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nwabobo:
President Muhammadu Buhari has declared the tenure extension of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman and other elected state officials as illegal.

The President made this known on Tuesday while addressing members of the National Executive Committee of the Party in Abuja.

He explained that after due consultation, it had become imperative to overturn the resolution of the February 27 NEC, which allowed the extension of the tenure of Mr Odigie-Oyegun by one year on the ground that it contravened Article 17 Sub-section 1 of the Party constitution which recommends a 4-year tenure for all elected officials.

President Buhari further stated that the tenure extension contravened the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which requires elected officials to present themselves for re-election after four years.

He, therefore, stressed the need for members to avoid constitutional infractions which could make the Party vulnerable to litigations.

https://www.channelstv.com/2018/03/27/breaking-buhari-declares-tenure-extension-of-apc-national-chairman-others-as-illegal/?utm_source=TW&utm_medium=ChannelsTV-+AutoPoster&utm_campaign=SNAP%2Bfrom%2BChannels+Television

Farmerforlife:
TSA has been implemented for many years by many other countries, NOI did not create it. She merely proposed it and was unable to implement it. A stretch of the imagination to give her the credit.

IPPIS is laudable and was WB assisted. She was also unable to push through its implementation during her tenure. It was the Buhari administration who had the will to implement it and fish out ghost workers in the FCS.

GIFMIS is not an achievement to be proud of. It is the barest minimum MIS platform for government accounting and budget management. This is the 21st century not the 19th. Computer based financial programs are so meh. Might as well feel overawed at a nokia 3310.

IPSAS had nothing to do with NOI. It arose as a natural consequence of Nigeria's adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards starting from January 2014. She is not a chartered accountant, and its rules and regulations are probably way above her head. They are formulated by bodies based in the EU, the Nigerian standards setting board has not set a single standard in two decades. They just copy either British standards verbatim, or lately, IFRS/IPSAS standards verbatim.

YOU WIN was poorly thought out and mainly an eye service affair. Better to use the money to provide an enabling environment for all entrepreneurs than to provide financing for a handful, little wonder that its impact has been insignificant.

SWF is also a given. A mono economy like Nigeria should obviously have one. This is standard economics and does not require a Harvard degree. Again, no blinding flash of brilliance there.

Except for YOU WIN, which is of dubious benefit, none of these are her ideas, just copied/imported policies, most of which she was unable to implement with any degree of success in any case. I do not dispute her qualifications, but I did not see anything overwhelmingly impressive happen during her tenure to warrant her idolisation. And putting up handpicked biased pictures of contrasting expressions of people during meetings does not change that opinion, sorry.

jayson87:
The genealogical results of bill gates ethnicity shows that he his 60% Biafra. No wonder he sees something wrong with this administration. Bill Chukwunedu Obi Gates, Bihari no go hear you, you are speaking on behalf of the 1%

Clerverly:
this article is a opinionted ed featured through the Cable online, why do you allow the mischievous Nwabobo a secessionst supporter to deceive you..

Why make it look as if The Cable News Wrote... Let us be careful of the antics of the enemies of Nigeria.

Campusity:
I wonder why most Nigerian roads are without road markings? These markings are what makes roads complete and safe.

Roads without markings are incomplete.

Ikechuob:
You're a gullible :-. No offense. Need who's help? Did they think of the children when they killed igbo children in cold blood. Did they?
Read your fucking history.
Problem with some of you igbos is that you give aid to those that don't deserve it. Smh

Farmerforlife:
If you read correctly, you will see that I compared him to the academic staff of Harvard business school, whom one would assume would be financially savvy enough to at least make some money for themselves. That is not the case. Fine, you want Fleming? Do you know that he is the product of a polytechnic and a hospital college? Hardly Harvard or Princeton.

By the way, what earth-shaking contribution to humanity did your idol, Okonjo Iweala, make again? It seems to have slipped my mind.

The Federation of Nigeria had a terrible accident January 15, 1966 and got into trauma. By July 29, 1966, whilst still in the emergency ward being stabilized, it was attacked by those who insisted that the accident of January 1966 was orchestrated, and so Nigeria went into coma. The attempt to resuscitate Nigeria at Aburi January 4-5, 1967 was truncated in Nigeria a few days after it woke up momentarily from coma there in Aburi.

May 27, 1967, Nigeria died. May 30, 1967 the Soul of Eastern Nigeria departed to a distant land known as Biafra.

Two months later, July 6, 1967, those who murdered Nigeria went to that distant land of safety and began the violent attempt to drag back the soul of eastern Nigeria in a place called Gakem. The soul of eastern Nigeria refused to be dragged back into the body of Nigeria.

The enforcers of one-Nigeria, aided massively by Britain and its friends, simply stayed put in Biafraland as an occupation force, pretending they had restored the dead federation of Nigeria.

When the dust settled 30 Months after, January 15, 1970, the violence that began in Gakem July 6, 1967 had littered the Land of Safety with the dead bodies of 3.5 million of the people of eastern Nigeria, two million of which were children deliberately starved to death by the murderers of Nigeria.

The terminal stages of the disease of extreme hunger, inflicted on those children, was called kwashiokor and manifested in heavily swollen stomachs, dry skulls with sunken eyes and shriveled bony legs that could barely carry the body. At times, the totally unclad children become too weak to stand and simply fell to the ground and lay still until waiting vultures, taking them for dead, descended upon them, tearing them up for the festival of human meat of the enforcers of one-Nigeria.

The Red Cross struggled its very best in an unprecedented and yet to be paralleled magnitude of operations, frantically trying to get food and medicine to the dying children of Biafra but the forces of one-Nigeria under the watch of one Yakubu Gowon, targeted and bombed Red Cross planes on desperate Humanitarian Mission, killing the foreign pilots and crew.

May 30th, 1969, in far-away New York, a 20-year old College boy named Bruce Mayrock, May 30th, 1969, doused and set himself ablaze in the East Lawn of the United Nations Headquarters, protesting the complicity and indifference of the global community to the genocide in Biafra, especially the mass starving of children to death. Security staff at the UN HQ chased the burning Bruce Mayrock around the field until he slumped at the base of the statue at the center of the garden. He died in hospital same day from the burns, but it was his dramatic action which he strategically orchestrated right within full view of horrified Diplomats that forced the hands of the global community to bring an end to the ethnic cleansing genocide in Biafra.

I attended the 2017 anniversary memorial event of Bruce Mayrock’s supreme sacrifice for the dying children of Biafra. My very generation, as a matter of fact. I was two years and a few months old, trapped with millions of others inside the totally blockaded Biafra when Bruce Mayrock gave his life to save the yet-to-be-killed Biafran children.

Even amidst the Vietnam misadventure, the 1968 US presidential election that brought in Republican President Richard Nixon in place of the Democratic incumbent, President Lyndon B Johnson, was basically shaped and decided by one major issue: Biafra genocide.

Still in the US, so grievous was the misery of Nigeria’s cruel genocide in Biafra that another young lad named Steve Jobs, completely lost faith in the existence of God and became an atheist because according to him, if God truly existed, there was no way He would sit back and watch the human carnage and utter misery being unleashed upon Biafra.

50 years after all these well-documented atrocities, not only has Nigeria carried on as if nothing happened and that the lives of those millions of Biafrans it killed as it tried to restore the dead federation by force instead of the agreement it freely reached in Aburi 1967, with the injured eastern region, that there will be no resort to the use force in seeking a resolution to the disputations emanating from the events of 1966.

Force was used to drag the east back to the defunct federation of Nigeria, which since 1970 had progressively morphed into a master-servant unitarist state, unilaterally defined by the true procurers of the military violence deployed against the east between 1967 and 1970 caliphate: The caliphate.

That unilateral redefinition of the union of Nigeria is encapsulated and codified in the fraudulent 1999 constitution imposed by that caliphate via Decree No.24. of 1999.

Now that the wider violent conquest and colonization designs of that caliphate, against the rest of Nigeria has become fully manifest, one of the principal actors on the side of one-Nigeria in the 52-year drama of death, attrition and debilitation, lieutenant-general Theophilus Danjuma, has confirmed to the whole world that the armed forces and police of the inverted federation of Nigeria, has been hijacked by that caliphate and deployed to aid and advance an ethnic cleansing agenda.

Danjuma therefore called on the endangered rest of Nigeria rise up and defend themselves and their territories from death and conquest, instead of waiting to be defended by the “Armed Forces of Nigeria” which according to him, were in collusion with the marauding so-called “Fulani Herdsmen” sweeping southwards in an undisguised conquest and colonization campaign.

If anyone is in doubt that the badly fractured federation of Nigeria has collapsed and is now being taken over by a vicious caliphate that has also seized the reins of power in Nigeria, as alerted by the lower Niger Congress since 2016 in a public communication titled “NIGERIA IS CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE NOW BEING TAKEN OVER BY A VICIOUS CALIPHATE”, that doubt should now be removed by this loud Battlefield Cry from the Hills of Mambilla.

To General Theophilus Danjuma, I say: Welcome to the morning after One-Nigeria.

Farmerforlife:
Nigerians and their obsessions with pomp. Did you know that the combined net worth of all the academic staff of the Harvard business school is not up to that of Aliko Dangote, a Bsc graduate from alAzhar University? Do you think that a father buying his way into getting his kid a pompous degree somehow makes up for pragmatism and integrity? Smh!

nwabobo:
(CNN) Bill Gates traveled to Nigeria to publicly give its leaders some tough talk. It was a highly unusual move but the tech billionaire believes the country is facing a critical moment.

"While it may be easier to be polite, it's more important to face facts so that you can make progress," the philanthropist told a room of Nigeria's government elite that included the president.

In an exclusive television interview with CNN, Gates said he wanted to speak out to implore Nigerian politicians to focus on human capital and its large youth population.


"The current quality and quantity of investment in this young generation in health and education just isn't good enough. So I was very direct."

The tech billionaire and founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation feels that he has earned the right to speak.

Gates says he has traveled to Nigeria for more than a decade and the foundation is spending $1.6 billion on programs here -- most of it his own money.

Their primary focus is health and their work has been incredibly successful in mitigating the threat of polio, particularly in the crisis hit northeast of the country.

Gates feels, along with many others, that it is time for Nigeria's government to do better. The continent's largest economy is moving out of a recession caused by a tanking oil price and moving towards a closely watched presidential election in 2019.

In many ways, the country is transforming, with gleaming hotel towers on Lagos Island competing for real estate and the wealthy fighting in the notorious traffic in ubiquitous black SUVs.

But dig a little bit deeper and the statistics are alarming. As Gates points out, Nigeria is still one of the most dangerous places to give birth and the country's very young face chronic malnutrition.

University of Washington modeling, commissioned by Gates, estimates that if investment isn't increased in health and education, then the per-capita GDP, rising steadily for decades, will flatline.

Gates says he wanted to spark action and debate and he certainly has.

Predictably, some see the tough talk as a rebuke of Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria's president, who has been struggling to get the economy on its feet and stamp out the persistent threat of Islamist group Boko Haram in the northeast.

On the street, many just want support from their government -- whoever is in charge -- because right now there often isn't much.

"These people are just trying to survive, they aren't being helped," said banker Moses Uchendu, while grabbing lunch at the popular Obalende market in Lagos.


It's a bustling market where vendors sell delicacies such as efo riro, a spicy Yoruba stew. Power outages are frequent and the only contact with officials is when they visit for bribes, say residents and traders.

Nigeria is routinely rated as one of the most corrupt nations on the globe. Although the country recently moved up 14 places on the World Bank's ease of doing business ranking, most of its businesses remain in the informal sector where there is little help and loans are hard to come by.

Few businesses pay their taxes and all these factors have hindered Nigeria from meeting its true potential, says Gates.

Uchendu hopes Nigerians are listening.

"I told my friends... that Bill Gates is saying the truth. It is better we are told the truth about Nigeria's economy. It is better we say the truth."

But Gate's message isn't a new one. Activists say they have been making frequent calls to invest in people, and end rampant corruption, all which have been ignored.

"These are not new topics. These are the issues that we have been discussing with the government. We have been engaging with them for so many years now," says Timothy Adewale, a human rights lawyer with one of Nigeria's largest NGOs.

"Nobody will listen. You know, actually, if they are sincere about the best interest of the people, they should listen. It has always been said that the greatest test of your commitment is your actions."

But Gates believes, together with Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest man and a close partner of the Gates Foundation, that if the Nigerian government does a few things differently, then the country is poised for lift off.

"I really think that of all the countries I have seen, it really hangs in the balance. If they can get health and education right, they can be an engine of growth, not just for themselves but for all of Africa," said Gates

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/03/26/africa/bill-gates-nigeria-buhari-intl/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

Kaymercury:
that's where the problems lies you only see what they wanted you to see its so saddened and unfortunate that you are oblivion of what's going on.the war has began long ago the war to reduce Africans population am very surprised that you are still unaware of this to you gates deals only in software?

Kaymercury:
the same greedy self centered gates that keep on trying to eradicate Africans through his laboratory poduced GMO seeds.Not trying to defend fg though but this man have hidden agenda

Your investment in health, education not good enough’– Bill Gates hits FG again


Bill Gates, world’s second richest man, says the federal government’s investments in young people, especially in areas of health and education, is not good enough.

He said this in an interview with CNN. The co-chairman of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation reiterated the comments he made when he spoke at the expanded national economic council meeting on Thursday.

At the meeting which was presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Gates had said the execution priorities of the economic recovery and growth plan do not reflect the true needs of Nigerians.

“The Nigerian government’s economic recovery and growth plan identify investing in our people as one of three strategic objectives. But the execution priorities don’t fully reflect people’s needs, prioritising physical capital over human capital,” he had said.

“People without roads, ports, and factories can’t flourish. And roads, ports and factories without skilled workers to build and manage them can’t sustain an economy.”

Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, who was at the meeting had defended the federal government, saying Gates’ comment was incorrect.

But in the chat with CNN, the billionaire businessman defended his criticism of the Nigerian government.

He said Nigeria would become an engine of growth if the government gets health and education right.

“As a partner in Nigeria, I am saying the current plan is inadequate. Nigeria has all these young people and the current quality and quantity of investment in these young generations; in health and education just isn’t good enough. So, I was very direct,” he told CNN.

“If they can get health and education right, they will be an engine of growth not just for themselves but for all of Africa.”

TheKingIsHere:
Comprehension is your problem.

Sanusi said that he was at first bank and UBA when the loans were made and now the loans were paid.

He made these statements as CBN governor(highest banking position)

Sanusi said that the loans were paid, or can you show us were in the write up I posted saying that the loans weren't paid?

Your attempt to smear Donald dukes name has failed as it is obvious with APC, a party filled with failuires

zoba88:
President Muhammadu Buhari, SSAP Hon Abike Dabire Erewa, Dr Mrs Naomi Barbara King, Mr. Baba Onabanjo, Amb Erika Bennett and other family members of African-American Human Rights Activist, Late Martin Luther Jnr pictured during the conferment of The First Black History Month National Black Excellence and Exceptional African Leadership Award 2018 at the Council Chambers in Abuja

cc; Lalasticlala, mynd44

Source: http://www.trezzyhelm.com/2018/03/president-buhari-receives-in-audience.html

TheKingIsHere:
I am wondering why you decided not to post this information (as far back as 2009) below.

This is what happens when paid BMC comes on board to deride people on Nairaland with their lies.

Anything from paid APC agents will fail.

Farmerforlife:
Possibly that Mrs Adeosun is fully and perfectly qualified to hold the post which she currently holds, and that the only reason you created this thread was probably to promote some vague and distasteful tribalist piece of shallow irrelevant drivel.

At least that is how I choose to interprete it.

TobiArchy:
cheap third rate influencers...
u dey here too
u should know Nigerians now know what they want. Kemi was born in 1967 in London, United Kingdom to Nigerian parents from Ogun State. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of East London and a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Financial Management from the University of London . She qualified as a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales in 1994.
She commenced her career as an Accounting assistant at British Telecom Company, London, from 1989 till 1990, after which she moved to Goodman Jones, London, working as a Senior audit officer from 1990 till 1993. She became Manager of Internal Audit at London Underground Limited , London and Prism Consulting from 1994 till 2000 before joining
Price Waterhouse Coopers, London as Senior Manager from 2000 till 2002. In 2002, Kemi became financial controller at Chapel Hill Denham Management and subsequently, Managing Director in 2010. After working with Quo Vadis Partnership as Managing Director in 2010 and 2011, she was appointed the Commissioner of Finance in Ogun State , from 2011 till 2015. She is currently the minister of finance of federal republic of Nigeria, from 2015 till date.

bamoski:
Pls keep quiet. Your comments are completely senseless and babaric.

RZArecta2:
Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) chairman Prof Itse Sagay (SAN) on Sunday said the law allows Nigerians to defend themselves from being massacred. He backed the advice by a former Minister of Defence and an elder statesman, Lt. Gen. Theophilus  Danjuma (rtd.) that Nigerians should defend themselves against killers. Sagay urged the Federal Government to investigate Danjuma’s allegations that the armed forces were not neutral. According to him, the allegation that the armed forces guide the bandits to kill people and cover them up were “serious”. Sagay said: “General Danjuma did not say that the military is incapable. But he accused them of bias and not protecting the people deliberately. That’s a very, very serious accusation. “And this is coming from such a senior man in Nigeria’s military – probably apart from former General Olusegun Obasanjo and General Yakubu Gowon, he (Dajuma) is the most senior former military officer we have – and he’s a man who has tremendous influence. “He has held important positions – chief of staff, minister of defence – so, he won’t speak lightly. So, his allegation needs to be investigated. “If there are elements within the military doing this, then the government has to take immediate steps to deal with them and put people who are responsible and patriotic in the positions.” Asked whether resort to self-defence by Nigerians would not result in anarchy, he said: “That’s an interesting point. It’s a point I’ve always made myself. It’s not an illegal measure for Nigerians to defend themselves. If you look at our criminal law, there is the principle of self-defence. “If someone attacks you, and you feel endangered, and you defend yourself, and in the process you kill the person, the fact that you were defending yourself is a complete defence to any charge. The right already exists. “So, I think what General Danjuma is saying is that instead of each individual exercising that right, they should begin to exercise it collectively in their communities. I think that’s reasonable too. “There is breakdown of law and order if you’re in your house and someone comes and kills you. I think there will be less danger of breakdown of law and order if that person knows that the next time he comes to your house, all your neighbours would gather and stop him. “So, I think it’s worse for people to lie down complacently doing nothing while they’re being massacred,” Sagay said.

http://thenationonlineng.net/law-allows-nigerians-defend-attacks-sagay/

AnonymousIP:
@VIVIANGIST

The International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague has indicated that it will investigate the September 2017 invasion of a community in Abia State, Nigeria by soldiers of the Nigeria Army during a military exercise codenamed Operation Python Dance.

This was contained in a letter from the office of the prosecutor in response to a petition filed to the court by a Nigerian award winning journalist, Mr. Ahaoma Kanu, following the military occupation of Afara Ukwu community in Umuahia in a bid to arrest the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, which led to the killing of several unarmed members of the group.

The letter with reference number OTP-CR-413/17 dated March 20, 2018, which is the second response by the court to the petitioner, confirmed that the military invasion and deaths recorded relates to a situation already under preliminary examination by the Office of the Prosecutor.

“Accordingly, your communication will be analysed in this context, with the assistance of other related communications and other available information,” the letter signed by Mark Dillon, head of the Information and Evidence Unit at the Office of the Prosecutor, read.

Members of the IPOB have come under constant attack by security agencies in Nigeria including the Nigeria Army, Directorate for State Security (DSS) and the Nigeria Police leading to the extrajudicial killing of hundreds of their members since 2015 when Nnamdi Kanu was arrested on charges of treason. After the September 16, 2017 attack on his country home, Kanu and his aged father have not been seen till date fuelling speculations he was being held by the state.

Following petitions by civil rights groups, ICC commenced and concluded preliminary investigations into the alleged killing of over 200 members of the Islamic M0vement of Nigeria (IMN) in December 2015 as well as opened preliminary investigations into the killings of members of the IPOB by the Nigeria Army soldiers in October 2015.

In a September 24, 2017 petition, CNN African Journalist Award winner, Ahaoma Kanu, filed a petition to the ICC calling for an investigation and prosecution of the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Tukur Buratai and all members of the Nigeria Army involved in the extrajudicial killings of the IPOB members during the Operation Python Dance exercise.

Dillon stated that,” Under Article 53 of the Rome Statutes, the Prosecutor must consider whether there is reasonable basis to believe that crimes within the jurisdiction of the court have been committed, the gravity of the crimes, whether national systems are investigating and prosecuting the relevant crimes, and the interests of justice.”

He went further to say that “Analysis will be carried out as expeditiously as possible, but please be aware that meaningful analysis of these factors can take some time,” promising to provide reasons for any decision reached by the court to proceed with the investigation.

The petitioner said he is very optimistic that the court will reach a decision to go ahead with an investigation because of the weight of evidence attached on a memory stick attached to the petition.

“I have no doubts that very soon the people responsible for turning the Nigeria Army into a killer squad which exterminates her citizens will be brought to justice. This is the second correspondence I am getting from the court and will be ready to assist the investigations as we have hard evidences to show to the investigators when the time comes. This will go a long way to show soldiers that use their weapons to shoot innocent people in Nigeria that the world is watching and justice will always catch up with them.”

by VIVIANGIST - https://viviangist.com/news/operation-python-dance-icc-investigate-killings-ipob-members/

cc - Lalasticlala

kaydee:
You're just an incorrigible slowpoke. A proper "ignoranus". I can't school a fool like you today.
Do you even know the meaning of "pedigree"? If only you do, you'll not spread that crap up there. She damaged her own pedigree by being a part of the looting knowing fully well it's being embezzled.

skillz121:
Atleast he was building projects

kaydee:
I wonder how some people made it through the University with this kind of brain,they must have paid through. Under your Mrs Pedigree's watch,Nigeria was looted to the max and she just watched. Both the original writer and the idiot that copied it need a brain surgery.

TheKingIsHere:
Which years? Why was the years stated?

Oga show us evidences to your claim that he left the state in debt that 5 generations can't pay.

If you can't provide proof just shut up

TheKingIsHere:
You are foolish.

Why show us 2017 IGR? Is Donald Duke the current governor?

Show us information between 1999-2007 when Donald Duke was governor or shut the fvck up.

Till date, Donald Duke legacies is still being talked about as shown in the image. No amount of lies can smear his name.