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omenka:
Wow, really?? Heard you ***ked a cow last night. How much "atoms" of truth is there in that

youngberry001:
which kind shi*t protest is that if they can't not be control by police make unah call us soldiers to wipe them off no west time



#team-military

“Apart from this, our duty is to move them from prison to court for trial and since they have not been convicted, how can we transfer them to other states outside the jurisdiction of the court where they would be tried? People are just saying things they know nothing about, there is no truth to the rumours that we are transferring terror suspects to other states.”

Adeoba10:
U hear rumour, u carry placards, if dey come carry out d action nko...

Horlawoomey:
Its one Nigeria now.

Commercial activities were paralysed on Saturday in Anambra State following protests by traders across the state.

The traders, who closed their shops as early as 9am in major cities of Onitsha, Awka, Nnewi, Ekwulobia and Agulu, took to the streets protesting what they termed plan by the Federal Government to transfer Boko Haram detainees to prisons in the state.

At Tarzan junction, Nkpor in Idemili North Local Government Area of the state, traders and other residents blocked the Enugu – Onitsha Expressway chanting songs suggesting they would be forced to revive the clamour for Biafran Republic if pushed to the wall.

The traders carried placards bearing inscriptions like ‘Buhari should not destroy the peace in Anambra State,’ ‘Biafra kanyi choro’ (We want Biafra), ‘Buhari, Igbos cannot accept your prisoners, ‘We do not want Boko Haram in Anambra,’ ‘Federal Government, why extend Boko Haram to Anambra?’ and ‘Boko Haram prisoners are not allowed here.’

Speaking with journalists during the protests, the Secretary-General, Anambra State Amalgamated Traders Association, Chief Chuma Elucharu, stated that traders in the state decided to shut markets to protest the rumoured relocation of Boko Haram detainees to the state.

Eluchraru said the protests would be continuous until the Federal Government assured that there was no such plan.

At Onitsha, the protesters threatened to be violent should the rumour proved to be true.

There was tension as police used tear gas to disperse the protesters.

While addressing the traders, the President-General of AMATAAS, Chief Okwudili Ezenwankwo, urged them to be calm, saying further consultation would be made by the association to get clear picture of the situation.

Also, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr. Uche Eze, said there was no need to panic, nothing that the police were handling the situation.

Eze enjoined the people of the state to go about their businesses without fear of molestation.

A senior officer in the Nigerian Prisons Service in the state who spoke on the condition of anonymity to our correspondent, however, said they got a signal recently to prepare to receive some detainees of the violent sect.

But the Nigeria Prisons Service has said there is no plan to transfer Boko Haram suspects in custody to prisons in Anambra State as being speculated.

The NPS Public Relations Officer, Francis Enebore, said most of the terror suspects in prison custody are still awaiting trial and cannot be moved out of the jurisdiction of the court where they would be prosecuted.

He dismissed speculations that the prison authorities had formalised plans to transfer terror suspects from the northern states to Anambra State, saying there is nothing like that.

Enebore said, “Most of the terror suspects are awaiting trial and so, there is no way they can be moved to another state because they must be tried in the state where they committed the crime.

“Apart from this, our duty is to move them from prison to court for trial and since they have not been convicted, how can we transfer them to other states outside the jurisdiction of the court where they would be tried? People are just saying things they know nothing about, there is no truth to the rumours that we are transferring terror suspects to other states.”

aresa:
What's more senseless like you and your co villagers peddling made up 419 nonsense all over the internet?

Useless people....

Caseless:
what kind of chauvinistic notion is this?


Who says the indigense are in anyway better than the non-indigenes?
Those kidnappers are not from anambara abi?






:This is why biafra is a failed state before it is born.

aresa:
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[s] Such 419, tribal and trivial low self esteem and insecurity issues are for silly villagers like you..

Amopee:
I bet you, if you hear where Dogara comes from, you'll pray for a success for for him. His town have been suffering for injusticed, crisis just because the are not muslim. So, I think its God that sent that man to rescue his people

queen91:
APC should sanction saraki and dogara yo serve as a deterrent to others. yes they may loose being d majority in the house but they can peacefully manage their minority. let the nPDP go and let's see how PDP will make them influential after betraying and ruining their party. its going to b a big loss but will definitely bring peace and accord to the party.



Let SARAKI and DAGORA LEAVEAPC

Rapbender:
i regret why i voted APC

obailala:
So should we have voted PDP the killer party that has ruined the nation for the past 16 years?... What nonsense!!!

FunnyPikincom:
Gbenu soun!! monafiki oshi

Jesusloveyou:
i would have commit suicide if i had mistakenly voted for pdp and gej,

Jesusloveyou:
some voted for party, some for change and some for buhari, as for me,i voted for party because i hate to hear d name pdp, i also for voted for change of corrupt govt, above all,i voted for buhari as my mentor

Nigeria36:
Yeah. My bad. It will be impossible to do that, especially with the HOR and again, Buhari is a northern agenda.

Nigeria36:
And u have forgotten those fools are impeachable. Only God is not.

sosanova:
also the $1 to 1Naira.. he n his family are hoping Buhari to make the exchange rate

youngberry001:
regretting what no be them vote APC I know from there beginning said dis party would worst then PDP own


and as am seen it becoming true.

Truckpusher:
Keep hoping ,your miracle is on the way.

The 5 kpali and the free meal for ya kids ain't coming anytime soon.

fitzmayowa:
Whether nigerians regret it or not, nigerians are stuck with the APC till 2019, so we just have to hope for the best...

Up-and-coming actress, Mimi Orjiekwe, stunned her colleagues and fans when she took her close friends to Zanzibar, where her actor boyfriend, Charles Billion, proposed to her.

But that was three years ago. So many people had expected the wedding bells to ring almost after the celebrated and much talked about engagement. However, it wasn’t up until now that some people started getting feelers of an upcoming wedding.

Speaking to Saturday Beats on the phone, Mimi confirmed her traditional marriage would hold next month with a white wedding that would follow sometime in September.

On why it took them this long to legalise the union, Mimi said, “I was very busy. I have been working all this period. I needed to take my time. But it is my life. I don’t know why people are worried.”

Mimi squashed any gist of her and her beau breaking up as she said, “we have always been together all this while. The relationship has been on. It wasn’t as if we went our separate ways at any point. People know us and they follow us on social media. I have never felt this marriage wasn’t going to work. But even if it doesn’t work, then it is not meant to work, I will not kill myself,” she said.

larrymoore:
Hope Nigerians won't regret this party sha, I pray.

The All Progressives Congress is undecided on how to handle the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakuubu Dogara, for disregarding its directive on the choice of principal officers of the National Assembly.

Saturday PUNCH learnt on Friday that the party’s National Working Committee was undecided on whether or not Saraki and Dogara should be punished.

It was learnt that while some members believed that the party should handle the issue with care; others insisted that the Senate President and the speaker should be punished.

The division among the NWC members had prevented the committee from taking a definite decision on the alleged anti-party activities by the Senate President and the Speaker.

Saraki and Dogara, had on June 9 defied the directive of the party by contesting the senate presidency and the speakership.

The APC leaders were particularly angry because the Peoples Democratic Party got the senate deputy presidency.

Saraki and his loyalists, among the APC senators, had boycotted a peace meeting the party had with its senators on June 9.

The meeting was attended by the rival group, Senate Unity Forum, led by Senator Ahmed Lawan, who was endorsed by the party as its sole candidate for the Senate President.

Saraki emerged as senate president unopposed when the meeting was going on at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.

The Senate President again on Thursday refused to announce the party’s candidates for the upper chamber’s principal positions.

The APC, had in a letter to Saraki on Wednesday, named Lawan as its choice for the Majority Leader; Prof. Sola Adeyeye as the Chief Whip; George Akume as Deputy Majority Leader; and Abu Ibrahim as Deputy Chief Whip.

The party also wrote Dogara and named a former Minority Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila as the Majority Leader; Ado Doguwa as the Deputy House Leader; M.T. Monguno as the Chief Whip and Pally Iriase as the Deputy Chief Whip.

Saraki read letters from zonal caucuses tof the APC on Thursday.

The North-East caucus of the party nominated Senator Ali Ndume as the Majority Leader; while the North-West put forward, Bala Na’Allah as the Deputy Majority Leader.

The South-South caucus adopted Francis Alimikhena as the Deputy Chief.

In the House of Representatives, the refusal of Dogara to read the party’s letter threw the lower chamber into commotion.

The APC, had in a statement on Thursday by its Secretary Mai Mala Buni, insisted on its position and rejected the principal officers announced by Saraki.

Investigations showed that those who advocated a soft approach were of the view that if the issue was not handled with care, the PDP would cash in on the crisis and woo Saraki, Dogara and other APC senators.

But it was learnt that those calling for a punitive measure insisted that the party would set a bad precedent, if Saraki and his group were not punished.

A top member of the party, who confided in Saturday PUNCH, said, “As of now, we have not reached a consensus on what is going on in the National Assembly.

“Some believe that taking a harsh stand will send the affected lawmakers away, while others are saying that they should not go unpunished.”

Another highly placed member of the party, who confided in Saturday PUNCH out of fear of retribution said, the party was keeping its next line of action close to its chest.

“What I can tell you is that the party will meet within the next few days and make its position on all these issues known,” he said.

When contacted. the APC National Publicity Secretary, Alahaji Lai Mohammed said, “No comment.”

But some state chairmen of the APC on Friday expressed sadness over the crisis in the National Assembly.

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