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Residents of Maiduguri, the Borno
State Capital are currently in deep
fear over the latest threat by the
dreaded Boko Haram terrorists that, it
would attack selected areas within
the state capital.
A security source had revealed that
one of the main areas of target as
disclosed by the dreaded sect was the
University of Maiduguri, Saturday
Punch had reported.
The sect have equally warned
residents of Maiduguri to be ready for
its renewed attacks on the city, since
they now celebrate with security
agencies each time there is a slip in
their(Boko Haram) campaign.
The source further hinted that the
insurgents also want residents to
avoid Federal Roads in the city such
as, the busy Maiduguri-Damaturu-
Bauchi Road and the Maiduguri,
Damboa-Biu-Gombe Road, as the
sect have threatened to launch heavy
attacks on highways.
It was further revealed that all the
threats were issued via a letter
obtained from the dreaded sect.
The source said, “For now, the city
looks calm but there is so much
tension. We just thank God that
another attack has not taken place
after the one that took place last
month.
“But Maiduguri is tense now because
Boko Haram is threatening to attack
selected places in the city.
“They wrote saying that they would
attack the University of Maiduguri;
they also warned people to stay away
from Federal highways such as the
Borno-Yobe highway and the
Maiduguri-Biu highway. Both you
know, are major highways.
“Already, they have launched an
attack on motorists slaughtering
several of them along the Maiduguri-
Biu Road. I don’t have the exact
number of those killed in the attack.
http://dailypost.com.ng/2013/12/14/boko-haram-threatens-attack-university-maiduguri/

Seun: There are many such comments on President Goodluck Jonathan's Facebook Page. Social media is much harder to control than mass media.

EXACTLY!

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The bride is Beautiful

Akpangbon: Off course you must always pick holes in anything he utters.

OK. Thank U.

The President, Goodluck Jonathan,
has challenged Nigerians to live an
exemplary life just like late pioneer
chairman of the Peoples Democratic
Party, Solomon Lar.
Mr. Jonathan spoke on Friday at the
funeral service of Mr. Lar, held at the
Rwang Pam Township Stadium in
Jos.
“Late Lar was our mentor, he was
loved by all. If we had people like
him, Nigeria would have been a
better country,” the president said.
“We are not mourning our great
leader, but we are celebrating him.
We are all pleased by his
achievements.”
Some of the dignitaries at the event
were the Senate president, David
Mark; PDP national chairman,
Bamanga Tukur, former head of state,
Yakubu Gowon; and Governors of
Plateau, Nasarawa, Bauchi and Akwa
Ibom States: Jonah Jang, Tanko
Almakura, Isa Yuguda and Godswill
Akpabio; as well as the acting
governor of Taraba State, Kumar
Garba.
Others were the Speaker House of
Representative, Aminu Tambuwal;
national committee chairman of the
funeral committee, Jerry Gana;
former Minister of Defense,
Theophilus Danjuma; and former
deputy senate president, Ibrahim
Mantu.
Ministers in attendance included
Labaran Maku (Information); Abba
Moro (Interior), Bala Mohammed
(FCT) while the Senate President,
David Mark and the Deputy Speaker,
House of Representatives, Emeka
Ihedioha also graced the occasion.
In his address, Mr. Jang said Mr. Lar
was a symbol of national unity.
Security was tight around the venue
and other parts of Jos metropolis.
Security personnel were deployed to
strategic junctions, while vehicular
movement was diverted to other
areas considered less busy.
The spokesperson of the Plateau
Police Command, Felicia Anselm,
while commenting on the security
arrangement, declared that adequate
measures were put in place to avoid
any hitch.
“We have left nothing to chance; we
have enough men on ground and the
situation is fully under control,’’ she
said.
Mr. Lar, a former Plateau Governor,
died in the U.S. on October 9 at 85.
http://premiumtimesng.com/news/151422-jonathan-gowon-others-attend-lars-funeral-jos.html

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A 24-year old armed robbery suspect,
Mr. Tajudeen Onifara has revealed the
secret behind his success in the
underworld for nine years during
which he robbed many people of their
money and other possessions.
He confessed to the police that he
was dutifully paying his tithe to his
church, Christ Living Ministry, Lagos
Island, as commanded in the Bible
after every successful robbery
operation in Lagos, western Nigeria.
Onifara was arrested in a hotel with
his girlfriend by men of the anti-
robbery squad of the state police
command after nine years of robbing
people.
The father of two said he paid his
tithe regularly because he believed
that as a Christian God always bless
a faithful tither.
He disclosed that after every
successful operation, he would
remove 10 percent of the money he
stole from people and pay as tithe to
church.
Onifara attributed his success in
crime for nine years to the fact that he
paid his tithe regularly as
commanded by God in Malachi
chapter 3 verse 10 and 11. The
verses, he said, mandated Christians
to give 10 percent of their earnings as
tithe to the church.
He said he started stealing at the age
of 15 and specialised in robbing
customers of banks with locally made
cut-to-size pistol before he graduated
to a big time armed robber.
He said his major breakthrough in the
underworld occurred when he robbed
a woman who withdrew N2m from a
bank in Lagos.
He said she was about entering her
car when he accosted her and pointed
a toy gun at her. The woman quickly
surrendered the money to him.
“I pretended as if I wanted to assist
her. She did not know that I was an
armed robber and when we got to
where she parked her car, I pointed a
gun at her and she quietly handed the
money to me. After snatching the
money I escaped on a bike with my
friend,” he stated.
He disclosed that he used part of the
money to buy a sophisticated
weapon after removing his tithe.
On what he did with all the money he
stole over the years, he explained that
he used the money to enrol his
children in one of the best schools in
Lagos and opened a supermarket at
Idumagbo on Lagos Island.
He added that he used a substantial
part of the money to take care of
himself and his girlfriends.
On how he was arrested, he said he
was having fun with his girlfriend in
Ibadan at a popular hotel when SARS
men arrested him.
When asked how he felt now that he
was arrested, he replied: “I know that
robbery is a serious and risky
‘business’ that can cut short one’s
life. If I am given another chance, I
will abandon it and engage in a
legitimate business.”
Police sources said Onifara who is
now in custody at SARS will soon be
charged to court.
http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/12/13/armed-robbers-confession-i-paid-tithe-after-every-operation/

The Nigeria Immigration Service
(NIS) said it arrested 24 illegal
immigrants at Tamaje village in
Sabon-Birni Local Government Area
of Sokoto State.
The NIS Comptroller in Sokoto, Mr
Yunusa Aliyu, made this known when
he presented the suspects to
newsmen in Sokoto on Friday.
Aliyu said the immigrants entered the
country from Niger Republic without
valid travel documents.
He said the suspects were arrested
on Thursday when they were
travelling to Warri, Port Harcourt, and
Onitsha.
``All the 24 suspects, all males of
varying ages, were from different
parts of the neigbhouring Niger
Republic and they were travelling
without any valid travel documents.
``The existing international protocol
does not prohibit the citizens of other
countries from entering other
countries, but it must be done with
valid travel documents,’’ he said.
Aliyu said the suspects would be
repatriated to their country on Friday,
adding that four others with valid
documents had been released.
``Forty three other suspects escaped
from the four buses they were
travelling when they were intercepted
by our officers.
``The Nigerian drivers of the four
buses, which had been impounded by
the service, would also be prosecuted
for aiding and abetting illegal
immigrants,’’ Aliyu said.
The comptroller, who decried the
porosity of Nigeria’s borders,
promised that the NIS would continue
to be diligent in the discharge of its
duties.
``The carrot and stick reward system
is also still in force in the service, to
reward hard work and punish
indolence,’’ Aliyu said.
http://leadership.ng/news/131213/nis-arrests-24-illegal-immigrants-sokoto

And the saga continues.....

funshint: Bro I go sue U̶̲̥̅̊ for plagiarism; U̶̲̥̅̊ just copy my post without acknowledgement. Anyway nothing do U̶̲̥̅̊...

Cheers! Hopefully, we'll get it right someday. There's hope for the future!

[quote author=Sunny_bobo]WAKE UP BRO! There is Endemic Corruption in the land.

BREAKING: Jonathan Replies
Obasanjo, Says Letter Self-Serving,
Provocative
https://www.nairaland.com/1552238/breaking-jonathan-replies-obasanjo-says

Akpangbon: Just say you havent finished your post at the time i made my comment, because the story was blank at the time i made my comment.

Sorry, I didn't know. I hereby withdraw my comment. Cheers!

Akpangbon: u well so?

LAME QUESTION BY A KID!

Just within a space of 3 days, OBJ, Tambuwal and Sanusi have all indicted the President of Massive Looting and Unabated Corruption.
Moreover, these 3 men are in the same political party (PDP) with Jonathan and not Opposition parties.

Angry Jonathan replies Obasanjo, says letter self-serving, provocative

President Goodluck Jonathan has dismissed as “most reckless” and “unjustifiable” a fiercely scathing letter he received from former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in which Mr. Obasanjo accused him of lying, condoning corruption, and leading Nigeria to the brink of collapse.

A statement by the president’s aide, Reuben Abati, said the allegations by the former president were “baseless and indecorous.”

The statement said Mr. Jonathan has directed his aides not to respond to the barrage of attacks and allegations from Mr. Obasanjo, listed in an 18-page letter exclusively published by PREMIUM TIMES.

Mr. Jonathan will personally respond to the charges at the “appropriate time”, the statement said.

“While many patriotic, objective and well-meaning Nigerians have already condemned the leaked letter as self-serving, hypocritical, malicious, indecent, and very disrespectful of the highest office in the land, President Jonathan has directed that none of his aides or any government official should join issues with Chief Obasanjo over it,” Mr. Abati said.

“The president himself will, at the appropriate time, offer a full personal response to the most reckless, baseless, unjustifiable and indecorous charges levelled against him and his administration by the former Head of State.”

In the highly acerbic letter, Mr. Obasanjo laid out a series of allegations against Mr. Jonathan, accusing him of corruption and ineptitude.
Mr. Obasanjo lamented that Mr. Jonathan had become terribly divisive and clannish, destroying his own party, polarizing the country along regional and religious lines and ridiculing Nigeria in the comity of nations.

He blamed Mr. Jonathan for the crises tearing the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, apart, and accused him of lacking in personal integrity by consistently lying about his ambition for a new term of office.

Mr. Obasanjo also tackled Mr. Jonathan for allegedly being clannish. “For you to allow yourself to be “possessed”, so to say, to the exclusion of most of the rest of Nigerians as an “Ijaw man” is a mistake that should never have been allowed to happen. Yes, you have to be born in one part of Nigeria to be Nigerian if not naturalized but the Nigerian President must be above ethnic factionalism. And those who prop you up as of, and for ‘Ijaw nation’ are not your friends genuinely, not friends of Nigeria nor friends of ‘Ijaw nation’ they tout about.

“To allow or tacitly encourage people of ‘Ijaw nation’ to throw insults on other Nigerians from other parts of the country and threaten fire and brimstone to protect your interest as an Ijaw man is myopic and your not openly quieting them is even more unfortunate.”

The former president also accused Mr. Jonathan of placing over 1000 Nigerians on political watch list and “training snipers and other armed personnel secretly and clandestinely acquiring weapons to match for political purposes like Abacha and training them where Abacha trained his killers”.

The former President also called on the National Assembly to rise up and take decisive action over the allegation that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation failed to remit billions of dollars in proceed of crude oil sales to the federation account.

“This allegation will not fly away by non-action, cover-up, denial or bribing possible investigators,” Mr. Obasanjo told the President. “Please deal with this allegation transparently and let the truth be known.”

The Senate on Wednesday ordered an investigation. The senate committee on finance is to probe the allegation and make its findings known in seven days.

The presidency did not respond to any of the issues specifically beyond dismissing them as “provocative and unjustifiable.”
Mr. Abati said President Jonathan will respond personally. But the statement criticised the leakage of the letter to the media.
“We however find it highly unbecoming, mischievous and provocative that a letter written by a former Head of State and respected elder statesman to President Jonathan has been deliberately leaked to the mass media in a deplorable effort to impugn the integrity of the president and denigrate his commitment to giving Nigeria the best possible leadership,” the statement said.

Read the statement by the president’s spokesperson, Reuben Abati, below.

OBASANJO’S LETTER UNBECOMING, SELF-SERVING AND HIGHLY PROVOCATIVE

We have noted the publication on several websites today of a letter recently written by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

The Presidency acknowledges that it has indeed received the said letter from Chief Obasanjo.

We however find it highly unbecoming, mischievous and provocative that a letter written by a former Head of State and respected elder statesman to President Jonathan has been deliberately leaked to the mass media in a deplorable effort to impugn the integrity of the President and denigrate his commitment to giving Nigeria the best possible leadership.

While many patriotic, objective and well-meaning Nigerians have already condemned the leaked letter as self-serving, hypocritical, malicious, indecent, and very disrespectful of the highest office in the land, President Jonathan has directed that none of his aides or any government official should join issues with Chief Obasanjo over it.

The President himself will, at the appropriate time, offer a full personal response to the most reckless, baseless, unjustifiable and indecorous charges levied against him and his administration by the former Head of State.

Reuben Abati
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)
December 11, 2013

http://premiumtimesng.com/news/151332-angry-jonathan-replies-obasanjo-says-letter-self-serving-provocative.html

I hope U're for real. hopefully, testimonies here will prove me wrong. It's well with you.

Princess2be: From the statement, It's obvious Abati has nothing meaningful to say. In other words, Jonathan is GUILTY!

OK

21) BBC took 140 crew to cover
Mandela memorial - despite
receiving 1,000 complaints about
'excessive' coverage
22) US President Barack Obama
stole the show with his heartfelt
tribute to Nelson Mandela
23) The most surreal image of the
day involved David Cameron, Obama and Danish premier Helle Thorning-Schmidt posing for a 'selfie' photograph
24) Mandela's widow Graca Machel was warmly received by the crowd

17) Graca Machel, pictured with US
President Barack Obama, was given a warm reception at the memorial
18) The two women in Mandela's life, Winnie (left) and Graca (right), sat three seats apart
19) The U2 lead singer dressed in black for the service which he attended with his wife Ali Hewson, left
20) Naomi Campbell flew in for the
service

Mayor_of_Lagos: You did a very nice job of collating the album in order with the events. Thanks.

I'm delighted. Thank You.