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what is the new name for Merger parties?abi dem wan go Tahir (Eagle square go do Owambe like Ojota ?

Grace Mende is a b***looking for more fund.You and your Family are also infected going by your statistics.

How are we not sure it is the Merger Party registering another party to win sympathy?

They can't even register a party not to talk of winning Nigeria.

APC Nose bloodied here .APC threw 200 Million to the Market.GEJ threw 200 Million to equipped their school.Who is clueless?APC Governors i think.

Jerry Agbaso.God don catch you.Former Comptroller of Customs in Tin Can Island who stole all the Revenue we generated to fund his election those days.Karma is a Bi***.

Islam is Cancer

200 million for the boys.O think their next visit should be Mali and Afghanistan .

Yerima is high on hot concentrated urine called Aluminum Sulphate(ALSO4).

The Federal Government said yesterday that it is willing to accept the ceasefire offer of the Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad, also called as Boko Haram, and grant amnesty to members of the sect if their leader Sheikh Abubakar Shekau publicly renounces violence.
National Coordinator of the Counterterrorism Centre retired Major General Sarkin-Yaki Bello disclosed this at an interactive session with top US military (Capstone course) personnel led by Admiral (rtd) Henry Chiles at the National Defence College Abuja.
He said government is prepared to accommodate members of the group in a rehabilitation programme being proposed, but Shekau must come out through the medium he has been using, Youtube, to renounce violence as a precondition.
“Government is also working to ensure that an opportunity will be created to embrace extremists who renounce terrorism to come forward for rehabilitation,” he said.
General Bello also said government is prepared to meet the demands put forward by the group which included the release of its members in detention; the rebuilding of its mosque (Markas) which was destroyed by a military operation in Maiduguri in 2009 and allowing sect members to practice their religious beliefs freely.
Boko Haram commander who acknowledged himself as Sheikh Muhammed Abdulazeez Ibn Idris told reporters in Maiduguri last month that following consultations with some individuals and groups, the sect had decided to halt its three years old insurgency.
Since the declaration, there have been incidences of attacks in many parts of the north, but the group has not come out to claim responsibility as it was the practice.
Shekau is one of three members of the group on United States’ terror list. Sometime last year, the Joint Task Force claimed that it injured him in one of the major attacks it launched on the group in Damaturu, Yobe State.
This is the first time that the federal government is making a public commitment, involving Shakau in the quest to resolve the conflict which has claimed thousands of people since 2009.
General Bello said government will adopt some socio-economic measures to address extremism in the north and members of the sect who renounce violence will be granted amnesty.
He noted that since the high unemployment rate, especially in the north is a major multiplier of terrorism in the region, “the federal government in conjunction with state governments will soon officially launch a coordinated programme aimed at addressing unemployment in the region.”
“This will help reduce the pool of recruit for the Boko Haram sect. Additionally to this, the federal government will reform and regulate the hitherto unregulated Madrasa schools, popularly called the Almajiri system of education that has prevailed in the northern part of the country.
General Bello said Nigeria is collaborating with other neighbouring countries to prevent terror attacks. He said a number of foreign nationals were identified as Boko Haram members.
“We have citizens of Niger Republic who are members of Boko Haram we have Chadians; we have Cameroonians as member,” he said.
According to him, the federal government has long realised that Boko Haram has affiliation with Mali, and to solve the problem, the umbilical cord between the sect and the other groups in northern Mali needs to be cut.
He also said the sect got arms from Libya after the fall of Gaddafi regime.
“The major source of arms for Boko Haram comes from Libya through Chad,” he said, point out that the federal government has evolved approaches to deal with the problem.
He said Boko Haram attacks, maritime insecurity and kidnapping are the major security challenges facing the country.
But he emphasised that Boko Haram is the most dangerous because “its members live within the society and its difficult to spot them.”
“The sect has grown in sophistication from when it emerges in 2009 and is now capable of carrying out coordinated attacks in many cities in northern Nigeria.
He said Nigerian security forces have had to review their tactics and modus operandi to address the new security challenges, adding that security forces operations will now be aligned to suit overall government effort to eradicated terrorism.
“In conjunction with other stakeholders, a draft National Counter Terrorism Strategy which will soon be approved by our president has been produced. The idea is to have an all embracing approach toward handling counter terrorism issues.
“Other measures include advance plan to set up National Counter Terrorism Centre which further ensure coordination and synergy among all agencies. A Fusion Centre will be a key component of Counter Terrorism Centre which will serve as a processing point for all source of intelligence, he added.”
General Bello said Boko Haram’s capacity has been weakened substantially.
“In the last few months, the security forces have been able to strategically degrade the leadership of the Boko Haram sect; this has considerably reduced the capacity of the sect to undertake coordinated large scale attacks, unlike in the past. We are working assiduously to maintain the tempo of our effort in order to sustain gains that have been made,” he said.
Speaking at the event, Commandant of the National Defence College Rear Admiral Thomas Lokoson said the US team was in the College to acquire leadership skills at the strategic level.

The Federal Government said yesterday that it is willing to accept the ceasefire offer of the Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad, also called as Boko Haram, and grant amnesty to members of the sect if their leader Sheikh Abubakar Shekau publicly renounces violence.
National Coordinator of the Counterterrorism Centre retired Major General Sarkin-Yaki Bello disclosed this at an interactive session with top US military (Capstone course) personnel led by Admiral (rtd) Henry Chiles at the National Defence College Abuja.
He said government is prepared to accommodate members of the group in a rehabilitation programme being proposed, but Shekau must come out through the medium he has been using, Youtube, to renounce violence as a precondition.
“Government is also working to ensure that an opportunity will be created to embrace extremists who renounce terrorism to come forward for rehabilitation,” he said.
General Bello also said government is prepared to meet the demands put forward by the group which included the release of its members in detention; the rebuilding of its mosque (Markas) which was destroyed by a military operation in Maiduguri in 2009 and allowing sect members to practice their religious beliefs freely.
Boko Haram commander who acknowledged himself as Sheikh Muhammed Abdulazeez Ibn Idris told reporters in Maiduguri last month that following consultations with some individuals and groups, the sect had decided to halt its three years old insurgency.
Since the declaration, there have been incidences of attacks in many parts of the north, but the group has not come out to claim responsibility as it was the practice.
Shekau is one of three members of the group on United States’ terror list. Sometime last year, the Joint Task Force claimed that it injured him in one of the major attacks it launched on the group in Damaturu, Yobe State.
This is the first time that the federal government is making a public commitment, involving Shakau in the quest to resolve the conflict which has claimed thousands of people since 2009.
General Bello said government will adopt some socio-economic measures to address extremism in the north and members of the sect who renounce violence will be granted amnesty.
He noted that since the high unemployment rate, especially in the north is a major multiplier of terrorism in the region, “the federal government in conjunction with state governments will soon officially launch a coordinated programme aimed at addressing unemployment in the region.”
“This will help reduce the pool of recruit for the Boko Haram sect. Additionally to this, the federal government will reform and regulate the hitherto unregulated Madrasa schools, popularly called the Almajiri system of education that has prevailed in the northern part of the country.
General Bello said Nigeria is collaborating with other neighbouring countries to prevent terror attacks. He said a number of foreign nationals were identified as Boko Haram members.
“We have citizens of Niger Republic who are members of Boko Haram we have Chadians; we have Cameroonians as member,” he said.
According to him, the federal government has long realised that Boko Haram has affiliation with Mali, and to solve the problem, the umbilical cord between the sect and the other groups in northern Mali needs to be cut.
He also said the sect got arms from Libya after the fall of Gaddafi regime.
“The major source of arms for Boko Haram comes from Libya through Chad,” he said, point out that the federal government has evolved approaches to deal with the problem.
He said Boko Haram attacks, maritime insecurity and kidnapping are the major security challenges facing the country.
But he emphasised that Boko Haram is the most dangerous because “its members live within the society and its difficult to spot them.”
“The sect has grown in sophistication from when it emerges in 2009 and is now capable of carrying out coordinated attacks in many cities in northern Nigeria.
He said Nigerian security forces have had to review their tactics and modus operandi to address the new security challenges, adding that security forces operations will now be aligned to suit overall government effort to eradicated terrorism.
“In conjunction with other stakeholders, a draft National Counter Terrorism Strategy which will soon be approved by our president has been produced. The idea is to have an all embracing approach toward handling counter terrorism issues.
“Other measures include advance plan to set up National Counter Terrorism Centre which further ensure coordination and synergy among all agencies. A Fusion Centre will be a key component of Counter Terrorism Centre which will serve as a processing point for all source of intelligence, he added.”
General Bello said Boko Haram’s capacity has been weakened substantially.
“In the last few months, the security forces have been able to strategically degrade the leadership of the Boko Haram sect; this has considerably reduced the capacity of the sect to undertake coordinated large scale attacks, unlike in the past. We are working assiduously to maintain the tempo of our effort in order to sustain gains that have been made,” he said.
Speaking at the event, Commandant of the National Defence College Rear Admiral Thomas Lokoson said the US team was in the College to acquire leadership skills at the strategic level.

Loud Mouth .

kk

we will not vote a terrorist.That is why he wont be elected.He is not intelligent.He is desparate.Please stop littering this forum with Buhari Buhari

Less than 24 hours after the Senate asked President Goodluck Jonathan to fire the embattled Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Dr. Abdulrasheed Maina, the embattled Maina, spoke from his hiding yesterday, alleging that the pension cabal was after his life and not just his sack.

Before reaching Maina on phone yesterday, sources in his office had told Daily Sun that the task team boss hadmaintained a low profile, shortly after he was declared wanted by the police, on the instruction of the Senate.

One of the sources said: “If you recall, the last time he appeared at the Senate, security was provided for him. But as we speak, all the guards have been completely withdrawn and the seeming involvement of the Senate and the police in the alleged plot to get at him at all cost, is a further indication that it will be suicidal for him to show up or even appear in the public for whatever reasons.

And it has further shown that the cabal after him has infiltrated the police and the Senate. “But here is a man, through whose effort, over N200 billion was recovered and saved for the country, among many other achievements. The records are there for all to see,” the source added.

Daily Sun also gathered that most of the staff members of the office had since taken cover, following reports that the police might arrest all of them, since it had been unable to arrest Maina. Speaking from his hiding yesterday, embattled Maina told Daily Sun that “I am fast losing confidence in the country called Nigeria.

Imagine, I have suddenly become a villain for saving the country billions of naira, being stolen daily by pension thieves. “I’m saddened, demoralised by the whole mess. It is baffling that the hunter has become the hunted. It is simply ridiculous. How can one continue to fight for the country and the poor pensioners, when the system is so rotten to the effect that the thief catcher is being branded as the thief ?

“Already, I have gone to court to redeem my name, save my team, with a view to go further to expose the big names behind the cabal. But with what I have seen so far, I doubt if Nigeria is worth dying for,” Maina added.

A renowned doctor and leader of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria, Dr. Ahmed Datti, started it all in 2003 when he mounted a dangerous campaign that the polio vaccine had been “corrupted and tainted by evildoers from America and their Western allies”. He did not only stop there, he took his wicked campaign to many mosques in the northern parts of the country, telling his huge followers not to have anything to do with polio vaccination. On Friday, last week, Dr. Datti’s campaign claimed nine innocent lives when some gunmen riding on a motor tricycle opened fire in the Hotoro Hayi neighbourhood, killing at least five female health workers, polio vaccinators. Another four people were killed in a second attack in the Unguwa-Uku area. I was told Unguwa-Uku in Kano is a home of Boko Haram, the Islamic fundamentalists that have been terrorising the northern part of the country.

The slaughtering of these nine innocent female health workers who were carrying out health services for children against polio is devilish before man and Almighty God. As UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) put it, such attacks are a double tragedy for the health workers and their families and for the children and vulnerable populations who are robbed of basic life-saving health interventions. As has been expressed globally, these attacks are intolerable and condemnable under any condition. Sadly for our country, these brutal killings have also drawn relationship with a series of incidents in troubled countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan where female polio vaccinators have also been killed by Islamist militants. The impression being planted in the minds of civilized nations is that we share common evil things with Pakistan and a crisis-ridden country like Afghanistan. We are fast being dragged to the perilous club of terrorists who fight religious war.

What’s more? We are sending signals of a new wave of violent attacks against immunisation scheme in our country by acts of some devil incarnates parading themselves as Islamic clerics who have consistently claimed that the polio vaccines were part of a western plot to sterilise little girls in the north and reduce the Muslim population. Too bad! The promoters of this ungodly act should hold their heads in shame. I am sure the hottest place will be reserved for them in hellfire.

While this campaign against polio vaccination is being promoted in the northern part of the country by renowned medical experts like Dr. Datti and, lately, one Professor Kaita of Ahmed Bello University, Zaria, our country remains one of the most deep-rooted reservoirs of wild polio virus in the world. According to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, Nigeria is the only country with ongoing transmission of all three serotypes: Wild Poliovirus Type 1, Wild Poliovirus Type 3, and Circulating Vaccine-derived Poliovirus Type 2. Records have also shown that states in the north of the country are the main source of polio infections elsewhere in Nigeria and in neighbouring countries. Even though there have been improvement in the operation in the northern states, which has led to a decline in cases of Wild Poliovirus type 1 and, in overall cases, this current attempt by those opposed to it to copy tactics being used by militants in Pakistan and Afghanistan, who had accused health workers of spying for the US, will not help the current huge efforts by the federal government to fight this virus that is crippling children in the north.

It is very painful when one remembers that one of the promoters of “No to Polio Vaccination”, Dr. Datti, is one of the first-class doctors from the northern part of the country. He ought to know that the global polio eradication initiative was formed in 1988 by well-meaning people who care for children, with the sole aim of reducing infection with poliomyelitis virus; and, several years later, thousands of children have contracted acute flaccid paralysis caused by poliovirus infection. This finding represented a huge increase over the number of cases and resulted in the re-emergence of polio as one of the world’s deadliest infections. In 2009, polio was found endemic to four countries: India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and, in 2008, cases were also detected in 14 other countries. And there is no reason whatsoever why religion opposition by Muslim fundamentalists should be a major factor in the failure of immunisation programmes against polio in Nigeria. O yes! There is no reason at all. We have been repeatedly told that Islam is a progressive religion, and therefore religious leaders should be asked to support polio eradication programmes. All the Imams and other Islamic leaders must make efforts to stop this mess created by Dr. Datti and step up the campaign for polio vaccination in order to highlight the plight of children with polio.

As the inspector-general of police had ordered, vaccinators and other health workers operating in conflict zones should be provided protection so that they are better able to perform their duties to the needy children. The recent ugly incident that happened in Kano should not discourage the vaccinators. The evil men that carried out the disaster must be defeated. The only way to defeat them is not to succumb to their ungodly acts. The overall purpose is to make the children in those areas safer and make sure the virus is not exported to areas where wild polio transmission has been interrupted by vaccination. The like of Dr. Datti should spearhead the campaign this time round. Along with that, the federal government should continue with the interruption of endemic transmission of poliovirus, which has been pursued through a combination of routine immunisation, supplementary immunisation campaigns and surveillance of possible outbreaks. The federal government should also make available more basic health infrastructure that will increase vaccine distribution and delivery.

In all this, the efforts of the Sultan of Sokoto in the war against polio must be commended. Like a true soldier, he has been soldiering across the northern states of the country telling his subjects that , unlike the evil message of Dr. Datti, polio vaccination was not a Western plot to sterilise little girls in the north and reduce the Muslim population. That is what a true, honest and sincere leader should do in times of crisis and doubt. His Eminence the Sultan of Sokoto has proved his exemplary leadership qualities. Na gode, Maigida.

Rubbish.Seeking attention for 2015.