Today is the 3rd anniversary of the election that brought Mohammadu Buhari to power.

To mark it , I will be giving out a brand new laptop plus fifty thousand Naira to anybody,anywhere in the world, who names ONE federal government project initiated, completed and commissioned by Buhari since he came to power.

The project must be a physical project actually initiated, not body language project.

Naming a project in the budget will not suffice. I mean something that has been implemented.

Entry will close by 12 noon tomorrow and winner announced within 2 hours thereafter.

The prize will be given to the winner on 5th April 2018.

Goodluck.

-Aniefok Udoabasi

The Al-Barnawi faction of Boko Haram (aka ISWAP) has shown the obsolete Shekau faction how to do the business of Jihad (I use the word "business" advisedly). It has succeeded in getting the following with the Dapchi girls' abduction and release:

1. Got all boarding schools in the Borno-Yobe axis closed, a victory for its campaign against Western education. With little or no Western schooling, the Northeast will become an even bigger hotbed of radicalization.

2. Set back girl-child education in the area by at least twenty years. After dropping them off, Boko Haram spent at least twenty minutes preaching to the girls to abandon Western education and "return to the path of Allah." They also dropped a subtle warning: we released you to give you a second chance to shun Western education and "return to the path of Allah," which of course they define as incompatible with Western education. I would be shocked if those girls' parents allowed them back into any Western/secular school again. Parents of girls in the region are taking notes and may become wary of sending their daughters--and sons--to secular schools.

3. They scored a huge revenue haul, with an unconfirmed $20 million ransom payment. With this money, the group has bought itself another five years worth of weapons with which to challenge our soldiers, institutions, and cohesion.

4. They scored a major public relations and propaganda victory, bonding with the people of Dapchi to the point of being hailed and given a heroic farewell upon their departure from the town.

This is precisely what distinguishes Al-Barnawi from Shekau. The former is a sophisticated Jihadist who wants to win the hearts and minds of the people of the Northeast and convince them that his group can replace the decadent, secular government of Nigeria with a just, magnanimous Islamic caliphate. The latter alienates them with his murderous madness.

The takeaways are simple:

1. With today's events, Al-Barnawi has outmaneuvered Shekau and written himself into Jihadi lore in the region.

2. Al-Barnawi is infinitely more dangerous and more threatening to Nigeria's sovereignty than Shekau, who is his own enemy and is wont to self-destruct. With today's release, similar acts of pretend goodwill in the past, and by refraining from wanton killings and embarking on community reassurance gestures, Al-Barnawi is quietly normalizing and decriminalizing Boko Haram, or at least his faction of it. His Jihad has the potential to become mainstreamed, rehabilitated, accepted at the Muslim grassroots, and eventually naturalized. That would be a nightmare scenario for Nigeria.

3. Our struggle with Boko Haram is a long way from being over.

Ratello:
If under 3 years this Satanic party called APC had borrowed N11 trillion already I wonder what will happen under them if they are given 16 years. Worthless set of urchins

Abubakar Habu Muazu who is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed confidence in the party winning more states in 2019 than it did in 2015.

In an interview with Independent, the Gombe state governorship aspirant said he was contributing his quota towards strengthening the party in the state.

He said: “As part of my effort to make the party relevant and well rooted in the state, I recently gave out funds to the party to rent offices in all the electoral wards and local government areas of the state in order to have a strong support base for the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari.

“My organisation has also done some rallies in his support, all in a bid to add colour and value to our party knowing that politics is all about engaging the people and we cannot succeed as an opposition party without engaging the people and building the party and I thank God, the people of Gombe have accepted us and they are fully ready for change to come 2019.

Any aspirant that says he is disengaging himself from the party leadership is disloyal and when you have a governor that does not believe in party supremacy, it would be difficult to pull back such governor when errors are being committed." On his earlier position that Nigerians should shun money politics, Muazu said:

“Don’t get me wrong, I still maintain that stand that money politics should be discouraged, people should be elected based on their integrity and contributions to the well being of the people. However, it is not all about me, but about building a viable party that is well accepted by the people, a party that can stand the test of time and pull the crowd to itself.

You should know that there is no way I can achieve my dreams and aspirations without having a strong platform, therefore one must be willing to sacrifice in building and uniting our great party in the state before one can start talking of his aspirations. “There are people that are also eyeing the governorship seat that is far richer than I am. One thing though is the fact that

I am doing this not because I am a desperate person who wants to be a governor at all cost or because I am rich but because I believe in the vision and mission of President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC to salvage the country.

“This is why during my meetings and consultations with party leaders, I always advise them to be wary of politicians that will try to buy their conscience with money. If they collect such monies, they are mortgaging their future and that of their children. I encourage them to assess the antecedents of the aspirants, considering their contributions to the society and the development of the party before making the decision on whom to support.

Go and ask those that know me, they will testify to the fact that I am not doing this because I want to contest an election. “I am a true politician and a grassroots mobiliser, a giver right from my childhood. It is something that I inherited and you cannot take that away from me. It is not about having lots of money, you can have a little and decide to share to touch lives and you can have plenty and decide to keep it to yourself.

For me as a politician, I value people and I care about their needs, which is why every time you come to my house you see people and I always reach out to them. That is why I do all my activities openly; I don’t wait until night then call some few people and we lock ourselves in a room in the name of political meetings. Politics is for the people and not a cult for a selected few". The APC chieftain expressed confidence that the APC will dominate the polls in 2019.

He said: “One thing you don’t know is that the country has been bastardised for 16 solid years under the rule of the PDP and so it needs another 16 years to be fixed. Yes, things are difficult because that is the process of rebuilding, it is always very easy to destroy but difficult to rebuild. By the grace of God, the APC will win reelection and even win more states that it did not win in 2015 including Gombe because Nigerians are gradually understanding that what the APC is doing to get the country back on a good track. I don’t have any iota of doubt in my mind that the APC will do even better than 2015. Meanwhile, Senator Shehu Sani (APC-Kaduna) says the APC must put its house in order to emerge victorious in the 2019 elections. He disclosed this while speaking on Saturday, March 17, at the 5th Olalekan Olomide Platform for Development held at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Press Centre, Iyanganku in Ibadan.

In a statement signed by its Deputy Director, Timothy Adewale on Sunday, the group said it wrote the UN, urging them to: “Urgently hold a special session on Nigeria and to visit the country to press the authorities to end continuing killings and destruction of property by suspected herdsmen across Nigeria, particularly in the North-Central of the country.”

In the letter dated March 16, 2018 SERAP expressed, “serious concern that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari is failing to uphold its responsibility to protect the citizens”.

According to the group, if not urgently combatted, such attacks may rise to the level of threat to international peace and security.

It also highlighted that the first ‘purpose’ listed for the UN is to maintain international peace and security, therefore, they “must act now to protect Nigerians, including women and children, if the Council is not to be accused of failing the people of Nigeria.”

“The Security Council and its members should adopt a resolution to: Characterise killings by herdsmen as terrorist acts and mobilize international support for Nigeria to combat these attacks, including for the authorities to adopt and implement measures to tackle the causes and consequences of these attacks and end all forms of terrorism in the country.”

“The resolution should also call on the UN Secretary-General to carry out a joint visit to Nigeria with the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, and the African Union Peace and Security Council to investigate allegations of killings by herdsmen and to better understand the root causes of these killings and put pressure on the Nigerian authorities to end them,” SERAP said.

IGP Flouted My Orders

While insecurity has been a major issue since the start of the year, the Federal Government has promised to do all it can to ensure that the killings come to an end, and the perpetrators are punished.

In an effort to curb the menace, President Buhari ordered the IGP to relocate to Benue state.

Although he visited Benue after the President’s directive, the state government accused him of spending only one day in the state after which he proceeded to Nasarawa state.

The development fueled another debate and series of criticisms when the President who visited the state on March 12 for the first time since the attacks on New Year’s Day, said he was just learning of the alleged noncompliance by the IGP.

Beremx:
So you want to tell me from that picture the grasses the cows are eating will not finish and the cows will not destroy the barricade of where they eat grass with the help of the fulani herder and encroach on the farmland next to them?


Rubbish picture!

The person who drew that should use his brain properly.

Drlouis415:
you think co habiting with them will solve the problem. Wat does co-habiting has to do with rape, maiming and trampling a farmers lands?


You must be a worthy guests to squat with your host.


Non sense post

okuya:
An average of over 130 per week... Hmmm

usba:


Guilty conscience dey worry you boy.

usba:
Dankwambo no dey pay? Issorit

usba:
Finally revealed his paymasters all this Fulani this Fulani that talk was just another slimy unintelligent political strategy to boost his paymasters

Dr. Ibrahim Dankwambo, governor of Gombe State and poster child for distinction in leadership in Nigeria, is no doubt a rare gem, a man known to be in a class of his own and we as a people must not shy away from the fact to our own detriment.

Dankwambo is known and adjudged a performer par excellence. A fantastic presidential material, he is the kind of man Nigeria needs at this trying and critical moment of its existence.

A world class accountant cum financial expert, Dankwambo is a purposeful, focused, detribalised, young, and someone Nigerians can entrust with governance and be rest assured of a quick turn around in the nation’s fortunes.

He demonstrated unusual competence while at Central Bank of Nigeria and was noticed by the then Gombe State government which appointed him its Accountant General and upon sighting his feats in Gombe State he was immediately snatched by the then led Federal Government of Obasanjo who made him Accountant General of the Federal, while in 2011 he heeded the call and invitation of his people to lead them as Executive Governor and was so elected.

There is no gainsaying the obvious that Dankwambo is simply the perfect man for the job at hand of Mr. President 2019 due to his vast experience as an administrator, a technocrat and a world class financial manager. He has transformed Gombe into a mega city to the envy of other states in Nigeria with the meager resources at his disposal.

Dankwambo (Talban Gombe), born on the 4th of April, 1962 in Gombe, holds a B.Sc in Accounting, M.Sc economics; PhD ; Post Graduate Diploma in Computer science. FCA( Fellow Chartered Institute of Accountant); FCIB( Fellow Chartered Institute of Bankers); FCTI( Fellow Chartered Institute of Taxation); FNIM(Fellow Chartered institute of Management); FNIM(Fellow Chartered institute of Marketing); FES( Fellow Nigerian Economic Society).

Dakwambo has been practicalizing all that he has studied while he has also taken advantage of his educational qualifications to distinguish himself in the various positions of leadership. The Nigeria of our dreams is possible with Dankwambo. Let us come together, join our hands in support of his presidential aspiration for a better Nigeria we all crave for.

In view of recent terrorist attacks, criminal activities and communal clashes in some States leading to tragic loss of lives and kidnapping of 110 schoolgirls, President Muhammadu Buhari immediately tasked the Armed Forces and other Security agencies to compile comprehensive reports on the various incidents.

Having received and studied the Reports, the President has decided to undertake an on the spot assessment of the various occurrences and to meet and console the communities affected.

From today, March 5, he will visit Taraba, and subsequently Benue, Yobe, Zamfara and Rivers States.

President Buhari has been receiving daily briefings, and has been in constant touch with the Governors, and has been updated with situation reports.

The President calls on all Nigerians especially those in the affected areas to cooperate fully with the Security Agencies to enable them curb the spate of crimes, bring those responsible to justice and prevent further occurrences.

Ngokafor:

Fp pleasee!!!....These wicked folks couldnt practice what they preached to Jonathan...Now they are wining and dining with glee while Dapchi gitls were 'kidnapped'..

But i underdtand their indifference,just like Chibok girls,they know the girls are safe in their custody

oloriooko:
By the new hate speech bill, Lai should be sentenced to death by hanging

Kemperor:
Osinbanjo gladly dinning with eevil men... A well known Redeem Church pastor...

A true man of God would have resigned a very long time ago... I can't vote 4 someone like him... To go as far as lying to us in on many occasions is so shocking... A thieff and a lyingg pastor...

Lia Mohammed was rightly named by his parents who saw his future before he was born... Lie decorated to Lai...

Anyone still expecting something from APC especially Buhari must be a foo,,,ooooo,,,llll

Old people don't change especially a Fulani man... Like a cancer, he is spreading his ways of life and infecting those around him...

Buhari is an eevil plague to Nigeria and the world at large...

APC is the dooom of Nigeria...


We the youths must FORMAT this country and get rid of these old men who have nothing to contribute but just enjoy being in power for selfish reasons...


We must FORMAT Nigeria like we do to our Operating System when has virus...

aminu790:



We (APC) have not failed. We have just found 10,000 ways that won't work.