₦airaland Forum

dokyOloye:
The Muslim North never learns.
You invite and camp terrorists from all over Africa to decimate the Christian minorities in the North.
How do they keep themselves busy when they are not doing that =banditry in Zamfara and Katsina, Kidnapping in Kaduna.
Same way they were hailing boko boys when they started and were majorly bombing churches and police stations.
Buhari condemned killing them,Northern abi Borno elders said a fight against boko haram is a fight against the North.Sultan etc were all talking nonsense.
What is d outcome now?

Exactly. Fulani armed groups from Mali, Chad, Niger, CAR, Senegal. When they are done, do the Muslim North think they’ll just go like that? They apparently didnt learn from Boko Haram.

Germannig:
I was kidnapped on the Kaduna express way and here is my story


I had no premonition that day when I boarded a cab, a golf car from Kaduna to Abuja.
A few kilometres after Kaduna, shortly after the NYSC camp, around Dutse, on the express, we were assailed by a volley of gunfire targeted at tyres of vehicles on the express.
Of course all vehicles trapped within the radius of fire had to stop and passengers ran across the express to the other side of the road. As we ran, we saw men in army camouflage wielding Ak47s run after us and dragged us back to the side we just fled from.

We marched on for the full 6 hours into the bush; there were no huts, no buildings, no farmland, just endless vast arid land. I was able to gauge time because I was still wearing my wrist watch though my phone and bag had been taken by the kidnappers. Same with the rest of the others, victims like me, who had the misfortune of being on the road at that hour.
As soon as our phones were taken, the sims were removed; this of course meant they didn’t want us traced. Our phones were auctioned off to a certain ‘Yellow,’ that was the name of the person on the other end of the line who bargained for our phones.

I was in tatters in the course of our 6 hours’ trek; my gown had ripped open in my attempt to escape, my wig had fallen off and my tear stained face was caked with dirt and dust.
I was the only woman among the victims; there were 35 of us and twice the number of kidnappers. I feared the worst would happen to me. I began to pray because these people were just smoking weed, they were not normal people.


When we stopped, I quickly sought the face of one whom I perceived to be the leader. I went on my knees and crawled to his feet, groveling, weeping agonisingly and pleading.
I said to him: ‘I know you are a good Muslim, one versed in the tenets of Islam and who knows the sanctity of marriage. Please protect my honour for I am a married woman. Please protect me.’

This leader, who must have been like 26 years at the most, wouldn’t look at my face and I quickly sensed that he couldnt bear to look at a crying woman and so I intensified my cries and pleas and grovelling. I rolled in the dust with snot running from one nostril to the other.
Still, with his gaze averted he told me to stop crying and go join the rest of the victims where they were huddled on the ground. When I wouldn’t stop, he said sternly that if I didn’t stop then he wouldn’t help me. I stopped. He looked at me and told me I wouldn’t be touched by anyone of his boys.
Then they started getting in touch with our people to demand for ransom. How did they contact our relatives?

First off, they asked us all to call out the numbers of relatives we wanted them to contact for our ransom; once we gave the numbers, they would call them then allow us speak for just a few seconds before they took over the phone and made their demands.
They used an old untraceable Nokia phone to make each of these calls and because they spoke Hausa to us but Fulani amongst themselves, I wasn’t able to catch much of what was said among them.



No one escaped, they had seen us run and pursued us until we were all caught and rounded up. We were then marched in a single file into the bush.
As we headed into the bush, they had us arranged in formation, one victim, one kidnapper and so on while the rest of the kidnappers formed two lines beside our single file. There was no escape as they repeatedly warned us that we would be shot if we tried to escape.
Being the only woman, I was the first to be asked to introduce myself; name, state of origin, job, how much I had in my bank account and as they searched every nook and cranny of my bag and wallet; they wondered why I didn’t have an ATM card.
Thankfully, that day was the day I didn’t travel with my ATM card. I told my kidnappers that I had no bank account; that I am a married woman with children who also happens to be a student. I pleaded, telling them my husband is poor and earns N8,500 monthly and that my family is very poor as well. I told them I was given to my husband at a young age to settle a debt my father had incurred.

But they called me a harlot for leaving my children and going to school. I explained that it was my husband’s idea. He wanted me to go work to augment his salary and working required a certificate and so I had to go to school to earn one. Thankfully, my story was believed. I was soon to realize that these uneducated kidnappers didn’t know much.
They decided I was worth N5million! Immediately I heard that, I raised my hands in surrender, ‘Just shoot me, there’s no way my husband or family will ever raise that amount of money, nobody in my village, Gorin goni, the poorest village in Kaduna, will give as much as N2,000. So please, just shoot me.’
The leader then drew me aside and asked me exactly how much my family could get, I said N10,000. He walked away in anger swearing that I would die. I was still haggling with them over my ransom, when God came through for me…

There was another victim, a Customs officer from Kogi state who drew their ire; they discovered his identity from the ID Card found in his wallet.
It was clear the kidnappers apparently hate the current government because victims who worked for government were singled out and thoroughly beaten with the sticks they used to herd cows. They said the government had impoverished its people and that those in government were thieves.

Every chance they had they would beat the Customs officer. Despite my situation, I began to think of how to save him; so I called out that he must be a fake customs man as his service number is 10 digits instead of 6. They stopped and, thankfully the Customs guy cued in, he begged them saying indeed he was a fake customs man; he said he smuggled cars into the country and he had to do a fake ID to deceive the Customs officials who were collecting money from him. That’s how they stopped beating him!

They demanded 10million off the Customs officers family!

Then, there was also amongst us a Yoruba man who by all appearances was quite rich. Since the Yoruba man didn’t speak Hausa, I was his interpreter to the kidnappers.
This Yoruba man jumped into the drainage tunnel when we were first attacked and fled to the bush but the kidnappers had gone after him and dragged him by the leg out of the tunnel into the open. So, he was caked in blood and dirt. This man told me I should tell the kidnappers he was willing to pay any amount they wanted!

I had to shush him. I warned him, they will finish you o. But the man was jittery, you know how you Yoruba people are at the sign of trouble.
At the end of the negotiation, they demanded N100 million from his family!

You see, all of us victims had been thoroughly stripped of whatever we possessed. I was quick to have deleted my messages and email from my phone when the commotion started, that was my saving grace.
So, when I said I didn’t even have enough money not to talk of a bank account, there were no alerts or bank details in my phone. The others were not so lucky.
Each victim was asked to give the correct PIN number and amount left in their accounts. Any attempt to give a fake PIN was instant death upon discovery because they wouldn’t ask you again.

How did God come through for me?

I was the go-between who always had the phone so I could interpret when calls came in.
One afternoon, they suddenly began to argue amongst themselves and so moved away from us victims. I suddenly found myself alone with the phone! I quickly dialed my brother and told him to keep negotiating, never to give accept the amount they asked for.
You see, once a victim speaks to their family, the victim never gets to talk again until ransom is paid and families don’t realise they can haggle and negotiate the ransom!


After demand for ransom was made from all victims/families, we began another stretch of travelling. We trekked for another 6 hours, making it a total of 12 hours trek from the express into the deepest parts of the bush.
As we went along, we saw their armed vigilantes. Yes, the kidnappers had vigilantes to catch and kill runaway victims. They told us their vigilantes were well armed and since it was an open field, any runaway victim would be shot dead.
When we got to what was our destination, it was a huge village, community of different ‘platoons’ of kidnappers who also had their own victims. So it was like a village business, hundreds of kidnappers, living side by side several hundreds more with each owning victims they raided off the roads.

When we were eventually settled in an open place, the other ‘platoon’ of kidnappers came to ‘inspect us’, like we were spoils of war, loot they had come to admire.
Suddenly, I was being ogled by boys no than 16 to 18. They told my kidnappers that I was a ‘good catch.’ They meant this in terms of rape. But I heard one of my kidnapper say, their leader forbade them from touching me but that they would see about it. I began to pray again that the leader doesn’t change his mind about protecting me.

To cut a long story short, I was released on the third day after a ransom of N500,000 was paid on my behalf. No, my family didn’t raise all the money, my old school mates from the federal government girls’ secondary school I attended, helped raise the money as well. I have God and them and of course my traumatised family to thank for my release.
The customs officer who was asked to bring N10 million, paid N5million.

They asked our families to meet us at a certain place from where their okada rider look outs took them on a two hours’ ride inside the bush. There they counted the money, asked them to walk back and wait at a certain point for us.
I and the customs officer were released together as our ransom was paid the same day. We walked for more than 8 hours to reunite with our families.

I am home today but still so traumatized. I was happy when Governor El Rufia’s convoy went after some of them weeks ago. But a more concerted effort is needed.

While I was there, an Airforce fighter jet came and hovered over the community of kidnappers. Yes, it means government is aware of their location. As soon as the fighter jet was sighted, the kidnappers assembled all of us victims on the edge of a water fall and pointed their weapons at us. They were prepared to shoot us if the fighter jet opened fire on them.
At this point, we the victims began to wave off the fighter jet, we began to beg them to leave, whereas our kidnappers taunted and dared the fighter jet to drop lower so they could complete the massacre.

I found out that victims whose families couldn’t raise money were taken to the edge and shot, their bodies would fall below and be swept away by the water. That way it won’t stink out the community.
To date, no body has come to take my statements or ask me what happened. I mean the authorities haven’t contacted me. So they know exactly what is going on.
(Series written and edited by Peju Akande and based on true stories)

http://thisislagos.ng/%ef%bb%bfi-was-kidnapped-on-the-kaduna-express-way-and-here-is-my-story/

These guys have Fulani insiders that have helped to enable this crime.
Under a Buhari who is an apologist for everybody Fulani, irresponsible or responsible, this is bound to continue.

Sad.

Aplaudez:
He later quit the hotel job due to the mumu reasons he gave mum! now he's jobless.

He needs to go for Sorting Out.

garfield1:
Good,we are getting somewhere.between polling unit results and server results,which is backed by law and recognized by the courts

My concern hasn’t always been the tribunal. I think Atiku seem to have all the facts necessary to win a case. It’s the government obeying tribunal or court orders that is my concern. From their history, they can’t be trusted on obeying such orders.

garfield1:
What about social media opinion poll evidences? Will fire burn it?

I'm not sure these are admissible in the tribunal.

JasonScoolari:
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the same server INEC denied.

The same server Microsoft, IBM & Oracle are coming to authenticate.

The same server that'll ultimately serve the kunù guzzling drunkard called Buhari a quit notice!

Atiku is coming!

Lets hope a strange fire does not engulf INEC office at night.

goldcoinhub:
A Nigerian lady has secured admission into 10 foreign Universities to study for her M.Sc

The lady identified as Franka Anyama Undie, is a Cross River State indigene and a graduate of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife where she studied Accountancy and graduated with a very strong Second Class Upper.

In her words:



After graduation, she applied to a number of foreign universities and was offered admission in the 10 Universities listed below:


1) Griffith College Dublin: MSc in International Business and Law.
2) University of Essex: MSc Actuarial Science.
3) University of Sussex: Master of Science Information Technology with Business and Management.
4) Cranfield University: MSc Management and Information Systems.
5) University of Dundee: MSc International Oil and Gas Management.
6) University of Manchester: MSc Management and Information Systems: Change and Development.
7) Loughborough University: MSc Information Management and Business Technology.
University of Strathclyde: MSc International Management.
9) University of Nottingham: Master of Science Information Systems and Operations Management.
10) London School of Economics: Masters of Science in Management of Information systems and Digital Innovation.
11) University of Greenwich: MSc Global Oil and Gas Management.

Franka is right now searching for a sponsor that will help her achieve her dream as she intends to study for Masters of Science Information Technology with Business and Management at The University of Sussex.

https://lailasnews.com/very-brilliant-nigerian-lady-poses-with-10-admission-letters-she-got-from-foreign-universities/

I had expected it to be from Universities in the United States where you can get some form of financial aid if you gain an admission there.

But it’s the U.K.

Well, this is nothing exciting. As long as you have the right grades for the desired course, it is fairly easy to get an admission into a U.K. university, at least for an MSc. For a PhD it’s a different matter. I’ve always told people that it isn’t getting the admission that should be a priority. It is the funding for the course.

SmartyPants:
How did we get here? We are talking about African militaries and you are talking about accountability which is a political issue. The question of excuses does not even arise. I never even said that the Nigeria army has not failed in containing the threat...where did that issue even arise?

I showed you the local factors that make the Nigerian situation similar to the situations faced by western forces in the middle east as a reply to your comment that the situations are different. What does accountability have to do with this?

Egypt and Kenya are not facing the same entity. Kenya is facing al shabab which is not even based on Kenay but Somalia whereas boko haram is spread out over a huge geographical area with a steady source of recruits.

the threats Egypt faces are also not as intense and that makes it even more telling, that they have not been able to quell them.

I think you are missing my point. Or I have missed your point— which is a shame as I find your intervention quite important here.

My point is simple. Nigeria Army should not be put in the top 10 of the best Armies in Africa. Perhaps Top 10 in peacekeeping. But not as an Army overall. They do not have the capacity or have shown the competence in intelligence— intelligence gathering, analysing and execution, which is needed in modern. We can, of course as Nigerians, make excuses for them; but as long as we have the evidence of these failures in intelligence, which include a litany of “tactical withdrawal videos” online, the truth is very simple as most know.

Racoon:
https://www.thecable.ng/presiding-officers-we-transmitted-election-results-to-inec-server/amp

Instead of INEC to be proud and excited that their voting system is a bit Industry 4.0 driven where results are transmitted directly to INEC's server, some of their compromised officers are claiming the server does not exist because it will show that Atiku won the election! Funny people.

SmartyPants:
@ bolded, vastly different. but i'll come back to that.

My first question, since this is a comparison of African countries, which country in Africa has every successfully outfought an insurgent group? Don't forget there are over 30 such groups in operation all over Africa. Has Egypt defeated their own? Kenya? Answer this question too.

Back to comparing the Nigerian situation with the Western situation. There is a vast difference.

1. The Nigerian army when it operates in the North is considered an invasive force. Local communities are cooperating with the insurgents. That's the fact. The Nigerian army operates in the north under the same condition coalition forces operated in in places like Afghanistan and Iraq.
2. Boko haram has a large physical presence within Nigeria (again, because it does have local support), compounded by porous borders with difficult neighbors. Do the westerners have to deal with that?
3. Nigeria has a difficult geographical problem given its proximity to Libya and Mali through which arms and fighters flow into Nigeria.

Currently Boko Haram and ISWAP control swathes of territories in the North East and the border towns with Lake Chad. They may not be having flags there as before, however they visit there at will. The Nigerian Army has been pushed back from those towns and the local populace have either fled or simply pay tax to these insurgent groups. This sounds like failure to me.

Currently in the North West, the Nigerian Army is battling bandits groups in Sokoko, Zamfara, Jigawa, Kaduna and Katsina. These groups kill, maim and kidnap at will. This has continued till today, despite the Army waging a so-called war in these areas. Again, this is failure to me.

While Kenya and Egypt has its own similar problems, they are certainly not at the failure level of Nigeria and its Army. Hence the United States warning for Kenya and Egypt is low in comparison to these areas in Nigeria where the department of state have advised that, "all but essential travels should be avoided." [https://ng.usembassy.gov/nigeria-travel-warning-2/]

It is simply a failure of intelligence and a failure of the Nigerian Army. Again, we should stop giving funny explanations to failure. It does not show accountability.

Houseofglam7:
Dude's been permanently 'babydaddy zoned'

Same thing I thought.
Dude's been put in his place.
This is not good.

SmartyPants:
Let me ask you this. In the post colonial period, is there any army in Africa that has ever fought and successfully defeated a rag tag group of fighters like you put it?

While you search for answers let me then ask, is there any army in modern history that has ever successfully defeated such a group?

Do you think there is a reason for that?

The military hasn’t been able to quell the terrorists attacks by Boko Haram, ISWAP and the Herdsmen because they are lacking intelligence capabilities— asides their multitude of other problems. Without proper intelligence, a military force is simply a civilian-like riot group with arms.

Conventional armies are ill-equipped and lack the capacity to defeat terror when these conventional army operate on foreign soil. It’s simple. When foreign armies fight terror in foreign groups, they loose as the locals— where the terror groups gain support— see them as colonialist invaders. For example, the US Army in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Nigerian case is quite similar to terror attacks in the West. The British do not need to deploy the Royal Marines or Navy; they use the MI5 in intelligence. The Nigerian Army has no viable intelligence unit. Hence the intractable “war” which they’ve effectively lost. The failure of intelligence is the failure of the Army. I don’t know why we want to sugarcoat things.


Unless for reasons of delusional patriotism, they should never be put as Top 10 fighting force in Africa.

Codedrock:
More From Source Below
SOURCE: https://tinamagazine.com/2019/02/strongest-military-in-africa-top-10-africas-strongest-military-2019.html

LOL.
Military that can not fight and win a rag-tag Boko Haram terror group for 10 years should not make the list if the most powerful 50 armies in Africa.
Nigeria. We just like to deceive ourselves.

TOPCRUISE:
I put the blame on the husband because Olajumoke's height in the society can only be supported by him. He has to be there to stabilize her progress

Though It reminds me of the thread and advice to husbands. ''Never allow your wife to become successful than you'' because the word 'SUBMISSION' does not exist in the dictionary of a successful woman...

This is just an example

Not sure why her husband should be blamed for her inability to be humble and rational. In any case, no one knows the full story. It’s just sad how marriage has become a cheap, disposable commodity in Nigeria.

junkiesneverdie:
Sabotage in the nigerian army this is serious if it's true...

It is a thing that has been going on for years.
Embedded within the Army, DSS, Police are people who are loyal to terrorists ideology and banditry. For some it is a religious ideology— the extremist Sunni ideology which ISIS, Al Queada, Boko Haram feeds from. For others— like the bandits informants— they get monetary settled for it.

It will continue for a long, long, long time. BUHARI who once said that an attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the North is clearly not the apologist you need to solve this issue.

Until these killers invade Lagos— and, give them time, they would— the South West will not agree that their unholy alliance with the extremist members of the North will neither serve them nor Nigeria any good. But by that time it will be too late.

dainformant:
Two suspected drug traffickers have been apprehended by the National Drugs and Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Kano Command. The suspects named Abdul Abubakar Mohammed and Ibrahim Mustapha, were arrested with 2.927kg of cocaine, said to be the first of its kind in the state.

Parading the suspects before news men on Saturday in Kano, the Commander, Dr. Ibrahim Abdul said luck ran out of the two suspects after his men trailed them to a hotel on Katsina Road, in Fage Local Government Area of the state after two months of investigation.

According to him, the command’s shift from reactive to proactive investigative methods led to the successful arrest of the suspects whom he said has already started swallowing the parcels before taking off to Sudan from where they will continue their journey to Saudi Arabia through the sea.

“ We have adopted proactive methods for effective policing and investigations as it relates to drugs. We have been on the trail of the suspects for the past two months after intelligence gathering by our vigilant officers".

This is happening after the recent execution of a Nigerian woman as well as arrests by the Saudi Arabia authorities for drug trafficking.

The two suspects, while interviewed by news men said that they hail from Maiduguri and are both business men who deals in Caps and Cola nuts respectively but lost their source of livelihood due to Boko Haram insurgency.

See more; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2019/04/two-suspects-nabbed-in-kano-enroute-saudi-arabia-with-2-927kg-of-cocaine.html

They are lucky they were nabbed in Kano.
Not Saudi. They will be dead by now.

sarrki:
Sire with due respect

You are part of them sir

You voted him abi? His name was on the ballot papers abi?

Irresponsible leadership and irresponsible follower-ship. Always frightened from taking responsibility.

Igboblog:
JUST IN!!! "Swear With The Qur’an That You Didn’t Rig The Election" - Galadima Blasts Buhari

By Wisdom Nwedene

A former ally to President Muhammadu Buhari has challenged him to swear with the Qur’an that he did not rig the 2019 presidential election.


Buba Galadima who is also the spokesman to the Presidential candidate of the People's Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar also lambasted President Buhari.


Igbere TV reports that Galadima said Atiku won the election but it was allegedly rigged by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

He described the election as an embarrassment while challenging the president and the APC leaders to swear with the holy books to prove Buhari won.

“The election was a national embarrassment. It was far from being free and fair. Not only that, it was clear to everybody that INEC, the military, and the police all colluded to work for APC,” Galadima said.

“The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party Alhaji Atiku Abubakar won the presidential election but INEC chose to declare President Muhammadu Buhari the winner. The whole world knows that Atiku defeated Buhari hands down but the election was heavily rigged in Buhari’s favour.

“I boldly challenge Buhari and other APC leaders to swear with the Holy Quran, and the Bible if they were sure that Buhari won that election. If they are sure that Buhari defeated Atiku, Buhari, APC leaders should take up my challenge. I’m throwing this challenge openly, I’m making it public, and I’m waiting for any of them who is bold and sure of himself to take up this challenge.

“INEC was only independent in name during the elections as it surrendered its mandate to the whims and caprices of Buhari and APC. With the way it conducted the election, INEC will enter the Guinness Book of Records as having organised the worst election in Nigeria’s history.”

Galadima further said the conduct of the electoral process is proof that Buhari is not fighting corruption.

He said rigging of elections amounts to corruption, and “APC is a nest of corrupt elements”.

“What all these clearly show again is that Buhari is not fighting corruption. Corruption is not only about stealing money. There are other things that you do that amounts to corruption. Rigging election is another form of corruption,” he said.

“All APC leaders including Buhari, their hands are not clean over these elections. Then if you know that somebody is corrupt and you protect such a person that means that you are also corrupt.”


Source : http://igberetvnews.com/616173/just-in-swear-with-the-quran-that-you-didnt-rig-the-election-galadima-blasts-buhari/

Buhari respects the Quran, at least publicly.
He knows he militarised and rigged the election. Everyone knows this anyway. This challenge is as tough as ManU getting into the top 3.

So.... Galadima, he won’t swear.

Earthquake3:
Which Iheanacho?

I tire!

They don’t want him to feel left out. I’m sure he will be sold in the summer.

chinambusay:
A Nigerian man took to Facebook to lament as his girlfriend of 5 years, called off their wedding for a military man after years of paying her bills. 

The Nigerian man who called out his girlfriend who called off their wedding for a relationship with a military man, recounted how the girl's mother entrusted her to his care after her father died. He further disclosed that their wedding was called off after the girl went for her NYSC. 

He wrote; 


https://unclesuru.com/2019/04/19/nigerian-man-laments-as-girlfriend-calls-off-their-wedding-for-military-man/

She did nothing wrong.
She is very wise. And you are very foolish.
Until you get married to a lady, she legally owes you nothing. Same with males to females.
When I see males spending on ladies they aren’t married to amounts they can invest in themselves, their family or their guys, I shake my head. Is this how foolish, foolishness can be?

To the lady: Happy Married Life! God bless your new home!

Omooba77:
The Federal Government will take another fresh external loan of $247.3m for the development of infrastructure, despite the country’s rising debt profile.

The Federal Executive Council made the approval at its sitting in Abuja on Wednesday.

It came just days after the International Monetary Fund raised eyebrows over Nigeria’s current N24.38tn debt, advising the country to take borrowing slowly.

Briefing State House correspondents after the meeting rose, the Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, gave a breakdown of the fresh loan.

She stated that $150m would come from the African Development Bank, to be spent specifically on rural electrification projects; $50m from Africa Grow Together Fund for other electrification projects; and $20m from French Development Agency, which would be loaned to the  Lagos State Government.

Lagos plans to use the $20m to build new roads and rehabilitate existing ones.

Another $27.3m IADE facility was approved as part of the ‘North Core Dorsal Regional Transmission Project.’

This will be part of the West Africa Power Pool projects with a total loan requirement of $640m.

The minister explained that the projects were to connect Nigeria, Niger, Benin Republic, Togo, and Burkina Faso “with a high voltage 330 kilowatts transmission line, to facilitate energy trade among participant countries.”

The minister, who gave more details on the approvals by FEC, said, “Council approved three memos for Ministry of Finance. First, it approved a $150m loan facility from AfDB and $50m loan from African Grow Together Fund to finance the Nigerian electrification project. The project is a nationwide initiative to be implemented by the rural electrification agency.

“The project aligns with the strategy of the Federal Government on electrification of rural communities. The project has four components: First is solar hybrid mini-grid for rural economic development, the second is productive appliances equipment for up-grid communities, and the third is energising education while the fourth component is institutional capacity building.

“The impact of the project when fully implemented, about 500,000 people will be able to have access to electricity for about 105,000 households. The maximum power that will be generated will be 76.5 megawatts installed generating capacity part of which is 68,000 megawatts of solar.

“Eight universities will benefit from this scheme and about 20,000 small, micro, medium enterprises across different communities in the nation.

“The second approval is the North Core Dorsal Regional Transmission Project. This is a project that is part of the pipeline for the West Africa power pool priority projects. The intention is for the creation of a regional power pool in the region of West Africa. The pool project aims to connect Nigeria, Niger, Benin Republic, Togo, and Burkina Faso with a high voltage 330 kilowatts transmission line, to facilitate energy trade among participants.

“The project is in the total sum of $640m, out of which each of the four countries involved has a component. Nigeria has the smallest component in this pact, which is a total loan of $27.3 m IADE facility, a concessionary loan. This is a loan that the four countries are taking together; the other three countries have concluded theirs. So, this is one of the final stages for Nigeria to conclude its process.”

https://punchng.com/fg-seeks-fresh-247-3m-external-loan/amp/

We shouldn’t forget that the borrowed money comes with a serious interest and debt default fees. The world is slowly moving away from oil. Where will Nigeria get the money to pay up?

APC and Buhari have to pay for the prosecution of the “elections” and the tribunal which Atiku appears to have all the facts and logic on his side.


It will be only by the grace of God that Nigeria wouldn’t be saddled with a debt of plus $100bn at the end this regime.

When you look at the actions of Buhari and APC apologists you get the feeling that it wasn’t only hatred for GEJ, the minority tribesman that they had, but utter, complete, sadistic, insidious hate of Nigeria as a country.

And we have got to ask ourselves why.

BrandSpurNG:
Over 12 million Nigerians are to benefit from the ‘Next Level’ of the federal government’s National Social Investment Programme (N-SIP).

This is even as the Home-grown School Feeding Programme has now extended to 30 states with 9.5 million children now being fed and 2.5 million farmers, cooks and others benefitting from the value chains.

A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity (Office of the Vice-President), Laolu Akande, said that the federal government is also targeting millions of Nigerians to benefit from its schemes.

President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s National Social Investment Programmes (N-SIP) is aimed at empowering Nigerians and improving their livelihood through several initiatives.

According to the statement, over 12 million will be lifted out of poverty in the next phase of the schemes, with over one million poorest households benefitting from the cash transfer.

It said that the ‘Next Level’ GEEP schemes also targets 10 million Nigerians, while one million more Nigerians would be added to the N-Power programme.

“In continuation of its efforts to invest in the country’s human capital development, the Buhari administration has continued to make significant strides through its National Social Investment Programmes (N-SIP).

“Millions of Nigerians nationwide are currently benefitting from the different schemes under the N-SIP, which is the largest social welfare scheme in the history of the country.

“Through its Conditional Cash transfer (CCT) scheme, the administration is supporting the most vulnerable in society, while developing a skilled workforce for economic productivity by providing jobs for millions of Nigerian youths through the N-Power programme.

“The administration is also improving the learning and cognitive skills of Nigeria’s children through the Home-Grown School Feeding programme (NHGSFP).

“Also, the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) provide financial support through micro-credit schemes to small traders and businesses at the bottom of the financial pyramid,” the statement said.

According to Akande, beneficiaries of the GEEP schemes include petty traders, women cooperatives, youths, famers and agricultural workers.

He explained that in the second term of the President Buhari administration tagged ‘Next Level’, more Nigerians will benefit from the schemes.

“While the Cash Transfer scheme aims to reach one million poorest households, one million new beneficiaries are expected to be added to the N-Power scheme, arguably the largest job creation and youth employment scheme in Africa.

“The administration’s National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP), which has a target of reaching 12 million pupils, is currently feeding over 9.5 million public primary school (classes 1-3) pupils with one free, balanced and nutritious meal a day in 30 states nationwide; while it has empowered 101,913 cooks in these states.

“The HGSFP has not only helped to increase enrollment rates of pupils in these communities, it is also effectively tackling early year malnutrition, while improving the cognitive skills of children.

“The school feeding programme has also provided sustainable income for local farmers, cooks, which has increased growth and productivity in the local economy.

“As of March, 297,973 Nigerians in 20 states (including the Borno IDP camps) are current beneficiaries under the National Cash Transfer Policy Programme (Conditional Cash Transfer), which started in December 2017; with over 5,000 savings groups and cooperatives formed as a result,” he said.

He listed the states currently receiving payment under CCT to include: Adamawa, Anambra, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Ekiti, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kogi, Kwara, Nassarawa, Niger, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, and Taraba.

Akande explained that the Conditional Cash Transfer was designed to deliver timely and accessible cash to beneficiary households and so enhance their capacity for sustainable livelihood.

“The programme provides beneficiaries – poor and vulnerable households – with a monthly transfer of N5,000 with the sole aim of taking them out of poverty,” he explained.

According to him, “In the same vein, the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP), which has the MarketMoni, FarmerMoni and TraderMoni schemes, currently has a combined total of over 1.7 million Nigerians benefiting from these schemes.

“So far, since after the national and state polls, 30,000 minimum beneficiaries have been added to the TraderMoni scheme, which provides interest-free loans starting from N10,000 to petty traders nationwide and is payable within six months.

“In addition, upon repayment of the N10,000 loans, some beneficiaries in some states, including Lagos, Osun, Borno, Ogun and Benue have now started receiving the 2nd improved interest-free TraderMoni loan of N15,000.

“In the same vein, the administration’s N-Power scheme has currently engaged 500,000 youth graduates deployed to provide public health services in teaching, health, agriculture and tax and monitoring; and a further 200,000 non-graduates in training or attached to organisations as interns.”

For the school feeding programme, the SSA listed the benefitting states to include: Anambra, Abia, Akwa Ibom, Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Ebonyi, Enugu, Kaduna, Kebbi, Kogi, Sokoto and Nasarawa.

Others are: Taraba, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Plateau, Delta, Zamfara, Imo, Jigawa, Kano, Niger, Katsina, Ondo, Edo and Gombe.


SOURCE: https://brandspurng.com/2019/04/17/president-buhari-targets-over-12-million-nigerians-beneficiaries-with-next-level-initiative/

Another N5,000 socialist scheme coming.

Lucid1:
Na better insult be this o, so sad for INEC now.

It's uncivil to insult anyone/body like this

Lol.
INEC has clearly been working as an appendage of APC.

Hence they operate like low-level illiterates. Because that’s how APC operates.

dachilino:
A Nigerian architect identified as Bolu, reportedly lost a N3.5m job for being a Buhari supporter as confirmed in tweets he shared. The Nigerian architect in his tweet, disclosed that the N3.5m job was not lost because he was not competent, but because he is a Buhari supporter. Read his tweet below; 


https://unclesuru.com/2019/04/16/architect-loses-a-n3-5m-job-for-being-a-buhari-supporter/

Something tells me that this is fake.
A "text" created by a Buharist to spite the Igbos in order to divert the attention that Omotola's Twitter message is getting. An “Igbo” that was copied and pasted from Google translate as seen by the many dots.

This people are evil. Genocidists without the guns and matchet.

An Igbo man puts cost and quality over emotions Oga. As long as your cost and quality is right, he will patronise you.

That is why it was put on Twitter.
These APC guys are as heartless as the consequence of their propaganda to an unsuspecting people.
Thank God Nigerians are wiser now.

oilPUSSY:
When Fayose was shouting and raising an alarm about dangers of having APC in Ekiti state and electing Buhari as the president, Tinibu and his nairaland dogs were busy pouring abuses on him.

Nigerians should sit tight and expect the the worst. Second term hasn't started yet in case if we have forgotten .
When Buhari said that his second term is going to be very brutal, some zombies have refused to dwell on that statement and understand the meaning, rather they keep shouting "Saï baber " Lunacy at its peak !
May those who trained this Aso Rock snake be consumed by the same snake they trained .. If these victims rejected "Next level", May God accept their souls.
May God keep protecting every Nigerian that rejected this snake in 2015 and 2019.
I heard that Fayemi wants to show appreciation to Buhari by giving out lands to herdsmen for his a job well done during Ekiti Guber election.

True.

I do not understand some of my people from the South West, to be honest.
Life goes beyond the emotions called politics.
Tinubu and his goons know this. That is why they live in heavily fortified houses and compounds.
Fayose made the right noise on this issue. That is why Ekiti State and the South West was fairly safe from herdsmen terrorists in comparison to the Middle Belt for instance.

If the elections had Atiku/Osinbajo and Buhari/Obi, the South East and South South will go for Atiku/Osinbajo. It is very simple. Buhari just brings blood, tears and sorrow. Why should one gamble with his life on that sort of person with that sort of record?

I know the Fulani herdsmen well. When you face them, they scamper away.
Fayose was being insulted and shouted down by even Yorubas. I asked myself, "what is wrong with these people?"
Buhari's second term has not even started and the lives being lost on a daily basis appear to have tripled. Do these ones think they will escape it?
May God have mercy on Nigeria.

sapele914:
Go try borrow sense.

Low-level zombie spotted.

Amuocha:
Attack on the Igbos

It is expected.
Did you think GTB was not going to do all they can, including using their connection with Tinubu and Osinbajo?

viviangist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ7FpYDQLOI

https://www.viviangist.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/iamkingrudy_15_4_2019_10_8_0_803.jpg

Lol. The end is wicked sha lol

Naughtysite:
You know what's up.

This administration can never have a Dora Akiunyili, Okonjo Iweala, Chukwuma Soludo, Akinwunmi Adesina kind of ministers.

They are immune to positivity or productivity.

If you are shinning or performing, you get trimmed.

Yes o!
Why do you think Amina Mohammed left to join the UN as under-Secretary? It’s just the way it is, simple leadership mathematics. You can not outshine the “master”, in this case, the demi-god. When you have a demi-god that is profoundly incompetent as well as set in his archaic ways, you have to drop your standards lower than him else you will be kicked out. Nigeria is currently on autopilot. Hopelessly on autopilot. Every region knows this— especially the two most educated regions but, for various reasons, can’t speak.

It is so, so, so sad.

Dailyhappenings:
The People's Democratic Party (PDP) has come out with a statement to counter the claims of their opposition party that Atiku Abubakar is a Cameroonian among others.

See their full statement...

The @OfficialPDPNig dismisses the reckless and groundless claims by the @OfficialAPCNg that its Presidential candidate, @Atiku, is a Cameroonian, as a calculated attempt by the APC to trivialize...
...and divert attention from the compelling issue of their criminal rigging of the 2019 Presidential election.
This disingenuous claim is also a woeful design by the @OfficialAPCNg to overburden, distract and bog down the Presidential election petition tribunal with trivialities, lies and falsehood, so as to derail the course of justice.

Such diversionary tactic has however only helped in further exposing the fact that the @OfficialAPCNg has no answers to the plethora of overwhelming evidence before the tribunal that the election was won by @Atiku and the @OfficialPDPNig

Whereas @Atiku’s citizenship by birth, even under our constitution, cannot be contested, it is indeed the biggest irony of the year, that Atiku’s citizenship is being disputed by individuals whose ancestry has always been a subject of debate.

These individuals include those who, being not sure of their origins; have no love for Nigeria and even refused to be on the side of our nation at the 1985 summit of the defunct Organization of Africa Unity (OAU) in Addis Ababa.

Such persons prefer to deploy our national resources for infrastructural development in affiliated places outside the shores of Nigeria, when our country is in dire need of attention.
The apparent links were further manifested in the participation of aliens in the campaigns of a particular Presidential candidate in Kano.

Moreover, this claim by APC appears to contain explanations as to why its administration has remained insensitive to the challenge of insurgency, general insecurity and economic travails of Nigerians in the North East, particularly in Adamawa, Yobe, Borno and Taraba states.

In any case, Nigerians should not despair as the @OfficialPDPNig and @Atiku will not be distracted in the pursuit of our mandate. The PDP has implicit confidence in the competence of our legal team to handle the diversionary antics and technicalities of the @OfficialAPCNg to unnecessarily overstrain the tribunal and derail the course of justice in the matter.

Source: https://www.musictori.com/2019/04/pdp-dismisses-reckless-and-groundless.html

The trouble is that APC are ready to sacrifice everything and anything to hold on to power.
Do they really understand the implications, especially in terms of international law ramifications, if they argue that Atiku is from Cameroun and coerce and bribe judges to agree to the frivolity?

Or do they think that Cameroun are not watching and France, which really owns Cameroun, isnt watching as well? Do they understand that if, based on the ruling that Atiku is from Cameroun, it will be an easy case for Cameroun to claim Adamawa state and the other areas, through any international court? And France, a UN Security Council member, will support them?

Does APC and their zombies understand the long-term ramifications of trying to normalise this "Atiku is s Camerounian" propaganda?

proffemi:
You make many valid points but then ruin the whole thing by defending the culture of excuse-giving that madridsta007 has consistently and rightly criticized.

Thank you.
You put it correctly. It is a tiring culture of excuse.

easternguy1:
Published

April 14, 2019

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, says that no international oil company is planning to exit Nigeria, contrary to reports in some section of the media.

Kachikwu made this known while briefing newsmen after facility tour of ExxonMobil Erha Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessels in Lagos on Sunday.

FPSO unit is a floating vessel used by the Offshore oil and gas industry for the production and processing of hydrocarbons for the storage of oil.

Erha FPSO has a liquid storage capacity of 2.2 million barrel, making it one of its biggest kind in the world. The Erha field and Erha North satellite field, was completed in 2006.

The fields are located approximately 97km offshore Nigeria in water depths ranging from 1,000m to 1,200m. They were developed with an investment of 3.5 billion dollars.

He said that it was not possible for a company like ExxonMobil to sell off its assets for the small amount quoted in the report as its assets were much more worth than that.

“I have confirmed that it is not true, there are going to be here for a long stay, they will be here over the next 50 years, they are looking for more, they are doing all kinds of things, they just begun the exploration campaign first time in four years because of the new cash call policies we put in place.

“ That is not a sign of somebody who is exiting. But different from not exiting is to be aggressive. ExxonMobil needs to be more aggressive in terms of development policies,’’ he said

He added that ExxonMobil need to be more aggressive with business as Bonga South west was almost on FID, Egina just kicked off and AGip is struggling to get Zabzaba online.

“ So, I need to see a very robust development ,’’ he advised

Commenting on the aim of his visit, he said that it was to encourage the company and see the development programmes as well as share in the challenges they were experiencing in their operations.

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“First is to draw attention to the very complex and complication of operations of FPSOs when we do production off shore.

“This is about 100 km from Land, and part of the thing I am doing this month is visiting some of them. Including Egina that is just recently buoyed in different location and the one of Agip.

“I am here to look at what they are doing, to encourage them to continue the fantastic work they are doing and also discuss with them what their problems are,’’ he said

According to him, the visit is also to draw attention nationally and internationally to the few challenges in operations as complicated as this one.

He urged the company to brace up to the challenges in the sector as oil had recently been found in many African countries.

Earlier, Mr Richard Laing, ExxonMobil Executive Director, Production commended the minister for making out time to visit the facility and reiterated that the company had no plans to exit Nigeria.

“We are happy with Nigeria, We have our differences, we don’t agree on everything, we are happy and content. We are delighted over the minister’s visit and we are happy that he has come back to his spiritual home.

“As the minister said, the corporation has been here for many years, we intend to stay, we have ambitious growth programmes to build wealth and grow business to make more profit, key into the gas commercialisation project.

“ We fully support what the minister said and we look forward to working with him,’’ he said .

Laing said that the company was being faced with the challenges of competition for capital and expertise in running the business.

(NAN)


https://punchng.com

It has been ages I heard Kachikwu's voice. Is he still in this administration?

I remember when he started out as NNPC GMD, visiting fuel stations, solving fuel crisis, meeting with marketers, etc. He came from Exxon Mobil and was carrying on as if he was still in the private sector - drive, enthusiasm, results. Buhari and Abba Kyari immediately made him know that excellence can not be tolerated in a Buhari administration

Immediately removed and demoted lol.
The mediocrity that certain Nigerians installed in Nigeria because of how they hate Nigeria, only God has the punishment that these Nigerians deserve.