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The dreaded Boko Haram sect has reportedly killed no fewer the 50 youths in Kwajaffa village in Hawul LGA of Borno state.
The insurgents were said to have burnt the corpses of those they killed while the women and children in the village watched helplessly.
According to the report, the incident took place last night.
This was disclosed in a series by Almad Salkida, a Nigerian journalist and conflict analyst, who is said to have access to the leadership of Boko Haram.

Boko Haram has been launching series of attack in the North East region of Nigeria. In the weeks leading to the elections, Nigerian military routed the insurgents from Adamawa, Yobe and some parts of Borno states.
Despite claims by Nigerian troops to be winning the war against insurgency, the insurgents still attacking innocent villagers in Borno state.
On April 4, Saturday, Boko Haram launched an attack in Kayamla village, located just 20 km from Borno state capital Maiduguri.

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Source: http://www.naij.com/416083-boko-haram-gruesomely-kill-50-in-fresh-borno-attack.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=boko-haram-gruesomely-kill-50-in-fresh-borno-attack

National Coordinator of Goodluck to Goodluck campaign organization, Major General Charles Airhiavbere, yesterday defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
This is coming barely one week after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential Candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, winner of the March 28th presidential election.
Airhiavbere, who contested the 2012 governorship election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) officially announced his defection at a press conference. He said his decision to dump the PDP was informed by the need to join “team of change”.
“Any politician who mean well for this state will ground their arms of hate and join the change train of the APC government ably led by His Excellency, Adams Oshiomhole. I know for sure that with the APC at the national and state levels, there will be rapid development and all campaign promises will be redeemed,” he said.


Source: http://dailytrust.com.ng/daily/news/51371-coordinator-for-goodluck-goodluck-group-dumps-pdp-for-apc

abuchilag:
You people should stop this nonsense!
Nobody has the right to tell me who to vote for.
I pay tax of over 54k in Lagos every month and they also charge me for radio and television tax.

I am a Nigerian and I have the right to vote the candidate of my choice.

54k per month as tax? I guess you are running a refinery

I am forced to make this thread. I have seen so many topics online regarding the Lagos state governorship election. Though we all have choice of supporting any political party we want but of what benefit will Igbos get if PDP wins the Lagos state governorship election? Why must Igbo be embarking on a path that will put their strategic interest in jeopardy? Is it hatred for Yorubas or rivalry Is their support based on development of Lagos or their acclaimed 'Betrayal' over the last presidential election?

To me I believe Ifeanyi Ubah is using the Igbos to fight his own personal battle. But do not get me wrong, we all want change in our environment.

Your vote is your power to elect credible person for the coming Governorship and House of assembly election nationwide.

Vote wisely

The Lagos state Governorship Election has taken a new dimension, as for the first time in history, Igbo residents and Business leaders have just declared their support for the PDP Governorship candidate, Mr Jimi Agbaje in the April 11, 2015 election.
The TAN coordinator, Mr Ifeanyi Ubah appealed to Ndi Igbo to come out and vote massively for Jimi Agbaje and PDP House of Assembly members.
Dr Eric Onuigbo, said that the Nigerian democratic system will be balanced if Lagosians vote for Change to stop the family and friends governments in Lagos.
In a related develpment, the TAN coordinator, Mr Ifeanyi Ubah repelled the APC's rumours and lies that he and Igbos Traders declared support for the APC's candidate in a meeting at Oba of Lagos's palace.
He added that APC lives on lies and encourages Lagosians to save the Nigerian commercial capital from the grip of Cabals.
About 485,000 registered Igbo voters left the state during the last presidential election, over fears of pre and post-election unrest and this block vote, plus those that voted last week, will surely change the dynamics of the election in Lagos state


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Yes it should be introduced, cos for the change to be effective, their must be people around to make it work,since the president cannot be in all place at a time. And it will bring about more jobs in the country.

General Muhammadu Buhari is set to assume the presidential seat on May 29th, 2015. Would you want the "War Against Indiscipline" (WAI) to be re-introduced? What are your reasons?

The 2015 general elections, though full of tension, has brought the much-awaited change at last. While some African countries like Algeria, Tunisia , Libya and Egypt were going through their wind of change, some comfortable and visionless Nigerians boasted that such change could never come to the country.
While the wise ones were preparing for the change through the ballot box, so as to avoid violent change, some engaged in blackmail and shenanigans. At the end, like the former French leader, Napoleon Bonaparte, who saved France at the hour of great battles, Muhammadu Buhari has won and he will surely lift the nation to the place it ought to be in the comity of nations.
The end eventually came for the 16 years of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) being in power. The All Progressives Congress ( APC ) must learn from the mistakes of the outgoing president and ruling party, and avoid the pitfalls.

Buhari was among the Nigerian Army officers who saved the nation from civil war. He gave direction to the people as a military head of state. Discipline and orderliness were restored. Nigerians were respected and honoured. The economic sector was at its zenith. Some Nigerians still commend him for his incorrutibility, patrotism and stern discipline.

Now that the mandate has been given to him, much is expected; he will have to fight corruption and compulsive stealing; the evil-twins that have cancerously eaten up our economy, destroyed the integrity of our so-called leaders and has rendered the political system annihilated. In as much as he will not be expected to waste time probing his predecessor, he will have to work together with the National Asembly to unravel how federal ministries, departments and agencies spent over N16 trillion that were not budgeted for.

A Senate committee reported that 601 MDAs generated and spent money as they pleased without parliamentary approval, in clear violation of the Constitution. He will need to work on how to restore our foreign reserves that fell to $30.87 billion in March 2014 and, in January, 2015, remained $3.4 billion. The Central Bank Governor will need to restrategise and come up with economic plans to reposition our battered economy.

It is said that Buhari is so straight forward. This is a man who was a Minister of Petroleum. He doesn’t have oil bloc; he doesn’t even have a filling station. Buhari doesn’t have plots in Abuja as a former governor. This self-discipline would have to be imbibed by the team that will be working with him. Nigerians are sceptical about leadership in the country; they condemn all politicians as thieves and selfish.
They will be watching him and his lieutenants, and would want to measure his integrity and his ministers with the same measure they measured the ousted regime. He must remember he promised to declare his assets publicly, his ministers must follow his example if the change he promised the nation would not be compromised. Any would-be minister that abuses his office must not just be sent away but must be made to face the law.

Security

Security of lives and property must be sacrosanct. Apart from the war against insurgency in the North, which must be fought and won, internal security nationwide must be improved upon through the use of closed circuit television nationwide. Nigeria can no longer let her security to be porous. Security agents require modern equipment and training. The old hands with bad records must be shown the way out. Military aircraft must be modernised and new ones acquired. The new National Assembly must review and examine the need for state police. The emoluments of security agents must be reviewed as soon as our economy improves.

Judiciary

The judiciary needs urgent attention. The judiciary in many states has been on strike for over six months now; this is dangerous and could compound the insecurity situation in the nation. As the head of the new government, there ought to be a meeting of fertile minds on how to urgently resolve the impasse. No nation cannot afford to close its door to judicial workers in a democratic system. Judges of questionable character must go. The Nigerian Judicial Council (NJC) must take judicial measures against erring judicial officers. This will go a long way to sanitise the temple of justice and give the nation the change we need.

Unemployment

Not long ago, the world witnessed the Arab Spring due to youth joblessness. This led to the removal of many heads of government. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has drawn the attention of the nation to the implication of neglecting the army of unemployed youths. The implication is invitation to unimaginable revolution. To avoid this, the new central government must study how Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, governor of the State of Osun, successfully carried out the Osun Youth Employment Scheme (OYES) and implement it nationwide. Where there is vacancy in federal ministries and parastatals, the new government should handle it bureaucratically. We must not allow a repeat of the tragedy caused by the handlers of the Immigration Service.

Workers salaries

The plight of workers nationwide, including federal workers, owed salaries and allowances deserve urgent attention. Whatever has gone wrong must be rectified. Workers must be paid as and when due. The Minster of Finance, Dr.Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has stated they were not owing any state but that the states were being given what they never expected. The implication of this is that there is a short fall in the allocations to states, which made it difficult for them to pay their workers. The workers believed in the mantra “Change”; if their expectations are not met, they may not cooperate with the new government. All the government needs to do will be to block all loopholes corrupt government officials were utilising to siphon funds into private pockets.
The decline in public service must be addressed. The poor planning, inconsistency of policy, lack of participation, poor budgeting, diversion of public funds and poor human resources are some of the anomalies that must be purged from the public sector.

Agriculture

If we are to recover faster from the effect of dwindling funds from oil sales, we must practically be involved in agricultural revolution. The various states must get down to the soil and work. Agricultural equipment must be acquired. Lands and seedlings must be made available to farmers, particularly youths. Old cash crop trees must be replaced and replanted. Rural development is a must if we want people to go back to farming. Loans and fertilizers must be provided to aid farming schemes.

Power

The power sector has remained a leaking pipe for thieves. The new government must address it squarely. Modern development begins and ends with power generation. No nation can survive without stable power supply. Industrialisation can only be meaningful when we get it right with the generation and distribution of power. Similarly, the moribund refineries should be replaced. Enough with oil importation. If there is going to be real change, the change must affect the power sector positively.


Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/buhari-the-man-of-the-moment/#sthash.vwDsew3Z.mElhVtet.dpuf

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Adamu Mu’azu, has charged members of the party nationwide to ensure that it wins 24 states in the April 11 governorship elections.
In a statement on Saturday, Mr. Mu’azu listed the states the party must win to include Lagos, Rivers and Imo whose governorship candidates he described as “first class materials.”

The PDP currently controls 21 of the 36 states in the country. They are Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Abia, Ebonyi, Enugu, Adamawa, Taraba, Bauchi, Gombe, Benue, Plateau, Niger and Kogi.
Others are Jigawa, Katsina, Kebbi, Kaduna, Ekiti and Ondo.
Mr. Mu’azu, who could not deliver his home state, Bauchi, to the PDP in last Saturday’s presidential election, urged the party faithful to pick up the pieces and ensure that they return quickly to its “winning ways.”
According to him, the gubernatorial election next week would certainly provide the PDP a soft-landing after conceding the presidency to the All Progressives Congress in the presidential election on March 28.
“I urge the PDP faithful to pick up the pieces and ensure that we return quickly to our old winning ways. There should be no room for voter apathy that was a major factor to our losing the presidential election,” Mr. Mu’azu said.
“While our opponents were savouring their famous victory, we should out flank them and corner at least two thirds of the states of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“This is not an impossible target if we return to our elements with immediate effect. We have done it before and we can do it again. Nothing will be sweeter than PDP taking Lagos, our own Rivers State and Imo. Our candidates in these states are first class material who have fully penetrated the political structures of those states and are set to win.”
The chairman said the party’s target is to retain the 21 states it currently leads “and then sink our teeth into the heart of our political opponents and show that their presidential victory is nothing more than a one-off that won’t be repeated in a long while.”
He recounted that earlier in the week, he reminded the PDP gubernatorial candidates in all the states that one thing that won’t happen in this gubernatorial race is the “so called bandwagon effect.”

He stressed, “The reason is simple. Our party is used to bouncing back whenever we experience a setback.”
Mr. Mu’azu said the PDP in the past 16 years of democracy has maintained fair play consistently and that even the APC admitted this in its response to President Goodluck Jonathan’s speech conceding to president-elect General Muhammadu Buhari.
He stated, “The key to winning the remaining election is heavy turnout and voting the PDP all the way. There should be no tactical voting. Be consistent in your support for the party. What we experienced in the presidential election is merely a hiccup which we must cast out in the gubernatorial polls.

“All PDP supporters must remember their pedigree, our track record and history of the party and the source of our electoral feats of the last sixteen years. We are the reason that democracy has taken root in Nigeria since 1999. This is something every member of our great party should be very proud of.
“We have only lost a battle but the war to bring our country to the highest level of democratic governance is still to be won or lost. Our governorship candidates should go out and finish the good fight and come up trumps in the remaining gubernatorial and houses of assembly election on 11th April. We are remaining the winning party and by God’s special grace we shall win again and again.”

Source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/180579-governorship-elections-pdp-targets-victory-in-24-states.html

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has prayed for the success of the coming administration of the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari.
In a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES, the CAN President, Ayo Oritsejafor, said, “I also pray for peace for the incoming administration led by Rtd Major General, Muhammadu Buhari with optimism that Nigeria will witness peace and progress under his administration.”
Mr. Oritsejafor, a close ally of President Goodluck Jonathan, has faced several allegations including being too partisan in support of the the incumbent, as well as corruption and money laundering. The accusations worsened when his privately owned plane was stopped in 2014 in South Africa with $9.3 million in cash allegedly for the purchase of arms for the Nigerian government. The money was seized by South African authorities for breaching the country’s financial laws while Nigeria later said the money belonged to its government. Mr. Oritsejafor denied any wrongdoing saying he had leased the plane to a private firm.
In his Easter message on Saturday, the leader of the organisation that represents Nigerian Christians also commended outgoing President Jonathan.
“The need for peace that our President, Goodluck Jonathan, has demonstrated in the recently held presidential elections should be the point of reference for all our political leaders in the coming elections, there is nothing greater than peace and love as enunciated by God and demonstrated by our dear president,” he said.
The cleric prayed for the restoration of unity and stability of Nigeria and thanked citizens for supporting the country’s leaders.
Mr. Jonathan, a Christian from Southern Nigeria, has received several commendations since he conceded defeat to Mr. Buhari, a Muslim from Northern Nigeria, after the conclusion of the March 28 presidential election which is considered the most hotly contested in the country’s history. The election also marked the first time since independence in 1960 that an incumbent president would lose elections. The elections were also the first since 1999, after military rule, that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party would become a minority in both chambers of the Nigerian parliament.
Despite operational hiccups by the electoral agency as well as incidences of violence recorded in some parts of the country during the electioneering period, the elections were largely considered free and fair by local and international observers. Mr. Jonathan’s concession is believed to have doused the tension brought about by the elections which saw millions of Nigerians voting along ethnic and religious lines.
Mr. Buhari’s All Progressives Congress will now assume majority in both chambers of the parliament while he is expected to be sworn as president on May 29.


Source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/180569-easter-can-prays-for-buharis-success-as-nigerias-president.html

It is 1:40pm now in Nigeria.. How come the attack was ongoing at 2:10 p.m.


Premium Times, are you the Boko haram?

Reports reaching PREMIUM TIMES indicate that members of the insurgent Boko Haram are currently attacking Kayamla village of Borno.
Kayamla is about 20km from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, and the attack was ongoing at 2:10 p.m.
An official of the local vigilante called Civilian-JTF in Borno, Muhammed Gava, confirmed the attack to PREMIUM TIMES.
“We just got a report from our vigilante members around Konduga local government area that Boko Haram terrorists were in Kayamla and we’ve just assembled a team of vigilante members and the Civilian-JTF who are about to storm Kayamla now,” he said.
Kayamla was last attacked by the Boko Haram in January last year.
Saturday’s attack comes barely 24 hours after Boko Haram attacked a fishing community about 15km from Maiduguri.
Four fishermen were beheaded and dumped inside the river Alau, while five other fishermen were allegedly taken away by the insurgents, who were later killed by Civilian-JTF who trailed them to a Balle Village.
A top security source who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES said 16 of the terrorists who partook in the killing of the fishermen were killed by members of the youth vigilante.
More details later…


Source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/180575-happening-now-boko-haram-attacks-kayamla-borno.html

Pinshure or I don't believe

Check out these calculation. Can we take this as a coincidence or something?

APC result sheet was 15, 424, 921.
1+5+4+2+4+9+2+1=28

PDP result sheet was 12, 853, 162
1+2+8+5+3+1+6+2=28

Election held 28th of March


**Modified

Transition things

God bless President Goodluck Jonathan for accepting defeat.

God bless our incoming president General Muhammad Buhari

God bless Nigeria

lennymutai:
No,you are wrong.You are not telling the truth.Have you personaly dealt with the embassy?if saw,what was your experience?

Even same Nigeria, Nigeria government do not take care of her citizen, talkless of outside.. To be honest, we have no good reputation outside world. We are always treated special.

Nigerians, it is a must to respect law. If you can respect your country law, nothing bad in obeying others. Let the change begins.

Leader of the Bring Back Our Girls group and former minister of education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan does not deserve the hero tittle for accepting defeat in the just concluded presidential poll.

DAILY POST reports Jonathan, before the INEC chairman could announce the final result of last Saturday’s presidential election, had called General Buhari to congratulate him for winning the election.

Following his decision, many Nigerians have been praising the president for saving the entire nation from disaster.

However, Ezekwesili says if only Nigerians knew the extent of damage President Jonathan has done to Nigeria, they won’t hero worship him.

She took to her Twitter page on Thursday, to air her views on the recently held presidential election.

She tweeted: “When a review of President Jonathan’s administration is done, we’ll realize how much damage sycophancy did to governance. Example? Chibok Girls,” she wrote.

“A leader must be without an inordinate desire to be serenaded with ‘good news’ or their team will never let them know the true state of affairs.

“An environment that rewards sycophancy encourages team to withhold accurate ‘bad’ news (problems) from the leader while serving up ‘good news’.

” When a leader makes hero worshiping costly to those who engage in it, he/she deprives the ‘sellers’ market to set the ‘Mediocrity Benchmark.’

“A critical success factor in governance is for the leader to both in word and deed convey a culture that abhors sycophancy. No hero worshiping.”

Source: http://dailypost.ng/2015/04/03/jonathan-is-not-a-hero-oby-ezekwesili/

lennymutai:
it is unacceptable if such a thing exist.Any agrieved nigerian who is i the country legally should contact nigerian embassy they are very helpfull.

Nigeria embassy are toothless here

Please we are calling on Nigeria authority to interfere into this matter. They are deporting Nigerians on a daily basis. Though majority of the people that were deported don't have valid stay, innocent people with valid stay were also deported. I have heard of more than 10 people deported this week alone.

I am still valid and I can back up what I do here. But how about those who doesn't know their right? if you can not afford the amount their police charges you, straight to home.

Nigeria's government should please do something.

The guy no dey eat meat?

Anyways, congratulations

All because of election.

Change noni

Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun state today approved N1.5 billion for the payment of salary deductions and cooperative dues.
The money will also cover the deductions from salaries that have affected both state and local government workers.

Prior to the downturn in the Federal allocation and economy, the State Government had remitted salary deductions as at when due. The present administration also cleared the arrears inherited from the administration of Otunba Gbenga Daniel.

In a statement issued today and signed by the State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Yusuph Olaniyonu, the payment was in fulfilment of the agreement reached between the governor and the state workers during an interactive session he had with them in March.

The State Government said that the release of the money demonstrates that it has successfully adjusted to the new financial reality and it was confident that it would be able to clear the balance of arrears expeditiously.

It further assured the workers that government will always protect their interests at all times and restated the fact that it has no plan to sack any worker.

The financial adjustment, government stated, “was achieved through increased spending efficiencies and enhanced focus on Internally Generated Revenue ,IGR”.

The government further expressed gratitude to the workers for their patience, understanding and co-operation since the administration assumed office, particularly, when the economic downturn led to delay in the remittance of the deductions and co-operative dues.

Findings by our correspondent confirmed the payment as many of the workers in the State, especially, teachers revealed that they have been receiving messages from the their banks since around 7:00pm Thursday night.

Some even posted comments of the payment on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.



Source: http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2015/04/02/amosun-pays-n1-5bn-deductions-to-workers-cooperatives/

When you broke and she still believes in your dreams

My advice to the Ijaw youths;


PLEASE DO NOT PLAY WITH FIRE

In a dramatic twist, the Ijaw Youth Council, turning away from its earlier stance where it commended President Goodluck Jonathan for accepting defeat at the poll and promised not to resort to attacking pipeline and oil infrastructure, has vowed a hostile response.
The President of the group, Udengs Eradiri, had earlier said that the group would not resort to attacking pipeline and oil infrastructure following Mr. Jonathan’s loss at the polls and pledged loyalty to the incoming administration.
But in a dramatic twist, the spokesperson for the group, Eric Omare, said the group was not satisfied with the turn out of the polls and will seek a new direction for the struggle for resource control.
“The IYC has resolved to call for a National Congress of all Ijaw Youths on Sunday, the 5th of April, 2015 at Tuomo Community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State where all the Ijaw Youths of the Niger-Delta region would meet to review the outcome of the Presidential elections.
“IYC will take a position and determine the next direction of our struggle for self-determination and resource control as enshrined in the historic Kaiama Declaration.
“We call on all Ijaw Youths to be alert and ready to heed the call to the service of the Ijaw nation at this crucial time of our history and struggle for survival in the Nigerian state in the face of the grand conspiracy between the north and a section of the south west to continue to suppress and exploit the resource of the Ijaw nation.
“We recall that when President Jonathan, an Ijaw and from the South South won an internationally acclaimed free, fair and credible election in 2011, General Buhari and his people never at any time congratulated or supported President Jonathan.
“Instead they killed hundreds of innocent Nigerians and fought President Jonathan from the day he became the Acting President of Nigeria in 2010 until the north conspired with a section of the south west to take over the Presidency from President Jonathan and the minorities of the south-south in an election fraught with irregularities.
“It is also significant to note that none of the northern socio-cultural groups such as the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and others congratulated or supported the administration of President Jonathan.
“Northerners created Boko Haram and blamed it on President Jonathan deliberately to incite the northern populace against President Jonathan and make him unpopular in the 2015 election so as to take back power in a grand conspiracy with a section of the south west.
“Therefore, the April 5, 2015 meeting of all Ijaw youths would determine the position of the Ijaw Youths on the 2015 Presidential election and our next line of action,” Mr. Omare said.


Source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/180526-ijaw-youth-council-makes-u-turn-vows-response-to-jonathans-election-loss.html