₦airaland Forum

Don't know what's going on in his mind, but this is definitely shoki dance. Lol

IsraeliAIRFORCE:
Does it mean that Kwankwanso will resign his senate seat for an unelected ministerial position?

I think they will give him FCT minister, cuz I could remember the FTC people beg baba to make him their minister. Let's wait and see how the event will unfold in 3D tech

Security agencies have since commenced the screening of about 40 names of Nigerians being considered for ministerial appointment by president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari.

DAILY POST gathered that the names were submitted about a week ago.

The security agencies carrying out the checks are the Department of State Services, the Directorate of Military Intelligence and the National Intelligence Agency.

The names include Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, former Osun State governor and ousted PDP National Secretary; Chief Bode Mustapha, former PDP National Auditor; an All Progressives Congress stalwart from Ogun State; and Engineer Segun Oni, former Ekiti State governor and APC Deputy National Chairman (South West).

Others are Dr Kayode Fayemi, the immediate past governor of Ekiti State; Dr. Abba Ruma, a former Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources; and Chief Kanu Agabi, a former Minister of Justice.

The list also includes Donald Duke, a former Governor of Cross River State; Governor Raji Fashola of Lagos State; and Yinka Folashade Oredola, a pharmacist from Ondo State.

Others on the list are Rotimi Akeredolu, a former gubernatorial candidate in Ondo State; Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State; Engineer Funsho Kupolokun, former Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation; Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwanso of Kano State; and Bisola Adegbenro, Also on the list are Isaiah Danjuma, son of General TY Danjuma from Taraba State; Dele Momodu, Publisher of Ovation; Kehinde Lawanson, a former Executive Director of First Bank; and Chief Bayo Ojo (SAN), former Minster of Justice.a Senator-elect from Ogun State.

Source: http://dailypost.ng/2015/05/16/federal-cabinet-security-agencies-screen-names-submitted-by-buhari-see-list/

So here are the top ten places President Jonathan can get N1 trillion naira.

1.) Go to the 36 governors that served with Olusegun Obasanjo from 1999 - 2007. Offer them immunity from prosecution if they will all return N2.5 billion naira each for every four years in power. Those who spent eight years in office should return N5 billion each. After all, most of them were facing charges totaling over N100 billion before their files disappeared from the EFCC. That will give President Buhari N180 billion naira.

2.) Go to the 36 governors that served with Umaru Ya’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan from 2007 - 2015. Offer them immunity from prosecution if they will all return N5 billion naira each for every four years in power. Those who spent eight years in office should return N10 billion each. After all, most of them collected over N2.5 bn each year as security votes. That will give President Buhari N360 billion naira.

3. Get all former Directors of the NNPC in the last 16 years. Offer them immunity from prosecution if they will all return N1billion for every year they were directors. Having been part of an agency of the government that does not know how much oil the multinational corporations are drilling out each day and cannot account for the crude oil dedicated for domestic consumption, and have failed to report revenues from natural gas sales in years, they should each give the government N1 billion and we let bygone be bygone. This will give Buhari at least N100 billion.

3.) President Buhari should cancel all import waivers given to religious leaders in Nigeria for 2015. Nigeria lost billions of naira just on the waivers given to Pastors Adeboye, Oyedepo, Oritsejafor and their likes under the Obasanjo-Jonathan administration - waivers they used to import expensive cars and luxury goods. Who knows what the big Imams get in waivers? Right there, another N50 billion will be readily available.

4.) A 50% cut in the salaries and allowances of members of the Nigerian House of Representative. At $1.4 million each for 360 members, Buhari can easily get $252 million dollars, which is over N40 billion. In the senate, with 109 senators each making $1.7 million, a 50% cut in their pay package will give President Buhari over N14.8 billion naira.

5.) President Buhari should audit the record books of the government with oil importers. A good auditing firm will easily unearth stolen wealth of the nation. Past audits have shown substantial stealing on their part. In a 2012 audit conducted by Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede of the subsidy claims of 2011, discovered that the Federal Government had overpaid importers and marketers of petrol by a whopping N430 billion naira. Of this amount, less than N30 billion was ever recovered. Since these so-called cabals are friends of every government in power, the president should just ask them to refund N300 billion and we will let bygones be bygone.

6.) The president should, as a matter of urgency, investigate and evaluate all workers associated with the importation of fuel into Nigeria. Those found wanting should be prosecuted and fired. A good investigation of their assets and accounts will recover at least N10 billion. The same thing should be done with staff of the NNPC, both those serving and the retired staff. A good investigation will net over N10 billion.

7.) Go to all the ministers who served from 1999-2015. Depending on the ministry they manned, how long they manned the ministry and the budget of each ministry, each minister would be assessed. A special surcharge of each minister could net the government another N50 billion.

8.) The security votes of all state governors should be cut by 50%. At an average of N300 million a month, it runs up to N3.6 billion for a year each. For the 36 state governors, that amount is N129.6 billion naira. A 50% cut will give President Buhari N64.8 billion a year.

9.) The president should close half of Nigerian missions abroad in a major scale back and find other countries to manage Nigeria’s consular affairs. That will save at least N10 billion.

10.) Along with that, the government will impose a significant luxury tax on people who own private jets, luxury boats and those who own houses worth over N0.5 billion naira. If you may, just call it one-time tax to help feed Nigerian public school children. Let us see the billionaire that will grumble about giving a little back to help educate the disadvantaged. That will bring in another N100 billion.

Putting the savings together, we have N1.19 trillion for the President. That will be enough seed money to give the incoming government a breathing room to assess the damage done to the economy in the last 16 years.

Alternatively, President Buhari could move in security forces to the Niger Delta and stop crude oil theft. Since 2009, crude oil thieves have been increasing the amount of Nigeria’s oil that they steal. According to the 2012 Ribadu Report, crude oil thieves steal over 100,000 barrels a day. That is over $3.6 billion dollars a year. Some foreign sources put the figure of oil theft at 250,000 barrels a day. Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala in 2013 told the Vanguard newspaper that the loss to oil theft could be up to $12 billion.

Now, that is over a trillion naira. QED!
Source: http://saharareporters.com/2015/05/14/ten-places-buhari-can-get-trillion-naira-rudolf-ogoo-okonkwo

I am not talking about George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four with its Big Brother is Watching You, Ministry of Truth and Ministry of Plenty; no. I am thinking about the year 1984 in Nigeria, in particular the economic and social tumult that we went through as a new military government tried to grapple with economic collapse bequeathed to it by the preceding civilian regime. There is the added coincidence that one Major General Muhammadu Buhari was at the helm of Nigerian affairs in 1984 and the same man is about to head 1984’s reincarnation in the year 2015. 
On Tuesday last week, re-elected as well as newly elected APC state governors went to see the president-elect at Defence House in Abuja. After the meeting, the delegation leader Governor Rochas Okorocha said they complained to Buhari that many states are unable to pay their workers’ salaries. While a few are up to date, many others are in arrears of between one to six months. The governors seemed to be suggesting that when Buhari takes over the Federal Government should arrange some kind of bail out for them.
I was wondering how Buhari could do that even if he wants to. To begin with the Federal, state and local governments essentially eat from the same bowl called Federation Account. If there is a serious shortfall in that bowl, as there is now, all of them will be affected so no one has any surplus to give to anyone else. Of course the Federal Government has some other revenue sources which are however a fraction of its takings from the Federation Account. The states too have what they call Internally Generated Revenue [IGR]. This is pretty hefty in a few states such as Lagos, Rivers and Kano but it is next to miniscule in most other states so it provides no easy fallback. The local governments too are supposed to have some IGR; I remember what a Local Government Treasurer once told me that in one month his council generated less than N10,000 because it’s only IGR source was gate takings at the town’s weekly market.
That is not the only problem. Even those states that have hefty IGRs are bound to see a decline occasioned by the collapse of oil prices. Many of the contractors that pay fees to state governments as well as most of the manufacturers and other service providers are essentially recycling oil money. In any case, the governors’ hope for a Federal bailout was sealed when Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala revealed last week that the Federal Government too has been borrowing money since the beginning of the year in order to pay salaries. The man who is himself in debt, which money does he have to give to someone else?
If things continue in this way, the states are likely to land around where their counterparts were towards the end of the Second Republic. I remember an interview I watched on NTA in mid 1983 when NTA reporter Chris Anyanwu interviewed a Northern state governor. She asked him to mention the most important achievements of his administration and he said, “I consider my government to be a success in every area. For example, I am going to pay workers’ salaries tomorrow.” It may sound laughable from afar that anyone would count salary payment as a major achievement, but in those days when so many states were not paying salaries it was indeed something to boast about. The trouble is we look set to return to that age.
Now, we could argue until the cows come home as to what caused the current crunch and the one of the Second Republic. The rulers will say today that since oil prices had dropped by more than half since last year, there is bound to be a crunch. The question is, all these years when oil was selling far above $100 a barrel, where is all the excess money? This excuse is not much better than the one offered by our Second Republic rulers. Dr Yusuf Bala Usman said in 1982 when the government imposed austerity that it was not because the government got less money than it did the previous year; it was because even though it got more, what it got was less than what it was hoping to get. He said, “It is like a man who got N50 last year saying you should sympathise with him because he was hoping to get N100 this year but he got only N70.”
Today we all see the native rural African wisdom of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo when he said at the time oil prices were sky high that we should not spend everything but must save for a rainy day. He created the Excess Crude Account and shoved into it any money above an artificial “benchmark” that he created. State and local governments fought this measure with all their power, saying [correctly] that the Constitution requires all the money to go straight into the Federation Account for sharing. That was very foolish of the Constitution and Obasanjo knew where native African wisdom should override the Constitution. Of course the governors kept putting pressure to get the money and the presidents also began to use the account as a political bargaining chip. If the president wanted the governors to do anything, all he had to do was to approve the sharing of a part of the excess crude account. So here with are, depleted Federation Account, no excess crude account.
So what are we to do? Anyone who finds himself in a position where he has trouble paying his bills has two options: to increase his revenue or to cut his expenditure or both. Since cutting one’s expenditure is easier than increasing one’s revenue, all governments in Nigeria could be looking in the direction of expenditure cuts from next month. The payroll is the inevitable first port of call.
In 1984 General Buhari’s military regime drove its military governors to shore up revenue and also cut their spending. They mostly did so in two ways; they retrenched workers and they imposed a string of new taxes. The retrenchment exercise of 1984 was qualitatively different from the “great purge” of the Murtala era. In 1975-76 the Murtala regime sacked tens of thousands of public servants not because it could not afford to pay them but because they were described as “deadwoods.” In most cases they were those who had disciplinary issues. In 1984 however, I remember seeing the NTA’s retrenchment template. For example it mandated all NTA stations to have only one Senior/Principal Current Affairs Producer. If a station had more than one, it must shed the rest whether or not they committed any offence. This is the formula that in later years some clever consultants sold to the government as “downsizing” which was later renamed even more cleverly as “right sizing.”
Side by side with retrenchment the state governments also revived long forgotten taxes such as poll tax and jangali. General Gowon had abolished jangali, which was paid by pastoralists per cattle head in his 1974 budget speech. During the Second Republic most state governors abolished poll tax as well. Poll tax was very difficult and inefficient to collect; a figure was imposed on traditional rulers who in turn divided it by all adults in their area whether or not you are engaged in any trade. General Babangida later replaced poll tax with the much more sensible and more efficient Value Added Tax [VAT], which taxes goods and services. Perhaps Buhari could start by doubling VAT.
The struggle by state governments to balance their books in 1984 led to sinister innovations such as the Imo Formula, which was invented by the state’s military governor Colonel Ike Nwachukwu and his Finance Commissioner Dr Kalu Idika Kalu. At the end of the month the government will tabulate the money it has, calculate it as a percentage of its wage bill, pay every worker that percentage and he or she forfeits the rest. I read a story recently that Kogi State Government is planning a 40% pay cut for its workers. Looks like 1984 is here again.
Source: http://dailytrust.com.ng/daily/columns/monday-columns/54368-1984-could-be-here-again

ramdris:
I swear this BH members plenty! Are they vampires that rises from the dead cos if not how come with all the daily killings of hundred plus they are yet to be completely wiped out?

I tire my brother, according to the army top brass they are on the run and all of a sudden they re-appear in maiduguri of all place that's the least expected place for now. I think the best thing is to kill them not to allow them to be on the run like what we saw on that NAF video

About 79 people including three soldiers were killed Wednesday when suspected Boko Haram militants advanced towards Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
The military has deployed six combat helicopters to fight the insurgents and imposed a 24-hour curfew on the state capital.
Six vigilantes and an unspecified number of Boko Haram insurgents were also killed in Wednesday’s attack.
Two villages including Bale Galtimari and Kayamla on the outskirts of Maiduguri, were also sacked by the suspected Boko Haram militants while on their way to the state capital.
Troops of the seventh Division stopped the insurgents overrunning the 21 Brigade, Giwa Barracks, which reportedly houses sophisticated military weapons.
Though the Nigerian Army said everything was under control the 24-hour curfew remained in place in the state capital.
Our correspondent saw at least six fighter jets land at the Maiduguri International Airport yesterday. Not long after, they took off and headed towards the direction of Konduga, Bama and the Sambisa Forest.
Abba Alau, a resident of Bale said they buried 25 people yesterday while many others that sustained injuries have been taken to the hospital.
“The terrorists attacked our village around 6.20pm on their way to get to Maiduguri. They killed 25 people who are mostly between the age of 20 and 40.
“They also burnt over 50 houses and many shops after carting away food items, toiletries, cows and many sheep,” Alau said.
Musa Ahmadu Kumbo, a farmer in Kayamla, said the insurgents killed over 30 people in the village and surrounding settlements.
“They dealt with us severely and promised that they would come back after they subdued Maiduguri,” he said.
Credible security sources said the insurgents, whose ability to strike had been allegedly reduced in the past two months, wanted to overrun the 21 Armoured Brigade Giwa Barracks.
Soon after launching the attacks on the two villages, the insurgents, armed with sophisticated weapons reportedly moved towards the Giwa Barracks where they met stiff resistance.
Sound of bomb blasts, artillery and sustained gunshots were earlier heard from the direction of the barracks and at a sugarcane orchard at Fouri, a settlement between Maiduguri town and the Giwa Barracks.
Mustapha Aji, a resident of the area said some of the insurgents hid inside the orchard to give rear cover to the group that advanced on the barracks from Bale Galtimare.
Sources reported fierce fighting between troops and the insurgents near the barrack, a development that brought about the imposition of the 24- hour curfew.
A statement signed by Colonel Tukur Gusau, Deputy Director, army public relations, said residents should remain indoors as troops continue to ensure their safety.
“In view of the recent development within Maiduguri metropolis, a 24hr curfew is hear by imposed on the city. This is done to protect lives and properties of innocent and law abiding people of Maiduguri.
Our correspondent gathered from credible sources that “dozens” of the insurgents, at least fifteen civilians, three soldiers and six vigilantes lost their lives in fight near the barracks.
“The six vigilantes were killed by female suicide bombers who pretended to be in distress while the fight was ongoing between troops and the terrorists,” a senior official of the civilian JTF, who spoke in confidence, said.
“The three women were all suicide bombers because they strapped their bodies with explosives and pretended that they were trapped in the ensuing confusion. And out of sympathy, our members approached them with a view to taking them to safety but sadly, they (women) detonated their explosives,” he said.
The vigilante added that about 12 of their members were injured.
He said three soldiers died during a fight with the insurgents but did not give more details.
“The good news is that dozens of the terrorists have been killed while they were advancing towards the Giwa Barracks from Kayamla village and a plantation near Fouri,” he said.
A senior security officer confirmed that three soldiers died in the fight yesterday but added that it was a bad day for the insurgents.
“The terrorists did not succeed in getting into the barracks and many of them have been killed,” he said.
Our correspondent reports that Maiduguri is now very quite as movements have been restricted.
All the streets are empty while shops, motor parks, markets, malls, schools, federal and state secretariats and other public places are all closed.
A security expert, Timo Emmanuel said something must be wrong with the military operation in the northeast.
“I am always appalled when I hear the military top brass saying they Boko Haram terrorists are on the run... Why can’t they follow them once and for all?
“They said the insurgents are finished but look at how they audaciously brought the war to Maiduguri at the time we least expected them.
“If the army said they have killed many Boko Haram militants in and around Sambisa and other places, they should show the bodies to convince the public, just like what the Chadian troops and others are doing,” he said.
Source: http://dailytrust.com.ng/daily/top-stories/54856-b-haram-attack-military-deploys-six-fighter-jets

Hate to speculate but it's unfair for the people of the NE to be taken for granted even if it's a joke you don't joke with people that sacrifices everything just to make you the Presido, imagine only one minister coming from the whole zone and judas were given more than 5 ministerial appointment? Education, economy and works are al sensible areas and yet were given to judas that follow their stomach!

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described Rivers state governor and director general of General Muhammadu Buhari has a ‘General’ of the Common Sense Revolution Army.

Tinubu who was Special Guest of Honour at the Public Presentation of ‘Dynamics of Change: The Amaechi Years’ today said Amaechi was leaving behind a lasting legacy in Rivers after eight years of meritious service to the people.

Read Tinubu’s full speech below:

In the course of the historic campaigns for the 2015 presidential election I was emphatic that the election itself was a great opportunity to popularise and test the noble idea of a Common Sense Revolution in Nigeria. Soon enough we found in the resonance of the APC Change mantra with the electorate a confirmation that Nigeria needed a Common Sense Revolution that is non-violent.

Indeed there is a publication with that title authored by me in which I argued that Nigeria was ripe for a change of leadership and Nigerians must act in a Common Sense and rational way in choosing their leaders. The results of the March presidential elections and that of April have demonstrated clearly the desire by Nigerians for change.

Elections over, both the leaders and citizens must brace up to meet the challenges required to built a better, more prosperous nation. Indeed, even as we subscribe to the tenets of Common Sense Revolution, we must retool ourselves the new leadership must embark on policies that will improve the general well being of the mass of our people.

Permit me to recall here how I once attempted to encapsulate the idea of Common Sense Revolution: “… This revolution is not a violent one to tear things down it is a revolution to rescue us from violence, injustice and poverty.

It is a positive one to rescue, repair and restructure the nation and its institutions in ways that further collective prosperity and well-being. The only violence that is to be done is to violence, injustice and poverty themselves. At its essence, a common sense revolution is a call to return to a level of decency in the relationship between government and the governed, between each one of us and his neighbor…” That was at commissioning of people-centred projects on March 23, 2015 in Kano under the leadership of Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.

We are here today, because one of the ‘Generals’ in the Common Sense Revolution Army, Rotimi Amaechi is bold and willing to show the world what he has achieved in the task to chart the critical path to total political and economic emancipation of the people whose mandate he enjoyed for 8 years.
http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/05/14/amaechi-a-general-in-nigerias-revolution-says-tinubu/

I think this op is no more in touch with reality, the whole world is watching you people, when GEJ was in power nobody called for succession, during campaigning nobody calls for succession, when GEJ was rejected in a fair match you turn to GMB calling him all sort of names, you criticize his policy that were never implemented, when all that fail, you turn to activist that can't take a single bullet for his GF, I challenge all of you people calling for succession to go ahead and do it, bluffing or blackmailing will not work cuz the whole world knew that kind of hypocrites you are, calling for succession after loosing an election, if you truly want to live the union why do you partake in the just concluded election? Bad looser hiding under alias, the day you people started thinking through your head is the day you will realize having oil is not the answer to your problem, being rich doesn't translate to being happy, I am in support of dissolution of the so called union, no country in the world today is rich cuz of oil! I repeat no country is rich cuz of oil. Russia, Britain, Indonesia, China, Japan, are not among the world producers of oil but they are the movers and shakers of the world economy, Japan was build based on technology. Lazy leader begets lazy followers.

Noted

This one na real gobe

A new mum has given birth to twins – who have two different fathers.

The New Jersey Law Journal reported, that the incredible case was revealed after the woman, identified only as T.M., named her current boyfriend as the father of her twins.

But T.M. admitted before maternity papers were signed that she had actually slept with a different man a week after she believed she conceived with her boyfriend.

A paternity test was carried out and it was revealed that the two men had each fathered one of the twins, who are now toddlers.

Now the woman’s original partner only has to pay out child support for one of the children.

Passaic County Judge Sohail Mohammad made the ruling in the paternity case on Monday.



Source: http://newswirengr.com/2015/05/13/woman-gives-birth-to-twins-with-different-fathers/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

Good for them, China and India is not far

Well am not happy cuz @APCNigeria are bringing themselves so low to a point of buying people with recharge card, fayose was accused of stomach infrastructure for giving out rice and chicken and now same people that abuse fayose are busy coping his style, we need change not recharge card which will soon finish or that useless women will tell you your account is too low for this call. Lol

That school is an abuse of our educational system, besides, the school is meant for working class not fresh student, u don't have class, no exams hall, no experiment, no test only assignment that is done over the Internet, I went 2ru university and I know what it means to study in nigeria, if such student are allowed to go NYSC then home-schooling graduates too can go for NYSC, even from op presentation you know they aren't upto standard, he fail to bring out the key point and summarise the text book given to him by his part time lecturer. Abeg join better school like everyone else

bnovative:
can u tell us minimah's rank before now?

Minimah is course 25 while badeh is course 24 Ihejirika is also course 24, he was retired to give way for course 25 to emerge but yet badeh is still there, militarily badeh is minimah senior on a normal day such is not suppose to happen, badeh was suppose to be Retired with his mate but that didn't happen at all what we have now is local arrangement consisting of course 25 and course 24 in the same place, that's GEJ arrangement for you

He disclosed that the introduction of technology to the war and the assistance of Pakistan, Ukraine and South Africa turned the war in favour of the Nigerian military.

“The extension that we got for the elections was to essentially take advantage of two situations. We have been discussing with our neighbours in trying to secure their support; we got the support in principle just before the election was postponed. Again, we got increased supply of equipment that we needed for fighting.”

Added to the above, he asserted, was the military’s introduction of technological tools to its campaign.

“When I talk of technology, there is what we call Network Enabled Technology (NET). What are the advantages of having network enabled capabilities? We have some limited capability in regard to that. We have the beach craft; it is able to give us effective down streaming so we can actually see the battle, and that’s exactly what we are doing most of the time.
“The Network Enabling Technology is going to really change a lot of things in the Nigerian Air Force. About 10 days ago, when we saw the population coming out of Sambisa Forest, no matter how good your surveillance is, surprises will show up. I personally was surprised to see that population coming out from the forest. But if you have technology, you would have noticed that this population was right there in the forest.

“But when you have the technology, you don’t need to have this sustained long operation; we would have been able to identify the gathering over a period of time and would have been able to bring the operation to its conclusion,” Amosu said.
Source: http://dailypost.ng/2015/05/08/air-force-boss-explains-why-it-took-nigerian-military-five-years-to-overcome-boko-haram/?wt=4

This people are real time politicians and were able to conquer the issue of immigrant and indigenes, I wish and pray one that our dear country will be like this, were an Igbo man will be a senate representing Zamfara at same time a Fulani man will represent ijaw community.

efilefun:
Any sponsor revealed If not then the video is worthless, that's if any was really recovered

they are still analyzing the tapes and promised not to say anything about the tape but yet we learn that stoning and other things takes place inside. Lol

The Director, Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, has confirmed that troops of the Nigerian Army have recovered video recordings of the heinous acts perpetrated by the Boko Haram insurgents.

However, Olukolade refused to disclose further information about the crimes against humanity captured in the videos in possession of the military.

He said, “It is true that troops have captured some video recordings of the terrorists but I would not want to say anything on that for now.”

Olukolade also confirmed to an Abuja based media consultancy firm to security agencies, the PR Nigeria, that the videos recovered from the sect were being analysed by the military.

“A number of vital materials, apart from arms and ammunition, have been recovered which are being subjected to intelligent analyses. We don’t want to say much about that now,” Olukolade was quoted as having said.

Investigation revealed that the videos have scenes of trials, stoning of condemned people to death, amputations, beheading of victims with knives, and summary execution through shooting.

It was learnt that the Joint Investigating Panel of the security agencies had commenced investigation into the activities of the terrorists and would soon present those found to be culpable of these heinous acts for trial.

It was stated that the military was taking the issue of the videos serious because they were being prepared for posting on You Tube to create fear in the civil populace.

“Some of the video were meant for release through their normal channels to the public before they were dislodged from their camps. They also show the barbaric life in their so-called caliphate.

“The media and the public are advised to be careful in handling or sharing sensitive and offensive videos depicting atrocities that some viewers may find disturbing.” PR Nigeria quoted a military as having said.

Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/military-recovers-video-recordings-of-boko-haram/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

A 15-year-old female abductee has said Boko Haram militants told her that the Chibok girls, who were kidnapped by the sect last year, were somewhere in Sambisa forest.
Speaking in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Hausa, monitored in Kaduna, the girl said “they told me that if I refused to marry one of them, they would take me to the Chibok girls in Sambisa forest.”
The girl was among those rescued by the Nigerian military recently, and was now being attended to in one of the centres in the North-East.
The girl, whose identity was hidden due to security reasons, said when she was abducted by the sect, they tried to force her to marry one of them, but she refused.
She was thankful to God for sparing her life and hoped to reunite with her family soon, adding that her father was in Maiduguri.
In a related development, the acting director, Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka, has expressed delight that “our troops are unrelenting in their determined efforts of vanquishing Boko Haram terrorists, wherever they are.”
He said in a statement that  “so far, they have been making tremendous progress in Sambisa forest. In a fierce encounter, as at this morning, they have destroyed seven more terrorrists camps.
Source: http://tribuneonlineng.com/content/chibok-girls-still-sambisa-—rescued-abductee

Wonders shall never end! Just like what happen recently in Mexico when some school kids went missing and they are presumed to be dead. Lord have mercy aand turn the heart of the heartless.

I think there is a need to revisit the constitution for now until when things are back to normal then we can go back to one minister from each state, having lean ministers is the best. Option, cuz it will give you more time to evaluate and assess them and at same time the cost of governance will not be a burden, and pls the general should remember to make it compulsory for all the ministers to have their children in public schools and they should be visiting general hospital for medical check against going outside

A bad looser is always a bad looser, what you fail to point out is the fact that, the North has more people than the south, u don't need to Google anything by merely looking at the our map you will understand that take for instance Niger state has a total area of 76,363 km2 (29,484 sq mi) compare to the south eastern states ( consisting of more than 6 states plus delta and river state inclusive) has only 16,000 sq mi (40,000 km2) http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igboland
What this means is, going by the way they partition the south east, 6 states can be created from Niger state alone and don't forget Niger state was formally part of sokoto state, a state like bayelsa has only 3 LGA but Abacha partition or created 8 out of that 3 LGA just to give them state and mind you they are not upto a million, if we will go by population or land mass the north has been cheated in so many ways just for the purpose of one nigeria, remember, democracy is about representing people equally, and there must be a yardstick for the purpose of fairness and justice, if number of population will be a yardstick I think there will be more states in the north than the south like wise if we are to use land mass same thing will happen, op is a bad looser that enjoy deceiving people, he fail to tell people that most European country are just like one state here in nigeria or a zone and most of the have almost equal number of tribe, let's assume what op said is true for purpose of argument, we have 250 languages minus dialects, how can we create reps or senate based on tribe? Or how can we create states based on number of tribes? Adamawa state has 75 different ethnic goups are u telling me that Adamawa alone will produce 75 senate and reps? Or 75 states? It's illogical nowhere in the whole world tribe is used as a yardsticks in creating political representative rather it's either based on province or region or zones. A bad looser will always try to cover the truth with false hood, our strength lies in our diversity and land plus our population, I challenge the op to give us a yardstick that will be used in creating states or reps, senate.

Theoretically it requires rocket science to achieve that, but the issue is, ur wholle judgement is based on fallacy, fallacy in the sense that, nobody knows what NNPC really generates cuz the woman choose what to give the FG if actually people knows what we obtain I believe the issue of the missing $20B will not be there, very shaddy biz is going on there, when it comes to the non oil generating agencies you left out customs I don't know whether it's deliberate or calculated attempt, well customs generated N3trn late last year ( http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=83336), and FIRS generated N4.69tr in 2014 (http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/n4-69tn-generated-from-taxes-in-2014-firs/), and I believe early this year we were told that FG agencies and departmental usedd to budget N16trn annually (http://www.nigerianeye.com/2015/03/fgs-annual-budget-is-n20-trillion-not.html?m=1) making our budget to be N20trn not N4.3trn, and not quite ago Soludo challenge ngo baby over N30trn missing fund, so my brother, the point am making is, all your analysis is based on flaws cuz nobody is telling us the real fact and going by what I have said it's very possible couple with the fact that there will be reductions in number of ministers, salary of lawmakers and their allowances and they will try to block all leakages. I am sure that if the outgoing government have block all leakages there will be enough fund to kick start new projects.

To me the best candidate is the secretary which upto now nobody gave his profile, Mallam Adamu Adamu is a man of integrity, he speaks the truth no matter how hard it is, I could remember, he had a battle with one of revered and highly respected islamic scholar in the north over GMB in 2011, he is vast interms of knowledge, he has good command of English, he is a journalist and a columnist, he writes for daily trust every friday column, I believe with this kind of people put together things will start changing for good cuz if this set of people can not articulate the way forward for this great nation of ours then am afraid this country is beyond repair for the next decade.

stevengerrard:
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is one jobless guy, looking for relevancy everywhere.

On the height of this election brouhaha, remember how this guy was busy abusing GMB, calling him with all sort of names, guest the guy was planted there to do more damage to PDP, now that PDP is out of the leaque, he wants to decamp to APC by being the first person to congratulate El-Rufai on twitter and telling the whole world that he was once an CPC agent and still remain one of them. Well that's what happens when an intention seeking jerk and controversy prone guy keep on dishing un intelligent stuff on the Internet, he is out of job looking for where to be relevant next, watch out never take anything he said serious cuz the guy is just confused.

The prophesy has come to past, for past almost 3 months now, shekau didn't release a single video on youtube and he is on the run now, no hiding place for the wicked.

I believe this guy is either illiterate of what he is saying or playing with people intelligence, well failure has a way of hunting you, he failed as a musician suddenly he turn to creating controversy just to be relevant but remember u will be relevant but ur idiocity and lack of foresight will be well known, let me address some few issues he raised, well I must confess I have no grudges against any igbo, igbo people have this believe that they can take over anything any time once the condition is right for them, I could vivdly remember when I was staying in PH, my landlord refused to rent a house to an igbo man so I ask him, why land lord, his answer to me then was illogical until now, he said that this people are taking over PH thereby making the indigene irrelevant, I tot it's impossible, but with what had happen now in lagos it became obvious to me that it's in their blood to expand from their niche by fire by storm, u ask where are the hausas, well it's obvious, hausa is the general and the commonest language adapted by the northerners just to communicate, hausas are found in Kano, Jigawa, SoKoto, Kebbi, etc and mind you nasarrawa has two parts there is a part that is dominated by the hausa and you have the eggon, ombatse and the rest but all of the speaks hausa, the point is the north is more mature politically and wise enough to adapt hausa as their business language not official, and I believe the igbos stands to loose more if they decides to form their own biafra, the land mass of the six igbo speaking state is not upto one state in the north take for instance Niger state, and the SS will. Not be part of you people, so it's in your best interest since you people can't stay in your own niche and decides to be with nigeria to shut up and follow the majority one day u will be majority, u spoke about 1963 census, this is stupid and illogical argument coming from somebody that doesn't even know his left and right then, even after civil war u still want to hold that census as the true representation of your people? And besides for over 30 years the igbo marries only one woman with 3-4 kids on the average while the hausas or northerners marries 3-4 wives with 20-30 kids as average and u are still thinking about that census? U people have no political wisdom if not u people wouldn't have been in this mess. There is still a time, my advise to all my igbo brothers and sisters is to learn from GMB there is always a 2nd, 3rd and even 4th time chance just cuz u loose today it's not the end of the world, don't take its as if we hate you people, that's politics there is always a winner and a looser but people like this etc are bad loosers and they lack wisdom to mutter logical advise, they are the same people that like inciting people just to be relevant, the north and the sw have realise this, it's now left for you ppl to decide whether u will allow this kind of ppl to incite you or u will tell them it's time to move on from divisive politics.