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Irmiya Musa, a police corporal serving with Dakatsalle Police division in Bebeji Local Government area of Kano State allegedly raped a 3 year old girl minor at Sabon-Gari quarters of Dakatsalle last weekend.

A reliable source and a neighbour to the family of the girl, who spoke to journalists on condition of anonymity, said that the police corporal who also lived in the same neighbourhood with the little girl performed the dastardly act around 10 o’clock on Sunday morning in his shop which also doubles as his bedroom.

He said, “That morning I was cleaning my house when the mother of the girl rushed out in tears, saying that Irimiya has destroyed her life. Other neighbours and I rushed out to find out what was happening and we saw her holding her little daughter who was also crying. She informed us that Irimiya raped her daughter and the women folk immediately took the girl and started examining her while we proceeded to interrogate Irimiya. The mother told us that she and her daughter visited a relative in the morning who gave them some local nuts (gurjiya). She asked the little girl to take some to Irimiya who is a close family friend in his shop.

After sometime, she did not see her daughter; she came out to check the little girl. She found Irimiya’s shop locked and she thought that he went out and the girl was playing in the neighbourhood. The mother searched round the neighbourhood without success. While on her way back to the house, she saw Irimiya opening his door and the little girl emerged crying.

At this point the mother was even jokingly asking Irimiya why is the girl crying but he just smiled. The girl kept crying and telling her mother that he rubbed red oil on her buttocks and to her shock when she checked, she saw sperm on the little girl’s clothes.”

The source also said that they took the little girl to the police station and the DPO ordered the arrest and interrogation of Irimiya. “The DPO gave us policemen who escorted us to the hospital and a series of tests were carried out which confirmed that the girl was raped on Sunday. On Monday, the DPO sent for another round of test and result also showed that the girl was raped. Although Irimiya is still denying it, we are waiting for the final report to be compiled before the cases continue”.

A reliable source at the police station confirmed the arrest of Corporal Irimiya Musa on Sunday, and said investigation is still on going on the matter. Our correspondent could not reach Kano’s police Command Acting PRO, ASP Muhammad Al-Awal for his comment.

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There is palpable fear in the homestead of former military President, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, over his failing health. Information reaching this magazine has it that the former Nigerian Head of State has been in a very unhealthy condition for some time and that the situation was being managed by medical experts, only for the condition to get worse over the weekend.

The worsening health condition was what informed his being rushed to Germany for a better and more intensive medical attention.

Right now in Minna, Niger State, the home state of the gap-toothed general uneasy calm pervades the air, as the people there are not sure of the true state of things about their beloved son, who held sway as Nigeria’s military president for almost a decade.

Even the executive governor of the state, Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, had to cancel his 56th birthday anniversary at the last minute, when the news got to him that the man popularly known as ‘Maradona’, was ailing fast and needed urgent attention. Upon this, the governor, who is also the chairman, Northern governors Forum, quickly made for Germany last Wednesday to visit Babangida on his sick bed. It is also believed that IBB’s family members and associates have gone into serious prayers to ensure the speedy recovery of their father, friend and mentor.

IBB, you will recall, has been suffering from a perennial leg disease for years now, a condition which he has been managing even long before he stepped aside. He was said to have picked the ailment after the civil war during which he served Nigeria diligently. There is also an alleged cancer affliction which he has been suffering for sometime but kept under wraps. What particularly lends credence to IBB’s current ill-health is that he has not been visible or heard of in many public functions for months and efforts by many of his close associates to get in touch with him were always rebuffed. A top military brass who would not want to be identified, said, “I don’t know what is happening to Oga, because I have been trying to get in touch with him for months now without any result”.

Meanwhile, the true situation of IBB’s health remains cloudy as no one contacted at the Niger State Government by this magazine was willing to make a positive statement on the true situation. As at the time of going to press however, we gathered that IBB is still on his hospital bed in Germany being intensively attended to by medical experts. We wish him soonest recovery.

-Ope Somefun

shay una don dey say all these thieves way dey call themselves emancipators.they are only emancipating their own pockets and seeking attention and not fighting their people.Their people still remain the most backwards group in the south.I dey laugh oooo!!

Former Niger/Delta militant Tompolo is a happy man as you are reading this. Gist has it that Fenod, a company identified as that of belonging to the onetime war lord who has since transformed to a peace maker and a sustainer of peace of sort in the Niger/Delta, recently won a very big contract to build a 66 kilometer-pipeline. Although Tompolo has distanced himself from the outfit which a one-time polio patient is said to be fronting as the owner, those who know, still maintain that he is the brain behind the company. Fenod is one of the most successful individually-owned companies and is the first company to acquire an Offshore Lay Barge Vessel in Nigeria. Tompolo’s gradual rise since the amnesty programme rendered to the Niger/Delta militants by President Goodluck Jonathan has been phenomenal, as he has since changed to become a successful businessman in his domain and has even gone the extra mile by helping to change and sustain other militant- minded individuals from falling back to the old habit of militancy.


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I don't believe the refinery is that of Niger.I suspect it's one of those northern thieve that have collaborated with the Niger government and these are the same cabals that will never make Nigeria's refinery work.I have said it more than several times.Nigeria's problem are the northerners.they don't want anything to work in Nigeria.

Several places of massive importance to the country need to be named after Ojukwu

Let charity begin at home. Important streets and monements should the named after hm in the old eastern states. A foundaton should also be created in his name.

I wouldn't even be comfortable with any attempts to make Ojukwu a Nigerian hero. He was a BIAFRAN hero. Cool
You can name your Nigerian places after Nigerians.
Ojukwu's monument should be somewhere in Enugu, Owerri, Umuahia( all past Biafran capital cities), or Nnewi(his home town). Cool
We can also build his monuments in all parts of Igboland and the East (if non-Igbos want that). Nothing more nothing less.

my cousin told me Rochas was already building a park to be named hero's(Ojukwu) square in Owerri even before he was dead

who talk say pastors no get fantasy too.That one na better fantasy for ram.lol!

Reports say 2 men of God were over the weekend allegedly lured to patronize harlots at a popular brothel in Asaba, when they went there to preach to the ladies of easy virtue.Reports have it that the pastors from a very popular church along Ibusa Road had visited the area to convert and win over the sex workers to their church, but were disoriented by the sudden display of breasts and other revealing body parts which reportedly hypnotized the preachers.They ended having quickies after which the pros had their bibles burnt after they refused to pay!! Oops!

see infidels.i sorry for una.buhari kor! busari ni!

if he likes let him cry & naked himself.i can assure him the SS/SE/MB will plot his down fall.i know he has some sympathizers in the SW but are just minimal.

if out of six zones he has lost three zones(SE/SS/MB) plus two third(2/3) of SW from the beginning and he get two zones(NW/NE) plus one-third(1/3) of SW.tell me how he will win.let him just save his money for his grand children and stop his misadventure.he is old and he should act his age(a king maker) rather that making a big fool out of himself. Orbor!!!

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in as much as am not going argue with anybody on this issue,at the same time am not going to dispute what am been told because there is a possibility that there was indeed jubilation.
BTW, jigawa is not the whole north.that you are based in the north maybe in kano,kaduna or sokoto, etc does not mean you know what is happening in other parts of the north particularly jigawa.also it may not be the whole jigawa but i can confirm to you that my friend told me that it was a thing of joy to hear that ojukwu is dead where he is staying in jigawa which means other parts of jigawa and probably the north in general maybe happy as well.don't be deceived by their politicians and leaders.

Also am yet to hear sultan's of sokoto's comment on Ojukwu's death.Don't forget they don't just see him as a breakaway leader,they also see him as a crusader.

am otta here

mr midwest boi,don't be darft.

Read what i wrote well.it is possible what he told me is true since he is serving there and don't get it twisted the friend of mine is yoruba.he use to be my course mate in school.

source pls

well this is what i was told on phone.i corper friend of mine told me where he is staying that some people where very happy at the news of his death and that it is very popular to see them pray and curse GEJ and OBJ to die.i did not believe it myself but just posted it to see if anybody have heard something similar.

na wa for ppl for the NL saying Ojukwu ran away after killing millions of people.but these are the same people saying Gaddafi should have run away secretly from Libya instead of being killed like a chicken.


my question to them is would they love to died a disgraceful chicken death like Gaddafi/Saddam(ur family wont even be proud of your death) or the love to died a natural old age death like ojukwu in the hospital,

i called a friend who is serving in jigawa state and we were discussing Ojukwu's death and how the news is being received in the norther.he told me that they where jubilating in the north that ojukwu is dead (The man they love to Fear) and they are praying also that Obasanjo and Goodluck dies also.I was shocked when he told this.I keep asking what kind of human beings we are living with in the same container called Nigeria.

your wish shall come to past.to your tent O Israel!

we shall miss you but GOD is with you daddy,may your soul rest in perfect peace!!!Amen

Former biafran leader and leader of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu is dead.

Thisday can confirm that he died late last night. He had been sick for a while and was receiving treatment at a united Kingdom (UK) hospital.More to follow . . .

Ojukwu was born in Zungeru, Northern Nigeria in 1933. His father, Sir Louis Phillipe Odumegwu Ojukwu was a wealthy businessman who made money from the transport industry. Ojukwu was sent to the UK at the age of 13 to study, first at Epsom College and later at Lincoln College, Oxford University where he earned a Masters degree in History.

Upon his return in 1956, he joined the civil service in then Eastern Nigeria. He would later leave the service to join the military, where he was one of the few university graduates.

Ojukwu was appointed Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria by Military Head of State, General Aguiyi Ironsi on January 17, 1966. By May of the same year, Nigeria was facing a serious crisis. A planned pogrom in Northern Nigeria targeting and killing South-easterners presented a problem. He made several assurances to the South-easterners about their safety but the crisis continued.  In May 1967, he declared Eastern Nigeria a Sovereign State named Biafra.

In July, 1967, then Head of State Yakubu Gowon declared war on Biafra. A civil war ensued. The war raged on for another 30 months. An attempt at peace during a meeting at Aburi, Ghana did not stop the war. In 1970, Ojukwu handed over power to his deputy Major-General Phillip Effiong and left the country to avoid assassination. He was granted political asylum in Cote D'Ivoire by President Felix Houphöet-Biogny.

The civilian President of Shehu Shagari granted him an official pardon and he returned in 1982 after 13 years in exile. Ojukwu would later go into politics, forming the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA). He was an active member until his death.


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It is not only our children that prefer to rot to death in an inhospitable unknown foreign deserted lands than the humiliating torture of Nigerian hunger, many armed robbers said they would rather die quickly of gun shots than die slowly of hunger.

Children destined into slavery but rescued by our police would rather proceed in servitude than starve to death in the hands of our authority. If we could feed our children in the first place, why would they be sold into slavery?

We believe if these children were rescued from slavery, that if Action Aid statistic of one out of every three children is hungry in our land, we would not continue to waste billions of naira in Abuja and State capitals. We must have been made of a type of flesh different from that of our fellow Africans. As Moses led biblical Israelis out of Egypt, few wonder why they left a place they had enough to eat and drink to starve to death in the desert.

So are those who enjoy the comfort of British rule, wondering if Independence was a prank. The only change was the skin of the masters and their brazen audacity to exploit us to the bone because they are one of us. They continuously transfer loots to their colonial banks.

Some of us forget we were children at some point in our life, if not, we still find it rather odd that children rescued on their way to slavery would go on hunger strike and become hostile to protest the treatment meted out to them by police when questioned by National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons.

I had confronted myself sometimes asking how I treat the weak, the poor and the children. In some heated discussions, we have confronted one another asking the same question. It seems that the devil that takes over always wait for an opportune time to reveal itself. In that case we should hold on to certain principles and wish for that time not to materialize.

These children were convinced that their parents loved them but could not care for them and if they had a choice, would not sell them into slavery. They have enough sense to blame poverty in the land that has plenty mismanaged resources. Indeed, some of them may dream of the day they can liberate themselves and come back to take care of the same families that sold them into slavery.

Unfortunately many of them never made it back home. They are so abused, many end up too ashamed to go back home, some killed and others just lost into oblivion.

While catering and providing for these children on the brink of slavery, the anti-slavery agencies should prevail on the Government to provide for others on their way to the same foreign destination if nothing changed. Politicians are known for shedding crocodile tears to save the children when everyone is looking

The activists amongst us have to be very vigilant and keep the pressure on them in their campaigns and demonstrations, in writing, concerts, and even civil disobedience against hunger as Action Aid did in Abuja.

We must also take the moment to cherish those children who are lucky enough to come to parents who can provide for them. It is not their choice or the choice of poor children. Our children complain too much and hardly thank their parents enough for Allah mercies. They want everything and compete with one another while the parent labors hard just to provide a better future than their own. These lucky children want those sneakers that are more expensive than their parents few shoes, while others like them go barefooted.

These children are used for a variety of luscious trade unbecoming of people with any sense of decency. In the sex trade, minors are used all over the world. As the stories go, it used to be rich men that could afford to go to places where these children are or could afford to bring them home as slave. However, because of poverty, hunger, war in Iraq and Darfur people of moderate means can now afford the previous luxury of the rich. Our Country without war gradually joined these impoverished class in spite of petrol dollars.

A report pointed to a lucrative business in Lagos where children were employed by some unscrupulous men to beg on the streets. They were dropped to certain locations in the morning and picked up at night when they would deliver the money collected. It sounded strange to many of us but also true. The only reason it worked was because these kids are brought from strange places and taken to unfamiliar areas where they cannot negotiate their ways. As they get used to the areas, locations are changed.

Human trafficking in any guise is repulsive. There were highly esteemed ladies of our Society that were busted for operating orphanage houses in many cities only to find out they were actually recruiting centers for babies trade. They exploit both poor parents who cannot afford to take care of their children and married women looking desperately for children to adopt. One would think that in Africa where your children are our children, where the children of brothers and sisters locate easily within families and where it takes a village to raise a child, adoption would be more civilized.

Humans had traded in slaves for centuries and children were born into slavery but trading children in these days and age goes beyond greed, it establish a mind full of mischief. We as Nigerians are known to be very smart and we need to direct our intelligence to certain enterprises that will lift us out of desperation for money. We all yearn for the days when anywhere in the whole world, it was a pride to be a teacher. Some of us are lucky enough to meet that period in Nigeria.

Those who have sold their conscience to the devil to the point of sacrificing children for their desire cannot find themselves at ease no matter how they try, pretend or create their own little world of no law no sin. Those who sell others children also sell their own and the future of their next generation.

Money by any means necessary or possible leads to regrets, at the end of the day, we wonder about the benefit of the money we cannot spend freely, we are disdained for, we spend our time in hospitals instead of jail for and wish we had the peace of mind we had before money came. Usually the amount of time enjoying the fruit of ignominious trade is so short compare to the rest of our life.

The warning is always there either from the juju shrine or the altar that when that money comes, time is going to be short. But then, what do I know? I may just be jealous because I do not have any!

The Harmattan is a dry and dusty West African trade wind. It blows south from the Sahara into the Gulf of Guinea between the end of November and the middle of March.

In some countries in West Africa, the heavy amount of dust in the air severely limits visibility and blocks the sun for several days, comparable to a heavy fog. The effect caused by the dust and sand stirred by these winds is known as the Harmattan haze.

The interaction of the Harmattan with monsoon winds can cause tornadoes. Humidity drops to as low as 15 percent and can result in spontaneous nosebleeds for some.

Nigerian folk wisdom claims that men and animals become increasingly irritable when this wind has been blowing persistently. In Nigeria it is Apollo, an eye infection caused by the dust.

In the present socio-political and economic climate, is it not safe to conclude that beyond the November-March timeline we are already victims of a self-induced harmattan, is there any form of change or are we temporarily sentenced to the current "fresh air"?

Can it get worse, will it get better, the horizon is bleak but those that are saddled with our weather report say there is no alarm for the cause.

Nigerians are living on the edge, the harsh realities are almost worse than the harmattan wind.

The harmattan weather is leaving our education system covered in dust, with billions of Naira in capital flight going to Ghanaian schools.

There is no difference between a PhD sitting president as the tug-of-war with ASUU continues and Nigerians are blinded from education by the dust of mediocrity. Many Nigerians have to be content with "I pass my neighbour" private schools.

In this harmattan climate, not only do our leaders treat themselves of migraine caused by thinking of the next fraud and stomach aches from eating our money, now it is also fashionable for them to die there.

In Bayelsa, Mr. President's home state, the whole PDP primaries is best described as juvenile political masturbation.
While millions of Nigerians are unprotected, a state is for a few days turned to a police state because the right thing simply will not be done and here I draw a connect between the harmattan and the current security status in Nigeria.
In this harmattan season, it is a known fact that the security of the entire nation has been greatly compromised by the activities of certain individuals, as robberies on a James Bond in the South West, kidnapping on a Mexican wave in the South East and rape elsewhere and Boko Haram holding sway up the country.

It is common knowledge that the President is not even protected at all and you can get at him at any time in or out of his residence. Sadly his only residence these days are outside the country or in Aso Rock and its vicinities.
In this season the continued modus operandi of government by settlement which had long plagued us as a people is on the rise with all sorts of characters serving as consultants on security.

Beyond Boko Haram and armed robberies the problem is that the system is in dire need of an overhaul,

The government and its agents are dust blind, you might say. Outdated equipments are bought and being installed in Abuja, CCTV and bomb detection equipment that are technology decades old.

From Sokoto to Lagos, Ogun to Yobe, Abia to Kaduna states. There is so much fear and apprehension among Nigerians that the government can no longer protect its citizens?

Only recently former FCT Minister El-Rufai had squabbles with security operatives for figures he released on security spending, today I ask what are the costs expended so far on security equipment and the so called security consultants, and training?

The president and his team are touring the world in the name of foreign investments, corruption on the rise, the nation is facing a recess, and again we see the fuel queues.

There are no real interests to control the activities of Boko Haram either by decisive action, negotiation or dialogue because of vested interests. As the president continues to say in various forums, the Boko Harm days are few or they will fade away. The same militants that claim to have been reformed issue threats at every slightest opportune time.
Nigerians are highly intelligent and resourceful people and can put an immediate end to all of these happenings when their own status is on the line and their livelihood is at stake or threatened.

Painfully we are not there; we have not gotten to that point yet but may soon reach the point of no return. Certain people are benefiting financially from the current security situation in the country, from inflated security contracts, We now have conflict entrepreneurs within an already terrible system, thus compounding an already dust inflicted situation.

What is the cost and worth of a Nigerian life, at this rate the harmattan dust may as well cause us all to nosebleed to death or go blind, if we do not have a full tornado.

Nigeria is a tinderbox beyond imagination. Decades old hatreds and fears are closer to the surface here than even in the Balkans.

Abuja is beginning to look like Islamabad, check points, security operatives everywhere.

Real nation building is not in the cards. Nigerians are angry, divided, fed up with abuse, as social injustice smells everywhere.

One minor offshoot of the decision making and policy formulation we are seeing is the utter and total destruction of Nigeria’s economic and commercial viability despite all the wishful thinking of foreign investment, job creation. You can feel the harmattan haze,

While government continues to elude herself, we are being erased from the maps of boardrooms across the world as a potential place of business, of development, of wealth creation, from Beijing to Zurich and places beyond.

Our current leaders have shown themselves as a bunch of political mishaps, overcoming corruption more of an illusion than reality.

To reverse the harmattan wind there is an urgent need to deliver on promises of electrical power, police reform, refinancing debt, education, health and so many things. We need to build a nation.

While Nigeria isn’t Libya. It has a population 15 times that of Libya. It is not Egypt, Nigeria is Africa. Saving Nigeria is vital to world stability, something only a select few know. Destroying Nigeria is vital to world entropy, something only a select few know also.

This opinion didn’t take genius, hardly. I had seen it all, were it taught, which it is not, we would call it history. Time will tell,

read your nice piece of article with great delight. But i think it was full of pun. However, it really made a good reading. I think there's really so much to thank God for, regardless of our present situation in Nigeria.

For those in America, Thursday is Thanksgiving.

Since the last Thanksgiving, the world has lost Steve Jobs, Joe Frazier, Wangari Maathai, Amy Winehouse, Betty Ford, Andy Rooney, etc. I share in the loss of these great men and women. I am thankful that I am still here and that I still have the opportunity to make my little contributions so that when my time comes, I will be counted as one of those who made an attempt. And on my grave stone it shall be written in bold letters; “He Tried.”

I am thankful that my grandmother, Ihelemeonu (shame on the mouth that fails to speak up), has gone to a place where the giant wheel of the transformational agenda will not crush her.

I am thankful that I could not vote in Nigeria’s election and as such I was not sucked into the moral quagmire of voting for Goodluck Jonathan but not for the PDP.

I am thankful that I am alive to see Herman Cain run for president. It gives hope to all pizza delivery men about the possibility of miracles.

I am thankful that now Reuben Abati is finally free to see other people, in the open – no more monkey business in the dark allies.

I am thankful that Bode George is out of prison and no other big man or woman has gone back ever since, which goes to show that he sacrificed two years of his life so that all big men and women could be saved.

I am thankful that men who stare at goats are not the same as men who stare at he-goats after they smell the gushing urine of she-goats.

I am thankful that I have not watched the Twilight movies. It tells me that there is still hope for me.

I am thankful that the sea is still being followed by the ocean and not the other way around.

I am thankful that when the devil falls in love, it splits the moon into two.

I am thankful that the truth is still indivisible, irreversible and irresistible.

I am thankful that all beautiful things are born in fire or in the mud.

I am thankful that when passion peaks, sweat pours.

I am thankful that in spite of a phenomenon like Jeremy Kyle, I have continued to find a way to whet my appetite for enlightenment.

I am thankful that I am holding on to rainbow’s tail end.

I am thankful that I do not have to quote Friedrich Nietzsche for people to pay me any mind.

I am thankful for God’s silence around me for it confirms His presence - at work.

I am thankful that I am gradually conquering desire, sucking its mysteries out, as I approach nirvana.

I am thankful the woman called prosperity was finally revealed to me. She was wearing a gown of thorns.

I am thankful that I am still willing to be lucky by the only means I know – working hard.

I am thankful I worship hope not human; guts not guns; and deeds not degrees.

I am thankful that the real terminal degree is the one only death bestows.

I am thankful that I know at a very young age that admiration has an evil twin brother called envy. And that they only separate when sand goes back to sand and dust back to dust.

I am thankful that I am the Central Bank Governor of my most valuable legal tender – time.

I am thankful for those little secrets that nobody but me knows.

I am thankful I haven’t crossed the tiny line between self-esteem and self-annihilation.

I am thankful that I know that our tumbles are not all caused by foes who stifle our breath; many are caused by friends, families and pastors who attribute all tumbles to foes who stifle our breath.

I am thankful that I know that truth is not beautiful and lie is mere decorated dirt.

I am thankful I didn’t spend a lifetime before I understood that true love travels through rough valleys and rugged mountains.

I am thankful that my marriage was not made in heaven but in the heart of a special woman, Edna, who I can reach with smiles, tears and fears.

I am thankful for the impression of me as an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-in-all man that my kids, Ijeamaka and Ogonna, have.

I am thankful for my parents, J. C. and Madam J. C for teaching me how to think for myself.

I am thankful for my siblings who pick up the slack as I strive to scribe an all-summer slam.

I am thankful I am able to make sacrifices in spite of the embarrassing moral authority they try to confer on me.

I am thankful for my annoying habits. Otherwise, I would think I am perfect.

I am thankful for those who chew me out. They love me. Even though neither them nor I often believe it.

I am thankful I am good at something. I just have to find out what the hell that thing is.

I am thankful that I have hot heart and cold head and not the other way round.

I am thankful to the angel who tapped me, woke me up, and said to me, “‘no’ is also an answer.”

I am thankful that in my loneliness lies the seed of my uniqueness.

I am thankful that dripping vanities of this world have not found a way to chip away at my conscience.

I am thankful that I have the courage to follow my own paths. Otherwise, I would have been stuck in highway traffic.

I am thankful that even though I see God in his grace everyday but recognize Him not, He sees me covered with filth but still recognizes me.

I am thankful that in spite of everything going on, I still smile at every impending wonder.

Happy Thanksgiving, you all.

am just tired of all these people.i keep on saying it "we need a revolution".

Attempts by Mrs Farida Waziri, the sacked chairman of the Econ-omic and Financial Crimes Commission to unmask the cabal milking the nation of billions of naira from subsidy on petroleum products was a key factor that influenced her sack, sources close to the ex sleaze-buster have revealed.


President Goodluck Jonathan unceremoniously sacked Farida on Wednesday as the boss of the anti-graft agency without any explanation.
However, staunch associates of Mrs Waziri who asked not to be identified insist that her intense investigation of the activities of members of the cabal benefiting from the billions of naira paid out yearly as oil subsidy by the government was a major factor that led to her removal.


The sources said following persistent complaints by the government over the fuel subsidy fraud, Mrs Waziri went to work, using the Monitoring and Intelligence Unit of the commission, to investigate and obtain sufficient basis for prosecution of the profiteers.


This special unit which she had created on assumption of office 42 months ago, ensured pro-active gathering of information to facilitate investigations, even in the absence of petitions.


The unit, they claimed, made steady progress early this year in the investigation, with one member of the cabal interrogated and penciled down for arrest and prosecution, pending approval by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke.


The EFCC’s report was said to have indicted several top officials of virtually all the oil and gas companies involved in the importation of petroleum products. Some officials of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation and the Petroleum Product Pricing and Regulatory Agency were also allegedly indicted.


The sources said Farida, armed with these facts and figures, subsequently sought approval to arrest and prosecute the indicted persons, "but opposition from the Justice Ministry and some influential people in the presidency stalled her efforts."


It was claimed that Farida’s insistence on approval for the arrest and prosecution of the indicted cabal members, "who are mainly financiers of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party eventually got her into trouble with many powerful people in government." It was gathered that the cabal subsequently resolved to work round the clock to ensure her sack.


The source said further: "Farida’s case was dragged before the President on Tuesday November 22, by the powerful oil subsidy mafia and a meeting was held same day for several hours in the Presidency. At the end, it was decided that she should be sacked to prevent her from embarrassing the cabal who provide funds for the PDP."


Some of Mrs Waziri’s aides xpressed shock that the Jonathan administration that had all along complained about the activities of the oil subsidy cabal milking the nation of trillions of naira, "would turn around to sack a woman working to arrest and prosecute the criminals."
Efforts by those with a soft spot for Mrs Waziri in the Presidency to swing the tide in her favour based on her track record failed, it was learnt.


However, attempts to get a response from the office of the Attorney General of the Federation last night was futile as calls to the mobile phone of his media aide went unanswered. A text message to the line yielded no reply too.


The sacked EFCC boss’ tenure was characterized by bitter confrontations with the AGF. For instance, she had to contend with accusation that she was unqualified for the job having not been made a substantive Assistant Inspector General of Police before her retirement.


Though she inherited some high profile cases from her predecessor, Farida took over 65 of such high profile cases to courts in three years, with another 1,500 other cases pending in courts, securing over 400 convictions during her 42-month tenure. These represent about two-third of all convictions secured since the establishment of the commission in 2003.


The EFCC under Farida’s leadership also made recoveries of over N1.5 trillion or $9 billion for government, private companies and individuals in the last three years.


But she received hard knocks from critics for what was seen as a penchant for creating a media blitz over investigations even in the face of insufficient evidence against the accused persons.


The Jonathan administration has frequently complained about the huge amount spent on fuel subsidy, citing it as one of the major reasons his administration has resolved to remove the subsidy on fuel.


For example, whereas N240 billion was budgeted for oil subsidy this year, the federal government is said to have so far spent N1.5 trillion as at August.


Apparently piqued by the recent geometric rise in the subsidy on petroleum, when compared with what was spent in the early part of the year, the Senate Joint Committee on Petroleum Resources has commenced a probe of the current fuel subsidy management.


So far, key government figures like the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and her Petroleum Resources counterpart, Mrs. Deziani Alison-Madueke have appeared before the Senate committee.

Irish police investigation into a vicious attack on a Nigerian taxi driver which left him in a coma was upgraded to a murder probe Thursday after he lost his fight to survive.

Moses Ayanwole (41), married with a 12-year-old son, died in St James’s Hospital in Dublin Thursday. Mr Ayanwole, originally from South West Nigeria, was living in Hartstown, west Dublin.

He was working in the city centre at about 12.30am on Monday when he was attacked. He was punched in the head by a man in his taxi and fell heavily to the ground as his taxi was parked on Pearse Street near the Erne Street junction.

Ayanwole fell into a coma and doctors in St James’s Hospital decided not to transfer him to Beaumont Hospital, which specializes in head injuries, because of the seriousness of his injuries.

A police hunt got under way after the attack and officers arrested the prime suspect, who is in his mid-20s, for the attack about 8pm on Monday. He was tracked down to a pub just yards from the scene of the attack but was released without charge on Tuesday. A file is being prepared for the DPP.

BEHEAD THESE BUNKERS AND SEND THEM TO HELL IMMEDIATELY . NO NEED FOR COURT CASES . THEY HAVE KILLED ENOUGH INNOCENT CITIZENS FOR NOTHING.

I HATE THIS COURT. KILL THEM FOOLS

By HENRY UMORU & IKECHUKWU NNOCHIRI, abuja
There was a new twist in the on-going trial of six suspected members of the Boko Haram yesterday when two of them told a Federal High Court in Abuja that their confessional statements to the State Security Service, SSS, were obtained under duress.

This was even as the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP yesterday warned one of its major rival parties, Congress for Progressive Change, CPC to stop playing politics with the Boko Haram sect.

Those being tried include include, Shuaibu Abubakar (a.k.a Abu Quatada), Salisu Ahmed, Umar Babagana Umar, Mohammed Ali, Musa Adamu and Umar Ibrahim,

However, Salisu Ahmed and Musa Adamu, who were charged as the 2nd and 5th accused persons respectively, asked the presiding Justice Aliyu Bilkisu to disregard their separate confessional statements that counsel to the SSS, Mr T.O Olatigbe, sought to tender as evidence against them.

The SSS which recommended their prosecution had maintained that its agents had established the culpability of the accused persons in the bomb explosions that killed 16 persons at the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Suleja, Niger state, on the eve of the presidential election, adding that so many devotees of the sect hitherto under the tutelage of the accused persons, are presently at large.

At the resumed hearing on the case yesterday, the second accused person, Ahmed, distanced himself from his supposed confessional statements dated August 9 and October 6, while the fifth accused, Adamu, told the court that he was on July 11, coerced by an investigative officer of the SSS into admitting that he is a member of the Boko Haram sect in Niger state.

Speaking in Hausa, the duo urged the court to disregard all the information contained in the statements which were brought to court yesterday by the SSS investigative officer, Mr. Alhassan Iliyassu, expressing their readiness to give oral evidence in the open court explaining all they know about the activities of Boko Haram.

Though Iliyassu debunked the allegation by the accused persons, trial Justice Bilkisu declined to record his evidence in chief pending when the veracity of the accusation was proved.

Meanwhile, the court has equally deferred hearing on bail applications filed on behalf of the six accused persons by their counsel, Nureni Suleiman and kevin Okoro, till the next adjourned date.

Meanwhile, National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Professor Rufai Alkali in a statement yesterday decried CPC’s statements which allegedly cast aspersions on the party over the arrest of Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume for allegedly divulging classified information to the Boko Haram members saying the CPC’s outbursts were both ‘’immature and irresponsible.’’ Alkali said, ‘’The remarks are not only immature and irresponsible, but also a vain attempt to draw political capital by a party that is enmeshed in deep political crisis.

Every statement here is political. Believe it or not Jonathan and his cabinet are bunch of losers. Corruption has eaten deep in their lives. It's becoming clear that what is currently going on in the Middle East and Northern part of the continent will soon visit Nigeria. Watch out!

Nigeria requires $10 billion to achieve sustainable power generation and distribution in the next 10 years, the Commissioner, Government and Consumer Affairs of the National Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, Dr. Ibrahim Abba, has said.

He stated this at the Power Consumer Assembly forum held in Sokoto, Sokoto State yesterday.

Abba who represented the Chairman of the Commission, Dr. Sam Amadi at the event noted that the issue of power was capital intensive, adding that the money needed was much higher than what the federal and state governments were able to invest.

He said, “The Federal Government cannot do it alone if we want a balanced situation in power generation and distribution,’’ adding however that there was ‘’no reason whatsoever for Nigeria to find herself in the current situation of non-availability of power as she has enough resources which can be harnessed to generate electricity,’’ noting that NERC would involve all state governments to support its initiatives towards investing in the power sector.

Lamenting the current 4,000 megawatts of electricity being generated in the country, Abba further observed the need to conserve energy for efficient and effective utilisation.

”It is mandatory on us to handle the demand and supply of electricity more efficiently as it is the trend worldwide even where capacity is not an issue, “ he said, noting that NERC had concluded arrangements for 11 distribution centres for which “over 300 companies have expressed their interest in generation, distribution and transmission.”

Good approach by the committee, but has to be implemented and not end on the pages of the national daily