Keneking:
Ok

This age group is easy target for recruitment into terrorism. DSS & other security agencies should take note.
Also, why are the kids not in school at this time of the day - solving algebra and mental arithmetic?
How would the region provide the best brains to govern Nigeria
Their mates in South West are doing well - trying to outshine each other.

Sorry, there are no terrorists in this part of Nigeria. They are found in Arewanistan and Afonjanistan. Olodo.

Let every Igbo man ignore all these Afonjas. They have been used and dumped, that is why they are talking of restructuring. They insulted the Igbos with names like Ipods, Biafrauds, etc for saying Nigeria should be negotiated, insulted the Niger deltas for saying Buhari should be fair to all Nigerians, and helped to remove the only South South president. They thought they found new friends in the Hausa/Fulanis, but now they are crying. Let them weep, nobody should comfort them, and nobody is willing to work with them. What is the Kaduna mafia did not demystify Tinubu, would they have been saying all these things?
They Igbo man is not a loser, he saw it coming, and stood by GEJ. Afonjas are not reliable at all, history teaches me that.

dealslip:
Honestly, the only solution to peace and progress in Nigeria is that every man goes his separate ways. Yakassai has accused the Yoruba's that they hate the Hausa - Fulani or they are envious, we admit and accept Tanko Yakassai's accusation. So that we wont be jealous and hate filled anymore, let us all embrace restructuring, since every one seems to have a common idealogy the Hauas - Fulani's ideology is born to rule and ours as Oduduwans is restructuring. One thing is sure - Yoruba's need restructuring and the Igbos want a separation. This is saying the same thing in different ways, let every man bear his father's name.We dash the Hausa - Fulani all their 'rich' resources. We don't want to share in their resources and oil anymore. All we want is to be by ourselves because we have nothing in common with them. Thaink You

But you call Igbos Ipods, and insult them for wanting Biafra. Afonjas are really funny. I knew the north will use and dump you guys.

Proudly Igbo guy. I get sense pass those Afonjas who thought Igbos were there enemies. They ridiculed them for voting against Buhari, and thought their god, Tinubu will be elevated. Osibanjo is now Buhari`s personal assistant, representing him everywhere, even in PTA meetings.
Proudly Igbo!

dustmalik:
Fools everywhere. This is the reason I stopped commenting on this section. This can't be termed as plagiarism because it's not word for word or sentence for sentence. Calling this plagiarism is like saying some specific people have exclusivity to certain English words, which is the most stupid way of reasoning.

Mumu, plagiarism does not meaning word to word only, even copied ideas without acknowledgement is plagiarism. Did you ever go to school at all? Check the meaning of plagiarism

Nusaf:
Even if he quoted the said expression, when has that become an issue? People should go and read their books and stop disturbing the public with words whose meaning, they are not sure of. What exactly do u mean by plagiarism? Look up the meaning of that word once again pls.

You are worse than Buhari! Check the meaning of plagiarism

dickrider:
The actions of the publishers are treasonable and equal to creating a state within a state. Why are these igbos hell bent on having that Nonsense country called biafra? Nigeria has a legitimate government and no parts of the country will be allowed to break away. South Sudan is regretting their decision to leave Sudan till today and they've become a laughing stock in the world. The military should clamp down on pro biafra separatists with brutal force. Biafra will never come

Because they want a country where Fulani herdsmen and children of Afonja will not disturb them

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has warned that the illegal killings of the members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Movement of the Actualisation of the Sovereign States of Biafra (MASSOB) during the commemoration of the 49yh year declaration of Biafra Republic could be dragged to the International Criminal Court (ICC) if not attended to.

This is as the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in a statement yesterday raised the alarm over the fate of its dead members and those arrested during the bloody Biafra Day celebration, alleging of plans by security agencies to execute the detainees and give them mass burial along with those already killed. They alleged that they were shocked “to discover that the Nigeria Army and Police have decided to kill those they arrested alive and bury them with the dead bodies they carried.”

The Coordinator of the group, Comrade Emmanuel‎ Onwubiko gave the warning at a press conference in Abuja, where he expressed shock over the high number of casualties of protesters killed by armed security operatives.

He noted that credible sources that were on ground in Onitsha, Anambra State, affirmed that scores of protesters were killed by armed security forces; even as there were also allegations that about 10 worshippers were killed by soldiers inside a Catholic Church in Nkpor, Anambra State.

According to him, “This violent suppression of the constitutionally guaranteed rights to freedom of speech, peaceful Assembly and Movement by armed security forces is undemocratic and unconstitutional.”

“We hereby condemn these killings and call on the Nigerian government to take credible, verifiable and transparent measures to ascertain why peaceful marchers were killed without provocation,” he added.

Onwubiko stated that from available body of evidence, both groups IPOB and MASSOB were not known to bear arms, stressing that the claim by a spokesman of the 82 Division of the Nigerian army claiming self-defense as the reason for the soldiers to have opened fire with live bullets into crowds of protesters was not tenable.

HURIWA therefore said it had resolved to approach the Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai and the Federal Attorney General Alhaji Abubakar Malami (SAN) to investigate these killings and perpetrators brought to Justice.‎

Onwubiko warned: “The repercussions of allowing this impunity to remain unattended to is that individuals who hold direct command responsibilities such as the General Officer Commanding, 82 Division, in all the security forces whereby these illegal killings of civilians have happened would be dragged to International Crimes Court for prosecution over crime against humanity.‎”

HURIWA also stated that Igbo‎ elders stood to ignite a revolution if they refused to lead by example.

He condemned vehemently the Igbo delegation led by Senator Ken Nnamani‎ who paid the president a visit a day after the killings of the protesters, saying that their refusal to address the press and to communicate to the people properly was a disgrace.

Onwubiko however called on the federal government to seek the help of United Nations to conduct a referendum‎ since INEC had remained inefficient and inconclusive experts to determine what part of the country with to remain as part of the entity called Nigeria.

The rights group also commended the effort of President Muhammadu Buhari‎ to clean up Ogoni land, but also called on him to extend the exercise to other affected states.

The IPOB members said, “As IPOB families and Biafrans mourn our dead brethrens with big hearts the Nigeria government and security agents are busy perfecting strategy to kill unarmed civilians they arrested during the events and bury all with the dead Biafrans in a mass grave within the Anambra state”.

IPOB also expressed anger at the attitude of Anambra state governor, Chief Willie Obiano, whom the group accused of visiting the Army Barracks at Onitsha and saw the dead bodies of slain activists and failed to intervene in the case of detainees.

According to IPOB, Obiano was quite aware that those arrested on the May 30 Remembrance Day “were being tortured to death by security agencies without charging them to court” yet the Anambra chief executive did not condemn it.

The group said that it was worried that Governor Obiano as the chief security officer of the state should be working to protect the people that elected him to office instead of “becoming the stooge to the Hausa Fulani terrorist group”.

IPOB further descended on Obiano for referring to those “who lost their lives because of our freedom during the genocidal war against the Biafran people in 1967 to 1970 as hoodlums”.

It said that the governor had alleged the organizers of the Remembrance Day “did not come and take permission to remember their dead ones in his state (hence) he ordered the security agents to kill and maim unarmed civilians who were not with any weapon or any sharp objects”

http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/06/04/nigeria-may-be-dragged-to-icc-for-ipob-massob-members-massacre-warns-huriwa/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook

Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has fulfilled all its campaign promises.
Assessing the performance of the current administration so far, Mohammed said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government has measured up to expectation.
“It (one year in office) has been very challenging, very fulfilling, but I must say with all sense of modesty that we have fulfilled our pledges,” he told Channels Television.
“We campaigned majorly on three issues: insecurity, fighting corruption and revamping the economy, and I can say again with all sense of modesty that we have fought Boko Haram to a standstill; we have launched a campaign against corruption with the change narrative, and we are taking steps to revamp the economy.”
Asked if he was sure about what he was saying, the minister’s response was: “Absolutely!”
He then went further to justify his point by speaking more on what he termed the successes of the government in power.
“Let me take the issue of fighting insecurity. Nigeria was bedeviled with various types of insecurity ranging from cattle rustling to kidnapping for ransom to Boko Haram but clearly the most challenging when we took over was the menace of the Boko Haram,” he said.
“When we came into office on May 29, 2015, Boko Haram was hoisting its flag in many parts of Nigeria, they had their own system of government, their own caliphate but we have been able to chase them out of those places and even the remaining fortress, which is the Sambisa forest. Today, we’ve maintained a bombardment in that area and if anybody wants to know what we’ve achieved in the last 12 months in the fight against Bokoro Haram, then they must look at what it was before and what it is today.
“Today all the highways leading to Maiduguri have been re-opened. A month ago, a league match was played in Maiduguri and that is evidence that normal life is returning there. But this didn’t come by chance; it came as a result of the dedicated and committed leadership of President Buhari.”
He said his party had also done well in its fight against corruption, saying under the past government Nigerians were celebrating corruption, but that the “change narrative” has put an end to such act.
Mohammed also said the APC did not set out to probe the campaign funds of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but the quest to unravel why insurgency lasted so long brought about the investigation of the funds which former President Goodluck Jonathan used for his re-election bid.
“Whatever emphasis you put on fighting corruption can never be misplaced because if you see the major problems facing us today, they can all be traced directly to corruption. It is because of corruption that Boko Haram lasted so long. Money meant to fight Boko Haram was shared and that was what led many innocent Nigerians to their untimely graves,” he said.
“It is because of corruption that Nigerians are relying more on generators than on conventional power because after billions of naira was allegedly pumped into the power sector, what we see is darkness. Before now, we used to celebrate corruption at least if not anything, Nigerians no longer celebrate corruption. Now, again, if you look at the way we have addressed the issue of corruption, it is not to vilify anybody.
“We never set out to probe PDP campaign funds. No, it is not our business. It is INEC that has the right to probe the campaign fund of any political party. But we set out to find out why the Boko Haram insurgency lasted for so long. How come our gallant soldiers were running away from a ragtag army? How come there was so much mutiny within the army? Why were wives of the soldiers protesting that their husbands would not go to the war font? This was what we set out to probe, and then we stumbled on the fact that actually what happened was that when a $2.1 billion contract was given, rather than use the money to buy arms and ammunition, provide for the welfare of soldiers, they were used for political purposes.
“The interesting thing about this $2.1 billion is that not one person accused of sharing in this loot has denied it, instead they have given excuses why they took the money. One claimed that he took the money for spiritual purpose, another claimed he used N3.1 billion for publicity, another said he was asked to go and buy a land for maritime university for N13 billion.
“So far, no one has denied partaking of this money.”
Mohammed dismissed the negative projections about the country’s economy, saying the federal government was doing is best to make things go on well.
“When people make assessments and judgements and pass verdicts about another country’s economy using their own universal standards, they can’t always be correct for a simple reason, why would someone just say a person’s economy is heading for recession?” he asked.
“We came in and met the price of crude plummeting from $100 to 30 dollars, ask any economist what they will do in this situation… What we have going for us is our political will and discipline.”

https://www.thecable.ng/lai-apc-fulfilled-campaign-promises

Time is up for Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president and former army general, who promised before his inauguration on 29 May last year to stamp out Boko Haram within 12 months – and has singularly failed to do so, despite a tough military crackdown in the country’s north-east.

While the terrorist group, blamed for 20,000 deaths over the past seven years, has taken a beating, it is down but not out. Analysts warn, meanwhile, that Buhari’s harsh approach to unrest of any kind may be causing more problems than it solves across Nigeria as a whole.

At a summit in Abuja earlier this month, Buhari appeared to admit the difficulty of fulfilling the task he set himself. The meeting included representatives from Benin, Cameroon, Chad and Niger. France, the US, Britain and the EU, who back the anti-Boko Haram campaign, also attended.

Despite increased support from London and Washington, which have each sent about 300 troops to the region in a training and advisory capacity, Buhari’s aim was yet closer military cooperation via an expanded international effort.

“I believe Buhari is acknowledging ... that it is not easy for the military to just go out there and eliminate Boko Haram,” Martin Ewi of the Institute for Security Studies told al-Jazeera. “The rural areas have always been neglected when it comes to security and that has always been the problem – the ungoverned places.”

Nigerian army offensives have won back territory from Boko Haram in the past year, and the number and frequency of terrorist attacks has fallen significantly.

Last year’s dramatic announcement by Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, that he was entering into an alliance with Islamic State appears to have been a propaganda stunt amounting to little in practical terms.

Yet when one of the 276 Chibok schoolgirl hostages abducted in 2014, Amina Ali Darsha Nkeki, was rescued earlier this month, Buhari made great play of it, having her flown to meet him in Abuja. The fuss looked like a slightly desperate bid to deflect attention from the fact the other girls remain unaccounted for.

Also contradicting the official “winning” narrative is evidence that faced by more determined military pressure, Boko Haram is resorting to wider use of suicide bombings, carried out by women and children, and increased attrition, including more hostage-taking.

According to the 2015 Global Terrorism Index, a survey by the New York-based Institute for Economics and Peace, Boko Haram remains the most deadly terrorist group in the world.

And there are growing fears that, evolving in parallel to the internationalisation of the counter-terrorism campaign, a once localised hardline Islamist movement is morphing into a regional jihadist threat.

The disastrous economic and social legacy of Boko Haram’s depredations, and a linked, ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Lake Chad basin, has brought calls for Buhari to adopt a more constructive approach extending beyond crude military suppression tactics.

Amnesty International claimed recently that the Nigerian army, notorious for past human rights abuses, had killed 350 Muslim civilians in northern Kaduna state and secretly buried them in a mass grave.

In a statement linked to the Abuja summit, the UN security council urged regional states to pursue “a comprehensive strategy to address the governance, security, development, socio-economic and humanitarian dimensions of the crisis”.

The independent Brussels-based International Crisis Group said Boko Haram was “seemingly on a back foot, but it is unlikely to be eliminated in a decisive battle”. Regional powers should “move beyond military cooperation and design a more holistic local and regional response”.

In particular, the ICG said, Nigeria and its allies should more effectively collate and exploit information gathered from captured fighters, abductees, defectors and civilians in newly recaptured areas.

Nnamdi Obasi, the ICG’s senior analyst for Nigeria, warned that Buhari’s tough approach was having a negative knock-on effect in other Nigerian trouble spots. He pointed in particular to the south-east, where Igbo secessionist groups are demanding the restoration of the ill-fated republic of Biafra.

Nigeria’s Middle Belt has seen increasing levels of violence between local communities, while the 2009 peace deal that ended the insurgency in the oil-rich Niger Delta is unravelling, Obasi said. Up-and-coming militant groups included the so-called Niger Delta Avengers and the Egbesu Mightier Fraternity.

Peaceful manifestations of unrest had been met with harsh measures, including arbitrary arrests.

“Both groups have sent the government their lists of demands, mostly for local control of oil revenues, threatening even more crippling attacks if they are ignored. The government’s response – deploying more military assets and threatening an unmitigated crackdown – portends an escalation of the violence,” Obasi said.

Insecurity and social tension is being aggravated across Nigeria by its deteriorating economic situation, a 70% year-on-year devaluation of the national currency, the naira, fuel and power shortages, rising unemployment and continuing problems with endemic corruption, the ICG said.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/31/buhari-crackdown-nigeria-fails-boko-haram

Take him to the presidential Villa to see his dullard brother

The University of Zimbabwe (UZ) has moved to limit inter-residence visits between male and female students after almost half of the students who underwent HIV testing, tested positive.

According The Chronicle, the startling revelation came as a result of voluntary HIV testing that took place at Zimbabwe’s oldest tertiary institution, with 47% of the students testing positive for the virus.

Confirming the results, UZ Vice Chancellor Levi Nyagura said that criticism of his management style would not deter him from limiting contact between male and female students as well as strongly advising against promiscuity.

“The grim statistics of sexually transmitted diseases at the institution have forced us to have a limit for inter-residence visits between female and male students. We have consulted lots of parents and all of them do not want to promote promiscuity by allowing students to enjoy married lifestyles by staying with their girlfriends in the halls of residence,” Nyagura said.

Jimmy Wilford, Director of SayWhat, an organisation set to raise awareness around HIV, expressed concern over Nyagura’s stance on the matter, claiming that his heavy-handedness could send out the wrong message due to some students who may have been born with the disease.

The development came after recent claims that students at Zimbabwe’s Midlands State University (MSU) had exhibited reckless sexual behaviour, leading to an increase in the prevalence of HIV at the institution.

According to The Herald, Mambewu Shumba, Provincial Co-ordinator for National Aids Council Midlands, condemned the allegedly aggressive sexual behavior of MSU students, claiming that they were a major contributor of an increase in HIV prevalence in the Gweru area of the country.

The 'Rescued' chibok girl does not know her name?...
APC supporter....yes...because the name they call her at home is different from the one she answers at school
The alleged chibok girl I mean a physics student, a WAEC candidate is unable to speak english even pidgin...
APC supporter.....yes...for two years she was banned from speaking english she is bound to forget....it is boko haram remember...
The girl was 13years when she wrote WAEC?
APC supporter.....Yes Chibok is Christian dominated..they start school early.....hmmmmmmm
It is wrong For Buhari to pose with the boko haram commander in Aso rock...
APC supporter....Buhari is wise o...he is doing that to encourage other girls to escape.....
My friend stop defending nonsense!
Use your brains......they are supposed to be used to reason...to think .....dont be silly!

PHILADELPHIA — Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell says Donald Trump’s past comments on women will likely come back to haunt him because Rendell says “there are probably more ugly women in America than attractive women.”

The Democrat was offering his thoughts to the Washington Post on the likely Republican nominee’s prospects for success in the Philadelphia suburbs when he made the comment. Rendell says Trump’s comments might gain him some working-class Democratic voters, but will cost him Republican women because he says “people take that stuff personally.”

Rendell didn’t immediately return requests for comment.

Rendell’s comments have stirred up controversy in the past. In 2010, he said the US had “become a nation of wusses” following the postponement of a Philadelphia Eagles game due to a snowstorm.

http://nypost.com/2016/05/18/majority-of-women-in-us-are-ugly-says-ex-pennsylvania-governor/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPFacebook&utm_medium=SocialFlow

1..We are not saying oil subsidy has been removed....Rotimi Amaechi.
2..Subsidy has been removed....Ibe Kachikwu.
3..I do not know what subsidy is....Buhari.
4..Removal of subsidy will create 200,000 jobs....Lie Mohammed.
5..Subsidy has not been removed,just a price hike....VP Osinanjo.
Who is telling us the truth?

When David Cameron was caught on camera last week before an anti-corruption summit describing Nigeria as ‘fantastically corrupt’, the African state’s president rallied to the Prime Minister’s defence by agreeing with him.
But although Muhammadu Buhari is seen by some as leading the battle against corruption, worrying allegations swirl around one of his close allies.
Rotimi Amaechi, who travelled with the president to the summit, is Nigeria’s transport minister and is said to have bankrolled Buhari’s presidential campaign.

In the Nigerian press he has been dubbed ‘ATM’ – the American term for cash machine – because of his ability to produce vast sums of money at short notice.
He remains in his post despite being accused of misappropriating £338million by a commission investigating the sale of state assets.


The allegations come as the president stands accused of enjoying a lavish lifestyle while many millions suffer in poverty.
A leaked draft budget for 2016 showed the Nigerian government earmarked £16million for the refurbishment and maintenance of the president’s official residence, Aso Rock Guest House, in the capital Abuja.
There was also a request for £13million for building a VIP wing at a hospital used by families of the president and his ministerial team.
Mr Amaechi has denied the allegations against him.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3590934/Is-Nigerian-leader-s-pal-fantastically-corrupt-Friend-African-president-accused-stealing-500million.html

An Israeli Man Who Filed Restraining Order Against God Disgraced In Court As Judge Claims God Didn’t Show Up
An Israeli man has lost his lawsuit against God over no show of the accused.
The unidentified man initially reported God to a nearby police station after accusing His Holiness of exhibiting negative attitude toward him by not answering his prayers.
Police sent patrol cars to his house and afterwards ignored him.
He escalated the matter and filed a restraining order against His Holiness.
The Haifa resident who didn’t give much details about his feud with Almighty Jehovah was shocked on the day of his hearing when a Judge identified as Ahsan Canaan dismissed his lawsuit describing it as bizarre.
He told the defendant to get himself some mental help.
Judge Canaan dismissed the application because the Almighty God didn’t show up in court.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3575451/Man-applies-restraining-order-against-GOD-Israel-saying-Lord-unfair-three-years.html

Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili on Monday charged President Muhammadu Buhari to always tell Nigerians the truth when it comes to insurgency so as to stop creating doubts in the minds of the citizenry. Ezekwesili who is the leader of the BringBackOurGirls, BBOG, movement made the call at the group’s usual sit-out in Abuja.

Ezekwesili said, “The government cannot afford to go to the old ways where lies were fed to the people. Let there be truthfulness. Government should not create a trust deficit syndrome because it will be difficult to mend. Everything that the government is doing concerning the war, they should tell the truth. We will get used to it and join in the solution.”

Stating that BBOG will continue to demand for the return of the kidnapped Chibok girls, Ezekwesili beckoned on the President to fulfill the promise he made to the parents of the kidnapped girls.

“What drove us out of our comfort zone is that we got tired of not doing anything. We will continue with our core value. No matter what anyone want to do, this advocacy will continue. A pledge is a pledge. We made a pledge to parents of the Chibok girls and will not fail in this pledge.”

“We have gone through a lot. But what we have gone through is little of what the 219 girls are going through in the hands of the Boko Haram sect. Let nobody succeed in making us feel we should not continue. We will continue until the girls are back. The girls deserve justice and they have not been given justice. We are unhappy that they are spending close to two years in the hands of the terrorists.”

“I have not lost hope. There is no basis to lose hope. Though we might be depressed sometimes, we won’t lose hope. We will stand for the girls. We will hold on to the commitment the president made to the Chibok girls’ parents and Nigerians. We believe that he will keep his promise and bring the girls back.”

“Some people have been vocal about our Chibok girls, but now they feel the Chibok girls are distractions. Our Chibok girls are not distractions,” she said.

http://dailypost.ng/2016/02/02/boko-haram-stop-lying-to-nigerians-ezekwesili-dares-buhari/

An Ivy League professor said his flight was delayed because a fellow passenger thought the math equations he was writing might be a sign he was a terrorist.

American Airlines confirms that the woman expressed suspicions about University of Pennsylvania economics professor Guido Menzio. She said she was too ill to take the Air Wisconsin-operated flight.

Menzio said he was flying from Philadelphia to Syracuse on Thursday night and was solving a differential equation related to a speech he was set to give at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. He said the woman sitting next to him passed a note to a flight attendant and the plane headed back to the gate. Menzio, who is Italian and has curly, dark hair, said the pilot then asked for a word and he was questioned by an official.

"I thought they were trying to get clues about her illness," he told The Associated Press in an email. "Instead, they tell me that the woman was concerned that I was a terrorist because I was writing strange things on a pad of paper."

Menzio said he explained what he had been doing and the flight took off soon afterward. He was treated respectfully throughout, he added. But, he said, he was concerned about a delay that a brief conversation or an Internet search could have resolved.

American spokesman Casey Norton said the Air Wisconsin crew followed protocol to take care of an ill passenger and then to investigate her allegations. Norton wouldn't specify the details of the allegations, but said officials determined them to be non-credible. The woman was rebooked on a later flight.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ivy-league-professor-doing-math-equation-flight-mistaken-terrorist-n569911

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is facing growing political pressure, including calls to resign, over revelations in the Panama Papers about his family's interests in assets held by offshore companies.

Leaked documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca showed that three of Sharif's children controlled offshore companies which owned luxury residential property in London. According to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists website, Sharif's children Mariam, Hasan and Hussain "were owners or had the right to authorize transactions for several companies." They raised a 7 million pound ($10 million) loan from Deutsche Bank against four apartments in London's Park Lane owned by offshore companies.

Sharif, 66, is an affluent businessman with companies dealing primarily in steel but opposition figures have claimed that his wealth was partly the result of corruption, a suggestion the prime minister has always vigorously denied. His son Hussain said earlier this month that the family had done "nothing wrong."

Opposition parties, primarily Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) headed by former cricketer Imran Khan, are keeping up the pressure. Khan has spent the past week in London, vowing to hire financial investigation agencies to probe the Sharif family's offshore accounts.

There are legitimate uses for offshore companies, although these entities can be used to hide the ownership of assets or to evade tax. In Sharif's case, no wrongdoing has been proven; however the prime minister is no stranger to allegations of corruption, which contributed to a premature end to his first term in the 1990s.

As the political turmoil over the Panama Papers escalated, Sharif traveled to London last week, on what he described as a planned visit for medical treatment.

The timing of his trip prompted speculation about an extended absence but doctors declared the premier fit and he returned home on Tuesday night.

"I feel much better now and with your prayers I hope it [my health] will remain well. I am going back to my country right now where I will once again start working for the revival of its economy," Nawaz Sharif told media outside his London residence before taking the plane back to Islamabad.

Opposition leader Khan is keeping up the pressure. "He is caught," he told Britain's Guardian newspaper, speaking about Sharif. "He is in trouble. I think he is going to find it impossible to govern Pakistan."

Political analysts are more cautious. "The main political parties do not want to create a space for the...military to overcome the democratic set-up," Senate chairman Raza Rabbani told the Nikkei Asian Review.

http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/Panama-Papers-unsettle-Pakistan-s-politics

An Ikorodu born politician and a scion of the Gbadamosi-Odesanya family, Mr. Babatunde Olalere Gbadamosi, who has keenly contested the Lagos gubernatorial primaries twice under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of representing a very serious risk to the existence of the Nigeria construct.

He also air his views concerning the governorship elections which was held in Kogi state and Bayelsa States respectively that was declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as inconclusive as gathered from his Facebook account.

Mr. Babatunde O. Gbadamosi wrote: “General Muhammadu Buhari’s body language has been favourable to election malpractices, hence INEC’s inability, under his incompetent and biased appointees, to conduct and CONCLUDE any of the elections they have umpired so far.

“I am of the opinion that General Buhari represents a very serious risk to the existence of the NIgeria construct, and those who prefer it to host of independent, but smaller and probably more virile countries need to be up and doing in the senate,a the only place where he can be legally removed from office before the end of his term.

“I don’t see Nigeria surviving up to 2019 with all that’s going on. Suddenly, the same INEC that returned General Buhari as President cannot conduct elections in on state at a time successfully? What will happen at the general elections?

“Within 6 months, the economy has dipped beyond our worst case scenario imagination. The Naira is exchanging at N250 to a dollar! Buhari appears to have declared economic sanctions against the rest of the world, through his military Comptroller General of Customs, and by so doing, cut down heavily on tax income, both from direct Customs Duties and from Companies Tax that would have acrued from profits that will not be made by companies that cannot collect their trucks, machinery, parts and raw materials from the ports due to the introduction of FEAR as a management tool in the Customs and Excise.

“Food prices, brought down considerably during the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, due to his silent but highly effective agricultural policies, have escalated fearfully since Buhari was sworn in, due of course, to a lack of direction arising from his refusal to appoint ministers until the world began to ask embarrassing questions.

“For all his virulent criticism of Fuel Subsidies during the Goodluck Jonathan administration, he has paid more than Jonathan paid for subsidies in the corresponding period last year, yet, Nigeria is now defined by Petrol Station queues. For a former Minister for Petroleum Resources, who has also seen fit to reappoint himself as the substantive Minister in this administration, resulting in the ignominous snub given his minion at the last OPEC meeting, this is an unpardonable, piss-poor performance.

“I don’t even want to get started on security, where over 2,000 Nigerians have lost their lives to attacks by Boko Haram and the brutal Fulani Militia, who both respectively have acquired the dubious macabre honours of first and fourth most brutal terrorist groups in the world. The worst part of the story is the mysterious way in which Nigerian Army soldiers, allegedly mainly of Southern extraction, seem to be dying in disproportionate numbers and in questionable circumstances in this conflict.

“If Buhari cannot manage Nigeria, there is still time for him to resign honorably before his ignominious impeachment. You cannot continue to deliberately mismanage the country and expect us to be happy. You cannot beat a child and tell him not to cry. I do not blame Nnamdi Kanu and the IPOB. In fact, I use this opportunity to call for the immediate and unconditional release of that vocal, abusive and sometimes obnoxious young man. It would seem he’s been right all along.

Donald Trump is looking to assemble a strong team of experienced business leaders as he enters into the intense general election phase. While many expected Trump to consider government leaders, he is leaning on long time WWE boss Vincent K. McMahon to serve as his running mate.

Trump and McMahon met for more than two hours earlier today at Trump’s New York headquarters.
This is not the first time Mr. McMahon has been involved in politics. His wife Linda has run for political office on multiple occasions. His experience and notoriety would offer a boost to Donald’s campaign as it enters the toughest battle he has faced thus far.

“Look, Vince McMahon is someone I deeply admire. We had a discussion today and I think he’s the guy. Listen, this is our country’s future. Vince gave us Stone Cold. Vince gave us The Rock. Vince gave us DX. How can you argue with his record? We need this guy. He gave us the Texas Rattlesnake for god sakes.” Trump told reporters after a media event.

For his part, Vince McMahon said he and Trump had a lot in common.

“We both say ‘you’re fired’, we’re both businessmen, we both love wrestling. You know who else loves wrestling? America. You know who hates wrestling? Hilary.” McMahon said, appearing ready for his possible role as VP.

It remains to be seen if or when Trump would confirm the WWE boss as his potential running mate. Experts say it wont be long if they’ve already met.

http://heaviermetal.net/donald-trump-vince-mcmahon-vice-president

The Senate wednesday resolved to enact a bill that would make provisions for death penalty as the punishment for anyone caught in the act of kidnapping.

The resolution followed the adoption of a report by the Joint Committee on Police Affairs and National Security and Intelligence presented by its Chairman, Senator Abu Ibrahim.

The Senate had on November 19, 2015, asked the committee to engage the Inspector General of Police (IG), Solomon Arase, and Director-General of Department of State Services (DSS), Mamman Daura, on recurrent cases of kidnapping and hostage taking, and recommend its findings to the chamber.

The committee also recommended adequate funding of security agencies and advised the federal government to ensure that deliberate efforts are made towards creating employment opportunities for the teeming unemployed youths.
The Senate also tasked security agencies to embark on training and retraining of security personnel for effective capacity building. It charged state governments to make laws that will enable security agencies prosecute kidnappers and culprits of related offences in their respective domains.

The Senate also canvassed the need for synergy and intelligence sharing among security agencies just as it advocated the need to encourage the IG and DG of DSS to be more committed.

However, the committee observed that security agencies had been unable to perform optimally as a result of inadequate funding which it said deprived them of the opportunity to procure modern technology and equipment.
The committee further noted what it described as “unnecessary and unhealthy rivalry among the security agencies leading to lack of required synergy and intelligence sharing on time,” adding that “Relations of the victims are always ready to pay ransom which tend to encourage the criminals.”

In his contribution, Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, noted that kidnapping became popular after former Anambra State Governor and incumbent Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, was kidnapped in 2002. Also yesterday, a bill seeking a five-year jail term for lecturers in tertiary institutions who exploit their vantage positions to subject female students to sexual harassment passed first reading.

Tagged ‘Sexual Harassment in Tertiary Educational Institutions Prohibition Bill, 2016’, the bill is sponsored by Senator Ovie Omo-Agege (Delta Central).

The bill which is co-sponsored by 45 other senators “makes it a criminal offence for any educator in a university, polytechnic or any other tertiary educational institution who violate or exploit the student-lecturer fiduciary relationship for sexual pleasures.”

Commenting on the bill, Omo-Agege said the bill made it mandatory for any vice chancellor, provost and rector of a university, polytechnic and college of education to promptly act on the report of any sexual harassment by a female student, failing which he said such authority would be jailed for two years.

He said: “The bill imposes stiff penalties on offenders in its overall objective of providing tighter statutory protection for students against sexual hostility and all forms of sexual harassment in tertiary schools.

“The bill provides a compulsory five-year jail term for lecturers who sexually harass students. When passed into law, vice chancellors of universities, rectors of polytechnics and other chief executives of institutions of higher learning will go to jail for two years if they fail to act within a week on complaints of sexual harassment made by students.

“The bill expressly allows sexually harassed students, their parents, or guardians to seek civil remedies in damages against sexual predator lecturers before or after their successful criminal prosecution by the state. The bill also seeks protection from sexual harassment for prospective students seeking admissions into higher educational institutions, students of generally low mental capacity andphysically challenged students.”

http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/05/05/senate-approves-death-sentence-for-kidnappers/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook

Sequel to the continuous fall in power supply in the last few months, which has adversely affected Nigerians, despite the 45 percent hike in electricity tariffs, the National Leader of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, has subtly expressed disappointment in the Minster of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola.

It could be recalled that under Fashola’s tenure as Minister, the nation made history on March 31st by generating zero megawatt of electricity, leaving Nigerians in total blackout.

In an Editorial Piece by The Nation Newspaper, the mouth-piece of the National Leader of the APC, he tagged excuses by functionaries of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration as unacceptable.

Tinubu, while expressing his displeasure through the editorial content of the newspaper titled “Power Challenges” and published on Tuesday, May 3, he maintained that, “excuses by functionaries of the Buhari administration for failure to light up homes and supply energy to the industries are unacceptable.”

“The government should realise that Nigerians did not elect them to churn out excuses.

“Complaints and reasons for non-performance are the easiest things to do. President Muhammadu Buhari was elected to replace the inept President Goodluck Jonathan administration, because the All Progressives Congress (APC) provided an alternative plan to make the country work.

“One of the areas of the campaign that caught the attention of the electorate, was the promise to ensure that power, which is central to tackling poverty and improving the quality of life, is tackled within the first year.

“No sooner was the administration inaugurated, than it claimed that power had become more stable, even when it was obvious that no fresh thinking had gone into generation, transmission and distribution systems.”

“We warned then that the victory being touted could only be sustained if new policies were put in place and known hurdles removed. The recent collapse vindicates that position.

“The excuse that vandals are disrupting supply of gas to the power plants is untenable.

“It is as annoying as the contention that fuel is not available for domestic consumption as a result of diversion to neighboring countries.

“It is the duty of government to secure vital installations nationwide with minimal disruptions to activities.

“A lot could be done with generation of power from coal, wind, solar and bio-fuels, but it requires hard work.”

Fashola, had in a statement last week said that the non availability of gas to power turbines aside vandalization of pipelines, was responsible for the current blackout being experienced across the country.

According to him, only 50 out of the 140 power generating turbines in the country are presently working.

The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, while inspecting damaged export pipelines at Forcados terminal in Warri, Delta state, had also said that the nation lost 99.6 percent of its total electricity generation capacity to vandalism.

Related: How Barrister Fashola has succeeded in destroying the Power Sector

Recall, that Fashola had in 2014 accused former President, Goodluck Jonathan, of doing nothing to alleviate the sufferings of Nigerians, especially in the area of electricity generation and distribution, adding that a serious government will fix power within 6 months.

http://www.post-nigeria.com/panic-as-fashola-lands-in-fresh-trouble-with-tinubu/

The National Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday released the capital importation report for the first quarter of 2016 stating that the country recorded its lowest investment inflow in nine years.

The bureau in the report made available to our correspondent said the economy attracted a total investment of $710.97m (N140.07bn) noting that this represents a decline of 54.34 per cent since the first quarter of 2015.

he report said both the quarterly and year-on-year declines were also the lowest recorded since the series began in 2007.

The report said, “The total value of capital imported into Nigeria in the first quarter of 2016 was $710.97m, the lowest level since the series began in 2007.

“This represents a decline of 54.34 per cent in the final quarter of 2015, and a year-on-year decline of 73.79 per cent.

“Both the quarterly and year-on-year declines were also the lowest recorded since the series began.

“As a result of these changes, total capital importation has fallen by 89.13 per cent since its peak level in the third quarter of 2014.”

The report attributed the huge decline in capital importation in the first quarter of 2016 to what it described as “symptomatic of the challenging period that the Nigerian economy is going through following the fall in crude oil prices.”

It said, “Investors may be concerned about whether or not they will be able to repatriate the earnings from their investments, given the current controls on the exchange rate. In addition, as growth has slowed in recent quarters, there may be concerns about the profitability of such investments.”

In terms of the composition of the investment inflows, the report said the largest component of capital importation in the first quarter was Portfolio investment.

This, it said accounted for $271.03m, or 38.12 per cent of all capital imported.

The largest subcomponent of portfolio investment was Equity, which accounted for $201.69m, representing 74.41 per cent of portfolio investment and 28.37 per cent of total capital imported.

Equity, it noted, has been the largest part of portfolio investment in every quarter since 2007.

http://www.punchng.com/54356-2/

But they are all educated, unlike the certificateless dullard from Duara!

tuale4u:



It is much more expected to have younger president in matured democracy like United State than an infant democracy like Nigeria.

Yet United State is parrading old men and women.

But they are all educated, unlike the certificateless dullard from Duara!

Already holding the distinction of being the world’s first free Black republic, Haiti has made another first as it prepares to become the African Union's first member state that is not actually on the physical continent of Africa.

Haiti attended the most recent African Union International Conference of Heads of State and Government, held in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, as a member observer, but surprised delegates with the announcement that Haiti would seek full associate membership with the 54-member bloc.

"...The African continent occupies a place increasingly important in the diplomatic action of the Haitian government ... to this end, a process of participation of Haiti in the African Union was engaged with the President of the regional institution, for the grant to Haiti, of a status of associate member and of the accreditation of a diplomatic mission with that organization," Haitian prime minister Dr. Garry Conille said, according to Haiti Libre.


The head of the Haitian delegation at the A.U. conference, Ady Jean Gardy, said that the move was an attempt to “establish exchanges at all levels of the business diplomacy with African states,” and he pledged Haiti’s support with technical assistance to help countries then re-negotiate donor aid agreements with the goal of debt cancellation.


The African Union is the modern incarnation of the Organization of African Unity, started in 1963, and its vision today is to build “an integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens and representing a dynamic force in global arena.”



Although this is the first time an outside state has requested membership with the A.U., Haiti has long maintained positive relationships with many African nations. In the wake of the 2010 earthquake, several African states urged each other to provide naturalized citizenship to all Haitians that sought refuge in Africa, with Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade proposing a plan for the mass adoption of orphaned Haitian children across the continent.

Wade said the history of Haitians as descendants of African slaves gave them the right to a new life on the continent, according to Reuters.

"We have attachment and links to that country," former A.U. Chairman Jean Ping said of Haiti in 2010, according to Reuters. "The first black republic in 1804, that carried high the flame of liberation and freedom for the black people."

Is this picture true about Nigeria

Former Head of State Ibrahim Babangida has finally broken the silence on his illness. According to Naij, the ex-President debunked rumours of him being bedridden or dead, stating that he knows he “must go and meet God”.
While strongly stating that he is not incapacitated, Babangida also said that nobody is above illness and that he is at peace with what God has destined.
“It is true I have minimised my appearance at public functions because of my ill health, but not to the level of incapacitation as being widely circulated in some media.
“For me, it doesn’t shock me neither bother me because I know I must go and meet God my Creator,” he added.
“There is nothing really to worry about, my religion has told me.”
IBB, as he is affectionately known, also expressed belief in the dreams of Nigerians, saying that the future is bright for those who work hard and have hope in the country.
In 2014 Babangida spent two months in Germany while receiving treatment.
His son, Muhammed, also recently confirmed his father’s illness, disclosing that he had undergone surgery and is currently in recovery


/spynigeria.com/2016/04/must-go-meet-god-babangida-speaks-illness/