abuchilag: I was moved to tears when I saw the joy and happiness on the faces of our gallant soldiers when President Goodluck Jonathan paid them a visit. He told them that "NEVER AGAIN" will any part of the country fall into the hands of the insurgents.
The excited and motivated soldiers started chanting "NEVER AGAIN...NEVER AGAIN" I was equally impressed the way and manner the soldiers were shaking and hailing the Chief of Army Staff- General Minimah. The president also announced immediate promotion for all the soldiers that are taking part in the battle and a post humous promotion to the fallen soldiers.
It is quite obvious that our military is battle ready and equal to the task. God bless Nigeria!
Never Again " indeed! Must it take this long and the bloody sacrifices of human lives especially innocent school children before appearing, speaking and acting like a TIGER to crush an ANT
emekaxy: FG approves $403m loans for Lagos, Rivers, Ogun, Osun
Vice-President Namadi Sambo The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved the request of Lagos, Rivers, Ogun and Osun states to obtain foreign loans totalling about $403m, among other approvals.
It also approved a $1.2bn multi-donor credit for the establishment of the proposed Development Bank of Nigeria.
Other foreign loans totalling $295m were approved for developmental projects across the country.
The different foreign facilities were approved at a meeting of the council presided over by Vice President Namadi Sambo.
President Goodluck Jonathan was absent at the meeting because he travelled to Sokoto where he attended the 90th birthday of former President Shehu Shagari.
The Minister of Aviation, Mr. Osita Chidoka; Minister of State for Finance, Ambassador Bashir Yuguda; Minister of Water Resources, Mrs. Sarah Ochekpe; and Minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, briefed State House correspondents at the end of the meeting.
Yuguda said the fact that most of the loans guaranteed by the Federal Government were for states being governed by the All Progressives Congress further confirmed Jonathan’s position that he was the President of all Nigerians.
He said the President had made a distinction between governance and politics, and would not trivialise his office for any reason.
According to the minister, the council approved the request for a $100m credit from the French Development Agency in support of the Lagos Integrated Urban Development Project (Eko-UP).
“The facility is meant to improve living conditions of the most vulnerable urban population of metropolitan Lagos, improve the management and treatment of solid waste, strengthen the capacity of Lagos State and implement urban development projects in Lagos State,” he explained.
Yuguda gave the repayment period of the loan as 20 years, including seven years moratorium as well as commitment fee of 0.25 per cent of the total per annum and an appraisal fee of 0.25 per cent.
The project has three major components: slum upgrading in Ifelodun and Bariga Local Council Development Areas by the Lagos State Urban Renewal Authority; construction of solid waste management facilities by the Lagos State Waste Management Authority; and provision of capacity building and technical assistance for LASURA, LAWMA, the Project Management Unit and the two LCDAs.
For Rivers State, Yuguda said the council gave approval for the $200m African Development Bank’s credit facility for the proposed Port Harcourt water supply and sanitation project as well as an African Development Fund credit of $5m to support the Urban Water Sector Reform Project.
Yuguda said the credit facility would be secured from ADB with a repayment period of 15 years and five years moratorium, adding that the interest was enhanced variable spread loan, with lending spread of 0.60 per cent per annum, translating to 1.56 per cent.
For the ADF, he said the principal would be repaid over a period of 22 years, with eight years grace period and interest rate of one per cent per annum.
According to the minister, the council also approved a $33.174m credit from the French Development Agency in support of the Ogun State Water Supply Project.
He said the facility would be secured from the FDA on blend terms, with an interest rate of six months Libor plus margin; repayment period of 20 years, including seven years moratorium; commitment fee of 0.25 per cent per annum and an appraisal fee of 0.25 per cent.
Yuguda explained that the credit would be on-lend to Ogun State on the same terms and conditions offered by the FDA to the Federal Government.
For Osun State, he said the council approved an Islamic Development Bank’s loan of $65m for financing water supply and sanitation projects in the state, adding that the loan would be repaid over 15 years, gestation period of four years and mark-up Libor + 155bps or to 1.5 per cent per annum.
On the $1.280bn for the establishment of the proposed Development Bank of Nigeria, the minister said the loan would come from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, World Bank, Africa Development Bank as well as the Germany and French Development Agencies in the sums of $500m, $450m, $200m and $130m, respectively.
He said the proposed bank would give credit facilities to micro, small and medium enterprises in the country.
The last time I checked, there is hardly any elderly statesman in this Country that FFK has not insulted in the name of politics. If this is what the younger generation represents, then I guess we better allow the older generation to continue mesmerizing us.
Raiders: you better leave that girl alone. She is not serious. However if you want to continue fucking her make sure you use condoms so you don't get her pregnant or std
Iron sharpenth iron. There must be something that got you two attracted to each other. Maybe, just maybe, you sleep around too,
So sad that the ugly fingers of corruption could be stretched even to Nigerians outside our shores. Imagine placard carrying adults admitting on camera that they do not know why they were protesting. May God truly save our Nation.
I smell rat. A 15 year old girl that is smart enough to lock a 33 year man up and call the neighbors on him should be smart enough not to open the door for him in the first place. This sounds more like a deal gone wrong or outright setup.
Obascoetubi: Activities at the High Court, Ikeja were yesterday halted for minutes by the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS when they protested over the ongoing coroner inquest into last year’s collapsed building at the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN which killed over 100 persons. This came four months after the Coroner Inquest set-up by the State governor, Babatunde Fashola to investigate the cause of the collapsed building. The students, who were armed with placards, stormed the Ikeja High Court chanting several anti-government songs to buttress their demands. They argued that the Coroner Inquest was an aberration to a national disaster, saying “building collapse is not a purported act; rather a natural disaster.” President of NANS, Ondo State, Simon Awodola argued that setting up an inquest into a natural disaster was to victimize the church and the owner, Prophet Temitope Joshua. According to him, “Even setting up coroner inquest is not acceptable to us. We believe that there are corruption, abduction and other cases that should have been looked into. But they were swept under the carpet. “This is a natural disaster. Imagine when an earthquake happens in Alausa who will Lagos State Government sue for it. The Lagos State Government should abolish the inquest and focus on other developmental issues. “We are appealing to the Federal and state-Ondo and Lagos-governments to look into the issue critically and look into the claim of the church especially as it concerns the plane that hover on the structure before it collapsed,” he added. Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone provided by Airtel Nigeria. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/synagogue-nans-protest-in-lagos-demands-halt-in-coroner-inquest/#sthash.GaQzRFuO.dpuf
It is unfortunate that rather than address the issue on ground, many have resorted to calling T B JOSHUA and other men of God names. Some of us have lost the fear of God for real. What happened to the Biblical injunction of "touch not my anointed and do my Prophet no harm?" If Prophet T.B Joshua is a dupe and murderer, who are we to judge. May God forgive our ignorance
pendy79: NEXIM bank is short for national export and import bank. Don't know why GEJ directed they should grant him facility from the bank to sponso, r the proposed fight.
It's meant to be a bank for people involved in forex transactions and other importation biz per se don't know how fight sponsorship enter their schedule
Thanks a million times. Like I said, something was wrong with the whole stuff from the onset. Maybe, the MD is actually fighting for a chunk of the money that the powers that be, have probably promised him and out of the grant. If that be the case, then it's unfortunate if our own Ali thought he could BOX his way out of it.
Hmmm, such certainty for the very first time, so this could be true that Shekarau is already in custody and presently being drilled on how to stage a confession against the opposition. Please and please, the blood of innocent men, women and children that have been shed by this man and his group should not be sacrificed on the alter of Politics. We may not be able to do anything or know the real truth but DEFINITELY THERE IS GOD OOO!
Can someone please enlighten me if NEXIM bank is a government bank of some sort. My curiousity is based on the fact that I smell rat from the very beginning else why the choice of such a relatively unknown bank for such a whooping sum of money?
campusflavour: PHED office is currently desserted as indegenes lace office with juju, in protest for their incompetency and inability to pay rent, the plantain and red sand you see is known as mbiam in Akwa ibom state also called injunction,you dont dare remove it or enter where it is placed or face what ever you see
Hmmm, and all this while, they have not gone to place it at Sambisa forest and BH controlled towns so they ( BH) would take to their heels. Isaih 4 : 6 says " my people perish for lack of knowledge "
teufelein: BreakingNews: “Nigeria will cease to exist by December 2015″ – Biafra Movement Leader
DONT SAY YOU WERE NOT WARNED :: “niGERia WILL CEASE TO EXIST BY DECEMBER 2015″ – Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra..........Reported by niGERia Daily Post
The agitation for the actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra has taken a new dimension with a new leader of the struggle, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu declaring his readiness to fight all the way. He said Nigeria would seize to exist by December 2015. Kanu, who spoke at a gathering of members of defunct Biafra, including scores of its aged war veterans, vowed that he would not rest until the Republic is realised.
The event, held at Ngwo, Enugu State, was the maiden commemoration of Biafran Day on May 30th, in remembrance of the events of 1967 when the late Igbo leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu declared the Republic of Biafra. Kalu, the Director of Radio Biafra used the occasion to unveil a multi- million naira cenotaph in memory of Biafra fallen heroes killed during the civil war.
He regretted that despite the declaration of the “No VICTOR, NO VANQUISH” after the Nigeria/Biafra civil war in 1970, successive governments including the present Goodluck Jonathan’s led administration had continued to deliberately marginalise and make life unbearable for the Igbo nation and its people. He, therefore, called on all genuine Igbo people across the globe to rise up and join the crusade of putting in place the Biafran Republic, adding that it was time for the Igbos, to pull out of Nigeria, which he described as a failed nation, where nothing works.
Kanu noted that it was unfortunate and painful that 47 years after the civil war, the Nigerian Federal Government had bluntly refused to pay soldiers who fought on the side of Biafra all their benefits and entitlements, whereas, all their counterparts in the North and Western parts of the country had received theirs. The Radio Biafra boss said despite all odds, they remain eternally grateful to the Biafra leader, late Ojukwu, and others who laid down their lives for the struggle.
He warned the Nigeria Federal Government not to constitute a cog in the wheel of progress of the proposed Republic. Decrying the situation in the country, he said, “It is the watershed in the history of the geographical expression called Nigeria. It is the aftermath of the mistake of the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorates by Lord Lugard”. Kanu further regretted that 47 years after Ojukwu declared the Republic of Biafra, the reasons that led to his decision were still evident in Nigeria.
He decried the sufferings and agony being faced by common Nigerians as a result of corrupt and bad governance in the country. He insisted that Nigeria is doomed and driven by world acclaimed selfish and corrupt leaders, who does not believe in the well being of the poor masses.
He pointed out that as long as the intention and purpose of the amalgamation of North and South were designed to cheat the South, the nation would never move forward, “because any country that makes injustice its watch word can never prosper”. According to him, no amount of National Conference can solve Nigeria’s problem because of deep-rooted hatred among the different nationalities in the country.
Kanu further maintained that the only panacea to Nigeria’s problems is to split it into different regions, calling on Igbos to embrace and keep faith with Biafra, which he assured, will definitely come to reality. “There is no going back, by December 2015, Nigeria would have seized to exists; we shall fight until we get Biafra, if they don’t give us Biafra, no human being will remain alive in Nigeria by that time; we shall turn everybody into corpses; you better go and buy your coffin”. Buhari’s secret trip abroad shows APC covering his health status – Fayose Highlight of the event, which featured dozens of Biafran war veterans from various parts of Igbo land, clad in their uniforms, was the official hand over of the leadership of Biafra to Kanu.
"..... nobody will remain alive in Nigeria,........ It will be corpses everywhere " omg, what nonsense! Ojukwu fought a just war because the agreement at Aburi was supposedly breached, now what are you fighting for? We are no fools you know. But if you insist, your wife and children must be presented to us and their traveling documents placed in our custody. I will equally like to fight directly under your first son. Maybe, and only then, will we be mad enough to fight your so called war
Looking out for signs of cheating in a relationship shows that something is wrong with the relationship already. Any relationship that is not built on trust should not exist in the first place and when you trust each other, these same signs even if they are there will be missed.
Guess he has been relegated for a long time in the scheme of things and wants recognition by fire and by force. But for the postponement, elections would have taken placettwo weeks ago and he is just waking up with a suit against GMB. WHAT A LAUGH
agabakennedy: To mark the beginning of Lenten season,Senate President,David Mark was today pictured while being administered with ash by Rev. fr. Innocent Joji in Abuja.
Lenten season is a season in Catholic church to mark the remembrance of the sufferings of Jesus Christ
Keky: There was a bloody clash between All Progressives congress(APC) and Peoples Democvratic Party(PDP) in Edo State on Tuesday, following the discovery of 500 permanent voter cards (PVCs) at the residence of a chieftain of the PDP.
Trouble started when the PDP stalwart was caught trying to use someone’s ATM card to make withdrawal at one of the new generation banks and was arrested by security operatives who later handed him over to the police.
The police took him to his house to search the place and when they got there, 500 PVCs were found in his room.
He reportedly confessed the PVCs belonged to a House of Representatives candidate from Edo Central.
While the APC in the state demanded that the suspect be transferred immediately to the state Police Command in Benin City, some PDP members insisted that the suspect be left off the hook.
Let's try being proactive by looking at this from a different angle. Every PVC contains a person's name and address among other information. Why not locating and arresting the owners of the said PV CARDS to get them to explain why they are not in posession of their voters' cards. Obviously, the excuse of loss might be given in which case they will be made to produce sworn Court Affidavit of loss and Police extract to that effect. By the time card carriers are made to realize that they are bound to account for cards issued to them, the ugly habit of selling PVC will stop
Hmmm, those who thought bomb explosion is meant only for the North will now appreciate why some of us have been screaming that this evil should be nipped in the bud
clemhova: Gallant Journalism - Charles Eruka of channels Tv assumes the lock down position and kept reportingas gunshot disrupt APC campaign rally in Okrika River state.
Great exhibition of courage and dedication to duty but in a Country like ours where people have short memory, Hmmmm. Hope you have left enough for Madam and children because if anything happens to you, three months will even be too long for you and your gallantry to be forgotten.
cold: It will be foolhardy to hold on to a delusion to the point of death. No one is stùpid enough to pull a stunt like that. Because in the end everybody knows god does not exist,they're only hoping he does. Why do you think people praying to god for protection in a church will scatter in different directions at the sound of boko haram or a deranged man with a deadly weapon? Who wan die for the sake of a god that clearly doesn't exist. Hence the expression..everybody wan go heaven but nobody wan die. Self preservation is the first law of nature jare. God can wait..
My dear, it's worrisome to know that after the death of the living Christ Jesus 2000 years ago, there are still people who believe that God does not exist. Hosea 4:6 is indeed true. May the same God whom you believe does not exist, have mercy on you
KingEbukaBlog: The Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) launched it’s first ever Air Ambulance in Abuja on February 12. The air ambulance landed on the rooftop of the Abuja National Hospital during the Air Lift Evacuation Demonstration. This will surely ensure quicker and much better services .
lalasticlala: The police on Thursday arraigned Ejeh Smith, one of the tortured couple, before a Tinubu Magistrate’s Court for allegedly receiving stolen goods.
He was arraigned along with two others, Mattias Manda and Adamu Iliasu, on three counts of conspiracy, stealing and receiving stolen goods.
The magistrate, A.T. Omoleye, granted them bail in the sum of N50,000 each with two sureties in like sum.
PUNCH Metro had reported that Ejeh and his wife, Grace, were tortured by a policeman, Dada Ogunsanya, while they were going home.
After the report, a Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, had filed a N100m case against the police on behalf of the couple for the injustice suffered in the hand of the police corporal and the then Ikoyi Divisional Police Officer, Aisha Haruna.
Our correspondent reported on Thursday that the police at the end of investigation, released the cop after demoting him from a corporal to a constable, and arrested Ejeh for allegedly receiving stolen diesel.
The diesel was said to have been given to him by a security man, who stole it from his boss.
It was reported that Ejeh was arrested by policemen from the Lion Building Division and was granted bail before policemen from the Ikoyi Police Division took over the case.
The matter was subsequently taken to court on Thursday.
The charges read in part, “That you, Mattias Manda, Adamu Iliasu and Ejeh Smith, on February 8, 2015, at about 9am, at Ajayi Benbe Street, Parkview Estate Ikoyi, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did conspire among yourselves to commit felony to wit; stealing, and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011.”
They pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Their defence counsel, Ben Ogbu, applied for their bail in liberal terms.
The magistrate, Omoleye, then admitted them to bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties in like sum.
However, a lawyer from the Femi Falana Chamber, who was representing the couple in the torture case, Mr. Austin Audu, told PUNCH Metro that the N100m suit against the police would still go on.
He said, “Despite the new development, we are still going ahead with the torture case which is already before the court and has been assigned a case number.
“We are only waiting for a date to be assigned for the hearing.
“However, I must say that something is really fishy here. Why is it now that the police are bringing up this case against him? I think something is wrong somewhere.”
The Police Public Relations Officer, Kenneth Nwosu, told our correspondent the police did not frame Ejeh, adding that they were doing their job.
He said, “There were three of them involved in the case; do we say because he has a matter with us, he should not be arrested if he commits an offence?”
No policeman has the right to lay a finger on any person except in self defense. The standard procedure is to read him his rights and place him under arrest not to torture him. I pray that some day soon, our people would begin to know their rights and help curb the excesses of some of our policemen
faroukfahima: Immediately after President Jonathan's media chat on Nigerian national TV stations ended, CNN aired its live interview between Christiane Amanpour and APC presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari about Boko Haram, corruption and his own controversial past. Download Below
Another big slap for those that are so gullible to think that a one time 'General' is an illiterate and avoiding debate in Nigeria’s media houses because he was afraid of questions. Guess he has put to rest the question of dictatorship for those who still find it difficult to differentiate between military rule and democracy.
Go back to rubbishing Islam as you love to do. You're poor at political discussions
Aptly said, thank you. Political discussions must not always be about ethnicity or religion. We have been deceived by these two for decades. This particular one is about GMB'S interview on CNN where the same man who was said to be afraid of Nigeria's media houses confidently answerd questions with so much knowledge and assurance of a man who 'has it all planned out'.
dre11: There are something you just assumed because you know its north
Maybe he thought they are suicide bombers But can a suicide bombers carry a child along
So, I believe he was triggered happy and decide to shot
In news reporting you are not privileged to assume. Your readers among other things want to know : What happened Where it happened When it happened Why it happened and HOW it happened. Without one of these, your report is inconclusive.
theshadyexpress: The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe has reacted to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s prediction that a new government will be formed on May 29, 2015.
It would be recalled that while speaking on election postponement, Obasanjo in an interview with Financial Times in Nairobi on Monday said: “I’ll only go by the constitution. By our constitution, there must be a new government on the 29th of May and the constitution lays out how that new government should emerge”.
Obasanjo also endorsed the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.
Reacting Tuesday night, Okupe wrote on his Facebook page: “Someone was reported to have said “A new government will be installed on the 29th of may 2015″
Lamentations 3 vs 37 says “Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass when the Lord commandeth it not?
Isaiah 7 vs 7 says “Thus sayeth the Lord God, it shall not stand neither shall it come to pass.”
“Please if you are a friend of President Jonathan say AMEN to this.”
OBJ said ".....by the 29th of May, there must be a new government..." If GEJ wins, by that day, it's still a new government! That's all baba said with thewwisdom of an old man knowing that he would be misinterpreted. Anyway, good to know my dear Okupe still goes to church
[quote author=dre11 post=30604956][/quote]While there could hardly be any justification for ' shooting to kill' a ten year old child, I am still constrained to observe that this report is inconclusive. Did the policeman suddenly go crazy or was his life threatened? If his life was under threat, by whom? By the much weaker mother of the infant? Or by the poor girl? Do tell us please because something definitely led to the shooting
U mean ur people bury ohu in this age? Where exactly are u from?
Please always learn to read someone's comments with some measure of understanding before rushing to make comments. The original writer wrote on the Osu cast system and omitted the Ohus. Mine was a humble effort to enlighten others who are not from these parts about the Ohus which the writer did not write about. That does not in anyway translate into my people burying slaves alive in this age.
Politics › Re: "Never Again "- Latest Slogan In The Camp Of Nigerian Army by Emmahunk(m): 2:21pm On Feb 27, 2015
as mbiam in Akwa ibom state also called injunction,you dont dare remove it or enter where it is placed or face what ever you see