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The Nigerian Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, has counselled officers and soldiers of the Nigerian Army to embrace professionalism and loyalty to the Federal government as core principles of their duties. Mr. Buratai made the call at the Nigerian Army School of Artillery, Kachia, in Kaduna state, where he addressed officers and men at the prestigious training institution. The army chief, a lieutenant general, who was there to commission newly built students’ hostels, said soldiers must key into his vision of a new Nigerian Army. “I am impressed with your activities here in NASA which is in line with my vision which is to have a professionally responsive army in the discharge of its constitutional roles”, said General Buratai, who urged the soldiers to “keep on the good job, be professionals and remain loyal to the federal government of Nigeria.” Mr. Buratai said he was impressed with the quality of job carried out by the Commandant of the Nigeria Army School of Artillery under the 2016 barracks infrastructure development projects, and promised to intervene in the rehabilitation of infrastructure recently destroyed by rainstorm. In a related development, the Army chief on Friday commissioned some blocks of accommodation for Corporal and Below soldiers as well as a newly tarred road named after him at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji.
Premiumtimesng.com. 12/6/16

Afenifere don kolo! Was it Buhari that conducted the poll? Why didn't you ask Abacha, Abdulsalam, Obasanjo, Yaradua or Jonathan to release the result? Una kno get work. Nigerians are roasting under the regime of change, all you could remember is Abiola and June 12. Will that make Buhari have mercy on us? Group of expired politicians!

Tompolo don't ever show your face to these people. Except you want the Dasuki treatment to be meted to you.

The technical director
of the Nigerian
Football Federation
(NFF), and former
coach of the Super
Eagles, Shuaibu
Amodu, has died, the
NFF announced early
Saturday.

Mr. Amodu, a four-
time coach of the
national team, passed
on on Friday night
shortly after
complaining of chest
pain, the NFF said in a
post on its Twitter
handle. He was 58.
Mr. Amodu was
appointed technical
director of the Eagles
in April 2016.

His death came as
the nation is still
reeling from the loss
of Stephen Keshi, the
country’s football
legend, who died
three days ago, aged
54.

Premiumtimesng.com June 11,2016

How do one pray for someone who we are told is on a 10 days holiday or deserved rest? He is not ill, they told us. May be they will tell us the prayer points later.

thunder74:
http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/atiku-revives-presidential-bid-says-buhari-not-ready-lead/

Thanks man for helping me out!

Sorry I am not able to add the source because of the phone I used to post this. I will appreciate if anybody can assist. Its fom pointblanknews.com of 1/6/2016. Thanks.

Former Vice President and Chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar, appear to have broken ranks with President Mohammadu Buhari and the ruling party, saying Buhari was not ready to lead. Atiku, who spoke in Abuja, said President Buhari was not ready to learn from the lessons of the past. President Buhari has presided over an administration that has seen mass killings of Nigerians by Fulani herdsmen, Boko Haram and security agencies, human rights violations, refusal to obey court orders and a comatose economy in the past one year. The former vice president is a veteran presidential contestant, who finished third in the APC primaries that produced President Buhari. He said Nigeria had the misfortune of an “äccidental leadership”. Speaking on the clashes between herdsmen and farmers, he said President Buhari was not ready to learn from the past. “We have a leader who is not prepared to learn from the past”, he said. Atiku, who recalled loosing 300 cows to cattle rustlers in Cameroon, said the country would get the right leadership in due course. “Again, here we come back to the same economic challenges that are facing the country but we also have a leadership that is not prepared to learn from the past and the leadership that is not prepared to lead,” he said. Atiku is also believed to have issues with the National Leader of APC and former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, whose considerable influence in Buhari’s government is discomforting and a probable impediment to his presidential ambitions.
Pointbanknews.com 1/6/2016

OshomoLara, see your life?

Highvotage:
Its always good when one is knowledgeable about what you are arguing on.
Fasola own is never monorail like River and Cross River rather Metro line.
You can try and check your Google for meaning and pictures of the two.
Thank you.

Mr knowledgeable, are you sure you check google before posting this? Its not enough to check meaning and pictures of the two. Did you try to find out what Lagos govt is doing. I know it was Jakande that began a metroline project in Lagos during the second republic. The mighty Buhari overthrew that republic and stopped the project. Fashola started the monorail project and Ambode is continuing it from Marina to Lekki. Infact the Japanese govt approved a $1b loan for the project recently. Please try to constantly update your knowledge sir!

MadCow1:
Calabar Monorail is like Wheelbarrow in comparison to Lagos and like Okada in comparison to Rivers State. The distance of the Calabar rail line is nowhere near that of Rivers State talkless of Lagos state own.



I was expecting somebody to take the bait and diss Lagos and PH, sadly you did..


Ask before you leap..

Lagos Monorail Project is still the best in Nigeria and will be one of its kind in the entire West African sub-region when completed.. Rivers State Monorail would have been a close second, but the foolishness and short sightedness of the Niger Deltans and the politics of backwardness being played by the PDP in the State.

That is why they are white elephant projects. Cut your coat according to your cloth is a common adage in Nigeria. Before Fashola and Amaechi embarked on those projects, did they check the cost and duration. They were both playing to the gallery. Whereas they were building theirs in the mass media, Cross River was constructing their monorail without fanfare. No noise making. The result: Cross River will be commioning theirs, while that of Amaechi and Fashola with all their noise and hot airs are confined to the dustbin of history. Not how big, my friend, but who complete theirs!

Amaechi and Fashola how market? You both spent eight years as governors of Rivers and Lagos states; wasted billions of your states' resources on monorail without success. Look at Ayade, barely one year old in office, with less resources, has done the impossible: a monorail is ready for commissioning! Shame on you both. May God bless governor Ayade and the good people of Cross River. And may God punish those that wasted Rivers and Lagos resources on white elephant projects!

chikel2000:
Police r liars but APC? Pls help me with d strongest adjective to qualify them

Liarest!

The op lied in his figures on our external debt. Nigeria's external debt in Dec 2015 is $10.7b. Are you saying Buhari paid off about $50b from the $63b you are alleging as the external debt Jonathan left behind. Please let us know what happen to the difference between your $63b and the officially acknowledged $10.7b. At least make google your friend before making unfounded allegations.

The wife and son's name already on foreign posting list that was recently released.

What are you saying?

arsenal33:
You smell like a rat

You smell like a he- goat!

A friend of mine told the new meaning of the ruling APC is All Promises Cancelled. I was not surprised considering how the party had either denied most of their promises to Nigerians or modified them. Example, the promise of $1 to N1 was denied while that of N5000 to 25million unemployed youths was modified to N5000 to 1million extreme poor. A party that thrives on deceits and propaganda!

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has said that President Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC) were playing Nigerians Advanced Fee Fraud over the removal of fuel subsidy and increment of pump price from N86.50 to N145 per litre, describing the increment as wickedness taken too far and asking; “was the federal government paying up to N58.50 as subsidy on one litre of petrol before now?” Governor Fayose, who reiterated his call on Nigerians, especially the labour movement to resist what he called “this wicked act of President Buhari and his party,” added that “those who opposed removal of fuel subsidy in 2012 and funded the Occupy Nigeria protest must not be allowed to get away with this imposition of hardship on Nigerians now that they are in power.” He said labour unions, civil society organisations and other well-meaning Nigerians should stand up and be counted at this crucial time in the life of the common people of Nigeria, adding that “there is no justification for the increment at this period when government is not paying salaries regularly, Nigerians are losing their jobs daily, prices of foodstuffs have gone over the roof and life has become so difficult for the common people. To labour Nigerians with this increment is wickedness taken too far!” In a statement on Thursday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said: “In 2012 when the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government of Dr Goodluck Jonathan removed fuel subsidy and increased petrol price to N141 per litre, crude oil was selling at $111 per barrel. How then can petrol price be increased to N145 per litre when crude oil is now selling at $40 per barrel? “It is on record that on May 2 this year, the federal government, in the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) Template released in Abuja, told Nigerians that it was subsidising petrol at N12.62 per litre. “If as at May 2, petrol was being subsidised at N12.62 per litre, and now that the subsidy of N12.62 has been removed, what ought to have been added to the N86.50 pump price should be N12.62, which would have increased pump price to N99.12 per litre. “Increasing petrol pump price by N58.50 when the federal government claimed it was subsidising the product at N12.62 per litre is clear political 419, which is aimed at further impoverishing Nigerians as the government will be making profit of N45.88 on each litre of petrol bought by Nigerians. “How can any government with human feelings attempt to make profit of N45.88 per litre on Nigerians, who are no longer getting their salaries regularly? How can Buhari and his party impose another N45.88 per litre levy on Nigerians who are already facing severe hardship? This is wickedness!” Speaking further, Governor Fayose said there was no justification for the removal of subsidy and increment of petrol pump price to N145 per litre now that crude oil price is $40 per barrel when the same product was increased to N141 per litre in 2012 when crude oil was $111 per barrel. While describing President Buhari as a hypocrite, the governor said, “Nigerians should be reminded that the president once said that petrol subsidy never existed and that it was a fraud. How then can the same President Buhari tell us that he has removed the same subsidy he claimed never existed? “The reality is that these people lied to Nigerians too much. They made promises they knew they won’t fulfil just to get to power. Now they are showing Nigerians their true colours. They are showing Nigerians that they have come to punish them with hardship. “Buhari and his APC promised to reduce petrol pump price to from N87 to N45 per litre; petrol is now N145. They promised to create three million jobs per year; they have instead created millions of unemployment. They said $1 will be equal to N1; $1 is now N320. They promised to create better live for Nigerians, they have instead created hardship by making prices of basic commodities to skyrocket through their lack of policy direction.”

But why shutting it down during a PDP function? I smell a rat.

‘Nigerians are being deceived on the issue of fuel subsidy, The federal government takes out fuel for refining, only to come back and talk of removing the subsidy. That is nonsense and an attempt by a clique with the PDP led federal government to siphon the proceeds to be realized from the removal of oil subsidy”. - Buhari, 2011
Mr ptesident are we no longer taking out fuel for refining? Or its APC turn to siphon the proceeds to be realised from the removal?

THE political history of Nigerian democracy cannot be complete without outlining auspicious roles being played by the electoral umpire—Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to accelerate the nation’s fledgling democracy. In fact, Nigeria joined highly respected democracies of this world, with democratic ethos and values as a result of INEC’s capability to conduct free, fair and credible elections, which came to international recognition under then visionary and pragmatic leadership of Professor Attahiru Jega. Prof. Jega’s INEC held Court pronouncements and judgements to its high esteem, and precisely obeyed them. Court-ordered rerun elections under this trail blazer never exceeded 90 days before being conducted and concluded without running into logjam of inconclusiveness. But since the present INEC leadership came on board, Prof. Jega’s hard-earned legacies in INEC are grossly and speedily being battered by undemocratic, biased and partisan actions and inactions of INEC authority led by Prof. Mahmud Yakubu. What brought INEC’s conspiracy against our young democracy to limelight is its unfolding partisanship and deliberate delay in conclusion of all the court-ordered reruns across some geo-political zones. It is no longer news that millions of Nigerians spread across Rivers South-West, Rivers East, Rivers South-East, Anambra Central, Imo North and Kogi East senatorial zones, are left without representatives in the Red Chamber for almost five months and running, as a result of INEC’s inability to conduct elections for respective senatorial seats and federal constituencies. The most striking aspect of the unholy political script being played out by INEC is that, those Senatorial zones were hitherto occupied by opposition party, the PDP Senators. For purpose of clarity, Court of Appeal Election Tribunal sitting in Abuja had on 10th and 11th December, 2015, respectively nullified the elections of three Rivers Senators: Osinakachukwu Idoezu (Rivers South-West), John Olaka-Nwogo (Rivers South-East) and George Thompson Sekibo (Rivers East), and ordered INEC to conduct rerun elections in the affected zones within 90 days. The 90 days ordered by Appellate court expired on 10th and 11th of March 2016. In same vain, nine House of Representatives members out of 13 from Rivers State, whose elections were set aside by same Court of Appeal on 12th December 2015, and ordered rerun within 90 days. Like others, the 90 days expired on 12th March 2016. In Imo North Senatorial zone, the election that brought Senator Achonu Nneji was nullified on 11th December 2015, by Court of Appeal, Owerri Division and consequently ordered INEC to conduct a rerun within 90 days. The 90 days’ timeline given to INEC by the Appellate Court, which was derived from 1999 Constitution cum 2010 Electoral Act, elapsed on 11th of March 2016. As regards Anambra Central Senatorial zone, Court of Appeal, Enugu Division, nullified Senator Uche Ekwunifie’s election on 6th of December 2015, and ordered a rerun for within 90 days. Unfortunately, court order expired on 6th March 2016, without any election coming forth thereby leaving Anambra State under-represented in the Senate. INEC went beyond its constitutional responsibility and powers, by disqualifying and barring candidates of certain political parties from being part of the election. The aggrieved political party approached Federal High Court, Abuja, where it got a court order mandating INEC to include its candidate in the rerun election. Instead of INEC retaining its roles as a plaintiff Party in a politically motivated and ill-conceived appellate suit, questioning the grounded decision of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on 1st March 2016, which rightly ordered the Commission to include wrongly, excluded parties and their candidates in the court-rerun. INEC absconded and defaulted on its bipartisan mandate as electoral referee, and even descended so low, by aligning with a political party just to frustrate another political party out of the race. Kogi East Senatorial zone is left without a substantive senator for months, irrespective of the fact that the Appeal Court-ordered election is almost concluded, except for few polling units. The court ordered 90 days has expired, yet not a word has been heard from INEC in that regard. It is very clear that the only reason, INEC is yet to finalise the election and declare triumphant candidate winner, is because the PDP candidate is leading with wide margin—which makes him presumptive Senator-elect of Kogi East. The recent rerun election held in Rivers State, passed a vote of no confidence on the electoral commission. For the first in the history of Nigerian democracy, INEC has refused to release, cancel, uphold or reschedule rerun for the yet-to-be-concluded local government areas in state. INEC has resorted to releasing election results by piecemeal against electoral guidelines. The entire three senatorial rerun elections of Rivers State are still outstanding, as well as nine other House of Representatives seats. The 90-day period given by Appeal Court has elapsed, yet INEC has not even fix date for conclusion of this election. Can INEC tell Nigerians where it derives this unconstitutional power to delay rerun elections outside Appeal Court stipulated 90 days from? One of INEC’s flimsy excuses has been that River State is not secured enough to guarantee peaceful electoral processes. If INEC under Prof. Jega could supervise peaceful general elections in Bokoharam-ravaged states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, why won’t Prof. Yakubu-led INEC conclude rerun election in only one state of Rivers? If Rivers State is too volatile for elections, what stops INEC from fixing date for rerun elections of Imo North, Anambra Central, and conclusion of rerun election of Kogi-East Senatorial zones? According to propagation of conspiracy theorists, it is being eluded that INEC is acting out well-scripted plot of ruling the APC, just to decimate political interests of opposition, the PDP, especially in the Senate. The biased, undemocratic and unconstitutional; deliberate delay of rerun elections in PDP stronghold, cannot be unconnected with machinations of the APC leadership to remove Sen. Bukola Saraki asSenate President via on-going trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal and install a puppet Senate President. The groundswell and unreserved support of the PDP Senators, being enjoyed by Senate President Saraki, and capability of the PDP Senators to influence Sen. Saraki’s successor, based on its numerical strength, if he is eventually removed, and the ignoble roles of anti-Saraki forces, who are discreetly using INEC to keep numbers of PDP Senators down in case of election of new Senate President, is behind INEC’s unexplained, unsubstantiated and unconstitutional delay of rerun senatorial elections. Controversial appointment of acting Clerk of National Assembly, Mohammed Sani-Omolori who happens to be a junior civil servant to Benedit Efeturi—serving Deputy Clerk of National Assembly and the dusts it has raised, all points towards desperation of dictatorial elements to control NASS at all cost. CNA’s role as electoral umpire in the event of electing new Senate President cannot be far from all these conspiracies. It saddens my heart to state that, those who are bent on accomplishing their Saraki-must-go mission have succeeded in dragging critical government institutions into their political conquest—ranging from INEC to CCT to National Assembly Service Commission. INEC should note that, hitherto unwavering trust and confidence of Nigerians in the electoral commission, is being eroded. INEC’s partisan stand as regards delayed senatorial reruns has made more than 16 million Nigerians to be without representatives in the National Assembly, which is unconstitutional.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/of-reruns-and-inecs-partisan-conspiracy/

Today makes it almost a week that we have been in total darkness in Abuja, Gwagwalada to be precise. Though there had never been regular supply of recent, it has never been this bad. The power sub station behind our house is always light up. Meaning there is power in the substation. The so called vandalisation by militants does not seem to affect Abuja. So where then is the problem. Please AEDC we need explanation.

TheNonce:



So all along, the so called 'herdsmen' na 'igalas' sef? Okay! That means our fulani mallams are off the hook for now! Na to face lokoja straight!

You lack understanding or you did not read the post at all. They are fulani herdsmen gathered from different parts of Nigeria. The caught suspect is an Enugu born Fulani man.

No. 3 days and counting. Gwags in Abuja. Before now we used to have on the average 6 hrs.

comos:
Two kings don't share the same throne.

The ooni of Ife, Adesoji Aderemi realizes that and did the right thing pronto.

If this your statement about two kings not sharing the same throne makes sense to you, how come none of the yoruba monarchs the new Ooni visited vacates their seats for him?

Baba was pleased
enough with Omo'n'ba to swap
his black leather seat with him.
For those of us who finds it difficult to understand the superiority of the Oba of Benin over the Ooni of Ife, please meditate on the above. That an older Ooni vacated his exalted seat for a visiting Oba speaks volume. In africa tradition it is the young that stands up for his elder to sit. For the Oba to accept that abnormality means the Benin monarch is superior to the Ooni.

Clueless and confused!

Former governor of Kaduna State Alhaji Balarabe Musa, said that the only explanation for President Muhammadu Buhari’s silence over renew attacks by armed men suspected to be Fulani herdsmen resulting in the deaths of several Nigerians is absolute weakness, incompetence and lack of focus. About 40 persons have so far been reportedly killed in the recent attacks by suspected Fulani herdsmen at Nimbo in Uzo- Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State.

He laments in an interview with Newsmen in Kano, that not only are the Fulani herdsmen killing and attempting to forcefully take over other peoples’ land, they also engage in stealing of cows belonging to others, a crime he said has not been adequately reported in the media.

He said the atrocities being committed by suspected Fulani herdsmen across the country and the killings of innocent Nigerians and wanton destruction of properties in the northeast by Boko Haram insurgents are indications that the federal government  is weak and lacks the competence to address the current overwhelming insecurity plaguing the country.

”The killing by Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen appears to be the only crime taking place in the country. It is not at all. These Fulani herdsmen are also stealing cows of others and the federal government is at moment powerless. My own cows have been stolen twice last year and this year. It was never like this until this present government came to power. For people to be able to steal cows in the day time in Nigeria that shows the level of insecurity.” he says

It is terrible. The President and his government are weak. Has the President said anything since the Fulani herdsmen started this senseless killings? he asked. Let us not deceive ourselves. The President is quiet because he is a weak President. The state Kaduna government is also very weak in terms of security. They have put the lives of Nigerians in danger more than any government in recent times, he said. He explained that the current level of confidence with which the Fulani herdsmen carries out their activities across the country in total disregard for indigenous people who owns the land in the first instance without a word from the President, supports the arguments in some quarters that they are backed by highly placed government officials.
President Buhari condemned the reported attacks by suspected herdsmen on some communities across the country in a statement on Wednesday night. A statement issued by the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said the President particularly condemned Monday’s attack on Ukpabi Nimbo in Enugu State. However, Balarabe Musa said Nigerians should not take the statement issued by Presidential Spokesperson serious on a matter that involves loss of lives, and augured that until the President personally addresses the nation over the killings and how he plans to urgently tackle it he cannot be said to have spoken to Nigerians.


http://www.quicknews-africa.net/buhari-weak-incompetent-says-balarabe-musa/