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Metallurgist: So all the middle belt-Ibo alliance against the north, and the religion angle in the ploy has became hogwash as far as oil is concern. Almighty oil i hail thee.

UMBYC say they own the oil. Thats a declaration of conflict!

chinolization: This report was from 2012 October!

We have passed this stage as the oil blocks and wells including the ongoing refinery project have been confirmed to be in Anambra 100%. Orient Petroleum has been lifting crude from there while Anambra will start receiving its 13% derivation any moment from now..

Middle Beltans gave an ultimatum in October 2012 and they are fulfilling it every step of the way. I read that Anambra people have been driven out if their ancestral homes and forced to live in concentration camps. What a shame!

Is this not the same Middle Belt Ibos say they will form alliance with to create buffer zone against North and West?

Wetin happen to Ibo ultimatum, e don expire?
Na wah for you people.

The dust raised over the declaration of Anambra State as an oil-bearing state seems yet to settle as some activists have accused the federal government of not applying due diligence in approving Anambra as owner of the oil wells.

In a chat with Daily Independent, the United Middle Belt Youth Congress (UMBYC), declared that the Middle Belt is the owner of the Ibaji oil well located in Kogi East of the region.

Speaking through its President-General, Abuka Onalo Omobaba, the UMBYC noted that the oil wells in both Kogi and Benue are in the Middle Belt region.

“The government of Anambra State cashed in on the long period of neglect of this people by the Kogi State government and surreptitiously approached the Federal government claiming to own part of Ibaji land which contains the oil wells with the subsequent recognition of Anambra as an oil producing state by the federal government.”

UMBYC through Omobaba mentioned that the group “shall mobilize the Ibaji Youth to keep full scale vigilance over this part of Ibaji land containing the oil wells to prevent any counter claim to the oil wells by Anambra State.” He added that UMBYC would “liaise with other organization especially in the south-south and south-west for necessary advice and support in order to prevent the illegal transfer of oil wells in Ibaji land to Anambra State.”

The UMBYC, however, noted that should the federal government commence oil exploration in the Middle Belt region as it should, it must give 13 percent derivation to the people like the Niger Delta people enjoys currently.

The group further opposed the “cattle grazing bill” which is before the National Assembly for consideration, stating that any attempt to take over what rightfully belongs to them forcefully and thereby using the National Assembly as a ruse, would be seen as total declaration of war on the Middle Belt people.

http://dailyindependentnig.com/2012/10/middle-belt-not-anambra-owns-ibaji-oil-wells/

If the "muslim" in the caption is a trigger, then such sensitivity ought to have been taken into his discretion as a law enforcement and peace officer before Okeke erupted and violated the woman.

Ibos are uncouth and it doesnt matter how long you immerse them in civilization their cave mentality is layers deep, they are immune to graceful and orderly conduct. This race of people thrive in disorder and egotistic behavioral conducts....always brute, never cordial in interactive relationships.

smartchoice: op remove the word muslim...she's a woman whether muslim/xtian/traditionalist....

the word muslim must not be edited!

You might as well call for the word woman to be removed since it wont matter what gender the victim is, the police officer has commited crime, simple.

The word muslim is part of the act and personality of who the woman is. Her head covering identify her as su h and this police offi er is insensitive to her belief otherwise he would have known not to remover her head covering. By removing the head covering he intended, willfully, to humiliate her.

It is really soliciting to describe Biafra rebellion as a war....it was an act of rebellion and not a war.

Ojukwu rebelled, period!!

Bokoharam is doing the same thing only on a higher scale. They are demanding to carve out a section of the country and form an Islamic Republic.

Ibo people are trying to institute their cause as a noble pursuit but in actuality it was an ignoble act and counter to order and civility.

ikeyman00: @@@

Mayor_of_Lagos(m): 12:53pm


product of the Zoo republic of west africa

i can only say if to say u are posting here in London; i will send u to jail

but then it can only happen in the Zoo where Gangster thifinu is a God

ewu boko harem!

bantu, you are on your way back to central africa.

oskopy: Why not dis way? Police assault a pregnant woman, instead of putting moslem. Ur are a threat to the peace of this nation

Police officer is the threat to peace. Where in his duty does it call for assaulting a woman, pregnant or not, muslim or not?

Okeke should be dispatched to Maiduguri.

Evergreen123: I thought u said other tribes don't exist in igboland, who come dey occupy these mosques?

Ibo converts, who else?

Alhaji Shehu Chukwuma
Alhaji Ahmed Okonkwo
Alhaja Fatima Ifeoma Ihenocha
Alhaja Saidatu Ngozi

The 220 biafrans are enroute to Congo, the ancestral root of bantus.

If by design or accident a sovereign Biafra is again declared we shall blow up the 1st Niger bridge, the 2nd Niger bridge and cut off Ibo from civilization for ever. You shall be sent back into the jungles where your ancestors were brought out from when white man came into Africa and put clothes on you to cover your nak.edness.

Anumkpa! Me chionu!!

redsun: Ogboni is no different from the knights of the templar.The only difference is that it is got african themes.

Foolish people that are cursed to always condemn their own,that is why they are not evolving mentally and otherwise

The Pope, who these CAN monkeys bow to when they kiss the ring on his finger, is equally a fanatic follower and believer in the trinity - The Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.

The trinity is symbolically and trigonometrically represented as a triangle.....a core principle in earth cult, which Ogboni is. The triangle is an object of altar for Illuminatis.

As it is above, so below! When you combine a top triangle and a bottom triangle you get the CROSS and the SIX POINTED STARS, both of which are objects of altar for Christians and Kabalists.

I laugh in Latin.....CAN is a lost sheep for critizing Ogboni. Only if they knew where Christianity took its rituals from.....

Ibos should be banned from construction business. No where in West ever recorded collapsed buildings untill Ibo started putting up structures in Yorubaland with substandard materials and cutting corners with expense.

Every month there is a collapsed building somewhere in alaibo.

Ibo and substandard go together like like rice and stew! Ibo should be banned from building any structure in Nigeria, bungalow or multistorey. They are yet to discover and master the secrets of urban planning and development......their inherent cave habits and nature has not been cured and they will ruin us all if not stopped NOW!

ketoprofen: Did the ppl of SE/SS ask u to drill oil for them?
Whose money were they using to search for the kind oil?
Wasnt palm oil and coal sustaining the east bfr?
Where are u getting ur idea of fishing?
Northerners are not lazy but reap where they do not sow, using violence. After getting the said oil wells, the wealth is only concentrated in few northerners, the vast majority are poor.
Yorubas on the other hand are simply lazy.

I thank God for bringing me into a lazy race of people; id take that over a criminal race of homeless people.

wesley80: Given the controversy of the past weeks, it is only fair that the CBN governor suspends his scheduled leave to quell rumors of being "forced out" in order to reassure investors. It obviously matters who's telling the story, The likes of Punch newspapers and Sahara Reporters are obviously kicking themselves for missing out on this story before it broke yesterday and are in a hurry to make up for the spin they never had the opportunity to add.

All that investor talk in paper na bs. I dare the investors to shrink their holdings in June if they believe its performance is tied to change of CBN chairman. The truth is the market performs best when anxiety is high. It is a prospect market, an unknown magically built on a template of statistical forecasts...a gamble! So you need aboundant amount of fear from time to time. Its why many rich people die of heart attack and diabetes.

My brother please dont let them trouble your heart. Their game is so ridiculous they almost tell people to keep their voice down so the noise will not upset the stock market.

I like that, very humorous!! Nice script.

You know Obj used to be the neighborhood bully back in his youth. Well, here he is coaching GEJ how to bully politicians. Gej was coached to raise the middle finger. In retrospect we thank God that he did not, that was in Ibadan!

Good news!

Mr Jonathan needs to calm down and stop the panick and knee-jerk treatment to challenging situatiins.

Make Sanusi sef respect himself and stop fvkng married women.

Sincere 9gerian: And the fact that certain presidents/head of state "delayed" such critical project for about 3 decade (30 years) means nothing to you? Why do you make those who call you a fool appear justified? Incredible!

There is no doubt that they delayed it but we also played a part by allowing it. Read my earlier response. They are not to blame, we are.

When Gowon attempted to turn Lagos to Federal property, Oba Oyekan told him to fvck off, Gowon lost the case and FG remained a tenant, not an owner of any part of Lagos. When President Obasanjo withehld Lagos allocation from Federation Account, Asiwaju told him to go and die; he devised a new way to generate revenue and the state survived.

We dont sit waiting on FG to come and build us a bridge or airport, we develop at our own pace and independently on our own vision. We are to blame that no one devised a way to circumvent the FG and continued the rail project.

Like i said, we are looking for money to sustain more growth, share the news in village, tell everybody to come and ride the fast snake. Tell them leave their machette back in village, its no need for that here.

Tripods:
Enugu, Ibadan and Kaduna

Proxies:
Enugu » Ijaw, Ibadan » Edo, Kaduna » Gwari


President Jonathan's support base:
Enugu (Ijaw), Ibadan (Edo), Kaduna (Gwari)

Parties:
APGA (PDP), APC(APC), PDP(PDP)

Sphere of Influence:
Enugu - Imo, Ebonyi, Anambra, Abia, CR, AI, Bayelsa, Delta, Rivers.

Ibadan - Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Oyo, Ekiti, Kwara, Edo.

Kaduna - Kano, Katsina, Jigawa, Bauchi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Niger, Adamawa, Nassarawa, Benue, Kebbi, Plateau, Yobe, Borno, Gombe, Taraba, Kogi.

In President's camp for 2015:
Enugu -
Imo
Ebonyi
Anambra
Abia
Cross River
Akwa Ibom
Bayelsa
Delta

Ibadan -
Ondo

Kaduna -
Katsina
Jigawa
Bauchi
Zamfara
Niger
Nassarawa
Benue
Kebbi
Plateau
Taraba
Kogi.

22 out of 36 states..not bad!

Correct me if I missed any.

Nwabueze is more like Leader of Drama.

He refused to join the committee when it was put together and he was nominated, using old age and need to enjoy retirement as excuse. He then went around and collected his co-dramatists in alaigbo to draft a new constitution for Nigeria. This man had the opportunity to realize true federalism in 79 when he was part of consttution drafting commitee, he robbed the states of their federating powers and put it in the center, gave powers that the states enjoyed from 67 when they were created to the FG. He gave more derivation to the center. Iboman loves Nigeria more than he lovea his own land.

Nwabueze should go and sit on the side and wait for publication of this report abeg.

pathardy: fron page pls...., let the whole world get the news since they will pay news men not to publish it

How come you are the only person in posession of this very important news?

Alaye mi, is that Ooni on that coin, who is that?

vanstanzy: This guy, u r really a clown of some sort, right? Ojukwu saw this since 1966, mind u.

For a Biafran prophet, Ojukwu was a very bad seer. He saw everything since 66, except the need to build alliance and save his people from perish..he was blind to that, and even when prophets from other land pointed to him what they saw, his huge Biafran eyes still was blind to it. Well, as we head to 2015, does prophet Ojukwu sees Jonathan winning the election?

The Amalgamation Of Nigeria Was A Fraud 

by Richard Akinjide, QC, SAN July 9, 2000Lagos -

I Was in the first cabinet that was overthrown by the military in this country. I entered parliament in December 12, 1959. And I remained in Parliament until January 15, 1966 when the Government was overthrown. I was the Federal Minister of Education in that cabinet.I woke up in the morning in my official house in Ikoyi to discover that my telephone was not working. I had never experienced coup before nor did I know that it was a coup, thinking it was just a telephone fault; until a colleague of mine in the cabinet Chief Abiodun Akerele, came in and told me there had been a military coup. So I had the fortune or the misfortune of being a victim of the first coup ever in this country.Many people may not know that I spent 18 months in detention in prisons across the country. I've spent the time in Kirikiri prison, Ilesha prison, Ibadan prison and the Abeokuta prison Two of us who were in Balewa's government emerged when the military handed over to civilians in 1979 as part of the civilian Government.

In Balewa's government, Alhaji Shehu Shagari was the Minister of Works while I was the Minister of Education. When the Military handed over to us after about 14 years, Shagari emerged as the President, while I became the Attorney - General and Minister of Justice. Again, Shagari's government was overthrown just a few months after I left the cabinet. Of course, we suspected it was coming.A lot of things that happened between that period and now would never see the light of the day. When you are in government, you know a lot of things; you see a lot of things. A lot of things you know or did or saw will die with you. This is the practice the whole world. People have asked me to write my memoirs, I just laugh because there are certain things I can never reveal. When I was in Tafawa Balewa's Cabinet, all Cabinet ministers had access to written intelligence report every month. That was the practice at that time. But when Shagari came in, for reasons, which I cannot explain, that practice was no longer followed. But by virtue of my duties as the Attorney - General and as a member of the National Security Council, I continued to have access to some sensitive matters.Nigeria is a very complex country.

Our problems did not start yesterday. It started about 1884. Lord Lugard came here about 1894 and many people did not know that Major Lugard was not originally employed by the British Government. He was employed by companies. He was first employed by East Indian Company, by the Royal East African Company and then by the Royal Niger Company. It was from the Royal Niger Company that he transferred to the British government. Unless you know this background, you will not know the root causes of our problems. The interest of the Europeans in Africa and indeed Nigeria was economic and it's still economic. They have no permanent friends and no permanent interests. Neither their interests nor their friends are permanent. Nigeria was created as British sphere of interests for business.

In 1898, Lugard formed the West African Frontier Force initially with 2,000 soldiers and that was the beginning of our problems.Anybody who wants to know the root cause of all the coups and our present problems, and who does not know the evolution Nigeria would just be looking at the matter superficially. Our problems started from that time. And Lugard was what they called at that time imperialist. A number of British soldiers, businessmen, politicians were very patriotic. But I must warn you; they were operating in the interest of their country. Lugard became a Lord.Nigerians, too, should operate in the interest of their country.

When Lugard formed the West African Frontier Force with 2,000 troops, about 90 percent of them were from the North mainly from the Middle belt. And his dispatches to London between that time and January 1914 are extremely interesting. Lugard came here for a purpose ant that purpose was British interest. Between 1898 and 1914, he sent a number of dispatches to London which led to the Amalgamation of 1914.The Order - in - Council was drawn up in November 1913 signed and came into force in January 1914. In those dispatches, Lugard said a number of things, which are at the root causes of yesterday and today's problems.The British needed the Railway from the North to the Coast in the interest of British business. Amalgamation of the South (not of the people) became of crucial importance to British business interest. He said the North and the South should be amalgamated.

Southern Nigeria came into existence on January 1900 ... At the Centenary of the fall of Benin, I wrote a piece in a number of papers but before I published the piece, I sent a copy to the Oba of Benin. So when Benin was conquered in 1896, it made the creation of the Southern Nigerian protectorate possible on January 1, 1900.If you remember, Sokoto was not conquered until 1903. So, there was no question of Nigeria at that time. After the conquest of Sokoto, they were able to create the northern Nigerian protectorate. Lugard went full blast and created what was to be known as the protectorate of Northern Nigeria. What is critical and important are the reasons Lugard gave in his dispatches.

They are as follows: He said the North is poor and they have no resources to run the protectorate of the North. That they have no access to the sea; that the South has resources and have educated people.The first Yoruba lawyer was called to the Bar in 1861. Therefore, because it was not the policy of the British Government to bring the taxpayers money to run the protectorate, it was in the interest of the British business and the British taxpayer that there should be Amalgamation.

But what the British amalgamated was the Administration of the North and South and not the people of the North and the South, that is one of the root causes of the problems of Nigeria and the Nigerians.When the amalgamation took effect, the British government sealed off the South from the North. And between 1914 and l960, that's a period of 46 years, the British allowed minimum contact between the North and South because it was not in the British interest that the North be allowed to be polluted by the educated South. That was the basis on which we got our independence in 1960 when I was in the parliament. I entered Parliament on December 12, 1959.

When the North formed a political party, the northern leaders called it Northern Peoples Congress (NPC). They didn't call it Nigeria Peoples Congress. That was in accordance with the dictum and policies of Lugard. When Aminu Kano formed his own party, it was called Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU) not Nigerian Progressive Union.It was only Awolowo and Zik who were mistaken that there was anything called Nigeria. Infact, the so-cared Nigeria created in 1914 was a complete fraud. It was created not in the interest of Nigeria or Nigerians but in the interest of the British. And what were the structures created?

The structures created were as follows: Northern Nigeria was to represent England; Western Nigeria like Wales; Eastern Nigeria was to be like Scotland. In the British structure, England has permanent majority in the House of Commons. There was no way Wales can ever dominate England, neither can Scotland dominate Britain. But they are very shrewd. They would allow a Scottish man to become Prime Minister. They would allow a Welsh man to become Prime Minister in London but the fact remains that the actual power rested in England.That was what Lugard created in Nigeria, a permanent majority for the North. The population figure of the North is also a fraud. Infact, a British Colonial Civil Servant who was involved in the fraud was trying to expose it but he was never allowed to publish it.

The analysis is as follows: If you look at the map of West Africa, starting from Mauritania to Cameroun and take a population of each country as you move from the coast to the Savannah, the population decreases. Or conversely, as you come from the Desert to the Coast, right from Mauritania to the Cameroun, the population increases. The only exception throughout that zone is Nigeria. Nigeria is the only zone whereby you go from coast to the North, the population increases and you come from the North to the Coast, the population decreases. Well, geographers, anthropologists and population experts, draw your conclusions, Someone has told me the last population census was done by computer, what a nonsense.A computer is as good as its programmer. A computer will produce what you ask it to produce. I have read this book from cover to cover. This is a fantastic book. I want us to find a way to ensure that as many Nigerians read this book. It is a raw material for future authors. There is one thing which is missing in the book and that is the first broadcast of General Ibrahim Babangida when he assumed power in 1985. That broadcast is very crucial to the economic problems we have today. ...

Talking on the first coup, when Balewa got missing, we knew Okotie- Eboh had been killed, we knew Akintola had been killed. We, the members of the Balewa cabinet started meeting. But how can you have a cabinet meeting without the Prime Minister acting or Prime Minister presiding. So, unanimously, we nominated acting Prime Minister amongst us. Then we continued holding our meetings. Then we got a message that we should all assemble at the Cabinet office.

All the Ministers were requested by the G.O.C. of the Nigerian Army, General Ironsi to assemble.What was amazing at that time was that Ironsi was going all over Lagos unarmed. We assembled there. Having nominated ZANA Diphcharima as our acting Prime Minister in the absence of the Prime Minister, whose where about we didn't know, we approached the acting President, Nwafor Orizu to swear him in because he cannot legitimately act as the Prime Minister except he is sworn- in. Nwafor Orizu refused. He said he needed to contact Zik who was then in West Indies.Under the law, that is, the Interpretation Act, as acting President, Nwazor Orizu had all the powers of the President. The GOC said he wanted to see all the cabinet ministers. And so we assembled at the cabinet office. Well, I have read in many books saying that we handed over to the military.

We did not hand-over. Ironsi told us that "you either hand over as gentlemen or you hand-over by force". These were his words. Is that voluntary hand-over? So we did not hand-over. We wanted an Acting Prime Minister to be in place but Ironsi forced us, and I use the word force advisedly, to handover to him. He was controlling the soldiers.The acting President, Nwafor Orizu, who did not cooperate with us, cooperated with the GOC. Dr. Orizu and the GOC prepared speeches which Nwafor Orizu broadcast handing over the government of the country to the army. I here state again categorically as a member of that cabinet that we did not hand-over voluntarily. It was a coup.

This is a very good book, which everybody must read. It is raw material for future authors. Anybody, who wants to know some of the causes of our problems, military instability should read this book. I even recommend this book to all universities and secondary schools, so that they can know how we get to where we are now. What this book shows is that if anybody stages a coup and if people don't accept it, it would not succeed. What puzzles me is how the author got all these materials. He must have connections in high places to be able to get a lot of these materials.These materials should not be in the archives, they should be in the public domain so that we know the causes of our problems.

I pray that all Nigerians should rise up and say no if anybody seizes a radio station and says "fellow countrymen". I hope that this book will find its way into all university libraries throughout this country, to all secondary school library and abroad. I appeal to the media to give this book a comprehensive and desired review.The more I open the book, the more I see something to talk about. This book is going to represent one of those chapters in the tragedy of Nigeria. This book is just like horror film because the instability which was started in I966 ... because many of the coups are what I'll call commercial coups. If anything at all, we have to learn a great lesson from this book and also learn a lesson on what happened, who failed or succeed in their coups. When it succeeds. They call it glorious revolution. But when it fails, it is called treason. It is my honour and privilege to present this great and historic book. One of the things I like about the book is the language of the author. He's someone who speaks Englishman's English. He writes Queen's English. Very lucid, very flowing.

Sincere 9gerian: The story of why Lagos, a city of about 17 million people, still depends mostly on buses to take care of the transportation needs of millions of people that commute around the city daily must be told for the sake of posterity. It is the story of how the Lagos State Rail Mass Transit Scheme, which was meant was to ease the transportation bottlenecks common in Lagos, was stalled for 3 decades.

First civillian governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, was the first to initiate the process of building a rapid mass transit system in Lagos in the early 1980s. He conceived the idea, designed the project and awarded the contract to a French firm at N700 million with a completion period of 2 years.

However, the first obstacle to the realisation of the project came from former president Alhaji Shehu Shagari. Shagari frustrated the project by allegedly stopping the CBN from releasing funds for the project. The report below throws more light on this incident:

All efforts by Jakande to salvage the project came to a halt with the Gen Buhari military coup of 1983. The project remained in limbo until 1985 when Buhari cancelled the project completely at a loss of over $78 million to the Lagos tax payers.

In the report below, Buhari gave his reasons for cancelling the project:

From 1983 when the Lagos rail mass transit project was halted till this democratic dispensation began in 1999 (a period of almost 2 decades), Nigeria saw 4 Military Presidents/Head of State (including 8 year and 5 year rule of IBB and Abacha respectively), but none touched or even talked about the Lagos mass transit project.

Former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, tried to resurrect the project in 2003 but nothing came out of that.

However, in 2008 the current governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, began another concrete effort to make the project a reality by proposing a new design of the Lagos Rail Mass Transit System. But actual work on the project did not begin until 2010 when there was a new order at the federal level. The first phase of the Lagos Rail Mass Transit is now scheduled to be completed in 2015. Lagosians are eager to see this happen because it will definitely ease the problem of mass transportation in the state.

Lmao.

I always enjoy your entertainment, particularly when you cant contain yourself and the delirium of whatever you are chasing drives you into ecstatic shrieks.

No government can stop us from doing what we want. If a project is interrupted by FG, regardless who the President or Head of State is, its because we allowed it. There are many episodes on record in which FG had numerously interferred in the internal administrative business of Lagos and they were pushed back and successfully restrained.

FG did not stop rail project, they delayed it. We are back on it and should be done soon. Tell them in village to come and ride the speeding metal snake.

The controversy surrounding the planned exit of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, deepened on Thursday with the governor insisting that he would not quit the post until his term expired on June 2, 2014.

In keeping with his vow, which analysts see as a direct confrontation with President Goodluck Jonathan, Sanusi has said he will not proceed on his terminal leave in March as initially being speculated.The President had reportedly asked the CBN governor to resign immediately because of the alleged deliberate leakage of the letter that Sanusi wrote to him in which the governor accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation of not remitting $49.8bn crude oil revenue to the Federation Account.Sanusi was said to have denied leaking the letter to former President Olusegun Obasanjo or anyone for that matter, and allegedly told the President that he could only be removed by two-thirds of members of the Senate as required by law.The governor reportedly told the President that the letter was available in the Presidential Villa, the Ministry of Finance and the CBN, and wondered how he could be accused of leaking it.

One of our correspondents learnt on Thursday that Sanusi expressed his determination to remain in office until the expiration of his one-term tenure of five years on June 2 during a meeting with top management officers of the bank on Wednesday.The Director, Corporate Communications Department, CBN, Mr. Ugochukwu Okoroafor, confirmed the development in a chat with one of our correspondents in Abuja on Thursday.He said the governor used the opportunity provided by the “family meeting” to clear doubts surrounding the expiration of his tenure.Okoroafor said, “The CBN is an important organisation in the economy of this country and we have to be careful in whatever we do because our actions send a strong message to the economy as a whole.“The governor had a meeting with officials of the central bank and it was like a family meeting; and in that meeting, he made it clear that he is not going anywhere until his tenure expires in June.“He is not proceeding on retirement leave by March as being speculated; rather, he will be retiring on June 2 this year when he will be completing his five-year single tenure.”According to Okoroafor, the CBN governor will formally announce his retirement in March, when his successor is expected to be named, and will remain in office until June 2.

Both chambers of the National Assembly declined comments on the alleged plan by the Federal Government to sack Sanusi.The spokesperson for the Senate, Eyinnaya Abaribe, and his counterpart in the House of Representatives, Mr. Zakari Mohammed, said the National Assembly would not be dragged into “a mere rumour.”Abaribe, in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents, said, “The Senate will not make any comment on any issue that is not before it. It remains a rumour until it is properly communicated to the Senate.”Mohammed also said, “I have no comment to make. The National Assembly as an institution will not be dragged into any controversy based on a mere allegation.”Efforts to get the Presidency’s reaction did not yield any positive result as the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Dr. Reuben Abati, did not respond to calls made to his mobile telephone line, nor respond to text messages sent to the same line.


http://www.punchng.com/news/i-wont-quit-before-june-sanusi-dares-jonathan/

Sahara and Premium did not apologise, transformationwatch, who the op quoted is spinning lies.

Daily Observer from 1970. It says it all!

May his soul rest in peace.