Wailers, I thought PT is an APC news medium?

Just for the records. When next they report negative news about GEJ.

philips70:


Do we all accept reports from PremiumTimes as authentic as from today?




If the presidency is aware of this meeting and stayed away then they fully culpable of any accusation from any quarters. Prof (Mrs) Joy Uche Angela Ogwu, the Nigeria's perm rep to the United Nations should carry more of this blame. It was her call to make sure her president attend this all important meeting.

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Absolutely!!!!

nerodenero:
I'm not too sure if Joy Ogwu's tenure is near completion but with this blunder, trust PMB to through her out asap.

Again, the Presidency should have investigated the matter before issuing a statement. Imagine the thought that PMB lied!!! What a shame!

This is indeed a minus for the APC-led government.

I don't think that the Presidency lied. It stated that the meeting is not an official UN event for which the president and his entourage went for. Because it was convened by an inconspicuous UN office inside the UN building doesn't make it a UN event. Nigerian president shouldn't be made to sit out meetings convened by diplomats who want to use his presence to advance their careers. Mrs. Ogwu is an experienced diplomat and I doubt if the presidency is not aware of the meeting.

Buhari and his 22 man entourage had gone to New York for shopping and womanizing. Amaechi is among, what do you expect?

nerodenero:
I'm not too sure if Joy Ogwu's tenure is near completion but with this blunder, trust PMB to through her out asap.

Again, the Presidency should have investigated the matter before issuing a statement. Imagine the thought that PMB lied!!! What a shame!

This is indeed a minus for the APC-led government.

What if she had relayed the information but it was regarded as "unnecessary " / unofficial "?



In the coming days, the truth will come out.

TonyeBarcanista:
The Lies of the lying liars have gone international

the lies is becoming embarrassing.
i quoted u few days ago and i was ban,don't know why cos i didn't even used any derogatory word

nationwide1:


Truth can only be suspended but can never be truncated.

Help me tell saraki o

He's a daft Dűllard.

jabbok:
Abeg is lying not kworoption?

High level kworoption.

jabbok:
Abeg is lying not kworoption?

nah d biggest kworoption bdat nah,cus if u dey lie,u must surely steal.deir yeye dey smell i tel you!!

hemartins:
I know the Wailers will be so Happy to attack now.

That is your priority.
Not a goofing president, but stopping wailing wailers from wailing for a better Nigeria.

dearsly:
What does it take this Government to say,'i'm sorry?'.....

Whom the gods wanna bring down,they first make them proud!!..

APC is not the answer so far!.

Absolutely.

APC, the party of professional liars and career propagandist. - BAT

mexzzy47:
Contrary to claims by the Nigerian presidency that a meeting at the 70th United Nations General Assembly to discuss the humanitarian crisis posed by the activities of the Boko Haram terrorist group was unofficial, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report today that the meeting is a “high-level” one convened as one of the most important events of the ongoing United Nations annual summit in New York.

The meeting tagged “High Level Event on the Lake Chad Basin” held Friday at the Conference Room 1 of the United Nations headquarters in New York.

It was convened by Stephen O’Brien, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General of Humanitarian Affairs and held as part of the of the UN Sustainable Development Summit, which opened Friday.

“The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, is an arm of the United Nations secretariat and a meeting organised by it on an issue threatening Nigeria’s existence cannot be described as unofficial,” said a respected Nigerian diplomat who requested not to be named so as not to anger the Muhammadu Buhari administration.

The diplomat believes President Buhari should request Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Joy Ogwu, to explain why her office failed to identify the meeting as one of the key ones Nigeria should have attended at the ongoing summit.

“This is definitely a diplomatic blunder,” the diplomat said. “It portrayed us as an unserious country and the President should bring culpable officials to book rather than offer tepid excuses.”

Reuters was first to report the Nigeria’s non attendance at the meeting convened to principally discuss an issue affecting Nigeria the most.

“But while the radical Islamist militants operate out of Nigeria and U.N. aid chief Stephen O’Brien said that is where most people have been displaced by their attacks, Nigeria did not send anyone to the United Nations event,” Reuters reported. “U.S. and European Union diplomats said they were disappointed that Nigeria did not attend the event chaired by O’Brien on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.”

The Nigerian presidency, in a statement Saturday, however, claimed that “The meeting at which Nigeria was reportedly absent was not one of the official events of the United Nations for which President Muhammadu Buhari and his modest delegation are in New York”.

But contrary to attempts by the government to downplay the importance of the meeting and portray it as low level engagement, organisers and diplomats say the gathering was one of the most important meetings concerning the destructive militancy and terrorism ravaging Nigeria and its neighbours.

Aside top UN and EU officials, as well as heads of international nongovernmental organisations who participated, the meeting was also attended by the Prime Minister of Niger, Brigi Rafini and Chad’s Foreign Minister, Moussa Faki Mahamat.

A brochure of the meeting listed “High level representation from the government of Nigeria” among the panelists expected to speak at the meeting.

Due to its importance, the meeting was also broadcast on official UN online television and radio channels.

At the meeting, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. O’Brien reminded the world to pay attention to the Lake Chad Basin, now an epicentre of “violence and terror” where children as young as six-years old have been used as suicide bombers and the scene of the fastest-growing displacement crisis in Africa.

“A quarter of a million people have fled across borders,” told the high-level meeting. “Many have walked hundreds of kilometres from Nigeria to Cameroon, Chad and Niger, in the most appalling conditions.”

Mr. O’Brien, appealed to countries in the region to give relief workers access to those in need and also called for urgent financial contributions to the under-funded operations.

“If we disregard the huge scale of humanitarian needs, we could all pay a high price,” he said.

Describing the people in the Lake Chad Basin, which straddles Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, as “some of the poorest and most resilient in the world,” the top UN humanitarian official said “now the region has also become an epicentre of violence and terror.”

“The emergence of Boko Haram has pushed them over the edge,” he said. “Over the past five months, a sharp increase in attacks by Boko Haram has uprooted 500,000 children, bringing the total number of children on the run in northeast Nigeria and neighbouring countries to over 1.4 million.”

He described the “appalling impact on women and children, who are being abducted, abused, raped, exploited, trafficked, and forced to work as porters and lookouts,” and “children as young as six years old have been used as suicide bombers.”

“With so many other humanitarian crises on the international agenda, we hear relatively little about the horrors taking place in the Lake Chad Basin,” he said. “And yet this is the scene of the fastest-growing displacement crisis in Africa, with 2.3 million people forced from their homes since May 2013.”

Mr. O’Brien warned that the future of the region, where business activity is reportedly down by 80 percent, “looks even bleaker, as farmers are unable to tend their fields and trade in some areas is at a standstill.”

UN agencies like the World Food Programme, the UN refugee agency and the UN Children’s Programme (UNICEF) echoed Mr. O’Brien in presenting a grim humanitarian picture of the region and appealing for greater international support to their efforts to reach those in desperate need.

As a fallout of the meeting the Nigerian government dismissed as “unofficial”, the United States announced $6.8 million in funding for regional aid efforts....


http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/190652-fact-check-nigerian-govt-lied-un-meeting-it-failed-to-attend-not-unofficial.html

morning...

So please how did you know it was "official"?. You saw the invitation letter? How did you know that the PMB govt deliberately refused to attend. What if there was an omission or commission in inviting the Nigerian govt to the meeting.

Datz what you get when you elect an illiterate as President..


Baba is better tendering after cows...Datz his calling..He should go back to it...Nigeria is just too much for him to handle...

TonyeBarcanista:
The Lies of the lying liars have gone international

No be small international.

You can't cry more than the bereaved, the president will even do everything in his power to see the problems of NE are fully resolved, so whether he attend or not, his number one priority is still the NE. Just that Nigerians are hard to please, if he had attended, another story will surface. Meanwhile, Presidency don't just attend meetings, they're pre planned and if such escapes the president notice, Ogwu whose job would have being to draw the attention of the COS to it failed in her job, maybe she's benefiting from the crisis, who knows? No one said he's perfect, moreover, he wasn't idle elsewhere when the meeting was on. The president should come give the dividends of democracy to all, that's all Nigerians care about. He could even win more people's hearts if he could increase the minimum wage from the peanut it's now to suit civil servants.

Mttscheewww rubbishe!!!!

calebo101:
The Government should get it's priorities right and stop playing to the gallery. You are going for UN convention, common sense should have told you that there will be side meetings and since you can not be there all the time you should have competent hands that can represent you.

But No, The illiterate wants to impress his slaves and told them he was cutting cost. Travelled with 29 people and i fit swear say 19 of them na pictures dem dey interested in undecided

you have said it all.

philips70:


Do we all accept reports from PremiumTimes as authentic as from today?




If the presidency is aware of this meeting and stayed away then they fully culpable of any accusation from any quarters. Prof (Mrs) Joy Uche Angela Ogwu, the Nigeria's perm rep to the United Nations should carry more of this blame. It was her call to make sure her president attend this all important meeting.

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We would discuss any media who showcase the cluelessness of this 'Super Clueless' government irrespective of the methodology, most especially on matter affecting Nigeria.

This does not however give credibility to the media house as a whole.

hamingra:


So please how did you know it was "official"?. You saw the invitation letter? How did you know that the PMB govt deliberately refused to attend. What if there was an omission or commission in inviting the Nigerian govt to the meeting.

you get sense at-all?

Whose report shall we believe?

Premium Times I am an Igbo man and I believe in President Muhammadu Buhari.

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ibedun:


Absolutely!!!!

That's ridiculous. If the blame for this mishap is that of Joy Ogwu, then why did Garba Shehu make up that outrageous and ludicrous excuse yesterday. The mistake wasn't the worst thing about this whole brouhaha, it was the rushed, mediocre excuse by the media team of the President. Besides, in all Joy ogwu's years at the UN, she has never made such a kiddy mistake. This mistake is synonymous with the lacklustre, lazy, unintelligent and poor handling of issues by this government. PT is just trying to drop the mishap at Ogwu's door

kITATITA:

I don't think that the Presidency lied. It stated that the meeting is not an official UN event for which the president and his entourage went for. Because it was convened by an inconspicuous UN office inside the UN building doesn't make it a UN event. Nigerian president shouldn't be made to sit out meetings convened by diplomats who want to use his presence to advance their careers. Mrs. Ogwu is an experienced diplomat and I doubt if the presidency is not aware of the meeting.

If you have succeeded in branding the meeting unofficial, do you mean the meetings Baba and his entourage had with Clinton, Gordon Brown and King of Spain were scheduled for in the UN events thereby conferring on them "official " status?

Fixed the 'through' for 'throw'. Thanks.

ibedun:

Time to sack that incompetent Joy Ogwu. The wailing wailers can wail on.

hamingra:


So please how did you know it was "official"?. You saw the invitation letter? How did you know that the PMB govt deliberately refused to attend. What if there was an omission or commission in inviting the Nigerian govt to the meeting.

like seriously did u really typed this rubbish...... #CommonSenseUnoGet

Government of north and lies

Sultanchidi:
If it had been GEJ dat missed such occasion during his administration, all APC loyalists will start calling him names no matter d excuse put forward

God bless you. Buhari and his gullible supporters are perfect they can never make mistake. SMH

hamingra:


So please how did you know it was "official"?. You saw the invitation letter? How did you know that the PMB govt deliberately refused to attend. What if there was an omission or commission in inviting the Nigerian govt to the meeting.

Margaret Bassher of the UN was interviewed by Garba Umar of ChannelsTV newstrack today. She confirmed that the meeting was official and that the President was scheduled to be at the meeting. She was bemused at the fact that the President CANCELLED his appearance at the meeting shortly before it commenced.

otil1:
Truth of the matter:

The Nigerian govt.of today is not able to identify official and unofficial functions, crucial and non-crucial meeting.

By claiming that a meeting convened by a legitimate arm of UN "was not one the official events of the United Nations for which President Muhammadu Buhari and his modest delegation are in New York", Bujari govt has exposed itself and it's inability to place the right level of priority on basic issues of governance and challenges facing the nation.

Link this to absolute lack of interest in economic policy for which investors are deserting Nigeria. Also link it to the aimless US diplomatic visit.

Believe me guys, we are in for a long ride

The road is rough ,I have buckled my seat belt already cos i know we are all in for a bumpy ride