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The two points you raised clearly shows you don't understand how government works.

The CSO is to protect the LIFE or the president and not his IMAGE. His media advisers are solely responsible for that. Is it the CSO that releases statement pertaining to the President?

If the CSO feels the journalist's article was a threat to the president, he should have informed the president's media advisers hence the statement by Adesina "we were not consulted". That's how government is being run.

Then referring Abacha's regime to the president day governance also shows you are quite ignorant about alpt of things including history and rule of governance.

Benz4pimp:
The CSO's job is to protect the image of his boss to the fullest,either by force or whatever........He makes decisions about the image of his boss without even consulting his principal!!!!Thats his job....If you feel I am wrong,ask Al Mustapha of the Abacha regime,The CSO ordered so many assignations without telling his boss!!!

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,has corrected the erroneous reporting, in a section of the media, of his post-FEC press briefing on Wednesday April 26, 2017, noting he never said the President is to work from home henceforth.

In a statement issued in Abuja, the Minister said the President only decided to work from home today, not that he has decided to work from home henceforth.

He said the headlines in a section of the media, ”Buhari to now work from home – Lai Mohammed,” is a misrepresentation of his statement at the briefing.

Quoting verbatim the relevant section of his briefing, Alhaji Mohammed said: ”He (the President) wanted to rest today and he asked the VP to preside over today’s meeting. In addition, he also asked that all his files be taken home to him and he will be working from home today.”

Source: http://fmic.gov.ng/president-working-home-today-minister/

cc lalasticala, mynd44, seun

Never knew you reside in Lagos, thought it was one of those eastern state.

dominique:
Yeah it happened yesterday in Maryland, I heard the sewage tanker saved the day but the Honda was burnt beyond repair. Don't want to imagine the stench that would have surrounded that area afterwards

Brother this isn't a tribal issue. Between me and you does that statement "working from home" make sense to you?

I mean an elected president you and I canvass and voted for. If that was the best excuse they could give then we need to go back to the drawing board. Nigeria will continue Buhari or no Buhari

gberra:
IPOBS always cry

The Federal Ministry of Finance said that it had not hired any Public Relations firm for $2m (N612 million) per month.

The Director of Information, Ministry of Finance, Mr Salisu Dambatta, in a statement on Wednesday, said a PR consultant was hired by the Federal Government, as part of the Eurobond programme. ‎

‎“The Public Relations firm, Africa Practice, has been retained by the Federal Government on the approval of the Federal Executive Council to work with the Debt Management Office as part of the Eurobond programme for a three-year period alongside four other firms.



“This followed a competitive tender that was advertised and due process was fully followed and was publicly announced earlier this year.‎
“The representative of Africa Practice was in Washington DC in continuation of the Eurobond programme and in support of the country’s outreach with international investors who showed great enthusiasm to do business with Nigeria.‎

“However, the false reports have not dimmed the successful participation of the Nigerian delegation in the World Bank and IMF Spring meetings, nor questioned the obvious gains made by Nigeria in the course of the meetings,” he said. ‎‎

‎The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, was widely criticised for allegedly hiring an expensive British firm to do public relations for her at the monthly cost of ‎$2m.

At the just concluded IMF/World Bank Spring meetings in Washington DC, the consultant was said to be constantly at her side, hindering Nigerian journalists’ access to the minister, except foreign press.‎
(NAN)


Source: http://punchng.com/finance-ministry-denies-hiring-foreign-pr-consultants-for-2m/

cc lalasticala, mynd44, seun

All I want to know is who is running the presidency?

Buhari's handlers are making the optics worse by their actions.

Tell us our president is sick again and ask for our prayers too.

We once prayed for him, we will gladly do so again.

Comparing a wrong to justify your wrong doesn't makes it right.

For example, a person fails in Year 1 and says because his brother fails while in year1 that means he passed too. Doesn't make any sense to me.

babyfaceafrica:
the person you quoted have a point

Justifying his actions based on "other country" did it is wrong. In the first place the story context between the CNN reporter and this Punch reporter is quite different. Using Jonathan as a yardstick in this instance is the lowest form of failure by the present govt.

Now they are in a more bigger mess as they have to change the narrative since the CSO acted "independently". I ask you "who is the presidency?"

Don't gag JOURNALISTS, DONT MUZZLE JOURNALISTS

AntiWailer:
It was taken a long time ago.

Freedom of speech is not enough to use your special privilege against those who gave it to you. I repeat again


When you blow eveything out of proportion just to show your disdain for the current Administration all to prove that we should have voted Jonathan.

Before Fayose come and fight for the masses again. let me add my voice.


While it is not right to gag the press, It is done every where they are becoming a nuisance


The links below add to my point.

America is a Free World, This year, trump's Presidency blocked CNN, New York Times on February 25 during a briefing.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/journalists-president-elect-donald-trump-press-freedom-blocked-media-a7410806.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/24/white-house-blocks-cnn-new-york-times-from-press-briefing-hours-after-trump-slams-media/?utm_term=.4987b76db384




Newspaper seiezed during GEJ's era.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/162255-nigerian-military-goes-berserk-blocks-newspapers-distribution-abuja-lagos.html


Journalists detained during GEJ's era

https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-04-09/nigerian-journalists-detained-after-story-president-goodluck-jonathan

Journalist expelled during GEJ's era

https://newsdiaryonline.com/like-jonathans-era-buharis-presidency-expels-another-journalist-villa/


Signed Chief Zombie. tongue tongue tongue tongue


** Write another point, Zombie is already taken

It was an opinated piece and most importantly he was a state house correspondent, he wrote based on what he saw. He hasn't seen the president in 2 weeks except for jumat when he came out for prayers. He didn't lie, dismissing him is actually causing the anxiety because right now the presidency is a confused entity being led by an invisible cabal. True or false?

kenonze:
Mr. JOURNALIST,
I wasn't happen with that headline "Anxiety in Aso Rock over PMB health" ... . U created the anxiety where there is none.
Just report what u saw, stop misleading people in order to sell ur paper

Abuja, on Monday morning, I received a message that the Chief Security Officer to the President, Bashir Abubakar, would like to see me in his office. What came to my mind immediately was that it was the Presidency’s Media Office that interfaces with journalists and not the CSO. I felt I should inform the presidential spokesmen before honouring the strange invitation.

I proceeded to the office of the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, and informed him of the invitation. Adesina advised that I honoured it and updated him of developments. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, was not in the office at the time but I contacted him on the telephone.

On getting to the CSO’s office, he was initially polite. He offered me a seat and asked how I was doing and I replied I was fine. He then first confronted me with my column, Aso Rock Lens, published on Saturday, April 22, 2017. He was angry with one of the items in the column titled ‘Seat of power’s event centres going into extinction’. In that piece, I highlighted some places in the Presidential Villa that hitherto had hosted high-profile events. I wrote that lately, events had not been held inside the halls. He said I was insinuating that government had collapsed in Nigeria.


The CSO then brought out a copy of April 23, 2017 edition of SUNDAY PUNCH. He was visibly angry about the lead story titled ‘Fresh anxiety in Aso Rock over Buhari’s poor health’. That story was about how the President had not been seen in public in the last two weeks except when he made brief appearances at the mosque inside the Presidential Villa for Juma’at services last Friday and penultimate Friday. That story included the reaction of Adesina, who said the President was recuperating and that the prayer of all was that he recovered fully soon.

The CSO queried the motive behind the two stories.

He told me that the President was free to rule the country from wherever he liked. He said the stories were meant to portray the President as incapacitated and that it had to do with the politics of 2019.

He told me he would take me to the President’s official residence to see him and then tell him (the CSO) if Buhari was incapacitated. He never did that.


Abubakar added that if God had sanctioned it that Buhari would rule the country for eight years, no man could stop him. He made reference to the fact that people who were not even sick died daily.

The CSO thereafter directed one of his men to take my statement and revert to him. The man took me to his office. I wrote in the statement that I had no ulterior motive in writing the stories in question. I was updating presidential spokesmen of developments as earlier agreed. The gentleman took my statement and I returned to the CSO’s office.

On getting there, Abubakar asked the Officer-in-Charge of the Department of State Services, Victor Nwafor, to seize my accreditation tag. He said he should escort me to retrieve my personal belongings from the Press Gallery and then leave instructions with security operatives that I should not be allowed access into the Presidential Villa again.


Nwafor carried out the assignment dutifully. He passed the message to the security officials at the Admin Reception and then handed me over to another security operative who he instructed to do the same thing at the Pilot Gate before escorting me to where I parked my car to ensure that I left the premises immediately.

I was driven from there in a security vehicle. At the Pilot Gate, the gentleman assembled all security operatives there and delivered the message to them. I caught one of them, a policeman, snapping my photograph with his telephone handset and I protested. I told him I am not a criminal and he has no right to snap me. He was apologetic and attempted to show me the handset to prove that he had deleted the picture but I told him I was not interested in his claim.

I was driven in the same security van to where I parked my car and I drove out of the Presidential Villa from there.

The CSO had penultimate Thursday had an interactive session with members of the State House Press Corps, during which he handed them guidelines on how to report the Villa.

He had also in January complained about a story on an accidental discharge that injured a female worker at the State House. Although all national newspapers reported the incident, he singled out The PUNCH and Daily Trust.

His argument was that the story was not informative, educative or entertaining.

Source: http://punchng.com/reporters-diary/

I'm from Delta state but I will like to be an emir. When is the form for sale?

These people funny sha. So CSO read the articles over the weekend, got to the office today and just order they eject a state house correspondent just like that? Are these people crazy ni? Riding on Nigerians silence is stupidity to me

Sarrki, I respect most of your views here and I always look forward to your comment. Sadly I didn't see your comment on two FP threads

Please kindly drop one or two lines of your thoughts here.

Cekpo34:
APC plays the roles of both ruling and opposition party simultaneously. They'd implement a particular policy and would be the the first to criticize such (so PDP won't be given a chance to do same )

Most importantly, the foundation to which the superstructure of the party hangs is Buhari. Once he vanishes from the political scene, discord and diffidence sets in. Aptly, the party is in a state of rigor mortis already and in no distance time will purify

Hahahahahahaha. This comment should win NL comment of the year. Party of graduate clowns

Being able to come up with catchy headlines is a pre-requisite of journalism, moreover they didn't lie

NgeneUkwenu:
Vanguard PDP Newspapers, always twisting people's interview to suit a predetermined end..



Where did he deny, Tinubu didn't assist him?

Dear my Christian nairaland brethen,

Happy Sunday to you and hope you had a great time in God's presence today. I have a few questions though relating to prayers:

When pastor says pray for your wife or husband, as an unmarried person what do you do?

Or when they say pray for your business but you are actually an employee.

Or pray for your children and you don't have kids?

Cc lalasticala, mynd44

I mean the employer's company or is the guy a domestic staff?

Mayflowa:
The organisation is not related to Nigeria. Just a concerned foundation. That is the best they can do. There are civil right organisation's here that can escalate the case

V

The guy needs justice!!!

KenModi:
I wld prefer that organisation goes after the policeman and seek justice for the victim rather than just give him money and we all go home happy.

Tomorrow, it could be me or you that would be assaulted.

What the organization name? Who is our Minister of Labour and Employment.

They need to arrest that employer first not offering the battered guy brown envelope. He needs justice!!!

Obviously you didn't read to understand my view point which is the problem to many young nigerians. Payporte sponsored BBNaija, so technically they will use the housemates anytime and anyhow they want. Uriel and the other guy have an endorsement deal with Payporte, a deal that would be better off with TBoss.

Bro read, understand then response. I don't hold conversation with shallow minded individuals which you have proven to be.

Threebear:

Land for sale

Her siblings will do her well by staying calm. TBoss has the charisma of a celebrity, her beautiful face will sell any product, her name will drive traffic to any blog but I can tell you TBoss would not get any juicy endorsement. No brand wants to be meddle with a personality with controversies every now and then even if her siblings are the one bringing up the controversies because her name is always being mentioned.

The best gift bossnation can give their queen is to beg her siblings to be calm. The fact she didn't win could be a very big blessing in disguise for her.

Efe who won is probably tied down with the sponsors for a year. TBoss has more freewill and I know many organizations will want her as their face but with controversies? I doubt much.

dominique:
What's the point of all this epistle? So her sibblings should sit back and watch while silly comedians tear her apart for cheap likes. Dey there be typing epistle on top someone else's matter while she keeps signing juicy endorsement deals.

The power of social media.

Kudos to Man I'd team.

RIP to the dead

Yahoo deal gone wrong

Awon weyrey

They released a name yesterday via their propaganda unit - Sahara Reporters who called the owner "Dash Dash". Fuccking jokers!!

successmatters:
A government investigation agency with all the men and resources before them cannot find something as simple as the owner of an occupied flat?

Damn!

Please reason right

abhosts:
Prophet of Doom. You don dey show face again because dollar has gained some ground. You would soon disapear again when Naira Climbs to 320.

You will do well by ignoring these shallow minded beings. The day they start reasoning ,that's the day they will discover how foolish they have been all these while.

TippyTop:
You call this dilly dally, a good job at investigative journalism?

Did yoy read my post at all? I illustrated how SaharaReporters have named Mu'azu, Esther Ogbue, Anenih's daughter as the owners of said money.
With all due respect I don't think you know the meaning of investigative journalism.

Hello bro, I believe you are very intelligent. Please let's put aside sentiments and try to analyze these information being put out by these media platforms.

I still did not see any mention of who owns apt 7B, dash-dash is not a name. Or at least if the house was sold then, getting the name of the buyer shouldn't be a problem.

Mo abudu denied owning any flat in the said building but SR listed her as amongst the apt owners there.

SR mentioned everybody but mysteriously the owner of 7B is still unknown.

SR was able to talk to the whistleblower? How did they get to know who the whistleblower is? That info is meant to be guarded with everything even EFCC officials shouldn't know who the person is except a few of them.

Ponder on these highlights and let me have your thoughts.

Ventura1:
when I showed evidence of the above, some scumbags said it's a lie. Their hero is indeed a thief.

Watch the video at 7:55 - 7:57, this probably point to the re why Wike, Fayose and FFK quickly rush to the media to counter accuse Amaechi before the secret is revealed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqM7Tn9rMko

I tire oh. And he came to press to shout 1.2bn, yet he hasn't even served them papers.


Amaechi should just stay quiet, media game won't help in this matter coz Nigerians are tired. Only way he can get media sympathy is if the owner of the apartment is mentioned with hard proof

CharlotteFlair:
You mean LOOTimi Amaechi is yet to sue?