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The alleged closed-circuit television footage of the Offa bank robberies has surfaced online.

It may be recalled that on Thursday, April 5, armed robbers invaded a handful of banks in Offa, Kwara State, killing many people which eyewitnesses said were up to 50.

Among the victim banks were the Union Bank, EcoBank, Guarantee Trust Bank, First Bank, Zenith Bank and Ibolo Micro Finance Bank.

The video was posted online by News Bytes. However, The PUNCH cannot vouch for the authenticity of the video as of the time of this report.

The video opens with two persons suspected to be security men running away from sounds of gunshots.

Then in commando style, some shooters suspected to be robbers run into the premises, shooting as they do so.

Just then, a woman holding a child hears the gunshots and quickly runs off.

The slightly over four-minute video goes on to detail shootings as the suspects take positions around the entrance of the venue of the robbery.

A haze of cloud regularly wafts through the atmosphere, suspected to be the effects of the blowing up of the entrances with dynamites — as later alleged by security men and eyewitness.

Muffled conversations that seem like exchange of instructions can be heard, even as one of the invaders hurriedly leaves something on the window of the security post. The window explodes in a haze of cloud.



The suspects, satisfied that the coast is clear, pick their bags and run towards a place suspected to be the entrance into the main building.

They keep running up and down the compound as the video tapers to a close.

http://punchng.com/alleged-video-of-offa-bank-robbery-surfaces-online/

Presidency has lashed out at those it described as corrupt politicians for orchestrating protests against President Muhammadu Buhari in the UK.

The protest coming less than 24 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari declared his intention to contest for another term in office as President of Nigeria, is said to be the handiwork of alleged looters and corrupt politicians who are bent on embarrassing the President, as he prepares for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, while commenting on the protest by a group of Nigerians outside the Nigeria House in London.

Shehu however affirms that the President will not be distracted from his mission in the UK.

Corrupt Nigerians who are custodians of slush funds stolen from Nigeria, and hiding in UK or are resident cronies colluded with some elements to form a league of protesters with a singular aim of distracting and disorganising the scheduled state visit of the President to England, for bilateral talks with Prime Minister Theresa May and other dignitaries.

“Esteemed Nigerians home and abroad, friends and business investors in Nigeria, should please see through the veil of the motive behind the Abuja House, Kensington London demonstration. It was an orchestrated act of desperation and a ploy to blackmail and hoodwink the President from concentrating on his anti corruption campaign , which is fast gaining grounds locally and internationally,”

“this unpatriotic act is not unconnected to the Federal government policies to name and shame corrupt citizens and looters; to collate database of Nigerians with homes in UK who are not paying the right taxes, and the hot drive to prosecute all financial defaulters through bilateral and multilateral means.”

The protesters are said to have benchmarked their actions on local grievances and national challenges which the government is already tackling head on.

Such issues include the “herdsmen versus agrarian farmers clashes, fuel scarcity, as well as trumped up charge of hunger in the land at a time when prices of food items are beginning to drop and inflation on the decrease.”

His view was buttressed by our Presidency sources who further repeated the position of Mr. President who famously said that corruption is endemic and Nigerians need to kill it before it kills Nigerians.

“It is obvious that this is a clear cut incident of corruption fighting back. Many of the beneficiaries of corruption and slush funds cannot withstand another devastating blow of Buhari’s anti corruption sledge hammer. Hence, they are resolute to derail the apple cart in order to save their ugly faces and sit back to enjoy the loot in their personal banks. Some of the protesters are not even Nigerians but hired hatchet men paid to do the dirty job,“ we gathered.

According to security sources, the protesters are said to be bent on embarrassing and humiliating the President throughout his stay in the UK. An insider vowed that they will take their demonstrations to the venue of CHOGM holding later in the month in Britain, which President Buhari is attending as a Commonwealth Head of State.

https://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2018/04/presidency-blames-corrupt-nigerians-for.html

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Ibrahim Abdulazeez has increased Team Nigeria’s gold medal haul at the ongoing Commonwealth Games taking place in Gold Coast, Australia, to four.

Team Nigeria put up a dominant display to make a clean sweep of all the Gold medals at stake in the Para Powerlifting event with Abdulazeez picking the last in the men’s Heavyweight category on Tuesday.



Roland Ezuruike set the tone in the men’s Lightweight category, while Esther Oyema replicated same in the women’s Lightweight category, doing it in style with a World Record. Ndidi Nwosu also finished tops in the women’s Heavyweight class.

Abdulazeez, who won the heavyweight title in Glasgow four years ago, put the icing on the cake, snatching the win with a lift of 220kg, amassing a total of 191.9 points despite failing his attempt on 221kg.

The powerlifting team have given Team Nigeria a big lift, winning a total of six medals – four gold and two Silver, and taking the country’s tally in Gold Coast to eight medals.

https://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2018/04/commonwealth-games-nigeria-wins-fourth.html

The APC in the South-East on Monday described Buhari’s declaration of an intention to seek a second term in office as the beginning of the actualisation of an Igbo President in 2023.

APC National Vice Chairman, South-East, Chief Emma Eneukwu, and the zonal Publicity Secretary, Mr. Hyacinth Ngwu, in a statement in Enugu, noted that Buhari’s re-election would guarantee the emergence of a President of Igbo extraction in 2023.

The jointly signed statement said Buhari’s decision to seek another four years in office was taken in the best interest of Ndigbo.

The statement described the declaration as a “kind gesture” to the Igbo.

The statement read in part, “The All Progressives Congress, South-East Zone, heartily welcomes the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to seek a constitutional second term in office as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“This decision was in all respects made for the best interest of the people of South-East Nigeria and we happily thank God and President Buhari for this kind gesture.

“We believe that the actualisation of the Igbo Presidency in 2023 has just begun with this declaration.”

Describing Buhari’s re-election as a “golden opportunity,” the South-East APC urged Igbos to vote for Buhari in 2019.

“We urge the good people of South-East (Ndigbo) to avail themselves of this golden opportunity of playing into the Nigerian political mainstream by voting massively for and ensuring the re-election of President Buhari in 2019. We must not let go this opportunity.

“We equally urge Ndigbo to be conscious in electing quality members into the National Assembly under the platform of All Progressives Congress in order to benefit maximally from the APC’s zoning arrangement at that level.

“The era of negative and self-cantered propaganda should be over. This time demands that our best brains should be employed to our overall advantage,” the statement added.



The South-East APC further pointed out that ‘mistakes’ made by the Igbo in 2015, when they massively voted for the PDP candidate, the incumbent, former President Goodluck Jonathan, limited their chances in Buhari’s administration.

The statement urged Ndigbo to learn from the experience.

“We believe the Igbo know the consequences of being in opposition to the Federal Government in Nigeria, and doubtless to say this knowledge informed our people’s deliberate action in 2015.

“This certainly is the right time for us to redress and make the right move and be bold enough to always demand and ask for more,” the statement added.

https://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2018/04/declaration-igbo-for-2023-presidency.html

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top reaction;

Ryan Cummings is the director of the political and security risk management consultancy, Signal Risk, and co-founder of the My Travel Risk travel security web application. He is also a founding member of the Nigerian Security Network and independent consultant to various international news media outlets including the New York Times, TIME magazine, the Associated Press, Al-Jazeera, AFP and Deutsche Welle. He is also a contributor to publications and think tanks, most notably CNN, the Tony Blair Foundation, the International Peace Institute (IPI) and the Daily Maverick, on issues of terrorism, conflict and political instability. On his tweet which was also shared by top politicians read; Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will reportedly seek re-election at the age of 75 to govern Africa's most populous country which has a median age of 17.9 years

https://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2018/04/international-journalist-ryan-cummings.html


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The Edo State chapter of the APC has thrown its weight behind the decision of the APC governors to reject tenure elongation for the current NWC officials.

Speaking with one of our correspondents on Saturday, the Chairman of the Edo State chapter of the party, Mr. Anslem Ojezua, said the decision of the APC governors to support the President was in tandem with the position earlier taken by the state executive committee.

He said, “That is exactly our own position too. What the President is saying is that neither the constitution of the party nor the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria supports the extension of tenure under any guise.”

Ojezua said the APC governors were convinced by the superior argument of Buhari on the matter, rather than being forced against their personal opinions.

He added, “What will give the party respect in terms of internal democracy is to obey our own rules, which is our constitution. The constitution says when your tenure expires, the party must conduct congresses.



“It is a mandatory decision; it is not discretionary. The governors were not coerced to agree with the President; No, certainly not.

“I think it (President’s position on tenure elongation) was a superior argument. There was no pressure at all. The contents of both constitutions are very clear and unambiguous and in English language understood by all.”

Also, the APC chairman in the Ovia North-East Local Government Area of Edo State, where Odigie-Oyegun hails from, Mr. Benson Edosomwan, said the leadership of the council would abide by the decision taken by the state chapter.

“Well, that one (reaction) has to come from our state chairman. We align with whatever he tells you; it (Edo APC) is a big family,” he said.

Ojezua told one of our correspondents that he was not in a position to determine whether Odigie-Oyegun would seek re-election or not.



He said, “I think the question (about Odigie-Oyegun re-contesting) is better put to him; it is a personal decision. It is a decision he has to make and then the rest of us will respond.

“That matter (support for a candidate) has not been discussed. At the appropriate time, we will discuss it.”

Also, no fewer than eight APC chairmen from different states, who spoke with SUNDAY PUNCH on condition of anonymity, described the issue of tenure elongation for Odigie-Oyegun as a foregone conclusion.

One of them said, “I am a staunch supporter of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and he does not want Oyegun there again. My governor will tow this line and I am sure that if there is any way he can decide the fate of Oyegun politically at least for now, such decision will be in the negative.

“For instance, Odigie-Oyegun and Tinubu did not want the same candidate during the Ondo State governorship election and that animosity is still there. So, my governor will not be among those who will support tenure elongation for the national chairman or vote for him if he chooses to contest again.”


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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has extolled the virtues of former President of the Senate, Senator David Mark on the occasion of his 70th birthday anniversary.

The Speaker described Senator Mark as an elder statesman and patriot saying, “you are a man of many caps; former military administrator and two time president of the Senate.”

“Distinguished is an attribute you have earned for yourself from the excellent way you discharged your responsibilities in all roles you found yourself.”

He noted that Senator Mark is a man of many caps who have left masterstrokes in the way he superintended over matters of state, “putting national interests above personal ones when the need arose; from your days in the military to making the proverbial ‘lightening strike twice’ as the president of the Senate.”

The Speaker prayed God to continue to bless the former Senate President with sound health and more wisdom to contribute his quota to the growth and development of Nigeria.

http://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2018/04/speaker-dogara-celebrates-david-mark-70.html

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Arrival of Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State and Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom at the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua Airport for PDP Mega Rally.

http://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2018/04/photo-news-gov-fayose-secondus-other.html

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied reaching out to Pastor Reno Omokri, via micro-blogging site, Twitter. Omokri, a media aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, had tweeted that the ruling party was making entreaties to him via its Twitter page.

The assistant director, publicity, Edegbe Odemwingie, the party disowned one Philip Obin, who handles the @APCNigeria Twitter account and denied reaching out to Omokri.

According to the statement, “the party had on several occasions distanced itself from the now notorious twitter handle, @APCNigeria following unauthorized tweets and subsequent false reports credited to the party on the outcome of the Benue South Senatorial rerun election (February 21, 2016) and an 'assessment poll' on President Muhammadu Buhari Administration (May 31, 2017), among others.



“Despite our rebuttals, Mr. Obin has continued to impersonate the party through the twitter handle, @APCNigeria. “For the avoidance of doubts, we wish to state that Philip Obin was one of the numerous youth volunteers for our party during the 2015 elections.

He administered the Twitter handle at the time. But despite numerous appeals to him by various well meaning party representatives, to hand over the handle, Mr. Obin has refused and in defiance continues to use it to misrepresent the party. “In essence, therefore, Obin’s interactions with Omokri are in his personal capacity and do not involve party in any way. “Giving this latest incident, the party is now left with no option than to take other lawful actions to restrain Obin from further embarrassing the party. The general public is yet again reminded that the Twitter handle @APCNigeria is not a Twitter handle of the All Progressives Congress.”


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http://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2018/04/apc-reacts-to-reno-omokri-claims-denies.html

“Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him” (John 13:31). As Judas Iscariot went out of the midst of the children of God, the disciples of Christ, and out of that assembly, Jesus said the Son of that God is glorified and God is glorified in Him as well. All that followed after this verse 31 and the following chapters took place without the presence of Judas Iscariot. The following are the implications of Judas Iscariot going out: He went out to spiritual darkness never to return to the gospel light.

He had been called, converted, commissioned even went out with the disciples two by two. Obviously, he had repented, but now he had backslidden, saved but eventually lost, converted but he compromised his faith.He went out with Satan never to be recovered from the snare of the devil – John 13:27; 2 Timothy 2:26. Filled, controlled, empowered and directed by Satan, he went out with him and couldn’t recover himself again from the snare of the devil.

He had been taken captive by the devil, his heart, mind, life and destiny seized and he could never recover himself.He went out from the congregation of the Righteous. He was in the midst the people of God and he could have pleaded and be restored but he wandered away to the congregation of the dead, never to return again –Proverbs 21:16.



He went out after the last warning, never to hear the voice of the pleading Shepherd again – John 13:21. You never know when the last warning will come to you. Somebody might be in the Lord, and some temptations are coming and he is not resisting, some trials are coming and he is not pushing them away because of his covetousness, love of money.

Eventually he goes out, and you never can tell when a man goes out for the last time, and the warning of the voice of the Shepherd never comes to him again.He went out to do quickly what Satan had put in his heart to do – John 13:2,27. He was in a hurry to perish, to be damned and to go into perdition.

He went out far beyond the outstretched hand of grace and mercy. The opportunity came but he lost it; pray that you will not lose your opportunity. You can never tell when that last pleading and warning may come – Romans 10:21He went beyond the point of ‘No-Return’, and went into damnation. The last warning and love had been shown, but he went out of the kingdom, out of the domain of grace. I pray that will not happen to you. The devil blindfolded him, made him deaf, dead and blind to warning; he was irredeemable.



He went eventually to perdition and damnation – Matthew 26:24-25; 23:33; 27:5 After Judas had gone, with only believers, people who had come to listen to the voice of the Shepherd remaining, and with the Betrayal and Crucifixion now very near, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him” (John 13:31).

What did He mean by that? Crucifixion would bring glory because His sacrifice was for the whole world, in fulfilment of “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29b). Although Judas was going to betray the Son of Man, yet it would bring about the salvation of the people of the world.

“Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain” (Psalms 76:10). This Betrayal by Judas Iscariot (though done out of coveteousness), leading to the Crucifixion, Death, Burial, the Resurrection of Christ, and Salvation of multitudes also brought glory to God – surely the wrath of man shall praise thee.

http://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2018/03/the-glory-of-god-and-glorification-of.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q0Lu_Q3RYo

Check out the look of Saraki as Senator Ademola Adeleke dance for dangote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NTPMPMsldI

lolz

fergie001:
Better,
Dying to be a martyr

Remember Nigeria DSS/FBI only operate in d mid-night

fergie001:
Preparing my statement b4 hand,lols

Let me wen u are done

fergie001:
Preparing my statement b4 hand,lols

I understand.... U will explain when u gat there

fergie001:
I no call name ooo

Yes, so am sending u

Dreamwaker:
The idiot even has his number on one if his topics. It will be very easy to trace his location

I no your matanal home, I no datz where u running to


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So Dangote can dance like this.... Them go the behave like say d no d sh***t

bgossipnaija:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_dtB7lTbXg

Dangote, Bill gate others dance to Davido song at daughter's wedding

DSS is coming for u

fergie001:
Where is Boko Haram when you need them?

Ooo,I forgot,...Oga dey there....mtchew

I cant see myself there, cos i remember dancing with them

The Nigerian army on Saturday, March 24, formally reopened the Maiduguri-Bama-Banki International Highway for commercial and public traffic. Maj.-Gen. Rogers Nicholas, the Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, announced this at the inauguration of the highway in Maiduguri. Nicholas said that the road was certified safe for public use following the successes recorded in the ongoing clearance operation to rout out remnants of Boko Haram insurgents in Sambisa forest and the Lake Chad basin.

“Today, mark another remarkable event in the life of people of Borno and of the military in the Operation LAFIYA DOLE. “Recall that on September 1, 2014; the Maiduguri-Bama-Banki Road was closed due top activities of Boko Haram insurgents in the general and that affected the economic activities in Borno state and the Cameroun Republic.



“In the course of our operation with our Cameroonian counterpart we had been able to get rid of the insurgents along this axis particularly the Sambisa Forest. “It is time for people to go back to their homes in Bama, I am happy that today we are opening up the road to Bama and Maiduguri-Bama-Banki "Road, in the first phase of the operation, it would also give the people the leverage to resume commercial activities along the axis and also give them confidence to return home.

“We also implore the people going back and members of the road transport workers to adhere to the guidelines outlined by the military so that they could ply the road with level of safety.” Nicholas disclosed the military authorities had designed strategies to provide escort to ensure safety of motorists plying the road and other highways in the theatre of operation. He called on the insurgents to take advantage of the presidential amnesty, to lay down their arms and join the peace building process in the region.



Governor Kashim Shettima, lauded the gesture, adding it would fast track social and economic development of the state. Shettima, represented by his deputy, Usman Durkwa, said the government had adopted proactive measure to accelerate rehabilitation and resettlement of displaced persons in the liberated communities. He called on the federal government to free the remaining Chibok schoolgirls and other persons in insurgents’ captivity.

Also, Alhaji Ahmad Musa, the Secretary, Borno Chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), said the re-opening of the road would ease transportation difficulties and encourages growth cross-border commercial activities. Musa pledged the union support to the military to ensure successful completion of the counter-insurgency campaign. Some of the passengers, expressed delight over the development, adding that it would allow them to visit their hometowns after it was deserted in the past five years.

Master Abba Ali, a 15-year old displaced person, said that he would be rejoining his family, who took shelter at the Banki Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp. “My parent fled to Cameroon and I fled to Maiduguri to stay with my relatives. I learnt that my parents are in Banki camp, but I could not join them due to closure of the road,” he said. Alhaji Bana Buba, another displaced person, called on the government to rehabilitate the road and assist the affected families to enable them to return to their homes.



http://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2018/03/army-reopens-maiduguri-bama-banki.html

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You will recall reports earlier today had it that Governor Ayodele Fayose was at Atinkankan/Old Garage/Oja Oba area of Ado-Ekiti to have a jaw-jaw with owners of buildings that must give way to his urban renewal drive in the Ekiti State capital.

As he did that, moving from one house to the other, Governor Fayose met with these old women whose trade in stock is daily sales of kolanut. He had a swell time with them. Their reaction to questions from pressmen afterwards showed their encounter with Mr. Ayodele Fayose is one that will last with them forever.

http://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2018/03/urban-renewal-development-fayose-visit.html

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http://punchng.com/presidency-confirms-release-of-dapchi-girls/

Omoyele Sowore is publisher and founder of Sahara Reporter, Sahara Reporters is an online news agency based in New York City that focuses on promoting citizen journalism by encouraging everyday people to report stories about corruption, human rights abuses and other political misconduct in Nigeria.

The Publisher of the popular news website, Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, has thrown his hat into Nigeria’s political ring. He is now gearing up to run in the country’s forthcoming presidential election in 2019.

He promise to make Nigeria work again on a post he shared on facebook saying "If You're A Youth Corps Member ("Corper" And You Agree To Serve Anywhere In Nigeria You're Posted Your Take Home Allowance Will Be N50,000 starting From May 29, 2019, When I Become The President of The Federal Republic of Nigeria.



It Will Be A New Day For The SHORTCHANGED Youths Of Nigeria. If Former Oil Minister Diezani And Her Cohorts Could Steal Over $2 billion For Themselves, Youth Corp Members Deserve Decent Renuemeration.

Corpers Serving In Volatile States (Borno, Bayelsa, Rivers, Yobe, Zamfara, Benue, Plateau) Will Get Life Insurance Worth N10million In Case Anything Untowards Happen To Them. You All Are On Our Mind.
#TakeItBack #Sowore2019"

http://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2018/03/i-will-pay-youth-corps-corper-n5000-if.html

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http://punchng.com/submit-budget-details-to-nass-by-friday-buhari-orders-mdas/

President Muhammadu Buhari has given agencies, parastatals and government-owned companies up until Friday to submit the details of their budgets to the National Assembly for consideration in accordance with the law.

He also directed heads of the agencies to honour invitation from the National Assembly to defend their budgets without further delay.

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha, conveyed the President’s directive in a circular dated March 19, 2018, a copy of which was made available to journalists in Abuja on Tuesday.

Mustapha said it had come to the government’s attention that the agencies had not fully complied with the provisions of Section 21 of the Fiscal Responsibility Act 2007.

He reminded the agencies that “the FRA 2007 provides that consequent upon laying of summary of budget estimates of agencies listed on the schedule to the FRA alongside the National Budget by the President, it is required that details of such budgets are made available to the National Assembly for consideration and passage.”

Mustapha added, “Mr. President has directed that agencies, corporations and government-owned companies on the schedule of the FRA 2007 to comply with the provisions of the law.

“All submissions (109 copies to the Senate and 360 copies to the House) should be made available to the appropriate committees of the National Assembly.

“Copies should also be made available to the SSAP on National Assembly Matters (Senate and House of Representatives), not later than Friday, March 23, 2018.

“All agencies, corporations and government-owned companies should honour invitation to defend their estimates.

“Supervising ministers are enjoined to ensure timely compliance with the content of this circular.”



The National Assembly leaders had during a meeting they had with Buhari on Thursday called the President’s attention to the failure of some agencies to present details of their budgets.

At the end of the meeting, Mustapha had told State House correspondents that Buhari had directed all ministers and parastatals to appear before the National Assembly to defend their budgets.

Mustapha had said, “The President gave them (the lawmakers) updates on security, economy, job creation, processes in the National Assembly especially with regard to the budget and the need to conclude on them.

“Mr. President has given an instruction that all ministries and parastatals should ensure that they appear before the National Assembly to defend their submissions so that we can get this out of the way.

“You know this is a very dynamic year and there are preparations for elections and we are facing a lot of security challenges and so if we don’t appropriate, where will the money come from?”

The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, also disclosed that the meeting was on budget, security and other national issues.

He said the National Assembly leadership also gave the President their opinions during the interaction.

Saraki said the legislature was working on the budget, noting that some agencies were yet to defend their budgets.

What are the causes of bad governance? Is political underdevelopment largely due to the ways in which interactions with the ‘metropolitan countries’ have shaped, and continue to shape, poor countries? This paper from the Institute of Development Studies argues that ‘bad governance’ is made, not born, and ‘we’ (in the North) play a part in creating and maintaining it.

The political underdevelopment that is characteristic of much of the ‘South’ largely results from the ways in which states have been created and political authority shaped through interactions with the wealthier ‘core’ countries in the context of global economic and political systems. Political underdevelopment stems, to a large degree, from low levels of dependence of state elites on their own citizens. Poor world states are relatively homogenous in their formal organisational characteristics. The heterogeneity in the actual functioning of states stems largely from wide differences in patterns of state-society relations.



The degree of dependence of states on citizens is the most significant element in this pattern. Low levels of dependence of states on citizens are found in three main types of circumstances. These circumstances overlap a great deal in practice, but are best treated as separate for analytical purposes:

~Where state elites enjoy strong external financial and/or military support even when they are in conflict with many of their own citizens.

~Where states are dependent on ‘unearned income’. ‘Earned income’ is when the state has to put in organisational and political effort in working with citizens to get its money. Unearned income generally comes from mineral revenues or overseas aid.

~Where state elites, and sometimes their challengers, have abundant resources and scope to purchase supportive military force that can be used against their own citizens.

~In some countries it has been relatively easy in recent decades to exercise a kind of state power by purchasing military force with the proceeds of sales of valuable commodities on global markets.


The low dependence of poor-world states on their own citizens, in any of these forms, is possible only because of the great political and economic inequalities between states at the global level. Poor-world states have been created and shaped through interactions with the wealthier and more powerful ‘core’ countries.

Several evident policy implications arise from this:

~Poor countries need to tax themselves more. There is no convincing evidence that, on a country by country basis, increases in aid levels actually reduce the effective tax effort.

~However, it is clear that in aggregate governments of poor countries reap an unusually low proportion of GNP in the form of taxes.

~Doing something about that would also provide the (reliable) resources they need to tackle poverty and deprivation.

~There is a need for more effective restrictions on international arms sales and on international purchases of commodities from ‘tainted’ sources.

~We should be less concerned with manipulating state institutions of poor countries in the name of ‘good governance’, and put more effort into creating the environmental conditions that will encourage the emergence of more productive state-society relations.

http://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2018/03/opinion-political-underdevelopment-what.html

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This post is about Ayo Fayose's First Political Poster And How He Started His Political Career

Jethrolite:
Are there still journalists in Nigeria?

Fayose grew up in Oyo State where he attended Olivet Baptist High School, Oyo In 1985, Fayose was admitted for a Higher National Diploma (HND) programme in Biological Sciences/Applied Medical/Biology by The Polytechnic, Ibadan and graduated in 1987.

Fayose became the second governor of Ekiti on 29 May 2003 after defeating the then incumbent Governor Niyi Adebayo in the governorship elections. Fayose could not complete his tenure as a result of an impeachment on 16 October 2006.

During the 2014 Governorship election in Ekiti State, Peter Ayodele Fayose was again the PDP nominee. He won the election and was declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission as the new Governor of Ekiti State; he was inaugurated on 16 Oct 2014. Fayose is now the only Nigerian to defeat an incumbent two times.

Though he is a sitting governor, Fayose is the only person from the mail opposition party in Nigeria to have publicly declared his intentions to run for president in Nigerian general election, 2019. Though his party, The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has admonished the Governor, against his ambition to be the party’s presidential candidate in 2019.

Fayose on his facebook page posted his first ever poster right when he was 39 years,

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This is how Governor Ayo Fayose's political journey in Ekiti state started in 1999.

Here is his first poster...

He was 39 years then...

http://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2018/03/full-political-background-how-fayose.html