I go nack person latest juju – Cubana chief priest warns Wizkid to stay away from Genevieve


Celebrity barman, Cubana Chief priest has warned top Nigerian musician, Ayo Balogun to thread carefully as regards his intentions towards beautiful Nollywood actress, Genevieve Nnaji because the actress is his (Cubana’s) sister. He also stated that he won’t let history repeat itself the way it happened with D’banj. Cubana made this know while reacting to an Instagram post by ex-musician and blogger, Tunde Ednut, who unearthed an old clip of a young of Wizkid declaring a crush on Genevieve Nnaji, 8 years ago when he was just beginning to acquire fame.


Tunde Ednut captioned the throwback video; “This interview was 8 Years Ago. You see I told you this guy likes older women. The second slide was 2 days ago. “WIZKID, I KNOW YOU WILL SEE THIS, we know your plan and it will not work in Jesus name, look for somebody else, LEAVE GENEVIEVE ALONE. You have planned this years ago. The internet does not forget. “I had to dig out this video. I’m not happy cause he was too close to Genevieve. What is he saying that close? Does she not have bouncer? I am very uncomfortable with this new development.”


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The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation has commenced the Anambra State Government for investing in teacher education .
UNIDO regional director , Mr Jean Bakole, made the commendation during the Business Plan and Entrepreneurship Fair held in Awka , the Anambra State capital .
He said the governor, Willie Obiano , had provided the enabling environment as well as financial resources for capacity training of teachers in the state to equip them with the requisite skills for a 21 st century technology .
Bakole reassured the state government of UNIDO ’ s continued collaboration on skills and entrepreneurship capacity building for the youths of the area .
He noted that “ For Nigeria to confront skill challenges , there’ s need for government and critical stakeholders to promote entrepreneurship capable of creating jobs, wealth and build a resilient and inclusive economy . ”
He said UNIDO as a specialized agency of the United Nations , “ promotes inclusive and sustainable industrialization in developing countries and economies. ”
Bakola added , ” Our activities in Nigeria as contained in the Country Programme and endorsed by the Federal Government fall under three thematic areas : poverty reduction through productive activities.
“ In addition , UNIDO promotes and supports capacity building with a focus on women and youth to equip them with the necessary knowledge and skills for improved livelihood , gain control of their lives and exert influence in society .
“ The programme is a 21 st century global entrepreneurship training initiatives that enables women and youth to apply innovative Information Technology and business concepts to establish and grow successful businesses that will lead to job creation and generate wealth .
“ One of such partnerships is the collaboration between UNIDO and the Anambra State Government. The collaboration came into existence following a Trust Fund Agreement signed between UNIDO and the Anambra State Government in 2017 . ”
UNIDO had on the occasion rewarded three schools in the state for emerging winners in the annual Business Plan competition for secondary schools .


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Bayelsa State governor, Seriake Dickson has accused the governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike of deliberately inciting disunity in Ijaw land in respect of political agenda.
The two governors have employed the age-long dispute between the two states over oil fields/wells (Soku, Rivers and Oluasiri, Bayelsa).
“I want it recorded that Governor Wike is deliberately inciting disunity in Ijaw land because of his ethnic supremacist political agenda which he knows that Bayelsa, particularly Governor Dickson and my agenda will not support. That’s what he is doing.”



Dickson also used the opportunity to debunk Wike’s allegation that he visited the Amanyanabo of Kalabari without following protocol, saying that he made sustained efforts to contact Wike without success and directed his Chief of Staff and the ADC to speak to their counterparts in Rivers, who promised to inform their boss of the impending trip, which they did.
Describing Wike in derogatory terms, Dickson, a former police officer and lawmaker said, “The governor of our neighbouring state, Governor Wike of Rivers State, who by the way is used to making careless remarks from time to time, went into his usual habit some few days ago. Let me put it on record, this is the first time I will formally respond to Wike in this formal way. I have always ignored with pain and regret all the previous vituperation and his attempt to belittle and intimidate this state and our leadership.
“His unfriendliness towards this state is not hidden. It is not just me, it is about our state and our people, he has done that a couple of times but I decided to stomach it for several reasons. Also, my involvement in the affairs of the Niger Delta and my commitment to the well-being of our people, made me to always shy away from having open confrontations with a brother governor, particularly of his state that is so closely tied to our state.
“Wike should stop interfering with the politics of Bayelsa State, you all know what he did in the PDP primaries and the roles he played supporting the APC in their federal takeover of our state, there are so many things he has been doing that I keep quiet about.
“Wike should learn to respect his colleagues for whom he has shown scant regards, not just for me, and Bayelsa. He is having oil wars with every state around him, with Imo and Akwa Ibom states. What is wrong with him?” Dickson added.

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Some Fulani Herdsmen have likened Christians to dogs who have no place in Nigeria due to their treachery of adopting the religion of the whites. Therefore, the herders have taken on the mission of purging the country of these alleged treacherous beings.
In a recent article published by Wall Street Journal, Bernard Henri-Lévy has concluded there is a brewing war targeted against Nigerian Christians by Fulani herdsmen after he spoke to the herders in different parts of the country
According to Levy, the high influx of herdsmen into Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria is not unrelated to the mission of the herdsmen to take over the city.
Recall, Reno Omokri once predicted that Lagos state will have a northern Governor by 2035 due to the rate at which northerners continue to migrate to the south while southerners travel abroad in search of greener pastures.
Levy in his article titled “ The New War Against Africa’s Christian’s , said “A slow-motion war is under way in Africa’s most populous country. It’s a massacre of Christians, massive in scale and horrific in brutality. And the world has hardly noticed.”
“A Nigerian Pentecostal Christian, director of a nongovernmental organization that works for mutual understanding between Nigeria’s Christians and Muslims, alerted me to it. “Have you heard of the Fulani?” he asked at our first meeting, in Paris, speaking the flawless, melodious English of the Nigerian elite. The Fulani are an ethnic group, generally described as shepherds from mostly Muslim Northern Nigeria, forced by climate change to move with their herds toward the more temperate Christian South. They number 14 million to 15 million in a nation of 191 million.”
Among them is a violent element. “They are Islamic extremists of a new stripe,” the NGO director said, “more or less linked with Boko Haram,” the sect that became infamous for the 2014 kidnapping of 276 Christian girls in the state of Borno. “I beg you,” he said, “come and see for yourself.” Knowing of Boko Haram but nothing of the Fulani, I accept.
The 2019 Global Terrorism Index estimates that Fulani extremists have become deadlier than Boko Haram and accounted for the majority of the country’s 2,040 documented terrorist fatalities in 2018. To learn more about them, I travel to Godogodo, in the center of the country, where I meet a beautiful woman named Jumai Victor, 28. On July 15, she says, Fulani extremists stormed into her village on long-saddle motorcycles, three to a bike, shouting “Allahu Akbar!” They torched houses and killed her four children before her eyes.
When her turn came and they noticed she was pregnant, a discussion ensued. Some didn’t want to see her belly slit, so they compromised by cutting up and amputating her left arm with a machete. She speaks quickly and emotionlessly, staring into space as if she lost her face along with her arm. The village chief, translating for her, chokes up. Tears stream down his cheeks when she finishes her account.
I venture north to Adnan, where Lyndia David, 34, tells her story of survival. On the morning of March 15, rumors reached her village that Fulani raiders were nearby. She was dressing for church as her husband prepared to join a group of men who’d stand watch. He urged her to take refuge at her sister’s home in another village.
Her first night there, sentinels woke her with a whistle. She left the house to find flames spreading around her. Fulani surrounded her. Then she heard a voice: “Come this way, you can get through!” She did, and her putative savior leapt out of the underbrush, cut three fingers off her right hand, carved the nape of her neck with his machete, shot her, doused her body with gasoline, and lit it. She somehow survived. A few weeks later she returned to her village and learned that the raiders had leveled it the same night. Her husband was among the 72 they murdered.
The Christian Middle Belt is a land of blooming prairies that once delighted English colonizers. On the outskirts of Jos, capital of Plateau state, I visit the ruins of a burned-down church. I spot another, intact. A man emerges to yell at me in English that I don’t belong there. Stalling, I learn that he is Turkish, a member of a “religious mutual assistance group” that is opening madrassas for the daughters of Fulani.
That day I crisscross the Middle Belt. Roads are crumbled, bridges collapsed; destroyed houses cast broken shadows over tree stumps and trails of black ash and blood. Maize rots in the abandoned fields. The local Christians have been killed or are too terrorized to come out and harvest it. In the distance are clusters of white smudges—the Fulani herds grazing on the lush grass. When we approach, the armed shepherds wave us off.
The Anglican bishop of Jos, Benjamin Kwashi, has had his livestock stolen three times. During the third raid he was dragged into his room, a gun to his head. He dropped to his knees and prayed at the top of his voice until the thrumming of a helicopter drove his assailants off.
Bishop Kwashi describes the Fulani extremists’ pattern: They usually arrive at night. They are barefoot, so you can’t hear them coming unless they’re on motorcycle. Sometimes a dog sounds the alert, sometimes a sentinel. Then a terrifying stampede, whirling clouds of dust, cries of encouragement from the invaders. Before villagers can take shelter or flee, the invaders are upon them in their houses, swinging machetes, burning, pillaging, raping. They don’t kill everyone. At some point they stop, recite a verse from the Quran, round up the livestock and retreat. They need survivors to spread fear from village to village, to bear witness that the Fulani raiders fear nothing but Allah and are capable of anything.
The heads of 17 Christian communities have come to the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital, to meet me in a nondescript compound. Some have traveled for days in packed buses or minivans. Each arrives accompanied by a victim or two.
Here they are, an exhausted yet earnestly hopeful group of some 40 women and men, keenly aware of the moment’s gravity. One carries a USB key, another a handwritten account, a third a folder full of photos, captioned and dated. I accept these records, overwhelmed by the weight of the bearers’ hope that the world will recognize the horrors they experienced.
Taking the floor in turn, the survivors confirm the modus operandi Bishop Kwashi described, each adding an awful detail. The mutilated cadavers of women. A mute man commanded to deny his faith, then cut up with a machete until he screams. A girl strangled with the chain of her crucifix.
Westerners here depict the Fulani extremists as an extended, rampant Boko Haram. An American humanitarian says the Fulani recruit volunteers to serve internships in Borno State, where Boko Haram is active. Another says Boko Haram “instructors” have been spotted in Bauchi, another northeastern state, where they are teaching elite Fulani militants to handle more-sophisticated weapons that will replace their machetes. Yet whereas Boko Haram are confined to perhaps 5% of Nigerian territory, the Fulani terrorists operate across the country.
Villagers west of Jos show the weapons they use to defend themselves: bows, slings, daggers, sticks, leather whips, spears. Even these meager arms have to be concealed. When the army comes through after the attacks, soldiers tell the villagers their paltry weapons are illegal and confiscate them.
Several times I note the proximity of a military base that might have been expected to protect civilians. But the soldiers didn’t come; or, if they did, it was only after the battle; or they claimed not to have received the texted SOS calls in time, or not to have had orders to respond, or to have been delayed on an impassable road.
“What do you expect?” our driver asks as we take off in a convoy for his burned-down church. “The army is in league with the Fulani. They go hand in hand.” After one attack, “we even found a dog tag and a uniform.”
“It’s hardly surprising,” says Dalyop Salomon Mwantiri, one of the few lawyers in the region who dare to represent victims. “The general staff of the Nigerian army is a Fulani. The whole bureaucracy is Fulani.”
So is President Muhammadu Buhari. In April 2016 Mr. Buhari ordered security forces to “secure all communities under attack by herdsmen.” In July 2019 a spokesman for the president said in a statement: “No one has the right to ask anyone or group to depart from any part of the country, whether North, South, East or West.”
Most Christians I meet express disgust at the vague language suggesting culpability on both sides. Their stories tend to validate claims of the government’s complicity. In Riyom district, three displaced Nigerians and a soldier were gunned down this June as they attempted to return home. The villagers know the assailants. Police identified them. Everyone knows they took refuge in a nearby village. But there they are under the protection of the ardos, a local emir. No arrests occurred.
Village chief Sunday Abdu recounts another example, a 2017 attack on Nkiedonwhro. This time the military came to warn villagers of a threat. They ordered the women and children to take shelter in a school. But after the civilians complied, a soldier fired a shot in the air. A second shot sounded in the distance, seemingly in response. Minutes later, after the soldiers had departed, the assailants appeared, went directly to the classroom, and fired into the cowering group, killing 27.
I also meet some Fulani—the first time by chance. Traveling by road near a river bed, we come on a checkpoint consisting of a rope stretched across the road, a hut and two armed men. “No passage,” says one, wearing a jacket on which are sewn badges in Arabic and Turkish. “This is Fulani land, the holy land of Usman dan Fodio, our king—and you whites can’t come in.” The conquests of dan Fodio (1754-1817) led to the establishment of the Sokoto Caliphate over the Fula and Hausa lands.
The second encounter is on the outskirts of Abuja. Driving toward the countryside, we reach a village unlike the others we’ve seen in the Christian zone. There’s a ditch, and behind it a hedge of bushes and pilings. The place seems closed off from the world. From huts emerge a swarm of children and their mothers, the women covered from head to foot.
It’s a village of Fulani nomads who carried out a tiny, localized Fulanization after the Christians cleared out. “What are you doing here?” demands an adolescent boy wearing a T-shirt adorned with a swastika. “Are you taking advantage of the fact that it’s Friday, and we’re in the mosque, to come spy on our women? The Quran forbids that!” When I ask if wearing a swastika isn’t also contrary to the Quran, he looks puzzled, then launches into a feverish tirade. He says he knows he’s wearing “a German insignia,” but he believes that “all men are brothers,” except for the “bad souls” who “hate Muslims.”
Later I encounter Fulani near Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, which is in the south on the Gulf of Guinea. North of the city is an open-air market where Fulani sell their livestock. I am with three young Christians, survivors of a Middle Belt massacre who live in a camp for displaced persons. They pretend to be cousins buying an animal for a family feast. As they negotiate over a white-horned pygmy goat, I look for Fulani willing to talk.
Most have come from Jigawa state, on the border with Niger, crossing the country south in trucks to bring their stock here. Although I learn little about their trip, they eagerly express their joy in being here, on the border of this contemptible promised land, where they expect to “dip the Quran in the sea.”
There are “too many Christians in Lagos,” says Abadallah, who looks to be in his 40s. “The Christians are dogs and children of dogs. You say Christians. To us they are traitors. They adopted the religion of the whites. There is no place here for friends of the whites, who are impure.” A postcard vendor joins the group and offers me portraits of Osama bin Laden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He agrees the Christians will eventually leave and Nigeria will be “free.”
Some professional disinformers will try to reduce the violence here to one of the “interethnic wars” that inflame Africa. They’ll likely find, here and there, acts of reprisal against the Fula and Hausa. But as my trip concludes, I have the terrible feeling of being carried back to Rwanda in the 1990s, to Darfur and South Sudan in the 2000s.
Will the West let history repeat itself in Nigeria? Will we wait, as usual, until the disaster is done before taking notice? Will we stand by as international Islamic extremism opens a new front across this vast land, where the children of Abraham have coexisted for so long?
Mr. Lévy is author of “The Empire and the Five Kings: America’s Abdication and the Fate of the World” (Henry Holt, 2019). This article was translated from French by Steven B. Kennedy.


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- The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) says the inclusion of referendum clause in the constitutional amendment will pave the way for the restructuring of the country
- Alhaji Shettima Yerima, the national chairman of the group, disagrees with the position of President Buhari’s administration that only the National Assembly can restructure the country
- Yerima criticises Nigerian past and present leaders for not including the referendum clause in the country’s several constitutions
The National Assembly has been urged by the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) to include the referendum clause in the constitutional amendment to pave the way for the restructuring of the country.
Alhaji Shettima Yerima, the national chairman of the group, disagreed with the position of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration that only the National Assembly can restructure the country, The Nation reports.
Yerima explained that the only duty of the National Assembly is to include the provision of referendum in the constitution to allow the nation carry out a nation-wide vote on restructuring report from the 2014 conference or the report of any other conference as may be decided by Nigerians.

He criticised Nigerian past and present leaders for not including the referendum clause in the country’s several constitutions.
He said referendum would have guaranteed member-ethnic nations’ right of self-determination as contained in the United Nations’ Charter.
Yerima noted that the country would have been saved the violent effects of agitations by militant ethnic groups in the country and other secessionist groups if the referendum clause had been in the constitution
He said the situation under the present political structure cannot change the high level of poverty ravaging the vast majority of Nigerians and the low level of development across the country.
The AYCF chairman pointed out that no amount of constitutional amendment by the National Assembly or bail-out to the states from the federal government would bring any significant improvement in the life of the people or improve infrastructural development unless the country.


In another news report, the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has demanded explanation from Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for the alleged arrest and humiliation of northerners resident in Lagos state.
In a statement made available to Legit.ng on Monday, December 9, and signed by its president, Yerima Shettima, the group also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to call the governor to order.
The group accused the state of hounding the northerners, mostly commercial motorcyclists, with the state's task force, who go to the homes of the residents at odd hours to effect arrest.


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You can’t force Scotland to remain in UK against its will, minister warns PM

•Opposition leader apologises for election defeat

Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, warned Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday that he could not keep Scotland in the United Kingdom against the country’s will.
Johnson and his government have repeatedly said they will not give the go ahead for another referendum on Scottish independence, but Sturgeon said after the Scottish National Party won 48 of Scotland’s 59 seats in the UK parliament, her party had been given a mandate for one.
“If he thinks … saying no is the end of the matter then he is going to find himself completely and utterly wrong,” Sturgeon told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show.
“You cannot hold Scotland in the union against its will … If the United Kingdom is to continue it can only be by consent. And if Boris Johnson is confident in the case for the union then he should be confident enough to make that case and allow people to decide.”
Meanwhile, Britain’s main opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn apologised yesterday for waging a disastrous campaign that handed Johnson a mandate to take the UK out of the European Union next month.

But the veteran socialist defended his far-left platform and blamed the media for helping relegate his century-old party to its worst performance since before World War II. “I will make no bones about it. The election result on Thursday was a body blow for everyone who so desperately needs real change in our country,” Corbyn wrote in the Sunday Mirror newspaper.
“I wanted to unite the country that I love but I’m sorry that we came up short and I take my responsibility for it.” Thursday’s snap general election turned into a re-run of the 2016 EU membership referendum in which Johnson championed the Brexit cause.
Johnson now commands an 80-vote majority in the 650-seat House of Commons, a margin last enjoyed by the late Tory icon Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. A sombre but combative Corbyn said Friday that he will step aside once Labour completes a period of “reflection” about its mistakes.
The party is expected to have a new leader in place before England votes yet again in local polls in May. Yet the 70-year-old has no clear successor after a year of infighting between a protectionist old guard backed by the unions and more metropolitan members with pro-European views.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/15/uk-pm-johnson-cannot-keep-scotland-in-union-against-its-will---sturgeon.html

I have said this before in this column and would like to repeat it; the Second Niger Bridge is not an Igbo Bridge. The South-East cannot claim ownership of the bridge more than Delta and Edo states. Just as the First Niger Bridge did not belong to the Igbo, the Second Niger Bridge can’t. The First Niger Bridge was built to connect the defunct Eastern and Western regions. Neither the Eastern nor Western region laid claim to the bridge.


Similarly, the people of Onitsha don’t own the bridge more than the people of Asaba. Anambra and Delta states are two equally gateway states on the eastern and western flanks of the bridge. As far as the bridge is concerned, the two are equal.

I have never heard or read of politicians/stakeholders in Delta and Edo states laying claim to the bridge as those in the South-East have been doing. The misguided insinuations about the bridge being of more value to the South-East should stop if the people really want the bridge to be completed, otherwise, the powers that be might decide to abandon it if it and nothing will happen.


My comments are a reaction to the recent claim by the Chairman of South-East Governor’s Forum and Governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi, who, over the weekend, reportedly described the pace of work so far recorded by the Federal Government on the Second Niger Bridge as a major achievement for the South-East geopolitical zone.

This is absolutely uncalled for. How is the work done so far by the Federal Government on the bridge a major achievement for the South East and not for the South-South and South-West that are part and parcel of the bridge? How could the South-East claim whatever achievement that has been recorded on the bridge alone without the other zones in the loop?

It bothers me that leaders who ought to be measured in their remarks express flippant talks just for political gratification. President Buhari is not asking for praise because there is not yet any major achievement on the bridge until it is completed. Pillars and cross beams under construction are not the bridge. It is the completion of the bridge that would constitute what may then be called a major achievement. We are hoping that the bridge will be completed and not abandoned. Until then, it is better for politicians to hold their peace.

What the elite should do is to help sort out any encumbrances delaying the work. Something like the court cases pitching the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing with the host communities should be sorted out for the work to continue unhindered.

Work on the bridge began in May, 2015. Ever since then, the rumour mill has been awash with all kinds of speculations. The South-East zone appears to be the most agitated. I would like to stress that the Second Niger Bridge is not an Igbo project. A bridge that equally bestrides Anambra State at Onitsha and Delta State at Asaba cannot belong to the Igbo alone. I, therefore, can’t understand why only the Igbo appear to be too forward about the bridge. Everybody should be calm and stop politicizing the bridge that would, in other climes, go unannounced until it is completed.

For example, last year 2018 October, the Chinese President Xi Jinping, officially opened the world’s longest sea crossing bridge measuring 55 kilometres with its access roads. Nobody heard about it while it was under construction.

But in our own case, not long ago, while the Ohaneze Ndigbo, reportedly warned President Muhammadu Buhari not to stop work on the Second Niger Bridge, the Aka Ikenga also issued a statement condemning the cessation of work on the bridge. Earlier on, the Ohaneze Caretaker Committee lamented that former President Goodluck Jonathan “lied to Ndigbo about awarding a contract for the construction of the Second Niger Bridge. There is no need for all this hysteria from the Igbo.

My fear is that these statements could derail the bridge project rather than enhance it. An attempt to establish the truth led me to investigate the bridge project. The truth is that the bridge does not serve the South-East more than it serves the South-South and South-West that have direct links to it. I am afraid that if this bridge is branded an Igbo project, it would be treated like everything Igbo. The bridge should be left to the Federal Government and the international investors to realise the project.

The first Onitsha-Asaba Niger Bridge was completed in December 1965. Built by the French construction giant Dumez, the bridge linked the defunct Eastern and Western regions of Nigeria. Today, it is the major corridor of trade between the South-East, South- South, South-West and North-Central zones. At the time the bridge was conceived, Nigeria was mainly an agrarian economy. Thus, the bridge served as the avenue for transporting different agricultural products – palm produce, timber, rubber, etc. Prior to the construction of the bridge, these commodities were ferried across the River Niger between Onitsha and Asaba using canoes.

Owing to rapid economic development and population growth, pressure began to mount on the bridge, especially during festive periods. The bridge has been overstretched beyond its capacity. There is apprehension that it might collapse with catastrophic consequences to lives and properties. To forestall such disaster, the idea of a Second Niger Bridge was conceived.

The Second Niger Bridge was on the drawing board for many decades. Successive administrations in the country paid lip service to its construction. It was President Goodluck Jonathan that finally flagged off the construction of the bridge and actual work started. To that extent, it is wrong to accuse Jonathan of lying to Ndigbo about the bridge. Jonathan thought that he would win a second term during which he would complete the bridge. But he lost the election. The history of the bridge cannot be written without mentioning Goodluck Jonathan.

According to information, the project, which is divided into three phases, will bypass Onitsha and Asaba to connect the Owerri-Onitsha Expressway at Nkwerre-Ezunaka, and then cross Atani to the Asaba-Benin Expressway at Okpanam with a total length of 44 km. With this length, the Second Niger Bridge will be competing with the world’s longest bridge in China (55 km)!

The project is being constructed under a Public Private Partnership (PPP) scheme. A Consortium, JB-NSIA, is working on the project on the basis of Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Transfer (DBFOT), at a total cost of N108 billion. The initial cost estimates may have risen owing to inflation. The Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), reviewed the concessionaire’s cost of N138 billion down to N108 billion.

The project phases will be constructed under Engineering, Procurement & Construction contracts awarded by the Federal Ministry of Works (FMW). The Federal Government committed to contribute N30 billion (28%) of the project cost. The remaining 72% will be raised by the Consortium under a 25-year concession. The Federal Government has so far committed N18.31billion as at 2015. Out of this, N10.4 billion has been disbursed leaving a balance of N7.94 billion.

A team of local and international consultants was engaged through a rigorous and competitive procurement process. The NSIA has spent the sum of $2.21 million on consultancy and another $247,586 on due diligence to determine project viability. The first-class advisory services are required to enable the project reach financial close – the point at which private capital is successfully raised.

Work on the bridge slowed down some time ago because of the rainy season that naturally stalls engineering construction work. Preliminary physical works have been completed. The Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA), is being done to meet the highest international standards to make the project eligible for long-term financing by local and international financial institutions. The Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) is reviewing the Full Business Case (FBC), and Draft Concession Agreement (CA). Once the ICRC approves the FBC, the CA will be signed and the Consortium will then raise the remainder of the project capital. On the strength of this, recent insinuations that the bridge may not meet highest standard is unproven.

It is in the country’s interest to hold onto this project because any review will definitely raise the cost owing to the depreciation of the naira. The cost of the project was reached at the exchange rate of N154/$. Now the naira exchanges at N350/$. No doubt, Nigerians want to see a second bridge across the River Niger. People should calm down. The bridge project has a development and completion time-frame of 4 years from financial close – point at which private capital is successfully raised. Soon, the countdown for the bridge will start for good if the Federal Government did not waver on this critical Nigerian project.

https://m.guardian.ng/opinion/the-second-niger-bridge-is-not-igbo-bridge/

The National Association of Itsekiri Graduates, NAIG, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to immediately withdraw the current nominees of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC and reconstitute the board to follow the NDDC Act, by nominating an Itsekiri man as the new NDDC Chairman.
President/ Chief Executive Officer of National Association of Itsekiri Graduates, NAIG, Comrade Collins Edema, in a statement released this evening, Monday December 9, on behalf of the association, noted that the NDDC Act explicitly states that the Office of the Chairman shall rotate amongst member-states of the commission in alphabetical order.



According to him, the Immediate past chairman of the board is Senator Victor Idoma-Egba, who hails from Cross River State, hence; “Adherence to the provisions of the Act, means that Delta State was in line to produce the next chairman and not Edo State as nominated”.
The Itsekiri graduates’ body stressed that the several petitions and court cases instituted against the nominees already screened by the National Assembly, attest to the illegality that gave rise to the composition of the controversial board.
NAIG stated; “It is a well documented fact that the Itsekiri Nation aside being the single ethnic Nationality in Nigeria with the highest Crude Oil & Gas production quantum is the rightful tribe from Delta State to be so nominated to fill the position of the NDDC Chairman. It should also be noted that it is the Itsekiri Nation that contributes the largest quantum of Oil & Gas to Edo State”.
“We wish to state that to neglect the Itsekiri tribe in the NDDC Board nomination, is not only a rape of our commonwealth, but also a slight to the Itsekiri Nation, being one of the few tribes that are signatories to the Nigeria amalgamation treaty of 1914.
We wish to let President Muhammadu Buhari know that the Itsekiri Nation has been a critical stakeholder to the protection of Oil & Gas facilities in the Niger Delta and has been the most peaceful tribe, thereby ensuring that Nigeria meets her OPEC quarter annually”, the statement emphasized.


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/12/naig-to-buhari-withdraw-nddc-nominees-appoint-itsekiri-as-new-chairman/?fbclid=IwAR2YF2yLRt7ub7ycq4Rbus_bQzBsZyhY3D3Gp5WFmZJzPEt9C-LdFYeOJpo

Relics of war still there.


Are we still part of Nigeria?

God bless Senator Ekpenyong for adding his voice.

Nigerian music star Davido is currently in Delta state for a concert
- The singer was conferred with an honorary chieftaincy title in Ibusa land
- Nightclub owner Cubanna Chiefpriest shared the news and congratulated Davido
Nigerian music star David Adeleke aka Davido, has been honored with a chieftaincy title in Ibusa land, Delta state.
The music star has spent the past few days on social media building anticipation for his concert which is set to hold in the premises of the Asaba stadium.
Well, it appears people in the east were not just excited to have him in town alone, they also dimmed it fit to honor him like a royal.

Popular nightclub owner Cubana Chiefpriest, shared the exciting news on his verified

Instagram page, and congratulated Davido.
"Congrats @davidoofficial On your title @prince_ii hometown Ibusa ! OBO Is Super Loved In SouthEast E no go easy for stadium," his post
read.


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A report on the distribution of Zonal Intervention Projects (ZIPs) has shown that the South West has the lowest appropriation of funds amongst the six geo-political zones in Nigeria.

The report was prepared by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC).

It shows the zone by zone and state by state distribution of the N100 billion constituency projects sponsored by members of the National Assembly in their various constituencies in the 2019 budget.

According to the report titled: “Breakdown of 2019 Zonal Intervention Projects (ZIP) Allocations,” the South-West got N14.28 billion worth of projects for the year while the South-East got the second least allocated funds for projects worth N14.85 billion.

The North-West got N17.97 billion and is the largest beneficiary of the ZIP projects, while the North-Central got N17.90 billion to come second.

For the other regions, the North-East, where millions have been displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency, was appropriated N16.06 billion and the South-South got N15.14 billion.

The appropriated amounts are different from the actual releases which the ICPC did not include in its report.

Formula of ZIP’s sharings

The zonal intervention projects in Nigeria were first introduced during the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999. It aims to ensure equity in the allocation of projects sited in the constituencies of federal lawmakers by various Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) of government in the budgets of the federation.

PREMIUM TIMES reported how over 400 participants from government agencies, CSO’s and Media, at a two-day summit attended by President Muhammadu Buhari, suggested that the mode of payment and execution of the ZIP’s were enmeshed in corruption and should be reviewed.

Similarly, the newspaper, in a major analysis on the sharing of the N100 billion ZIP’s funds, reported that the annual N100 billion allocation is shared on an agreed 60:40 per cent ratio by the two legislative chambers. The House of Representatives with 360 members takes N60 billion while the Senate with 109 members gets N40 billion.

It added that out of the N40 billion budgeted for the Senate, the leadership of the chamber takes N20 billion to fund projects in their constituencies with the remaining N20 billion going to other members.

More ZIP’s Allocation breakdowns

Of Nigeria’s 36 states, Kano had the highest appropriation for constituency projects (N5.2 billion). Zamfara and Sokoto states got the least appropriations at a total value of N1.4 billion each.

On the allocation to MDA’s, the agricultural sector got the highest allocation of zonal project funds worth N15.4billion, while the agencies under the presidency emerged second receiving N13.3 billion.

Other MDA’s include the Ministry of Water Resources, N13 billion, Ministry of Science and Technology, N10. 7 billion, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, N7.9 billion and Ministry of Education, N7.6 billion.

The Ministry of Interior, and the Youth and Sports ministries got N6 million and N10 million respectively.

Resolutions

In his remarks, the ICPC Chairman, Bolaji Owasanoye, during the presentation of the report, said the duty of the commission is to track projects until they are completed.

”For us, at ICPC, our efforts are not to say you have to stop constituency projects but to say if the law and money have been appropriated for projects and developments for the people, we would try and track it to completion. because that is what is expected of us.

Mr Owasanoye also said the essence of the meeting was to make citizens realize that every project in their constituencies belongs to them, as it is sourced from taxes and revenue generated in the country.

“Every citizen should know the project belongs to them, it is their right,” he said

Participants suggestions

Some of the participants suggested that the legislators should be involved in the tracking of executed projects.

Many suggested to the ICPC that it should extend its Constituency Projects Tracking Group (CPTG) to the local government level and that it should also track major projects and the appropriation of funds to ministries of works and power.

Some also called on citizens to monitor the extravagant lifestyle of their political representatives while many agitated for punishment for defaulters in the execution of zonal projects.








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Following the alarm raised by the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, FUTO, Francis Eze, over the destruction of their farms by herdsmen, the herders have been given 24 hours to vacate the institution.
This was made known to Vanguard on Sunday in Owerri, from the Coalition of South East Youth Leaders, COSEYL, led by Goodluck Ibem.
COSEYL, also called on governor Emeka Ihedioha of Imo state, to move into action now before is late.


Vanguard has been following the outcry by FUTO VC, on their predicament said to have been caused by the herdsmen pointing out that the herders’ activities could cause them a shortage of food due to the damages on their farms.
The VC, briefly said: “We are facing a lot of challenges just the other day, I was discussing the cattle invasion, destroying our crops which is really affecting our farms and what we should produce.
“Not just that the herdsmen are destroying our farms they are also harassing our students with cattle and we need to join hands to tackle it. These and many more are the challenges we are experiencing in this institution.”
Reacting, COSEYL, said: “We condemn in strong terms the incursion of Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) by Fulani herders who have taken over the school environment as its new settlement for grazing and habitation with their goats and cattles.”
It was the group concluded that the herdsmen should “Leave the University environment within 24 hours or risk been arrested and prosecuted. The southeast Governors forum has before now banned movement of cattle on foot. What are they still doing there? The owners of those cattles should move them out of the University premises now.
“A University environment is a serene premise for reading and other educational activities. It is never a place for cattle grazing or a settlement for pastoralists. It is an aberration to hear that a University academic environment has been taken over by Fulani herdsmen and their cattles.


“The most worrisome aspect of the entire scenario is that students mainly the female ones find it very difficult to move around the school premises for fear of been attacked or raped by herdsmen.
“The large number of these cattles frightens the students and makes it very difficult for them to go out to read at night. They now live in fear in an environment they are meant to be free to pursue their academics. Evening reading and preparatory classes is now a bygone issue in the school, thanks to the pastoralists.”
They also concluded that “The incursion of the herders into the school environment clearly depicts that the school premises are not properly fenced. Pastoralists and other Intruders can access the school premises unhindered. It is dangerous for an institution of that magnitude not to be properly fenced for the security of lecturers, the students and school properties and valuables.
“His Excellency, Governor Emeka Ihedioha who is the Chief Security Officer of the state should urgently make arrangements with security agencies to evacuate the herdsmen from the school environment to avoid any future clash with the students.
“Prevention they say is better than a cure. The time to prevent future clash or break down of law and order is now.”


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/11/herdsmen-in-imo-gets-24-hours-to-leave/

As shared by Mazi IK Ijezie


Congolese governor beating in Paris as he came for shopping spree. Ipob has open people eyes

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Abia State born lawyer DAVID NDUDIM named JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA USA.

CONGRATULATIONS SIR!

PRESIDENT BUHARI GREETS FORMER ANAMBRA GOVERNOR, VIRGY ETIABA, AT 77

President Muhammadu Buhari warmly greets former Governor of Anambra State, Dame Virgy Etiaba, who turns 77 on November 11, 2019, describing her as “the good teacher who completely altered the history of Nigeria as first female governor between November 2006 and February 2007’’.

The President joins family members, friends, professional and political associates in celebrating the quintessential leader, who worked for 35 years as teacher in various schools and different parts of the country before retiring and setting up her private school to further impart knowledge and skills to younger generation.

As Dame Etiaba turns 77, President Buhari commends her disciplined and focused life, urging her to proudly reflect on her legacy of building the nation by imbuing the younger generation with sound moral and education values.

The President congratulates the former Deputy Governor and Governor of Anambra, whose historical elevation and position in Nigeria’s history continues to resonate on the possibilities before women who can venture out to break age-long glass ceilings.

President Buhari prays that the almighty God will continue to strengthen Dame Etiaba, grant her longer life and good health.

Femi Adesina
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)
November 11, 2019

Don't despair, turn to God, Okowa urges Nigerians

Delta Governor, Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Sunday urged Nigerians not to despair due to challenges in the country, saying God will restore the glory to the people if they turn to him.

He made the call on while delivering a sermon at the 2019 Harvest Thanksgiving of St. Philip's Anglican Church, Asaba.

The governor, who preached on the theme: Harvest of Restoration, said that challenges may come not as a punishment but to draw the people closer to God.

"We are a peculiar people and peculiar people are not to suffer any loss; our God is a restorer. He knows our needs and we should know that the promise of divine restoration is tied to our repentance.

"Prophet Joel urged Israel to repent to enable them get divine restoration; a lot of things are going wrong and all that we do is complain and complain but our restoration lies in the power of God, only when we pray fervently and with repentance.

"We should ensure that our repentance is real because the Lord is able to recreate, sanctify us if our intentions are genuine.

"The Lord is able to provide answers to our questions; He is a covenant keeper and He cannot lie.

"Our Lord is ever faithful; many of us are looking for help elsewhere, it is better to trust in God than in man because, setbacks are only challenges in disguise.

"See your challenges as stepping stones to move on; there is no limitations to whatever God does, there is nothing that He cannot do," he said.

The governor added that restoration was dependent on repentance, insisting that people must learn to trust God always, no matter the situation.

According to him, divine restoration talks about a whole lot of things, your finances, your health, spiritual life, family and several others; whatever your challenge is, know that God is on the throne.

"Seek Him and note that obedience is very keen if you are to have restoration because, the Lord said He will give you beauty for ashes, He cannot be limited

"We should learn to glorify the name of the Lord always bearing in mind that if we fail to glorify His name, He is capable of raising up dry bones to praise Him," he said.

The service featured special prayers for the nation, the state, Christians, and special thanksgiving by the governor and his family, among others.

In the video they were asked to offload the rice from various containers in their bodies.








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President Buhari has paid tribute to his main supporter and nephew, Mamman Daura in a message
- Daura turned 80 on Saturday, November 9 and the president celebrated him with choice words
- In the message, the president assured Daura that his contribution to Nigeria's development will never be forgotten
President Muhammadu Buhari has released a message celebrating his nephew, Mamman Daura, as he turned 80 years old on Saturday, November 9.
Presidential aide, Garba Shehu, released a powerfully-worded statement late Saturday to eulogise the former journalist.
In the message, Buhari hailed "Daura’s remarkable brilliance from childhood at the Katsina Middle School and Government College."
This caught the attention of Northern Regional Government which led to him being sponsored for further studies in the United Kingdom in the 50’s and many years to follow.
President Buhari noted that the knowledge Daura received from his education has, overtime, translated into more wisdom.
The President also saluted Daura for his time with the civil service before joining the New Nigerian newspapers, where he rose to be Editor and Managing Director, before venturing to the private sector as entrepreneur, inspiring industrial growth in the north in furniture making, textile manufacturing, aluminium smelting and other investments.

President Buhari assured his nephew that his footprint on the development of the country will always be remembered and appreciated.

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Akwa Ibom North West

Results From the other 9 LGs

PDP (Ekpeyong) - 114 973 votes

APC (Akpabio) - 76,917

38,056 votes lead

Senator Nimi Amange former represented Bayelsa East in the upper chamber of the National Assembly. Recently, he threw the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party into distress when he suddenly defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) with his supporters. The lawyer and petroleum engineer spoke with PAUL UKPABIO on the reasons for his action, his lifestyle and other issues of interest.




You trained as a lawyer. Are you still into legal practice?

It is difficult to marry politics with other things unless you are just a political appointee. But if you want to hold an elective office, it is difficult to marry that with law practice. You cannot be going to court and contesting election. So I hardly practice these days because I’m still in politics.


You look trim and fit. What is your fitness secret?

(Laughs) I have always looked fit and trim. I try to keep fit. I always check the state of my health. I try not to eat more than two times a day.

You stay more in your Nembe home town these days. Why do you prefer staying there to living in the city?

Yes, I live more in the village. I actually don’t leave the village unless I have a very important thing to do or attend to outside the village. I rarely go to the city because I like to be with my people. I am a politician, and as the leader of my people, I could need their votes at any time. So I have to live with them and identify with their daily issues and challenges so that when I am representing them, I would not be a stranger to their needs. That is why I live here in the village.

You studied Petroleum Engineering and Law. If you were a youth, what would you prefer doing for livelihood in the Nigeria of today?

Initially, I wanted to study Medicine after reading law, just to keep my brain alive, but I could not because of political activities. When I left employment as a petroleum engineer, I decided to concentrate on politics. I was good in the sciences, and that was why I was able to study petroleum engineering. As a matter of fact, except for Religions Knowledge and English, I did not do any other arts subject. I had a good focus on the science subjects.
After Petroleum Engineering, I wanted to read Law because I was always pushed to leadership positions. At that time also, I wanted to study Law because I wanted to be on my own. I didn’t want to continue to work for the government or work for some other organisations, so I started thinking of a profession that I could go into and be on my own. I also studied Law because I took it as a challenge to excel even in the arts despite being a science major.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan said he grew up not wearing shoes. What was your own condition like in your early years?

(Laughs) Well, in my own case, I went to school during the day and fished at night. It was from the proceeds of fishing that I was able to pay for my school fees throughout secondary school.


Who were your role models as a youth?

I don’t really think I had a role model when I was much younger. But something kept me going, and that was the fact that I was in Biafra during the civil war. I saw the industry that was being exhibited by the Igbo then. Though I was still going for fishing at night to sustain myself, I took to trading early in life. That is why when I was in secondary school I didn’t find life so difficult. I had grown up fishing and engaging in small trading. That was the beginning of my business activities.
I remember that after secondary school I went to teach. My salary then was N125. I started business with my first salary. I didn’t even buy any personal thing for myself; not even bathroom slippers. I went to Aba to buy articles, returned to Nembe and sell. My stay in Igbo land helped me because I started speaking Igbo language and I was able to trade with them.



As a child, what inspired you to seek education?

After Biafra, I returned to Nembe and finished primary school. My mother was happy and she encouraged me to go find a teaching job. But I believed in education. And before I left for Igbo land, a secondary school had already been established in Nembe by the Catholic Church in 1965, and I saw how nicely they dressed in white shorts, shirt, canvass and socks and I was in love with it and wanted to be one of them. So I did my secondary school in Nembe, moved to Warri and then to Port Harcourt. But I attended the Law School in Lagos.

What was your experience in Biafra?

I am already working on a book about my Biafra experience. It was quite an experience. I was conscripted into Biafra army at age 16 and had three weeks training. Thereafter, we were to go to the war front and fight. But luckily enough for me, my aunt who I was staying with had a discussion with a colonel in the Biafra army who was a man from Nembe. The Colonel drafted me to S&T (Supply and Transport) and that was how I escaped going to the war front.

When was the turning point in your life?

At the end of my studies, I worked at Elf Petroleum, now Total. And after 15 years, I decided that I was leaving the services of Elf Petroleum. Some people thought I was mad to have taken such a decision because I was in a good position and earning a good salary. But I just decided that I would leave, even as the Chairman of the Elf branch of PENGASSAN. I regard that as my turning point because at that time, I was not ripe for retirement. My age was not up to retirement, but I felt I had to leave.
When I left the employment of Elf Nigeria Limited, which is now Total E&P, I did not go home with any money, because after my gratuity and all other outstandings, I was in the negative by N366,000 because I had taken a loan to build a house and another loan to buy a vehicle. Knowing that the following month I was not going to receive salary, I still took the bold step to leave regular employment, moved to Abuja and went straight into politics in March 1998, during the formation of PDP as a party.

Is it really true that you have left the Peoples Democratic Party?

I have left the PDP. I left the party when I found that an individual had decided to take over the party. This is not the way it was when we brought the party to Yenogoa. Party leaders were meeting regularly then to take decisions that affected the party. Party leaders allowed primaries and supported winners after general contest. But now, an individual, because he has been elected governor, decided that all the councilors must be his boys, all the eight chairmen of local governments must be his boys. Annoyingly, the person he picks to be his deputy governor is from the same local government with him. I looked at it and noticed that the national body did not do anything about it, so I had to leave for where I can be useful to my people. That was why I left to join APC. Definitely by the grace of God, APC will win the gubernatorial election in Bayelsa State.

You said somewhere that your hometown Nembe did not have a secondary school until 1965. Are you happy with the state of education in Nembe today?

This is one of the problems I have with the incumbent governor of the state. Former Governor Sylva, who is from Nembe, established a college of education before any higher institution in the whole area. But when the incumbent governor came, the first thing he did was to move that College of Education to his village. Have you ever heard of that? After that, he has established two other higher institutions within his own area. Does he expect us to be happy with his action?

If you were given the opportunity to go to the Senate again, what do you think you would add?

I am always working for my people. I joined politics because I wanted my place to develop the way the other places are developing. I am also worried about the 13 per cent derivation money. We are the major oil producing community but we are not getting anything out of it. We are getting nothing because the governor believes that the money is a windfall and he uses it the way he likes. It is unlike other states like Abia, Imo, Edo and Delta where they have created oil producing area development committees. Once money comes from the
federation account, that is the 13% derivation, it is shared between the state and the oil producing area development committees, which uses its portion to develop the same communities. But in Bayelsa, it is the other way around.
I think that Bayelsa is one of the states where that kind of committee does not exist, meaning that here, the producing areas do not have any development. You can see that the road from Secretariat to Nembe was constructed by NDDC and STDC. The governor did not do anything. If I am back in the Senate, I will try to see that the money can be channeled directly to the oil producing communities, maybe not by way of cash, but by way of projects. Also the Petroleum Industry Bill that has been lingering for so many years, I would try to ensure that the bill sees the light of day so that the nation can benefit from that if the bill is passed.

You paid your way through school through fishing in the coastal waters of Bayelsa State. How is the business of fishing now in the state? Is it growing compared to the time you were growing up?

It is not the way it was in those days. Then, you could fish and move out of your community. Paddle for just 10 minutes outside your community and you would get a whole lot of fishes. But now, you must move very far into the sea before you can get fish because of the pollution of the water. So we are not enjoying the fishing activities like we used to do in those days.

Your hometown Nembe is about 15 kilometres away from Oloibiri where oil was first found in Nigeria. It is surrounded by about 200 oil wells. How rich is the average person in your hometown? What is the average standard of living in your place?

Well the community is in the hands of the chiefs. I don’t know what takes place in other communities in the whole of Bayelsa State because I have not visited all. But I can say that this is the only community in Bayelsa state where the government is not doing anything in terms of development, because the electricity that we are enjoying is an understanding between the oil producing companies and the community. They gave us generators and gave us diesel to run them. Government does not care whether you have electricity or not. Then the portable water we enjoy in the community was given to us in the early 70s when Elder Spiff was the governor. We service the water system. The community chiefs do the regulation. If there is pump failure, it is the community chiefs that see to it. We don’t have local government activities here because the local government chairman lives in Yenegoa. He visits once in a while to come and pay salaries and returns to his place. Those are the issues.

You have not contested an election in a long while. Do you have a plan to do so?

If I have a space, I will try my best. But power belongs to God. I still have the interest of my people and I believe that they too believe in me; that I can represent them effectively. So if there’s a chance to go back to the Senate, I will do that.

Do you really miss the Senate?

Not exactly, but I am not interested in executive positions. I prefer the Senate because law making is about the development of one’s area and community. Some people may think that executive positions are better, but for me, I know I can contribute to the development of my people more from the Senate

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The Presidency has confirmed that President Muhammadu Buhari laid off some aides to Vice - President Yemi Osinbajo as part of the ongoing overhauling of the seat of government .
“ The exercise , which has been ordered by the President , is to streamline decision - making, cut down multiple authorities and reduce the cost of administration .
“ It is also an appropriate response to the general perception that the Presidency has an oversized and bloated workforce which acts as a drag on efficiency .
“ As may have been noticed by discerning members of the public , a number of political appointees among the few that served in the office of the President were not returned for the Second Term .
“ The office of the Vice President , His Excellency Yemi Osinbajo has, in compliance with the directive of the President , equally been shed of a number of such appointees” , a State House statement by Buhari ’ s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity , Mr Garba Shehu , said on Friday.

Thirty - five of Osinbajo’ s aides were affected in the exercise so far .


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Joy Oyaghiri-Fagbemi wrote:

This is PERO BUS STOP, Agege in Lagos.

One of the many evidences of 20 years of PDP bad governance in Lagos abi?

BEHOLD THE POLITICAL ERRAND BOY

By Femi Fani-Kayode

1. His helicopter crashed but instead of him to proceed to a hospital his boss asked him to continue sharing trader money.

2. A. Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Professor of Law, yet under him lawlessness is practiced: he deputises for a fellow who has no proof of both primary and secondary education.

3. They took a Bill to the United Kingdom for your boss to sign and publicised it to further humiliate you.

4. As an ERRAND boy, your boss sent a junior Minister to represent him in an event that you were present.

5. A real ERRAND boy... They have removed all your aides from Aso Villa to a rented apartment in Maitama.

6. ERRAND boy, you went and knelt before Abba Kyari to stop the criminal investigation against you.

7. We told you this would happen but you refused to listen. Today, your two bosses, Tinubu and Buhari, are against you.

8. As for your Pastorship, well, we don't know again.

9. Sorry! With this latest humiliation of taking a document to an ailing man without recourse to you, it serves as a confirmation that you are now a certified ERRAND boy.

10. The latest is that your boss has now sacked 36 of your aides in your office. Are you waiting for them to lock you out of Aguda House before you resign and go back home to Ikenne?

11. We don't pity you. You opted for it. While he's in the United Kingdom he sent you to his village Daura to attend the turbaning/coronation of an unknown Chief. So sad! We pray you receive sense.

Makinde re-awards Moniya-Iseyin roads for N9b

*N170m for free WAEC past questions

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state has given approval for the total reconstruction of the Moniya-Iseyin road to a new contractor at a cost of over N9billion.

He also approved the printing of 100,000 copies of West African Examination Council (WAEC) compendium of past questions and answer of ten years to be distributed free to senior secondary school three (SSS3) students at both the public and private schools across the state.

The Moniya-Iseyin road became an issue when upon resumption of office, the Governor visited the site and express dissatisfaction at the rate of works done.

The project is to be handed by KOPEK construction company
The project was initially awarded by former Governor Abiola Ajimobi at a cost of N7billion out of which N2billion was released before Makinde revoked the contract.

The decisions were parts of resolutions reached at the weekly State Executive Council meeting which held at the Executive Chambers of the Governors office, Agodi Secretariat, Ibadan.

https://thenationonlineng.net/breaking-makinde-re-awards-moniya-iseyin-roads-for-n9b/

Oyo state police command has discovered a torture centre in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital on Monday.


The Commissioner of Police Shina Olukolu is currently supervising the release of the detainees at Oloore Mosque around Ojoo axis of the state with the owner currently in police custody alongside his accomplices.

Although the numbers of detainees are yet to be ascertained as at the time of sending this report, headcount of the inmates at the detention facility is currently been done by men of the state police Command, with speculation put at hundreds.


Sources inform that the hint on the detention facility was made by a 17year old escapee of the facility


https://thenationonlineng.net/breaking-police-discover-detention-camp-in-ibadan/

"The Presidency has warned that "bandits are spreading to the South West".

-By Chief Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK)

Let me state this loudly and clearly: the Buhari administration, either by commission or omission, are the ones that have covertly flooded the forests and towns of the South West with their Fulani terrorists and footsoldiers who they now conveniently call "bandits".

Their objective is to permanently occupy Oduwaland, subjugate and enslave our people and castrate and destroy our reverred elders and leaders. This plan is part of an ancient agenda which predates the establishment of Nigeria but which will not work. It failed before and it will fail again.

We the sons and daughters of Oduduwa and the princes, warriors, footsoldiers and freeborn citizens of the Anagos are NOT asleep and we are not weak. We are not traitors, cowards or bastards. We are a peace-loving people and we do not seek war or threaten violence or conflict.

However if we are sufficiently provoked and if the ethnic cleansing, genocide, mass murder and gratutious violence against our people does not stop we will be left with no choice but to rise up to defend ourselves and resist this ancient conspiracy and evil agenda with every drop of our blood.

We defeated the Fulani in 1840 and we will defeat them again. They failed to conquer us 200 years ago and they shall fail to conquer us again.

Not even one million Buharis with his Fulani herdsmen, Haramite footsoldiers, Islamist terrorists and Arewa-controlled Armed Forces can do it.

We are too big and too strong for them and, most importantly, despite all our foibles and internal divisions, God is still with us.

We would rather die an honorable death in the field of battle with a sword held tightly in our hand than bow to the tyranny and subjugation of the sons of Futa Jalon and Futa Toro"
-Femi Fani-Kayode.

Imagine if this happened in an African Country

Americans sings against their president in his presence and all the president (Trump) could do was just to smile.

Who will try this in Nigeria?

Who?


Watch




https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=431654517727652&_rdr

Alhaji Salihu Garba, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday said Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the PDP will defeat Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos and national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) if they slug it out in any presidential election.

Speaking in a chat with Daily Independent, Salihu said there is no way northerners will vote for Tinubu as a presidential candidate if Atiku is also on the ballot box.

While appealing to Atiku not give up on his dream, he said after President Muhammadu Buhari, Atiku is the most popular politician in Nigeria who is acceptable to Nigerians from all parts of the country

“ I don’t know if Atiku will contest again in 2023 and I don’t know if Tinubu will also do the same. But if Atiku and Tinubu decides to slug it out as the candidate of the two leading political parties, then the election will be a walk over for Atiku because he will clear majority of the votes in the North”.

“Northerners will pick Atiku over Tinubu anyday. I also don’t think a Tinubu will defeat Atiku in the South- South and South- East. Tinubu can only make appreciable impact in the South- West” he said.

https://www.independent.ng/presidency-northerners-will-pick-atiku-over-tinubu-any-day-salihu/?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook

The Ebonyi state House of Assembly have been charged to insists on its independence
- The charge was given to the legislative house by a political activist, Ambassador Pascal Oluchukwu
- The activist said his call was a result of his observation that the Ebonyi House of Assembly was being intimidated by the state government
A political activist, Ambassador Pascal Oluchukwu, has called on members of the Ebonyi House of Assembly to always stand for and encourage what is right in its dealings with the government and people of the state.
Oluchukwu made the call in a statement sent to journalists on Sunday, November 3.
He said his call was a result of his observation that the Ebonyi House of Assembly was being intimidated by the state government.
According to him, the recent quick passage of the 2020 budget was in favour of some interests in the state, stressing that it was passed without thorough deliberation by the House of Assembly members and cannot serve the people of Ebonyi right.
While urging the state lawmakers to put the general interest of the state at heart, Oluchukwu also lamented the lack of autonomy for the lawmakers.
He faulted the idea of state house of assemblies depending on the executive, adding that i enables state governors to control the lawmakers anyhow.


Part of the statement read: “The purpose of the House of Assembly is to provide oversight on the executive and ensures that all actions and inactions of the government are guided by the laws and regulations promulgated by the legislature.
“When it comes to law making, the House of Assembly must ensure the laws are passed with the positive interest of Ebonyians at heart.
“Unfortunately, the case is different in Ebonyi, as the House of Assembly only ply their trades around where the executive domicile.
“They have all been compromised and have left the interest of the wonderful people of Ebonyi in limbo. Democracy seems to have lost its core values in just a very short time in Ebonyi.
“I urge the state House of Assembly to carry out their duties with integrity. They were elected to serve the people and not compromise their offices in favour of the executive.”

https://www.legit.ng/1272507-dont-a-rubber-stamp-activist-charges-ebonyi-house-assembly.html?fbclid=IwAR3hoh6XlQEYgwrjx70EFdFM1ULUy7uAF9MiUxKUm8Y4ub28KZ9LIi-_sso

Your insults mean nothing to me. You either accept the light of my truth or perish in the darkness of your insufferable arrogance and crass ignorance.

If you insist on calling yourself "Yoruba" please go ahead. I refuse to do so. I am not a Yoruba: I am a proud son of Oduduwa.

•Femi Fani-Kayode