₦airaland Forum

They said they bringing change is this the change?




As written by Timilehin Bankole.



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Senate President, David Mark, has charged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) faithful to work hard before the electorate in order to guarantee victory at the various stages of the elections.
Mark said: “We want to win convincingly at all levels. There will be no room for any manipulation.

“We as members of the PDP will not rig. We will not allow opposition parties to rig us out.

“We have enough evidence to show to the electorate why the PDP remain the preferred choice in 2015”.
Addressing PDP stakeholders from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Benue, Nasarawa, Kogi, Kwara, Niger and Plateau states, which make the North Central Zone in Abuja, on Saturday, Mark told any body or party planning electoral malpractices to think otherwise,

According to him, “we are committed to free, fair, credible and acceptable elections.”
He however asked his party members not to take anything for granted, just as he stressed the need for them to strategise and reach out to the electorate ahead of the polls.


He acknowledged the challenges posed by the opposition parties, but expressed optimism that PDP has lived up to its billings in terms of delivery of dividends of democracy to Nigerians, a positive evidence that it would do more if given another mandate.

Mark listed the reasons to include return of the railway transport services, improved road networks, modernised airports, agriculture and rural development, enhanced power supply, political stability, adherence to the principles of rule of law and human rights as well as freedom of expression under President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.

In their separate remakes, governors of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam; Plateau’s Jonah Jang and Niger’s Babangida Aliyu, said they would work hard to ensure PDP’s victory in the zone.
Like Mark, they noted the incursion of opposition parties in the zone, even as they insisted that PDP remains the party to beat.

http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/01/mustnt-allow-opposition-rig-us-mark-warns-pdp/

Some military families still don't know what's happened to their husbands, fathers
The Nigerian military seems under-equipped compared to Boko Haram fighters
Nigerian soldiers must buy their own uniforms
Northern Nigeria (CNN)I didn't want to ask the question. I could already guess the pain behind the answer.

"Do you think your husband is dead?"

Her mouth twists, contorting her young face, tears welling in her already reddened eyes.

"I don't know... I pray to God to give him another chance," she finally manages to stutter.

Her sadness is heavy and blankets both of us.

She tells me she has three children, and they last saw their father four months ago when he went back to his army unit on the front line in Nigeria's battle with the radical Islamist extremist group Boko Haram.

Satellite images show devastation of Boko Haram attacks, rights groups say

His friends last saw him bloodied and shooting as Boko Haram fighters advanced and they all fled.

If all this wasn't trauma enough, the young woman says the army has deserted her, too.

"They didn't tell me anything, they still haven't told me what happened and they didn't pay me anything and no one is feeding us in the barracks," she said.

We are in northern Nigeria, a few hours' drive north of the capital where the mostly Muslim north meets the mostly Christian south.

Just last month, a double suicide bombing killed 12 people in a busy central market in the region.

Driving northeast of here toward the borders with Chad, Cameroon and Niger puts you in the heart of Boko Haram territory -- a land mass the size of Belgium.

So it's no surprise that the area is home to many thousands of troops, and, as I am finding out, it's also the backdrop of many more heart-wrenching stories.

A mile or so from his base, I meet a soldier on a remote windswept hill. He is a veteran of African Union and United Nations peacekeeping missions in Liberia and Sudan, a professional soldier. We sit on plastic chairs as he tells me his story.

He, too, was left on the battlefield by his comrades as they fled for safety in the face of a Boko Haram attack. He doesn't blame them.

"The major problem the soldiers have is they don't have the equipment to fight," he says.

Boko Haram has anti-aircraft guns, which he says are accurate up to three-quarters of a mile. All the Nigerian military has, he says, are AK47 small machine guns, accurate up to a few hundred meters.

Often the Nigerian soldiers are given only 60 bullets each, so they quickly run out. Boko Haram, he says, has large supplies of ammunition and more fighters.

Although the Nigerian soldiers do win some fights, he says they are regularly forced to turn tail and run for their lives by the sheer volume of gunfire from Boko Haram fighters.

It took him three days -- on foot, alone -- to get back to his base, 70 kilometers away. When he arrived, his wife told him to quit the army, but his troubles were only just beginning.

Army medics refused to pay the $200 for medicine to treat his injuries. Morale in the army is sinking, he says.

That night, I meet a young officer, who, like the other soldier, is not authorized to talk to me. Our conversation is held in a hurry in a tiny darkened hut that sells biscuits and fizzy drinks at a roundabout on the outskirts of a town.

Corruption, he tells me, is the root of the Nigerian military's problem.

"Not just the generals... everybody in the country wants to get rich by any means necessary," he says.

The soldiers don't ever benefit from the billions allocated to the defense budget, he explains. He even had to buy his own uniform.

"The troop morale is actually very low, very low, because we are not issued a uniform, we buy the uniforms ourselves," he explained.

The other soldier I met on the hill told me this, too. When they go into battle, no one has the same uniform, so when they run from Boko Haram it's chaos. They don't know who is friend or foe -- whom to shoot and whom to help.

Most soldiers live in fear, the young officer tells me. A fear of what will happen to them, and how long they can survive in this battle, he says.

The worrying doesn't stop there. They see enough war widows on the base to know the grim reality of what can happen to their loved ones if they die.

A widow I meet explains. Her husband was killed in battle over a year ago, she tells me.

"When my husband died, they never called me to tell me that I lost my husband," she says. "They buried him without notifying me."

She gets no army pension, and she says there are many more like her: they feel abandoned, afraid to speak out because they still live in the barracks.

Government officials tell us they will look into these shortcomings, that they are working on getting better weapons for the troops.

If they do, according to the soldiers I met, it will easily turn the tide in this war.


http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/15/africa/nigeria-military-families-boko-haram/index.html

That's for sure even the deaf and dumb knows

Senate President, David Mark, has expressed optimism that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will not only win the presidential and other elective positions in the 2015 general election, but will do so transparently in a free and fair contest, such that will be acceptable to the opposition, the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Mark stated this on Wednesday at Mangu Mini Stadium, where he chaired the flag off campaign of the PDP governorship candidate in Plateau State, Senator Gyang Pwajok.

He described Pwajok as credible, competent, intelligent and hardworking, saying with his reputable credentials and integrity, the only the PDP members in the state that will vote him but some members of the APC will equally support hm.

According to him, “The PDP in the North-central has deliberately chosen its candidates to win the geo-political zone. North-central is PDP and PDP is North-central. We will deliver for President Jonathan and all elective positions during the February general election.

“The PDP is not only going to win in a free, fair and credible election, but we will make sure we win in a transparent election. We in the North-central are known for doing what is right and we must do the right thing by giving our block votes to President Jonathan and all our candidates.”

He urged Nigerians to eschew politics of violence and ensure they have their voters cards, adding that, “we in the National Assembly are suggesting that those who do not have the permanent voters’ cards should be allowed to vote with their temporary voters’ cards because they must participate and decide those who will govern them.

Also speaking, the Governor of Niger State and Chairman of the Northern States Governors’ Forum, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, urged Nigerians not to be deceived by desperate politicians who do not have the interest of their communities and the nation at heart, but their personal interest. We must continue with the development that we have started.

He said, “We cannot submit to propaganda and cheap blackmail by the APC, we must deliver our polling units to PDP. Politicians who do not deliver their polling units are not serious politicians” he stated.

Similarly, the Governor of Benue State, Mr. Gabriel Suswam, urged the people to take the February general election very seriously, saying “we should not treat the February election with laxity, the election must be taken with all seriousness. We must return President Jonathan, which is why North-central is working as a unit to deliver for the PDP”, adding that APC is not fit to rule Nigeria.

Present at the flag off were Governor Jonah Jang, Senator Joshua Dariye and General Jeremiah Useni (rtd), who are the PDP Senatorial candidates of Plateau North, Plateau Central and Plateau South respectively. The party’s candidates for the House of Representatives in the state, and the 24 candidates for the House of Assembly were also present. They all received their flags in the presence of the mammoth crowd that attended the event.


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/pdp-will-win-presidential-election-others-transparently-says-mark/199254/

People that know better things. That's the way forward.. no to backwardness

An Ogoni, Rivers-based group has denied reports that the  people of the oil-rich kingdom have adopted the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, General Mohammadu Buhari.

Known as the Ken Saro Wiwa Associates (KSWA), the group warned political parties, particularly the APC to stop the politicisation of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) report, which the President Goodluck Jonathan government has already started the process of implementing.

The group took a swipe at Buhari who, during his visit to Ogoniland recently in continuation of his campaign promised to “solve all the problems associated with oil exploration in the Niger Delta including the remediation and restoration of the Ogoni environment”.

In a statement issued in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital and signed by its national coordinator, Chief Gani Topba on Wednesday reminded Buhari that he was a federal commissioner of petroleum and head of state at some point and never remembered to solve the problem of the Ogoni people.
“Mohammadu Buhari was at different times federal commissioner of Petroleum Resources and head of state of Nigeria under whose watch the harmful environmental degrading industry practices were in place, and yet he did not do anything at the time to align industry standards with best practices in the world in spite of the clamor by Niger delta activists like Harold Dappa Biriye and Isaac Adaka Boro.

“Buhari served in the Abacha regime as head of the defunct PTF which was saddled with the responsibility of cushioning the effects to Nigerians of the attendant hardship which the populace faced from that government’s partial removal of subsidy on prices of refined products.

“There is no evidence that projects were sighted in Ogoni land by PTF in spite of the fact that Ogoni’s is major contribution to refined oil and foreign exchange earnings”.

The group also warned the political parties to desist from dragging traditional rulers into partisan politics with a particular reference to the visit to HRM King GNK Giniwa Gbenemene Tai, stating that it is such acts that increases “demystification of the traditional and chaieftaincy institution in Ogoniland and other parts of the country”.

The ken Saro Wiwa group said apart from the adoption of the UNEP report, President Goodluck Jonathan has set up ministerial multi stakeholder committee to review the report and make implementation recommendations in the same 2011, the President has set up the HYPREP committee as a palliative measure.


http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/01/ogoni-group-rejects-buhari-hails-jonathan-unep-implementation/

captainobvious:
fellow nairalanders pls share your thoughts. ...if you could rid the world of one thing what will it be?
mine will be HATE!

Terrorism

berem:
where are thou brain my fellow woman? (That is if you are truly a woman)

Fool you call yourself a woman?

Some stewpid terrorist turned politician said he will stabilise it

theV0ice:
both parties were at fault in gombe. it was 1-1 goalless draw there

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/174712-nigeria-2015-violence-escalates-suspected-apc-supporters-raze-pdp-property-gombe.html

ask jang why he had to provoke elements within PDP by the fraud he called primaries in plateau state that led to the burnt bus incident

You just a bloody liar with your party. When they were shouting sai buhari you didn't see it?

Is propaganda don't mind them

[quote author=midolian post=29728115][/quote]Is that all apc can come up with? Party of propaganda. God will see us tru and we will resist you guys foot soldiers attacks

Oga calm down you were paid

jnrbayano:
I don't wanna see more. I have seen enough

LoL

Is that all buhari can come up with Is Gombe primaries also rigged too This is just a terrorist

Go and meet your mum to show you some manners your a woman

Inec is scared of the backlash buhari and his foot soldiers will do if the man with no certificate is disqualified......


Buhari is an iliterate

Tinubu is a thief

Osinbajo is corruption in person

Thank you

tattesco:
Cristiano Ronaldo is the favourite to win the Ballon
d'Or for the second year in succession at Monday's
gala ceremony in Zurich ahead of Manuel Neuer and
Lionel Messi.
Messi has finished in the top two in each of the last
seven years but, despite another prolific year in
2014, appears this time to be lagging behind his two
rivals.

A disappointing World Cup, in which he was
eliminated at the group stage with Portugal, has not
prevented Ronaldo from staking a strong claim to win
the prize for the third time overall.
The 29-year-old Real Madrid superstar scored a
remarkable 61 goals in the calendar year as he
helped his club win the Champions League, Copa del
Rey and Uefa Super Cup, before ending 2014 by
securing the Club World Cup.
Ronaldo scored a record 17 goals in last season's
Champions League and has already netted a
phenomenal 26 goals in 16 La Liga games this season.
Unsurprisingly, he has received fierce support from
his club, who feel that Ronaldo would be the only
worthy winner of the prize and felt compelled to
publicly criticise Uefa president Michel Platini for his
suggestions that Neuer should take the award.
Messi, meanwhile, set the career scoring records in
the Champions League and Spain's La Liga in
November, just as national team captains and
coaches and selected journalists were filling their
Ballon d'Or ballots.
Who do you think will win?

Cr7 1st

Cr7 2nd

Cr7 3rd

Whether he comes or not Gej will win by any means

teemanbastos:
but Its Fact.

Fact my foot

teemanbastos:
xtop saying trash man... Dis is true..!!
Fayose is a man who can do anything he wants and he isnt tolerant.. At all.
Xo inshort he just hates the sight of opposition

Story for the Gods

Every individual in apc is a propagandist

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State says it has uncovered plot by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to disrupt the campaign rally for its presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, slated for Wednesday January 14, 2015 in Ado-Ekiti.

APC through its state Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, said it had incontrovertible evidence that PDP had mapped out plans to unleash terror on APC members and supporters by using fake soldiers imported from neighbouring countries to be mixed with local miscreants to cause mayhem.

“The local miscreants are to help identify APC and their supporters to be attacked at check points and so prevent them from entering the state. The Plan B is to deck PDP thugs in APC uniforms to shoot APC members coming to the rally as PDP did in Rivers State,” Olatubosun explained.

The party said Governor Ayodele Fayose’s utterances in Lagos last week had confirmed the plan, stressing that as the arrowhead of PDP’s rigging machine, his boast that President Goodluck Jonathan would win like he won the June 21 governorship election. Olatubosun said: “Going by his recent frequent trips outside the state just like he did instead of campaigning before his election, we know that another rigging plot is in the offing. Now that details of their plan have been uncovered, Nigerians should watch PDP and Fayose very closely as they elect their President on February 14.”

APC spokesman reminded Nigerians that Fayose is capable of doing anything to achieve his aim, pointing out that the governor cared less about the implications of his actions as long as he was able to achieve his aim.


http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/01/apc-alleges-plot-disrupt-buharis-rally-ekiti/

saxywale:
Is buhari the commander in chief of the armed forces

Question, commander for violence and other related things

iamrahoof:
They re scared of PDP because APC doesn't want Nigerians to be slave in there own country. I guess u need #Change

Violent change? Hell NO

Lie mohammed and apc kpele, truth is bitter. You can as well go hug transformer

The All Progressives Congress says the Department of State Service has been bastardised by the Peoples Democratic Party-led Federal Government to the extent that the agency has become a mockery of intelligence-gathering.

The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said this during a press conference at the APC Data Centre in Lagos on Sunday.

Mohammed faulted allegations by the spokesperson for the DSS, Mrs. Marilyn Ogar, that the APC was planning to hack into the database of the Independent National Electoral Commission.

He said INEC’s database was not connected to the Internet and as such was impossible to be hacked into.

He said had the DSS done its homework, it would have known this as INEC had always stated this in the past.

He said, “The allegation that the APC planned to hack into INEC’s voters’ registration database is false. The fact that the DSS made the allegation at all shows that the agency does not understand the concept of hacking, which is pathetic for a primary intelligence agency of its stature.

“We are not aware that INEC has made a complaint of anyone or group trying to hack into its system. The DSS ‘findings’ are baseless as INEC’S database is a reflection of the registered members with the Permanent Voter’s Cards. Please note that at the time of the DSS’ raids, the PVCs had already been printed. Therefore, of what value would it be to hack into the system and input more names?

“Simply put, it is not possible for the APC to hack into the INEC database because INEC’s database is not online, how then are it possible for anyone to hack into it? To prevent virus intrusion, there is no Internet service at the APC Data Centre that was raided. Therefore it is not possible to hack into INEC’s database.”

Mohammed said the APC never registered under-aged people as alleged by the DSS. He said when the security agents raided the office last November, they confiscated empty registration forms along with used application forms.

He said the DSS affixed pictures of children unto the forms in order to discredit the APC having failed to find any evidence.

The APC spokesman also questioned the timing of the news conference conducted by the DSS. He said the party suspected that it was part of grand scheme by the presidency to disenfranchise its supporters and ultimately postpone the elections.

He said, “The overall motive of the raid of our offices and the so-called findings is to give the impression that the INEC voter’s register has been corrupted, hence cannot be used for next month’s elections.


http://www.punchng.com/news/dss-a-disgrace-to-intelligence-gathering-apc/

crownprince102:
You need change ooooo

I shd change from following a gentleman and join a blood sucking beast? A coup plotter? And then start acting like his followers and destroy people's bus and bomb piple?....... no that's not the change aw preach to the younger ones....

holatin:
really ? they must Ve shown you their apc memberships card for you to call them apc.

Tell me how much dem go pay you for this defamation.

Stop listening to someone that will give you a stipend dat wount be enough for you tru out ur life but listen and vote for someone who will make Nigeria better for you, your child, your children children's.

say no to stagnancy and embrace progression

See how you reason.... like someone with empty skull...I guess your skull is empty anyway

holatin:
am nt surprised, buhari name make all thief and thief supporter behave stupidly

Go and sleep every 10 years old boy have slept

Violence is buhari way of life