The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has rejected contact by the National Dialogue Advisory Committee soliciting its understanding and support for the proposed National Conference.

In a statement today, the group passed a vote of no-confidence on the National Dialogue idea, and identified the committee’s contact man as Tony Uranta, who it said described rejection from a South-South body like MEND as an embarrassment to the presidency.

“Ironically, this solicitation is coming from the same man who has been campaigning repeatedly that MEND seized to exist after the Niger Delta Amnesty fraud,” the statement said.

It noted that its skepticism and suspicion of the so-called National Dialogue may also have to do with the antecedents and lack of integrity of Mr Tony Uranta himself.

“Some hours after we took responsibility for our symbolic October 01, 2010 twin car bomb blasts in Abuja, Mr Tony Uranta sent a text message to Mr Henry Okah, asking him to reach out to me (Jomo Gbomo) to retract our earlier claim of responsibility “as the government of Goodluck Jonathan wants to put the blame on some Northern elements” (specifically, former head of state and 2011 presidential aspirant, General Ibrahim Babangida and Mallam Nasir el Rufai, were the targets for the blame).”

According to the statement, it was in anticipation that MEND was contacted by Mr Henry Okah, that President Goodluck Jonathan confidently came on national television that night to absolve MEND from the attack.

It would be recalled that immediately after the blasts, as MEND claimed responsibility for them, Mr. Jonathan declared, instead, that it was the work of terrorists, and not MEND, which he said was not a terrorist group.

“It is erroneous to think that my people who have been agitating for good living will deliberately blow up the opportunity they have now,” he said.

In its statement today, MEND also recalled that Mr. Uranta was also involved in collecting $50.000 bribe on behalf of the Save Nigeria Group which led to an embarrassing scandal at the time.



“The same people who managed to hoodwink an entire nation into believing that over 30,000 men and women in the Niger Delta, now requiring an annual training/rehabilitation budget of over 30Billion Naira, took up arms. How can the government correlate its display of less than three thousand weapons (most of which were donated by the military for the disarmament show), with more than thirty thousand (30) so-called repentant militants. Were the rest fighting with sticks?”



It noted that millions of hard working Nigerians remain unemployed, the country’s education system is going down the drain with strikes, and the country is getting increasingly full of educated derelicts while the government shares out billions of Naira monthly on miscreants, criminals and con men who claim to have been freedom fighters.



“This scam was designed by people in government such as Timi Alaibe who created ghost fighters with the connivance of those at the highest level,” it said.



The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) hereby passes a vote of no-confidence

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people are dying and evryone is silent about it. in some years to come you will hear about THE GENOCIDE IN NIGERIA THAT NO ONE EVER TALKED ABOUT. THIS WILL BE THE CAPTION ON ALJAZEERA AND CNN AND THE REST OF THEM

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Nonso23: ... that pilot must be good
flying at an angle in order to balance thrust and load whilst eliminating drag and still retaining straight path flight when navigation requires it also pressuring 2nd engine just right to prevent its turbine from gassing out and manipulating the spoilers enough to make turns during flight and even during landing!!!!

And this is an ordinary passenger plane not a jet bomber!!

NA GOD DEY SAVE PERSON OOO

You must have a good knowledge in flight for you to have known the finesse exhibited by this exceptional pilot. This would have been another tragedy.

A recent report on Twitter revealed that Nigerian bloggers, social media consumers and users are not using the social media positively. The report further stated that the social media has also been hijacked by political gladiators and their cronies who have " painstakingly" exploited the social media for ethnic and political gains which have brought nothing but more hatred and disunity amongs Nigerians.

This platform is the most respected, and widely involved platform by nigerians in Nigeria and beyond cos Nigerians who can not vent their anger physically on any Government it deems as not doing what it is supposed to do do it on social platforms such as Nairaland, Twitter etc.
Administrators and owners of this platform and other platforms that are popularly used by nigerians should be adviced accordingly.

Barely four years after the Niger State Government dislodged an Islamic sect, Darrusalam from Bokani in the state, another Islamic sect called 'Kalo Kato' are now in Uregi-Kongoma and Kwana- Mariga of Rafi local government area of the state.

It was gathered that the members of the sect were mostly foreigners from Niger Republic but were invited by an Islamic scholar in Pandogeri in Rhe local government area.

It was also gathered that the teachings of the sect is different from the conventional and established Islamic teachings based on the Quran and Hadith.

The members who sources said, came to the area few days before the Ramadan do not believe in the Hadith but only what is contained in the holy Quran.

In order not cause apprehension among the people, the secretary of Kalgara Emirate council, Abdullahi Bala Kagara said, last week the emirate invited the leaders of the sect to a meetıng with the security agencies.

He said the emirate had sent learned Islamic scholars and leaders to clarify issues with the sect members on their mode of preaching in order not to cause any breach of security.

Accordıng to hım, "We are monitoring them and we have also brought this to the notice of all the security agencies. We have identified the leader of the sect as Abdulkadir Suwaba who has been residing in Pandogeri area of the emirate for years".
Source: http://m.naij.com/news/43794.html

Barely four years after the Niger State Government dislodged an Islamic sect, Darrusalam from Bokani in the state, another Islamic sect called 'Kalo Kato' are now in Uregi-Kongoma and Kwana- Mariga of Rafi local government area of the state.

It was gathered that the members of the sect were mostly foreigners from Niger Republic but were invited by an Islamic scholar in Pandogeri in Rhe local government area.

It was also gathered that the teachings of the sect is different from the conventional and established Islamic teachings based on the Quran and Hadith.

The members who sources said, came to the area few days before the Ramadan do not believe in the Hadith but only what is contained in the holy Quran.

In order not cause apprehension among the people, the secretary of Kalgara Emirate council, Abdullahi Bala Kagara said, last week the emirate invited the leaders of the sect to a meetıng with the security agencies.

He said the emirate had sent learned Islamic scholars and leaders to clarify issues with the sect members on their mode of preaching in order not to cause any breach of security.

Accordıng to hım, "We are monitoring them and we have also brought this to the notice of all the security agencies. We have identified the leader of the sect as Abdulkadir Suwaba who has been residing in Pandogeri area of the emirate for years".

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