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Ahead of Nigeria's election, opposition weaponises soldier deaths
Paul Carsten


LAGOS (Reuters) - Hundreds of Nigerian soldiers have been killed in recent months by Islamist militants who the president vowed to defeat when voted into power in 2015 - and the bloodshed has become a useful weapon for opponents aiming to topple him in coming elections.

Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has been largely silent about the fighting in the northeast as, in battle after battle, soldiers have died.

On Thursday Buhari’s political opponents disclosed that 44 soldiers had been killed in an attack in the village of Metele, in the northeastern state of Borno, on Sunday.

The move is calculated to undermine the security credentials of the president as he seeks a second term in three months’ time, say politics and security analysts.

Buhari is a former military general and commander-in-chief who came to power promising to defeat the insurgents and whose administration has claimed for years to have beaten Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa (ISWA).

The candidate for the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is Atiku Abubakar, a businessman and former vice president seeking to topple Buhari.

The Senate president, Bukola Saraki, is also PDP and tightly controls the upper house of parliament, which suspended its session on Thursday to honour the fallen after announcing the deaths.

The PDP “are playing politics with conflict,” said Idayat Hassan, director of the Abuja-based Centre for Democracy and Development.

“They know elections can be won or lost based on the issue of security,” she said. “Many people will be very angry. The government has made no statement, they have not confirmed it, so it will be taken as another attempt to deny that the Boko Haram insurgency has not been completely defeated.”

A PDP spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


A Nigerian presidency spokesman said the military would issue a statement. In a statement posted late on Friday on its Facebook page, the army confirmed that troops were attacked in Metele on Sunday.

“Several social media, print and online publications have been brandishing false casualty figures,” it said in the statement, without disclosing the number of those killed or injured.

“FAILING STRATEGY”
Attacks by Boko Haram in the run-up to the last election in 2015 weakened then-president Goodluck Jonathan and helped Buhari to defeat him at the polls.

The course of the conflict now appears to be turning in favour of Islamist militants fighting fatigued, ill-equipped troops.

The attack in Metele was carried out by ISWA and killed around 100 Nigerian soldiers, four security sources told Reuters on Thursday.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, and others in northeast Nigeria in recent days.

“This is a legitimate campaign issue,” said Matthew Page, an associate fellow with Chatham House’s Africa Programme.

“The military strategy in the northeast has been failing,” he said. “This type of failure to exert control over the national territory isn’t sustainable in the long run. It reflects really poorly on the incumbent president with the man on the street.”

In the past, news of heavy military defeats has trickled out from anonymous sources and was only carried by a minority of domestic media. With the Senate’s and Abubakar’s public announcement, details of the Sunday attack have been made widely known.

“It’s been hugely carried by the media today, and that is definitely helping the opposition,” said Kabir Adamu, managing director of intelligence and security risk management firm Beacon Consulting.

“We haven’t seen a statement from the Nigerian government.”

Reporting by Paul Carsten in Lagos; Additional reporting by Alexis Akwagyiram in Lagos, Camillus Eboh and Felix Onuah in Abuja; Editing by Andrew Roche and Rosalba O'Brien

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NigeriaIsDoomed:
Yoruba muslim pig!

You are mentally unstable. Unhinged.

The crowd is not even up to Ward Councillor crowd. Mtchew. Rabble rouser

‘Jonathan lied’ — ex-ministers angry over ‘twisted’ version of concession call
November 21, 2018


Some ministers who served under former president Goodluck Jonathan have angrily reacted to some of the claims by him in his book, ‘My Transition Hours’, released on Tuesday.

Commenting on his acclaimed concession call to President Muhammadu Buhari while the final results of the 2015 presidential election were yet to be announced, Jonathan said he rebuffed advice from ministers and an aide not to concede.

Those he named as having advised him are Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (then minister of finance), Mohammed Bello Adoke (attorney-general), Osita Chidoka (aviation), and Warpamowei Dudafa (senior special assistant on domestic affairs).

Jonathan wrote: “They were recommending sundry alternatives, but I was quiet in the midst of their discussions. I hugged my thought, figuring out how to do that which was best for the country. My personal interest was receding rapidly and the interest of Nigeria looming large.

“I excused myself and left the sitting room. I walked into my study. Even there, my mantra was a strong circle around me, supporting and comforting me. Let the country survive. Let democracy survive. My political ambition is not worth people being ‘soaked in blood.”

However, a former minister, who spoke with TheCable, has described Jonathan’s version of the events as a “big lie”.

“Let him enjoy the euphoria of his book launch first, but those he has defamed will surely respond in due course,” the former minister said, adding that Jonathan, by his latest claims, may finally demystify himself over the concession speech “which had elevated his status internationally”.

Another former minster who spoke with the TheCable but also refused to be identified described Jonathan’s version of events as “most unfair and petty”.

“The impression the former president is trying to create is that the people came to tell him not to concede. In truth, Jonathan was being persuaded by a former south-south governor not to concede, so some ministers were quickly invited to come and counter the plot,” the former minister said.

“What would Okonjo-Iweala, Adoke and Chidoka be doing at the villa at that time if not that something was going wrong? Is Jonathan trying to say he was not involved in Elder Godsday Orubebe’s attempt to disrupt the announcement of the results? Is Jonathan trying to claim innocence of a plot to secure a court injunction to stop INEC from further announcing the results? Jonathan needs to be a man of honour.”

Here are the other versions of the concession story as narrated in books by Okonjo-Iweala, who was a witness; Olusegun Adeniyi, celebrated journalist and author; and Bolaji Abdullahi, former minister of sport.

OKONJO-IWEALA’S VERSION

Okonjo-Iweala said she whispered to Jonathan to concede

Okonjo-Iweala wrote that when she got to the villa on March 31, she found a group of politicians urging Jonathan not to accept defeat and another group asking him to throw in the towel.

“At the Villa, I was met outside the residence by Osita Chidoka, who collected my input for the (concession) speech and told me the president was in the residence. When I entered the Villa, the president was in one of the living rooms with the Vice President, some advisers, and a group of politicians who were arguing passionately about the conduct of the elections and irregularities of which they said they had evidence, such as videos of underage voting in certain parts of the country.

“They were urging the president not to concede the election. More politicians came in and joined them. On the opposite side of the room were the Minister of Aviation Osita Chidoka; the Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke; and the Minister of Agriculture, Akinwunmi Adesina. They were relaying a dissenting view, arguing that the president should concede.

“I was immediately drawn into the argument as everyone turned to hear my views. I said I thought the president should concede and do so before the announcement of the vote count was completed. The Special Assistant to the President on Domestic Affairs, Dr. Dudafa Waripamo-Owei, a politician, whom I expected to side with the politicians, also said he sided with those who thought the president should concede.

“A heated argument ensued. Throughout the discussion, the president said not a word. He kept his own counsel and just kept welcoming guests and party loyalists who were joining us at the Villa.

“I sat next to the president and whispered to him that if he was going to concede, he probably should do so before the announcement of election results ended.

“Suddenly, he got up and left the room. We all thought he had gone off for a few moments of quiet. He returned about twenty minutes later and sat down without saying a word. I decided to take a chance and press him again on a timely concession. As I whispered again for a second time, the president responded to me out loud, “CME (Coordinating Minister of the Economy), it is done. I have called President-elect Buhari and conceded!”

OLUSEGUN ADENIYI’S ACCOUNT

Olusegun Adeniyi authored ‘Against the Run of Play’

Adeniyi, in his book, ‘Against the Run of Play’, said Dudafa knelt and begged Jonathan to concede.

He wrote: “Kneeling in front of Jonathan were his Attorney-General and Justice Minister, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN; Aviation Minister, Mr. Osita Chidoka and Special Assistant to the President on Domestic Affairs, Mr. Waripamo-Owei Dudafa.

“The mission of the three officials was to persuade Jonathan to call and congratulate his opponent, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), even as the final results were still being collated by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

“Seated a few metres away in the room were Vice-President Namadi Sambo; Akwa Ibom Governor, Mr. Godswill Akpabio; Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission, Mr. John Kennedy Opara and the Co-ordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

“Chidoka had co-opted Adoke and Dudafa to make the plea after a conversation he had with Jonathan the previous day. The President had acknowledged that the results were going against him and that he was going to concede.

“This was at a period when Nigerians were unsure who would win, with many politicians within the ruling People’s Democratic Party still betting on Jonathan. He, meanwhile, had asked Chidoka and a few others, including his spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati, to give him a draft concession speech.”

BOLAJI ABDULLAHI’S ACCOUNT

Abdullahi wrote ‘On a Platter of Gold’

Abdullahi wrote more comprehensively on the concession in ‘On a Platter of Gold’.

He said Jonathan had told Chidoka earlier in the day that he was gong to accept defeat, but things began to change quickly.

He wrote: “By the time he returned later that day, the sombre atmosphere at the Presidential Villa had become somewhat charged. The president’s media adviser, Reuben Abati had also brought a draft speech. He was asked to go and work with Akinwumi Adesina, the Minister of Agriculture, to reconcile the two speeches. Several other people had also arrived, and now sat around the presidential living room like a delegation of mourners, each trying his best to surpass the other in a show of grief .Among them was the Vice President, Namadi Sambo and the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio.

“Jonathan had by now given indication of his plan to accept defeat. What they probably did not realise, however, was that by asking him not to concede, they were presenting him with a dilemma. He had roundly promised the country a credible election. And if there was one legacy he would like to leave behind in office, it would be that he conducted the most credible election in the nation’s history. Therefore, to contend that the election has been anything but credible was to rob himself the chance to leave even this imprint on history. The alternative of course was for him to simply accept defeat and walk away.

“In the battle for the president’s mind, Chidoka could see that he was hopelessly outnumbered. Many had even started to accuse him openly of working for the former Minister of Federal Capital Territory and APC Governorship candidate in Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai. Having taken in the atmosphere, the Aviation Minister quickly summoned two other people he knew could exert significant influence on the President: the Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke; and the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. They soon arrived.

“A usually sedate President Jonathan, who appeared like he did not care only a while ago, was now fuming. He ranted about how the election was rigged. How children were used to vote. How Jega had compromised and betrayed his trust. Okonjo-Iweala, whose words normally carried weight with the President, was pleading with him, but he was not listening.

“Abati returned with an updated draft of the speech, which he had started by having the president congratulate the winner, Muhammadu Buhari. But the president said, no, he was not going to congratulate Buhari because he wasn’t convinced that he had won the election fair and square. Chidoka turned to Jonathan and asked, ‘Sir, but are you still going to give the address?’

“President Jonathan said he was going to give the address, but he was not going to congratulate anyone. He would only appeal to Nigerians to remain calm and await the announcement of the final results. It was obvious that the ‘rejecters’ had made an impact and were having the upper hand. And, sensing that they were winning, they pressed their advantage. They reminded President Jonathan of what Buhari was capable of doing to him,and argued that even if he was going to concede, the terms had to be negotiated.Vice President Sambo wanted Jonathan to wait until the full results were announced before he made a statement. Even then, he thought the statement should not be to congratulate Buhari but to say that the president had kept his promise to conduct the elections but the party would meet to review the results and then decide whether to accept the outcome or reject it. Some others argued that even if he must concede, the Peace Committee should be brought in to negotiate some kind of softlanding not only for him, but also his associates. No one gives away power so cheaply, they insisted.

“Okonjo-Iweala and Adoke however countered that if the president issued a statement conceding defeat as he had planned to do even before the final results were announced, he would be snatching a major victory out of the jaws of defeat.

“Sir, why don’t you even call General Buhari to congratulate him?” No one could recall who first made this suggestion. But this was a major tipping point that every one of the ‘persuaders’ would be happy to claim. They all agreed that if the President called Buhari to congratulate him, that would settle the matter and turn him to an instant hero, even in defeat. “You have lost the mortal game, this is the chance to claim immortality,” one of them.

“One person who had been listening to all the arguments but contributing very little was Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, the President’s long term aide. His only previous contribution to the debate was when he said to the president, “Daddy, no matter what, we are leaving here May 29.” He knew President Jonathan more than most. He knew that if all these people pressuring him to reject the outcome of the election had known him half as well, they would have realised the catastrophic implication of what they were advocating and would have known that this man did not have the stomach for carnage and blood. Dudafa knew that when President Jonathan said his ambition was not worth the blood of any Nigerian, he meant it. He also knew what the president meant when he once said, that he was no Nebuchadnezzar. Therefore, the moment the idea of a phone call to General Buhari was mentioned, he started working with some other domestic aides to get Buhari on the phone. He soon got through.

“Your Excellency, sir. Hope I’m speaking with General Buhari, sir. President Goodluck Jonathan would like to speak with you, sir,” Dudafa said to the phone and handed it over to President Jonathan.”


https://www.thecable.ng/jonathan-lied-ex-ministers-angry-over-twisted-version-of-concession-call

orisa37:
1999 Constitution, Buhari should hate no Nigerians

That means he is upholding the constitution.

Iblad0994:
God bless you OP. I was having this conversation with a friend of mine yesterday about the people terming Buhari a tyrant and a dictator, and I was making comparison with Obasanjo.

Obasanjo is someone that committed the most attrocities against Nigeria, he is an embodiment of all wrong things and he ruled fiercely like a tyrant. From sacking senate presidents, assasinating unloyal people, massacring the common man, brutal corruption, even third term agenda to mention a few.

Yet, this same Obasanjo keep writing letters and always picturing himself as a messiah. Although, Buhari might not be perfect but he is nothing compared to a tyrant if weighed side by side with Obasanjo.

God bless you too.

Shibaraba:
Normally i dont do politics...
Maybe ive been brainwashed

Just maybe

But the man up there doesn't look like buhari...at all

You mean he is Jubril from Sudan??

She will be like: So all of you ganged up to remove my husband abi?
There is gordu o.

Youngbbt:
dasuki and El zaky say HI

Freedom denied: Supreme Court rules that Dasuki’s continued detention is in order
By Staff Writer

Published on March 2, 2018

The Supreme Court on Friday denied an appeal by former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, challenging his continued detention by the Department of State Services (DSS).

Dasuki asked the court to suspend his trial until the government releases him.



However the Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous judgement read by Justice Ejembi Eko, that the appeal lacks merit.

The court said even though the former NSA had been granted bail by both the Federal High Court and the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory before which he is standing trials on separate charges, those bails had nothing to do with his detention by the DSS because it is the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) that is prosecuting him.

It further said the bails granted Dasuki pertaining his EFCC charges have been obeyed, having been implemented by the Controller of Prison Kuje on December 29, 2015.

The court affirmed the judgment of the Court of Appeal, which earlier upheld the FCT High Court, where it said the EFCC was not liable for the detention of Dasuki by DSS.

http://www.thescoopng.com/2018/03/02/dasuki-supreme-court/

Youngbbt:
dasuki and El zaky say HI

Court Denies El-Zakzaky Bail

Published November 8, 2018

Leadership

By ISAIAH BENJAMIN Kaduna

A High Court in Kaduna State yesterday turned down the bail application of the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife.

The court headed by Justice Gideon Kurada rejected the bail application on the ground that there are enough doctors around to take care of the health of the accused persons should the need arise.

The state prosecutor, Dari Bayero, disclosed this to journalists after court proceedings. Journalists were not allowed to cover the proceedings.

Bayero said the court consequently adjourned the case to 22 January, 2019 for “speedy trial” of the suspects.

Sheikh El-Zakzaky and his wife had earlier pleaded not guilty to the five-count charge read to them.



Counsel to the accused persons, Haruna Magashi, told journalists that the defense counsel will study the court’s judgment on bail application for their clients and determine the next course of action.

Reacting to the refusal of the court to grant the Sheikh bail, president, Media Forum of the Islamic Movement, Ibrahim Musa, said the forum was disappointed with the court’s decision.

He said the judge should have considered El-Zakzaky’s failing health and not doing so shows that the government is not ready to listen to well-meaning Nigerians and the international community that the sheikh should be set free as ordered by a Federal High Court.



“Therefore, we will keep on with our protests in Abuja and other cities insha Allah”, he noted.

As usual, Sheikh El-Zakzaky and his wife, Malama Zeenah Ibrahim, were brought to court early in the morning amidst tight security, while major routes leading to the court were all barricaded with vehicular and other forms of movement restricted.

The Islamic leader and his wife are to remain in custody till the next adjourned date.

https://leadership.ng/2018/11/08/court-denies-el-zakzaky-bail/

How Venezuela's crisis developed and drove out millions of people
22 August 2018

Venezuela's economy is in freefall. Hyperinflation, power cuts, and food and medicine shortages are driving millions of Venezuelans out of the country. Many are blaming President Nicolás Maduro and his government for the dire state the nation is in. Here, BBC News takes a closer look at how Venezuela's economy descended into its current crisis.

What's wrong with Venezuela?
Arguably the biggest problem facing Venezuelans in their day-to-day lives is hyperinflation. The annual inflation rate reached 83,000% in July, according to a recent study by the opposition-controlled National Assembly.

Prices have been doubling every 26 days on average. This has resulted in many Venezuelans struggling to afford basic items such as food and toiletries.

With small items like a cup of coffee costing a whopping 2.5m bolivars until recently, it also became increasingly difficult to pay for goods in cash.

Until the currency's redenomination on 20 August, Venezuelans needed 25 of their highest denomination notes - the 100,000 bolivar bill - to pay for their caffeine fix.


The pile of bolivars needed to buy a roll of toilet paper is taller than the roll itself
See more photos of how many bolivars are needed to buy everyday items
To avoid going shopping with rucksacks full of cash, Venezuelans increasingly started using electronic transfers for even the smallest transactions.

As the BBC's South American correspondent found in Caracas, waiters handed customers their bank details trusting that the latter would transfer them the tip electronically.


How did hyperinflation come about?
On the most basic level, there are more people wanting to purchase goods than the number of goods available.

Venezuela is rich in oil, and has the largest proven reserves in the world. But arguably it's this exact wealth that underpins many of its economic problems.

Because it has so much oil, Venezuela has never bothered to produce much else. It sells oil to other countries, and with the dollars it earns, imports the goods Venezuelans want and need from abroad.

Its oil revenues account for about 95% of its export earnings. But when the oil price plummeted in 2014, Venezuela was faced with a shortfall of foreign currency.

This in turn made it difficult to import goods at the same level as before, and imported items became scarcer.

The result: businesses increased prices and inflation rose.

Add to that the government's willingness to print extra money and regularly hike the minimum wage in an effort to regain popularity with Venezuela's poor, and you get money which loses its worth rapidly.

The government is also increasingly struggling to get credit after it defaulted on some of its government bonds.

With creditors less likely to take the risk of investing in Venezuela, the government has again taken to printing more money, further undermining its value and stoking inflation.

What's the government doing about it?
The government lopped five zeros off the old "strong bolivar" currency on 20 August and gave it a new name - the "sovereign bolivar".

It also began circulating eight new banknotes worth 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 sovereign bolivars and two new coins.

The new currency is part of an "economic package" of measures which the government says is the "magic formula" to help Venezuela's battered economy recover.

Among the measures are:

Raising the minimum wage to 34 times its previous level from 1 September
Anchoring the sovereign bolivar to the petro, a virtual currency the government says is linked to Venezuela's oil reserves
Curbing Venezuela's generous fuel subsidies for those not in possession of a "Fatherland ID"
Raising VAT by 4% to 16%

How are people reacting?
Many people have been voting with their feet and leaving Venezuela. According to United Nations figures, 2.3 million Venezuelans have left the country since 2014 when the economic crisis started to bite.

The majority have crossed into neighbouring Colombia, from where some move on to Ecuador, Peru and Chile. Others have gone south to Brazil.

Venezuela has also seen more than 200,000 of its citizens emigrate to Spain. Many of them are the children of Spaniards who came to Venezuela in the 1950s and 60s, when it was seen as a place of opportunity.

The mass migration is one of the largest forced displacement in the western hemisphere.


What faces those staying in Venezuela?
While the new currency is likely to make cash transactions easier for a while, its introduction caused confusion. Some Venezuelans managed to get hold of the new bills, but others reported long queues when banks opened.

Some economists have also warned that the new currency could soon face the same problems as the old one unless the root causes of hyperinflation are tackled.

They say that within months its worth could be decimated by rising prices.

Employers have also said that they do not know how they will pay for the 34-fold rise in the minimum wage.

Meanwhile, shoppers still face empty shelves in supermarkets, and in some cities there have been water shortages and power cuts caused by a lack of investment in Venezuela's crumbling infrastructure.

Residents of Maracaibo, Venezuela's second largest city, have been resorting to candles as power outages last for hours
But while the power cuts and lack of running water are a problem for households and businesses, they have proven deadly in Venezuela's already run-down public hospitals.

Many of those fleeing the country say they are doing so because they cannot get the operations and medical care they need.


Pregnant women are crossing the border to give birth and mothers go to health centres in Colombia to get their babies vaccinated.

'My baby would have died if I had stayed in Venezuela'
Those who cannot leave often spend days and weeks searching for the medication they need. With food increasingly scarce, child malnutrition levels are at a record high.

Who do people blame?
Some of the problems go back a long time, but since the socialist government has been in power since 1999, first under President Hugo Chávez and more recently fronted by President Nicolás Maduro, many Venezuelans blame these two men for what is happening.

NaijaRoyalty:
Then why is he Inflicting Nigerians with poverty and hopelessness?

Buhari is the symbol of poverty , everything he touches dies

He is not inflicting poverty on Nigeria. What you have before now is a situation whereby Nigeria sells oil, the money stolen by few individuals, the rest is used in buying food items and other consumable from other countries. Everything was being imported including tomatoes, toothpick, rice and at some point GARRI. That is no economy. A rent seeking economy whereby those who stole from Govt, use the money to build houses, throw parties and buy more foreign goods. With the fall in the price of oil, Nigeria was doomed to fail.
Buhari rescued the situation and minimise the effect of the fall in oil price.

Countries like Venezuela, that has a similar economic situation like Nigeria are not so lucky.

Nigeria heading for doom if it fails to address lack of integrity – Justice Salami

By Romoke W. Ahmad, Ilorin

Published Date Nov 20, 2018.

Former president, Nigeria’s Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, has called on government and individuals to promote culture of dignity of labour and integrity, saying Nigerians’ sense of integrity was gradually being eroded from professionalism.

Speaking at the national conference and annual general meeting of the Committee of Heads of Internal Audit Departments/Units in Nigerian Universities (CHIADINU) at Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete on Tuesday, Justice Salami emphasized that Nigeria was at a threshold of monumental disaster if drastic measures were not taken to “avoid the holocaust” that corruption could bring.

He said the country is heading for doom if it fails in its continued fight against corruption and corrupt people.

“One’s job and integrity are inseparable and should not be separated because the moment professionalism is compromised, it (the profession) becomes in most cases, ineffective.


“May I ask which of the professions is being practised in Nigeria with due integrity? Certainly, there’s none. I want to say, at the risk of repetition but for the purpose of emphasis, that Nigeria is heading for doom if it fails to drastically deal with the chronic disease of lack of integrity in the practice of the professions. To my mind, all are practised with impunity and damning consequences.

“All virtues such courage, truthfulness, dutifulness, hard work, brilliance, skilfulness, productivity, and competence are universal principles anywhere all over the world.

“In the same vein, their opposites such as stealing, idleness, falsehood, laziness, betrayal of trust, smart practices, incompetence and recklessness stand condemnable anywhere in the world. Nigeria cannot be an exception.

“I appeal to you to value your names as you do your jobs more than anything else, and consider what history, not what people, would say about you before taking any action.

“Do not be carried away by the fact that our system is porous and so your misdemeanour may not be easily or readily uncovered. Remember that a day would come when what is hidden will be unearthed”, Justice Salami said.

Also speaking on the topic: “Fight Against Corruption – The role of Internal Auditors, the Auditor General for the Federation, Anthony Ayine, said corruption is a major governance challenge in Nigeria.

Ayine, who said that corruption, a global phenomenon, was becoming endemic in Nigeria, added that an estimated $2.6 trillion was stolen through corruption every year- a sum equivalent to more than five percent of the Global Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to the United Nations.

“The effects of corruption to the socioeconomic and political system of the country and the attendant poverty and misery it imposes on the citizenry have been so depressing over the years. This prompted establishment of institutions like the ICPC, EFCC, Code of Conduct Bureau, Bureau of Public Procurement and others.

“It is however, my strong belief that if the audit function had been operating efficiently and effectively there would not have been for all these additional anti-corruption agencies”, he said.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/nigeria-heading-for-doom-if-it-fails-to-address-lack-of-integrity-justice-salami.html

Buhari loves even those who hate him

By Sharon Faliya Cham

Published Date Nov 19, 2018


In 1999, not long after Obasanjo became President, the “Christian community” of Odi in Bayelsa State murdered some Mobile Policemen sent there on a peacekeeping mission. But President Olusegun Obasanjo, a Christian, didn’t waste time in ordering heavily armed soldiers to go there and wipe off that “Christian community” in vengeance for the murdered Mobile Policemen!

Some six or seven years later, another “Christian community” called Zaki Biam in Benue State murdered some soldiers sent there on another peacekeeping mission. The murder was so gruesome that they cut off the heads of some of the soldiers and stuck them on the tips of their spears, and then danced round the community with them in a primitive manner as if we were in the Africa of 1326 AD!


Well, President Olusegun Obasanjo didn’t also waste time in sending heavily armed soldiers to this “Christian community” to wipe off the community in vengeance for the gruesome murder of those gallant soldiers!

Well! Well! Well! But what do we have today under Muslim President Muhammadu Buhari?


An Army General on a trip from Abuja to Bauchi was ambushed and murdered by a very primitive community also claiming to be a “Christian community” in Jos, Plateau State, after which they dumped his car in a deep water pond, and then buried his corpse in a shallow grave from which they removed it and dumped it in a well after it dawned on them that the shallow grave has been discovered by military intelligence!

Looking at the history of the Nigerian Army, and, indeed, all armies across the world, do you think the Army was not itching to avenge their murdered General by invading that community, and then wipe off any living thing they could see?

The only thing that made the difference here is the kind of Commander in Chief the Nigerian military currently has in power. While an impulsive and disruptive Commander in Chief like Obasanjo would never ever waste time in avenging his murdered General by wiping off everybody within the area of the murder, a cool headed, rational and compassionate Commander in Chief like Buhari will calculate the factor of innocent people and other collateral damages within the area of the murder, and then order the military or the Army in particular to exercise restraint and allow the natural course of justice to take place!

Ladies and gentlemen, this is why today, under President Buhari, instead of the Dura Du community to have been wiped off (by now) by angry soldiers over the gruesome murder of their General, we merely have the terrorists or murderers of the General hiring 120 lawyers to defend them in court!

Yes, 120 lawyers! That should tell you that those primitive murderers are being backed by certain powerful persons and groups who have up till now not condemned the gruesome murder of that General. Not even a word of condemnation or commiseration was heard from ex – senior military officers of those people, and neither have we heard any from their Paramount traditional ruler! Only Governor Simon Lalong and the leadership of COCIN Church were left moving around, visiting families of the murdered General as well as visiting the Defence headquarters and the President to apologise and calm frayed nerves!



Now, if President Buhari were an ethno-religious bigot the way some corrupt, bigoted hate-preaching pastors would want you to believe, the fact that the murdered General was a Muslim would have gingered or propelled him to wink at the Army to invade that community and have it wiped off the way Obasanjo did to Odi and Zaki Biam, or the way Goodluck Ebele Jonathan had Bama town in Borno State incinerated in 2012 on the fiction that people in the town killed some soldiers sent there to fight “Boko Haram”!

Something tells me that the people of Odi and Zaki Biam are currently envious of the Berom people of Dura Du who killed a whole Army General and still got the privilege of having their community intact till date plus the awesome privilege of 120 lawyers to defend their killer squad that murdered the General. But as we all know, both Odi and Zaki Biam communities never had the privilege of hiring 120 lawyers to defend their own killer squads unlike their Berom brethren who both have this privilege and the other privilege of even addressing press conferences to attack and question the Army’s search of the General they ambushed and murdered in their bloodied community! This can only happen under a very thoughtful, compassionate and patient President and Commander in Chief!

Yet, this is the same President that bigots and vain people in Nigeria who have not hidden their love and admiration for all the rogues that plundered and ruined Nigeria love to label as a tyrant or dictator, which leaves you wondering whether the words ‘tyrant’ and ‘dictator’ have acquired different meanings from the meanings of the despots and rogues who ruled and ruined Nigeria from 1999 to 2015, or are we to blame the rottenness of education, morality and religious values that took center stage during those 16 years of plunder and debauchery for this penchant of calling white black and black white?

Either hate him or love him, one thing has been made manifestly clear in the last few years that President Buhari has shown great love, care and compassion to those who unduly hate him, even to those who spent their worthless hours praying and wishing him death on behalf of those who see Nigeria as a big cake that should simply be sliced, shared and eaten in Dubai or in Switzerland or in Panama or in any part of the world that didn’t have the misfortune of being ruled and ruined by the PDP!



Cham sent this piece from Abuja.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/buhari-loves-even-those-who-hate-him.html


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9wpBwAc2qU

This is the early sign for the groom. This wife will do only what the Pastor says and not what the husband wants.
The woman in question is better off marrying a Pastor.

May we never marry another man's wife.

Price of rice remains stable in Enugu

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

The prices of both local and foreign rice have remained stable in major markets in Enugu metropolis,newsmen report.

A market survey conducted by newsmen on Saturday revealed that prices of both local and foreign rice had neither increased nor reduced when compared to what their prices were some months ago.

Newsmen report that price of 50kg of foreign rice sells between N18,000 and N18,500 depending on the brand, while 25kg sells at N8,000 and N9,000. Delta approves N312m for students assistance

The price of a 50kg bag of local rice goes for between N11,000 and N12,000, while the 25kg cost between N5,800 and N6,000. Some rice dealers, who spoke to newsmen attributed the stable price to availability of both the local and imported rice in the market.

Mr Osundu Ibe, a rice seller at Ogbete said that the price of rice had not increased since March, adding that different types of local rice were available, thereby making the price to be stable. Ibe said that the sales of local rice had been on the increase due to its affordability when compared to foreign rice. According to him, a cup of local rice stands between N70 and N80, compared to the price of foreign rice that goes for between N100 and N120. He said that the five-litre paint bucket of the local rice, usually the standard measure for cereals in South East goes for N1, 200, while foreign one is sold for N1, 700.

Mr Mathew Okwuosa, another rice dealer at Akwata Market said the reason for the steady price of rice in major markets was due to persistent increase in domestic rice production. Okwuosa noted that the ban on foreign rice by the Federal Government had shifted the attention of many buyers to local rice. According to him, the belief is that the foreign rice would be more expensive, thereby lowering its sales and stabilising the price. NAN

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/11/price-of-rice-remains-stable-in-enugu/

Underestimate Buhari in any part of Northern Nigeria at your own peril. The man is very popular expecially among the Talakawas.
Sai Buhari till 2019
92 Days to election day when all doubts will be cleared

Atiku is Igbo last hope. What a tribe!

brexit:
Peter Obi where are your legacies?

Obi - tuary is a fraud with a legacy of lies.

So Peter Obi built no Permanent NYSC faciltity in his 8 years of Governorship in Anambra state? The only thing the bigot knows how to do and do well is fraud, lies and divisive type of politics.

Every sane person can see through LiePOB lies and bullshit. The youtube account of the user who posted the video has been closed.

Wailers must be sad

@MYnd44, do the needful.

dheilaw1:
you can never see those lazy idiots here, of cus this is a bad news for them.....

They are currently hunting for bad news for their Obi, while Atikulooting

life2017:
Front page. For those who have been making a lot of noise of how foreign investors abandon Nigeria because of Buhari policies, this will prove them completely wrong

@Lalasticlala
@Gavelslam

Foreign investors raise stake in NSE as FPI rises 133% in 2 months

ON NOVEMBER 12, 2018

By Nkiruka Nnorom

DESPITE the heightened political tension in the country ahead of the 2019 general election and increasing yield in the United States of America, which have necessitated sell-off in the Nigerian stock market in the last few months, foreign investors seem to be raising their stake in the equity market as foreign portfolio investment, FPI, which has been wobbling since the beginning of year, has started an upward move.

Analysis of monthly domestic and foreign portfolio participation in the equity market for September 2018 showed that total FPI in the market rose by 133.15 percent in two months to September, 2018 to N83.33 billion from N36.17 billion in July.


Nigerian Stock Exchange ASUU strike comprehensive, indefinite – President After recording a steep decline of 67.1 percent in July, the highest this year, foreign investors raised their stake in August with their participation increasing by 96.2 percent.

The FPI again rose by 18.82 percent in August, bringing the total commitment by foreign investors to N155.3 billion within the two month period. The total FPI accounted for 64.77 percent of the total transactions in the in the market and outperformed domestic investors by 29.54 percent in during the period.

On the other hand, total domestic transaction dipped by 27.03 percent to N45.87 billion from N62.87 billion in August. Analysts opine that the development followed a hike in the U.S Fed Reserve from 1.75 percent in May 2018 to 2.00 percent in June 2018.

They observed that the increase in foreign portfolio investment implied that while some foreign portfolio investors were leaving emerging markets all over the world, including Nigeria, for the U.S. economy to take advantage of higher yields, many others considered Nigeria for investment within the period under review.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/11/foreign-investors-raise-stake-in-nse-as-fpi-rises-133-in-2-months/

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