₦airaland Forum

joudini:
Contrary to the claims of two ministers of President Muhammadu Buhari, Sahara Reporters can report that a handsome ransom was paid to Boko Haram to secure the release of Dapchi girls freed by the insurgents early Wednesday morning.

Nigeria's Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed as well as Minister of Defense, Mansur Dan-Ali had denied that ransom was paid to Boko Haram to secure the freedom of the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in their school in Dapchi, Yobe State on 19 February.

The two ministers said instead of paying a ransom, the federal government relied on 'backchannel negotiations" to ensure that the girls were released by Boko Haram.

But investigations by Sahara Reporters revealed that the federal government not only made ransom payment to the insurgents, it also exchanged some Boko Haram prisoners in return for the Dapchi girls.

PHOTO: Boko Haram terrorists who came to Dapchi to drop off abducted #DapchiGirls preached in the town to a large gathering for up to 20 minutes.

A security source said Nigerian gov't exchanged some fighters of Boko Haram who left in their 9-vehicle convoy.

@BokoHaramWatch
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— Sahara Reporters
(@SaharaReporters) March 21,
2018

However, the lie that no ransom was paid to secure the return of the Dapchi girls followed a consistent pattern of such under the table millions of dollars payments by the Nigerian government to Boko Haram to secure freedom of abductees, especially since the advent of the Buhari administration.

It was believed that huge ‘ransom’ was paid to Boko Haram for freedom of three university lecturers and the 10 women recently released by the insurgents while between two to three million euros were also paid by the Federal Government to Boko Haram in exchange for the release of 82 Chibok girls in 2017.

The BBC had reported that millions of euro in cash were handed over to the insurgents in exchange for the release of the girls in addition to the release of five senior Boko Haram militants were bomb-makers.

"The ransom was €2m. Boko Haram asked for euros. They chose the suspects and gave us the list of girls who would be freed,” BBC quoted a source as confirming the deal with Boko Haram. Sources said Lawal Daura, the Director General of the Department of State
Services, DSS, who has been in charge of the ‘opaque negotiations’ with terrorists has, along with some government officials, build a big business out of kidnap for ransom
negotiations.

#Dapchigirls Boko Haram militants did not come with a single gun, they exchanged pleasantries with community leaders and left after dropping the girls off.

Analysts have also argued that the eagerness of the Buhari administration to pay ransom for abductees is fueling the thirst of various factions of Boko Haramfor mass kidnappings.
Nigerian lawmakers had alluded to this during a debate on the abduction of Dapchi girls at the plenary of the Senate last month.

The lawmakers had argued that Boko Haram now kidnap women and girls so as to negotiate and "get money” from the federal government "just like the case of Chibok girls.” “What happened is a lesson for us. That Boko Haram sees girls or women as value targets. What they did in Chibok earned them some funds, because negotiations were held somehow and they got a lot of money," Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan said during the debate.

“They devise a means of going to abduct people so that they would negotiate with the federal government for ransom. It happened with the recent abduction of Maiduguri staff that were on an exploration. The government negotiated with them and they got money. Now they have been empowered, even with police officers wives, the federal government went and negotiated with them and they were given money,” Senator Joshua Lidani representing Gombe South said.

“We need to be very proactive in this case because the idea of sitting down to always negotiating and paying ransom with this action, we are empowering the Boko- Haram so that they would continue to do more,” he added. SaharaReporters early Wednesday broke the news of the release of the kidnapped girls.

http://saharareporters.com/2018/03/21/nigerian-govt-lied-boko-haram-fighters-money-swapped-dapchi-girls-0

Money or no money thank GOD the are back

Zendinho:
In other news.... Just this morning the keke I
entered jammed A Range Rover From Behind All Of
Us, Including The Driver Ran Away

U FOR WAIT

akelicious:
... Says Not Our Employee!



In a new twist, the doctor's medical report which was tendered as an exhibit in an Abuja Court, a letter allegedly from the reputable Wellington Hospital in London on behalf of the former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) spokesperson, Mr Olisa Metuh has been disowned by the hospital.

Dr Adrian T. H. Casey had claimed that he is a Neurosurgeon working with Wellington Hospital in London. He therefore tendered a letter from Wellington Hospital to affirm that the former PDP spokesperson, Metuh needed to be treated urgently in the United Kingdom.

An investigation by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the United Kingdom revealed that the said Dr. Casey is not an employee of the hospital as claimed in the court proceedings.

In an email correspondence between the UK party anti-corruption unit and the Chief Executive Officer of Wellington Hospital, the hospital clearly disowned Dr Casey and went further to say that the hospital never employed consultants.

It is obvious that the hospital is not aware of letter tendered in Abuja court in its name and this suggests that Dr Casey appears to be just a private consultant to Mr Metuh and not employed by Wellington Hospital.

Mr Metuh who is facing corruption charges had arrived Abuja division of the Federal High Court, in a wheelchair for the continuation of his trial before the court.

The country’s corruption watchdog, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission had alleged that Mr Metuh had before the 2015 Presidential election, received N400million from the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA, without executing any contract.


According to Vanguard Newspaper, at the resumed proceeding on Wednesday, Metuh through his lawyer, Mr Emeka Etiaba, SAN, applied to be allowed to travel to the United Kingdom for medical treatment.

Metuh’s lawyer told the court that his client’s health had deteriorated in the past two months.

He posited the worsening situation of his health would require urgent medical attention from his doctors in London, UK.

http://www.akelicious.net/2018/03/busted-london-wellington-hospital.html

METUH , HIS LAWYER AND THE DOCTOR ARE THIEF'S. PLEASE SEND THEM TO JAIL

CastedDude:
A member of the National Youth Service Corps has been left seriously injured after an attack by some notorious cultists in Bayelsa state. Reports have it that the serving Corp member was butchered in Angalabiri community, Sagbama Local government area of the state in an alleged case of armed robbery two nights ago.

Two out of the four cultists allegedly involved in the attack have been apprehended by security operatives and are currently cooling off their heels in police custody.

The victim who had his hand almost chopped off - is currently receiving medical attention in an undisclosed hospital.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/03/serving-corps-member-butchered-cultists-bayelsa-state-graphic-photos.html

SORRY MY BROTHER

CastedDude:
Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West district - has reacted to reports that two criminal suspects allegedly working for him were arrested and paraded by officers of the Nigerian police force. The police said the suspects have confessed to being provided weapons and financial support by Dino Melaye.

The controversial senator took to his social media pages to share his reaction as he wrote; The venom of a viper does nothing to the back of a tortoise

A statement by police spokesperson Jimoh Moshood said the suspects, identified as Kabiru Saidu and Nuru Salisu, were paraded on Monday in Lokoja, the state capital.

During interrogation, they further confessed they were Political Thugs recruited by some mischievous Politicians in Kogi State to cause mayhem, and disruption of peace, and destruction of lives and property in the State. They also confessed to belonged to the gang of a dreaded and vicious kidnap for ransom gang under a gang leader (name withheld) whose where about is being investigated by the Force. The two suspects were identified by some of their victims.

The development could further complicate the ongoing political crisis that has seen Mr. Melaye and Governor Yahaya Bello enmeshed in bitter confrontations over the state’s political structure.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/03/senator-dino-melaye-reacts-arrest-criminals-allegedly-working.html

OK

kaluxy007:
If only Nwam...was good in Bedmatics
Maybe he would have added value to this woman's life

OK

odiks:
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain and former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs Godsday Orubebe, has urged the party to embrace urgent reforms to prevent its demise.

He lamented that the PDP “is still lost in depression and suffering from a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), adding that the platform had crossed the bridge from pride to shame.”

Orubebe noted that imposition, impunity, arrogance and greed were responsible for the party’s electoral defeat in 2015, stressing that the crisis rocking the platform was compounded by the mishandling of its last national convention.

The party stalwart, who caused a stir during the collation of the 2015 presidential election results by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja, said the PDP would need vigour, courage and sustainable ideas to bounce back to reckoning.

In an open letter to the PDP National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, published in this edition, the former minister said the party must accept that it made mistakes while in power for 16 years.

Chiding the party for not living up to expectation as a leading opposition platform, he said: “We have gone from a PARTY of Pride to a PARTY of SHAME and Gradually Receding into the ABYSS of political reality. For the simple reason that the nation is witnessing calls for the rise of a “third force,” we are fast becoming a Shadow of Ourselves.”

In Orubebe’s reckoning, the PDP had regressed to the same imposition, impunity, arrogance and greed that heralded its electoral misfortune, adding that its leaders are not building a culture of democratic representation.

Referring to the domineering role of the PDP governors, he said “the party is gradually coming under the control of certain individuals, who are exhibiting dangerous levels of undemocratic behaviours.”

The former minister said unless the grandstanding and imposition gave way to a healthy competition, the party could avert a looming doom.

He said the party should be liberated from the jaw of its exclusive funders, who have held it hostage.

Orubebe said: One of the biggest challenges that the PDP faces is balancing its needs for funding with established egalitarian values and internal systems. If the party continues to be held hostage by few major donors, it will continue to find it difficult to instil the values that will endear us Nigerians.

“We must take our appeal to Nigerians and through our reforms, let the party truly become a people-funded party. Small donations from millions of Nigerians will go a long way in the party’s financial requirements and will create the necessary atmosphere for true ownership among members of the party.”

Urging the party leadership to embrace reforms, Orubebe said the leadership should re-organise to break down the silos of loyalty and allegiance within the party.

He added: “It is my expectation that the necessary reforms will be put in place before it is too late to salvage what we have left.”

http://thenationonlineng.net/pdp-descending-party-shame-says-orubebe/

ORUBEBE I WILL NOT TAKE IT

dre11:
https://newtelegraphonline.com/2018/03/8-apc-govs-gag-national-assembly-elections-sequence-bill-pdp/

PDP FALL FALL FALL, PDP CAN GO HELL

Soreza:
THE ZOO IS USELESS WHO WON COME? NOBODY.

Sorry his in Nigeria now

KenOne:
Mister man that thing you just bought is a local rice bagged in a bag with foreign inscription. Come to Aba here and see people manufacturing bags of mama gold and stallion and other foreign bags rice to bag local rice and to be sold as foreign rice. I am a victim of these Aba boys, they sell it to mostly customers that comes from Port Harcourt, Akwa Ibom and other surrounding states or cities so that you will find it difficult to return it when you have bought them and left Aba town.

UR RIGHT THAT GUY DON'T KNOW TELL HEM

CoolAmbience:
I agree with you totally and dare anyone to mention the politician he/she thinks will outperform Buhari, under the prevailing circumstances, and let's do the dissections here.

Nobody for now

3Ebisco:
A former governor of Jigawa State, and a presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Sule Lamido, has warned Nigerians against repeating the mistake of voting the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and President Muhammadu Buhari, come 2019.

He called on Nigerians to vote out APC government in 2019, lamenting that Nigeria has deteriorated under the party.

The former Governor said this yesterday, in Calabar, Cross River State, when he paid a courtesy call on Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State in his office during a consultation tour of the state.

According to him, “Today, Nigerians are not only suffering under the yoke of Boko Haram, but also under ‘Hunger Haram’ and APC people do not seem to have a solution to any of the problems, therefore they should be sent away in 2019.”

He further accused the APC government of inviting foreigners in the name of herdsmen to invade the country and cause havoc in all parts of the country, saying, “we have never gone through this kind of harrowing experience as a country.”

Governor Ayade of Cross River said, “The people of Cross River State have been treated unfairly by the Federal Government. Our land has been ceded to other countries; they have collected our oil wells and our revenue is the least in the federation today.

”They’ve failed Nigerians’ On the call for the President to resign, Chief Anirahi insisted that President Buhari has failed on all fronts, saying “the Buhari and APC-led government have failed woefully on three promises— anti-corruption, security and social welfare— for which they were elected.”

http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2018/03/2019-sule-lamido-gives-reasons.html

Ur brain is not working

Acidosis:
https://independent.ng/senate-to-probe-illegal-importation-of-military-gear-by-gov-yahaya-bello/amp/

For pictures, see;

http://dailypost.ng/2018/03/09/senate-committee-inspects-prohibited-security-gadgets-allegedly-imported-kogi-governor-photos/amp/

With what

KingLaka:
that useless bello should never be re-elected. he's as useless as his master in aso rock

PLEASE GO AND STOP HEM WHO KNOW U

post=65694924:
Gov Obiano of Anambra State starts the distribution of Innoson motorbike Ambulances & medical equipments to over 500 Primary health centers in the State.

... all made in Nigeria by Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing company, Nnewi.

GOOD WORK

Angelanest:
Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West senatorial district in the national assembly has accused the Kogi state government of importing prohibited items such as military uniforms, bullet proof vest, night vision goggles, tactical boots among other things.

According to the senator, a committee which was set up immediately after he notified them - proceeded to the airport earlier today to see the contraband items.

Below is what the senator shared on Facebook;

I raised a point of Order today that Kogi State Govt imported prohibited items. Military Uniforms,bullet proof vest,night vision goggles, tactical boots, military belts etc.

A committee was set up immediately and they proceeded to the Airport. Jerry Omolara SA security to Kogi State Governor is involved. Kogi is in trouble. But God is above man. - SDM

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/03/dino-melaye-accuses-kogi-government-importing-military-items-see-photos.html

Dino u are a big fool

NaijaMutant:
And their end will be so shameful

ARE U A GOOD NIGERIAN. ARE U 100% GOOD IS UR END GOING TO BE GREAT

dre11:
• Come hard on Ganduje, El-Rufai, Bello

• Declare state chief executives’ highhandedness threat to democracy





http://sunnewsonline.com/senators-indict-govs-for-power-abuse/

NIGERIA SENATORS ARE BIG FOOLS

zakim:
A former Governor of Jigawa State and PDP presidential aspirant, Alhaji Sule Lamido, yesterday in Calabar, alleged that Nigeria has been hijacked and is being ruled by men who lack ideas.

Lamido said the ruling APC was only implementing what the former ruling party, the PDP, drew.

He stated this when he paid a consultative visit to Governor Ben Ayade on his presidential aspiration.

Lamido alleged that whereas PDP was accused of spending about N6tn on some national projects in 16 years, the APC had wasted more than N20tn in three years and had nothing to show for it.

He, therefore, wondered why only people in the opposition were being vilified and labelled as corrupt.

On security, Lamido said killing and destruction were no longer strange, but that the question now was, “How many have been killed today?”

Ayade on his part, described Lamido as “humane, people-friendly and man of depth and concern who turned Jigawa State into an Eldorado.”

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/nigeria-hijacked-by-men-with-no-ideas-sule-lamido.html

LAMIDO U ARE A THIEF

adioolayi:
The governors dey await all of them for primaries. Season films loading

Ur right

PSG BY BY SEE U NEXT YEAR

Aguoru122:
https://www.google.com.ng/amp/s/www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/03/06/ohuabunwa-apc-govt-values-animal-more-than-human-lives/amp/

UNDER PDP TOO

michoim:
What of under PDP, were Herdsmen not killing under PDP? Why is it that most of these Senators don't think well before they talk.

THE HAVE NOTHING TO DO MY BROTHER ONLY TO TALK

Aguoru122:
https://www.google.com.ng/amp/s/www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/03/06/ohuabunwa-apc-govt-values-animal-more-than-human-lives/amp/

WHAT HAVE U DONE FOR UR OWN PEOPLE

ChangeIsCostant:
According to reports, a group of suspected oil pipeline vandals were found dead after indigenes of the community heard the sound of a dynamite around the community oil pipelines on Sunday 25th February...It was later discovered that the victims, were caught in their own act while trying to blow up an oil pipeline.

Three persons were badly burnt, while two died at the spot, the other was still alive with some degrees of burnt.

The incident was said to have occurred on Sunday at Azagbene community in Ekeremor local government area of the Bayelsa state.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/03/vandals-killed-trying-blow-oil-pipeline-bayelsa-graphic-photos.html

GOOD FOR THEM

GOD U DAY FOR UP THE SEE THIS PASTOR ooo

comos:
gain which ground ?
are you in river state at all.
everywhere is PDP here

AM SORRY FOR U

stephenduru:
As shared by Chinedu....

'BLACK NEW YEAR.
Gun men resurfaced in Omoku though Aligwu shut dead people coming back from New Year  service'


Source: http://www.trezzyhelm.com/2018/01/gunmen-storm-omokurivers-stateshoot.html?m=1

RIVERS OF BLOOD

osazeeblue01:
The money Buhari is using to sponsor this faceless fresh PDP they called themselves is enough to create jobs.

U ARE A FOOL