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ABUJA —One year after he became the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has said he is still shocked at how former President Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat in the March 28, 2015, presidential elections and handed over the reins of power to him.

The President said it was such an incredible development that a man who had occupied various political offices as a deputy governor, governor, vice president and president could easily relinquish power to the opposition party, adding that Jonathan had by this gesture, distinguished himself as a generous and gracious man.

Buhari, who gave glowing tribute to his predecessor while hosting State House Correspondents to a luncheon at the new banquet hall of the Presidential Villa yesterday, was offering retrospective highlights of his early days in office after his inauguration.

He said that the last one year had been “a tumultuous year for everyone in the villa'', revealing that it was the congratulatory call from Jonathan made that prompted him to visit the Villa in with former Head of State, Abdusalami Abubakar, for appreciation.

He said: “I will talk about my experience here in Aso Villa. I underrated the influence of the PDP for 16 years, watching from outside as three consecutive governments went by.

“When we came, there were 42 ministries. We cut it to 24. This is where I pay my respect to former President Goodluck Jonathan. This is actually a privileged information for you. He called me at a quarter past five in the evening. He said good evening Your Excellency sir and I said good evening.

‘’He said I have called to congratulate you and have conceded defeat. Of course, there was dead silence on my end because I did not expect it. I was shocked. I did not expect it because after 16 years, the man was a deputy governor, governor, Vice President and was President for six years.

“For him to have conceded defeat even before the result was announced by INEC, was quite generous and gracious of him.

“Abdulsalam recognized the generosity of Jonathan to concede defeat and said we should go and thank him immediately and that was the first time I came here.”

The President stated that reducing the Ministries to 24 from 42 was the best decision to take in the face of the circumstances his government found itself.

“We had to do it on our own we found out that government could not continue with 42 ministers and the paraphernalia of office. So, we cut it down to 24. We had to cut down half the number of permanent secretaries and then do some cross postings”, he said.

On what civil servants did to 2016 Budget
President Buhari, however, regretted that some civil servants within the budgetary system “padded” his first budget for the country.

He said it was a “nasty experience” for him and his Ministers, who spent sleepless nights putting the document together.

He said: “For somebody like me, for the first time I heard what is called padding.

‘’I think we will recover by the fourth quarter of the year. There were very serious development which I never knew about.

“So, really it was a nasty experience for us. It was also a nasty experience for some of the ministers who were never in government. For them to sit down day and night to work. I saw them. Some of them literary lost weight because they were sleeping less and eating less. Working on every kobo to be spent.

“Because we became a mono-economy of oil-rich Nigeria, everybody relied on oil and forgot about solid minerals, agriculture, making and exploring things. We recently just found out that we are poor because we don’t have anything to fall back on. This is the condition we found ourselves and this change mantra had to go through hell up till yesterday.”


www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/2015-polls-jonathan-shocked-conceding-defeat-buhari/

baba one chance indeed.... Everything about this man na fake.... deceiving zombies since 18BC

ionsman:
You don't have sense. You think recovered funds are just used like that? There are processes. Educate yourself and stop being confidently ignorant.

Fish head, receive sense in the name of Odinga..

Nigeria has claimed the rescue of a second Chibok girl, just days after the first, but campaigners on Friday cast doubt on her identity and attention turned to the circumstances of the releases.

The army said Serah Luka was among 97 women and children rescued in the Damboa area of northeast Nigeria on Thursday morning during military operations against Boko Haram Islamists.
The announcement came just hours after the first girl to be found, Amina Ali, met President Muhammadu Buhari, who said the discovery gave a "unique opportunity" to find the remaining hostages.

This handout picture taken in Damboa and released by the Nigerian army on May 20, 2016 shows Serah Luka after she was released during an operation conducted by Nigeria's army in which local civilian vigilantes took part.

Serah is one of 219 girls abducted from their school in Chibok more than two years ago. The student, who is believed to be a Christian pastor's daughter, said she was "at the school at the time they were abducted" and that she was from Madagali, in neighboring Adamawa state.

Doubts over ‘second rescued Chibok girl’ after first release

ON May 20, 2016 3:24 PM / IN News /

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Nigeria has claimed the rescue of a second Chibok girl, just days after the first, but campaigners on Friday cast doubt on her identity and attention turned to the circumstances of the releases.

The army said Serah Luka was among 97 women and children rescued in the Damboa area of northeast Nigeria on Thursday morning during military operations against Boko Haram Islamists.
The announcement came just hours after the first girl to be found, Amina Ali, met President Muhammadu Buhari, who said the discovery gave a "unique opportunity" to find the remaining hostages.

The 19-year-old was discovered with her four-month-old baby girl, Safiya, and a man she described as her husband near Boko Haram's Sambisa Forest enclave on Tuesday.

Nigeria's military, which has pushed out Boko Haram from captured territory in the last 15 months, has been conducting operations in the former game reserve in Borno state since late April.

Until this week, rebel fighters held 219 of the 276 students abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School in the remote town of Chibok on the evening of April 14, 2014.

Fifty-seven escaped in the immediate aftermath of the kidnapping, which provoked global outrage and brought unprecedented attention on the conflict, which has killed at least 20,000 since 2009.

- Not on the list -

The head of the Abducted Chibok Girls Parents group, Yakubu Nkeki, said unlike the first announcement about Amina, the military had not contacted them beforehand to establish the second girl's identity.

Only two girls with the surname Luka were on the list of abducted girls and none was from Madagali, in neighbouring Adamawa state, as the military said the second student had claimed, he added.

The military said the teenager was believed to be a Christian pastor's daughter but Nkeki said there were only four priests on the list of parents and none was called Luka.

"I can say in my capacity as the head of the Chibok Abducted Girls Parents group that this girl is not among the abducted Chibok girls," he told AFP.

The head of the BringBackOurGirls campaign group in Abuja, Oby Ezekwisili, said they were "overjoyed" at the rescue but tweeted: "We have asked for some further verification of her identity."
A senior military source stood by the army's statement, saying it was "beyond reasonable doubt" that she was among the girls snatched.

"The military personnel who carried out the rescue operation and the civilian vigilantes who assisted them and those who know the girl confirmed that she is among those abducted," he added.

"We can only change our position if the principal of the school or the government of Borno state come out and refute this established identity of the girl."

- Sign of talks? -

This week's developments have raised hopes that the remaining students will be released and follows a so-called "proof of life" video sent to the government earlier this year.

Until then, none of the kidnapped schoolgirls had been seen since May 2014, when they were shown in a Boko Haram video, apparently converted to Islam and reciting passages from the Koran.

Nigeria's government was cautious about the "proof of life" video because of difficulties establishing whether those who sent it had the authority of the group's leadership to request talks.

Security analysts tracking the conflict suggested Amina may have been released as a gesture of "good faith" by Boko Haram elements rather than by simply military action.

Ryan Cummings, from Signal Risk, said escape was unlikely given that the Chibok girls were said to have been heavily guarded at militant camps in the Sambisa Forest, a vast semi-desert scrubland.
"It seems very fortuitous that the hostage (Amina), child and BH husband just happened to run into a CJTF (civilian joint taskforce) patrol as described", he told AFP in an email.

Nigeria's military have described the man found with Amina as a "suspected Boko Haram terrorist".

Cummings also suggested reports of his "defection" with such a prized asset, straight into the hands of the Nigerian army and military intelligence, also seemed unlikely.

www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/doubts-second-rescued-chibok-girl-first-release/

By Emma Amaize and Perez Brisibe
WARRI- THE five pipeline surveillance workers seized by the Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger Delta, last Friday, in connection with the bombing a Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, pipeline at Makaraba community, Gbaramatu clan, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, have been released.

A security source told Vanguard that they released them on Wednesday evening.

Released were Samuel Emiko and Alfred Timedi, ( Itsekiri) and Isaac Edinde, Henry Arogboritse and Kelvin Mordi (Ijaw), arrested by soldiers while on surveillance duty for a contractor to Chevron.

Ijaw leader, Chief Godspower Gbenekama, who is among the leaders that raised dust over the arrest confirmed to Vanguard, “Yes, I am aware that they released them on Wednesday night, I want to thank you people in the media for crying out for us.”

“The released workers were asked to report next Wednesday,” a security source, who also confirmed their release, told our reporter.
He said: “The 19th Battalion, Nigerian Army, Koko, handed them over to the Delta State Police Command, Asaba, from where they moved them to Bayelsa State and released them on Wednesday.”

To avoid backlash against the company following a 72-hour ultimatum by its seven Gbaramatu-Ijaw host communities, top officials of Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, which facilitated their freedom, met with their families, Wednesday, in Warri, and assured them that the company was handling the matter.

www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/5-workers-seized-jtf-pipeline-bombing-released/

na wash.... catch fire...

The Palace of the Oba of Benin in Edo on
Friday announced that the monarch, Oba
Erediauwa, had passed on.

The Iyase of Benin, Chief Sam Igbe, who
made the announcement in Benin City,
said that the Oba passed on at Ugha-
Ozolua, situated inside the palace.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
reports that before making the disclosure,
Igbe, dressed in a red and white attire,
performed series of consultations along
with other palace chiefs, including the
Esogban of Benin, Cheif David Edebiri.
He said ``the native chalk has broken.
``
All Benin sons should shave their hair
and all major markets are expected to be
shut down indefinitely’’.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/oba-benin-joins-ancestors/

The Acting Director-General, National
Centre for Women Development, NCWD
Abuja, Abdulmalik Dauda, is dead.

Mohammed Aliyu, protocol officer to the D-
G, confirmed the news to NAN, saying
Dauda died in an accident which occurred
along Abuja-Kaduna expressway on Friday.

He said the deceased was returning from an
official assignment.
Dauda took over from Onyeka Onwenu on
February 16, 2016, following the removal of
26 heads of government agencies and
parastatals.

Born on August 27, 1959, in Niger state,
Dauda was survived by two wives and five
children.

Aliyu added that the remains of Dauda had
been buried according to Islamic rites in his
home town in Niger.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/onyeka-onwenus-successor-ncwd-abdulmalik-dauda-dies-in-auto-crash/

armadeo:
I tell you. Wack job.

U self. how many U don do?

DSS I wanted to ask U guys 'how market' but on a closer look it turned out U people recorded a bad sales on this chip lie....
look at what Buhari has reduced U people to....

Aisha Don suffer....
wait oh!
Is it male or female condom....?

A popular Burundi comedian known as "Kigingi" was arrested this week after poking fun at the president, his
family said Friday.

Humorist and Buja FM radio host Alfred
Aubin Mugenzi was arrested on Tuesday
evening by Burundi's National Intelligence
Service (known by its French acronym,
SNR) and charged with insulting President
Pierre Nkurunziza.

He was apprehended at a hotel in
Muramvya, 50 kilometres (31 miles) east
of the capital, while on a promotional tour
for a beer company.

"He was transferred to Bujumbura and is
being held in the SNR dungeons, but no one
has been allowed to see him", said a
concerned relative, who did not want to be
named for fear of repercussions.

The relative said Mugenzi's family fears the
funny man may suffer the same fate as
others taken by the SNR, who rights groups
say are commonly tortured or simply
disappeared. Many hare reported to have
died in jail.

SNR officers told the relative that Mugenzi
was arrested "for contempt of the head of
state" after a skit he performed in
neighbouring Rwanda last year, in which he
lampooned football-mad third-term
Nkurunziza, showing him refusing to leave
the pitch despite receiving two yellow
cards.

Nkurunziza's refusal to stand down after
two terms and instead run for a
controversial third mandate in 2015
triggered bloody unrest, a failed military
coup and months of violence that has killed
hundreds of people and driven a quarter of
a million to flee the country.

Nkurunziza, a born-again Christian and
former sports teacher, is the player-owner
of Hallelujah FC, where he is frequently
the top scorer.

An intelligence official confirmed Mugenzi's
arrest saying the comic routine was
"insulting the president".

"He will soon be released, this time," the
official added.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/comedian-detained-cracking-joke-president/

The Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) says it will conclude
and make returns in the constituencies
where voting and collation were done in
compliance with the Electoral Act in the
Rivers re-run elections.

This is contained in statement signed by
the INEC Director of Publicity and Voter
Education, Mr Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, on
Friday in Abuja.

It stated that the decision was arrived at
after the commission's Wednesday meeting
with the Rivers Resident Electoral
Commissioner (REC) , Supervisor and
Monitors of the March 19 election.

It noted that the commission had considered
the submissions of the officials and
undertook an audit of its personnel
deployed as polling officials and for related
duties in the elections.

It acknowledged that there were some
challenges in its operational efficiency,
especially as it concerns the production and
customisation of result sheets used for the
election.

``Specifically, there was omission of the
original watermark in the result sheets for
a few polling units in three federal
constituencies.

``There was also omission of some
delineation details in 47 of over 20,000
booklets produced."

It added that political parties that
participated in the election and their
agents witnessed the distribution of all the
election materials.

``The commission wishes to emphatically
state that there were no fake result sheets
or any fake materials used in the conduct
of the election."

It restated the commission’s decision to
uphold the declarations and return made in
the federal constituencies where elections
had been concluded.

``Similarly, INEC will conclude and make
returns in constituencies where it is
satisfied that voting and collation were
done in substantial compliance with the
Electoral Aact and our guidelines.

``Further details as to the constituencies
and nature of the exercise will be
announced by the REC in the next few
days."

It added that INEC would at a date to be
decided, conduct fresh elections in all local
government areas, constituencies and
polling units where March 19 elections were
disrupted before voting was concluded.
This, according to the statement, will start
with the accreditation and voting.

``Even so, this will only be after due
consideration with stakeholders and subject
to the advice of security agencies and
guarantees by the political parties,
candidates and their supporters."

It assured that all materials used for the
conduct of the elections which were not
destroyed by hoodlums were safe and were
being kept in secure custody.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/rivers-polls-re-run-inec-make-return-collated-results/

nonsense, him been get leprosy wey him no go fit open bottle water?

IT'S time to stop pressing the snooze
button because the morning is the best
time of the day to get passionate with your
partner.

According to sexual health and wellbeing
expert Samantha Evans, getting frisky first
thing brings a tonne of health benefits,
including boosting mood and helping you
look younger.

"Men accumulate testosterone as they
sleep and from the time they wake up, they
have a three hour window when they are
brimming with testosterone," she told Daily
Star.

"That early morning erection is not called
‘morning wood’ or ‘morning glory’ for
nothing.

"Whatever it is called, having an erection
on waking up is as good a reason as any to
initiate a little morning sex."

Getting passionate first thing helps give
the brain a boost too, meaning you'll get
over that sluggish, post sleep, feeling
quicker than ever.

It's also a good way to put your
relationship first, as couples who are
intimate regularly tend to feel more
connected.

All that's left is to get over the morning
breath and any sweaty pongs which might be
lurking.

That might seem hard, but a serious session
should block out any fears about your
partner's hygiene.

"Adults who start their day with sex are
more likely to be happier and healthier than
those who start their day with a cup of
coffee and breakfast," Samantha added.
Morning romps can help improve your
immune system, as people who get fruity
one or more times a week tend to have
higher levels of antibodies. These are the
things which help ward off illness.

They'll improve your mood, because orgasms
increase levels of serotonin, the chemical
that helps us feel jolly.
Orgasms also help
boost oestrogen levels, a hormone while
helps skin and hair look glossy, plus a good
romp will improve circulation.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/morning-sex-boosts-immune-system-cuts-risk-of-stroke-and-makes-you-more-attractive/

The way people abuse the bastard called buhari amazes me..... U people forgot that buhari in his dull and brainless scull might have ceded Bornu, Yobe, Bauchi, Adamawa, and plateau to Western Germany.
make una dey try pitty for the skinny goat....
I guess he will get back to his senses when his first batch of grass importation lands...

close border for rice, import grass...
Buhari's cows are so hungry that Nigerians must sacrifice there beloved rice for Buhari's cows to eat grass.
mumu na mumu even if him be president.....
#BuhariADullard.....

close border for rice, import grass...
Buhari's cows are so hungry that Nigerians must sacrifice there beloved rice for Buhari's cows to eat grass.
A dullard in America is a dullard Ghana and Nigeria alike.....
#DullardIsAUniversalConcept....

APC how market?

rexington:
from the story that APO was tied up by APC. Andrew Uchendu is the APC Senatorial candidate and is from Emohua LGA. His rival George Sekibo is from Okrika LGA which is far from Emohua. From the statement of the APO they were to see a senatorial candidate who is from area.

I concur.... in timaya's voice...

Is mile 1 police station NDDC headquarters?
U also forgot to tell who delegated ibim, Dakuku, and amaechi to mile 1 police station.
U should have as well try to include the part the APC chairman in Rivers State gave the INEC staff his cap to cover her face.....

I have always said that APC has no place in rivers state.... it's never possible for them to win a seat in rivers state.....

Some of the results from the rerun of the
national and state assembly elections in
Rivers State are emerging.

FINAL RESULTS FROM OBIO AKPOR WARD 13
- UNITS 001 - 023 (RUMUADAORLU,

RUMUOLA & RUMUOKWUTA) OBIO/AKPOR
LGA RESULTS FOR SENATE, HOUSE OF REPS AND STATE ASSEMBLY AS DECLARED BY INEC OFFICIALS IN THE POLLING UNITS.

SENATE
PDP (1173) APC (512)

REPS.
PDP (1270) APC (493)

HOA
PDP (1237) APC (494).

WARD 12 COLLATED RESULT

UNIT 1
REPS: PDP 33, APC26

SENATE: PDP 32, APC 26, 1 VOID

UNIT 2
REPS: PDP 26, APC 11, 5 VOID

SENATE: PDP 29, APC 12, 1 VOID

UNIT 3
REPS: PDP 39, APC 38, 3 VOID
SENATE: PDP 30, APC 41, 1 VOID

UNIT 4
REPS: PDP 48, APC 31, 5 VOID
SENATE: PDP 49, APC 32, 3 VOID

UNIT 5
REPS: PDP 49, APC 25
SENATE: PDP 49, APC 25, 1 VOID

UNIT 6
REPS: PDP 49, APC 21, 3 VOID
SENATE: PDP 54, APC 19

UNIT 7
REPS: 35, APC 20
SENATE: PDP 35, APC 20

UNIT 8
REPS: PDP 52, APC 20
SENATE: PDP 50, APC 22

UNIT 9
REPS: PDP 45, APC 32, 8 VOID
SENATE: PDP 46, APC 35, LP 1, 3 VOID

UNIT 10
REPS: PDP 35, APC 34
SENATE: PDP 33, APC 42

TOTAL
REPS: PDP 411, APC 258
SENATE: PDP 407, APC 274

ALL TOTAL
PDP: 818
APC: 532


Ward 3 Total from INEC Collation sheet.

SENATE:

No. of registered voters = 18,426; No of
Accredited Voters = 2053; Total Valid Votes:

= 1924; Rejected Votes = 130, Total Vote
Cast = 2053; APC = 691; ID = 0; LP = 1;
NNPP = 0; PDP 1217.
House of Reps.
APC = 703, PDP = 1192

INEC Collation Officer (DR EZE WOSU)


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/riversrerun-early-results-emerge/

Following reports of violence by youths in
Rivers state under the sponsorship of some
politicians, the Independent National
Electoral Committee (INEC) has suspended
the ongoing National Assembly election in the state.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC)
in Rivers state, Aniedi Ikoiwak, confirmed
the cancellation of elections in four different local government area (LGAs) in the state.

The election was scheduled to hold in 23
LGAs, 319 wards and 4,442 polling units of
the across the state.

Elections were, however, cancelled in Bonny,

Gokana, Abua/Odual and Andoni local
government areas of Rivers state.

Aniedi confirmed this while speaking with
newsmen at the INEC secretariat in Rivers
state.

He acknowledged that widespread irregularity
had marred the election and that youths in
the areas refused to allow the electoral
officers move election materials from the
voting centers.

The REC stated that: “Actually we deployed
our electoral materials since Thursday and
today we have had the experience that most
of our materials were not allowed to move
from the RAC centres and even when we
tried to deploy to the RACs, we were
accosted.”

“In the overall, we are hearing reports that
elections held. We had a situation where
elections were not allowed to hold in some
places. We need to let you know that
elections has been suspended in 4 local
government areas of Andoni, Bonny, Khana
and Gokana.”


http://ynaija.com/rivers-rerun-election-suspended-in-4-lgas/

BiafraBushBoy:
Keep typing like you are being chased from your villa!!

Imagine you watching ball in a viewing center, and a someone detonates a bomb in the place!

So it is Buhari's fault shebi??

Go get Job dey Busy, you no gree!!

U no get talk.....

amagunnerfan:
When a sheep walks too much with a pig, it will become dirty.

Fayose has corrupted Wike.

Can't believe a governor is saying that nonsense.

Look well, Wike has been a rugged fellow since the days of Elijah....

Emaechi has even vowed to visit Wike's Ward on Saturday after casting his own vote in his Ward.... Amaechi, is really determined to create a situation that would make the APC led federal government to declare a state of emergency in rivers state.....
I was billed to work as an adhoc staff but the turn of things has really made me to change my mind after what happened in omoku, Rivers state.....

Amaechi and Dakuku, his puppet, are really at work...

she is really hustling real hard... I guess the economy has made her a she-male......
Edriss Abdukareem was right when he postulated the 'Nigeria Jaga-jaga' theory.....

Chibaba247:
Hw will buhari know? when he doesn't live in Nigeria, bt only visits Nigeria

Buhari lives on the air, in case U don't know...

and here is the video...