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Senate drills Adeosun, Udoma, says 15% implementation of 2017 budget, not acceptable


By Henry Umoru ABUJA-


FOLLOWING what it described as poor implementation and releases so far made out of the N7.4trillion in funding the 2017 budget, the Senate yesterday for well over two hours, drilled the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun and her Budget and National Planning counterpart, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma. Minister Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, and Budget and National Planning Minister, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma The Senators who frowned at the poor implementation of the budget, warned that if not corrected and improved on, it would be very inimical to the fate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the next election, adding that it was unacceptable the release of less than 15% of the N2.177 trillion voted for capital projects in the 2017 budget..

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/10/senate-drills-adeosun-udoma-says-15-implementation-2017-budget-not-acceptable/

Till we hear true stories. By the way how about the kidnapped lecturers?

Nå woo

Create jobs for the masses, kidnappers will die a natural death

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has criticised the slow pace at which the present administration of Muhammadu Buhari is taking to fulfill its promises to Nigerians.
The former president said this in an interview with African Arguments magazine, and stressed that President Buhari had not done enough for Nigerians especially in employment creation for the youth.
”All youth in Nigeria have legitimate reasons to feel frustrated and angry. Buhari has made some announcements. He has tried to keep on going in the area of agribusiness, but not enough. It is not yet enough to prepare the ground for uninhibited growth of the economy, which we need,” Mr. Obasanjo said.
He said the president can do more to empower the youth and advised that if youth empowerment, skill acquisition, youth employment, and education are provided, “the ticking bomb of possible youth explosion out of restiveness and anger will subside.”...

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/244580-obasanjo-mocks-buhari-says-president-slow-fulfilling-electoral-promises.html

No fewer than 150 houses were set ablaze by suspected herdsmen following a misunderstanding between a farmer and a grazer in Amudu village in Giza Development Area, Keana Local Council of Nasarawa State.

The spokesman of the community, Mr. Sidney Shisha, during an interview with The Guardian in Lafia, the state capital, said the crisis started when a farmer, Mr. Uvir Ugbeghar, was accused by a herder of cultivating his farmland on a grazing route.

He said: “Mr. Ugbeghar who is the right owner told the herder that he had been farming on that land and that the place was not a grazing route. But unknown to the farmer, the herder struck him with his stick from behind when he continued making his ridges and he fell down.


“The son of Ugbeghar, who was standing by watching the scenario, reacted by using the Fulani man’s stick to hit him leaving him half dead and ran to the village with his father who was in a coma.

“A day after, the Fulani sent a message to the community threatening to invade.

“About 3:00 p.m., we started hearing sporadic gunshots and everyone fled the village as the Fulani came and burnt down one hundred and fifty houses.

“Nobody was killed because most people had vacated the village except a corps who was burnt in one of the houses.

The Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Kennedy Idrisu, who confirmed the incident in a telephone, said: “The police are aware of the incident.”

Meanwhile, stakeholders in the security sector have called on government to look inwards in tackling the menace, resource control and insecurity in the country.

The experts, who spoke at a security seminar organised by Justice, Development and Peace Commission of St. Peter and Paul Church, Oke-Afa, advocated need for the public and private sector to join hands with the government to address the issue of insecurity in the country.

A security practitioner, Chuks Maha, advised on some security tips to ensure peace and safety in the society. These, according to him, include driving habits, use of call cards, having and keeping a dog, use of CCTV cameras at homes and churches and use of whistle-blowing in the neighbourhood, among others.

He said: “The reason people go into crime is to abridge the gap of feeding, education and housing so that their needs could be met.”

Also, a specialist in legal security, Mr. Chris Nwanike, noted that the use of modern device is very important for security.

He stressed the need to have stun guns, pepper spray for self-defence and protection.

https://m.guardian.ng/news/150-houses-razed-in-nasarawa-over-herdsmen-farmers-clash/

PMB is in London right now , He can go to her house and collect our money.

When an arrogant child lift his Father up.I wonder what will cover the child's eyes

Comedy ymrA

Nasarawa State Government would soon provide security in more than 400 public schools to protect students, teachers and facilities from hoodlums, the state’s Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Tijjani Ahmed has said.

Ahmed made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lafia on Tuesday.

According to him, the government is taking proactive measures to safeguard schools in view of rising rate of kidnapping going on in other states of the federation.

He said conventional security agencies would complement the efforts of members of Nasarawa State Youths Employment Scheme (NAYAS) that would be deployed to public primary and secondary schools.

He added that “NAYAS officials would be deployed to over 400 public secondary schools and primary schools in the state.

“The state government believes that the combined efforts of security provided by Parent Teachers Association, the conventional security agencies and NAYAS should be able to properly secure our schools.”

Ahmed disclosed that the state Governor, Alhaji Tanko Al-Makura, had already approved the erection of parameter fencing in all public schools.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/kidnapping-nasarawa-state-to-deploy-security-operatives-to-public-schools.html

Who prefer killing of human beings or setting material things on fire?

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari must meet with Biafran secessionist leader Nnamdi Kanu before violence between the army and separatists escalates into a full-blown conflict, according to Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Speaking to Newsweek in London, Obasanjo—who served as Nigeria’s first elected head of state from 1999 to 2007—says that the heavy-handed tactics of the Nigerian state against pro-Biafra activists, a secessionist movement that is pushing for an independent state, have not suceeded, and a more conciliatory approach is needed.

“I don’t see anything wrong in that [Buhari meeting with Kanu]. I would not object to that; if anything, I would encourage it,” Obasanjo tells Newsweek.

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“I would want to meet Kanu myself and talk to people like him, people of his age, [and ask:] ‘What are your worries?’ Not only from the southeast but from all parts of Nigeria.”


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Nigeria has witnessed an uptick in pro-Biafra sentiment in recent years, resulting in deadly clashes between the military and secessionists.

Declaring itself an independent republic in southeast Nigeria in 1967, Biafra was reintegrated into Nigeria in 1970 after a three-year civil war in which at least 1 million people died. Obasanjo fought alongside Buhari on the Nigerian side in the war.


Read more: Nigeria’s civil war is not over | Opinion

Kanu, a British-Nigerian dual national, has risen to prominence as the leader of modern pro-Biafra separatists. Kanu was arrested in Nigeria in October 2015 and held for almost two years without going to trial. He was bailed in April but faces trial for charges of treason.

Kanu’s backers accused the Nigerian military of invading his home and killing supporters earlier this week—a charge the military denied.


While Buhari has largely avoided speaking publicly on the Biafra issue, the Nigerian military has come under scrutiny for what right groups say is a heavy-handed response to protests by Kanu’s group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), and other separatists.

Nigerian security forces killed at least 150 pro-Biafra supporters between August 2015 and November 2016—including some in extrajudicial executions, according to a report by Amnesty International.

The number included at least 60 people who were killed at a memorial gathering in May 2016, when security forces raided homes and a church where IPOB members were sleeping. The Nigerian military denied Amnesty International’s allegations and said IPOB members had used “unjustifiable violence” against soldiers.


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Nigerian soldiers were recently deployed to the southeastern state of Abia, where Kanu is currently living. IPOB members alleged that soldiers surrounded Kanu’s home on Sunday and killed several people, but the Nigerian Army said in a statement that IPOB members had blocked the road while army vehicles were on patrol, and had thrown stones at soldiers.

The statement said the soldiers fired in the air to disperse the IPOB members and that no one was killed. The army shared a video which it said supported their account.

Obasanjo says that the army’s “heavy boot” response to pro-Biafra sentiment is “not the solution,” but adds that the secession craved by IPOB is not the way forward either.

The former president, who was also military head of state in Nigeria from 1976–1979, says economic development in the country is the only way to solve the issue. Some Igbo leaders have complained that President Buhari, who hails from northern Nigeria, has prioritized the development of other parts of the country to their detriment.

“We need to satisfy the youth in job creation, in wealth creation, in giving them a better, fulfilled life, in giving them hope for the future,” says Obasanjo. “There’s no easy way out.”

The Biafran war erupted in 1967, after Odumegwu Ojukwu, a Nigerian military officer, declared independence. Biafra was largely populated by the Igbos, a mostly Christian ethnic group; Ojukwu's declaration of independence came on the back of pogroms against Igbos in northern Nigeria, which is dominated by the mostly Muslim Hausa ethnic group.

Nigeria, which had a much larger military force, blockaded the Biafran order, leading to a famine that sparked worldwide condemnation when images and footage of starving Biafran children seeped out to the international media.

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Ethnic tensions have again been boiling over recently in Nigeria, a country of more than 180 million people and hundreds of ethnic groups. A coalition of youth groups ordered Igbos to leave northern Nigeria in June; while the demand was rubbished by the Nigerian government, none of the leaders of the groups were arrested.

Obasanjo, a senior Nigerian commander during the war, says Nigeria must avoid allowing the current tensions to escalate into another conflict. “Those who fought in the war in Biafra will not want to fight any other war," he says. “I have fought one war too many in Nigeria; I don’t want to see another."

https://www.google.no/amp/www.newsweek.com/nigeria-war-biafra-buhari-nnamdi-kanu-665602%3famp=1#ampshare=http://www.newsweek.com/nigeria-war-biafra-buhari-nnamdi-kanu-665602

NIGERIAN ASSOCIATIONS IN DIASPORA ARE CANCELLING PLANNED NIGERIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION IN DENUNCIATION OF NIGERIAN FEDERAL TROOPS BRUTAL ACTIONS IN ABIA STATE.

Good evening and thank you for allowing me into your cyber space once again. Upon careful consideration of the uproar and sad state of affairs with our interests back home; and the consultation with our Cross River State, Edo, and Yoruba brothers and sisters, the Presidents of Igbo Women Association of Central California, Igbo Youth Association of Central California and the Yoruba Society of Central California, I am sorry to inform you that our previously scheduled upcoming event for the 30th of September was cancelled as of Sept. 13th 2017.
At the birth of the initial planning stages of this Independence Day Celebration, many tribes in Nigeria exchanged flagrantly coercing-threats. Unnecessary endemic killings to this magnitude were not going on and it will be beyond insensitive to proceed with the event as planned.
I invite you to join me in denouncing and reproaching the brutal actions of the Federal Troops in Abia State as they unfold in our very own eyes. I also invite you to please think outside the box because as ambivalent as we humanly are, this is just a glimpse of what is yet to come if we fail to demonstrate the Continuity of Government beyond our respective Competing Interests. We must talk to our loved ones back home to understand the urgency of what is at hand now.
May be the time has finally come for us to Inject more meaning into our bi-monthly General Meetings by denouncing hyper partisanships and living large in another man’s land while complaining about our Mother land, then do nothing about it. None but ourselves can free our minds, including the less powerful, less privileged and the underserved but we have to be smart about it. The days of Nzogbu-Nzogbu enyima-enyi are long gone.
In conclusion, I must thank each and every one of you for all the ongoing support, most especially as we deliberated over this Independence Day Celebration. I saw the degrees of difficulties in most of our members’ eyes during the approval process on whether to hold the event or not. Thank you for coming this far with it but at the end of the day, we are stronger together; not minding the tribe, gender, race, age etc. that is what works for the United States. Special appreciation goes to the members of the planning committee and the Presidents of all the formidable Associations we hold dear in the Central Valley for their gift of time and all other significant sacrifices they made to bring every aspect of the event to the conclusive stages more than 30 days before the scheduled date to execute the celebration. That’s outstanding and quite praiseworthy. To all our Pastors that were on schedule and ready to carry out their assigned duties, I thank you. Our Keynote speakers, your efforts have not gone unnoticed; we shall see what the future holds. Please intercede for Nigeria as you kneel and pray. Thank you.
Best,
Oliver Ezenwugo, President, Igbo Association of Central California.

Remove middle belt from this your useless North

Provide them with accommodation at Likki, Aja, Banana. No wonder that young man refer the nation as Zuu.

Emergency propagation group. Expect more groups

FAKE IN ALL RAMIFICATIONS

ipoblogic:
Yes,
We got tears in our eyes.
The cursed nation called Nigeria has once more rolled her tanks against us in our own lands.
We weep over the blood of the innocent she'd for no reason.

However, we are happy for what Buhari and like minded Nigerians are doing.

They are showing the whole world that our land is under siege.
They have made it clear that we don't belong to each other.

Buhariri has crossed the Red Line, and there is no going back on the Match to end tyranny and enthrone freedom.

All who shed innocent blood and all who support them are cursed, even in all their generations.

We send our regards to Buhari for starting the revolution.
We thank all those who support us in this struggle.
Just mark our words, there is no going back.

God bless you all.

Freedom is not given rather you take it

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Aisha Why claimimg Tuface’s donation?

BUSTED

A must see

The Kano State Hisbah Board arrested 1,429 beggars for violating the law banning street begging, between January and August, according to Malam Dahiru Muhammed, an official of the board.

Muhammed, who is specifically attached to the board’s Anti-Begging Unit, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Kano that 420 of those arrested were children, while 1,009 were adults.

He said that the arrests were carried out around Lodge Road, Magwan Junction, Kwari, Katsina Road and Wapa, all in Kano metropolis.

A further breakdown showed that 860 of them were from Kano city, with 551 coming from Jigawa, Kaduna, Katsina and Niger States, while 18 were from Chad Republic.

He said that the board released beggars that were first offenders and those suffering from mental disorder, while others from neighbouring states were taken to their respective local government areas.

Muhammed said that the board had concluded plans to train the beggars on various skills acquisition so as to engage them in productive ventures and keep them off the streets.

https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2017/09/11/1429-beggars-arrested-kano-within-8-months/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

Gov. Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara just returned from Hajj on a chartered Private jet that cost $200k

Fear of The Great Ibadan Summit.

VEHICULAR journeys on federal roads in the South-East states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo have become deadly trap for motorists as virtually all the roads have become impassable. Amansea border town on the Enugu-Onitsha expressway Notable among such roads include the Enugu-Umuahia-Port Harcourt expressway, Onitsha-Owerri road, Enugu-Onitsha expressway, Ninth Mile Corner-Nsukka-Makurdi road as well as Onitsha-Uzo Uwani-Nsukka-Onuiyi-Haven-Ovoko and Enugu Ezike-Umuida-Unadu-Akpanya roads. The Enugu-Onitsha expressway has turned to a nightmare for motorists as the roads have become virtually impassable. Travellers from the north who pass through the Makurdi-Obollo Afor- Ninth Mile Corner-Awka-Onitsha expressway spend over 12 hours for a journey which usually lasts three and a half hours from Makurdi, Benue State to Enugu. Attendant wear and tear Also, motorists travelling to Onitsha through Enugu to Onitsha expressway or vice versa pass through Udi through Achi-Aguata road to come out at Onisha instead of going through Ninth Mile from Awka to Onitsha, which usually takes fewer hours as the roads have failed in several areas. As a result, a journey from Onitsha to Enugu, which ordinarily should take about one and half hours, now takes more than five hours, with the attendant wear and tear on the vehicles. The worst sections of the road are the Umunya-Amawbia axis and the Amansea end on the border with Enugu State. The Ninth Mile Corner to Enugu is another terrible portion even with two by-passes constructed by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State to ease traffic congestion caused by bad roads. The road from Ninth Mile to Makurdi is hellish death traps especially between the Nigerian Brewery junction along Iwollo road to Opi junction at Nsukka. Since the rains became heavy, motorists travelling to Lagos or other South-West states through Onitsha had diverted to the old Onitsha-Enugu road rehabilitated during the administrations of former Governors Peter Obi and Sullivan Chime and the pressure on the rehabilitated road had resulted in potholes and traffic gridlock on the road. Travellers express worry In the past few weeks, travellers had to spend hours at the Amansea junction following the bottleneck created by the two police checkpoints between Mobile Police, Awka and Amansea, sometimes forcing the passengers to trek several kilometres to get to Awka town to join other vehicles to continue their journeys. Sometimes the traffic gridlock would extend to Ugwuoba in Enugu State and Zik Avenue in Awka. Expectedly, the road users have been expressing worry that the ongoing work on the expressway was very slow, noting that the work would have gone far if the contractors were more serious. A commercial bus driver, Mr. Joachim Nnakwue, said it was always a terrible experience driving on the road. He said as a result of the bad road, he does only one trip daily between Enugu and Onitsha, as against three to four trips he was doing when the road was good. Another driver, Mr. Nwachukwu Okeke, said due to the diversion drivers make at Umunya, youths of some villages have been extorting money from them as they usually mount emergency toll gates and force drivers passing through their villages to pay. He said that drivers paid between N300 and N500 before joining the better portion of the expressway at the Awkuzu end of the road. Apart from the Enugu-Onitsha road, the Oba-Okigwe federal highway is also in a deplorable condition as the work there has been going on at snail speed. Enugu-Umuahia-Port Harcourt Expressway Also, although the Federal Government has remobilized contractors to resume work on the busy Enugu-Port Harcourt express way abandoned for many years a succession of previous administrations, it is not yet Uhuru for motorists plying the roads as they still are several very bad areas on the roads to be fixed. The Enugu portion of the road is still dotted with dangerous potholes, some of them located in the middle of the road, making it difficult for motorists to evade or manouvre. Worst areas: However, the worst areas are some stretches at the Abia end of the road. Specifically, the Ofeme axis in Umuahia North council still gives motorists nightmares as they go through a lot of stress on the road, which would likely become a no-go-area for them. In fact, certain portions on one of the lanes of the dual carriage road have been overtaken by weeds but due to a lack of alternatives, motorists still manage to ply it with the attendant tear and wear on their vehicles. It is a common experience to see vehicles break down at these dilapidated portions. But for a standby police patrol team at the Ofeme stretch by the Abia Police Commissioner, Leye Oyebade, many motorists would have fallen victim to armed robbery attacked as the area is always lonely and prone to criminal activities. The contractor handling the Okigwe-Umuahia stretch of the road, Setraco, seemed to have been touched by the ugly plight of motorists plying the road, as they have began to mobilise materials for palliative work on the bad portions before the actual work commence. The Umuahia-Bende-Ohafia road is one death trap that has eluded any solution as all hopes seem to have been lost as nothing is being done either by the federal or the state governments to save the life of the road users in the area. Dangerous gullies Between Igbere and Abiriba axis of the road lie no less than three dangerous gullies, which pose serious dangers to motorists. Arochukwu-Ohafia federal road, from all indications, has remained a curse on the people of the area and the users as nothing is being done to genuinely alleviate the hardship they go through on the road. No vehicle dares ply the road during the raining season. Life is just hell for the people of the area and users of the road. However, the Enugu- Abakaliki-Ogoja highway is a little bit more motorable except at a few spots. It is the same situation in Imo State as the Owerri-Port Harcourt and Owerri-Aba Highway are in a terrible state of disrepair.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/09/motorists-groan-federal-roads-turn-nightmares-igboland/

They just want to feed them poison .

Just empower there parents or guardians and leave the feeding

The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) is a militant group in Nigeria's Niger Delta. The group publicly announced their existence in March 2016.[2]

The NDA have attacked oil producing facilities in the delta, causing the shutdown of oil terminals and a fall in Nigeria's oil production to its lowest level in twenty years.[2] The attacks caused Nigeria to fall behind Angola as Africa's largest oil producer.[3] The reduced oil output has hampered the Nigerian economy and destroyed its budget,[4] since Nigeria depends on the oil industry for nearly all its government revenues.[5]

The NDA's declared aims are to create a sovereign state in the Niger Delta and have threatened to disrupt Nigeria's economy if their aims are not met. The NDA claims its members are "young, educated, well travelled...and educated in east Europe". The group have criticised the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, for having never visited the delta and his detention of the Biafran independence activist Nnamdi Kanu.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_Delta_Avengers