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She may be a secret admirer

According to the governor, “our state is under siege by bandits, kidnappers, with castle rustlers taking the third position. Armed robbery is the order of the day.”

Agaju Madugba, Katsina

Barely 24 hours after Governor Bello Masari of Katsina raised the alarm on the invasion of the state by armed bandits from neighbouring Zamfara, the state government has expressed doubts if the general elections scheduled to begin with the presidential polls next month will hold in parts of the state because of the precarious security situation across some eight local government areas.

Katsina under siege of bandits – Gov Masari
Governor Masari had last Wednesday alerted the nation, at the opening ceremony of an emergency security meeting at the Government House, that armed robbers and kidnappers had literally taken over Katsina State as he consequently tagged the state unsafe for anybody including him.

Briefing reporters on Thursday evening, on some of the deliberations at the meeting, the Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Mustapha Mohammed Inuwa, warned that unless the security situation is addressed the elections may not hold in at least eight local government areas of the state.

Described as frontline locations controlled by bandits and cattle rustlers, the local government areas are, Jibia, Batsari, Safana, Dan-Musa, Faskari, Sabuwa, Dandume, Kankara and parts of Kafur, Masari’s local government. Jibia shares “porous” boundaries with the Republic of Niger, routes activities of unrepentant smugglers thrive with regular bloody clashes with joint security patrol teams from Nigeria and Niger. Apart from this, the local governments have a common denominator governing them as they are all linked with the Rugu forest, said to be some 2010 square kilometres stretch, starting from the Republic of Niger, through to Katsina and parts of Kaduna State. Comparable only to the dreaded Sambisa forest in Borno State, Rugu forest is reportedly a comfort zone for bandits and other criminal elements who apparently exploit the terrain to remain virtually out of reach of the security forces.

According to Mustapha, “certainly, if the situation continues this way, it is going to affect the elections. If you ask INEC officials to go and conduct the elections in the affected areas they may not be willing to go there. We have to safeguard the places before the elections.”

The expanded security council meeting had traditional rulers, security chiefs in the state, interim local council chairmen from the affected local government areas, village heads and religious leaders, among others in attendance. Mustapha said that the meeting resolved to raise a committee which he heads, to examine all the issues discussed and how to tackle them.

As he put it, “I hope you are all aware of the measures this government has been taking in handling the security situation in the state. We have archived a lot especially in the area of cattle rustling and banditry. We were able to curtail the issue of castle rustling to a reasonable level and banditry to to some extent because of the measures taken by government. Unfortunately, a couple of weeks back, the issue of kidnapping became so serious to a level that the experience we had over cattle rustling became a child’s play.

“The meeting identified lack of synergy among the security forces fighting bandits in Zamfara Kaduna and Katsina states. We agreed that these states and the Republic of Niger must come together to tackle this problem headlong. The meeting also identified that the security is grossly inadequate especially the police and therefore mandated the governor to solicit the assistance of the Inspector-General of Police to increase the police personnel and equip them with modern equipment.

“We may also have to de-gazzete some of the frontline areas where these activities take place, particularly the forests close the urban centres in the state. Those places were initially designed to be grazing areas for livestock but the criminals have turned them to their hiding place. The Emirs of Katsina and Daura as well as the ulama will be involved in this and we urge them not only to intensify their prayers but to equally continually appeal to their subjects to fear God.”

Analysing the security situation in the state, an apparently embattled Masari had told participants at the meeting on Wednesday that, “no one, including myself, is safe, I am not safe.” He ranked cattle rustling number three on his list of acts of prevailing threats to security of lives and property in the state, noting that kidnaping and armed robbery have taken the centre stage.

According to the governor, “our state is currently under serious siege, by bandits, kidnappers, with castle rustlers taking the third position. Kidnaping is now the order of the day in Katsina State. Armed robbery is also now the order of the day in Katsina State. Only two days ago, some people left my residence at about 3am and when they got to the Ring Road area, a gang of of about five fully armed men robbed them at gunpoint. So, this is how bad it has become now. All the security reports I received today (Wednesday) is either about kidnapings or armed robbery. So, our state is under siege and that is why we decided to call for this extra-ordinary meeting. No one, including myself is safe. A woman, I was told, was abducted by kidnappers and after demanding N5 million they shot the person who took the money to them.”

The Zamfara connection
The eight most affected local governments in Katsina share boundaries with Zamfara State where armed banditry currently reigns supreme, according to reports. Traveling on the 150-kilometre Jibia – Gusua road through Kaura Namoda has become nightmarish for motorists as bandits continue to harvest commuters and abduct them into the nearby forests around Gidan Jaja, Chabas and Yan Bedi, all close to Katsina. According a recent report, victims whose relations are not able to pay the ransom demanded are butchered and sold as spare parts to herbalists.

Last week, some 2000 persons, according to the Katsina State Emergency Management Agency, fled their communities in Zamfara and currently taking refuge at various locations in Kankara local government area of Katsina.

Until recently, bandits had found fertile ground in parts of Katsina State with hoodlums embarking on bloody raids on a number of communities in Safana, Batsari, Jibia, Danmusa, Kurfi, Dutsima, Kankakara, Dandume, Faskari and Sabuwa local government areas.

It’s leadership failure, PDP claims
Reacting to the Masari outcry, the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Katsina State urged both Masari and President Buhari to step aside, having failed, according to the party, to provide the necessary security for citizens. According to the PDP Chairman who is also the party’s governorship running mate, Alhaji Salisu Majigiri, “this is a confession from the Chief Security Officer of the state and I think the best thing Masari can do is to take the path of honour and step aside as governor. His resignation will pave way for Katsina not to continue to be under siege.”



https://www.sunnewsonline.com/armed-bandits-take-over-8-lgas-in-katsina/

This is what happens when kids are given too much sexual exposure before maturity. They get rotten early and start becoming a mess before their mates.
Anyway, her mother who ought to be her role model is apparently proud of what she has become- a farm tool. Maybe she's continuing where the mother stopped

If only you know how many groups that had scammed Buhari in the name of endorsement. That's how one woman from US walked into our airport with her con team, made their way to our presidential villa and met with Buhari under the guise of Martin Luther King's family where they endorsed him and of course received the kind of dollars they can't see in America. They had gone back to the US before our dumb presidency realize they've been scammed

Hypocrites will find it funny but will call for the arrest and persecution of the person that named his goat Buhari

Removing buhari and all traces of this evil regime is a job that must be done by all

Alhaji Tanko Yakassai stated:

I know that the woman from her childhood. Her father worked with me as my Permanent Secretary before later he became the Emir of Kazaure. We maintained a cordial relationship until he passed on. However, the relationship between him and Buhari is something that I know of. Anybody around during that time also can confirm this. He (the late Emir) married the senior sister to Buhariand he (Buhari) started his childhood in the late emir’s house.

The mother of this woman (Zakari) was either the first or second wife. Aside from that, Buhari stayed with him for sometime in Kazaure. I know that the relationship is true.

You won't see this on nairaland front page. Let it be a rebuttal by Femi Adesina or Festus keyamo, you will quickly see it on front page.
There are two things that make frontpage on nairaland. 1. Anything that markets or promotes the APC message
2. Any news that ridicules or demonizes the PDP or it's candidates.

We are watching this bias. If you doubt it, look now at naira land front page in the last two weeks

He boldly stated it that he is still in apc but their faction is in alliance with PDP under the CUPP arrangement. That he knows that when buhari loses, the rogues in apc today will jump ship from the apc, then he will take back apc and reform it to a true party

Imolites bid Rochas farewell ahead May 2019

- Say Uche Nwosu can’t be governor

- Advise him to prepare handover

As Imo State government of APC under governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha heads to its final exit on May 29, 2019, a cross section of citizens of the state have used the new year celebration to bid farewell to his administration which they say was a harbinger of excruciating poverty, pains, insensitivity and high handedness never witnessed in the history of the state before. Owelle Rochas who rode into office as governor under the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA in 2011 with unprecedented support and goodwill later drifted and became the most detested leader that provoked hatred and dislike from the populace.

The administration of Okorocha during its first tenure appeared to have a populist coloration as he was hailed everywhere he went, drawing mainly on his free education policy that removed the burden of school fees from parents. During that period also, Imolites witnessed opening and rehabilitation of rural roads, building of hospitals in the 27 LGAs among other projects.
But soon into his second term, things went awry and the governor turned into an emperor, dishing out one trouble each day for those that brought him into power under distressful conditions. He targeted at civil servants and pensioners, cutting their meager salaries and pensions against wide spread condemnation by Imolites and against pronouncements of the courts. He listened to no one in the demolition of properties of poor citizens including the summary demolition of Ekeukwu and New Markets in the Capital City Owerri. The governor was not perturbed regarding the cries of the people as he bestrode the Imo landscape with the swag of a dictator, calling everybody’s bluff and making Imo look like a personal enterprise. Lately, in 2018, he positioned himself as the landlord and estate manager of Imo politics by decreeing that his in-law, Uche Nwosu must be his successor willy-nilly.

He rejected wise counsel from his party men and women and owned up to his own instincts. He allegedly handed over juicy contract and political appointments to his immediate and extended family members with reckless abandon. In laws of all descriptions, siblings and what have you were not left out in this bold and mindless sharing of offices and properties. At some point in time some of these persons held more than one office while the masses of the state and his party faithful mainly groped for the least lucrative position. He created the Ministry of Happiness and Couple Fulfilment and brought his younger sibling to head it as Commissioner. The list is endless, but finally, an intervention came for APC and Ndimo as the Governor now turned into a spectator in the affairs of the party he boasted was his brainchild.

As Imolites joined their counterparts all over the world to mark the end of 2018 and to usher in 2019, the citizens expressed joy that their bondage under Governor Rochas Okorocha is only few weeks to be over when a replacement will come to chart a new and rewarding course for all. A cleric and pastor of God’s Covenant Church in Owerri, Deacon Solomon Nwosu described the experience of Imo people in the past few years as the semblance of the travails of Israelites in the land of Egypt. He encouraged Christians in the state to pray fervently for a governor that will be a clean departure from the outgoing one who will be a yoke breaker and friend of the poor.

The clergy insisted that only a kind hearted governor from a credible parentage and known pedigree is good enough to run the affairs of the state. According to him, “Imo must be returned to its past glory of the Mbakwe era where covetousness and greed for materialism was subordinated under service to the people. I encourage all Imolites to ensure that they rise to the occasion in electing a credible governor for Imo state by making their PVCs ready and participating in the election proper. As for Uche Nwosu, it is a tall order for him to be elected as governor. Both spiritually and physically, he is rejected, and should find something else to do”.

Speaking also, an APC stalwart who belongs to the coalition group but who doesn’t want to be named told our newspaper that what the present governor should busy himself with is to begin the preparation of his handover note to his successor. He predicted that Governor Rochas Okorocha will be a candidate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to answer for the alleged mismanagement of the resources of Imo State. “Rochas will not escape jail. His handling of the affairs of the state is not only suspicious but an issue that any investigator will make good result from”, he stated.

How do you explain this under President Buhari's nepotic and tribalistic appointments.


Commander in chief is from North West
National Security Adviser is from North East
Minister of Defence is from North East
Chief of Army Staff is from North East
Chief of Air Staff is from North East
National Intelligence Agency boss is from North West
Department of Security Service is from North East
Inspector General of Police is from North Central
NSCDC Commandant is from North West
Customs Boss is from North East

Yet southern Nigeria is still safer than the north

Blackfire:
The only person they have not blamed is Muhammad the founder of Islam

There is no need for Mohammed when they have already blamed God for their failures


https://www.nairaland.com/2880656/breaking-news-apc-blame-god

www.nairaland.com/2881288/apc-blames-god-econ

Mark my words. This will be shot to front page. As long as it discredits the PDP and it's chieftains, nairaland will push it forward

There is something about Islam that is averse to progress, joy, peace, prosperity and development

Chelsea needs to buy strikers and not wingers.
Also why would the coach drop Victor Moses and then cough out so much to buy someone that does exactly the same thing

11doubledee:
So the family can't afford an autopsy right? Even if it is employ foreign experts.

By then he will be dead. Will autopsy bring him back

Hoodbilonia:
hahahaha
dino pls abeg allow us rest
come out u bastardised coward
hahahahaha
monkey on a tree
dino the baboon
hahahahaha
i cant wait till he gets injected
lethal dose things

This is how people will laugh and jeer when your father will be injected with these substances. Amen.

GreenNegro:
Please respect yourself and come out na

My brother, I want to ask you a question and I need your honest answer.
If some police officers (probably) leaks to your father of a plan within their hierarchy to abduct him and inject him with a poisonous substance that will gradually kill him off. Your father cries out but people instead mock and laugh at him and about 3 days later police surround his house with a vehement order to abduct him.

Will you advise your father to respect himself and come out, knowing it may be his last on earth.

dermmy:
Dino pls let us rest. We are tired of this

He had received info that he will be killed by a poisonous injection on this abduction. And before our eyes we are seeing dictatorship play out and this is what we are saying?
Why have we become so depraved

Olalan:
Come out of hiding and face the police, only cowards behave this way.

It seems you don't get it. Before this raid, he had received info (probably from within the police) that they are coming for him and the plan is to inject him with a poisonous substance that will gradually kill him. That will leave his kids fatherless.
And a few days later, the Police raids his house with full intent to abduct him.
Don't you see that this is not about "coming out to face the Police?"
He may be injected to his gradual death

A man whose words and actions often led to the lynching of poor innocent southerners

The truth is this: any girl not ready to be submissive to her husband should stay in her father's house

Nigerians should ponder over this.
Britain is a Christian nation (especially at the precolonial days). They colonised Nigeria and yet left Islam to be till today.

Now ask yourself, "If Nigeria is colonised by an Islamic nation, will they allow Christianity to be?"


And yet they claim the religion of peace.

Most of these fools spewing this trash, their kids are in UK, USA and other European nations "balling" .

Anybody that is honest and unbiased knows that things have gone far worse since buhari took over.


....though because of tribe or religion or party loyalty, some will deny it

The Zamfara Government has donated N8.5 million to families of deceased and injured Nigerien soldiers during an ambush by bandits during a joint operation by the Nigeria Army and Nigerien soldiers at Dumburum forest in Zurmi Local Government area of the state.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the incident happened when the criminals laid ambush against the soldiers during which five of the Nigeriens were killed.



The donation was presented to officials of the Government of Niger Republic by Gov. Abdulaziz Yari on Monday when he visited Maradi to commiserate with the Nigerien government and families of the victims.

Mr Yari was received by the Nigerien Minister of Defence, Kalla Muktari, Governor of Maradi State, Zakiri Umar and other Niger Government officials.

Mr Yari said the donation was to support their families.

NAN further reports that each of the five families of the deceased soldiers would be given One million Naira; N500,000 would be presented to each of the five injured soldiers while N1 million would be given to the Commander of the soldiers who was also injured during the incident,” he said.

He described the incident as unfortunate and prayed to Almighty Allah to give their families the fortitude to bear the loss.



He pledged to sustain long and good relationship between Nigeria and Niger Republic, particularly between Zamfara and Maradi states.

He said the collaboration between Nigeria and Niger Republic, especially tackling insecurity challenges, was necessary and should be improved.

“We will cooperate and work together to ensure effective inter-border security to protect the lives and properties of our people,” he said.

Responding, the Governor of Maradi State, Umaru Zakari, thanked the Zamfara Government for the visit and described it as timely and a welcome development.



He said Maradi had a long existing good relationship with Zamfara.

“We will continue and work with Zamfara State, particularly in the areas of security and border control,” he said.

NAN also reports the governor and his entourage attended the funeral prayer for the Nigerien soldiers.

The governor’s delegation comprised Emir of Zurmi, Abubukar Atiku, Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Sanusi Rikiji, Secretary to the State Government, Abdullahi Shinkafi, commissioners and local government chairmen.


https://dailynigerian.com/zamfara-donates-n8-5m-to-families-of-fallen-niger-republic-soldiers/

By Churchill Umoren
December 31,2018

Do you recall the $190,000 (N70m) Lamborghini Huracan flown in on an Emirate flight last week. That car belongs to President Buhari's son in law, Ismaila Isa Funtua, married to Buhari's daughter, Sefinatu. He tackled Gov Masaru for Katsina govt house.

His dad, Isa Funtua, is a wheeler dealer and member of Buhari's store cabinet. He was one of those behind the plot to remove VP Osinbajo. Elder Funtua is the chairman of Bulet International Construction Company, which was involved in the development of the new capital in Abuja in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but ran into over N10b debt but with NNPC and Forex deals debt have been practically cleared. Bounced back once his inlaw became president.

In 2016, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Aribisala, obtained a judgment on behalf of Union Bank against ISA Funtua and his companies to sell those companies because they were owing Union Bank over N10 billion. They could not execute the judgment because Funtua reached out to Buhari who reached the IGP who did not bring out the police. Anyone who is in doubt should ask Aribisala, SAN for a copy of the order. Today he is a billionaire

Funtua through his connection to Buhari makes tons of millions of dollars weekly. He gets $12m weekly from d CBN @ N305, approved by Buhari which he sells in the black market for N370 per $. He is a strong member of the ruling cabal in the villa. That is why the govt has maintained and sustained a fraudulent forex regime with the widest disparity between official rate and parallel market. The young son is so wealthy and rolls in same multi millionaire circle with Yusuf Buhari ( president's son) who recently crashed his N56m power bike and billionaire son of former FCT minister shamusedeen Bala Mohammed . Ismaila and Yusuf sources say, are top dealers at the NNPC where Elder Funtua makes monthly kills. The CBN governor can not look Isa Funtua in the eyes, ask those who know.

johnpologyidea:
This is not the reason to take human life report him to security, he who kill by the sword die by the sword.

The uncle has killed many of them and he is the next to be killed, so he acted first. Besides, he can't report to the Police because the uncle didn't kill them by physical means that can be proven in court. So it's a complicated case the boy had in his hands

Does it look to him like buhari is interested in the unity of this country. A man that openly stated these will certainly not care if the nation is set on fire

Small boy dey worry this kid

These girls are usually the best to date and marry. They always have so much love to give.

The way some of these girls vehemently lie when caught you will feel like slapping them for insulting your inrelligence.
That's how one girl who was scheming to marry a rich sugar daddy from ogun state got pregnant and on delivery born a half caste and she started swearing that it must have been the semen of her ex white boy friend whom she dated a long time ago that was still in her. Imagine

If a free and fair election is conducted and there were no use of underage voters or illegal voters from Chad and Niger or rigging by apc stalwarts and governors or even compromise by inec, police, dss and army, buhari won't win one full state, not even katsina