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Let the battle begin

The Govenorship election holds in Ekiti state this year 2018.

Below is the schedule of activities as outlined by INEC.

INEC Time Table for Ekiti 2018 Governorship Election

1. Notice of election - 4th April, 2018

2. Commencement of campaign by Political Parties in public - 15th April, 2018

3. Collection of Forms for the election by Political Parties at INEC Headquarters - 16th April, 2018

4. Conduct of Party Primaries including resolution of disputes arising from the primaries - 15th April, 2018 - 14th May, 2018

5. Last day for submission of Forms CF001 and CF002 at the INEC Headquarters - 15th May, 2018

6. Publications of Personal Particulars of candidates (CF001) and list of candidates - 22nd May, 2018

7. Last day for withdrawal by candidate(s)/replacement of withdrawn candidate(s) by Political Parties - 30th May, 2018

8. Last day for the submission of Nomination forms by Political Parties - 13th June, 2018

9. Publication of official Register of Voters for the election - 14th June, 2018

10. Publication of final list of nominated candidates - 14th June, 2018

11. Publication of Notice of Poll - 30th June, 2018

12. Submission of names of Party Agents for the Election to the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) - 30th June, 2018

13. Last day for campaigns - 12th July, 2018

14. Date of election - 14th July, 2018

From INEC, ABUJA.

More updates coming, stay tuned

President Muhammadu Buhari is a trained and experienced soldier. He went through rigorous training at the Nigerian Military College, the Mons Officers’ Cadet School, Aldershot in the United Kingdom as well as the Defence Services Staff College at Wellington, India.

His training at the elite Army War College in the United States was the equivalent of a finishing school for top-drawer soldiers. He has also tasted battle in the war theatres in the Congo as well as in Nigeria during the Biafran war. So in military and security matters he has earned his epaulettes and appropriate bragging rights to go with them.

When, therefore, his campaigners told Nigerians in 2015 that he would rescue the Chibok School girls captured during President Goodluck Jonathan’s tenure and that he would tame the other security demons many Nigerians had no reason to nurse any doubt. He has rescued some of the Chibok girls from captivity but many of them still remain locked away in a place we know not.

Since his assumption of office as President in 2015 many other security challenges have sprung up challenging the ingenuity of this battle-tested former general. They have stretched his military know-how to its elastic limit. Now with the myriads of security issues that have mushroomed many analysts are wondering whether Buhari was properly assessed or simply overrated.

The main thrust of this article is to examine whether or not Buhari’s strategy is a winning one. His strategy seems to be based on the thinking that since blood is thicker than water, blood will win the day for him.

He chose to appoint all his top security chiefs from his own part of the country.

The roll call:
Dan Alli (Minister of Defence),

Lawan Danbazzau (Minister of Interior),

Babagana Monguno (National Security Adviser),

Tukur Buratai (Chief of Army Staff),

Lawal Daura (Director General, DSS),

Ibrahim Idris (Inspector General of Police)
and
Ahmed Abubakar (Director General, NIA).

The federal character implications of this skewed selection may not have occurred to him readily but he apparently thought if he chose his “contrymen” they will not hesitate to protect his interest or to do his bidding. What he apparently did not avert his mind to is that extreme familiarity may not necessarily breed contempt for him but recalcitrance, lackadaisicalness and a my-brother-will-do-nothing-to-me attitude. Besides, some of the people who have compromised the security of the country, for example, the herdsmen, are their “contrymen”.

The security men’s sense of duty seems, despite Buhari’s directives to them, to conflict with their bonds of kith-ness and kin-ness. They do not think it will be appropriate to punish their brothers and sisters who are causing mayhem in the country and a poor security image for Buhari and the country.

I do not believe, as some people have alleged, that Buhari is guilty of complicity in the matter. There is no way a leader would gladly permit some people even if they are his kinsmen to damage his legacy as they are doing to him now. My belief is simply that Buhari is unable to muster the political will to tackle the issue frontally and forcefully.

The President has asked the security agencies to fish out and bring to justice criminals who have been committing mayhem but so far no one has been punished. That is not only a disobedience to lawful instructions but an affront to constituted authority.

That the President’s instructions are not carried out and the failure to carry it out does not attract any punishment shows a pathetic lack of political will by the President. If he would step back and reflect he would notice that those who have done the greatest havoc to his legacy have been the people territorially close to him.

The EFCC Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, has failed confirmation screening at the Senate twice because of a damning report written about him by the Department of State Security Service. And who runs that department? Buhari’s man.

The former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir David Lawal, whose corruption case was investigated by the Senate poisoned, with his rough tongue, Buhari’s relationship with the Senate. As a mark of loyalty to Lawal, Buhari assumed the status of his emergency defence lawyer on a matter that he should have distanced himself from as a sign of the seriousness of his anti-corruption crusade.

It took a ferocious fight by the media and civil society groups for Buhari to remove Lawal from office. The public is uncertain whether or not he will go on trial. The Maina corruption saga, its cover-up attempt, his promotion and his mysterious escape give a sordid image of either a government in disarray or one in want of rectitude. And who are the major culprits? Buhari’s men.

Now the mindless massacre of 73 human beings by Fulani herdsmen in Benue State on New Year’s day was a wicked new year’s gift to Nigeria. A few months ago the same group of gangsters had burnt a whole village called Agatu, killed and maimed hundreds of people. There are said to be about 40,000 displaced persons in the State now. When I saw the rows and rows of caskets, all 73 of them, lined up for burial tears welled up in my eyes. I knew what they were burying were not the caskets but human beings who were bubbling with life a day before their extermination by some nihilists. The nihilists said in justification for the killing: “because our cows were stolen.”

I am not from Benue State but my brother and friend, Dan Agbese comes from there. We work together in Lagos but each time that these mindless murderers have struck I have had to express my condolences to him. On this last occasion I did not know how best to convey my feelings. I simply said to him: “sorry for all these killings.” And my eyes were misty with tears. Dan has no relation among the dead. Neither do I. but I felt as if I had. Come to think of it are we not all related one way or another by our joint humanity. Our joint humanity is our umbilical cord which these fellows with terrorist credentials are taking away. But what saddens me more is the tepid response by the Federal Government. Yes, there is the obligatory press release condemning the atrocity and expressing the President’s feelings of sorrow and condolence to the families of the lost persons.

This has now become so mechanical that it is almost meaningless. Why doesn’t the President speak to the nation and convey in his own voice the gravity of his feelings. That is what leaders elsewhere do. What is stopping him from doing that? Why doesn’t the President enter the aircraft and land in Makurdi, or Kaduna or Port Harcourt or wherever these killings happen at a horrendous scale and personally sympathise with the people.

That is what Presidents elsewhere do to show their sadness, sobriety, sympathy and empathy and the desire to curb the excesses. The President would be arriving at any of these killing fields with the full force of his moral authority and presidential aura to indicate that he truly cares. Yes, the President ordered the \minister of Interior and Inspector General of Police to move into Benue and do what they are paid to do. The fact of asking these two men to go to the theatre of the killing means it was serious enough to demand even the President’s presence. It would have made a huge difference. I hope the President can still do it when it is not too late. It is his voice that can assuage the feelings of the bereaved not the voice of his hired hands.

Something else happened a day after the 73 dead persons were surrendered to the worms in a mass grave. Seven governors of the ruling party, APC, went to Buhari and told him he should run for re-election in 2019. It is their right to say to the President whatever they want, but don’t they have human feelings? Seventy three people had just been buried the day before from the reckless activities of some herdsmen who are destroying the President’s legacy.

If they loved the President they should have advised him to go to Benue and make some mollifying gestures to the angry people of that state. Instead their leader, Nasir El-Rufai, governor of Kaduna State said arrogantly: “We are politicians and those of us you see here want the President to contest the 2019 election. We have no apologies for that.” That is insensitive. That is heartless. What sort of politicians are these?

That statement is like pissing on the dead bodies of the 73 persons. It is unconscionable, crude and cruel. The timing is supremely imperfect. Is it that all that they care about is the 2019 election? If this trend of mindless killings continues or escalates unchecked how do they know that we will still have anything to call a country by then? Or an election to contest.

From all indications Buhari’s thesis of securing the country by appointing only his “contrymen” to man the key security arms has suffered a severe setback. It has failed. He therefore needs to do an urgent rethink so as to retool the security architecture of the country and reduce the prevailing agony.


RAY EKPU
(Colunmist Guardian)

https://www.guardian.ng/opinion/a-failed-thesis/

And suddenly EFCC find their Voice;



No matter your media destractions we say No Distraction; No Colony


Take your colony to Sambisaa forest

seguno2:
Choose your answer:

a) Nothing was recovered. All na wash.
b) Recovered loot has been re-looted by the biggest rogues of today.
c) Mixture of both.

All na answer jare.

Media recovered money.

They recovered money from those theg gave money to

EFCC so predictable

And suddenly EFCC get their voice.


We say no to Fulani Colony

Medis trial distractions continue

As usual

Delegations from the National Secretariat of People Democratic Party are right now in Makurdi, the Benue state capital to commiserate with Governor Ortom and the people of the state over the unfortunate killings of 73 innocent Nigerians by Herdsmen.

Segvet:
I received one of this rice as a Christmas gift from the Governor. am a civil servant. please stop the propaganda

Pinsure-of-you recieveing it

Pinsure of market purchase

SLIDEwaxie:
You igbos and your funny propaganda

You were able to knw that they were sands but no pictures of the one that you actually opened to reveal the sands, right?

The same rice that people bought during the launch and is still available at farmers market throughout the state!



I bought mine at the farmers market at Asero Abeokuta.
This is funny, I swear

Arakunrin eyi kin se aroye tabi awawi asan

Pinsure-or-i don't believe your epistle above

Thursday, 21st December, 2017 was another red-letter day in Ogun State. In one iconic gesture, unprecedented in the annals of the state, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, the governor of Ogun State, unveiled the MITROS Rice Processing Factory and MITROS Rice.


Against the backdrop of the role rice plays in the lives of the overwhelming majority of Nigerians and that close to one trillion naira (N1 trillion) of our money is expended annually on importation of the commodity, one cannot but agree with Governor Amosun that the inauguration of MITROS Rice Mill and MITROS Rice was a “watershed”.



This water should now flow over the arable land across the country with rice pyramids levitating in every nook and cranny till we the nation achieves zero rice importation.

Rice is like water in Nigeria. To appropriate the inimitable Fela Anikulapo Kuti, “Raisi, e no get enemy!” (Rice has no enemy). Tell me one house where rice is not a staple food and I will tell you no such home exists in Nigeria. It’s quite possible, but I’m yet to encounter a child who does not like rice. Fried, jollof or white, rice it is for millions of Nigerians!


Ogun Rice Pyramid

How rice became a staple food, attained a larger than life image in our country, is outside the scope of this exercise. It suffices to emphasize that a situation where humongous part of our scarce Forex is expended on importation of rice is not sustainable.

The current Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, once lamented the culture of rice importation: “We cannot afford $5m a day for rice shipments in this country. It has gone on for 40 years. And I assure you that it is our reckless policy of importation that has brought Nigeria down to where she is now. Those who keep talking of imports either do not mean Nigeria well or simply refuse to recognise the fact that we cannot afford the imports.”


It is even more embarrassing that we import this staple from the strategic reserves of developing countries. Most of the imports are of doubtful nutritional value, some of the grains having been stored for upward of ten years.

Why should Nigeria with unemployment problem continue to create millions of jobs for other countries through mindless imports?

Why should we continue to put pressure on our foreign exchange by expending two billion dollars ($2 billion) yearly on rice importation? Can’t we eat what we grow? Can’t we grow what we eat? What about the vast hectares of God-given arable land to this country?

President Muhammadu Buhari would no longer stomach the abnormal situation, hence the setting up of Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) on November 17, 2015 and later Presidential Task Force on Agricultural Commodities and Production. Governor Amosun as well recoils at this gargantuan amount of money used to fund the economies of other nations, hence his indefatigable commitment to break the jinx and ensure we plant, process and package what we consume.

According to Amosun, “Our past efforts at tackling poverty in all ramifications will amount to nothing if concerted efforts are not taken to ensure food security to people at all income levels. This is why today is a significant day, not just for Ogun State, but for Nigeria as well. The MITROS Rice Mill, the first of its kind in Ogun State, will create jobs for our farmers. From now on they will no longer need to travel far and wide in search of milling facilities.”

The MITROS Rice, especially the popular Ofada rice, is of better quality, hygienic and fresh in comparison to imports of contentious nutritional value. The MITROS rice, apart from creating thousands of direct and indirect jobs, costs less than the imported ones and has been bagged for the benefit of every segment of the society – 1kg, 5kg, 10kg, 25kg and 50kg.

“Ladies and Gentlemen,” enthused Amosun at the landmark event, “this is a day of great pride for our State. Today, Ogun State joins the proud league of rice-producing States in Nigeria, and MITROS Rice becomes part and parcel of the unfolding story of Nigeria’s rice revolution. The journey of a thousand miles, it is said, begins with a single step.

Today, we take that step, confident that the journey ahead of us will yield results and impact our people beyond our most ambitious expectations. We will be keen learners, and strive to get better with each passing day, and each planting season. And, we are extending our hand of partnership to the private sector; we welcome you to take the lead in this agricultural revolution that is unfolding in Ogun State.”

The Amosun administration has now blazed a trail in rice revolution. Big (and small businesses) should now take advantage of the enabling environment created by the current government by investing massively in rice plantation, processing and packaging in Ogun State.

The Governor of the Central Bank, Mr Godwin Emefiele, said the apex bank would give credit facility to farmers at five per cent interest rate as part of the Muhammadu Buhari government’s strategy to increase food production and self-sufficiency in the country.

We congratulate Senator Ibikunle Amosun for another feather in his cap. President Muhammadu Buhari deserves all plaudits for walking the talk in agriculture. Things can only get better in Ogun State and Nigeria at large.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/12/ogun-rice-revolution/

All in the name of what?


This is APC propaganda taken tooo faaaar

Elempiro and BMC crews over to you

Madridguy ki lo ri so si eyi

This got me cracking, i cannot lough alone

givan:
As good as it sounds, it is heart breaking.

Assuming ABUAD employees 2000 -which I

doubt it up to-- [let's say 500 academic, 1500non

academic] and it graduates 500 students every

academic year, where would a huge number of it

graduates be employed?

Nigeria needs to be restructured so it 'human

capital' would be successfully utilized.

ABUAD is setting up SME for those who are willing

cosby02:
Remember there is Federal University of Oye, Ekiti State University, federal poly Ado Ekiti. Politicians and lies sha.

Did yiu just want to talk.

What Afe Babalola University has all the Universities put together did not have the half.

Federal poly is directly opposite ABUAD

Just pay a visit their.

The difference is very clear

THOUSANDS of students in public schools in Osun were on Monday sent home over failure to pay school fees of N7,710 for the second term, which began in January 2018, Nigerian Tribune authoritatively gathered.

A large number of students, whose parents have not paid their fees were directed by their respective school’s management to vacate the premises of the school with immediate effect.
Sources informed our correspondent that the order to prevent such students from partaking in any form of academic activity commenced last week and it continued on Monday morning as many of the defaulting pupils were spotted roaming the streets of Osogbo, the state capital around 11.15 am.
Some of the affected students from Osogbo Government High School, Baptist High School, Ataoja Government High School, Salvation Army Middle School, Osogbo, among others, who spoke to the Nigerian Tribune urged the state government to be considerate and give their parents more time to pay their fees.

One of the students, identified as Segun Adegoke, who is in Grade 10 (SS1) stated that he was owing N7,710 for the second term, explaining that the fees excluded N1,000 lesson fees per term and evidence of tax payment from his parent.

When contacted, Osun State Commissioner for Education, Mr Kola Young, who spoke during a telephone chat with the Nigerian Tribune said he needed to read the text message forwarded to him before he could respond on the issue, adding that he was holding a meeting

The text message reads, “school fees are not paid in any Osun public, elementary, middle or high school. So, no student in Osun schools can or should be sent home for any school fees. Students, however, have been directed to show evidence of payment by their parents of taxes and Education Trust Levies.

We all know that everywhere in the world, successful economies depend on the payment of taxes by their productive citizens.”

http://www.tribuneonlineng.com/osun-govt-orders-school-fees-defaulters-return-home/

Seun:
I don’t understand you at all. Pls explain it to me as if I’m 5 years old. @yqrs

He was referring to the Signatures

moyoz:
Mtcheeew FAYOSE is busy showing KAYODE FAYEMI'S legacy as his achievements





Ur mumu nah DC( disscusion continue )

Legacy ko legendry ni

edupedia:
HOW MUCH OF NIGERIAN PROBLEMS ARE CATTLE HERDSMEN?
So PDP, IPOBS, and our corrupt pastors have eventually found new narratives and a new song to use to hang Buhari? It is titled “Fulani Herdsmen”. Now, all the problem with Nigeria is about cows, about beef, about grazing zones and about killings in Benue State whose causes have not even been properly analyzed to prevent future occurrences.
Which way are we going Nigerians? Are we serious about solving our problems or just surrounding one man with hate because another election is around the corner? If we so much care about those killed in Benue why is there little or no discussion about the real problem and solutions for preventing further killings? Why are u not holding Gov Ortom as the Chief Security officer for Benue responsible? Why are you not asking him what he has done with the huge annual security votes? And how many of the armchair critics of Buhari have read the relevant Benue State grazing law and how many know how it is being implemented. Instead, people are more interested in manipulating our heads and our minds for the purpose of making the wrongs of PDP forgivable for the coming elections.
Let’s find a way round APC and PDP. Let's solve Nigerian problems holistically instead of this attempt to turn us into mumus by hatred for one man and his ethnicity. Do not allow politicians turn your eyes away from the real problems of most Nigerians. These include corruption, an ineffective democratic system, expensive food, inadequate housing, high cost of transportation, poor health services, fuel shortages, irregular power supply, graduate unemployment, poor funding of education and lopsided appointments and employment into the Federal Civil Service. Etc
Now there are statements and radio recordings to bring GEJ the Nigerian Messiah back to the throne. A friend has reacted to this latest effort this way:
“Just as I thought! Some veiled campaign for GEJ. Except that we are not told which lessons he has learnt.The man never admitted to having committed any wrongs, anyway. He superintended over d mindless looting of d nation's wealth (which those in position to know admitted would take time to recover, no matter how smart d resetter. Aptly described, and actually seen as a blessed ATM without a secret PIN. No surreptitious attempts to rebrand and reintroduce GEJ will succeed, God helping Nigeria.”

So you can type this.

One word for you HYPOCRISY


Blame GEJ for chibok girls

But now Blame Ortom for Fulani Terrorist

elampiro:
What about the internal Assets?

So we should sell our asset to funds debt abi.

Oro radarada

You can tell them ro sell Aso Rock then.

And someone will tell me the fulani will stay in a colony.

Igi-gogoro ma gun mi loju.

Okere la ti n wooooo

jesusloveyou55:
you are right.
It will now be easy to monitor them,
as they will be registered within their colony

When will goat farmer's have their own colony

jesusloveyou55:
by the time they are all registered within their colony, it will be easier to checkmate them.

Who are those that will register them

MIKOLOWISKA:
OK
What does bmc mean

Buhari Media Centre Crews

ebenholer:
how I wish the southern governors can be wise and make a deal with northern governors to have several acres in return for a plot of land surrendered for colonies in the south cos land are costlier here than north.

Hahahahahaha very funny.

So they will go their to do what.

Build house that will be burnt down any moment.

Farm that there cattle will come and destroy.

No colony O Pari

ebenholer:
My opinion: States should give the FULANIS land colonies and test them if they would eventually breach peace. We shouldn't assume evil can be perpetrated by them for now. Others opinions may be differ though.

Haahahahahahaha.

I will tell you something.

Experience is the best teacher.

So no colony for them

O Pari

jesusloveyou55:
and you want Yoruba herdsmen to be declare terrorist.

You are mussling things up.

Yoruba Herders are civilized.

They cut grass for their cows.

MIKOLOWISKA:
abeg wetin bmc mean
And how do I assist them
Simple question you run

Run ke.

That is all what the OP is all about and all BMC crew are jittering from answering the questions.

You can as well help them out

MIKOLOWISKA:
abeg wetin bmc mean
And how do I assist them
Simple question you run

Buhari
Media
Centre


You First answer my question not me answering you.

Here are the questions again

1. What is bag of rice 2015 vs 2018

2. What is dollar rate 2015 vs 2018

3. What is PMS price oer litre 2015 vs 2018

4. What is pure water satchet 2015 vsb2018

5. I bag of fetrilizer 2015 vs 2018


So help them out if you are bold enough