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Usman Balami once commanded hundreds of Boko Haram jihadists in attacks on police stations and banks. Now serving time at a prison complex in northern Nigeria, he says he is a changed man.
“In the past, I would have loved to die as a martyr,” said the 34-year-old, after changing out of a yellow goaltender’s jersey following a morning soccer match. In a nearby room, a group of former insurgents strung together beaded necklaces in a jewelry-making class.
About 100 miles away in another government facility, Fatima Bukar prayed that she can move on as well. Each day at midnight, the hour in which she believes God is listening most intently, she rises in the hostel where soldiers are keeping watch over hundreds of women rescued from Boko Haram.
The group held Ms. Bukar and her daughter hostage in a forest clearing for nearly five months. “I pray that Allah can turn them back into good people,” said the 27-year-old. “If not, Allah should destroy them.”
Boko Haram has become Nigeria’s collective trauma. The insurgency has swept thousands of boys and men into its ranks, often at gunpoint. It has snatched several thousand more girls and women, many of them raped nightly for months.
Continued fighting has left more than 25,000 people dead and more than one million people without homes, Ms. Bukar among them.
Now, in these two high-walled camps, survivors from both sides of the conflict are coming to terms with the scars of the six-year insurgency that has redefined their lives.
It is the start of a long reckoning for Nigeria.
The conflict rumbles on across the country’s northeast, with suicide bombings killing scores each week. But there are tentative signs of a healing and a shift in government policy.
Thousands of hostages have escaped or been freed after the Nigerian army raided the forests where Boko Haram once held sway. Two months ago, meanwhile, Nigeria began to offer weary Boko Haram fighters safe passage in exchange for prison sentences with the kind of psychosocial counseling Mr. Balami attends.
The question for the government of newly elected President Muhammadu Buhari is what to do with this mass of young people who have either been failed by the state, or at war with it. Already, hundreds of Boko Haram members are in detention, said Fatima Akilu, the director of behavioral analysis at the office of Nigeria’s national security adviser. Forty-seven more have taken up the government’s safe-passage offer.
“They get tired,” she said. “More and more of them want to defect. So this is actually prime time.”
Ms. Akilu was a London psychologist, counseling homeless teens and writing children’s books, until a Nigerian counterterrorism general, impressed with a newspaper editorial she had written, called to ask her to design a program to draw Nigerian terrorists back into society.
For two years, she traveled to countries including Algeria and Saudi Arabia with similar programs. Most of those nations had more money to spend.
Nigeria’s caseload is particularly grim. In Ms. Bukar’s camp, some women have become psychotic or mute. Loud noises put several on edge. Many have lost children or husbands. Several saw the deaths occur.
None of the 309 former hostages in this camp report being raped, but women in other camps testify to that horror. Many gave birth to captors’ children.
Mr. Balami’s fellow inmates are battling their own demons. Some of them built suicide bombs, the program’s imam said: “Quite a number of them regret their actions.”
Many spent years bouncing between teeming, choleric military jails, where allegations of human-rights abuses have sparked an investigation by the new government. Mr. Balami recalled soldiers executing five cellmates at another prison: “It was unimaginable,” he said, a remark that prompted his new prison guards to lead him away, ending the interview.
These days, the state is trying to repurpose Mr. Balami and 40 other confessed and suspected terrorists as ambassadors for peace. Since March, Nigeria’s national security adviser has put these men through a daily regimen of jogging, counseling, computer classes and art therapy.
They enjoy volleyball and badminton lessons from a national ping pong champion. When prison guards recently played former Boko Haram members in a friendly soccer match, they let the insurgents score two goals to tie the match.
It is an expensive and controversial way to treat fighters of a war that has brutalized Nigeria. Even in Mr. Balami’s prison, other inmates, booked on criminal charges, say they have lost family to the group.
One recent morning, more than 100 prisoners erupted into protest, livid over the preferential treatment: “My mom died [in] a bomb blast! My father died!” one inmate screamed, as he blocked a prison guard from clearing a soccer field for the Boko Haram team. “My whole family!”
A few hours away, in Ms. Bukar’s camp, the state is equally stretched making amends to the women it failed to protect. Women there attend therapy sessions. They take soapmaking and culinary classes. Many have been prescribed antidepressants to soothe nightmares.
They may be stuck here: “Every time we’re ready to take them back to so-and-so community, that community is attacked once more,” said camp manager Usman Sadiq.
Mr. Balami knows he could spend many years behind bars. In 2000, he joined a houseful of Nigerians trying to travel to Afghanistan to join al Qaeda, he said. Instead, they fell in with Boko Haram. For eight years, he traveled village to village recruiting young men to jihad, he said. In
2009, Boko Haram appointed him commander of a cell in the northeast. His stint ended in 2011, when Nigerian soldiers arrested him at a checkpoint.
Faced with multiple terrorism charges, he spent the next four years in five crowded military prisons.
In March, the government moved him into a new prison annex, staffed with social workers, psychologists, teachers, athletic coaches and an imam. Jail guards cleared a small garden for Boko Haram suspects to grow their own okra.
A few dozen Boko Haram suspects became some of the best-treated inmates in the Nigerian prison system. Mr. Balami began daily conversations with the prison imam.
One morning as they discussed the value of life, he broke down weeping. He says he broke then with radicalism.
While Mr. Balami was learning to tend goal, Ms. Bukar was stuck in a forest clearing with more than 200 other women and children, cooking for Boko Haram. Her husband Adam had run into the bush during her December kidnapping. Since then, she had been feeding their 2-year-old on scavenged leaves.
One day, Nigeria’s military rushed in. Soldiers trucked the captives through a series of locations, before settling them in this secret camp.
Here, Ms. Bukar began to revisit her faith, she says, poring over flimsy cardboard books of Islamic theology. Now, she believes her ordeal was destiny, ordained at birth. At night, she leads a prayer group of women who forgive Boko Haram.
“It was a trial from Allah,” she said, working her fingers through a chain of green plastic prayer beads. “I don’t blame them.”
One recent afternoon, their daughter Maryam, her strength back, was scrambling with other children over plastic playground slides. Ms. Bukar had just finished a culinary class and was on her way to a course on the Arabic alphabet.
Hinshaw is the West Africa correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.
Source: http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/from-jihad-to-jewelry-making-inside-secret-prison-for-former-b-haram-fighters/111174.html

[quote author=dunsman post=37932915][/quote]Faith is a private matter but once people accept such faith to be the way of life to them or their culture an outsider has no business to criticize or ridicule them, in Kano as u mentioned earlier accepted shariah law as part of their culture, and any one living in such community or taken to shariah court accept any verdict meted on him should in case such person didn't accept the the verdict he has the right to appeal and mind you, punishment are meant to deter would be not to encourage them, in Indonesia; crime for carrying some KG of cocaine is death same applicable to China, in China, Islam and Christianity is ban in some places or restricted and if you are found practice such religion there is a punishment for you, do you know the punishment of treason or felony in Nigeria? Is death, do you know in the 14th century in Europe when Christianity was the religion of the state; a scientist was condemned to death for speaking against the religion and even though he was later vindicated the church never felt its morally right to apologize ( the scientist name is Galileo; he said the earth was spherical against the teaching of bible which believes the world was flat). So sister, I have no problem if you choose to practice any form of religion as my neighbor and please don't criticize other of their beliefs

dunsman:
Trash

Illogically gibberish, counter my argument with evidence or learn to change your mode of life

Only the North stand up to the truth no matter who is involved, am not saying " it's only the North" as in "only the north" but I mean "only the north" sees beyond tribalism, ethnicity or religious inclination, imagine, a group residing in kaduna criticizing what happen in Akwa ibom. That's good for the country, the truth is always "the truth" no matter who is involved. Fellow southerners let's try to emulate the good aspect of the North.
One love
One country
One PMB

A northern-based non-governmental organisation, Arewa Youth For Progress and Development (AYPAD), yesterday condemned the invasion of Akwa Ibom Government House, Uyo, by the men of the Department of State Services (DSS), describing the action as “unacceptable.”

The group in a statement in Kaduna wondered why the DSS led by Lawal Daura could embark on such venture in this challenging period of the nation’s history.

The statement signed by the president and the secretary of the group, Comrade Danjuma Sarki and Usman Abdulhamid also said that the action of the DSS portends danger to the entrenchment of the rule of law and sustenance of a virile democracy in the country.

According to them, “It is quite unfortunate that the men of the secret police who claimed to be acting on intelligence report on the existence of an imaginary cache of firearms said to be stockpiled in the government house ended up destroying properties, harassing and intimidating staff and visitors in the building for several hours without finding a single weapon or stacks of cash.

“If for whatever reason there is a need to conduct such search on the government house, which is the seat of power and harbours the office and residence of the governor, who is covered by immunity by virtue of Section 308 of our Constitution, the most honourable and professional way to go was to intimate him of their intention and seek his cooperation as the chief security officer of the state, rather than engaging in a Gestapo-like operation.

“The nature of the invasion by the men of the SSS is surprising, shocking, and unbelievable,”they stated.

it makes mockery of our democracy. We cannot fathom this crass effrontery on the privacy of the Chief Security Officer of a Federating unit of our Federation, for no just cause,” the group said.

The group however, called on the DSS to be more “professional, civilized and courteous in the discharge of their responsibility, which was its hallmark in time past.”

They also appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to call the DSS to order “as their conduct is apparently projecting his administration in a bad light before the eyes of Nigerians and the International Community.”

Source:http://leadership.ng/news/460547/akwa-ibom-govt-house-raid-by-dss-unacceptable-northern-group

However, I must stress this for emphasis. I will not tolerate indiscipline. I will not tolerate corruption. I have zero tolerance for corruption. Considering my military background, I believe punishment must be punitive for others to see as deterrent. Therefore, as an officer of the Nigeria Customs service, if you are caught involved in corruption, I am not only going to dismiss you, I will make sure I prosecute you and jail you. That is basic.
That's the best part of the whole address
Let's hope for the best

ADDRESS BY THE COMPTROLLER-GENERAL OF CUSTOMS, COL. HAMEED ALI (Rtd) AT THE FIRST MEETING WITH ALL OFFICERS AND MEN HELD AT CUSTOMS HEADQUARTERS ON FRIDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER, 2015
Good morning Officers and Men.
Since I took over yesterday, I have been receiving briefing notes to enhance my understanding of the Nigeria Customs Service. I have articulated some ideas to start with, and I have found it necessary to share these ideas with you. These ideas shall be the guiding principle and platform for a smooth takeoff. 
2. First and foremost, it is important that we know where we are going. We can start by ensuring that we pick up the mantle of Mr. President’s policy thrust. Therefore, in conjunction with you, moving with you and fighting with you we will fight corruption and restore discipline through attitudinal orientation for effective service delivery.
3. We will optimally achieve the core statutory functions of the service, of revenue collection, trade compliance, and facilitation, anti-smuggling activities, national security amongst others, based on the service motto of “Honesty and Justice”.
4. We will commensurately further enhance the welfare of Officers and men for maximum service delivery.
5. We will ensure the strict application of Customs and Excise Management Act (CEMA) CAP-C45 Laws of Federation of Nigeria (LFN) as amended 2004, Customs codes, Extant Laws and Federal government’s circulars in all customs operations, through training and re-training of officers and men on how to apply them in their day to day operations.
6. We will address all anomalies manifest in recruitment, training, posting and promotion of officers and men of the service.
7. All Customs Officers and Men shall adhere strictly to the customs clearance, guidelines and procedures.
8. All Customs Area Controllers, Head of Units and Department shall be held accountable for all established infractions to do with false declaration, deliberate misapplication of the tariff, undervaluation and concealment.
9. All Customs Area Controllers, Heads of Units and Departments shall now send a weekly report on all proven cases of false declarations, deliberate misapplication of tariff, undervaluation, concealment and seizures with full compliments of action taken to the office of the Comptroller-General.
10. The extant procedures of disposal of seizures and overtime cargoes would be comprehensively reviewed to address the current abuse. A public statement shall be issue as soon as the review exercise is complete.
11. The Legal and Investigation Units of the Service shall be overhauled and strengthened to meet the maximum demands of the emerging challenges.
12. The welfare of Officers and Men shall remain uppermost in my mind, in the same manner; officers with corrupt tendencies shall not be tolerated.
13. The Customs training colleges in Lagos and Kano and the Academy in Abuja shall be further upgraded to meet the current demand.
14. The trading public including Importers, Excise traders, Exporters and Agents are expected to comply strictly with the extant Laws, rules and regulations.
15. The Service shall work hand in hand with other critical Agencies including but not limited to the Army, Navy, Air force, Central Bank of Nigeria, DSS, EFCC, ICPC, Immigration, FAAN, NDLEA, NAFDAC, SON, Ports Security, Plant/Animal Quarantine, and NESREA.
16. The Service shall also strengthen its existing relationship with commercial Banks, Terminal Operators, Shipping line, Shipping Agents and various registered and recognized clearing Associations and all the maritime correspondents of the press at our areas of operation.
17. The Service commitment to International Organizations such as ECOWAS, World Customs Organizations (WCO), World Trade Organizations (WTO) and other International Agencies under the United Nations shall continue to be respected and strengthened.
18. The office of the Comptroller-General is open 24/7 to the legitimate complaint from members of the trading public in the spirit of optimizing quality service delivery.
19. However, I must stress this for emphasis. I will not tolerate indiscipline. I will not tolerate corruption. I have zero tolerance for corruption. Considering my military background, I believe punishment must be punitive for others to see as deterrent. Therefore, as an officer of the Nigeria Customs service, if you are caught involved in corruption, I am not only going to dismiss you, I will make sure I prosecute you and jail you. That is basic.
20. Thanks

lalasticla is now a staunch PDP supporter, imagine first public appearance of GEJ hit Front page, but a survey carried out by international company on PMB is yet to hit Front page!there is God wooh


Me think say he is part of the 14%!!!!!lol

Well things are fast changing unlike in the past, even the change is "go-slow", from next week it's going to be very interesting ; trial of looters will soon begin with the recent revocation of their diplomatic passport, new ministers are coming onboard, NNPC will sell it 85% energy to TCN, leakages and wastages are kkept at bay, with the recent development of building modular refineries and licence issued to such people to go ahead with it; I say we are on course to redemption and becoming the "pace-setters" of the African continent.

God bless PMB
God bless the citizens that voted 4 change
God bless Nigeria

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86% Nigerians confident Buhari can fix Nigeria – Survey
By Chris Agabi | Publish Date: Sep 8 2015 4:58AM | Updated Date: Sep 8 2015 5:03AM


President Muhammadu Buhari
A survey conducted by TNS, a global survey firm, has shown that 86 percent of Nigerians are confident in President Muhammadu Buhari’s ability to fix Nigeria and grow the economy.
The report conducted in the third week of August 2015 among representative adult population in the 6 geopolitical zones further showed 55 percent of Nigerians agree the country was headed in the right direction while 74 percent think that the president is performing.
Also of those sampled expressed trust on the president and his government’s ability to win the war against Boko Haram insurgency.
The poll sought respondents’ opinion on four key areas which include opinion about the country and personal financial situation, assessment of President Muhammadu Buhari’s performance and key state institutions, Economic, fuel and power issues and finally terrorism.
The survey which interviewed 1001 Nigerians showed Buhari had overall impressive score among Nigerians who rated his performance high and think he is going in the right direction.
According to the poll, 91 percent of Nigerians support Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade while 86 percent are optimistic about how they will fare financially in 12 months time.
On the pace of his administration, 45 percent think his is slow but steady, 31 percent disagreed that he is slow while 19 percent agreed that Buhari is slow.
The poll also indicated that 59 percent of Nigerians endorsed the cabinet formation date fixed this month, 19 percent agreed that the date is far but necessary while 15 percent said the date should have been earlier.
TNS also surveyed on the effect of loss in Naira value where more Nigerians said the drop in the value of the currency to the US dollar was bad for the economy.
On electricity, 74 percent of Nigerians reported improved electricity supply while 78 percent of Nigerians also reported improved fuel supply.
Also according to the survey, 74 percent of Nigerians are more confident that their state governments can better deliver good governance than their national assembly while 65 percent expressed confidence on the senate.

Source:http://dailytrust.com.ng/news/news/86-nigerians-confident-buhari-can-fix-nigeria--survey/109920.html

Well things are fast changing unlike in the past, even the change is "go-slow", from next week it's going to be very interesting ; trial of looters will soon begin with the recent revocation of their diplomatic passport, new ministers are coming onboard, NNPC will sell it 85% energy to TCN, leakages and wastages are kkept at bay, with the recent development of building modular refineries and licence issued to such people to go ahead with it; I say we are on course to redemption and becoming the "pace-setters" of the African continent.

God bless PMB
God bless the citizens that voted 4 change
God bless Nigeria

Federal legislators yesterday declined to follow the example set by President Muhammadu Buhari and his deputy, Yemi Osinbajo by  making public disclosure of  their assets. 
Buhari and Osinbajo last week made their assets public in line with their electioneering campaign promises. While Buhari had less than N30m in his account, Osinbajo had N94m and 900,000 Dollars in his bank accounts.
However, Senators and members of the House of Representatives who spoke to Daily Trust yesterday said it was not mandatory  to go public after declaring their assets with the Code of Conduct Bureau.
Our correspondents report that there is a growing demand by the public for the legislators and even state governors to follow the example of the president and his deputy.
Meanwhile, only one senator out of 469 federal legislators has gone public with his asset declaration.
Senator Shehu Sani(Kaduna central, APC) on Friday declared as his asset  four residential houses in Kaduna, two uncompleted office complexes, two inherited family house in kurfi, katsina state and Minna Niger state and one residential house in Abuja. He also declared that he has N22 million  in his Bank account. Listed on his form were two wives and six children. Sani, an activist turned politician, is now having problems with many of his colleagues for putting them on the spotlight.
In an interview, Sani said: “Some of my colleagues are not happy over it but I don’t care because I did it as President Buhari has set a moral standard for all elected office holders and secondly, there is need for every one of us to come clean as regard to the suspicion and distrust between the government and the governed.
 “The constitution makes it optional for elected office holders. If you so wish you can make it public or you do it secretly but the secret declaration has been abused over the years.
“Public declaration does not make one saint but it affords the public to know the worth of their leaders. I urge all lawmakers in Nigeria to toe this line of honour. “It’s better to be pelted for disclosing than to be cursed for not disclosing,” he said in a phone interview.
When contacted on phone, the spokesperson of the Senate, Dino Melaye said Senators cannot be compelled to make their asset public.
“Making asset declaration public is personal and Senators can only make their public individually. I can speak for Senators on this. I cannot compel any Senator to declare his or asset but it is a great thing that people are making their asset public and I support it. Watch out for my own too because there is nothing to hide,” he said.
Similarly, the spokesperson of the House of Representatives, Sani Zorro said that the public declaration of assets by individual lawmaker is optional.
He said individual members had even before their swearing in on June 9 disclosed their assets to the Code of Conduct Bureau in line with constitutional requirement.
Asked if the lawmakers would follow the example of  President Buhari and Osinbajo by, Zorro said it is purely an individual choice to do that.
 “We have done that to the Code of Conduct Bureau. In fact, it was mandatory for every member to do that before inauguration. All those that were sworn in on June 9 filled a form in which they disclosed their assets to the bureau as required by the constitution.
“But making it public is an optional thing. However, we’ll welcome any member that comes out publicly to declare their assets. It will be in line with transparency and accountability in governance. It will deepen our democracy,” Zorro said. Also speaking, Rep Aminu Saleh Jaji, of Kauran Namoda/Birnin Magaji federal constituency of Zamfara state said: “It’s not the mere declaration that is the issue here, but this public declaration is more for the executive, president and his deputy, governor and his deputy.
“But as lawmakers, you won’t be sworn-in unless you declare your assets to the Code of Conduct Bureau and a certificate in that regard is issued to you. And all the members did that,” he said.
For his part, Rep Abdulrazak Saad Namdas said: “We have fulfilled our constitutional requirement. People who want to make it public can do that ... It’s an optional thing to tell the world.”
Some lawmakers contacted on the issue declined comment.
Among the lawmakers are 14 former governors namely; Senate President Bukola Saraki, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, Godswill Akpabio, Jonah Jang, Abdullahi Adamu, Theodore Orji, Aliyu Wamakko, Sam Egwu, Danjuma Goje, Adamu Aliero, George Akume, Joshua Dariye, Bukar Abba Ibrahim and Ahmed Sani Yarima.

Source:http://dailytrust.com.ng/news/news/senators-reps-shy-away-from-asset-disclosure/109924.html

All good things comes to those who patiently wait, slow and steadily work with focus despite wailing from Wailers association, Nigerians will soon know why "stealing is not corruption" before and why "stealing must always be corruption"

Let's hope the corrupt will not use our fault line i.e ethnicity, religion,section, to derail this war for the benefit of the unborn "pikin".

God bless Naija
We shall be great again

The anti-corruption campaign of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration appears to have taken a bigger bite as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secretly frozen the bank accounts of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s associates, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt.

One of our correspondents learnt that the move by the anti-graft agency was aimed at scuttling the tranfer of the alleged looted funds from the accounts for other reasons.

A member of a key transition committee of the All Progressives Congress, who spoke to one of our correspondents on condition of anonymity, on Friday, said the need had become necessary in view of the magnitude of the alleged theft of public resources by the affected persons.

The APC chieftain spoke on the heels of the condemnation of President Buhari’s ongoing probe of the last administration of the Peoples Democratic Party and recovery of funds looted by public officials.

The affected accounts, SUNDAY PUNCH learnt, belonged to Keketobou Foundation, owned by former Special Adviser to Jonathan on Niger Delta and Coordinator of the Amnesty Programme, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, and Mieka Divers Limited as well as Global West Vessels Limited reportedly owned by ex-Niger Delta warlord, Mr. Government Ekpompolo, aka Tompolo.

Further investigations by our correspondents also showed that one of Jonathan’s close allies, Mr. Kime Engozi’s accounts had also been flagged.

Engozi is the contractor handling the N30bn Maritime University contract at Okerenkoko in the Gbaramatu area of Delta State.

Besides, funds already approved for the commencement of the university are said to have remained frozen in a Yenagoa branch of the United Bank for Africa Plc.

The NIMASA Technical College at Okoloba, also in Delta State, is also said to be facing an uncertain future as there are fears that the institution might be scrapped.

Accounts linked to the former Director General of NIMASA, Dr. Patrick Akpobolokemi, are also said to have been frozen by the EFCC.

The source, who is now in the Presidency, said although he could not confirm if Jonathan’s recent meeting with Buhari discussed the issue, the action to ‘flag’ the said accounts might have been for security reasons.

The source also said the opposition Peoples Democratic Party was ignorant of the workings of the Federal Government, especially on security.

The source added, “This is not a matter of lobby or any politics that should be shoved aside; what is at stake is the nation’s security and nothing more.

“When the PDP says the current anti-corruption drive is selective, we continue to laugh at them because they do not seem to know what is at stake at all. If only they know, all the noise they have been making won’t be made at all.

“How many of these PDP elements know that just one individual benefitted from a single NIMASA transaction to the tune of N13bn, not to talk of about $57m he was said to have benefitted from controversial contract deals?

“Are these the things they ask us to sweep under the carpet? Certainly, we cannot because apart from the angle of the impunity and financial recklessness, does it make any sense if any responsible government allows such individuals, who had threatened war in the event that Jonathan did not win to have such huge sums in bank vaults? Such accounts must be flagged, of course.”

However, the PDP has asked President Buhari to follow the rule of law in his government’s determination to fight corruption.

The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Olisa Metuh, in an interview with one of our correspondents on Saturday night, asked the President not to spare anyone, including his friends and members of the ruling APC in the crusade.

Metuh said, “We are not against the war against corruption, but what we are saying is that the President must follow the rule of law.

“The law says every accused person is innocent until proven otherwise. Then, the President must also look at his party; he shouldn’t spare his friends.

“If any of our members is found to be corrupt, let them face the law of the land. But no one should be tagged as being corrupt when the court has not said so.”

He also asked the President to fund the anti-corruption agencies adequately, while saying that the agencies should also conduct what he described as “water-tight investigations” before rushing to the court.

Repeated calls to the mobile telephone set of the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, were neither picked nor returned.

Also he had yet to reply a text message sent to him at 8.52pm, asking for his comments on charges that the APC-led administration was hounding members of the opposition PDP and associates of Jonathan, as of the time of filing this report.

Tompolo is not under any investigations by the EFCC, but Kuku has a date to keep with the anti-graft agency in September, having gone for a knee surgery in the United States of America in July, while the former NIMASA boss has been under investigation for over month.

However, Akpobolokemi’s interaction with the EFCC has been linked to business deals by him while he held sway at NIMASA and the ex-warlord.

SUNDAY PUNCH also learnt that EFCC’s seizure of Akpobolokemi’s international passport and a N38m worth bullet-proof Toyota Landcruiser was already heightening speculations that he might be prosecuted if findings by the investigators indict him.

At least three close aides and confidants of the ex-NIMASA boss, including the current Executive Director in charge of Maritime Safety and Shipping Development, Mr. Ezekiel Bala Agaba, have been guests of the EFCC in the last ten days

Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/probe-jonathans-associates-accounts-frozen/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Francis5:
You are a shameless chicken head. Here a link to the news back then.
http://mg.co.za/article/2007-03-22-nigerian-muslim-students-beat-teacher-to-death

It was even a topic on Nairaland then

https://www.nairaland.com/46741/gombe-muslim-students-put-me

Look who is calling another person "shameless"
According to your source "An angry mob of Muslim students in northern Nigeria beat their teacher to death on Wednesday for allegedly desecrating the Qur'an, police and witnesses said. Her attackers accused her of tearing a portion of the Qur'an she seized from a female student during an examination."
Does that means "expo" to you? Why resort to fallacy just to drive your illogical argument home? Did they teach you integrity from your family house? When did quran turn to expo? When did the corper have to right to confiscate "expo"? Is that the procedure when you catch aa student cheating? Imagine the source? Virtually unknown blogger looking for traffic! Please always try to verify your news before going on "bigotry spree".

funkybully:
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Look at this gworo chewing cow.

Was it not in the north that a corper was killed when she tried collecting d expo ur northern brother was using to write exam. After d exam she was killed by ur bastard almajiri goats that accused her of desecrating koran?

Lies peddlers; challenge you to produce the link here were a corper was killed cuz she collected expo? Gone are those days when people will just spread lies without evidence.

sunnyb0b0:
Bro, I bet you have not been to the North. As a corper in Gadaka, Fika LGA in Yobe state more than 10 years ago, fellow corpers teaching in GGSS Gadaka were forced to write answers for WAEC on the board for the students and we were told that was the standard practice. Despite that, they still failed woefully.

You are also not allowed to punish the students as that could discourage them from coming to school despite the fact that school was free (including feeding and boarding), uniforms and textbooks also free.

Who do you blame? Student that his only is to copy or the corper that's suppose to supply the correct answer? I can't be coerce into doing things that am not comfortable with; as a corper the least you can do is to write to your LA or Coordinator, in written for the sake of prosperity don't mind those that will discourage you the little you do today will be yardstick people will use to judge you 2mao.

CyberWolf:
why not conduct a special entrance exam in each school, something like post-ume if you think southern candidates cheated in exam? Keep deceiving yourself there.

Stop the Generalisation stereo-type, am not accusing all southern compatriots of this heinous aberration but my point was; most schools has adopt that stupidity and helps in what we have now in our educational system, I am in support of equal cut off mark ( though, I don't trust the op and his source, cuz it seems the two are bad loosers they still believe the game of 2019 is on; I challenge them to reproduce the link to Federal ministry of education were all this disparaging values emanate) irrespective of your zone for very efficient productivity. For your own information all northern schools and university made it madatory with out extortion to carry out entrance exams or post jamb.

janus05:
Stop being in denial. Western education is haram for the north. I served in one of the northern states. And I experienced raw WAEC malpractice backed by the school principal. Solutions to questions were solved by "machineries" and written down on the blackboards in the exam halls. The problem was that almost all the candidates couldn't just copy.

That's your own way of reasoning, to me education is never and will never be haram; my religion encourages me to search for knowledge anywhere, southern proprietors took malpractice to private schools in the North, they made sure they corrupt people's mind with dubious and very mechavellian tactics to lure parent into believing there children are better off and are sure of getting the best result compare to public schools, in the North, the school authority upto now has sanctioned such practices hence the reason for the mass failure, I was privileged to serve in bayelsa, I have stayed in PH for more than 9years and in lagos for over 7years I know what am saying; they have two sytem of payment; the assured and the un-assured means, you pay higher if you want to be with the assured leaques and pay less when you prefer to go solo. If truly, those people have high IQ why are places like bayelsa and other still experiencing flood and other natural disaster? In Kenya, Locals not government mostly proffer solution to community problems.

liberty300:
what is this one saying? That the southeast has no integrity. Who has the highest number of political criminals and thugs in Nigerian political history.

Those cutoff marks to me are a measure of IQ. Until Nigerians tell themselves the truth, we'll never progress as a nation

You see I only reply to this post not cuz what the op said make any sense, the source is a bigot, just visit the site and tell me whether you trust the figure or the gibberish post, no link to ministry of education, and he ends with a remark on buhari's appointment which any biased and educationally prejudiced guy will do, I support justice and equity, and I believe there is a very big different between this quack system of educational system of ours with the raw talent and gifted country men scattered all over the country. None of buhari's appointment has average IQ!! None, and none of them even study the way our student study nowadays there were thought by the "source" not "half-balked" illiterate litrate, so bringing buhari in all this I think shows how tribalistic and anti progress the op and his source are. The last regime which is obviously from the south appointed the best mind from the south, people with high IQ! Whats the result? Stealing is not Corruption or Goat and Yam theory. A frnd once told me "your IQ is directly proportional to what you will steal provided the society placed power and money above integrity and other variables (Remain Constant)". People with lower IQ can easily be detected while those with high IQ requires forensic Audit before being detected. I rest my case.

Defend yourself and put those ediat to shame but by not appearing; I think you are given them more room to sell cheap propaganda against you. You have done your part so live the rest to God.

liberty300:
After they'll say northerners are more qualified than easterners for political appointments

Op, this is the reason for the agitation of Biafra and nothing..no fair treatment whatsoever

You see am not a bigot and I don't support a bigot, but integrity lies in accepting reality not trying to cheat nature, and besides you can't compare class integrity with political/public integrity, a student may graduate with first class without ever cheating but ends up taking public money would you still say just because he didn't cheat while he was in school that he is not corrupt or still has integrity? Integrity is tested when you give someone an assignment or you trust him with public fund and he didn't eat the yam. And encourages other people not to eat the yam and takes responsibility of everything under him.

One thing that is for sure is, most of this southern states uses special centres to pass exams, it has now gone mobile; a day to either jamb or waec exams; answers will be flying all around, some people even created blog just to "help" prospective student pass exams. I believe the result doesn't speak for those student hence the need for post jamb or university entrance exams.
Op integrity is when you try and you fail and still accept the fact that you fail not when you receive a ready made answer 2ru either mobile or Internet and come here and say you have integrity that's cheating and pergury.

Litmus test for the INEC chairperson.
I think it's high time we change all the old politicians and allow new breeds to take us to the promised land.

Which type of food?
Eba? Semo? Gari? Fufu? Tuwo?
Well even the soil need swallow time to time

Lol
They have Obama we have PMB

Don't trust this derby of a guy, he championed a botched peace deal that caused us a lot of money, he lied just few weeks ago only for shekkau to come out and denied it, and this folks were arrested on a raid, they were sentenced just yesterday without room for appeal or interrogation and those would-be suicide bombers that were arrested were yet to be sentenced!? Is this man playing Ali Modu Sherrif style of BH? Killing anyone that will talk? Which kind of a justice system is this? Even in the US you will face serve time, psychologist and criminologist will study you and they will give you time to confess and have some remorse and if there is any accomplice he will be arrested and a date will be set for you execution, we need to go deep into the root cause of all this madness, stop treating the symptoms treat the underlying disease the symptoms will go away on it own.
Don't let emotion get in the way of your judgement.....

In as much as I appreciate what the president is doing so far, but I have to confess, appointing an ex-army that retired when the world was at manual stage, with no single idea what customs is all about says a lot about this president, the op have no idea on customs work and decided to show "Omo eko" to make some few "change" only to end up loose more than what he bargain for, that's exactly what will happen to this hamid, customs of today is technological based service, op let me tell you some few things about clearing of car either 2ru port or border stations
* duties are paid based on ad-valereom values
*valuation unit is saddled with valuing your vehicle
*tokumbo cars pays 35% of FOB with out levy while new cars pays both levy and duty, VAT and other charges inclusive
*cars are valued based on car make, car year and the engine capacity e.g a Venza is normally regarded as a car cuz of it engine capacity while 2004 highlander is considered as a jeep
*mileage is used as a yardstick in determining whether a car is new or tokumbo; normally car with less than 50k mileage is considered as new anything more than that is considered as tokunbo
*in case of port; some agents prefer to clear their goods as either individual or the whole container i.e irrespective of how many cars are inside the container hence they will produce only 1 SGD with all the cars. Chasis number written on it.
*as it is now, customs doesn't collect duty rather banks and DTI ( direct trader input) are saddled with that, after they value your car, you will be ask to go to a designated bank to pay that amount, a receipt and computer print out will be issued to you, you will move to ASYCUDA ( Automated Sysytem for Customs Data) where the number that was initially generated both in the DTI and bank will pass 2ru customs computer that is connected with the main server in Abuja, a process called "Selectivity " will be triggered by the computer, where the computer will try to ascertain whether the correct value is being paid or not ( there are 4 color selectivity : Green, Blue, Yellow and Red) depending on the the outcome, abuja will be notified about the transaction, if everything is ok, a green color will be "triggered" meaning it's a go, blue is for big companies; they call it "fast track" or "post clearance audit", yellow means there is a discrepancy hence the nees for documentary checks, red is for 100% physical examination. At the end an exit note will be sent from the computer to the man at the gate they call them TO (terminal operators) notifying him of such consignment.
* so, many people are involved including abuja in clearing of goods, they era were people will collect money and issue a receipt is gone
*am not saying that those customs officer aren't corrupt or they are corrupt both the point am trying to make is; there is a system in place to check mate corrupt practices and give you more power to ask questions
*op you went into a business that you don't have a single idea on how it's run that's why all this things happen to you
*hamid can't do anything; the service is already reforming itself and have been generating revenue steadily but whoever advise pmb on that one, I think he is wrong.

If not for the fact that it's a press release it would have been avery good "joke" or "hilarious" latter written by either AY or basket mouth but not an elder or leader butt what can we do about it? This our new reality tv show, more are coming.

Typical African man, blame other people for his failure if everything fail blame the unseen or charm. Stupid yeye fowl, this common thiefs always believe they are smarter than average nigerian police men hence the need for him to blame juju instead of painstaking and a weldone job done by the police. #ChangeIsHere

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New breakaway faction leader is Shuwa Arab, half Nigerian, half Chadian
Hates Shekau more than Nigeria
Is Info. Source: Was in charge of receiving money from Governors to stop Shekau bombing their States
Was against pledge to ISIS
Heads counter-intelligence, security unit and was in charge of urban wars, suicide missions
Has Shekau Been Replaced?

Yes, he is no longer the sole head of his group, he now reports to a boss in charge of Islamic State West Africa, who in his own turn reports to a boss in Syria, who in his own turn is responsible to the so-called Caliph Ibrahim aka Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the supreme leader of Islamic State. This much is clear.

What is also clear is that not all members of Shekau’s circle were happy about the decision to join Islamic State, and there have been talks of several defectors over the months. What is surprising is that Chad’s President Idriss Derby announced on TV the day before yesterday that another little Shekau has arisen named “Mahamat Daoud” and he is claiming to be the leader of Boko Haram and is seeking negotiations with the Nigerian Government. If this who I think it is then this is significant.


Muhammad Daud

First of all his name is Muhammad Daud, he is said to be about 38 years old, a Shuwa Arab from Maiduguri with a Kanambu mother from Chad. He is one of the earliest students of Muhammad Yusuf and is said to have been one of the few amongst the close circle of Muhammad Yusuf’s student that disagreed with the 2009 Uprising, his views being that they were not yet strong enough to take over the area as at then. He was said to be a trader in perfumes and an ex-serviceman, although the particular service he was in is not known by the majority of my sources.


Shekau and ISIS’ Abu Baghdadi



He is also one of the scholars of Islamic State of West Africa and is regarded as their Imam of the Science of Hadith. He was said to be a staunch Yusufi, opposing the polarizing  policies of Shekau after Muhammad Yusuf’s death despite swearing an oath of allegiance to him, and was one of the few top dogs of Shekau’s group who were against the pledge of allegiance made to Islamic State, rejecting it as a betrayal of the teachings of Muhammad Yusuf. If he really is seeking negotiations, then it means he has broken away from Shekau with a faction of men loyal to him, and if he is claiming to have replaced Shekau as the head of the group, then he has decided to put Shekau and his group in his rifle sights. His hate of Shekau may very well surpass his hate for the Nigerian State.

How does this change anything?

One he is a powerful commander within the group, in charge of the Amniyah or Security Department, the group’s powerful counter-intelligence and internal security arm. Before that he was in charge of the unit responsible for operations in Maiduguri and other major Nigerian cities, meaning he oversaw the training of suicide bombers, the planning of operations in major cities, the selecting of targets for suicide operations in major cities, and the dispatching of the human weapons to their assigned strike areas. This guy also ran the group’s intelligence unit, and was also the guy responsible for collecting the hundreds of millions of naira many state governors were paying Shekau’s group to not explode bombs in their states.



Having this guy on your side who mind you has a not so insignificant support base (I expect hundreds of fighters to follow him if he has left Shekau), plus he has tons of information that can identify many sleeper cells and operatives of Islamic State West Africa, expose the money generation and transfer methods the groups uses, expose critical intelligence about the group’s inner structure, and maybe even information as to how to kill Shekau. If this is the guy really seeking negotiations, the Nigerian Government should hurry and take the offer, having him on the Nigerian side is a game changer. Of course the risk that this is just a ruse to buy sometime, cannot and should not be ruled out completely. Anyways this chooses to go, one cannot help but admit that this really puts an interesting twist in the whole thing.

-Fulan Nasrullah

- See more at: http://newsrescue.com/exclusive-details-breakaway-boko-haram-faction-leader-muhammad-daud-dislikes-isis-hates-shekau/#ixzz3izoY41HE