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Chelsea failed to secure a win over Liverpool in Frank Lampard second match of the season. See all the goals and highlights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOX4ogWWMA8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOX4ogWWMA8

Full highlights & goals

That's the Nigerian factor at work. Even under Buhari's nose there is corrupt.

drips8:
Real Madrid is nothing without Ronaldo

hmmmm

Abfinest007:
i smell sack for zidane i don know why he came back

The beginning of the end! abe?

It may be another trophy-less season for Madrid

Real Madrid vs Tottenham 0-1 Highlight & All Goals 2019 as Real Madrid Lost again as they prepare for next season.

Even with Eden Hazard in Real Madrid. They continue to fall to their face.

I think Zinadine Zindane should eat his humble pie and call Bale back to the squad.



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After a through analysis by our team of experts. Here is the best goal of AFCON 2019. Its a must watch. Lets see what is you comment if you think otherwise.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65jiXauNUfs

This guy na scam! could this be the best goal ing AFCON 2019?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65jiXauNUfs

Use the data in your phone to do something meaningful



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Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has said that the failure of President Muhammad Buhari to find solution to the problems of herdsmen has wiped away the positive achievements of his administration. The playwright insisted that the carelessness and negligence of the Buhari’s administration has led to the death of many Nigerians. Soyinka stated this at his residence in Ijegba, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, Ogun state capital while playing a host to 85 pupils drawn from all the six-geopolitical zones of the country to mark his 85 birthday.

The Nobel laureate during an interactive session at his private Amphitheatre, while responding to the pupils questions on sundry issues , said, “look at what is happening today, how is it possible for me to say for instance that I am pro of this government, it is been negligent, look at what is happening with the cattle all over the place. That is a security issue which should never have reached this level.
“I am sure that carelessness and single act which has resulted in hundreds of people been killed in massacre, in their farms and their farms taken over; it has wiped away a lot of the positive achievements of the government. “It is an issue that is so serious and which concern the welfare of you and me that any carelessness or any failure there is totally unforgivable and unpardonable. “It is not that one like to criticize for the sake of criticizing, NO!, it is just that we believe that there is a minimal level which any government which has been elected to power must achieve to be consider a true representative of the people”.

Vanguard Soyinka further stressed that the problems of the country have overwhelmed the president, adding that the problems cannot be solved by the present government. He also urged the president to call for national dialogue among all the people across party lines so as to engage in partisan government that would benefit the general public. He said “If you agree first of all that, the problems of this nation are completely beyond it, that is the first admission. And we should start thinking in terms of partisan government, it is going to form in my view, a government called across political parties and need to forget their allegiances and really comfort this nation as a habitation of human beings for very serious issue s like economic, health, security, etc.

“The ingredients that threaten succession of government are being experienced every day… and convoke every time a national what I called an indaba across all sections which we all meet and debate everyday including the economy of this nation, I think that is best way to go.

I believe very frankly that the problems of this nation are beyond the solution that can be offered by this government”. While speaking on his opinion about governance in Nigeria, Soyinka said “ governance is a very difficult occupation, Nigeria is a very complex nation for lot of reasons; its history, the background, the formation of it, the complexity, the culture, balancing here and there and then, you have several complications like fuel, among others”. He added, “Politicians that money has gone into their heads, misdirect themselves in terms of priority, they neglect some sections, some of them are nepotistic and some of them alienated themselves from the public which is the people they are supposed to serve and govern and they think they are still colonial masters, especially, when we went through the military period”.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/07/the-central-government-has-failed-soyinka/

Nigeria is jinxed. A daugther of Afernifere leader was murdered before an important match. Same thing happened in the world cup, where the was a mass murder in Plateau State by Fulani herdsmen before Argentina. And we needed only a draw.

The Nation is in a mourning mood. A win in this competition will not wash all the blood spilled in Nigeria.

Nigeria is jinxed. A daugther of Afernifere leader was murdered before an important match. Same thing happened in the world cup, where the was a mass murder in Plateau State by Fulani herdsmen before Argentina. And we needed only a draw.

The Nation is in a mourning mood. A win in this competition will not wash all the blood spilled in Nigeria.

Lalasticalala FP please

An internal circular of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has indicated that the commission transmitted voter information from smart card readers to a central server during the 2019 presidential elections.

The document, which was first posted on social media by Reno Omokri, an opposition PDP operative, on Wednesday afternoon, carried a directive from national secretary of INEC, Rose Oriaran-Anthony, to other senior officials of the commission on challenges recorded in transmitting voter accreditation data to a server.

“The commissioner has observed, with deep concerns, the number of smart card readers (SCRs) that do not have data of accredited voters in the just concluded presidential/NASS elections nationwide,” Ms Oriaran-Anthony said in the March 25 letter to all resident electoral commissioners (RECs) across the country.

The top electoral officer also noted in the memo that 4,786 smart card readers did not have data on accredited voters following the presidential election on February 23, representing about four per cent of the total SCRs deployed for that exercise.

“Attached is the chart, showing the PUs (polling units) not uploaded to the SCR accreditation backend, for each of the states,” Ms Oriaran-Anthony added in the memo.

Ms Oriaran-Anthony then directed all concerned RECs to liaise with their technical and electoral operations officials to clarify why the card readers failed to upload accreditation data on election day. They were given until March 28 to submit their replies.

Festus Okoye, a spokesperson for INEC, declined several attempts by PREMIUM TIMES to get his comments on the internal memo.

The document marks yet another pressure on the electoral body over whether or not it used a central server to collect data from polling units across the country on election day.

The commission has insisted that it was not in possession of any central server for the conduct of the election, saying doing so would have contradicted the Electoral Act. INEC maintained the position despite overwhelming claim to the contrary by some of its presiding officers in the election.

Many of the presiding officers and their subordinates have since sworn affidavit to testify against the commission in favour of Atiku Abubakar, the PDP’s candidate and main challenger to President Muhammadu Buhari, who was declared winner of the election.

PREMIUM TIMES also found last month that INEC budgeted nearly N1.5 billion for server installations ahead of the presidential election.

But the commission told the elections tribunal that it had no server and Mr Abubakar and his team were only being mischievous. A former chairman of INEC, Attahiru Jega, also told PREMIUM TIMES that there was no server during his days at INEC, and expressed doubts about any resent installation of such facilities under Yakubu Mahmood.

Mr Abubakar’s legal team said the opposition leader won the presidential election but was rigged out by INEC officials who allegedly compromised to return Mr Buhari to power.

The elections tribunal denied Mr Abubakar’s request to inspect INEC’s server last month, saying granting such an order would presuppose that the court had ruled that the server actually existed.

sirpharrell:
This is a wishy washy report from ignorant Tribune. So they don't know that the MD and the other two executive director positions, by law, are rotated among Akwa Ibom, Delta, Rivers and Bayelsa states? The other smaller oil producing states are entitled to produce the Chairman of the Board which is rotated in alphabetical order. It is the turn of Bayelsa to produce the next MD. Lazy journalists that will hardly make researches.

Tell them to check properly before posting a report that is capable of causing problem.

24SEVEN:
Let me make it clear that NDDC was set up primarily for core oil producing states ie Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta and Akwa Ibom.

States like Ondo, Edo, Abia, Imo who produce very little or nothing should just be grateful for having their quota on the NDDC board. How can they want to have MD of NDDC.


When you produce about 40,000bpd or less, you want to be the head of other states producing 350,000- 500,000bpd. I'm assuring Oshiomhole and Tinubu that they will vehemently resisted.

This 'winner takes it all' politics that Tinubu and the SW is playing will not take us very far.

One of the things that commonly happens when people become parents is this introspection about how they want to influence the life of their child. We can talk idealistically about the values we want to model and instill, yet we are all tested at one time or another, sometimes seeing a person in the mirror we are not particularly proud of; and then we regroup to start anew. In this article I want to explore how we can parent and raise emotionally confident children, children that can be confident, assertive, respectful, and reflective; not always an easy task, but here are some things to consider in this trek.

#1:
Do – Listen and Accept Feelings Expressed by a Child
Don’t – Ignore or Minimize Those Feelings

Read the following and honestly reflect on how you would respond if this was your child: “I had a music teacher, who took his 4-year-old daughter to an old theatre in Alaska filled with old carvings of warriors. She started crying immediately when she walked in, so he took her outside – and she stopped crying. He took her back in, she started crying again, so he took her outside again. He asked why she was crying, and she said: “That’s where the people with no eyes watch you.” So, how might you respond? On a good day you may be empathic and consoling, acknowledging that the carvings can be scary, and then slowly trying to take the mystery away. On a bad day you may become impatient, dissuading your child from being a “cry-baby” and encouraging them to “get with the program.” The “good day” response gives credence and affirmation for these feelings while also trying to encourage more openness to different perspectives while testing assumptions and beliefs.

#2:
Do – Provide Consistency in Rules/Expectations
Don’t – Change the Rules For Your Convenience

Children learn respect and confidence in being able to follow rules and “get them right”; they learn arbitrariness and uncertainty when rules are changed without their comprehension of whether the change is permanent or temporary, so they end up “getting it wrong” the next time around. Here’s an example, bedtime on a school night is 9 PM, this week you are the “single parent” due to a business trip of your partner. It has been a long day and it is just easier to let them stay up with video games and television than “battling” to get them in bed. Be prepared for tired and grouchy children, seemingly disrespectful in their tiredness and wondering why the rules are back the next morning, and testing the old rules later that evening. Rules are not only ways to teach decorum and responsibility, they are also in place to optimize feelings of success and confidence. There are definitely “exceptions to the rules”, and we need to make those as few as possible with brief explanations of why the rules have changed, and when the old rules will go back into place.

#3:
Do – Respectfully Show a Range of Feelings Towards Spouse/Partner
Don’t – Put Down Your Spouse/Partner in Front of Children

If you never show affection and love to your partner/spouse in front of your child, the child does not develop a barometer for what love is or what it looks like. Demonstrating to your child how people can lovingly and respectfully communicate feelings expands their “emotional vocabulary” and encourages their own assertiveness and confidence in their emotions. If you are always putting your spouse down and rejecting him/her, you create a chronic state of anxiety for your child. We aren’t always “lovey-dovey” and we can express dissatisfaction with someone else in a respectful manner that also models our ability to love/care about someone else while also being hurt or saddened by a behavior.

#4:
Do – Support Independence and Autonomy
Don’t – Over-protect and Instill Your Doubt in Your Children

A natural progression in human development is experimenting with independence and autonomy; our children begin this experimentation from birth, with escalation as they become mobile and explore the world around them. Conceptualize these periods as “experiments” and recognize that your child will learn from the ups and downs; they will learn confidence, diligence, success, managing failures, trust [in themselves and you], and come to learn “if there is a will there is a way.” Over-protecting or communicating our doubt in their ability to be successful undermines what we hope they can become as human beings – self-sufficient, independent, resourceful and successful. Under our watchful eye and guidance they can manage these experiments with great success.

#5:
Do – Encourage Problem-Solving and Responsibility
Don’t – woe you children for failing when learning new skills.

As we look back on our own lives we can probably take note of the mistakes we’ve made and clearly articulate what we learned from those, and if we have used those mistakes wisely we made better choices the next time around. This is reflective learning, taking responsibility for what we’ve done and internalizing what we learned from that experience. As parents it is sometimes difficult to hold ourselves back from “stopping” our children from making a mistake that we know will be hurtful [not studying for an exam, continuing to date a particular girl/boyfriend, playing hooky from their job, etc.]; we don’t want to see our children hurt, period. We do have a responsibility to guide, offer counsel and instill consequences; however, as our children get older they find ways to do what they want, under the developmentally expected belief that “it won’t happen to me.” When things do go bad rescuing our children and “making things right” removes the opportunity for reflective learning; as your child moves on unscathed from this experience he/she may never learn to navigate the bumps in the road created by their decisions and actions. Taking responsibility for their decisions and working through the outcomes instills confidence, insight, and understanding.

North is Land of bandits, hunger and poverty because Northern leaders refused to help their youths, shame on Northern leaders

TRUE FEDERALISM NO. RESTRUCTURING NO . COMMUNITY POLICING NO. NORTH, WHAT DO YOU PEOPLE WANT?

Is this a revolution of the very poor against the rich?

Would it be due to lack of good leadership?

What is our country turning into?

As insecurity worsens across the country, the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, yesterday, accused the Federal Government of not showing enough political will to address the situation in the North, saying it has been turned to a land of bandits. Suspected kidnappers of Channels TV reporter as paraded by police in Abuja. Addressing newsmen in Zaria, Kaduna State, Chairman of NEF, Prof Ango Abdullahi said the group demands “for decisive, comprehensive and fundamental governmental action against poverty, underdevelopment and insecurity.

” Similarly, some indigenes of Jukun ethnic group in Taraba State have cried out over the rising spate of secret killings and kidnapping taking place in the southern part of the state. This came as the Police headquarters said that in continuation of its onslaught against bandits and kidnappers on the Abuja-Kaduna highway (Operation Puff Adder), its operatives during the week gunned down nine notorious criminals terrorizing travellers on the road.

Also, the Nigerian Air Force said its Air Task Force, ATF, for Operation Diran Mikiya destroyed some logistics stores belonging to the bandits at a location within Kagara Forest in Zamfara State on Saturday. Land of bandits NEF’s Prof Abdullahi, at the briefing said: “Today, the North still lives under horrendous Boko Haram threats, a situation which has been aggravated by threats of banditry, kidnappings, armed robbery, marauding youth gangs, herders and farmers mini-wars, and seemingly overwhelmed or indifferent governments. Large swathes of territory in our region are now effectively bandit land. “We are alarmed and our members saddened by the recent cataclysmic collapse of security, and the sanguinary and indeed colossal threat to life and property in many parts of Nigeria but more seriously in the North. “We cannot in good conscience remain silent as criminal activities and blood-letting escalate in Nigeria and our region.

We have sadly lived with unfortunate violence in the last few years but this should not continue or escalate. “It will be irresponsible for us to refrain from calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to decisively respond to the existential threats faced by Northern Nigerians in particular during these times and beyond. NEF as a matter of social responsibility and tradition, would never shy away from speaking truth to power, irrespective of the partisan, sectional or whatever constellation of political power in the nation. “It will be recalled that we strongly engaged President Goodluck Jonathan on the need to address the Boko Haram insurgency and even proffered solutions as far back as 2012. All our efforts seemed to have been vitiated by a weak political will and monumental political corruption.

“Agriculture, our pride and national economic comparative advantage, the greatest employer of labour and leading contributor to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product is in ruins as animal husbandry, and crops and roots farming are in the throes of war and damage. “Our rural folk live in perpetual fear of attacks from sundry terrorist assailants without any reprieve. Our major highways and transportation systems are being abandoned as they have become death traps. We see in all these the cumulative effect of a region whose economy and people, especially the youth have been abandoned. A dangerous youth bulge is indeed a recipe for crime, violence and wars. We understand that poverty and underdevelopment can create a brutish and violent society.

“Should the Nigerian people continue to run and hide from criminals under an administration that has enjoyed and received support from especially Northern Nigerians that it can address their existential and developmental challenges? We expect the administration to address all the short, medium and long term challenges of security and development in a manner that minimal security and good livelihoods can be assured and sustained.

“Are these things rocket science? We believe not. What we believe is that given the political will and commitment, Nigeria has the human resources and ideas to address these challenges. Are the challenges those of under-funding the policing and security apparatuses, or is it a challenge of problem analysis or policy failure? Governments world-wide are expected to handle these matters as a primary responsibility. “We demand that President Buhari should demonstrate higher levels of concern and sensitivity to the plight of traumatized citizens in the country, especially in the states of Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna, Benue, Niger, Plateau, Taraba and virtually the entire North.

“We demand for decisive, comprehensive and fundamental governmental action against poverty, underdevelopment and insecurity. Above all, we demand that President Buhari shows leadership and compassion which are the reciprocal expectations of the Nigerian people from their President.” Indigenes cry out over secret killings, kidnapping in Taraba Meanwhile, some indigenes of Jukun, who addressed newsmen yesterday in Lagos, through the National President of Jukun Development Association, Bako Benjamin said over 148 Junkuns have been abducted from their houses and scores killed in the last few weeks by unknown gunmen. Bako said the situation in Takum communities in Southern Taraba was far worse than what is happening in Zamfara State. He said:

“In the past, people get kidnapped from their cars, if they are travelling in flashy cars. But today, because people now avoid the roads, the kidnappers now go to people’s houses to kidnap them and demand for ransom. Sometimes, even after ransom is paid, they still kill them. “As we speak, one Alhaji Mayo who runs some filling stations in Takum, was removed from his house, taken to the bush and they used his phones to call his family and demanded for N200 million. They negotiated and after selling a lot of his property, they managed to raise N105 million which they collected.

“As if that was not enough, they told the wife to drive all the man’s cars to a location. They took all the cars and drove them away. Just on Saturday, the younger brother called and said they have been impoverished. The man is still with them in the bush, in captivity.” He listed other people abducted from their homes in recent times to include one lawyer, Yagura Lena who is still being held after ransom was paid, one Joy Ubadene who is still in captivity and a member of the state assembly, Osia Aiyegbe, who was killed after ransom was paid. “We are in deep trouble; far worse from what is happening in Zamfara. Our people no longer travel home while those at home have started leaving to join their families in Lagos. Except something is done urgently, the Jukun communities in Taraba would become extinct.

“When the military came to Taraba, they targeted Jukun homes and our youths, moved into their homes and removed cutlasses, axes and other things the people could have used to defend themselves. At the same time, the Fulanis were attacking us. When we complained, they sent our boys to go back to their houses while some of them were taken to Abuja.

” Also speaking during the conference, human rights lawyer, Femi Falana said that it was regrettable and unfortunate that government had failed in its responsibility of protecting the lives of citizens across the country. Kidnappers of Channels TV reporter arrested in Abuja The Police headquarters said acting on intelligence report, on April 9, 2019 about 6:30a.m., its men arrested three notorious persons involved in the kidnap of Channels Television’s staff, Mr. Friday Okeregbe. A statement by Frank Mba, Force Public Relations Officer, FPRO, named the suspects as Hanniel Patrick, 29years from Akwa Ibom State, Abdulwahab Isah, 28 years and Salisu Mohammed, 32 years, both from Kogi State, and they have made useful statement to the Police. It said investigation revealed that Okeregbe was not originally the intended target of the vicious criminals, adding “the Police have also recovered from the kidnappers a locally made revolver, three live AK-47 ammunition, a battle axe, phones and masks with which they blindfold their victims. Effort is being intensified to arrest other members of the gang still at large.

” Police kill 9 criminals on Kaduna-Abuja highway The FPRO continuing added: “The unrelenting efforts to root-out criminal elements terrorizing commuters along Abuja-Kaduna expressway recorded additional successes on April 10, 2019, with the recovery of six AK-47 rifles, one pump-action gun, 1,206 rounds of AK-47 ammunition, seven magazines, 28 cartridges and 158 expended shells by Police operatives attached to Operation Puff Adder deployed to the area.
“The recovery followed a serious exchange of gunfire between police operatives and a heavily armed notorious criminal gang at the Akilbu Forest, off Abuja-Kaduna Expressway, which resulted in the death of nine members of the gang while two escaped with gunshot wounds. “One of the police operatives however, sustained gunshot wounds and is presently receiving treatment in a hospital. Effort is being intensified to arrest the fleeing members of the gang.

“While expressing satisfaction with the successes recorded so far in the fight against kidnapping and other heinous crimes across the Country, Acting Inspector-General Police, Mohammed Adamu reiterates his call for support by the public to the Police and other sister agencies, as he gives the assurance that the war against armed bandits will soon be won.
” NAF destroys bandits’ logistics store in Zamfara Air Force spokesman, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, speaking on the contribution of the Nigerian Air Force in the fight against bandits and other rogue elements, said: “The operation was executed on April 13, 2019, following credible intelligence reports indicating that some of the armed bandits who had fled their camps as a result of NAF’s earlier air strikes had relocated some logistics items, including fuel, motorcycles and local arms making equipment, to another location within Kagara Forest.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/04/north-now-land-of-bandits-says-northern-elders-forum/

By Ikechukwu Amaechi
LESS than 48 hours from now, Nigerians will elect a new president. There is, understandably, both excitement and anxiety in the air. Whichever way the election goes, its outcome will be consequential.
I am as excited as I was four years ago. This time in 2015, I had concluded that President Goodluck Jonathan was not fit for purpose and supported the then candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari. Today, I have also concluded just as I did four years ago that President Buhari is not fit for purpose and I am determined to ensure that as Jonathan was sent back to Otuoke, he is sent back to Daura. There are two groups of Nigerians opposed to Buhari’s re-election. The first are those who ab-initio never saw anything good in him; never believed in his capacity and who perceived him as a dyed-in-the-wool dictator and irredeemable ethnic jingoist. Such people are not disappointed at the unravelling of the Buhari presidency and the sentiment is more of: “But we told you.” The second are those who believed that Buhari was actually a democracy-convert as claimed, who had purged himself of unbridled nepotism and could actually provide the leadership Nigeria sorely needed, despite his antecedents. I belong to this group. Economic policies I had just left secondary school when Buhari shot himself to power on December 31, 1983. At the time his colleagues dislodged him from his high perch on August 27, 1985, I was in the higher institution. So, I knew firsthand what he did in the 20 months he was in office as a maximum military ruler. His regime’s warped economic policies, particularly the curb on imports led to job losses and business closures. I witnessed the disingenuous introduction of a new currency supposedly to tackle corruption and the consequence. Prices rose, living standards fell, and Nigerians were queuing up for essential commodities. I witnessed the retroactive application of a law under Buhari’s watch leading to the public execution of three young Nigerians convicted of drug peddling, a crime that did not carry a death penalty at the time it was committed. But I believed him when he said he was a changed person. I convinced myself that he would put together a formidable team and provide the disciplined leadership that was sorely lacking in the preceding administration. At 72, I reasoned that Buhari must have purged himself of every vestige of ultra-ethnic agenda, having fully come of age. How wrong I was. Some Nigerians are of the view that in spite of everything, President Buhari will be re-elected. In arriving at this conclusion, they deploy illogical reasoning and hackneyed permutations, ignoring the fact that unlike in 2015, Saturday’s election is a referendum on the Buhari presidency. Try as hard as APC is doing to put Jonathan on the ballot, truth is, he is not and cannot be. Besides, the conditions that made the 2015 Buhari victory a fait accompli have changed dramatically. In 2015, Jonathan’s candidature united the North behind Buhari. The support from the South West became an icing on his victory cake. But even at that, Buhari won the presidential election with only 2.57 million votes, scoring 15,424,921 votes (53.95 percent) of the 28,587,564 total valid votes cast against Jonathan’s 12,853,162 (44.96 percent). In 2015, Buhari received 2.4 million South West votes, with a plurality of 600,000 over Jonathan. Even in Lagos, with all the noise and the fabled Bola Tinubu factor, APC prevailed with only 160,000 votes. In 2015, Jonathan ran on his records and failed because Nigerians didn’t think much of the scorecard he presented and Buhari ran on promises, propaganda and lies. Now, that paradigm has shifted. After four years in office, Buhari will run this election not on promises, innuendoes and propaganda but on the record of his achievements in office. The simple but important question that will agitate the minds of discerning, albeit ordinary, Nigerians as they cast their ballot on Saturday is: Am I better off today than I was four years ago? Buhari lost the South East and South-South zones in 2015 when the crocodiles were not smiling and pythons were not dancing. Things have changed dramatically since then. Today, pythons are busy exhibiting new and fatal dance steps in the South East every year with dire consequences for beleaguered youths of the region. When Buhari won the presidency in 2015, the Shiites were part of the 15,424,921 that made the victory possible. Before the election, Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, led Buhari to visit the leader of the group, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, at his Kaduna lair to seek support. He was obliged. A lot has happened since then. In 2015, the Zaria massacre occurred during which 348 Shiites (some accounts put the number at over 1000) were killed by Nigerian soldiers and buried in mass graves. The dead included three children of Zakzaky. Since then, he has been locked up together with his wife even when the courts have granted them bail. In April 2018, clashes broke out as the Nigeria Police fired teargas at Shiites protesters who were demanding the release of Zakzaky. The clashes left many dead and several others injured. The police detained at least 115 of the protesters. In October 2018, Nigerian military again killed at least 45 peaceful Shiites protesters. Today, el-Rufai, the President’s Man Friday has exacerbated the distrust between Christians of Southern Kaduna and Muslims in the state. Benue, a stronghold of the PDP had no IDP camps before 2015. They voted for Buhari, elected an APC governor. Today, thousands of indigenes live in IDP camps in Makurdi, afraid to go to their ancestral homes that have been taken over and effectively occupied by armed herdsmen. In 2015, the ubiquitous and very powerful college of retired generals that have determined how the political pendulum swung since the first military coup of January 15, 1966 were in Buhari’s column. Today, many of them, including Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida, Theophilus Danjuma, Aliyu Gusau, are not. And some people say it does not matter. Really? In 2015, the all-powerful Lagos-Ibadan wing of the human and civil rights community were behind Buhari. Today, some of them, including Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, have distanced themselves from him In 2015, some of the country’s most prolific and powerful columnists were with Buhari. Today, the likes of Farooq Kperogi, Sonala Olumhense and Dele Momodu have openly rebelled against him. In 2015, the international community, particularly the U.S. under President Barack Obama’s watch and Britain with David Cameron as Prime Minister, overtly supported Buhari. I doubt if those countries are still queuing behind him today. In 2015, Buhari contested against Jonathan, a Southern minority Christian with no political base. Today, he is running against one of the most formidable politicians in this dispensation, a man with a solid political base, clout and deep pocket, a Fulani Moslem, from a region – North East – that last held power when Alhaji Tafawa Balewa from Bauchi State was the Prime Minister in the First Republic. In 2015, APC went into the elections as a united, pragmatic and determined party hungry for power, eager to make a resounding political statement against a highly fractious, disorganised and disoriented PDP. Today, the reverse is the case. A strong, rejuvenated and virile PDP is going into Saturday’s election with a highly fractured, hemorrhaging APC where some governors are not in talking terms with the national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole. In 2015, it was the PDP presidential campaign convoys that were stoned, booed and jeered. Today, it is the APC. On Monday, President Buhari nearly took a stone meant for Oshiomhole at a campaign rally in Abeokuta. Yet, some people insist that Buhari still has his fabled 11 million votes locked up somewhere. PDP has been able to dramatically reinvent itself and stage a remarkable comeback, APC cannot because of its inherent contradictions.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/02/the-odds-against-buhari-on-saturday/

Ehen, Ehen

The United States has again reacted to Nigeria’s forthcoming elections. Mr. Michael Pompeo, the United States secretary of state, Saturday said that those who interfere or incite violence in Nigeria’s election would be held accountable.

The general election is barely 6 days, but accusations and counter-accusations have taken spaces provided for all the parties to present their manifestos, plans and likely administrative modus operandi. Recall that the governor of Kaduna state, Malam Nasir El-rufai said in a national television, NTA that any foreigner who interferes in Nigeria’s electoral process would leave in body bags.

A statement which many Nigerians and opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, faulted and demand an apology. In view of his statement, U.S through its secretary of state, issued a statement, warning those who would like to instigate violence and interfere in the forthcoming elections to desist from their plots, noting that anybody who interferes must be held accountable. “The United States government supports a free, fair, transparent, and peaceful election that reflects the will of the Nigerian people. “It is critical that the Independent National Electoral Commission operates free from outside pressure and intimidation and in a totally objective manner. “Nigerian security services must provide a safe and secure environment for the Nigerian people to exercise their rights. Those who interfere in the electoral process or incite violence must be held to account. “The upcoming elections are an opportunity for Nigeria to solidify its place as a democratic leader in Africa.”

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/02/warning-those-who-interfere-in-nigerias-election-must-answer-for-it-u-s/

The United States has again warned Nigerian political leaders of severe sanctions if their comments incite the people to violence that disrupts the smooth conduct of the general election.

The U.S. ambassador to Nigeria, Stuart Symington, also warned public officials not to be deceived by politicians who may issue illegal directives to them using the name of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Mr Symington gave the warning on Thursday in Makurdi, Benue State. He was speaking with journalists after his meeting with the state governor, Samuel Ortom.

According to a report of the encounter monitored on Channels TV, Mr Symington cautioned against taking implementing illegal directives to manipulate the elections.

He said political leaders have a responsibility to ensure that the elections this year are free and fair

“If anybody asks you to do something that is not right and says the boss wants you to do it, or the person at the top wants you to do it, don’t believe him; because the person at the top is honestly saying they want to win a fair election. There is a reason not to believe them,” the envoy said.
Although Mr Symington did not mention President Muhammadu Buhari by name, the president has repeatedly expressed his commitment to free and fair elections. He, like other top presidential candidates, also signed a peace accord, pledging his commitment to peaceful and non-violent conduct irrespective of the outcome of the elections.

On Thursday, Mr Symington advised Nigerians not to believe those who may want to compromise the electoral process. He warned that people are responsible for their own actions.

“The citizens are responsible to their God, second to their conscience and third to the laws of Nigeria, fourth to the court of public opinion in Nigeria and finally international law and the rest of us,” he said.

He said in the few days to the election, people will say things irrespective of their intentions, “either to hate or to stir up violence”.

He warned that such people would be held to account.

Mr Symington spoke two days after a statement by Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, that any military intervention in Nigeria would be resisted.

The statement made by the governor on a national television programme ignited an outcry, with the opposition Peoples Democratic Party warning it may withdraw from the peace accord the political parties signed to promote violence-free elections.
On Wednesday, the European Union election observers reacted to Mr El-Rufai’s remarks by stating that they were in Nigeria on the invitation to monitor the processes of the election and not to interfere in the affairs of the country.

Earlier last month, the US and its western allies, the United Kingdom and the European Union, gave a similar caution following the furore that greeted President Muhammadu Buhari’s suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen.

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