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The immediate past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki(retd.), has said some arms and ammunition, ordered during the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan, have yet to arrive in country. The former NSA said some elements, whose identities he did not disclose, were frustrating the nation’s efforts to get the critically needed equipment to fight the terror sect, Boko Haram. Dasuki said these in an interview with PR Nigeria, an Abuja-based media consultancy outfit, consulting for the Nigerian military and security agencies. According to him, the former government, a a point, queried some arm suppliers for the delay in the supply of the items paid for by the government. He said some of the equipment procured by the Jonathan administration would arrive the country soon, but was not specific about the time. “It was unfortunate that some elements are frustrating the efforts as we even had to query some suppliers for the delay in the delivery of arms and ammunition,” Dasuki said. The former security chief, whose Abuja and Sokoto residences were raided by operatives of the Department of State Services recently, explained that the previous administration acquired a lot of highly sophisticated equipment to fight and reclaim 22 local government areas from the insurgents after years of frustration by some countries. He listed the items to include “Alpha jets, APCs, MRAP vehicles, advanced artillery pieces, assorted arms and ammunitions, highly sophisticated surveillance drones, T72 and carried out modification of F7 supersonic jet fighters.” The arms also included armoured tanks with comprehensive NBC protection system, Mine- Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles with capacity to withstand explosions, Improvised Explosive Devices and assorted Armoured Personnel Carriers with effective protective system against small arms fire and shrapnel. He said the equipment were effectively utilised to recover 22 local government areas then under Boko Haram’s control and prevented the Boko Haram from disrupting the 2015 election. Dasuki added that the security forces were able to use the equipment to prevent the leader of the sect, Abubakar Shekau, from releasing videos of threats against the country. www.punchng.com/politics/jonathan-govt-ordered-arms-yet-to-arrive-dasuki/ |
Former Gov. Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers said
on Monday in Abuja that the victory of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in this year’s general
elections was engineered by God.
Amaechi said this at a reception organised for him by
the Committee of Friends at the International
Conference Centre, Abuja.
He said God engineered the victory by giving the APC
a good and credible presidential candidate, which
enabled the party to win the last election.
He thanked all
members of the
party for working
hard during the
campaign, saying
that the victory was
for all party
members.
“ Amaechi did not contribute more than you did. We
all worked together; in fact, it will be unfair for us to
claim the glory.
“This is because I believe that the victory of APC was
engineered by God.
“And I saw it coming and told my friends that we
would win. People thought I was a political
mathematician.
“The more I prayed, the more God gave me the
confidence that we would win.
“One of my prayer points was `God, do not tell me
You will protect me after we lose; protect me now by
making sure that we win’; and we won.’’
Amaechi, however, stressed that APC must deliver, as
the citizens would hold it accountable in 2019.
“We will not disappoint Nigerians. We believe APC
governors are progressives and therefore, they
cannot afford not to deliver.’’
The former governor said that the struggle had been
quite challenging since he joined APC, adding that the
state’s allocation from the Federation Account had
reduced grossly.
“From 2013, we were receiving N6 billion; by the time
I left office, our wage bill monthly was N9.2 billion.’’
Amaechi recalled that when the state was receiving
about N20 billion monthly, he employed more
teachers for the university, college of education,
polytechnics as well as secondary and primary
schools.
He said that the increased wage bill of N9.2 billion
was because more people were employed in the
state.
“The fuel subsidy was N300 billion under former
President Olusegun Obasanjo and it remained the
same under President Umaru Yar’Adua.
“Within six months under President Goodluck
Jonathan, the fuel subsidy rose from N300 billion to
N1.9 trillion.
“Yet, Jonathan wanted more money for fuel subsidy.
“This prompted the trouble between me and the
Jonathan administration.’’
Amaechi thanked the organisers for the reception in
his honour.
The National Chairman of the APC, Chief John
Oyegun, said Amaechi had the ability to struggle,
fight and win power, describing him as “hyper-
active’’.
“Amaechi brought passion and energy into APC and
he was aware of the risks of failure. The man we are
celebrating today deserves honour,’’ Oyegun said.
Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State and Chairman of
the occasion, said Amaechi had transformed Rivers
within the seven years he governed the state.
“I know this because I have visited Rivers many times
and have seen the work he did.
“The primary schools in the state are better than
some state universities.
“He also transformed the roads, health sector and
created jobs, among other things.
“All these feats make him a transformative leader,’’
El-Rufai said.
The governor said that Amaechi was constantly
strategising for the party, making him an arrowhead
in the lead-up to the governorship elections in Ekiti
and Osun states.
El-Rufai said Amaechi particularly contributed to
efforts to increase the collection of the Permanent
Voter Cards from 50 per cent to 90 per cent
nationally, shortly before the general elections.
He said that Amaechi was worthy of being celebrated
because he displayed courage in everything he did
and cared about humanity.
“He has no regard for ethnic affiliation; he has no
regard for religious affiliation.
“He is a devout Catholic who believes that every
human being is entitled to his or her religious beliefs.
“What matters most to Amaechi are fairness, equity
and justice and I am happy to call him my friend,’’ El-
Rufa’i said.
www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/apcs-victory-engineered-by-god-amaechi/ |
THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has urged the Senate and the House of Representatives to reject in its entirety, the proposed $75 million credit loan which amounts to N14.7 billion from the World Bank for Edo State, just as it warned that if granted, it would impoverish the state. Speaking with Journalists yesterday in Abuja, Chairman, PDP, Edo State, Chief Dan Orbih who noted that this was not the time for what he termed endless borrowing against the backdrop that the state forms one of the most indebted states. Also yesterday, two Senators from Edo State disagreed sharply on the proposed loan. Speaking to Vanguard yesterday, the Senate Deputy Chief Whip, Senator Francis Alimikhena, APC, Edo North described the loan as very important and time, just as he stressed that the previous ones have been useful and effectively executed in carrying out world bank projects in the state, warning that people should not play politics with the proposed loan. But disagreeing with his colleague, Senator Matthew Uroghide, PDP Edo State stressed the need for verification of the previous tranche to ascertain if the loan was used properly and for what it was given it for, adding that Edo State cannot afford to go for such a loan now when it was presently groaning as it cannot pay salaries. Also disagreeing with the proposed loan, Senator Clifford Ordia, PDP, Edo Central who opposed the request on the grounds that it will plunge the state into further indebtedness, stressed that if the loan was approved, it would raise the Edo State’s debt profile under Oshiomhole to N44.1 billion ($225m) in World Bank. President Muhammadu Buhari had written to the Senate requesting for the approval to obtain a total of $75 million credit loan amounting to N14.7 billion from the World Bank for Edo State. According to the president, the proposed loan facility of $ 75 million would be a second leg of a Development Policy Programme the World Bank had approved in 2012 which was a total sum of 225million dollars ( N44.1 billion ) to Edo state government designed to be implemented in three tranches of 75millon per annum. Speaking further, Orbih who called on the national assembly to first verify what happened to the first tranche, said, “I want to call on the leadership of the Nigerian Senate to kindly reject the request for Mr. President to grant this money to the Edo state government. The issues that comes to mind at the mention of this loan are; what is the governor going to use this loan for? How has he utilized previous loans obtained by his government because you must look at what he has done with the previous facilities he has taken before considering offering him any new financial lifeline. “Don’t forget not too long ago, he went to the capital market to obtain 35 billion loan for the Benin water storm project as we speak the only thing after paying out billions of naira in respect of that project all that is visible today in Benin city is the pool of stagnant water littered all over Benin city and the attendant emergence of what people now refer to as Oshiomhole mosquitoes, very stubborn and deadly mosquitoes that is what that project has brought to the city. “There is nothing to show that the 35 billion which he took for the capital market for that particular project has been utilized. So what is he talking about 75 million dollar loan? In fact what the governor is asking the Senate to grant him permission to access is not up to what he collects as security votes for undisclosed security challenges, it is on record, the vouchers and related documents showing that Oshiomhole takes up to an average of 500 – 700 million every month for what he refers to as urgent security challenges, what these challenges are never disclosed and from the records available to us from the police headquarters Edo state since he came into power has never witnessed any major, urgent security challenges that will warrant the expenditure of 20 million in a month talk less of 500 – 700 million in a month. ” So we see this request by Oshiomhole presented to the Senate by the president as a request to further impoverish the good people of Edo state, to further drive the state into a bottomless pit of ineptness occasioned by his mismanagement and misappropriation of his government.We call on the leadership of the Senate to reject this request and it is time for all hands to be on deck to check the declining economic fortunes of this country. This is not time for needless borrowing by government and government institutions. So, I think what Edo people expect from the senate leadership is to reject this request. “More so, it is coming from the means of a previous rejection by a minister, we are aware that the former minister of finance, that great lady of distinction had earlier reviewed this request, an informed position of a renounced economist. She analysed this request and rejected and declined to approve this request. Going through the back door now by way of request to the Senate is Oshiomhole’s antics of wanting to play smart, the world is now aware why Oshiomhole has be launching an attack on that woman of distinct, I think she can now laugh loud now that the actual reason for the recent uncontrolled attacks by Oshiomhole on her person is arising for this request which Oshiomhole made earlier which she turned down. “That request was made when elections were approaching it was the last presidential, national assembly and state assembly election were approaching and it was turned down by Okonjo Iweala. Now that Edo people are gearing up for the governorship election in early 2016, he has presented it again, to me it is clear signal that Edo state is broke and I think rather than resorting to this financial palliatives that the new government to state government, the government should come out boldly to challenge some of these state governments, ask questions what they have done with the previous money granted them, allocations, excess crude account, IGR, they have various ways this government has generated money to say the list. “Today I make bold to state that Edo state has borrowed so much in the past that for over 5 years now the people got into agreement that a particular sum should be deducted as funds anytime the state is receiving its allocation. It is sad to state here that for over 5 years, the sum of 520 million is being withdrawn as source as part of the mandatory obligation to institutions the state government has borrowed money from. When it became clear that the government on its own wasn’t prepared to service these debts the issue was brought to the attention of the former minister and a meeting was arranged where the state government agree that they withdraw 520 million to service previous loan. “So if this loan is granted I am sure the state maybe giving up to 800 million on monthly basis to service all these numerous loans they have taken and it is really sad that there is nothing on ground in Edo state today to justify the huge debt profile of Edo state which is put at approximately 250 billion. ” These are figures that have continued to emerge from various quarters and the government hasn’t been bold enough to come out with the actual figure of our debt profile, but no one can take away the fact that the debt profile of Edo state is huge and unbearable because for over 5 years if they can be paying 520 million every month from source and from the information available to us that money will continue being deducted well after Oshiomhole has left office, it means we already have a very huge debt profile and I challenge the government to come out with all relevant document about the actual status of Edo state profile.”. www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/pdp-senators-disagree-over-proposed-n14-7-world-bank-loan-for-edo/ |
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SaharaReporters has learned that all of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Group Executive Directors (GEDs) have been sacked effective immediately. This news comes only one day after President Buhari appointed Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu as the Group Managing Director of the NNPC.www.saharareporters.com/2015/08/05/breaking-all-nnpc-group-executive-directors-fired |
The Vice Chancellor of Kogi State University, Anyigba, Prof. Hassan Isah, has been sacked by the Kogi state government. Also the governing council of the institution has been dissolved. The shake-up in the administration of the state owned tertiary institution, followed the recent audit carried out in the institution, which seriously indicted the vice chancellor for allegedly mismanaging the resources of the institution, to the tune of over N200million. According to sources from Lord Luggard. House, the seat of Government, in Lokoja, The deputy Vice Chancellor, Academic, has been asked to over the administration of the university pending new appointments. The audit exercise carried out in the institution had generated a lot of controversies in the university with, some senior lecturers in the institution who opposed the re-appointment of the vice chancellor, threatening to go on strike unless the report is implemented by the Government. The report of the external auditors indicted the Vice Chancellor for poor management of the seed funding for the establishment of new college of medicine, recently inaugurated by Governor Idris Wada. Equally affected is the dissolution of the governing council of the institution headed by Dr. Ibrahim Onipe. According to Government sources, new members have been appointed to replace the sacked members. The senior special Advice, media and strategy, to the Governor Wada, Mr Jacob Edi, however decline to comment on the development. www.ksuamebo.com/2015/08/dem-say-the-vice-chancellor-of-kogi-state-university-anyigba-prof-hassan-isah-has-been-sacked-by-the-kogi-state-government/ |
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An elderly Brooklyn woman was forced by her brutal rapist to swear on a Bible that she would not call police — or else he would kill her, the victim’s family said Wednesday. A relative of the 82-year-old woman told the NY Daily News that the victim is bruised from head to toe after surviving the 4 1/2-hour ordeal at her Brighton Beach home. “She is not doing good,” the family member said Wednesday. “She has not slept since this happened, and is very traumatized.” The battered woman told the relative that suspect Asa Roberts, 18, forced her to swear on a Bible that she would not send the police after him. “He took advantage of the fact that she was religious,” the relative told The News. “He made her swear on a Jewish Bible that she wouldn’t call the police, making fun of her.” The victim was so terrified that she called the family member instead of the cops once the attacker left around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday. “She even asked me afterward if she had broken her pledge, and I said, ‘No, you didn’t call the police. I called the police,’” the relative said. “I felt bad.” Relatives said the old woman went out of her way to treat the suspect politely, asking about the teen’s family and at one point asking if she could make Roberts a meal. “She treated him like a grandson, and then he raped her right before he left,” the relative said. “He is an animal, and he has to be taken off the streets … There was no reason to do what he did to her. www.fansguys.com/2015/07/18-yr-old-boy-rapes-82-yr-old-woman-for.html?m=1 |
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An elderly Brooklyn woman was forced by her brutal rapist to swear on a Bible that she would not call police — or else he would kill her, the victim’s family said Wednesday. A relative of the 82-year-old woman told the NY Daily News that the victim is bruised from head to toe after surviving the 4 1/2-hour ordeal at her Brighton Beach home. “She is not doing good,” the family member said Wednesday. “She has not slept since this happened, and is very traumatized.” The battered woman told the relative that suspect Asa Roberts, 18, forced her to swear on a Bible that she would not send the police after him. “He took advantage of the fact that she was religious,” the relative told The News. “He made her swear on a Jewish Bible that she wouldn’t call the police, making fun of her.” The victim was so terrified that she called the family member instead of the cops once the attacker left around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday. “She even asked me afterward if she had broken her pledge, and I said, ‘No, you didn’t call the police. I called the police,’” the relative said. “I felt bad.” Relatives said the old woman went out of her way to treat the suspect politely, asking about the teen’s family and at one point asking if she could make Roberts a meal. “She treated him like a grandson, and then he raped her right before he left,” the relative said. “He is an animal, and he has to be taken off the streets … There was no reason to do what he did to her. www.fansguys.com/2015/07/18-yr-old-boy-rapes-82-yr-old-woman-for.html?m=1 |
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TYPICAL NIGERIAN MENTALITY 1.Every Sunday is RICE 2.Every northerner is a MUSLIM 3.Every motorcycle is OKADA 4.Every oversea based guy is RICH 5.Every detergent is OMO 6.Every Chinese knows KARATE 7.Every toothpaste is MACLEAN 8.Every white man is RICH and CONNECTED 9.Every police takes BRIBE 10.Every rich muslim is ALHAJI while the poor ones are MALLAM 11.Every noodle food is INDOMIE 12.Every Brazilian is a FOOTBALLER 13.Every igbo man likes MONEY 14.Every guy on suit is LEARNED 15.Every guy that owns a car is RICH 16.Every kidnapper comes from NIGER DELTA. 17.Every warri guy thinks his talent is comedy. 18.Every slim girl thinks her calling is modelling. True or False |
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He was drenched with sweat by the time he wriggled himself through the narrow entrance of his room into the pa$$ageway. Looking very depressed and drowsy that Thursday afternoon, he dragged himself along the hole-ridden pa$$age and collapsed into the rickety sofa beside the staircase that leads to the upper floors in one of the buildings in the barracks. With frustration written all over his face, Emma Uden (not real names), a sergeant in the police, kept muttering to himself, but dosed off few minutes later. Apparently disturbed by the music blaring in his neighbourhood, Uden could not but open his eyes feebly and intermittently. His pain was obvious to anyone who came across him, but the reason for his frustration was largely unknown. However, as Uden would later tell PUNCH in a conversation he grudgingly consented to, since the apartment allotted to him in the barracks collapsed in June last year, he and his family had been living in the kitchen of one of the dilapidated buildings in Pedro police barracks, Somolu, Lagos. That was his main frustration. “It was the only alternative we had at that time,” he said, as he unbuttoned his shirt to enjoy some fresh air. Since he and his family were constrained to live in a room (kitchen), he said life had become one of bitterness and frustration. To escape the intense heat of the day and the constant constraint of space that his family of six could never live comfortably with, Uden had been used to sitting outside anytime he was home. Hoping that respite could eventually come his way if he opened up to Saturday PUNCH, Uden wasted no time in leading their correspondent to his room where he lives with his wife and their four children. He opened the door and lowered his head as he made to enter, to avoid being bruised on the head by the doorframe. As he opened the curtain for Punch to enter, the odour, which seemed like a mixture of wet rug and accumulated sweat, that oozed out of the stuffy room was disturbing and could make anybody puke. The room was like a store reserved for unused household items. The only window in the room appeared dysfunctional while the base of the wall that was visible was seriously dampened, and the ceiling riddled with signs of serious dilapidation. Expectedly, Uden, whose four children had occupied the only bed in the room, appeared discomfited by the state of the place he called home as he continually scratched his head to look for the right words. Even though he is not alone in such a tortuous situation in the premises, he said he had resorted to coming home just to sleep, unless he was off duty. This, he said, was to avail his family some space in the room and that sometimes he would rather stay in his office or volunteer to go on patrol, all in a bid to stay away from home. They don’t even live alone in the house, occasionally, the family live with big rats that find their way out of the broken septic tank located close to the kitchen into the room. He said: “When we were still living in the room and parlour before our building collapsed last year, we were managing because of the small space, not to talk of now that we have just one room, which used to be a kitchen. It’s like living in a cave. That is the lot of most of us. “Can you imagine that? We live in a kitchen, and you want policemen to be your friends while you all live in your comfortable mansions. You expect us to carry rifle and risk our lives to protect people. Haba!” His pa$$ionate expression of grief was second to none, even though he said he had concluded arrangements to leave the barracks for a room and parlour accommodation he secured somewhere in Bariga area of Lagos. He added: “If nobody takes care of us, we will take care of ourselves, because apart from the space issue, we (residents of this barracks) queue to use toilet and bathroom, because the ones available are not adequate. So we queue to bathe every morning. Here, three-room and parlour flats share one toilet and bathroom. For me and my family who live in an abandoned kitchen, we pair with another flat. So, we join the queue every morning. Don’t forget that we are all adults with families. I feel ashamed that I go through this every morning. Tell those people in government what you saw here. Let them know we are suffering. Even when we get to the office, we either sit under the tree or stand in the sun.”. www.gltrends.com/we-live-like-rats-yet-nigerians-want-us-to-be-their-friends-police-see-sad-photos/
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President Buhari this morning departed Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport for a one day State visit to the Republic of Benin. According to Garba Shehu, The President will hold talks with President Boni Yayi as part of moves in strengthening regional cooperation against Boko Haram. More pics after the cut. www.gltrends.com/buhari-departs-nigeria-for-a-1-day-state-visit-to-the-republic-of-benin-see-photos/
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Over the years, many Nigerians have debated whether Lagos is better than Abuja with remarks been tossed like grenades across both sides. Sometimes, we are caught in a web of fierce argument about the two cities. However, Abuja and Lagos are famous and great cities in the country.http://www.travelstart.com.ng/blog/10-reasons-why-lagos-is-better-than-abuja/ |
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4 students of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Ojeere, Abeokuta, have been killed in a clash between rival cults, Eiye and Bucaneer. An ND II student of Ma$$ Communication, identified as Demola, an ND II student of Computer Engineering, Muraina ‘Elebe’ Ibrahim, as well as two others were said to have been killed in the violent clashes between the groups. The Ogun state Police Public Relations officer, DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, was quoted as saying that 9 students had been arrested in connection with the killings. Some students have protested the arrests, claiming those arrested were innocent. DSP Adejobi further stated that all persons found guilty would be paraded and charged. www.gltrends.com/4-dead-as-cult-groups-eiye-bucaneer-clash-in-abeokuta-see-photos/
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