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Of what importance is this Chatham House bla bla to us Nigerians and our economy.
Apc known with wrong priorities since 1850AD.

The major thing is should APC come to power, the world will be ready to work with Nigeria because what they have done there is to launder the image of Nigeria and moreso investors seek advice from d likes of gordon brown

The aircraft is not missing oooo, it only chased shekau to T.b joshua's church and is yet to return since shekau is yet to be eliminated

The Founder and General Overseer of The
Synagogue Church of All Nations, Temitope
Joshua, has linked the collapse of an
uncompleted Guest House owned by his church to
a “strange aircraft” which he said hovered around
the building before its collapse.
Mr. Joshua said the plane hovered around the
collapsed building for over 30 minutes.
The clergyman spoke just as emergency officials
told this newspaper that 17 people died in the
incident while 123 others were evacuated alive
and rushed to hospital.
Briefing journalists, including a PREMIUM TIMES
reporter, on the incident on Saturday, the pastor
played a CCTV footage of a flying aircraft to back
his claim.
In the footage, a plane was seen flying over the
collapsed guest house at four different times on
Friday morning — 11: 30 a.m, 11: 43 a.m, 11:45
a.m and 11: 54 a.m.
The building collapsed at 12:44 p.m Friday
afternoon.
PREMIUM TIMES was unable to authenticate the
footage, and it remains unclear whether there is
indeed a relationship between the flying aircraft
and the collapse of the building.
But in his speech, Mr. Joshua insisted the aircraft,
which flew past almost an hour before the
incident, was responsible for the collapse of the
building.
The pastor said he was the target of the attack.
“Immediately I left the prayer room (which is a
10-minute drive form the church) for the church, I
got a call that a jet was hovering over the prayer
room but as I finished bathing and moved to the
prayer room, I got another call that the jet has
moved to the church and that was it,” Mr. Joshua
said.
“Members cannot be the target, the easier way to
stop this church is to get the head and from my
explanation, you know the truth,” he added.
Mr. Joshua called on security agents to study the
CCTV footage as they investigate the incident.
He promised to speak further on the incident
during service on Sunday.
“Service will hold tomorrow and I will state my
position tomorrow in service, you can watch it live
on Emmanuel TV,” he said.
He also apologised to the press following the
hostile treatment of journalists by members of his
church.
“We are very sorry on their behalf,” he said. “Our
members are not hostile. The Bible is our
standard. Even the Bible today, without the press,
it cannot be accessible to many. Our members
have respect for the press. When we fight the
press, we are fighting Emmanuel TV. They value
you people.”
Meanwhile, rescue operations at the site of the
collapsed hotel is still going on.
Authorities of the National Emergency
Management Association, NEMA, said 17 people
died in the incident while 123 others were rescued
alive.
Speaking on the attitude of church members,
NEMA spokesperson, Ibrahim Farinloye, said,
“They are not too hostile neither are they
receptive. We handled the equipment while they
handled crowd control.”
As at 5:50 p.m. when our reporter left the scene,
ambulances were still rushing rescued victims to
the nearby Igando General Hospital.
The church members however remained hostile to
journalists despite the apology by Mr. Joshua.

It was never planned to be political but
yesterday’s colourful take-off of this year’s Hajj
was spiced with some politics.
The Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu told
his Jigawa State counterpart, Alhaji Sule Lamido,
to get set for higher service following what he
described as his remarkable achievements in the
state.
Speaking during the 2014 Hajj Operation at the
N13 billion new Dutse International Airport at
Fanisau village, Dutse, Governor Aliyu, who is also
the chair of the Northern Governor’s Forum, said,
“I’ve heard about what you have been doing and I
have come to see it for myself. All I can say is
that you should be prepared for higher service.”
The audience applauded as Aliyu spoke. Among
the dignitaries were Vice President Namadi
Sambo, who represented President Goodluck
Jonathan, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alh Abubakar
Sa’ad III, who is also the Amirul Hajj, Oba
Rilwanu Akiolu of Lagos, the Emir of Kano, Alh
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Shehu of Borno and
many other emirs.
So impressed was the Sultan that he said if there
was a fourth term, Lamido should have been
asked to run.
Sambo, Sultan, Lamido, others urged the pilgrims
to pray for divine intervention in the nation’s
insecurity problem and hitch-free 2015 election.
Others were Chairman of Jigawa Council of Chiefs
and Emir of Hadeija, Ahaji Adamu Abubakar Maje,
Emir of Dutse Alhaji Nuhu Muhammadu Sunusi,
Executive Chairman of National Hajj Commission
Mallam Muhammad Musa Bello, ministers,
senators, lawmakers, among others.
Sambo, who expressed the apology of President
Goodluck Jonathan for his inability to be at the
event, asked the 530 pilgrims to be better
ambassadors, imbibe the orientation given to
them by the country’s agencies, to adhere to
Saudi Arabia laws.
He also enjoined them to pray persistently to God
to intervene in the nation’s security challenges as
well as for smooth conduct of 2015 general
elections.
The vice president also asked them to engage in
spiritual revival.
He hailed the authorities of Saudi Arabia Kingdom
for clearing Nigeria’ s pilgrims for the holy
pilgrimage despite Ebola scare, pledging that no
Ebola patient would be allowed to fly to the hajj.
He added that the government is committed to
the welfare of the pilgrims, better and hitch- free
hajj operation.
Sambo disclosed that for the first time, 50 per
cent of the pilgrims will be flown directly to
Medina, adding that better accommodations have
been prepared for them.
He also disclosed that the government has
approved N1.7billion for states to fight Ebola
virus.
He stressed that the government has effectively
fought to curtail the disease, adding that it would
stop fighting it.
Governor Aliyu, Oba Akiolu, the Sultan of Sokoto,
Chairman of Hajj commission also enjoined the
pilgrims to be a good ambassadors, praying for a
hitch-free operation.
Oba Akiolu requested the federal government to
approve more money for hajj operation and Lagos
State and others fighting to curtail Ebola virus.
Lamido also received praises for the
developments recorded in the state during his
over seven years’ administration.
The newly commissioned airport, according to the
Sultan, “is the best in this part of the world if not
the best.”
The pilgrims were being airlifted by Max Air.

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Now he is going to the other side to destroy something he help build

ifyfaith: Na dem sabi. I'm not interested in politics

“The worst illiterate is the political
illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing,
takes no part in political life. He doesn’t
seem to know that the cost of living, the
price of beans, of flour, of rent, of
medicines, all depend on political
decisions. He even prides himself on his
political ignorance, sticks out his chest
and says he hates politics. He doesn’t
know, the slowpoke, that from his
political non-participation comes the
prostitute, the abandoned child, the
robber and, worst of all,
corrupt officials, the lackeys of
exploitative multinational corporations”.