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President Buhari finally addressed Nigerians on Monday morning after he came back from his medical vacation in London.

In his first video message after over 105 days, Nigerians rated President Muhammadu Buhari's speech low over inability of him to give details of issues and activities in the last 100 days.

Political analysts say they expected the President to give more details about the country especially if he has a clean bill of health.

Former Minister of Education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili has rated President Muhammadu Buhari's speech as a terrible case of missed opportunity, from the citizen's point of view.

"The content is very dry, uninspiring, on-the-surface and superficial. Nothing as to the state of the nation economically, all the non-existent energy was expended on irresponsible elements and the social media", Damilola Okin said.

Here are some of the issues the President failed to address:

1. No discussion on Nigerian economy so far and not a single stamp of Osinbajo's efforts so far

2. The President failed to give hope to the striking academic staff union – ASUU

3. The President shunned cabinet reshuffle as being speculated in various quarters

4. No words on the hyenas and jackals his wife said he will soon come and remove from the government.

5. No statement on his health status as Nigerians need to know the his status and whether the president will go back soon or not.

6. We do not know whether the Presidency has transmitted a letter to the National Assembly for change of baton and his full resumption or we need to take few days to rest.

7. The speech was recorded and may signal another discussion on the clean bill of health of the President.

Source : http://www.viviangist.com.ng/7-issues-president-buhari-failed-to-address-in-broadcast

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That Guy weah fire him that karat go die before the end of this month ... if e ever take anything weah no belong to him

In continuation of ongoing efforts to deny terrorists freedom of action in it's Area of Responsibility, troops of 8 Task Force Division have neutralized 10 terrorists in Maza village in Marte Local Government Areas of Borno State. The terrorists fell into an ambush laid by troops at about 9pm last night, as they attempted to sneak back into their swampy hideouts in the Lake Chad.

Items recovered from the terrorists include 10 bicycles, 11 carts containing food items and 2 cows. In a related development, troops also recovered 50 cows abandoned by fleeing terrorists, during clearance operations conducted in Danari and Mowo villages in Monguno Local Government Area. It should be noted that as the noose continue to tighten on Boko Haram terrorists, couple with the wet season, they have resorted to the use of bicycles and charts as means of transportation. Please disseminate this information to the general public. Col Timothy Antigha Deputy Director Public Relations 8 Task Force Division

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The Niger Delta University chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has joined the ongoing nationwide strike declared by the union.

Dr Stanley Oguon, Chairman of the chapter, revealed that the decision was made during the local union emergency congress

ASUU had on Monday directed all its state chapters to go on an indefinite nationwide industrial action.

Oguon maintained that although the University was preparing for its end of semester examinations, they believe in the genuineness of the ASUU struggle

Meanwhile, a student of the university, Andy Micheal, has appealed to the Federal Government to dialogue with ASUU so as not to prolong the strike.

He said that any delay in the negotiation would be counterproductive to students and the nation’s education sector.

NAN

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DaBillionnaire:
And these ones are role models to some Nigerians? Never.

dem feeding more than you

Two Tuesdays ago, Charles Oputa (aka Charly Boy) and his #OurMumuDonDo group protested President Muhammadu Buhari’s prolonged absence from office. Typical of the Nigeria Police’s short-sightedness of citizens’ democratic and civic rights, they took the protest as a personal affront to “Dear Leader” and tear-gassed the protesters. The police added a sequel to their own farce when, mere days later, a collective of Buhari’s supporters rallying in his favour was peacefully escorted to Aso Rock! What more proof does one need that some animals are more equal than the other?

The ethos of Buhari as a repressive, autocratic, and abusive leader subsists in the present government and its intolerance tendencies are still being zealously enacted by his fascist cadre who somehow believe it is 1984. To be clear, successive Nigerian governments have been repressive for eons but there is no way to dissect the mentality of the police that attacked Charly Boy without recourse to the military regime of Buhari that instituted the persecution of unfavourable voices. On Tuesday, the same Charly Boy and the #OurMumuDonDo group were attacked in Wuse market, Abuja, by a crowd. Charly Boy seems to be in a vortex of “one week, one trouble.”

The thought of Charly Boy being attacked because he is saying what these deplorable agents of government do not want to hear is frightening. The issue is not whether they are Buhari supporters or not; at the height of his ignominious rule, Buhari’s friend, Gen. Sani Abacha, had one million misguided people march in his support. The issue is the level of their zeal for Buhari, the extent they are willing to go to protect him against other citizens’ rights, and the democratic institutions that are perverted when dissent is silenced.

If the police deploy tear gas and miscreants attempt to lynch Charly Boy because he dares to ask the questions the rest of us should be asking, then we should be afraid. It is sad enough when Nigeria’s Orwellian administration imposes a disdainful script of civic behaviour on us; it is another thing entirely to have the people themselves run the errands of autocratic leaders.

Last week, I mentioned that Buhari is a religion, but I should have added that his cult worshippers also seem “Boko Haramic” in their conduct. They treat opposition to Buhari’s autocratic monarchy as an apostasy that deserves no less than capital punishment. One can tell (especially from the claptrap the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, wraps in cute Bible verses and peddles these days), that these people think all of us should sleep and face a similar direction when it comes to Buhari’s government. It is a shame that they are getting validation from public institutions like the police.

By attacking the #OurMumuDonDo group last week, the police opened the door for the Wuse assault. The police’s abuse of power emboldened the nefarious actions of the miscreants of Wuse market. The Igbo have a proverb: “when the mother cow eats grass, her children watch her mouth.” When the police become selective of who is deserving of protection under the law, and their choices are made by certain kinds of biases that are evident to the public, they foster a culture that suppresses the democratic imperative of protest and, consequently, institutionalise abuse.

The police should school themselves by reading the story of Ruby Bridges, the six-year-old black girl in racist United States who had to be escorted to school by federal marshals in 1960 when a white mob contended that schools would not be desegregated. Then, it might have seemed like overkill: sending the Federal Police to escort a black kid to her classroom amidst a mob of white racists who vowed their children would not be educated with a black child regardless of the law. Today, we look back and see the point.

The police should ask themselves: If they cannot stand up for the rights of dissenting citizens, what, then, is the justification of their existence? If they do not think it is worth mobilising the resources of the entire rank and file of the police to protect a group of protesters from the mob, then what do they stand for? Why don’t we all just declare fealty to an area father who will protect us if we do his bidding? The police that cannot guarantee the rights of one person who is standing against the majority should not pretend they exist for the bulk of the society either; you either have principles, or you do not.

Why is the Nigeria Police ever unmindful of its critical role in maintaining the stability of the society? Why does it deploy the machinery of power to escalate situations, ride roughshod over citizens’ rights, and, generally act like Fela’s zombies? Why do the police hardly ever take informed stances on the right of citizens to lawfully assemble, rather than be the ones to champion the repressive causes? And, now that the miscreants of Wuse market are aping their acts, do they now see how they perpetuate the culture of disorder they are supposed to alleviate?

Indeed, what has Charly Boy and the #OurMumuDonDo group asked that qualifies them for the guillotine? Why is it a sin that a President who has been out of his office and country for 101 consecutive days is asked to resign, so the nation is no longer held down by the tentativeness of his anticipated return? Do Buhari’s followers have the sole prerogative to the initiative permissible in the nation’s public sphere? Charly Boy is right: Buhari has no business staying away interminably. The fact that the country supposedly runs independently of him is the best argument against his Presidency: if Nigeria can function without his presence, it means he can be cut loose!

I should add that the rest of us should be worried about a situation whereby Buharism becomes a civilian version of Abacha’s government or a tolerable strain of Boko Haram. Nigeria should grow past the era where citizens are kept in line at the whims, dictates, and barks of mad dogs. I have always believed that it is not people who deviate from dominant cultural scripts that should be feared; it is those who want us to slavishly conform to a ruinous pattern of conditioning and who mobilise all sorts of power to keep us within such soap-bubble that should both be feared and resisted.

Whether we like Charly Boy’s activism or not, and, whether we think Buhari should return or stay in London forever, it is crucial that we push for individual human rights to be respected. Those who have argued that Charly Boy should have known his limits and not gone to a market that was supposedly dominated by Buhari’s followers should recall that a similar argument was advanced last year. A man named his dog “Buhari” and the Lagos-Ogun area of Buhari cult followers lost their tiny minds. Those who keep arguing that these men should have known better than trigger Buhari’s followers must begin to ask: where does it end? Will we always have to diminish ourselves, and cut the coat of our political agency according to the size of our opponents’ tolerance cloth?

We must make up our minds if we want a democracy or if we are better off cowering before Buhari’s crazy supporters. What is at stake is bigger than Charly Boy; it is about the soul of our nation. The police have used water cannons on and tear-gassed #OurMumuDonDo and Charly Boy. The miscreants of Wuse market have chased, beaten up and damaged properties of dissenters. These are troubling developments, and cowardly silence from the rest of us means the misinformed will triumph. If they do, it will come back to haunt everybody else.

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Can we can this Type of Online Election Results in Nigeria's Next Election

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has been re-elected following Tuesday’s vote, election officials say.

Mr Kenyatta, in office since 2013, took 54.3% of votes, ahead of his rival Raila Odinga, with 44.7%.

After the announcement, Mr Kenyatta called for unity, telling opposition supporters: “I reach out to you… We are all citizens of the same republic”.

But the opposition rejected the results even before they were declared, calling the process a “charade”.

However it has been endorsed by international observers. Mr Kenyatta said they had ensured a “free, fair and credible election”.

Earlier, Mr Odinga’s supporters said he had won, and published their own figures. The electoral commission said this was “illegal and premature”, and said basic mathematical errors had been made.

Many observers fear a repeat of the violence after the disputed election 10 years ago when more than 1,100 Kenyans died and 600,000 were displaced.

Raila Odinga has come up short again in what was his fourth and probably last attempt to become the president of Kenya.

Source http://www.viviangist.com.ng/kenya-election-2017-president-uhuru-kenyatta-winner

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 This notorious kidnapper was caught this morning around 10am today at kola, bus stop, Alagbado in Lagos. They were four, three was taking to the police station. And according to what this one said, three children was collected from their hands by the police officers.

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Looking Good , .. checkout the Latest Pictures of Nigerian Music Star Dammy Krane , shared on Instagram with caption ..

From Africa to the world  #CATCHFEELINGS 
Styled: @dewyoputa 
Photo : @loathr

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As shared On Instagram by the Lagos Born Nigerian Nollywood Actress , Queen Nwokoye who is celebrating her 35th Birthday Today , check pictures below. 

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Chief Chijioke Nwakodo, the Chief of staff to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State is dead.

Nwakodo, 56, died in a London hospital on Thursday evening, his younger brother, Mr. Obidike Nwakodo, told newsmen on Friday in Umuahia.

When newsmen visited his residence, his younger brother, Obidike, was seen receiving calls from sympathizers, who trickled into the house of the deceased to confirm his death and to offer sympathy.

Nwakodo further said that the news of his death was communicated to the family on Thursday evening.

He said that arrangements were on to formally convey the message of his death to the governor.

It was learnt that Nwakodo, a father of two, was appointed Chief of Staff to the governor on June 3, 2015.

Nwakodo, a politician and businessman, was born on March 29, 1961.

He was a one-time chairman of Umuahia North Local Government (1999 to 2002), where he was nicknamed “Zero allocation”.

The deceased also served as the chief economic adviser to former Gov. Theodore Orji.

Source : http://www.viviangist.com.ng/abia-chief-of-staff-chijioke-nwakodo-is-dead

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Lawmaker attacked by thugs yesterday at kogi State House of Assembly complex lokoja. Hon Friday makama.. This action is too bad. It means, kogites are not too safe in the State..

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This is Just Lovely .. as shared Online

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ladyF:
Hmmmm

It was a rapist. It made FP some time ago

he not it ........

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How armed robbers are being tortured in some parts of Africa

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I saw this Picture Online ... i was like God bless this Marriage ... check this Picture below.

She is so Beautiful ....

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Runtown Shows Off His Lamborghini in New Picture : as shared on Instagram with Caption ...

Happy New month guys May God bless us all

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Gov. Abubakar Wins Best Governor on Urban Renewal Award at 2017 Abuja Housing Show
Dedicates Award to Bauchi people, Promises to bring more development to the state

The Abuja Housing Show today awarded His Excellency, Governor Muhammed Abdullahi Abubakar the National Award for The Best Governor on Urban Renewal. According to the organizers of the annual event which held in Abuja, a documentary by AIT on the Bauchi government’s effort to improve the infrastructure of the three major urban centres of Bauchi, Azare and Misau prompted them to inspect the state.

A major criteria for selecting the winner of this prestigious award was a surprise visit to the state without the knowledge of the government, by a team of Housing and Urban professionals. Bauchi received the highest mark for rapid urbanization hence the award.

Receiving the award, Gov. Abubakar thanked the organizers of the event, dedicating the award to the great people of Bauchi state, who he says gave him their mandate in the first place. He said the award is a morale booster for him to do more, and that Bauchi state should expect more development in the coming months.

Despite limited funds, Bauchi state has continued to implement both human and infrastructural development projects. Projects like the dualization, rehabilitation or upgrades of Awalah roundabout – Kano road, Ran road, Bauchi – Gombe road, ATBU link road, Udubo – Gamawa road, Darazo – Gabchiyari road, Jama’are road, Sule Katagum road to mention a few are in various stages of completion. All these Gov. Abubakar has been able to achieve in just two years in office.

This year’s Abuja Housing Show was chaired by the National Chairman APC and was attended by Representative of the Speaker House of Reps, Chairmen House and Senate Committees on Housing, Ministers of Labour and Productivity, Power Works and Housing, as well as Mines and Steel development.

Also in attendance are the Ambassador of Turkey to Nigeria, National Pre

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Edo state governor visit the lady mechanic's at our new workshop in Edo line , see pictures below ... as sent by Vivian Gist Reader.

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Governor Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode visits Governor State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola

It was a resounding reception given to the Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode when he paid a courtesy visit to the Governor, State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.

As can be seen in one of the shots of Dolapo Julius Ogundiran, Ogbeni was presenting the plague of strength, wisdom and power of the State of Osun to the visiting Governor on the 19th July, 2017.

After exchanging pleasantry they together went on a convoy to Ila where Baba Omo Keekeke, Chief Bisi Akande, the former Governor of Osun State was giving 8th day funeral rite to his departed wife.

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CHIEF VICTOR UMEH JOINS OBIANO FAMILY IN PAYING LAST RESPECT TO THEIR LATE MOTHER, Mrs Carolina Obiano (Adinije).

Chief Sir Victor Umeh OFR (Ohamadike Ndigbo) attends the funeral vigil mass in honor of the late mother of the Executive Governor of Anambra State, HE Chief Dr Willie Maduaburochukwu Obiano held at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Aguleri.

The Mass is celebrated by the Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, Most Rev Dr Paulinus Ezeokafor and concelebrated by two other bishops and a college of priests and religious brothers and sisters.

The place is set and the spirits have assembled to carry abode their latest member to be handed down tomorrow the 20th day of July 2017...
Stay with us as we bring you details.
Adieu Mama Caro Obiano, Adinije

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FengChui:
The way the gal don chop the yansh of the pen during the exams shows the level of seriousness she put into her studies. I can relate to what the op is saying.

Na only you get sense for this thread ...

I Saw this in her bag few days into the exam... I wonder the fate of the result....

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