₦airaland Forum

OP did you not read where the military authorities stated that the factory had been long destroyed in Bama and that they are not recent pictures?

In fact the date of the attack you gave corroborates and confirms NA's claim that the factory was operational in the past but had been destroyed. They never claimed it never existed.

"However, a top military chief has dismissed the pictures as a propaganda strategy of “a desperate and defeated terrorist group”, saying that the unveiled photos of its rocket-making factory, was that of Bama in Borno State, which has long been destroyed by the military. The source insisted that “what the Boko Haram is displaying with the images allegedly being their rocket-making factory is deceptive.

www.nairaland.com/2705478/military-boko-haram-rocket-making#39573309

Why is the OP pretending not to be a die-hard Jonathanian, worst of all not based on ideology but ethnic sentiments?

Your reputation precedes you.

P.S - The demise of the PDP does not mean a return to dictatorship, but the creation of a vacuum to be filled by a deserving opposition.

To be honest, our worst reputation which affects is is that of fraud and 419.

In England, even fellow blacks are wary of Naija boys and their credit card/online scams.

Personally however, no...but the stereotype exists.

The first time they were dumb, speechless, overwhelmed...

The second time they were intimidated, incoherent, and outclassed into running from the chamber...

Nobody can blame a man for folding in the face of a LION.

I never thought I'd ever say this but...

Kudos Sen. Ndume, APC majority leader par excellence.

The first time they were dumb, speechless, overwhelmed...

The second time they were intimidated, incoherent, and outclassed into running from the chamber...

Nobody can blame a man for folding in the face of a LION.

Rt. Hon. Chibuike Ameachi Confirmed!

https://www.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Amaechi-Senate-1.jpg

Saraki's body language suggests that Ameachi will be confirmed come hail come hellwater.

Akpabio should tread cautiously.

I wish the deliberation of the ethics committee report was screened live so we would see Akpabio's face as he castigates another politician for corruption.

PRYCE:
And lastly, boko haram have been showing their military strength through video and images since 2009 when they were at their peak. You just trying to downplay this and the government's inability to turn their promises into reality...

I spoke with regards to the current assault against them and their diminishing capacity, not on their exploits since 2009.

Terrorism by nature is fueled by propaganda, images like these are meant to terrorize so its our patriotic duty to deflate their significance, encourage our men and support the government in the annihilation of these blood-suckers, regardless of their tenacity.

BH Propaganda machine on overdrive.

Why the sudden pressing desire to show the world they are still functioning if not to give the impression that they are not being steadily incapacitated by Buratai's forces?

Keneking is right, the EXIF data from those pictures could be extracted to geo-locate the factory, and the area ring-fenced to choke supply routes for the essential raw materials used for the deadly rockets.

PassingShot:
I like to meet Rawani and IzonOwei too.

It would be an absolute pleasure bro. I would also like to meet Beremx and Obiagelli offline (their patriotism is seductive).

What lies? Is that the epitaph for your tombstone? Spare us the tribute to your dead, corrupt and impunity loving party. Nigerians are done with your People Deceiving Party.

DrownedFish:
PDP is coming back stronger and will expose APC for their lies

It's only a reflection of what's happening in the real world. Ask Edwin Clark.

Nice investigative reporting by Premium Times to protect their brand.

kahal29:

On Tuesday, a website, The Trent Online, circulated a concocted news item it sourced from the fake Facebook page, attributing it to PREMIUM TIMES.

The report purportedly quoted Justice Muazu Pindiga, a judge who served on the Rivers Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, as claiming that he was offered bribe, threatened by the State Security Service before he was eventually removed from the tribunal.

Let's hope Seun and the mods are guided by this report, so any propaganda from 'trentonline' and its sister publications will be henceforth banned from the front page.

Desperate 'high tension' Wike has been relegated to the Port Harcourt museum of political history.

Vote Dakuku Peterside for peaceful and responsible governance.

TonyeBarcanista:
Thank you brother Temitemi1 and everyone for the wishes. As part of activities marking my birthday, I will not wail 'against' the APC and Buhari all through the day but will resume my wailing session tomorrow till PDp takes-over power in 2019. Hopefully, my bithday in 2019 will be celebrated in Aso Rock when PDP reclaims its birthright as the ruling party.


Let me also extend a hand of friendship to some of my ex-commrades-in-struggle that became my 'perpetual' haters without cause: Passingshot, Modath , Egift, Omenka,Iyangbali(lol), Gbawe, Demdem and Dekdek, Rilwayne, Obiagelli , Rawani, Jaybee3 and others too numerous to mention.

Happy Birthday mate, wish you all the best and put Nigeria first in all you do.

A progressive policy from a progressive politician.

From his exploits as FCT Minister it was clear that El-Rufai despite his weaknesses, would transform Kaduna in many ramifications and these policies on education are a testament to that fact.

While many of his mates are mounting caterpillars and promoting thuggery in office, the short architect is moulding policies to combat a major challenge in the north: Education.

Kudos mallam.

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai on Saturday said his government would soon commence the arrest and prosecution of parents who allow their children to engage in street trading rather than being in school.

The governor said the arrests would take effect once the full implementation of the free primary and secondary education policy in the state takes effect.

While declaring a state of emergency in the education sector after unveiling a new logo for Kaduna Mr. El-Rufai said, “We shall soon commence free feeding of primary school in January, 2016 as soon as it is captured in the 2016 budget. The increase in the number of students enrollment has also made us to introduce morning and afternoon shift in our schools.”

He added: “Measurement of uniform for both primary and secondary schools has commenced. After all these, parents have no excuse to allow their children and ward to hawk. We shall also commence prosecuting erring parents.
“Whatever we spend on education we shall see its effect in 20 years.”

Mr El-Rufai had before his election declared that his children would also attend public schools.
During the Town Hall meeting, the governor, lamented that the state could not fill its admission quota at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA).

He said theTown Hall Meeting would be convened every month in order to give people the opportunity to ask questions and to advice government on the way forward for the state.

In his opening remarks, Uba Sani, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Political Affairs, said government was not about giving people money or building castle in the air.
“Good work will always be noticed and appreciated despite those who want the state to remain backward,” Mr. Sani said.

He spoke of the need to have a new face for Kaduna “from the one that was destroyed by the misrule of the PDP in the state”.
“With the unveiling of the new logo, the state will no longer use the Federal Government logo,” he said.

[img]http://media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2015/07/800x600xpic.-8.-gov.-el-rufai-visits-scene-of-bomb-blast-in-zaria-resized-800.jpg.pagespeed.ic.3oT_DR42Xx.webp[/img]

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/191686-governor-el-rufai-threatens-to-arrest-prosecute-parents-of-out-of-school-children.html

cc:lalasticlala

This is a testament of President Buhari's zero tolerance of corruption regardless of ethnicity, religion or any other sentimental basis.

Dakingari should have his day in court. Ride on presido.

This is a valid concern because there is no reason why the screening of the ministerial nominees has not been expedited apart from irresponsible politicking designed to serve parochial interests.

What else do we expect in a Senate whose leadership was birthed through questionable circumstances?

laudate:
So who is subsiding the tuition fees at Baze?? Do you know how much the school charges per annum?? How many civil servants can afford to send their kids there??

Nobody is subsidizing any fees at BAZE as there are many students with the financial capacity to pay their fees, and there has been a steady geometric increase in enrolment year after year. If you wonder where these people are coming from, go to our airports and see the volume of students going to Malaysia, Dubai, Saudi Arabia and the UK to pay twice as much.

Quality and world-class education is not cheap.

laudate:
Na so first class dey cheap for their side?? LWKMD!! Am sure if those 1st class chaps were ranked in an inter-university exam alongside their counterparts from other university with 2.1 degrees, those 1st class chaps would fail!

1. Baze University uses OVERSEAS EXTERNAL EXAMINERS to ensure quality and integrity in their examinations, and to ensure the British standard which the school operates is maintained.

http://www.bazeuniversity.edu.ng/

2. To ensure examination integrity, the University employs Biometric verification in its exam halls.

https://news.bazeuniversity.edu.ng/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/biometrics.jpg

Ameachi's confirmation is a settled matter, you are only deluding yourself online.

You have no constitutional backing for your noise, your main point that the Senators cannot screen Ameachi since the matter is in court was a mere opinion or inference at best, and not a provision so it's dead on arrival.

Wike has no option but to watch in awe

Of course Sekibo will try to bare his blunt teeth, but the Lion will come and he will be hailed and asked to take a bow.

"Lie" Mohammed's confirmation was like a thunderslap to the wailers....they weren't ready...

I'm disappointed Fayemi didn't tackle educational infrastructure while dwelling on enrolment.

It seems he's more interested in the Foreign Affairs portfolio.

Beautiful defence from Dr. Fayemi for Q1.

dustmalik:
This news is old. This was back in March.

It was posted on NL this morning without source or editing, so the edited and referenced version was posted.

https://www.nairaland.com/2661894/fg-orders-ig-hand-over#38930473

Thanks for the observation.

There are many ways to bell a cat.

Saraki has clearly gotten the message, and is now falling in line. All of sudden his spokesman Dino is offering to negotiate the Senate rule on senatorial backing for proposed ministers, and all that arrogant posturing pre-CCT is now deflated.

However while an obedient Saraki is more valuable than a wounded Saraki, the man must fully account for his fraudulent asset declaration among other allegations, in our national interest; this is not about wailers or masturbators.

By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North

Indications emerged, yesterday, that the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and that of the Inspector General of Police might have disagreed on what to do with former Kwara Governor, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on his alleged use of fronts to withdraw the sum of N6 billion from the accounts of a company, Joy Petroleum, domiciled in Intercontinental Bank, now Access.

Initially, the Office of the IG had approached a Federal High Court in Abuja on April 26, 2012 to press charges against the former governor for conspiracy, forgery and stealing after claiming to have initiated a comprehensive investigation into a petition sent to it by Joy Petroleum that it was being denied access by the bank following the illegal change of signatory to the account by unknown persons.

But in a legal advice to the IG on the move to prosecute Saraki and others named by the petitioner, the Attorney General advised against taking any action against Saraki and his aides over the bank issue, since from the records available to his office, the former governor had not committed any offence to warrant such trial.

In the legal document, which Vanguard sighted last night, dated 9thOctober 2012, with reference Number DPP/ADV: 061/12, and signed by the Director of Public Prosecutions of the Federation, Mrs. O.O. Fatunde, the AGF Office, noted that it would be improper to hold Saraki liable for the internal actions of the then Intercontinental Bank.
The AGF Office said: “It would therefore be improper and unjust in the circumstance to hold Dr. Saraki , Mr. Pinheiro or indeed the companies criminally liable for the internal actions and decisions of the bank and its officials bordering on exercise of discretion.

“Every customer of a bank (corporate or individual) has the right to apply for a loan on the most favourable terms possible. This alone does not constitute any offence under any law because it is within the discretion of the bank to grant or refuse such loan application.

“Dr. Saraki and Pinheiro are alleged to be connected with the grant of the loans as promoter and director respectively of the companies. By virtue of Section 18 of the Act, a director or any other partner or officer of a company can only be held responsible in that capacity for the actions of the company if the company is guilty of an offence under the Act.

“Since the company in this case cannot be held to have committed any offence under Section 15( 1) (a), it follows that Dr. Saraki and Mr. Pinheiro cannot also be held criminally responsible only on account of having acted as promoter and director of the companies in connection with the said loan,” the DPP advised.

However in a new twist that is likely to upturn the whole investigation and pave the way for the prosecution of the former governor, the Attorney General has written a different letter to the IG to hand over the case file to him for further action.
In the new letter, which Vanguard obtained last night, the AGF in insisting that his office needed to carry out further review of the case file before any further action is taken on the matter.

In a memo with reference No. DPP/ADV: 061/12/91 and addressed to the Inspector General of Police with particular attention to the Commissioner of Police Special Fraud Unit, and signed by Haruna Isa Alabi, Deputy Director of Public Prosecution, the AGF said his office wanted the case file to be able to ascertain whether the evidence presented against Saraki and others was borne out of mere suspicion or was capable of sustaining a conviction before trial.

Saraki has said that there was no infraction of any law in the matter, which his companies obtained loans and paid back to the banks through agreed terms of settlement.

But the former IG, Mohammed Abubakar, who initiated the trial of Saraki, had alleged among other things that the former governor made the bank to lose funds by using his fronts while serving as governor to engage in money laundering.

SOURCE:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/fg-orders-ig-to-hand-over-saraki-money-laundering-case-file/

[img]http://cdn2.vanguardngr.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/200x286xBukola-Saraki-200.jpg.pagespeed.ic.-4dKVixoG4.webp[/img]

CHADASHU:
Am I the only one seeing that the dated message is 2012, and they kept referring to a substantive male AGF when infact we do not have one right now in 2015??

The Op is just messing with y'all, or just one of those folks with very twisted imagination

jlinkd78:
ppl just comment without observing this 'sauce' is suspicious. Meanwhile d entire body of d write up appears all this took place likely in GEJ tenure long before d new govt .

The original case that was dismissed is the one referred to in 2012. If you read to the end, you would see that the document requesting for the case to be re-opened was obtained last night.

Id4Jesus:
Initially, the Office of the IG had approached a Federal High Court in Abuja on April 26, 2012
to press charges against the former governor for conspiracy, forgery and stealing after
claiming to have initiated a comprehensive investigation into a petition sent to it by Joy
Petroleum that it was being denied access by the bank following the illegal change of
signatory to the account by unknown persons.

***

In the new letter, which Vanguard obtained last night, the AGF in insisting that his office
needed to carry out further review of the case file before any further action is taken on the
matter.

modath:
This is not right.

@ Rawani, @slidewaxie

Sound analysis but still don't like the move...

It seems quite fishy , but let's not pre-empt the authorities or second guess their motives. However going by the arguments presented, the case should never have been summarily struck out by the Jonathan government as it has merit.

Another question is who are the promoters of 'Joy Petroleum'?