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Politics / Re: Emir Of Anka Opposes Amnesty For Boko-Haram Members by morgist(m): 6:24pm On Mar 14, 2013 |
AMvanquish: spectator2001: Bigcake: Morgist stop exposing ur stupidity and ignorance in a public forum like this. Truth as we all know is very bitter so learn to accept it in good faith and stop being a tribalist. COOLDUN: what will you gain by doing this? i want peace more than you do, i live in the north and i know how innocent people are being killed every day. Do you think violence is what we want. think twice before judging others. What is wrong in offering amnesty to bokoharam? are they not the same with niger delta militants? the reason that every responsible man in the north want amnesty is that when there is no boko haram innocent lives will not be lost again. And BTW boko haram are not faceless the oga at the top knows the sponsors and yet he dont want to end this madness. You are not thinking with your head. what will all of you gain if the amnesty is not offered to the boko haram? and you will also not lose anything if they are offered amnesty. This is not a matter of sectioning, religious bigot and sentiments, shine your eyes And JTF cannot do anything to stop this madness they are in borno and yobe and yet every day people are killed and bombs go off. and they cannot stop the boko haram from doing it. all they do is kill innocent civilians and come to media to lie to us that they have killed boko haram. so i guess anybody supporting jonathan not to offer amnesty to boko haram is an enemy of progress and is part of the nigerian problem. I raise my case! 1 Like |
Food / Re: Is There Anything Wrong In Eating Dog Meat? by morgist(m): 1:54pm On Mar 14, 2013 |
eyenCalabar: What is actually the problem of eating dog meat? Yesterday, a NL member complained of his American bulldog from South Africa missing and everybody were pointing accusing fingers at Calabar people. I was just laughing as I read through the pages. I couldn't even comment. OLODO... 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Emir Of Anka Opposes Amnesty For Boko-Haram Members by morgist(m): 12:47pm On Mar 14, 2013 |
udatso: Emir of Anka in Zamfara State, Alhaji SEE an illiterate Emir looking for cheap popularity. Shut up nobody will love you. instead the boko boys will know how to handle you. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Boko-Haram Kills 7 French Hostages - Al-Jazeera by morgist(m): 7:00pm On Mar 09, 2013 |
Nigerian Islamists Ansaru kills 7 foreign hostages Kidnapped in Bauchi[Picture Included]
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Politics / Re: Nigeria Islamist Group Says Has Executed Seven Foreign Hostages: SITE by morgist(m): 6:22pm On Mar 09, 2013 |
Nigerian Islamists Ansaru kills 7 foreign hostages Kidnapped in Bauchi http://www.newswatch24.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=318:nigerian-islamists-ansaru-kills-7-foreign-hostages-kidnapped-in-bauchi&Itemid=562 |
Programming / Re: List Of Nigerian Software That Compete Globally by morgist(m): 1:32pm On Mar 09, 2013 |
Education: EDUERP PAYMENT: EDUPAY 1 Like |
Forum Games / Re: How Many Dots Can You See? by morgist(m): 1:50pm On Mar 08, 2013 |
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NYSC / Re: A Thread For Batch A Corpers Posted To Bauchi State by morgist(m): 7:01pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
call me when you reach bauchi. safe journey |
NYSC / Re: A Thread For Batch A Corpers Posted To Bauchi State by morgist(m): 8:44am On Mar 05, 2013 |
@reeeT How is camp Keep us updated about your experience and what is going on about your redeployment issues. |
Politics / Boko Haram Leader, Shekau Denies Ceasefire And Dialogue With FG by morgist(m): 7:19pm On Mar 03, 2013 |
The leader of militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has rejected talks with the government, according to a newly released video. The video was distributed to journalists in the northeastern city of Maidguri on Sunday. The statements were made by a speaker strongly believed to be Abubakar Shekau, who leads the militant movement. Speaking in the Hausa language,the speaker said that the group would continue to wage war against the state until Nigeria was ruled under Islamic law. He also denied a claim by a purported commander with the group, Sheik Abu Mohammed Ibn Abdulaziz, that there had been talks between Boko Haram and the government. "Abdulaziz has not been speaking on my behalf and I disassociate myself from him completely," the message said, adding that the group "has at no time offered a ceasefire and we are not in dialogue with government. Neither are we prepared for it until the conditions we laid down have been met." Abdulaziz, who is known to Nigerian security forces, told journalists at the end of January that there would be a ceasefire that never materialized. "I swear by Allah that Abdulaziz or whatever he is calls himself did not get any authority from me to represent me in any capacity. I do not know him," the message said. "If we per adventure encounter Abdulaziz and his group, I swear by Allah we are going to mete them with the grave judgment that Allah has prescribed for their likes in the holy book." Meanwhile,Nigeria’s military on Sunday said that 20 Boko Haram militants had been killed when it repelled an attack by them on a military barracks in the northeastern state of Borno. Military spokesman Lt. Col. Sagir Musa did not say if any soldiers had been wounded or killed in the attack, and did not address a report that at least one civilian had been killed. Nigeria’s military is said to routinely downplay civilian and soldier casualty figures. Musa said that the gunmen, armed with Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled grenade launchers, had attacked the site in jeeps and motorcycles. Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sacrilege," has been engaged in a guerrilla war, involving regular bombings across the north of the country, for the past two years. The group is blamed for at least 792 killings last year alone. source: http://www.newswatch24.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=245:boko-haram-leader-shekau-denies-ceasefire-and-dialogue-with-fg&Itemid=581 |
NYSC / Re: A Thread For Batch A Corpers Posted To Bauchi State by morgist(m): 12:02pm On Mar 03, 2013 |
reeeT: TB or AIDS?haba you,dats a very serious sickness ooo.4naw,i no d state is peaceful bt u need 2undstnd wit me dat i dt wnt 2be posted 2a village dats so far n full of boko bois.i wnt 2stay in town ok bt can a nysc staff fr abj influence my postin or is it only if d staff works in bauchi?hahahah who told you boko boys dey villege? Bt the posting issue is very simple just try and get someone in the camp they will post u to town and make sure say u told them ur profession and where u wanna serve. And also if they post u to a villege u can request for a redeployment based on security issues. |
NYSC / Re: A Thread For Batch A Corpers Posted To Bauchi State by morgist(m): 11:28am On Mar 03, 2013 |
reeeT: . Tnks.I tot redeploymnt is automatic in bauchi dats if 1wnts 2?Based on security purpose?I dt hv any medical report 2present i jst wnt 2go back cos i dt tink i can be safe there n i cnt jst strt changin my lifestyle 4a yr cos of dat.i wil so look 4dos incharge at d camp and i pray everitin works out.redeployment in bauchi is not automatic because the state is peaceful. I assured u, u will not regret ur service in bauchi. And if u insist on redeployment u surely need a medical report from a hospital in ur state and it has to be backdated like for a year or two. And it has to be either TB or Aids before u will have automatic redeployment. |
NYSC / Re: A Thread For Batch A Corpers Posted To Bauchi State by morgist(m): 9:43am On Mar 03, 2013 |
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NYSC / Re: A Thread For Batch A Corpers Posted To Bauchi State by morgist(m): 8:50am On Mar 03, 2013 |
reeeT: . Tnks alot.These NGO's,are they located in Bauchi town?if they are,do they request 4corpers?cos if am actually goin 2serve there it has 2be in town n it has 2be an NGO or smtin close 2it.Anoda question,is redeploymnt hard 2do there?they are located in bauchi town but they actually don't request 4 corpers. The issue of redeployment is not that hard just try and get to know the officials in the camp. With as little as 5k and a hospital clearance you can be redeployed to your state. |
NYSC / Re: A Thread For Batch A Corpers Posted To Bauchi State by morgist(m): 10:56pm On Mar 02, 2013 |
reeeT: Pls,is there any NGO's in bauchi town?i realli need 2no.Moderator or anyone servin at bauchi shld pls tel me I am actually not a serving corp member but am an indigine of bauchi state and i live there and i have all possible information about NYSC. and will be glad to help. so just let me know all your questions i can answer them for you. for the issue of NGOs in Bauchi we have two popular ones all headed by the wives of the state governor. There is Challenge your disability initiative [CYDI] headed by Hauwa abiodun Yuguda and ADrufai Foundation. Headed by Maria yuguda. |
NYSC / Re: A Thread For Batch A Corpers Posted To Bauchi State by morgist(m): 12:40pm On Mar 02, 2013 |
the NYSC Orientation camp is located at wailo, Ganjuwa local government area bauchi state. it is about 70-80 km drive from bauchi town along maiduguri road. |
Politics / Jonathan Can Contest In 2015, Abuja Court Rules by morgist(m): 5:39pm On Mar 01, 2013 |
An Abuja High Court just ruled that Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is eligible to contest presidential election in 2015. A claimant, Cyriacus Njoku, had asked the court to declare President Jonathan ineligible on the basis that under the Nigerian constitution, he could not take the oath of office of the president three times. Jonathan has taken the oath twice: first after the death of his predecessor, Umaru Yar’Adua in 2010; and again after he was elected as president in 2011. But the court dismissed the claim, ruling that the constitution allowed the president two terms in office. Earlier in the week, the Chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, Bamanga Tukur, declared that the president could seek a second term on the party’s platform. Though Jonathan has not declared his intention to run, his supporters are already asking him to. Some governors in the president’s party, however, accuse him of betraying a pledge he made in 2011, not to seek a second term in office. Babangida Aliyu, Governor of Niger State, said publicly that Jonathan signed an agreement with PDP governors in 2011 not to seek a second term. The president’s aides have denied the existence of such agreement. source: http://www.newswatch24.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=226:jonathan-can-contest-in-2015-abuja-court-rules&Itemid=581 |
Phones / MTN Kills Unlimited Blackberry BIS by morgist(m): 8:39pm On Feb 26, 2013 |
Cape Town - Mobile operator MTN is ending the unlimited BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) and replacing it with a new package. On Tuesday, the operator announced that the popular BIS, widely adopted by BlackBerry users, was coming to an end in its current format, and will be replaced by BlackBerry Absolute. The new service will provide internet data access of 200MB per month after which users have to top up with a data bundle, or airtime directly. According to MTN, the new service which replaces BIS will not have a major impact on consumers. "Our analysis of usage behaviour shows that the majority of our BlackBerry customers fall within the 200MB usage pattern on a monthly basis," said Devan Chetty, general manager: Core & IP Planning at MTN SA. During the first three months of implementation, set to begin on 1 March, users will be allocated an additional 200MB in terms of the service, MTN said. "While features such as voice calling, video calling and screen sharing fall out of the BlackBerry Absolute price plan, MTN customers can utilise any of MTN reduced internet bundles or the free 200MB data allowance for these services," the company said in a statement. The move follows the launch of the BlackBerry 10 smartphone that will not have BIS, but users were assured that the unlimited service would continue on the BlackBerry 7 platform. MTN said it was working to develop cheaper internet access for BlackBerry devices and the company already has tiered service offerings. "MTN will soon announce data rates to make internet connectivity even more affordable to BlackBerry customers," the company said. source: http://www.newswatch24.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=186:mtn-kills-unlimited-blackberry-bis&Itemid=448 |
Politics / Re: Wazobia FM Kano Closed Down. by morgist(m): 12:13am On Feb 23, 2013 |
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Jokes Etc / Re: Breaking News: Messi Arrested With Cocaine by morgist(m): 9:54pm On Feb 17, 2013 |
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Celebrities / Re: Kim K And Kanye In Rio De Janeiro, Brazi by morgist(m): 9:21am On Feb 10, 2013 |
What happened to Kanye shirt ?? 3 Likes
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Sports / Re: TB Joshua: Eagles Will Win On Sunday by morgist(m): 8:39pm On Feb 08, 2013 |
Na only football the man sabi predict! 2 Likes
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Politics / PDP Didnt Sponsor Lamido/amaechi Campaign Vehicles – by morgist(m): 9:53am On Feb 08, 2013 |
The chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Jigawa State, Alhaji Salisu Mahmud, has exonerated the state government and the party from having any hand in the recent Lamido /Amechi for president and vice president campaign vehicle sighted in Kaduna State. It, however, described the proposed joint ticket as an answer to Nigeria’s socio-political crisis. Mahmud stated this while reacting to the allegation that the Lamido /Amechi campaign vehicle sighted in Kaduna State was sponsored by the state government through the state PDP chapter. The chairman noted that different political and non-political groups have been calling for Governor Lamido to contest presidential election in 2015, and if that was yearning of Nigerians, the people of Jigawa State were ready to support them in finding lasting solution to the Nigerian problems. “We in Jigawa know Lamido better than other people, and I am optimistic that if Lamido and Amaechi are given chance to lead this country, they could bail it out from the present difficult condition we have fallen into. “Governor Lamido has all qualities required for anybody to lead Nigeria; he is a grassroots and seasoned politician with vast knowledge and experience in the history of Nigerian politics and socio-economic problem. He is also a nationalist with a high level of concern for the betterment of the common man; likewise his propose running mate, Governor Rotimi Amaechi. source: http://www.newswatch24.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=227:we-never-sponsored-lamido-amaechi-campaign-vehicles-%E2%80%93-jigawa-pdp&Itemid=581 |
Politics / Opposition Reps Give Jonathan Ultimatum To Sign 2013 Budget by morgist(m): 9:40am On Feb 08, 2013 |
Opposition members of the House of Representatives have challenged President Goodluck Jonathan to sign the 2013 budget or face an override of his veto by the legislature. The National Assembly passed the 2013 Appropriation Act on December 20, 2012, and subsequently transmitted it to the president for approval. There have been speculations that the president has withdrawn his assent and returned the budget to the House. In a press conference yesterday, the minority lawmakers also threw their weight behind the merger of their parties to create the All Progressives Congress (APC). Members of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) , however, disowned the declaration. Leader of the opposition caucus in the Green Chamber, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, called the president to immediately approve the 2013 budget, saying the House was ready to cooperate with him to iron out any contentious issues that might be inherent in the document. “Mr President should quickly sign the 2013 budget and we will work with him on this if there are genuine grey areas. We are already in February and a situation where the legislature will have to override his presidential veto as constitutionally provided is not a good way to start the year or foster a good legislative/executive relationship. If two heads are better than one, 360 heads are better than one,” he said. Flanked by deputy minority leader Hon Abdulrahman Kawu, minority whip Hon Ahmed Datti, Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa and other members, the opposition caucus leader described the impending merger as “a true rainbow coalition of colours that will brighten the darkness we have been plunged into as a nation over the past decade.” Meanwhile, a former gubernatorial candidate of APGA in Anambra State and serving member of the House of Representatives, Hon Uche Ekwunife, distanced her party from the merger, saying that members of her party were neither consulted nor were they part of the merger of the opposition parties. Reacting to the presence of the Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha, a member of APGA, at the merger talks, Ekwunife said he might have joined the talks on personal grounds and in exercise of his freedom to associate with others. source: http://www.newswatch24.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=226:opposition-reps-give-jonathan-ultimatum-to-sign-2013-budget&Itemid=581 |
Politics / Boko Haram Training Camps Found In Mali - ‘over 200 Nigerians Trained by morgist(m): 8:45am On Feb 06, 2013 |
Hundreds of Boko Haram members stayed at training camps with Malian militants for months in Timbuktu, learning to fix Kalashnikovs and launch shoulder-fired weapons, a report has said. The Nigerians fled the city into the desert, along with the other militants, days before a French airstrike on January 20, American newspaper Wall Street Journal reported. A man who said he was hired to cook for the militants said the Boko Haram members trained for about 10 months at what is now a bombed-out customs-police building on Timbuktu’s desert fringe, intermingling with a local al Qaeda offshoot called Ansar Dine. “Every day I saw people coming here, saying they want to sign up,” said the man, whose description of the militants’ activities matched those offered by four neighbours. The Wall Street Journal quoted locals as saying that until just a few weeks ago, the bombed-out customs-police building in Timbuktu was one of bustling training centers populated not only by local al Qaeda-linked militants but also by hundreds of Boko Haram members. Well over 200 Nigerians arrived in Timbuktu in April 2012 in about 300 cars, the cook said, after al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) swept into the city. Residents said about 50 Boko Haram militants lived and trained at the customs building, and 50 more lived in an annex across a giant sandy lot, while others took up in other abandoned government buildings. The presence of Nigerian trainees in Mali confirms statements earlier made by authorities that some Boko Haram fighters trained in Mali. Last year, a senior security chief gave a briefing in which he said Nigeria was going to Mali primarily to uproot the Boko Haram training facilities. Also, Chief of Army Staff Lt-General Azubuike Ihejirika said last month that Boko Haram received training in Mali, making it imperative for Nigerian troops to join the international campaign to free northern Mali from militants. Running a war college The Wall Street Journal report quoted neighbours as saying that in Timbuktu, AQIM ran a sophisticated war college from several abandoned buildings. Judging by locals’ accounts of the training, this was where Boko Haram militants gained skills to allow them to expand beyond their typical quick-hit bomb strikes. On dunes just west of the customs house, Boko Haram fighters fired shoulder-fired arms, the cook and four neighbors said—though it couldn’t be determined if they were describing sophisticated rockets or more rudimentary mortars. In its Nigeria attacks, Boko Haram appears not to have used shoulder-mounted weapons. Within a week of the foreign militants’ arrival, the al Qaeda-backed groups began offering jobs to locals. A gunman came to the cook’s door, looking for someone fluent in the Hausa language—which the cook had learned in Kumasi, a trading town in Ghana with a large Hausa population. They paid him about N3,000 a day, he said, to cook for Ansar Dine and Boko Haram. A restaurateur said he sometimes brought tubs of couscous and spaghetti to the training camp, but said the Boko Haram fighters didn’t extend much courtesy to locals. “They are extremely rude,” said the restaurateur, adding: “They pay whatever price you want.” On a typical day, after rising before dawn to pray and read the Quran, the militants ran five laps around the sand-choked lot, the size of several football fields, said the cook and neighbors who witnessed the exercises. After push-ups in the sand, the militants ate a breakfast of bread and powdered milk. They then met with specialists, the cook said. He described an arms specialist from Pakistan, who he said taught Boko Haram and Ansar Dine members how to break apart and reassemble assault rifles, over and over again. There was a computer specialist who appeared, to the cook, to be mostly occupied making fliers extolling the fundamentalist cause. A heavy arms specialist who the cook said was from Afghanistan told militants how to breathe steadily when firing a shoulder-mounted rocket. “Swear to God, every day, new people, they come,” said Moulhar Arby, a girl in the earthen-wall house next door to the customs office. “Nobody knows how they come here.” Commanders from Boko Haram and Ansar Dine gave newcomers 4,000 West African CFA, the local equivalent of N1,250, to enlist, the cook said. After training, he said, recruits were given about N4,700—their first taste of money following months of sharing bathrooms with scores of militants. Days before the French bomb hollowed out the customs building, the Nigerians sneaked away, neighbors said. Every night, a few came back to toggle the lights, these people said, presumably to convey to surveillance planes above that Boko Haram was still in Timbuktu, the report said. source: http://www.newswatch24.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=210:boko-haram-training-camps-found-in-mali-%E2%80%98over-200-nigerians-trained-for-10-months-in-timbuktu%E2%80%99&Itemid=581 |
Politics / "Sack Diezani Alison-madueke, Godsday Orubebe Now Or Lose Our Support" -jonathan by morgist(m): 11:48pm On Jan 27, 2013 |
(Press Release) - We the members of the Goodluck Transformation Monitoring Group have watched with dismay the poor performance of two of the ministers from the Niger Delta Region- Diezani Alison-Madueke and Godsday Orubebe, who hail from the same zone with Mr. President. We are sad that since their appointment as ministers since 2010, the two ministers have failed to adequately assist Mr. President in accelerating the Transformation Agenda, thereby bringing undue negative publicity to the president and his government and by extension the people of Niger Delta in particular and Nigeria in general. We are uncomfortable with the presence of the two ministers in the cabinet of Mr. President for their obvious failure to add even marginal value to the administration and the wellbeing of Nigerians thereby adding to the hardship of the people of the country. We are therefore calling for the immediate sack of the two ministers for the following reasons: Diezani The Petroleum Minister has shown complete ineptitude and visionlessness in transforming the Nigerian oil and gas industry since she was appointed minister. It is worrisome that under her close watch, the level of corruption in the oil industry has reached an unprecedented alarming proportion, as evidence in the monumental looting of about N2 trillion of the oil money under a scandalous subsidy scheme, which has further exposed Nigeria and Nigerians to international opium. We are at a loss as to how an oil industry official like Diezani has not been able to instill sanity in the oil industry till date. It is painful that under her supervision, Nigeria is still unable to know the exact quantity of oil pumped, sold and what amount is generated. Sadly too, the minister has proved to Nigerians that she does not know what quantity of PMS Nigeria imports daily and what the country is paying for. The unmitigated fraud in the system, which the minister pretends not to know is what led to the federal government spending about N2 trillion last year out of the N245 billion budgeted by the government. Keeping a minister like Diezani at the helm of the oil industry would not only lead to more losses for the nation but would also create a class for a few rich while the majority of Nigerians die in poverty and squalor. Godsday Orubebe, who has been Minister of Niger Delta since 2009 should also be shoved aside with immediate effect because he has shown clearly that he lacks the capacity and the commitment to bring about the development of the region. It is on record that minister Orubebe has woefully failed to complete any single project in the last three years of his ministerial outing, the most shameful and disastrous being the scandalous East-West Road, which is now a source of deaths and sorrow to the people of Nigeria. It is said that as an indigene of the region, who should show sympathy and empathy with the suffering of the people, Orubebe has taken interest in satisfying personal interest than meet the needs of the people of the Niger Delta region and Nigeria. Most shameful and disappointing of Orubebe is that he lacks ideas and innovations capable of attracting investments into the region, which has suffered decades of monumental decay and deprivation. By his failure to creatively meet the yearnings and aspirations of the Niger Delta, the purpose of creating that Ministry has been defeated and the opportunity to redeem the region gradually lost by the government. What is equally baffling is Orubebe's misplaced priority in abandoning his assigned role as a minister and engaging in the frivolity of undue politicking by attacking a governor whose duties do not in any way conflict with those of the minister of Niger Delta, thereby bringing Mr. President, who is hails from the troubled region, to ridicule. We are aware that the nine Skills Development Centres designed by the Ministry, the state offices, land reclamation projects and the some housing projects spread in the nine Niger Delta states have remained as white elephant projects under minister Orubebe and he has failed to complete any of these projects despite the yearly appropriation of money to them. It is on the basis of these reasons that we call on Mr. President to urgently remove ministers Diezani and Orubebe from the cabinet and replace them with people who have the capacity to perform and do so honestly and transparency so as to save the image of Mr. President and Nigeria. We have no faith in the two ministers and they should go without further delay. As the group that monitors the transformation agenda of Mr. President to ensure that what he promised Nigerians are translated into reality by government functionaries, we will not stop to pinpoint the bad eggs in the government for appropriate sanctions by Mr. President. We will therefore continue to expose any member of the cabinet whose action or inactions are capable of dragging the name of the administration of Goodluck Jonathan in the mud and slow the development of Nigeria. Moses Siloko Siasia Chairman Goodluck Transformational Monitoring Group PLOT 3379B Mungo Park Close, Off Jesse Jackson Street, Asokoro Extension, Abuja source:http://newswatch24.com |
Politics / Merger: New Party Considers Ribadu, El-rufai For 2015 by morgist(m): 11:36pm On Jan 27, 2013 |
Opposition parties in merger negotiations are said to be shopping for a young Northerner with a pan-Nigerian disposition that will fly the presidential flag of the new party come 2015. This search is part of the plan of the merger partners if the Congress for Progressive Change candidate in 2011, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd)drops his ambition. It has been gathered that the names of the former Minister for the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai and the Action Congress of Nigeria presidential candidate in 2011, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu are being mooted. However, the search team is looking beyond these two and extending to technocrats with progressive disposition. A requirement is that such a candidate must be able to take on President Goodluck Jonathan or any other politician flying the PDP flag in 2015. A CPC chieftain who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said, “We are working on a plan B. If Gen. Buhari does not contest, the parties will shift attention to younger candidates. “Our search will be extended to non-politicians, including young technocrats from the North. El-Rufai and Ribadu will be among the pool of candidates who will be screened.” Buhari had said that his 2011 presidential run was to be his last. B ut at the inauguration of the CPC merger committee on January 16, 2013, Buhari said the outcome of the merger would determine his 2015 ambition. It was earlier reported that Buhari might drop his presidential ambition as parties in the merger had an initial understanding that leaders must be ready to make personal sacrifices for the success of the merger. Such a sacrifice, it was gathered, might see Buhari dropping his presidential ambition, if it would thwart the merger plan. An aide to el-Rufai, who spoke in confidence, said, “There have been various speculations. There was a report that there was tension between Gen. Buhari and el-Rufai. There is nothing of such. “The former minister is concerned with the success of the ongoing talks among some opposition parties.” Efforts to get Ribadu failed as calls to his mobile phone did not go through, neither did he respond to a text message sent to him. A member of the PDP Board of Trustees, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, had said the merger plan by opposition parties would not stop the PDP from emerging victorious in 2015 elections. Iwuanyanwu described the move as one that would neither pull PDP down nor succeed. “As a democrat, I should sound a note of warning; I have read recently about the coming together of some political parties. They are not coming together on the basis of ideology. They are coming together because they are afraid that unless they gang up, PDP will win the elections in 2015. This is a wrong political calculation.” The parties involved in the merger have however accused the PDP of frustrating their plan. They said the merger plans had driven the PDP-led Federal Government to resort to tactics aimed at tarnishing the image of key opposition leaders. source:http://newswatch24.com |
Politics / Re: Nigerian Policemen Dancing On Duty (pix) by morgist(m): 11:34pm On Jan 27, 2013 |
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Politics / 74 Passengers Escape Air Crash, After Abuja-bound Plane Develops Fault 15 Minute by morgist(m): 11:27pm On Jan 27, 2013 |
What would have been another air disaster was on Sunday, averted by whiskers as an Abuja-bound aircraft made a dramatic return to Lagos when one of its engines developed a mechanical fault mid-air. On board the aircraft which belongs to Med-View Airline were 73 passengers including Mr. Donald Ojogo, the newly appointed Politics Editor, Abuja, of the Independent Newspapers Limited, publishers of Daily Independent, Saturday Independent and Sunday Independent. The Lagos-Abuja bound flight, VL2104, scheduled for 12 noon on Sunday had taken off at exactly 12.15 pm, 15 minutes behind schedule. But at exactly 12.30, about five minutes after the seat belt signs were put off, there was a loud bang at the engine side of the aircraft forcing it to drop in altitude even as it became unstable, swerving slowly and steadily in left and right directions for about two minutes. The development elicited instant prayers, wailings and cries from the passengers, most of whom were women with the silence of the Aircraft Crew, especially the Pilot, further heightening tension in the plane. source: http://newswatch24.com |
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