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That's what I like about this our country, we always appreciate our past with nostalgia as if the best has already left us, GEJ has not done anything tangible about NNPC it was Yar 'Adu'as idea, during that regime, I could remember that, a Committee was set up to restructure and put the NNPC on the right course, that Committee was headed by Rilwan Lukman, it was that Commitee that proposes the establishment of NNPC filling station in all the LGAs of the country, Yar Adua single-handedly stop the selling of NNPC then to dangote, I could still remember then the disappearance of long line in most filling stations were credited to GEJ but. Never Yar Adua, so why is it now difficult to credit the sudden resurgence of EFCC and NNPC to the govt of the day? When it is obvious that last govtt was nothing more than a charade and celebration of corruption? Paradox and contradiction has taken over the official Explanation given by. Either the. Minister, presidency or NNPC workers? Who is in charge here? Wailers will continue wailing till PDP change it name to GEJ!! Cuz it obvious there is PDP and GEJ! In achebe's words " then there was a party called PDP"

It's allowed, PMB should probe all the contradictions involves in TAM, one minute they are saying things will work the next minute they will say we need to carry out TAM and hence billions of naira will be involve without repercussion. We need to separate the politics from the real job, we can't be taking for granted or for a real without check and balance. I have said it in my numerous post, that the last regime is the worst regime since after our independence, but some few misguided, tribalistic and unpatriotic element are supporting them without concrete evidence or logical argument.

According to a recent statement by the Acting Director of Army Public Relations, Colonel SK Usman, “the Nigerian Army is reviewing all recent disciplinary cases due to the wave of litigations and petition by some aggrieved personnel.”

Army SpokesmanNaijalogColonel Usman stated that this statement was preempted by information “making the rounds on some media regarding an administrative procedure” saying that the military was reviewing the cases of soldiers deserting the military.



It was learned in recent months that many Nigerian soldiers deserted or were unfairly dismissed because top military leadership in Nigeria were not supporting or equipping them in the fight against Boko Haram.

Colonel Usman concluded that this information should not be misconstrued “to mean a total recall of dismissed and deserter soldiers.

- See more at: http://newsrescue.com/nice-nigerian-army-reviewing-deserter-dismissed-and-sentenced-soldiers-cases/?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=NewsRescue#sthash.jJ5im8mw.dpuf

Slow and Steady is yielding result, Merit always yield positive result, since after the appointment of Daura as the head of dss, things are moving forward, securing human life has become a priority and hence all criminals and agent of the devil will no longer live in peace.

People often overlook the men and officers that are on the field engaging with this devil-reincarnates, this people are both from the north and the south and they are sacrificing their lives day and night so that u and i can type and criticise them positively or negatively, politicians are very dubious people, they only care about their interest, that last government has turn that organisation into PDP private investigators not a national security outfit.

Say No to Un-Necessary critism
Say Yes to Merit and performance
Say Yes to Positive Critism

Sai Baba
Sai Daura

The Department of State Services has arrested 28 suspected kidnappers nationwide within six days.

The service stated that it apprehended the suspects across various states in the South-South, South-West and the North-West regions between July 20 and 26, 2015.

A statement by one Tony Opuiyo on Saturday in Abuja, said the DSS line with its statutory mandate, initiated series of special tactical operations in states prone to the nefarious activities of criminal gangs.

The operations, it added,  succeeded in the capture of the masterminds and other facilitators of kidnapping syndicates among whom is one Victor Afikparobo, who was picked up on July 20, 2015  at Owheologbo, Isoko North LGA of Delta State.

The suspect, the DSS added, was a key member of the ‘Federal’ gang, a kidnap syndicate which perpetrated series of kidnap incidents within the Ikorodu/Otta axis of Lagos State, adding that the arrest had given further leads to the gang leader of the Federal kidnap syndicate.

The service further claimed to have arrested three suspects, including one John Felix (a.k.a. Austin), Rowson Anufa (a.k.a. Amori) and Obukoko Emoabe, a local herbalist to the group on July 22 at Ovara  Orugun village in Ughelli North LGA, Delta State.

The trio are key members of the kidnap gang that terrorised the Lagos-Ikorodu road, and Owo, Ondo State, the agency stated.

On July, 24, the DSS also apprehended Joseph Ojobor (a.k.a Chairman), the leader of the Lagos cell of the ‘Federal’ kidnap syndicate at Uduere, village in Ughelli North LGA, Delta State.

The DSS said he had also been linked to some incidents of illegal bunkering and pipeline vandalism.

It said, ”

Also, on the same July 24, at about 0500 hours, the team arrested another member of the Lagos cell of the ‘Federal’ kidnap syndicate, one Timothy Japheth in his house at Onokpasa Avenue in Okhan village in Ughelli North LGA, Delta State.

“Earlier, on July 19,  another member of the notorious gang, one Howell Anufa,  was apprehended by the service. The suspect was instrumental to the kidnap of the Regent of Akungba Akoko in Ondo State.

“Anufa also participated in the spate of kidnap incidents, carried out by the gang in Lagos and Ogun states respectively, before he relocated to Warri, Delta State, where he was eventually arrested.”

Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/dss-arrests-28-kidnap-masterminds-in-six-days/

New Sherrif in town, even the once though problems that can't be solve have started falling into places,even the all powerful PDP that feed and survive on corruption are broke, for the first time, security situation is taking shape, light is almost everywhere, corruption will soon go into either oblivious or extinction.

Sai Baba
It's well

Electricity generation across the country has continued to maintain a continuous rise from 4,000megawatts just as it rose to 4,662mw on Wednesday.
Although the system began to rise in capacity from late June 2015, electricity customers across the 11 Distribution companies (Discos) had complained of not seeing a commensurate improvement in power supply hourly.
However, Daily Trust findings across Kubwa, Lugbe, Apo and other suburbs in Abuja and parts of Nasarawa state revealed that consumers since the weekend are beginning to see a better electricity hour.
Munir Ojo, a resident of Kabayi, Mararaba suburb of Nasarawa state said, “Since Friday, the supply started growing longer. We could now expect power from 9pm and that could last till 6am. That has happened till Tuesday.”
Records available from the Presidential Task Force on Power (PTFP) also show that power sent out after generation has slightly improved from the less than 3,500mw in early July to 3,988mw last Tuesday July, 28.
But the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) in a statement yesterday confirmed this as it said ‘the National Grid Transmission has recorded another peak of 4,662mw.’
Its General Manager, Public Affairs, Seun Olagunju said the new peak was attained at 08.00pm on Tuesday less than 15 days after TCN announced the attainment of a historic peak generation of 4656mw on July 15.

Source: http://dailytrust.com.ng/daily/index.php/business/61332-electricity-grid-maintains-rise-now-4-662mw

That's Goodnews but Wailers will always criticises it after 45seconds of reading this news!

"Now I'm Four Five Seconds from "Wailing" (wildin')
And we got three more days 'til Monday (Friday)
I'm just tryna make it back home by Friday (Monday) mornin'- Rihanna 45Seconds

Twenty senators of the Northern caucus of the All Progressives Congress in the Senate, who with 59 others co-sponsored the confidence vote passed on the leadership of the legislative body, Thursday, denied working against the interest and agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Nation had published a report, alleging that the Northern senators aligned with their Peoples Democratic Party counterparts to team up “with the opposition to work against President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling party”.

However, at a press briefing on Thursday, the Chairman, Senate ad hoc committee on Media and Publicity, Dino Melaye, dismissed the allegation on behalf of his colleagues.

Mr. Melaye said the report which dubbed the 22 senators “Anti – Buhari”, “was wicked, satanic and unacceptable because all of them actually worked for Buhari’s victory at the poll and had determined to ensure the success of his administration”.

He also alleged that the sponsors of the publication were “actually the real enemies of the president because their action was capable of causing disunity between the South and the North.”

He added that the publication was a great disservice to the nation, stressing the commitment of the members and leadership of the 8th senate to the efforts of ensuring the success of Mr. Buhari’s agenda of moving the country forward.

Mohammed Shittu, Jigawa State, recited Quranic verses and rained curses on the writers and sponsors of the publication, describing them as enemies of Nigeria.He held that those who invited APC senators to the International Conference Centre for a purported meeting with the President on the day of the inauguration, were the real enemies of Mr. Buhari.

Binta Garba, Adamawa State, added that there was no way she could be part of any agenda working against Mr. Buhari, when the North East zone from where she hails relies on the president to defeat Boko Haram.

Earlier at the plenary, the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, ruling on a point of order by the Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, on the matter, asked its committee on Ethics and privileges, to investigate the publication, the publisher, and the writer to ascertain the intention and submit its report within a week.

Meanwhile, Mr. Ndume’s claim that the publisher of the Nation newspapers was behind the report apparently hit a raw nerve in Oluremi Tinubu, from Lagos State, who protested the claim.

Source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/187547-senate-orders-newspaper-probe-over-anti-buhari-report.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

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Slow but steady and one day we will reach our destination by the special grace of God, for those that think baba is not working or its good luck achievement, I say to them if it took good luck 6 years to go with nothing why are you expecting miracle in 2 months? Why didn't you give credit to Yar Adu'a even once for laying the foundation in the first place or obasanjo? I say to you must of them are attention seekers and children of hate. One day they will admit this country is better off without PDP just like the way olisah metuh confess recently about Buhari being the only person that is not corrupt in APC. It's just a matter of faith and patience

The Department of State Services, DSS, may have taken over the job of monitoring downstream petroleum distribution and marketing, as part of the President Muhamadu Buhari’s measures to stem the high level of corruption in subsidy claims.
Consequently, retail outlets found selling any petroleum product above the prescribed government price will be immediately shut down, while any depot selling above the ex-depot price will have to forfeit the subsidy claims on the cargo that brought in the product.
The move followed the apparent inability of the industry regulators, the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, and the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, whose officials were apparently overwhelmed by the supply shortages to check sharp practices and market excesses among the operators.

Consequently, the DPR has scheduled another impromptu closed door meeting with marketers and other industry stakeholders today (Wednesday) at its Headquarters in Lagos, to update them on the new development.
Confirming the development yesterday, a top industry source who also attended the meeting told Vanguard in a telephone interview that the decision was made known to stakeholders at a closed door meeting which held in Abuja on Monday.
The source, who spoke in confidence said: “DSS will lead the operations (monitoring), and marketers were also asked to monitor each other and to report any sharp practices. “Government decided that enough was enough and will no longer condone any sharp practices in the system.”
The source, disclosed that the meeting was at the instance of the Federal Government, and had in attendance the representatives of the DSS, DPR, PPPRA, Major and independent marketers, depot operators and a host of other industry operators.
The source added that attendants sat for long hours deliberating on the best way to arrest the unofficial price hike of petroleum products in the market, occasioned by supply shortages following the inability of the government to pay markets outstanding subsidy claims of over N200billion.
Sudden hike in price
The source was responding to Vanguard’s enquiries on the cause of the sudden unofficial hike of both the pump price and ex-depot price of premium motor spirit, PMS, popularly called petrol and kerosene, and the helplessness of the industry regulators to arrest the situation.
Since the supply shortages set in some months ago, marketers and depot operators took the initiative to hike pump and ex-depot prices to reap enormous profit while waiting for government to pay off their outstanding claims.
As a result, practically every retail outlet sold petrol at above the prescribed N87/Litre, to peg price at between N100 and N150/Litre depending on the outlet and location.
Similarly, rather than the prescribed N81/litre ex-depot price, marketers accused the depot operators of selling at N96/litre instead, which they claimed forced them to also hike pump price.
He said: “Such practices will no longer be condoned especially with the involvement of the DSS, who will use their intelligence network to get to the root of the matter.
“The meeting decided that all marketers must sell at the regulated price of N87/litre of petrol. And anyone found to be selling above this, the DSS will track the outlet to the depot where the product was lifted.
“If it was discovered that the pump price increase is as a result of hike in ex-depot price, then both the outlet and the depot will be sanctioned.
“Originally, it was agreed that both the outlet and the depot will be shut down, but after considering the situation, if was agreed that the depot will not be shut down in order not to exacerbate the supply situation.
“However, the depot operator will be made to forfeit his subsidy claims on that cargo, as it will be assumed that he has reimbursed himself through the ex-depot price hike.”
“We are meeting with DPR again tomorrow (today) on the same matter for them to tell everybody what is happening and the need for all to ensure compliance,” the source added.
DPR meets with stakeholders
Expressing shock at the takeover of parts of its functions by the DSS, a top management official of the DPR confirmed the upcoming meeting with stakeholders in Lagos today.
The official, who also spoke in confidence in a telephone interview told Vanguard: “The Downstream Unit only informed us about the meeting holding tomorrow at about 4p.m. today.”
He expressed shock that the Unit did not give them full disclosures on the reasons for the impromptu meeting saying: “It is sad that everybody now do territorial claim when the whole roof is caving in. if there are new developments we should know firsthand and not from a third party.”
Agreeing that the DPR was overwhelmed by the sharp practices in the industry, he asked: “How can we effectively monitor a situation where the marketer shows us technical proof about the depots selling above the ex-depot price, and the depot operators in turn show prove at selling under the regulated price?
“We heard their accusations back and forth, and decided to hold an impromptu meeting with them in Lagos a few weeks ago, which was also reported by your paper. Since it was an open meeting, we expected the parties to openly make their allegations. But nobody did. So how can we hold anybody responsible?”
He, however said that the involvement of the DSS was a welcome development as long as it will bring sanity to the system, seeing that DPR lacked the capacity to fully monitor downstream operations.

Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/breaking-news-pump-price-hike-dss-takes-over-monitoring-of-fuel-distribution/

Transmission Company

*As 32,229 customers get overbilled refunds from Abuja Disco

Chineme Okafor in Abuja

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on Wednesday disclosed that the national electricity grid transmission has attained a new peak capacity of 4,662 megawatts (MW), some 6MW different from its last record of 4656MW.

TCN, in a press statement from its General Manager, Public Affairs, Seun Olagunju, in Abuja, explained that the new peak was attained at about 08.00pm on Tuesday night.

It said that the country’s power generation and transmission capacities have in the last couple of days enjoyed new peaks above 4500MW following improvements in gas supply to the generating stations as well as equipment and infrastructure upgrade in the transmission network.

TCN which assured that it would continue to work at enhancing the capacity to transmit more quality power to the electricity distribution companies in the country, also attributed the new records to enhanced human capacity of its system operator.

The transmission company had Wednesday July 15, 2015 announced its attainment of the previous 4656MW peak transmission, just two days after it recorded 4545MW peak transmission in the national grid.

Meanwhile, about 32,229 electricity consumers that are serviced by the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) within its franchise distribution areas of Abuja, Kogi, Nasarawa and Niger have reportedly begun to receive refunds for excess charges levied by the Disco for electricity they consumed between the months of October 2014 and May 2015.

The refund which runs into millions of naira may however come in the form of credit awards on the bills of the 32,229 affected customers. The development follows an enforcement order on the Disco by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) for flagrant breach of its licenses conditions as regards estimated billing methodology.

NERC had in the order accused AEDC of continuous fleecing of consumers and threatened to take punitive measures against it if it fails to refund to consumers monies collected from them from estimated billing over certain periods.

Source: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/again-tcn-records-new-power-transmission-peak-of-4662mw/215981/?utm_medium=twitter

Finally we have found our lost glory, Paul biya knows who PMB is, even when pmb was the then GOC in yola, camerounian will never forget what he did to them when they attack the people of mubi, shagari had to intervene to save the camarounians and Chad that time, fast forward to 2014, the only news was " Nigerian Army disarmed in cameroun", "Nigerian Soldiers tactically manoeuvre into cameroun fighting BH" "Cameroun close their border and refused nigerian refugees entry" the bad news continue until PMB struck a deal with Tanoids greatest nightmare "Jagaban" now all is history.

Long live the prince of change
Long live Jagaban Borgu
Long live all the patriotic citizens
Long live Nigeria
Dead to BH
Curse to their sponsors
3x gbossa for all our army

Let’s accept this blunt truth from the onset. Nigeria is currently paying the price for the crass neglect of several cardinal requirements for prominence in the international arena. The most prominent of those requirements almost without question, has been our embarrassing failure to develop a potent military industrial complex since our independence more than half a century ago.
Our embarrassment is all the more telling given the fact that our founding fathers did realize the importance of a viable military industrial complex to the nation. In 1964, they established what is today known as the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON) to produce small arms and ammunition for the use of the Nigerian Army and other Security agencies. Even today,  a casual visit to  DICON’s website will reveal the following legend as its vision statement: “to build  the Corporation on a sound commercial footing to continuously produce and constantly improve on the quality of arms and ammunition needs of the Defence, Security and foreign policy of Nigeria with the best international standards”
What the website does not give is the full account of stories of the missed opportunities of DICON since its creation. In one particularly tragic phase in its tragic evolution into irrelevance, it was involved in the production of domestic consumables.
In sharp contrast, Brazil began manufacturing its first automatic pistols in 1954 and its earliest armoured personnel carriers (APCs) in the 1960s. Today, Brazil’s defense industry is booming, fueled by government incentives to modernize the country’s armed forces and develop a robust, export-oriented military industrial complex. Brazil has bought conventional submarines and helicopters from France, insisting on technology transfer and their assembly on its territory. It produces almost the entire aircraft requirements of its air force, and has also resurrected a plan to develop, beginning in 2016, its first nuclear-powered fast attack submarine! It is almost entirely self-sufficient in its armaments requirements.
And what about Malaysia which evolved into its present form in September 1963 - three years after Nigeria’s independence? While its defense industry cannot be compared to that of Brazil by any means, it has come a long way since the reforms deliberately embarked upon in the 1970s and 1980s with the ultimate goal of achieving self reliance. 
The decision to proceed toward domestic production was taken for military rather than economic reasons: rifles could be purchased at a cheaper rate on the competitive international market than they could be made locally, but for national security purposes, it was deemed necessary to ensure an uninterrupted source of supply! They subsequently privatized some of its military industrial facilities in the 1970s. Today, Malaysia’s defence industry contributes to the growing supply of military assault rifles, small calibre ammunitions, and unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), patrol vessels, information and communications technology (ICT) based solutions and military gear and apparel.
This, then, provides the backdrop to the sobering situation in which Nigeria now finds itself. It is more than half a century since our independence, but Nigeria is far from achieving self-sufficiency in the critical armaments it requires to competently defend itself against domestic and foreign predators.
Even before President Buhari’s visit to Washington last week, it was apparent that Nigeria was at the mercy of the law authored by the ranking Senator Patrick Joseph Leahy, which prohibits the sale of American military hardware to nations whose forces are alleged to have committed serious human rights abuses in various theatres of operation across the world.
That means that at a critical moment in our history, the defence of our dear nations are to be determined by factors beyond our direct control. We must go on bent knees before prospective weapons suppliers for the critical arms required defending ourselves. It is a collective national tragedy. It is a price we are compelled to pay for the criminal neglect of our military industrial complex by successive regimes for more than five decades.
I have no qualms with nations enacting laws that suit them provided it is in their overall national interests, but what I find very nauseating and unacceptable is the selective application of the laws. The same America whose laws are against polygamy, recently legalized same-sex marriages. The same America that will not sale arms to Nigeria for the alleged human rights abuses perpetrated by our military sees nothing wrong in ensuring that Israel retains its military superiority in the Middle East, in spite of its illegal and de-facto imprisonment of several generations of Arabs in the Gaza and the West Bank.
In the desperate quest to get Israel to accent to UN-brokered Nuclear deal with Iran, America has offered to even increase its military aid to Israel by an additional 1.5 billion dollars per year on top of the three billion dollars it already receives annually to purchase US military hardware such as fighter jets and missile defence systems.
The sales will occur in spite of the well-documented chronology genocide and grievous human rights abuses perpetrated by Israel spanning several decades. Not only has the UN severally sought to condemn Israel for its actions, the Americans have become notorious for vetoing and precluding any such possibilities.
Only recently, it will be recalled, an international inquiry into Israel’s conduct in Gaza was launched after the UN’s Human Rights Commissioner concluded that there was a “strong possibility” that the country was guilty of war crimes. The 46-member Human Rights Council backed the Palestine-drafted resolution to begin the investigation by 29 votes. It was backed by fellow Muslim countries joined by China, Russia, Latin American and African countries except Nigeria under Goodluck Jonathan which abstained! America predictably voted against it, while most European nations like Britain abstained.
The same America, we must not forget, has continued to arm Egypt despite its serial repressions of bloggers and free press, along with its crackdown on credible opposition parties like the Islamic Brotherhood overthrown in a military coup which the US failed to decisively condemn. Only last month, the US announced that it had released 575 million dollars in military aid cosmetically frozen since the ousting of Present Mohamed Morsi - the democratically elected Egyptian President overthrown by the incumbent Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi Washington prefers to do business with.    
While I welcome the thaw in the relations between Nigerian and the U.S.,  which suffered during the tenure of President Jonathan; what I cannot tolerate is the collective insult on the intelligence of Nigerians by the attempt to flaunt the Leahy law in our faces as a measure of American decency, or higher moral values,  because it is far from reality.
Stripped of all pretences, the Leahy Law has been discriminatorily applied by Washington in furtherance of America’s own narrow national interests. If we stretch the matter even further, it is even possible to perceive a tinge of racism in its selective application. A law - any law for that matter- assumes credibility when it is universally applied without exception. If it fails to meet that litmus test, then it becomes the very instrument of oppression the Leahy law wants the world to believe it is against. Our situation should serve as a poignant lesson to our leaders.  No other country can love us more than we love ourselves

Source: http://dailytrust.com.ng/daily/index.php/columns/tuesday-columns/61029-the-hypocrisy-of-america-s-leahy-law

President Muhammadu Buhari has painted a worrisome picture of the on-going war against Boko Haram , saying that there was not enough Air fire power to support ground troops to decimate the terrorists. 
He spoke on Good Morning Nigeria, a programme of the Nigerian Television Authority, Monday, in Abuja.
He made the comment while failing to answer repeated questions on whether or not he was able to secure  a commitment from America to sell critical equipments to defeat the terrorists. 
His words, Because of the high technology the U S has and of course the other developed countries like China.
“Our case is lack of capacity and effective Airforce. Noting that we don’t have trained personnel. 
“The Airforce is virtually non – existent.  The fixed wings aircraft are not very serviceable.  The helicopters are not serviceable and they are too few.
“We need Airforce to conduct reconnaissance and support the ground troops.
“The arrangement made by the former government will soon expire.  
“We have made this clear to the Americans and we have made it clear to G7 and we need their cooperation. ”
President Buhari vowed to retrieve proceeds crude  oil stolen by corrupt Nigerian leaders.
He said that crack teams of the Nigerian anti- graft agencies  were already on the trail of such funds and that those involved would be prosecuted at the end of the investigations.
President Buhari, however, reduced the quantity of the alleged  crude oil theft to 250, 000 barrels per day. 
He had told Americans during his last week trip to Washington that 1 million barrels were been stolen daily. 
He failed to answer repeated questions on whether he got any commitment from America to seal military equipment to Nigeria with which to fight Boko Haram. 
He only lamented that there were not enough serviceable Airforce fighter jets and other military hardwares to quickly win the war against terror.
President Buhari also gave an insight into those to be appointed into his cabinet,  saying that he would appoint only patriotic Nigerians who were knowledgeable professionals and technocrats who had not been compromised

Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/boko-haram-airforce-virtually-non-existent-buhari/

Some people will bury their head in shame, they try all dirty politics to soil the name of " the politician of the centuary" in the person of " Jagaban", they though, they are the only one that can influence the opposition party, well they are wrong, JAGABAN is not call Asiwaju for nothing, now, Saraki is tamed, the Clark will soon be prosecuted, all the elections will be declared void and his wife will sing like canary at the end they will all go to jail or compromise and beg "Jagaba".

The Peoples Democratic Party has debunked claims that the ruling All Progressives Congress and one of its national leaders, Bola Tinubu, were behind the ongoing investigation of the wife of the President of the Senate, Toyin Saraki, for corruption.
PREMIUM TIMES had on Wednesday exclusively reported the invitation, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, of Mrs. Saraki, who was the first lady of Kwara between 2003 and 2011, in relation to alleged questionable inflow of funds into companies in which she has interest.
But shortly after that news broke, a group of senators loyal to Senate President Bukola Saraki, under the aegis of ‘Like Minds,’ questioned the investigation, expressing concerns that the probe might be politically-motivated and suggesting that the leadership of the APC might be hounding Mrs. Saraki as a way of getting at her husband.
Mr. Saraki has been locked in battle with the leadership of the ruling party over his emergence as senate president on June 9 contrary to the wishes of the party.
Joseph Waku, a chieftain of the APC, had also on Friday accused Mr. Tinubu of masterminding a “baseless petition” that led to the invitation of Mrs. Saraki by the EFCC, a charge the former Lagos governor stoutly denied.
But in a statement Saturday, the Kwara state chapter of the PDP said it was a petition it (PDP) submitted to the EFCC that got Mrs. Saraki into trouble.
“It has become imperative to inform the members of the public that we have every reasons to believe that a petition recently submitted to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kwara state chapter is largely responsible for the invitation and eventual criminal prosecution of the former Kwara First Lady and wife of the Senate President, Mrs. Toyin Saraki,” the party said in a statement by its spokesperson, Rex Olawoye.
The PDP added, “It will be recalled that our party had sometime early this year discreetly submitted a petition to the EFCC detailing how certain individuals in high places under the past administration of Dr. Bukola Saraki milked the state dry and left the people more impoverished than they met them.
“In the said petition, we carefully chronicled how state officials, including former First Lady, Toyin Saraki, former Special Adviser to the Governor on MDGs, Mr. Ope Saraki, Personal Assistant (PA) to ex-Governor Bukola Saraki, one Mr. Abdul Adama from Kogi state, a former Commissioner for Information, Mr. Tunji Morounfoye, all working in a ring, got enmeshed in a cesspool of corruption unprecedented in the history of Kwara state or any other state of the federal for that matter!
“Although, we believe that the arrest and prosecution of Mrs. Toyin Saraki is long overdue, we nevertheless take solace under the fact that the long arm of the law seems to have finally caught up with her and her cronies. We are particularly delighted that our painstaking efforts at chronicling the monumental heist that defined the eight years, almost uneventful rule of former Governor Bukola Saraki in Kwara, has not gone unnoticed.
“We therefore commend the EFCC for its resourcefulness and painstakingness. We pledge our cooperation with the EFCC and all other relevant anti-graft agencies to ensure that all those who knowingly looted our collective patrimony, but now walking the streets of Kwara free with their ill-gotten wealth, do not go unpunished.
“We urge the anti-graft agency not to buckle in to pressure or blackmail that is already being mounted by political jobbers over Mrs. Saraki’s invitation by the EFCC. Instead of sponsoring paid activist-for-hire to stampede the EFCC out of the prosecution, one would have thought that the most moral thing for Toyin Saraki and her handlers to do now is to allow the law to take its cause. Since the duo of Ope Saraki and Tunji Morounfoye are already standing trial for their crimes, one would expect Mrs. Saraki too to seize the moment and clear her name, instead of playing to the gallery.
“For the avoidance of doubt, we reiterate that the offences Mrs. Saraki is being accused of are criminal in nature and such offences are not known to be statute-barred. Therefore, the fact that it took over five years after Mrs. Saraki left office as Kwara First Lady before she is eventually brought before the law does not matter.
“What matters is that justice is ultimately served, especially for the sake of the hard-working Kwara civil servants, poor Kwara farmers and the promising children of Kwara who were and are still being subjected to all manners of deprivations as a result of the rapaciousness of a privileged few who could not contain the temptations to stare clear the cookie jar.”

Source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/187286-pdp-exonerates-apc-tinubu-in-toyin-sarakis-efcc-ordeal-says-own-party-behind-probe.html

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The Ahmed Joda transition committee has outlined a list of prompt, medium and long-term decisions President Muhammadu Buhari must take, or authorise, within 30, 45, 60 and 90 days of taking office, to create immediate impact, reduce government liability, increase revenue and stabilise the polity.
The recommendations are part of a portfolio of swift steps Mr. Buhari must take on assumption of power if he must save cost and “enhance liquidity”, the committee said in its 800-page report to the president.
PREMIUM TIMES exclusively obtained volumes of the report, which contain extensive analyses of Nigeria’s key challenges, with suggested responses for the economy and finance, governance and social welfare.
Below are some of the steps the committee advised Mr. Buhari to take within the first 60 days of his tenure to impact the economy.
The president would have spent 60 days in office on July 29.
 
Reducing wastage & increasing revenue
·      Establish an inter-ministerial task-force to review all outstanding contracts and confirm the existence of the associated aggregate contractor liabilities of N4.1 trn across all ministries, departments and agencies as at April 2015.
·      Block major leakages by reducing wastage and ensure increased budgetary and fiscal indiscipline towards improved revenues.
·      Restructure and refinance existing debt; review and renegotiate existing contracts.       
·      Review all Federal Government appointments in the last nine months.
·      Presidency to terminate all appointments not based on merit.
·      Ministry of Finance to ensure full implementation of Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) 2007 to chase up any outstanding funds from all MDAs.
·      Ministry of Finance, Head of Service of the Federation, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) to ensure full implementation of Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) and Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS) across all MDAs to reduce leakages within the system

Diversifying economy & revenue Base
·      Wind down the Petroleum Support Fund (PSF) and stop further payment; funds to be saved re-allocated for social welfare schemes and other areas of the economy to stimulate jobs and boost local production and efficiency

Palliatives as part of Subsidy Removal
·      Repair all PPMC depots & pipelines as well as the refineries.
·      Privatise the refineries post-repair along NLNG model.
·      Create a fund to subsidise retail consumer power tariffs from current level to a cost reflective level for 5 years.
·      Provide lunch every school day for primary school pupils to improve school enrolment and nutritional intake.
·      Revamp all Federal Government university hostels and provide an additional paid year of service in a revamped public service-oriented NYSC.
·      Establish primary healthcare centre in each local government staffed by midwives and health care workers.
·      One year apprenticeship skills acquisition scheme for agriculture (primary) and construction (artisans).
·      Provide subsidised liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cookers and gas canisters to rural households to encourage the uptake of LPG use for cooking instead of kerosene and firewood.
Power
·      Ministry of Power to urgently appoint very competent, apolitical Commissioners for the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and build capacity and integrity within the sector.
·      Ministry of Power to review and restructure the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) management contract by: (a) Signing the Year 4 extension, and (b) Structuring a fit-for-purpose management contract for 2016 to replace the present contract that only allows for the supply of just 8 management staff.
·      Reconstituting and streamlining the Board of TCN to more technical and commercial experienced members to enhance technical, commercial and project management capacity.
·      Implement a Schedule of Delegated Authority to Manitoba Hydro International (MHI) and provide the required autonomy to meet its contractual objectives.
·      Strengthen the Management Contractors Delegated Authority and eliminate undue interference from Government officials.
·      Ministries of Power and Finance, Attorney General to recapitalize Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trader (NBET) and provide Federal Government guarantees to increase investor confidence in the viability and solvency of NBET to meet its obligations and maintain stability in the Sector.
·      Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) to make domestic gas supply prices competitive & cost reflective by providing an enabling environment for investment in gas infrastructure to meet demand.
·      The President, Ministries of Power and Petroleum Resources, Attorney General to create a Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) Technical Committee to immediately review the Dr. Rilwanu Lukman’s version of the draft PIB (to bring its basic principles in line with industry best practice).
·      The Committee will also split the PIB into smaller sub-sector specific bills and prioritize presentation to the National Assembly work-streams to ensure the appropriate version is passed.
·      Liberalize gas sector to enable prioritization of key PIB segments and swift passage into Law.
·      Ministry of Power, NERC and NGC to resolve all issues holding up prospective/on-going independent power programme(IPP) projects and ensure that stalled projects commence generation to add up to 5,000MW generating capacity.
·      Ministries of Power and Solid Minerals to provide special incentives and concessions to attract credible local and international players into coal mining for power generation to increase investment in coal to power generation.

Oil & Gas
·      Ministry of Petroleum Resources to commence an audit of all Offshore Processing Agreements and Crude Swap Agreements entered by NNPC to identify and claim any reimbursements for excess crude lifted vis-a-vis products delivered based on a fair and transparent audit process.
·      Ministry of Finance, Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) and Debt Management Office (DMO) to audit all outstanding liabilities and pay verified premium motor spirit (PMS) subsidy amounts to oil marketers to ensure petrol is readily available to the market and avoid further fuel queues.
·      Ministry of Petroleum Resources to review existing refinery licenses and pass enabling policies to allow for the building of modular refineries that focus on diesel, dual purpose kerosene (DPK), aviation turbine kerosene (ATK) and low pour fuel oil (LPFO) to bolster the creation of jobs, whilst removing the reliance on existing refineries and importation of diesel, DPK, ATK and LPFO.
Agriculture
·      Ministry of Finance to convene a conference with micro-finance banks and leasing companies on the creation of a viable working capital credit scheme for small scale farmers to create a platform to make capital available for rural farmers to buy sufficient quality inputs ultimately leading to higher yields.
·      Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Trade and Investment, Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) to convene an international agricultural stakeholder conference to develop a modus operandi for the modernisation and commercialisation of Nigeria’s agriculture sector, generate investor awareness and enable government to develop and implement policies that will attract investment in the agriculture value chain.
·      Ministry of Agriculture, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to establish and fund a Regional Commodity Exchanges and associated warehouses to creating accessible markets for rural farmers by providing a platform for the implementation of a guaranteed minimum price for key regional commodities. This will lead to a reduction in post-harvest losses and increased income to farmers.

Source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/187227-exclusive-what-joda-committee-wants-buhari-to-do-within-60-days-in-office.html

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One of Nigeria’s foremost celebrities, Onyeka Onwenu, has been accused of demanding and collecting kickbacks through her personal assistant, Chika Abazu, from a contractor employed to carry out renovation works at the National Centre for Women Development [NCWD], where she is director general.
The accusation was levelled by Joseph Nwakama, an architect with Solidmark Associates Limited, the company employed by the Centre to carry out the renovation of its guest house.
However, although it was established by investigators from the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC, that Mr. Abazu indeed demanded and received a total of N17 million bribe from the contractor, no direct evidence has so far linked Ms. Onwenu to the offence.
So, it was Mr. Abazu who was on July 10 arraigned before a Federal Capital Territory High Court on a six-count charge of bribery and gratification.
The accused pleaded not guilty to the charges but was denied bail and ordered remanded in the Federal Prisons, Kuje, until the case is dispensed with.
The presiding judge, Justice Chukwu Ndukwe, adjourned the case till September 28 for trial to commence.
Although investigators could not directly link Ms. Onwenu to bribetaking, documents obtained by the icirnigeria.org revealed so many wrongdoings by the Centre’s management under her watch, including funding the Solidmark contract with money taken from a Women Empowerment Programme in Zamfara State and spending more than was budgeted for the project. That is apart from paying the contractor even before he was officially awarded the contract.
Court papers obtained by this website indicate that Mr. Nwakama told investigators from the ICPC that he was called by Mr. Abazu, a deputy director at the NCWD and personal assistant toMs. Onwenu, early in April 2014 and asked to submit a bid for the renovation of rooms at the Centre’s guest house.
Two days after submitting the bid, he was awarded the contract and asked to immediately move to site, despite the non-issuance of an award letter.
“After two days he called me and told me that the Centre would like me to do the job because my bill was the lowest, and that I should come and see the DG,” Mr. Nwakama said in his statement.
“When I came, the DG asked me to start work, that I should work day and night (and) that they would give me award letter, agreement and advance latter,” the contractor stated.
The contract, according to the letter, was awarded on April 28, 2014 at the sum of N33 million for 25 rooms, but our investigation confirmed that Solidmark started work earlier that month, long before the formal award letter was issued.
According to bank records, by April 28, when the contract was supposedly awarded, a total of N28, 619, 047.62 had been paid into Solidmark’s Zenith Bank account (April 11, N22, 619, 047.62; April 14, N4 million, and; April 24, N2 million).
The first payment was made through a transfer by the Centre while the other two were through a First City Monument Bank, FCMB, account belonging to a company Transtell Ventures Nigeria Limited. It was discovered that the managing director and sole signatory to Transtell account is Mr. Abazu, Ms. Onwenu’s personal assistant and deputy director at the Centre.
Mr. Nwakama claimed that immediately the first payment was made, he was called by Mr. Abazu to his office, where he was told that Ms. Onwenu needed N23 million as gratification from the total money he would be paid to renovate 55 rooms, even though the contract letter stated 25 rooms.
“He told me that the DG wanted me to give them N23 million out of the money for the 55 rooms. I told him that it was too much (but) he told me that if I was not going to give them, the DG would ask me to pay back the money (N22, 619, 047.62) and the other contractor would do the job,” Mr. Nwakama explained, adding that he told the PA that he had done much work already.
“I had to accept, he then asked me to pay N10 million into his company account, Transtell Ventures Nigeria Limited, with FCMB and I did. He told me that why the DG needed the N10 million was so she could give the First Lady (former First Lady Patience Jonathan),” the contractor said in his statement.
Investigations show that on April 15, 2014, four days after Solidmark received the first payment, the sum of N10 million was debited from its account and paid into Transtell’s FCMB account – 0418352015.




Curiously, however, after paying out all that money, the contract was summarily terminated without notice, without the contractor completing the job.
Mr. Abazu’s statement to the ICPC, part of the proof of evidence in the court documents, was fraught with inconsistencies.




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In eight years since the account was opened, N133, 113, 854.55 has passed through it, including at least one payment from the Centre not connected to Solidmark’s renovation contract.
Mr. Abazu, whose salary is N404, 129.64 as deputy director, medical services, at the Centre, was described by a member of staff as cunning and greedy person who was bound to run into trouble.
Our reporter visited the NCWD twice in the last two weeks to speak with Ms. Onwenu, but was told she was not in office. The reporter called her on phone but she declined to comment on the matter. Having introduced himself and why he was calling, she told him to go to the Centre and talk to them and hurriedly hung up.
Mr. Abazu could also not be reached for comments as he had not come to work for a while, apparently engrossed with the case that has now landed him in prison custody.
One of the arguments put forward by the ICPC lawyer in opposing his bail application, which swayed the judge in taking the decision to remand him in prison, was that he attempted to bribe the investigative officer who handled his case.
According to a lawyer familiar with the case, Mr. Abazu tried to bribe the investigating officer and was actually led on to pay the money into the ICPC’s corporate account, itself an offence that would be used against him in court.

Source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/187228-n17-million-bribe-lands-onyeka-onwenus-aide-in-jail.html

Foreign reserves hit $31.5bn following blockage of leakages

•P/Harcourt, Warri refineries resume operations, Kaduna begins August

•Locally refined petroleum products may hit 20m litres August

•CBN remains firm on monetary policies

By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-graft war has started yielding dividends. Following blockage of leakages, Nigeria’s foreign reserves have increased from $28.57 billion at the end of May to $31.53 billion as of July 22, 2015, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, disclosed, yesterday.

Also, the country will very soon reduce importation of refined petroleum products significantly because Port Harcourt and Warri refineries have started refining products and the Kadua refinery will resume operations in August.

Emefiele made the disclosures while briefing the press at the end of the Monetary Policy Committee, MPC, meeting, in Abuja.

$ 31. 5 b Foreign Reserves

The CBN governor said gross official reserves increased from $28.57 billion at the end of May to $31.53 billion as at July 22, 2015, reflecting the blockage of leakages as well as the bank’s management policies.


He declined to give details of how the leakages were blocked but said that some of the earnings from which some agencies used to make deductions for their operations before remitting the balance to the coffers were paid in full.

His words: “It is true that Mr President, based on his insistence that leakages must be blocked, there have been serious attempts to block leakages both in Naira and in dollars. Some funds have been trapped in banks and that is the reason there is a vigorous effort to ensure that we all embrace the Single Treasury Account where all revenues collected must come to the centre and after all the revenues have come to the centre, then based on the budget that has been approved for any agency of government, whatever is due to them to meet their operational expenses would be given.

“But first point is that all revenues must come to the centre. In the course of these, yes, I can confirm that there were leakages that have been blocked and as a result we have seen some funds trapped in some areas now coming into the centre and that is part of the reason you see the reserves build up.”

Refineries

Mr. Emefiele disclosed that the CBN and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, have been holding talks towards significantly reducing fuel importation which takes a lot of foreign exchange.

“Let me confirm that the CBN and the NNPC have held a couple of meetings and I am aware that Port-Harcourt and Warri have started refining petroleum products. We are expecting that in the month of August, Kaduna Refinery will begin refining petroleum products.

“Hopefully, as they ramp up production, they would be able to get to about 19 to 20 million litres that they can produce to meet our daily consumption level of about 30 million litres. Our interest as CBN is that by this act alone we are going to record a drastic reduction in the importation of petroleum products which will ultimately help our reserve position and help us in our mandate of strengthening the exchange rate”, he said
Tight monetary policy, retains 13% MPR
He said the CBN has retained the Monetary Policy Rate, MPR, at 13 Per cent and equally left the symmetric corridor of 200 basis points around it.
Emefiele added that the Cash Reserve Ratio, CRR, was retained at 31 per cent.

He said monetary policy would remain tight because of the high liquidity in the system, noting that the drivers of the current upward inflationary spiral were of a transient nature and mostly outside the direct control of monetary policy.

“Consequently, the opportunity for further policy manoeuvre remains largely constrained in the absence of supporting fiscal measures. It therefore, urged for coordination of monetary, fiscal and structural policies to stimulate output growth, and stabilize the exchange rate,” he said.

Rising inflation

On inflation, Mr. Emefiele expressed concern about “the gradual but steady increase in headline inflation up to June 2015, and noted that this reflected a rise in both the core and food components of inflation.”

Core inflation rose to 8.4 per cent in June from 8.3 per cent in May, and food inflation increased to 10.0 per cent from 9.8 per cent, over the same period.
The governor said “the up-tick in year-to-date inflation rates were traceable to transient factors such as energy, arising from scarcity of petroleum products around the country, poor electricity supply and increased demand for transportation and food, from the build-up to the general elections and the ensuing Easter and Sallah celebrations.”

Naira is well priced, no more devaluation

Addressing the issue of the value of the Naira at the foreign exchange market, the CBN boss also said that at $1- N 197, the nation’s currency was well-priced, foreclosing any new plan to devalue it.
He said that more than 95 per cent of transactions that take place in the financial system that involve procuring foreign exchange were done at the inter-bank segment of the market and that as such the Bureau de Change segment could not be relied upon for the value of the Naira.

At the BDC, Naira exchanged at about N244 -$1 at the middle of the week.

The governor said Nigeria was the only country in the world where a Central Bank was supporting BDCs.

Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/buharis-corruption-watch-begins-to-yield-results/

Currently BH is occupying more than 5 local government in Borno, all were occupied under Goodluck but cuz of elections they covered everything with half truth and the rest is politics, but under this current government from this week BH will know the resolve of patriotic president and wailers from background will surely mixed the truth with falsehood but God willing there End is near and #TheRealNeverAgain campaign will start, they shall never smell an inch of land from this great country. This week multinational will swing into action and our barrack army will also fight from inside and niger delta will also be cleared of miscreants and criminals, OUR WORDS US OUR BOND, we Belong to Everybody and Belong to Nobody cuz we are Progressive not WAilers.

jcmaiah:
Don't worry, we know why we failed. This time its different. moreover, arms would be the last resort and if it comes to that we will not be afraid to try again! Quitters never win

talk is cheap as they said, they have successfully denied you your radio biafra and yet I didn't see a single face out there protesting, why? Cuz it's a sham and a scam, and gullible people like you think its a reality. Hmmm, who is fooling who? Mazi kanu that is living outside biafra or a moniker typing gibberish from a comfort of zoo?

yang:
Another one zoo idiot

Trying to shape an ideoology of our fore fathers

Who are you to say what Biafra should be and not be

The last time I checked nairaland still belongs to the "zoo", don't know why you people preach one thing and did another thing, there is biafratimes and many more publications coming out from the "land of the rising sun", go and discuss with your fellow "zombies" and live the "zoo" as it is.

jcmaiah:
Biafra rising!

Are u post or pre-biafra war?
If you are pre, don't know what you doing here, cuz what u couldnt achieve when all of you speaks with one voice don't know how you can achieve that, if you post, I believe you are under the influence of either tv game or American fantasy series, in real life, you must be willing to sacrifice you life and to die not just type behind a key board and think such thing will happen over night.
I suggest you reads books like "last train to baifra", "then there was a country" "memoir of a Biafran soldier" and also elders on how the war was won and lost at same time, and also ask them about the human cost and the economical, political effect of that war.

Dharniel:
op, in three sentence, summarize your write-up...

Have highlighted the important points cuz the write up tries to explore all school of though and also tries to evaluate both the ad and dis of such schools. Sorry for that

Vicotex2:
I tire for the guy o.
dem wan dictate how we wan live our lives.
Live and lets live, is too deep for them to understand

Check the writer is not from the "zoo" but from the "zombies" AKA biafrans, yes the write up is long but it has achieve it aim of dissecting the root cause of the "aliens" demands and also the main reason why the "zoos" can't trust the "zombies" with any sensitive position hence the blackmail of the so called zombir Mazi Kanu, a scammer and attention seeker, the NBC has finally put his scam to a hold he can no longer voice his hate speech in our land, even online it's just a matter of time, why did u participate in the lst election if you people really want to leave? Why didn't you bycot the last election? Bad looser has a way of behaving in their own zombie land? Wonder why there is no single protest after the jamming of the radio station if truly they speaking the mind of the ndigbo?

One of the concerns about liberal democracy in fragile states is its tendency, in the short to medium terms at least, to aggravate the structures of conflicts in such societies, compounding the challenges in the nation-building process, and even threatening the democracy project itself. 
The current democratic dispensation in the country has indeed witnessed an upsurge in the number of groups, which in different ways call attention to their alienation from the Nigerian state. I have elsewhere called this phenomenon a ‘de-Nigerianization’ process - the tendency for a number of groups to delink from the Nigerian state into certain primordial identities from where they seek to construct meanings for their existentialist crises. For such groups - Boko Haram, OPC, MASSOB and now Radio Biafra - the Nigerian state is the enemy.
My aim in this piece is to show that the hysteria that some non-Igbos feel whenever the word ‘Biafra’ is mentioned is unnecessary because  such people appear to be  wedded to only one Biafran narrative (that of secession) whereas the word Biafra actually evokes several narratives. The fact that Biafra embodies several, sometimes conflicting narratives, is one reason why it often evokes powerful feelings among the Igbos - from pacifists whose parents were [/b]born after the civil war to those who did not feel that war was the only option left to the Igbos at the time.
Biafran narratives
The most common Biafran narrative among non- Igbos is that of a people who tried to secede from Nigeria. This is a fact of history. But it is also a narrative that is cast in the simplistic binary of the ‘good guys’ versus the ‘bad guys’. Since history is usually written from the perspective of the winners, [b]the ‘good guys’ in this narrative are those who were on the federal side while the ‘bad guys’ are those who were on the Biafran side.
Biafra is equally a metaphor for alienation from the Nigerian state -without necessarily implying a real desire to delink from the state. When some Igbo talk of Biafra with nostalgia, they could be using it as a code for expressing their alienation from the Nigerian state. I have in several write ups argued that the fundamental problem of the country is the crisis in the country’s nation-building, which has led to a rapid ‘de-Nigerianization’ process.   Here the tendency would often be to romanticize Biafra by talking of the El Dorado it would have been if it had succeeded or by exaggerating the innovations and survival strategies in the short-lived Republic.  But I do not believe that alienation from the Nigerian state necessarily leads to a desire to de-link from that state - even if the alienated group proclaims secession as its objective.  I believe that many separatist groups in the country have a rather  inchoate agenda and that threats of separation are sometimes stratagems employed by several groups in the country for bargaining or to call attention to certain conditions. In this sense, part of the Biafran narrative is calling attention to frustrations - without necessarily seriously wanting to de-link from the Nigerian state.
I was born in Otukpo, Benue State. At the end of the war, my mother returned to Otukpo to sell our house there. I recall her telling us stories of how the rents collected in the house were handed over to her, how her friends gathered to cry and laugh with her when she returned after the war and how various sums of money were raised by her old community in Otukpo to help her make a fresh start.  [/b]There are several such stories of compassion all over Nigeria at the end of the war to help the Igbos, who were then severely disadvantaged to make a new beginning.  This too is part of the Biafran narrative. 
[b]Biafra is also about the defeat in war of a hugely proud people, who consider themselves extremely resourceful, if not invincible. Every group of course believes it is the best in several things or has the best culture. But among the Igbos, achievement is revered - which is why it is often called an achievement-oriented culture. In this type of culture, failure is not regarded as an option. This obviously has its flipsides such as a desire to succeed or to be seen to be succeeding by fair or foul means.  For instance, if you return home say from Europe or Lagos and say you failed in your business because the people there were hostile, your relatives are likely to retort: “Are you not an Igbo man?”, meaning that you ought to be smart enough to find a way of overcoming that obstacle. For a culture that is driven by such need to achieve and be seen to have achieved, it could be argued that part of the Igbos aggressive drive to succeed after the war was a need to compensate for that defeat. In this sense, when the word ‘Biafra’ is brandished, it is a cruel reminder of defeat for a group that sees itself as extremely resourceful. It is like flashing a warrior’s annihilation before his face. For cultures that prioritize other values - such as community or taking life easy, defeat will not be as humiliating and traumatizing as it is for a group that is driven by the need to achieve and excel.  [b]This is perhaps why you also have several Igbos who do not even want to hear the word ‘Biafra’ (whether from their fellow Igbos or not). [/b]This too is Biafran narrative.
‘Biafra’ could also be a code for invoking solidarity among Igbos and others who fought on the Biafra side - similar to the way the Yoruba trace their ancestry to the mythical Oduduwa or the way African Americans try to use slavery and blackness to create a sense of solidarity and fellowship among one another or the way some invoke ‘the north’ to galvanize solidarity among people from the north or a sense of nostalgia for a supposed solidarity of the region in the past. 
Biafra could equally be used in a neutral, non-ideological and non-political manner to indicate a dark period in our political history in which the former Eastern region tried to secede. Used in this manner, people eschew the ‘good guys’ versus ‘bad guys’ binary by recognizing that both in the events that led to the war and in the prosecution of the war itself, blames could actually go round. Those who use Biafra in a neutral sense are often uncomfortable discussing the war, knowing that war is a nasty business, that stuffs happen during wars and that it is perhaps best not to activate certain memories - on both the sides of the divide. For Biafran narrative from this perspective, one is often advised not to be trapped in the past but to learn useful lessons from the war and move on. For people who see Biafra from this perspective, it is not even necessary for Biafra to be used at all. Everyone should try to forgive and forget and move on.
What is obvious from the above is that the contemporary appropriation of Biafra goes beyond the secessionist bid by the people of the former Eastern Nigerians. Unfortunately for many Nigerians, the only Biafran narrative they know is that of secession and it tends to imbue special suspicion on any group that includes the word ‘Biafra’ in its name. Radio Biafra - just by having the Biafra in its name - on top of the hate speech it is said to spew - panics many. But it is wrong to believe that any group that appropriates the Biafra name is speaking on behalf of the generality of the Igbos or that the majority of Igbos subscribe to the version of Biafra narrative such a group chooses to espouse because there are simply several Biafran narratives.
“Radio Biafra”
I have never listened to Radio Biafra (I am not much of a radio person anyway). However my opinion of several separatist groups and those who use hate speech to call attention to grievances they appointed themselves to articulate is that they are often attention seekers who are able to mobilize those that are alienated from the Nigerian state. I had never heard of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu - the assumed proprietor of Radio Biafra - before the hullabaloo. Thanks to too much hysteria and undeserved media attention, the man has become a celebrity of sorts.
In assessing the official response to Radio Biafra, it is important to make a distinction between a separatist or secessionist groups (those who advocate secession and often employ violent means to achieve their objectives) and those who broadcast materials that could be seditious or use hate speech to mobilize support without being violent. Radio Biafra belongs to the latter. The Nigerian Broadcasting Service, the broadcast regulator, could simply have done its work quietly without the media hysteria.
Radio Biafra - despite its unacceptable methods - calls attention to the crisis in the country’s nation-building process. It also raises question about appropriate ways of dealing with hate groups without turning the leaders of such groups into heroes/heroines or driving their ideas underground. 
The truth is that there are several groups that have literally de-linked from the Nigerian state across the country and which regards the Nigerian state as the enemy. Unless the crisis in the country’s nation-building process is resolved, solutions thrown at the country’s several problems will either be misunderstood or become also part of the problems

Source: http://dailytrust.com.ng/daily/index.php/columns/thursday-columns/60663-radio-biafra-and-the-biafran-narratives