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This thing is becoming stale.

Intelligent move... If u ask me.

Its more like finding a needles is a wilder pile of needle. Tedious but surmountable.

Ok

Here in NewYork, and perhaps the state, opinion polls doesn't seemed to favour him. Discussed with so many people and they don't seemed to share most of his plight, many see him as a man without guts but just exploiting the fear of american citizen vis-à-vis his islam speech and anti-african crusade amongst others. On the wilder perspective, a point to note is that haven made a land mark in electing a black man to rule the most powerful nation in the world, they are also very keen to break yet another jinx by seeing though a lady (Hilary Clinton) becoming the first female elected president in the history of united state of america. However, another odd that seemed to be working against the democrats is the usual trend of transition between the two biggest political parties in america (GOP and the democrats). Many highly plasce republican see Trump as a sabotage to there party, warning that they don't only stand the chance of loosing the presidential seat but also losing majority seat in the parliament. Are the Americans hell-bent on electing a female president at the expense of the GOP odd? We don't know, Will the democrat reclaim the american presidential seat back to back? We never know. But only time will tell.

– Senate believe the new law will curb kidnapping in Nigeria

– The senators believe there should be training and retraining of security personnel

The Senate on Wednesday, May 4, resolved to enact a law prescribing death penalty for kidnappers to serve as deterrent and curb kidnapping in Nigeria.

This followed the adoption of recommendations of the report of by the Joint Committee on Police Affairs, National Security and Intelligence on the ‘unfortunate reoccurrence of kidnapping and hostage taking’.

Although the report had only six recommendations, most of the senators sued for stringent punishment to serve as deterrent which prompted the addition and adoption of the recommendation for death penalty.

The additional recommendation for capital punishment was proposed by Senator Adamu Alliero and adopted by the Senate.

The Senate also adopted the recommendation that the funding of security agencies be taken as a priority project while efforts should be geared to create employment opportunity to our teaming unemployed youths.

Senate also resolved that the security agencies should embark on training and retraining of their personnel while also urging state governments to enact laws to aid prosecution of kidnappers.

The upper chamber of the legislature also advocated for more vigorous information sharing among security agencies while also encouraging heads of security agencies to do more in checking kidnapping.

While presenting the report of the Joint Committee, Senator Abu Ibrahim (APC Katsina South) said that kidnapping which started in some regions had now become a nationwide menace.

He noted that the security agencies knew the mode of operation of the kidnappers but were usually hampered by availability of funds. The report further noted that there was undue rivalry between security agencies which brought about lack of synergy.

Some of the senators who spoke insisted that kidnapping had remained prevalent because there was no appropriate punishment meted out to kidnappers.

Some insist that the practice of always paying ransoms rather than waiting for security agencies to apprehend the culprits had made the `kidnapping business’ profitable.

The deputy Senate president, Ike Ekwerenmadu said that Nigerians had encouraged kidnapping by panicking and paying ransom too quickly. He said that the kidnappers were normal human being and were usually in a hurry to get done with the business and move on without being caught.

Senator Ovie Omo-Agege stressed that there was need for intelligence sharing between communities and the security agencies. He stressed that most times, members of a community know the criminal elements among them and could give such information to the police if there were adequate information sharing.

Senator Dino Melaye (APC Kogi West) in his submission, recommended that kidnappers should be hung or made to face firing squad.In his remark, the Senate president, Bukola Saraki commended the committee for a job well done, stressing that there was need for a more stringent law.

ABU, been setting the pace since 1962. Lion of the sub-sahara Africa

Quite a fulfilled life, God rests his soul!

Time

True talk

I call it cobrat.. what do u think?

The greatest asset in public life is courage. The worst is what Bola Ige, no laggard, called siddon look. Ige had to rise from the ennui of the onlooker to get his feet dirty, his brain tested and his life taken.

All the men in our history who matter have not recoiled from the ring of action. They may fail. They may be caviled at. They may stumble and even end in disgrace. But they never want to become spectators, eyes alive and lusty but flesh weary and inert.

The man who would never belong to that tribe of low blood pressure is another Bola, who turned 64 last week to great eclat. He had what some philosophers will call the promethean spirit, a restless energy to rebel, to challenge, to endure, to imbue humanity with the brio to conquer his environment.

When Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was celebrated last week, it was that vitality that seized the minds of his compatriots. But more specifically, it was to acknowledge what he started, the history he dared to foist not only on a nation, but a political class noted for its complacent surrender to quick profit.

But those who saw him begin the idea of an APC hardly expected the turnout. Some took up the idea as just a compulsive activity. The man wanted to dare Jonathan. What else did you expect of him? He was not going to go far. The new project would lumber, meet an obstacle, lose oxygen, asphyxiate, die. The prospect seemed daunting. Jonathan’s rating had hit the heavens and his swagger menaced the potential opponent.



Tinubu had Southwest. Buhari was still sulking from a shellacking. Politicians were flocking to the PDP. The price of oil was over $100 per barrel. Pock was barreling into the pots of any political harlot. It was not a case of David daring Goliath. In the imaginations of many, David was not even born.

Others shrank into their ethno-regional comforts. CPC in the North. ANPP in the Northeast. APGA in the East. AC in the Southwest. PDP everywhere. It was no suicide to remain so. But Tinubu started. He worked the phones, called meetings, contrived committees, flew from one wheel horse to another.

But it was clear he was knocking on the door of many who preferred their sleep to hunting at night. Many of them saw the Jonathan triumph, and had developed the anti-heroic tranquility of Lord Jim in Joseph Conrad’s immortal novel of the sea, Lord Jim. They wanted action. They wanted to be heroes. They did not see their opportunities. When they saw it they were reluctant to take advantage. Like Jim, they jumped into the sea rather save others in a shipwreck. Nigeria was a shipwreck in the making. The news had begun to show Jonathan’s footloose attitude to the nation’s purse. Billions had been devoted to projects that never took off. A certain somnolent surrender had overtaken the men of politics. Let us wait for the election cycle and we will see what can be made of it. That was their thought mode.

Asiwaju was ready to wake them up. He was like the United States President Theodore Roosevelt, who would rather fight than faint. Hear Roosevelt on the man in the arena:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

Roosevelt, often called TR to distinguish him from his relative FDR, remade himself from the profile of a high class to a frontiers man, rugged, warrior, intellectual, a nature romantic, a sort of Renaissance man.

Asiwaju was told of the menaces ahead. The big egos. The territorialism of those party bigwigs who thought him an interloper. The Jonathan men would plant spies that would undo the party. We saw that with OBJ in Labour Party. Ethnic bigots would derail them. Others said the issue of party leader would destroy the coalition. If not that, the presidential candidate.

He knew all that, and he said he had formulas for every obstacle. He who dreamed the project had seen the scenarios. Each time it happened, he sailed it. It was a fight with wrinkles. The victories came all the same. But always with wrinkles. Giants don’t fight without bruises. Bruises are often badges of honour. Sometimes he confronted roadblocks and dream enders. He took the attitude of the Ballad of St. Andrews: “I am struck and wounded; I lay me down and rest awhile and I will rise and fight again.”

He did not take this project without attention to detail. At one stage, the issue of the symbol of the party, or the name of the party, created its own challenges. Egos clashed. But he had a way of giving everyone their sop. He sacrificed much of the AC to get APC. He thought it was worth it.

Yet while it is easy to say the APC is his best political achievement yet, we may sometimes forget his best trait. In a series of tributes to him on his birthday, perhaps the best words came from party apparatchik, Ismaila Ahmed, who noted that Asiwaju had made more leaders than any leader. We know some of them: Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), Abiola Ajimobi, Kayode Fayemi, Rauf Aregbesola, Akinwunmi Ambode, Adams Oshiomhole, et al. It is a tribute to self-confidence and selflessness. The first task of a leader is to make leaders.

But not least of all is that he knows how to make leaders win. You have to win, or else you will never be realised. In spite of the opposition of bigwigs, he stuck with Buhari, and worked the game like a chess player. The other contenders saw Buhari overcome the negatives as they, with money and other virtues, fell. Buhari, sometimes aplomb to a fault, might have been dazed to see Asiwaju the prophet turn right at every turn.

When the story of this generation is written, he will be on the front ranks of those who stopped this republic from falling, and from being charmed into decay or one-party tyranny by prostitutes and carpet baggers. In fact, if he were not here, it seems no one else was ready for the task with what Buhari called his “creativity” or even the courage and sense of timing. The other imponderable he came with is called charisma.

But the task to right the wrong has just started, with fuel queues, cascading naira, and jobs lost, he knows he has to play a role to make this era whole.

Oil reached a 2016 high, hitting 43 dollars a barrel on Tuesday, and supported by hopes that upcoming meeting of oil producers will agree on steps to tackle a supply glut.

The rise was also supported by a weak U.S. dollar and further signs of strong demand in China.

Many members of Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and outside producers like Russia are meeting in Doha, Qatar, on Sunday to discuss freezing output.

The dollar fell to its lowest in nearly eight months against a basket of currencies, supporting commodities.

Brent crude was up 50 cents at 43.33 dollars a barrel and had earlier in the session reached a 2016 high of 43.53 dollars per barrel.



U.S. crude gained 39 cents to hit 40.75 dollars a barrel.

“The weak dollar is one important reason,” said Eugen Weinberg of Commerzbank, adding “also, the fact that we are above 40 dollars and at multi-month highs is also contributing to the price increase as it is prompting some speculative buying”.

Also supporting prices are rising vehicle sales in China, a further sign of strong gasoline demand and a plan by thousands of oil and gas workers in Kuwait to go on strike from Sunday.

“If it is not clear that the strike will last long and will have any meaningful impact on exports or domestic production (including refineries), it does illustrate further the amount of pain that (Gulf) oil producers are also facing at current price levels,” said Olivier Jakob, analyst at Petromatrix.

Oil prices have collapsed from above 100 dollars per barrel in mid-2014 due to over-supply.

The OPEC decision in November, 2014 to abandon its traditional role of cutting output helped deepen the decline.

Crude gained a boost last week after a surprise decline in U.S. inventories from a record high.

But this week’s U.S. supply reports are expected to show an increase in stocks of 2.8 million barrels.

Industry group, the American Petroleum Institute, is scheduled to release its report on Tuesday, while the government’s figures are due out on Wednesday.
http://thenationonlineng.net/oil-hits-2016-high-43-dollars-per-barrel/

nomi007:
Just one day after taking over from Wada and Yahaya Bello cannot guarantee the security of lives and property in kogi something Wada did effortlessly for 4 years. NA WA O!


cc Seun, Lalasticlala, Ishilove

You really don't have anything to say.. do you?

kamatofeelz:
1st day and something bad already happening #GodHelpKogi

U are so unbelievable.. what does that suppose to mean?

barcanista:
There is nothing "hateful" in the article Sir...

Its a thin line bro..

Two things are involved: its either ur judgments are clouded with sentiments or u are just as optimistic about this government as the majority of overwhelming nigerians! Either way. Be patient the list will be out and he will deliver!

For Real?

L for...

While this is arguably one of the most intelligently written
Opposition related article. I do find it increasingly frustrating as it
lends itself, by a greater degree than most, to confirmation
bias, due to its highly militant anti-Buhari stance.
Check your time bro, its barely two weeks. I call this 'hate' not 'critic' and hate can only get you so far before it backfire!

This list will remain inconclusive without Kogi state!

pbs4real:
lots of brodaz in da building. . .adayi onú vote yi?

u dey doubt am? Apc yoni ooo!

Add kogi... I said so!

Persieved defeat! The moment of truth intensifies. If only GEJ could turn the hands of time.

3cycle:
Igala being the majority will always choose pdp. Who cares about the minority?

Did i hear u say igala is the mejourity? Are u alive?

onisler:
Omorihi oserewu

Ose.. Aduwa odo. Anebira for onizeiza.

dustmalik:
i trust my people (Ebira). we are doing it big for GMB.

Yes oo.. My brother from another mother. Change is inevitable!

lalasticlala:
http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/03/29/buhari-clears-oyo-wins-in-19-lgs/

moment of truth

Okene will shock the PDP... Bubu coasting kogi state!

Allah have mercy!