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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the
use of only military operations to tackle Boko
Haram activities in Nigeria and other violent
groups across the world cannot end insurgency.
A statement on Friday by the African Export-
Import Bank, indicated that the former president
said this during the bank’s 22nd Annual General
Meeting held in Lusaka, Zambia.
Obasanjo, speaking about conflicts in Africa, also
said the crises were caused by failure to address
certain social problems in the society such as
educational disparity.
Afrixembank’s spokesman, Obi Emekekwue
quoted Obasanjo in the statement thus, “He
proposed a carrot and stick solution to the
conflicts on the continent through an approach
involving military solutions and social
development since a purely military approach
would not work.
“According to Obasanjo, a situation, such as in
Nigeria, where one section had an educational
attainment level of 79 per cent while another had
only 19 per cent, created room for conflict.”
The former president also called on Nigeria and
other African countries to pursue economic
integration on the basis of regional economic
communities rather than doing so with the over
54 countries on the continent.
He noted that by pursuing economic growth, each
region of the continent would serve as platforms
to strengthen Africa.
In a wide-ranging discussion, the ex-president
stressed the importance of infrastructure in
promoting intra-African trade and called for the
establishment of a viable well-run coastal
shipping line from Dakar in Senegal to Maputo in
Mozambique to improve intra-African trade.
Obasanjo stated further that while Nigeria and
other nations on the continent should encourage
the local production of goods, they should also
encourage and develop the process of moving
those goods.
The statement added, “Former President Obasanjo
added that Africa should start adding value to its
commodities rather than exporting raw
commodities only for those commodities to be
sent back to the continent as finished goods.”
Meanwhile, the Afreximbank on Saturday
announced the appointment of Benedict Oramah
as its new boss.
Oramah’s appointment was one of the key
decisions taken during the bank’s AGM.
“Dr. Oramah takes over from Jean-Louis Ekra,
who has been the bank’s chief executive officer
since 2005. Oramah, a Nigerian national, has
served as Executive Vice President in charge of
Business Development and Corporate Banking at
Afreximbank since 2008. He was a pioneer staff
of the bank, which he joined in 1994 as Chief
Analyst, rising to the position of Senior Director,
Planning and Business Development Department
in 2007. He previously served as Assistant
Manager (Research) at the Nigerian Export-Import
Bank from 1992 to 1994,” the statement said.

http://www.punchng.com/news/military-alone-cant-end-insurgency-obasanjo/

d President reading d NATION newspaper

The Lagos State Chapter of Peoples Democratic
Party has called on Governor Akinwunmi Ambode
to publicly declare his assets.
He was asked by the major opposition party in
the state to do so on or before June 29.
In a statement issued on Sunday by its Publicity
Secretary, Mr. Taofik Gani, the PDP also charged
Ambode to “personally make public in the media,
his assets as at when sworn in as the present
governor of the state.”
The statement said in part, “The governor is also
asked to make public in the media, the details of
the handover notes and assets of the past
governor, Mr. Babatinde Fashola.”
According to the PDP, if the governor fails to take
up this moral challenge, he will thereafter be
labelled “Governor Pretender” throughout his
tenure.
“The deliberate neglect will however compel us
and other well-meaning Lagosians to explore the
relevance of the Freedom of Information Act on
the matter.
“The PDP posits that the necessity for the present
governor of Lagos state to make public his
present assets is more ignited by the huge
foreign and local debts of nearly a trillion naira
now left behind by the past governor who has
been linked to many personal bank accounts and
property within and outside the country.
“Mr Ambode is under compelling moral duty to tell
Lagosians what he presently has as assets. This
is a spice to the requirement of asset declaration
before the Code of Conduct Bureau. He must also
not conceal the assets declaration of his
predecessor,” the statement added.
Gani stated that this was necessary for the
governor to gain the respect and confidence of
Lagosians as a “genuine servant and not a
pretender servant.”
The June 29 ultimatum given to Ambode,
according to the PDP, is to allow the governor to
voluntarily take up this challenge.
“If he fails to meet up, we will join hands with
other well-meaning Lagosians to confer the title
of ‘Pretender Governor’ on him throughout his
tenure.
“This new dimension to demand for asset
declaration is provoked by the fact of sudden
stupendous wealth the two last governors of the
state have been linked to within and outside the
country, even in the face of under performance
and huge debts now left behind by especially the
past governor,” the party said.


http://www.punchng.com/news/publicly-declare-your-assets-pdp-tells-ambode/

y would u do dat?

Op adding to your point anybody that stay in front of Imam & observed solat EXCEPT some special conditions ( Hajj, Umrah etc) the solat won't be accepted, ignorant isn't an excuse oh.[/quote]ur evidence..

Ambo aati de

comedy man

comedy @ its best!

level playing ground indeed

missKiffy:
Is it a true life story I watched the film not long ago

yah it is

iPopAlomo:
Tales of Shina Rambo and Anini nko...?!

watch out...

brownlord:
I think this man is the only sensible person from the north. No offense

u are high on Orijin 404

OREMUSSANCTUS:
I s l a m a b a d Ahmed gumi to me is d only muslim scholar who got brain Dunno wad happened to d rest

babu ankali

superstition

‘Doctor’ Ishola Oyenusi is a name etched in the
history of Nigeria as one of the most violent
armed robbers, a criminal who unleashed
boundless terror on many Nigerians. But who was
he and what did he do that his name was
associated with so much notoriety?
The Nigerian Civil War had just ended in 1970 but
by the early 1970s, a stone-hearted armed robber,
Ishola Oyenusi (he called himself Dr. Oyenusi even
if he never finished the secondary school), was
terrorising all of Lagos, Nigeria’s largest
commercial centre. Before one tale of his daring
exploits died down, another one had sprung up.
Oyenusi was no ordinary pilferer, this snitcher
was downright wicked and had all the self-
confidence in the world to go with it. And you
know something? He was quite romantic and
chivalrous. There was a story of how he snatched
his first car on Herbert Macaulay Road in Yaba,
Lagos. Why? His girlfriend was broke. He
eventually sold the car for N400 but the sad part
was that in the process of stealing the car, the
poor owner was shot dead. He actually snatched
the first car he saw on the road. Such was the
ferocious nature of his audacity.
Oyenusi’s arrogance was also legendary. In 1970,
he was arrested and handcuffed by a police
officer. As the policeman was ordering him
around, Oyenusi blasted him and thundered:
‘People like you don’t talk to me like that when I
am armed. I gun them down.‘
Hmmm, but that was not all. Oyenusi was so
feared that when the famed movie director, Chief
Eddie Ugbomah made a film titled The Rise and
Fall of Dr. Oyenusi in 1977, there was no one bold
enough to come forward to act the role of the
armed robber because they feared his members
would show them shege. Ugbomah had no other
option but to act the role himself with the feature
film depicting the senseless violence of armed
robberies and the absolutely atrocious manner by
which lives of innocent Nigerians were snuffed
out. But there was one interesting thing that
happened: a medical doctor by the name of Dr.
Oyenusi was so mad at the film producer that he
headed for the court trying to stop the shooting
of the movie.
Actually, Ugbomah was threatened. He received a
letter from thieves who invaded and looted his
provision store, carting away all they could. In the
letter, they promised to return his goods if he
would only stop shooting the film in which he
exposed the support received by the armed
robbers from their ‘godfathers’ and even high-
ranking officers in the Nigerian Armed Forces. The
stubborn Ugbomah called their bluff and went
ahead with the 16mm-flick (kindly send us a clip
of this film if you have one). Ugbomah would
later produce many other films such as Death of
a Black President (1983), Esan (Nemesis), The
Mask and Vengeance of the Cult in 1985.
In the 1970s, Oyenusi was no doubt the
uncrowned emperor of Nigerian robbers and he is
described as the ‘first celebrated armed robber in
Nigeria’. He is regarded by some as the pioneer
of conventional armed robbery in Nigeria. When
Oyenusi reigned at the height of his regal
confidence, he declared:
‘The bullet has no power.‘
As at that time, armed robbers were condemned
to death and thousands joyfully came out to
‘enjoy’ the grisly public executions before the
firing squad on the pristine beaches of Lagos.
Although Nigeria no longer has very ‘famous’
bandits and thieves like Anini (at teh age of 26,
Lawrence Nomayagbon Anini was the most
notorious robber in Nigeria), Babatunde
Folorunsho, Monday Osunbor, Shina Rambo,
Buraimoh Jimoh, Oyenusi, ‘Mighty Joe’, ‘Captain
Blood’ and George Iyamu (a former Deputy
Superintendent of Police who was Anini’s
collaborator), armed robbery is nonetheless a
major problem in the nation.
THE END
In March 1971, Oyenusi was nabbed by the
Nigerian Police after he organized a robbery in
which $28,000 (value as at that time) was stolen.
They killed a police constable in the process.
Although the first public execution of robbers had
taken place in April 1971, that of Oyenusi and his
criminal allies was a special case and the Lagos
government took time to prepare the grounds at
the Bar Beach.
By 8.am, officials were already at the execution
arena to check the whole place just to ensure
that everything went on ‘well’. A combined team
of police officers and soldiers struggled to
contain the surging crowd of thousands of
excited spectators. At about 9.15 am, a team of
Lagos City Council workers came to the execution
arena with empty mock coffins which they calmly
laid behind the execution stand. Obviously, they
were there to make fun of a man who had sent
so much terror into their hearts. About half an
hour later, eight robbers were led to the execution
stand…
HIS EXECUTION DAY
On the day of Oyenusi’s execution, over 30,000
Nigerians trooped to the famous Bar Beach
(armed robberies were quite rare then and when it
happened, it was the gist of the town for months
so the considerably high level of the people’s
curiosity can be appreciated). While some in the
crowd jeered and booed Oyenusi and his Gang of
Seven, some of his friends and family members
present could not hold back their tears. But for
most of the witnesses, it was good riddance to
bad nonsense. As for Oyenusi, he was smiling,
smiling to the last but the agony on his face too
was unmistakable. But just few minutes before
his body was riddled with hot-leaded bullets from
stern-faced soldiers of the Nigerian Army, he
finally confessed saying:
‘I am dying for the offence I have committed.‘
Two army trucks and a black van conveyed them
to the firing spot. Oyenusi was in the black van.
In seconds, three soldiers flew out of the army
trucks and proceeded to the black van inside
which was Nigeria’s most dreaded armed robber.
The soldiers came to a screeching halt and stood
at attention by the van. All of a sudden, one of
them let out a shrill command! The door was
flung open and slowly, Oyenusi appeared from
within the darkness of the Black Maria. As if the
heavens were in concert, dark clouds had formed
over the Bar Beach. He was cloaked in a dark
long-sleeved shirt and his hands were tied behind
his back. He spotted a pair of dark loafers and
his trousers were wrinkled. Sweating profusely,
he kept throwing fast glances around as if he
was looking for someone as he surveyed the
crowd who had thronged the beach to simply see
him die.
As the soldiers grabbed and tied him to the pole,
he was still scanning through the crowd. One of
the giggling spectators in the crowd whispered to
the next ‘Who is he looking for?‘. Smartly, seven
soldiers formed a lethal line in front of Oyenusi. A
soldier let out a fierce command to the
sharpshooters. All of them took aim at Oyenusi.
The next voice reverberated all over Nigeria:
‘Fire!’
Like an electrocuted being, his body shook
vigorously as he slumped and went limp around
the pole that held his remains.
Truly, it's pays to have a good name rather
riches rooted with bad controversy.

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ImperialYoruba:
After GEJ lost, Okonjo Iweala said she had cancer. Now Madueke got cancer.

Where is Kashamu....you dey listen? Get in the news and shout to the world that your prostate is swollen and might burst any time soon.

na God go punish cancer for acting as accessory to crime!

dat does not deter her 4rm being probed

sowie

remember PMB belongs 2 nobody

thank God it's jst an imagination!

baba will take us there inshallah.

FreeGlobe:
APC, we are watching

and u shall c

jokers....

thinking she has done d ryt thing.....nonsense!

ebamma:
I always had this feeling that Sahara reporters is another CIA project, seems I was right, those guys are being funded by America to fight governments the don't like

o yes

such is lyf....so ironical....

may we witness dis Ramadan and many more.And may Allah(swt)accept it as an act of ibaadah(worship).

propagandist of al ages...

always threatening CW....God save our dear con3..

prpgandium

u are on ur own

barcanista:
We are watchin...

nd keep watching....

yah...d probing is not out of place Mr President!