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ABEOKUTA— PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, said yesterday, that he regretted that the matriarch of the Awolowo dynasty, Chief (Mrs) HID Awolowo, did not live to witness the transformation and positive change the country would be experiencing soon.
Buhari said this through the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir David Lawal, who led the government’s delegation to the Ikenne residence of the Awolowos, to commiserate with them over the death of the Yeye Oodua.



www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/i-regret-she-did-not-witness-a-new-nigeria-buhari/

I see a possibility of Saraki fighting back. I see Saraki becoming more popular at the end of the day

I read from 0-4, and almost all the comment are based on either education or sex.


On education, you can be educated yet still poor. This can lead to fewer children or many children it depend on the individual.

On sex,both the rich and poor enjoy it. It also depend on the individual.

I think in my opinion the reason could be cultural and or mentality.

gwales:
we have seen by kicking Jonathan out and heaven did not fall

If GEJ had rejected the outcome of the last Presidential elections, nothing would have happened. The worst there would have been bloodshed in the North and hardly Southwest.
This is why I respect GEJ till eternity.

I will forever respect GEJ till eternity. By the mere fact that he decided that the blood of any Nigerian does not worth his political ambition. This alone I respect him

docadams:
Who's Buruji when the biggest of them all was harassed out of Aso rock. Your gang called it noise then. Relax Buruji s time is coming.

My dear, nothing would have happened if GEJ had rejected the outcome of the election. The worst it would have resulted into bloodshed with the highest casualty form the North.

I respect GEJ till eternity

I know Saraki will fight back in a dirty way. It will be very fierce

I believe the money used for this occasion was internally raised by themselves or from their hard earned money otherwise I consider it a level of hypocrisy.

Firefire:
Let us wait and see who the professional noise makers are...

We are patiently waiting for him to submit the list of noise makers to the teacher

I had the President is ready to submit the list of noise makers to the national Assembly for confirmation and subsequent approval.

Any news?

[ Says civil servants run government, ministers make noise
Tobi Soniyi with agency reports
Displaying a lack of confidence in politicians-turned-ministers to help him run his government, President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said civil servants and technocrats contribute more to the day-to-day running of the public sector while ministers “make a lot of noise”.
In a brutally frank interview with French television station, France 24, the president said civil servants run the government competently.
Buhari, who has delayed the appointment of his cabinet almost four months after he assumed office, also said the markets were not being harmed by the delay in ministerial appointments, which he said would happen by the end of the month.
He said: “No. It is what we know and which we learnt from the western system. The civil service provides the continuity, the technocrat. And in any case, they are the people who do most of the work.
“The ministers are there, I think, to make a lot of noise – for the politicians to make a lot of noise. But the work is being done by the technocrats. They are there, they have to provide the continuity, dig into the records and then guide us – those of us who are just coming in.
“They have been there, some of them for 15 years, some for 20 years. So I think this question of ministers is political. People from different constituencies want to see their people directly in government, and see what they can get out of it.”
He however restated his commitment to naming his cabinet before the end of the month, albeit reluctantly.
“As for the cabinet, I said we will have one by the end of the month, and time flies. The end of the month is coming too quickly for my liking. I will stick to it. I will send the names to the National Assembly,” he said.
Reminded by his interviewer that “some have quipped that the country runs better without ministers”, the president said: “When you started introducing me, you said I was around in 1983 to 1985.
“Even then we had ministers. So under this system, we have to have ministers, and we are going to have ministers.”
Comparing his time in government 30 years ago with today, Buhari added: “The last time I was here, I was in barracks, this time I’m in a palace, I still need to find my way, it’s so big and must be very, very expensive to maintain, but it’s there and cannot be removed.
“I believe firmly that multiparty democratic system is the best form of government but elections must be free and fair, otherwise, it’s the same old problem.”
The president also told newsmen the same day that the federal government was talking to Boko Haram prisoners in their custody and could offer them amnesty if the extremist group hands over more than 200 schoolgirls abducted last year.
Buhari added that he was confident “conventional” attacks by the group would be rooted out by November — but cautioned that deadly suicide attacks were likely to continue, reported AFP.
“The few (prisoners) we are holding, we are trying to see whether we can negotiate with them for the release of the Chibok girls,” Buhari said in an interview in Paris during a three-day visit to France. “If the Boko Haram leadership eventually agrees to turn over the Chibok girls to us — the complete number — then we may decide to give them (the prisoners) amnesty.”
His statement contrasted with the one he made on Tuesday in France when he said he would not release a major bomb maker of Boko Haram currently in government custody for the return of the girls.
Boko Haram fighters stormed a school in the remote northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok on April 14 last year, seizing 276 girls who were preparing for end-of-year exams in an abduction that shocked the world.
Fifty-seven escaped, but nothing has been heard of the 219 others since May last year, when about 100 of them appeared in a Boko Haram video, dressed in Muslim attire and reciting the Koran.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has since said they have all converted to Islam and been “married off”.
Buhari, who has promised to stamp out the group’s bloody six-year insurgency, said the government would not release any prisoners unless it was convinced it could “get the girls in reasonably healthy condition”.
But he cautioned that negotiating with Boko Haram militants was fraught with difficulties. “We are trying to establish if they are bona fide, how useful they are in Boko Haram, have they reached a position of leadership where their absence is of relevance to the operation of Boko Haram?” he said.
Boko Haram’s insurgency, which has claimed more than 15,000 lives and forced 1.5 million others out of their homes, has intensified since Buhari came to power on May 29 on the back of a historic election win.
While it has lost territory it once controlled in northeastern Nigeria, the group has nevertheless stepped up deadly ambushes in its traditional heartland and across the border in Cameroun and Chad.
In August, Buhari gave a brand new set of military chiefs a three-month deadline to end the insurgency. He said yesterday that he was confident this deadline would be met — but only on Boko Haram’s “conventional” assaults and not necessarily on the random suicide attacks that have killed hundreds since he took office.
“The main conventional attacks, where Boko Haram use armoured cars they took from Nigerian troops, or mounted machine-guns on pick-ups and so on, we believe by the end of the three months, we will see the back of that,” he said.
“What may not absolutely stop is the occasional bombings by the use of improvised explosive devices,” he cautioned. “We do not expect a 100 per cent stoppage of the insurgency.”]



www.thisdaylive.com/articles/a-brutally-frank-president-betrays-reluctance-over-ministers/220432/

emerged01:
yea

I think it is a mark of maturity.!

MosakuAW:
Jonathan now walk alone without mama peace just like liverpool. Life after presidency not so cool for mama peace.

Nothing last forever.

It will not be too long Buhari will be a thing of the past too.

When I heard of President Muhammadu Buhari’s confessional statement about the Chibok Girls—based on the most recent interview he granted the BBC Hausa service—I pumped. I did, not because it’s a piece of new information about the situation of the girls, but because there have been denials.
Did Buhari know something when he said he was not giving a guarantee that the Chibok girls would be found in a statement he made in April during the first year remembrance of the stolen girls? The truth is we never had a clear rescue plan as a nation for the kidnapped Chibok girls under the Goodluck Jonathan administration.
We didn’t separate fighting Boko Haram insurgency and rescuing the girls from the beginning. At best, we were hoping for some “divine intervention.”
To wit, the pressure group, the Bring Back our Girls, (BBOG) that was everywhere championing the cause of the girls before Buhari’s emergence has suddenly gone cold. Their works are no longer manifest. While the pages of newspapers are opened for them, the statements are no longer forthcoming.
What astonishes me is the paucity of global outrage about the whereabouts of the kidnapped schoolgirls since Buhari arrived on the scene. The global outrage has since disappeared. Even the local campaigners have changed the theme from “Bring Back Our Girls — Now and Alive” to “Never to be Forgotten.”
Exactly one month after the girls were kidnapped on April 14, 2014, I wrote on this page what I have now reproduced here in an abridged form under the Title: For Chibok Girls, I travelled to Uganda. I believe it helps us to look back in time.
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I travelled down to Uganda for an inquest into the lives of the Aboke girls. Aboke girls just like our own Chibok girls were kidnapped from their dormitory at St Mary’s College Secondary School, Aboke, Uganda on October 9, 1996. And while the deputy head teacher of the school, a nun called Sister Rachele and a teacher, John Bosco Ocen, followed the rebels into the bush and negotiated the release of 109 out of the 139 abducted girls, about 30 others were not allowed to follow them.
It was some of these 30 girls not released, but who later escaped from the hands of the militants that I had a chance meeting with. I wanted to know what happened to them so that Nigerian government can act speedily in getting the Chibok girls out before it is too late.
Of course, that dastard act was carried out by Uganda’s militant group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), whose leader, Joseph Kony continued to escape arrest after many years.
Clearly, the abduction of the 139 schoolgirls in Uganda eighteen years ago truly left mental scars on students, teachers, parents and the entire nation. And now we face similar situation in Nigeria, where Boko Haram militants are holding on to ‘our girls’ now over 30 days.
On this journey, I met the last of the Aboke girls, Catherine Ajok who escaped after a cruel life of 13 years in the jungle. She returned to real life in Uganda in 2009, carrying a child fathered by Joseph Kony.
Her testimony of what happened living with Kony is something that should scare us. Nay, it should embolden our resolve as a nation to commit to this rescue effort with all our hearts going into it as we take aside the international and local politics we have seen over the rescue plan for these Chibok girls in recent times.
Ajok recounted her ordeal this way: “The 30 Aboke girls suffered horrors and were assigned as wives to rebel commanders who defiled and abused them. We were divided into different groups, to stop us from staying united and planning an escape. We were beaten, tortured and taught to kill. Through brainwashing and abuse, we were made to believe that the rebel leader, Joseph Kony, was a disciple of God who possessed supernatural powers. Just know it has been God that saw me through the 13 years. But I went through a lot that has put a heavy weight of pain in my heart. For now, I am grateful I was lucky to make it back home alive.”
She talked about how they were moved from Uganda to Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan during those years. “We had been staying at Camp Swahili in DRC when After Operation Lightning Thunder by UPDF, DR Congo and South Sudan soldiers was launched on December 14. So we were ordered to vacate the area.
“While I was tying my things to leave, a plane started dropping bombs. Joseph Kony had already left with some rebels, because he was aware of the attack. My child cried in the beginning but as the bomb continued, he kept quiet and slept. I was hiding under a tree as the bombs kept dropping.”
I also met Els De Temmerman, the author of Aboke Girls who gave further insight into the horrible experience these girls undergone during the period they were in captivity. Els De Temmerman said: “Alice, who had been given as a wife to [an] LRA commander, escaped from Nisitu camp in Sudan in July 1999. A Sudanese charcoal man hid her in his house in Juba for five months, forcing her into sex in exchange for protection. She ran away on New Year’s eve of 2000.”
“A commander of the Equatorial Defence Forces, another local militia fighting alongside the Sudanese army, took her to Torit, close to the border with Uganda. There, she was kept by another man for two months. When she was seven months pregnant, she was marched back to Uganda in April 2000. On the way, in the mountains, she had a miscarriage and almost bled to death. A fellow captive carried her over the border to Uganda.” Ah! That’s so horrible, I muttered to myself.
Now, I decided to share these stories, so that as a nation we can act fast. By now I expect the federal government to be providing us concrete evidence of its effort. So far the lead story in town is not coming from the government, but from Abubakar Shekau. He had created many headlines for journalists in a matter of few days. First he wanted to sell the girls and now he wants to swap the girls. From the federal government, it has been ‘we are gathering intelligence.’
For how long will intelligence gathering be without rightful application of the information to heal the disease? The more time we allow ‘our girls’ to remain in the valley of the shadow of death, the vulnerable they are to the evil acts of Boko Haram militants. We must rise up for the deliverance of the Chibok girls now, because tomorrow may be too late. My chance meeting with Ajok and Temmerman happened on the pages of newspapers and books.




www.thisdaylive.com/articles/shocking-silence-on-chibok-girls/219895/

With disturbing news like this I am tempted to stick to much older people to rule this nation. But on a second thought I somehow believe that the older have looted this nation for so long that it will be nice to give chance to young looters.

mayorkyzo:
What manner of useless post is this..schools have being on holidays so it's only natural there would be weeds growth...

You have said it all..!!


No need to read further.

Spit on thread....
Am out of here.

mayorkyzo:
What manner of useless post is this..schools have being on holidays so it's only natural there would be weeds growth...

You have said it all..!!

Even PMB will say a big NO

This is good news in disguise. Nigeria have to look inward. The issue of not unbundling the NNPC and not deregulating the downstream oil sector will continue to have a negative toll on the country until the government do something about it. For now let us believe at the 'fullness of time things will change'.
This present administration in a bid to become very ' clean' will end up becoming the worst government in the history of the country.
Some people will tag me wailer. Which I did not consider it a bad way of tagging someone.
The truth is that the direction things are going is not leading the country to the promised change.

Zoe41:
i talk say i no go walk away? 4sure i go do dat bt surely u don't expect me to go back to my maternal home, if i no get cash@ d moment u want make i steal abi?

This is the reason you should be doing something for the family. I think this irresponsibility in marriages is the bane of collapse of most marriages today

emerged01:
yea

Good thinking!Good product!!

Oyinprince:
Nice, I never thought this could happen

This is the beginning ! Who could have thought that in the 80s that we will come to a time in our history when women will wear trousers to church. As if it is a joke women now own their own churches.

In no too distant future I see a collaboration of the Church and social structure merging in such a way that social event becomes the Church.


Kudus to DLBC

misspicy:
Divorce doesnt just pop up from nower,there would have been alot of signs

This to some extent depends on the situation and the ability to manage the problems effectively. There are some couples that has the ability to demonstrate a high level of patience and forgiveness. Those couple may get over problems quickly.

emerged01:
If she truly deserve a place in my heart, I will do the same thing the woman did.

Make amend you mean?

ATMC:
I will do what she did.

I don't get you. You mean you will divorce him?

cc:Ishilove

Zoe41:
i talk say i no go walk away? 4sure i go do dat bt surely u don't expect me to go back to my maternal home, if i no get cash@ d moment u want make i steal abi?

This is why it is very important for ladies to work and earn a living.

Zoe41:
if he no need me, so dat one mean say i no go carry cash 4 hand abi?

Why can't you just walkway when you know the marriage can't work again?

Lacomus:
Cry your eyes out !

Is it from your mind?

Zoe41:
If i don't love him anymore i go just start to dey plan 4 im money

See your life?

To me, I will try to make amend, more especially if there are kids. However, this again will depend on what led to the decision of the divorce

As there are positive surprises in marriage, so are there negative surprises. A man recently shared with Saturday PUNCH he once sent a text message to his wife, threatening to divorce her for some particular reason. Seeing the text, the woman began calling friends and family to plead on her behalf and the issue was resolved.
So I am throwing this question back to you all. What will you do?

www.punchng.com/feature/adam-eve/if-you-learn-your-spouse-is-planning-to-divorce-you-what-step-will-you-take/