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Armed robbers in the early hours of Tuesday reportedly killed about 18 residents of a village, Kubaro, in Dansadau emirate council of Zamfara state.

The area has been plagued by a notorious gang of robbers who have killed scores of residents over the last one year, usually in retaliation for attacks against them or arrests of their members.

The Zamfara state Commissioner of Police and other high level government officials are said to have departed for the community for an on the spot assessment.

Standing5: Also in the most southern Nigeria cities one can easily notice the rise in no. of new generation of northerners now migrating there. You will find them trading and driving okadas, yet there is no guaranty that these movements will reflect in the next census exercise. don't also forget the Boko Haram effect.

I honestly agreed with you but it is unfortunate you hide the fact that it is the Northerners that marry early, have more than one wife and they don’t practice family planning. The problem of an average Southerner is hypocrisy that why the Western World even though most of you accepted their religion didn’t trust. I am sorry if i hurt you but that is the fact.

berem: So what's her islamic name? Hajiya Janefatu or whatever? After wasting that kind of money on a wedding and divorce later,what's the use? This is the "most stupidest" wedding of all time!

Jealousy, Alhamdulillah.

I know this can only happen the Civilized South.

Inventive and hardworking people

Hamintab: Disgusting!!!. These Northerners are ANIMALS!!!

And the Southerners are what?

ednut1: let d e tribal bashin begin smh

Nobody will say anything because he is not a Northerner.

Keneking: So why is this on the front page? Any agendas pls

Becouse you don't like it.

rotman91: What a joker u are. Guess it was mistaken for palm kernel oil all dis northern illiterates. This is evidently far from possible

far from possible because is your father that planting the Oil.

So now in Nigeria any Political office holders who is a Moslem should be Kick out because a Christian is Rulling.

President Goodluck Jonathan’s new aide, Doyin Okupe, indeed, won a contract with the Benue state government and absconded without completing the job, the former governor who awarded the project, George Akume, confirmed Tuesday.

Mr. Akume would not however say why the contract failed and what action his government took to compel Mr. Okupe to deliver on the project after making payment to him.

He however told PREMIUM TIMES he would wish not to be dragged into the deal that has now prompted calls for Mr. Okupe’s sack, saying his successor administration, as well as Mr. Okupe, should provide answers to any concerns on the contract and deal with the matter as necessary.

“Government is continuous; there is a new government there (Benue) now, and again, the man involved is alive and should speak on that,” the former governor, now the Senate Minority Leader, said on Tuesday through his spokesperson, Becky Orpin.

The state’s Commissioner of Information under the present governor, Gabriel Suswam, Conrad Wergba, said he had limited information about the contract and will respond to this newspaper after reaching out to appropriate officials.

Cletus Akwanya, the Special Adviser on Media to Mr. Suswam, could not also be reached.
PREMIUM TIMES made prolonged attempts to reach Mr. Akume personally but he was said to be out of Abuja, and could not be reached by phone.

His aide, Mrs. Orpin, however confirmed the contract existed after she received briefings from officials knowledgeable about the deal.

“I can confirm that there was such a contract,” she said, in response to a question on whether the presidential aide truly got a contract but failed to deliver.

Mr. Okupe still wouldn’t comment on the matter. For two days, our reporters repeatedly called him on his telephone and sent text messages seeking his comments. He is yet to return the calls or respond to the messages.

The allegations appears another dent on an increasingly controversial government figure, whose alleged untidy past is rapidly turning out to be a rallying point for critics seeking his ouster.

Mr. Okupe has been branded by opposition parties an “attack dog” hired by the Jonathan administration to fend off the frustrating torrents of criticisms the government has been getting.

On a television show on Monday, Mr. Okupe, who is the Senior Special Assistant to the president on Public Affairs, said he would rather be addressed an “attack lion”.

Since taking office in a capacity he once held between 1999 and 2002 for former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, Mr. Okupe has taken on at least one outstanding critic of the Jonathan administration: former Federal Capital Territory minister, Nasir El-Rufai.

In a response to Mr. El-Rufai’s call on the president to resign last week, Mr. Okupe said the former minister was a man he respected, but who had now been “derailed and deranged by politics.”

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) on Monday called for the removal of the presidential spokesperson on account of his alleged sordid past in the Benue contract, amid claims he secured similar incomplete deals elsewhere including Imo state.

The Benue job was awarded to Mr. Okupe’s company at the time, Value Trust, for the construction of a rural road in the North central state, PREMIUM TIMES learnt, but further details regarding the cost and completion schedule of the controversial project could not be ascertained yet.


Source: http://saharareporters.com/news-page/former-governor-george-akume-confirms-president-jonathans-new-spokesperson-defrauded-benue

Good luck for GEJ = Bad Luck for All Nigerians

Please let them kill themselves.

Must he go their or send somebody, how many Councilors or Chairmen attend funerals of common people in Nigeria? Why the hullabaloo is it because those people are washing white shit?

Saharareporters can authoritatively report that the newly appointed Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, spent close to one month in jail between July and August 2006 on allegations of fraud.

Our sources within the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said he was detained by the commission for defrauding the Imo State government of several millions of Naira for contracts he failed to execute after collecting mobilization fees.

Mr. Okupe who was a former National Republican Convention (NRC) chieftain and later a spokesperson to President Obasanjo, was released by the EFCC on bail but was not charged because of administrative changes at the commission.

When Mrs. Farida Waziri eventually took over as the chairperson of the EFCC, Mr. Okupe's files were moved to Abuja under the pretext that fresh investigations, concerning another contract fraud that reportedly involved the Benue State government, was taking place.

EFCC sources said the files have since disappeared but that efforts to retrieve them are ongoing.

SaharaReporters calls and text messages to Mr. Okupe today were not answered.

Source:http://saharareporters.com/news-page/president-jonathan-new-spokesperson-doyin-okupe-spent-month-efcc-detention-fraud-2006


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Chickens

CAN - GEJ =?

Mallamabdul: This business tip has been planned before now, the so called boko haram and their sponsors just worked on it to destabilize the presidential trip,of which if it was cancelled they would use it against him, that he cancelled a trip that should have beneficial to the economy to sit at home, and now that he went it has also turned to a disadvantage for the enemies of the administration. If GEJ was in the country, he would have delegated the problems to those who it's there responsibilities. Meanwhile, why don't people mention the state governor of these states in chaos, or the IG of police, why blame the president on all issues. Think people.

becouse he demanded for trillion for security.

They should crown her as miss corruption.

[quote author=H$LBroker]This man is the only person that say truth about Nigeria Leaders, God bless Bakare the prophet[/quote]Thank you very much, let the truth be told.

Display it at the gate of National Assembly, i am sure in less then 24hrs you will offload it.

adventisty: A very hard working woman!!!! I beleive she will perform. She is a performer anyday, anytime, anywhere, anyhow and any any!

A performer indeed.