will-prosperous-economy-ssouth-three-years-obaseki/

Gov. Ekezie Ikpeazu of Abia has said that if there is any group of people in Nigeria, in need of peace, it is the Igbos, who are found in all parts of the country doing business. Ikpeazu made the remark when he received the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, who paid him a courtesy call.

“If Nigeria is perpetually in trouble, it will not augur well for the Igbos, who are republican and found every where in the country,” the governor said. According to Ikpeazu, Igbos are desperate for peace in Nigeria.
He said the people of the state would continue to support President Muhammadu Buhari in his efforts to move the nation forward.
The governor, who donated two Hilux vehicles to support the army operation in the state, commended the military for degrading and decimating the Boko Haram terrorists in the North East.
He also commended the army for curbing violent crimes in the state, as well as pipeline vandalism. Earlier, Buratai informed the governor of the ongoing “Exercise Python Dance” in the South East, explaining that it was meant to train troops on internal security.
He further explained the exercise in addition to other exercises and operations going on across the nation were aimed ensuring security, safety and peace for the unity of the country to enable the citizenry go about their lawful businesses.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/igbos-desperate-peace-nigeria-gov-ikpeazu/

By Ochereome Nnanna

A FRESHLY-HATCHED baby bedbug was cozy beside its mother between the laces of a mat as they sucked the blood of the owners of the house who were fast asleep. When the sun was up, in order to kill the stubborn bedbugs, the humans took the mat and spread it outside.

As the heat of the sun intensified, the baby bedbug became uncomfortable and cried out to its mother: “Mother, the heat is getting too much. We may soon die”. The mother replied: “My baby, bear it. Whatever is hot will surely cool down. No condition is permanent”. You must have seen this legend plastered on the boards of lorries ( commercial buses, tricycles, commercial motorcycles and even wheel barrows.

This legend is true, not just for bedbugs, but also (more importantly) for us human beings, especially politicians. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the foremost fighter for Nigeria’s independence, was quoted as reminding his townsman, Dr. Ukpabi Asika (the civilian Administrator of the defunct East Central State): “No condition is permanent”, when Asika got fresh and tried to prove to the Great Zik of Africa that his time was past and he (Asika) was now on the centre stage, just after civil war.

I went into this allegory to depict the changing scenario in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, where the hunter has increasingly become the hunted, and the stone that the builder refused has now become, though not yet the head cornerstone, but a hot cake. Remember the drama that starred the newly-elected President Muhammadu Buhari; the then touted “National Leader” of the APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu and the man who grabbed the Presidency of the Senate through rebellion, Dr. Bukola Saraki, at the outset of this regime, precisely on the 9th of June, 2015.

Let me refresh our memories, for those who may have forgotten the details. Buhari Before President Buhari was sworn in, it was time for the stakeholders in the merger that spawned the APC – the All Nigerian People’s Party, ANPP, the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, the Action Congress of Nigeria,ACN, the so-called “new” Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, and the Rochas Okorocha group – to struggle for the spoils of victory over the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. After Buhari assumed power, it was time to share the National Assembly posts. Since Buhari of the CPC had taken up the Presidency and ceded the Vice Presidency to Yemi Osinbajo, who was nominated by Tinubu, the leader of the ACN group, it was expected that the NASS leadership would be primarily set aside for the ANPP and nPDP for equity.

Buhari had openly and wisely committed himself to non-interference in the process of emergence of the leadership of the Federal legislature. He gave some of us reason to believe that he would toe the noble footsteps of his predecessors, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua and Goodluck Jonathan, by allowing the leadership of legislative arm of government a free hand to emerge and operate. But that was not to be. The “National Leader” of the APC, Bola Tinubu, had other ideas. Tinubu, the chief architect of the successful merger, had a dream that the Federal Government that would emerge from the effort would be a two-way partnership between him and Buhari, whereby Buhari would run the government in full consultation with him, while he would run the party in full consultation with Buhari.

The rest of the stakeholders would have to take what they got or leave it, or so it seemed. That was a recipe for disaster, but Tinubu felt he could power it through. Strangely, Buhari went along with the plan. The duo launched a series of vicious attacks on Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu of the PDP. Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, had to run to the PDP to win against Buhari/Tinubu’s candidates.
Realising they could not remove Saraki and Ekweremadu as well as Dogara from within the parliament, they forced Dogara to make expensive concessions, but nothing Saraki could do would suffice except his removal. Thus was born his prosecution at the Code of Conduct Tribunal and the investigations over alleged forgery of Senate rules involving him and Ekweremadu. Meanwhile, Buhari sought to assert his rightful place as the Leader of the APC, which would undercut Tinubu’s partnership idea and his place as the touted National Leader of the Party. In fact, Buhari wanted to convert the APC to his defunct CPC by pushing aside Tinubu using the renegades in his camp while creating fresh alliances. When Tinubu noticed this, he became withdrawn from the activities of the Party. Speculations became rife that he was looking at an alternative to APC, which he has denied. Buhari’s ability to lead the APC to win the Ondo State election without Tinubu illustrates a new boldness in forging ahead as the sole Leader of the party. He has now turned to Saraki to make up in case Tinubu makes good what is being speculated. To illustrate this, Saraki’s main man, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, was recently chosen over Mr. Joe Igbokwe of the Tinubu camp as the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, a post that fell vacant after Tinubu’s man, Lai Mohammed, was appointed Minister of Information. It was a wise decision because Joe Igbokwe is seen as an “attack dog” type of party spokesman compared with Bolaji, who is more likely to bring calm professionalism as the spokesman of a ruling party. Besides, Igbokwe has managed to alienate many of his kinsmen, the Igbo people, and could not be a good marketer of the party in that section of the populace. Saraki, a shrewd politician, simply hunkered down while the siege on him lasted, knowing that in politics, what is hot today will be cool tomorrow. It is a lesson for everybody, especially politicians: No condition is permanent.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/no-condition-is-permanent-2/

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Google normally releases chart with the latest distribution numbers for its different Android builds. And for the month of December,nothing much has changed, Android Nougat (7.0) was found on just .

4% of devices powered by Google's open source OS. A lot of people still seems to be stocked on Android 4 Kitkat, and woe betide that device that defies upgrade.The new numbers for December show a very small 1% decline to 34% for Lollipop. That breaks down to 10.8% for Android 5.0 and 23.2% for Android 5.1%. Combined, the Lollipop build remains the most widely used on Android devices. Second placegoes to Android 6.0 Marshmallow, currently installed in 26.3% of Android devices. Phones and tablets powered by Android 4.4 KitKat (24%), Android 4.1.x, 4.2.x and 4.3 Jelly Bean (12.8%), Android 4.0.3, 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich (1.2%) and Android 2.3.3-2.3.7 Gingerbread (1.2%) are next. The reason KitKat was so long dominant is that Android 5.0 and 5.1 were split into two platform versions because of their differing API levels. So, really, Lollipop remains the "dominant" Android version if we combine the two versions, but Marshmallow is now the single most prevalent version of the platform by individual API level.

Why are you still hanging on Lollipop?

https://ogisosky..com/2016/12/google-normally-releases-chart-with.html?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C1552615391

KingOvoramwen1:
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zero8zero:
Ooni of ife would have the wives of oba of ile-ibinu for a one night stand. oba of ile-ibinu cannot dare the throne of his forefathers.

Truth is mine*

Ogun kee you stupid baaaassstardo

you think my oba is in the same stage with your useless copycat small boy ooni

who even knows his title but evrry one knows the oba of benin

even ur useless worthless moda