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--Boko Haram I Condemns Boko Haram II; Begin Quote--

“The Yusufiyya Islamic Movement, in a two-page statement contained in leaflets yesterday, condemned the attacks and bombing of residences and places of worship by the other sect that claimed to be fighting a Jihad in the North. The leaflets were distributed on Tuesday to the various wards, Post Office Area and media houses in Maiduguri, Borno state capital

.“Confusion, misinterpretation“The leaflets read in part: “The Yusufiyya Movement has come to mean different things to different people in the last few months. This confusion and misinterpretation have made it necessary for us to come out publicly with the clear truth regarding our concept, struggle, aim and ultimate objective, as our declaration would guide in distinguishing the Yusufiyya movement from the various labels ascribed to us, as the Boko Haram.

“This is necessary in the light of genuine concern by individuals and groups to the mass suffering of innocent citizens caught in the cross fire between our members and the Nigerian troops. This concern has again brought to the fore, the daunting issue of reconciliation, through dialogue, with the Nigerian authorities and individual leaders involved in the naked abuse of our birthright to the peaceful propagation and practice of our religion as we understand it.

The sect argued that it was in the process of exercising their right to propagate their religion as they understood it, that their leader, Mohammed Yusuf was killed as well as the destruction and confiscation of their landed and moveable property in Maiduguri. Following their leader’s murder, the members therefore “resolved to wage a struggle between justice and injustice, between truth and falsehood, right against wrong, in which the sect was sure of victory.”

“The statement, however, noted that the public must know that the Yusufiyya Islamic sect is far from the image of the heartless terrorists, arsonists or sadistic robbers painted by other people with a distinct agenda,saying “it is therefore unbecoming to attribute attacks on the civilian population or places of worship to our group, the Yusufiyya Islamic Movement”.-

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--With the actions of the Jonathan/Ihejirika in command of Nigeria’s military in a war that gave the opportunity for the coveting of billions of dollars budgeted for terror but not used to buy arms or support the military, for which the US has asked Nigeria to investigate ex-General Ihejirika, Boko Haram II won the war and eliminated Boko Haram I. See:AIT, September 2014: “We Want Ihejirika’s Sudden ‘Billions’ Probed - U.S.

”No commentary on Boko Haram without mention of the splitting of the sect is honest and useful. Whereas when alleged experts like Ribadu attempt to define Boko Haram without raising this piece of globally recognized intelligence information, that this novel group of heroin addicted and powerfully sponsored and privileged terrorists who enjoyed unprecedented immunity under Jonathan’s government and from Nigeria’s francophone neighbours, their opinions are not only careless and mischievous but frankly dangerous.

How does Nuhu Ribadu on ideological bases explain the Baga massacre of over 2500 defenceless Nigerians in a community where Boko Haram II freelyvisited and traded under an understanding? You do not exterminate a population you intend torule, do you?

Based on the evidence, Boko Haram II whose leaders are notably Francophone starting from Abu Mahjin, a Chadian who according to US Cables was sent to Nigeria to organize the terror formation in the vacuum created when Muhammad Yusuf was killed, is a foreign French and Jonathan PDP government assisted terror formation targeting the north with focus on Ribadu’s north east. The former police boss surprisingly refused to expose these clear truths. Rather in defending his former party leader, he went as far as accusing Amnesty International as getting “entangled” in a wave of “conspiracies” and accused them and others of destabilising the Nigerian army. This was a scary low point of his speech.

We, ENDS have written extensively on the two boko Harams in this and other articles: “Boko Haram I & Boko HaramII: In Light Of New Revelations & Wikileaks Docs,” which I urge as necessary reads

.I believe Nuhu Ribadu has taken a very uncomfortable, risky and dangerous position attempting he defence of the Jonathan government against the reality on the ground and the reality of the people of his home state of Adamawa who most recently felt the treachery when the former PDP president, Goodluck Jonathan and his army chiefs in conspiracy with the president of Chad promoted that sham ceasefire and denied Boko Haram’s continuous assault on Adamawa during those deadly days – explaining them away as not being Boko Haram – that led to the loss of Mubi and the entire top half of Adamawa state until “Ibn Fadlallah” led by later arrested Sarkin Baka Adamawa civilian defenceforces routed the terrorists.Dr. Peregrino Brimah( Email:drbrimah@ends.ng) reports.

[Masterweb Reports: Dr. Peregrino Brimah reports] - In a talk “Fight against Religious Extremism

What Role for Diplomacy?” given in Turkey published in ThisDay under heading “Boko Haram And the Global Terror Network,” Nigeria’s former Economic and Financial Crimes, EFCC boss, Nuhu Ribadu who hails from Adamawa, one of the Boko Haram ravaged states, expressed his opinionson Boko Haram and the behaviour of the former Nigerian Goodluck Jonathan administration.

Prelude:Nuhu Ribadu belongs to the People’s Democratic Party, PDP; the recently ousted government. Under Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP regimes past, Boko Haram, MEND, Ombatse and other terrorist organizations evolved and became violently active, (sometimes with their members employed by the government to “protect” public installations and infrastructure) leading to tens of thousands of deaths,millions displaced and unmeasurable economic destruction to Nigeria.

Reading Nuhu Ribadu’s talk, the first thing that draws attention is his opening in which the former police chief and EFCC boss confessed to have kept mute about Boko Haram up until now. For the first time and abroad, not at home, and under the new Muhammadu Buhari regime, the elite indigene of the affected state decided to “open up” on Boko Haram. His words, “When Boko Haram’s murderous campaign got to a head in Nigeria, and the media is everyday awash with, largely, uninformed commentaries, I kept mum. I refrained from saying anything. It was the period of confusion and blame game.

”One could not escape wondering why such an erstwhile respected elite and elder who claims knowledge about this terror saga, by all accounts the worst or one of the worst in recent human history, would have “kept mum” all the while rather than offering his expertise and advise to Nigerians, potential recruits and the Federal government under his party.

What also raises brows is why as is becoming so common nowadays, Nuhu Ribadu, when at last he decided to talk, did so abroad and not to the people of Nigeria. This pattern – of only opening up to a foreign audience and never to the Nigerian people – was most recently observed this January when Nigeria’s head of the Office of National Security, Sambo Dasuki likewise for a first time ever, opened up exhaustively to a foreign audience at the Chatham house in the United Kingdom.

One important reason that has been blamed for the initial unprecedented success of Boko Haram was the eerie silence of media-privileged northern elite and elders, which was at a time criticized as being actual approval or tolerance of the group’s actions. It is disquieting that knowing all he now professes to know, the former EFCC boss refused to talk earlier and when he did so at last, only after Nigeria had declared a full war against the terrorists, did he see it fit to do so abroad.

*It is important to point out that less media-privileged northern lead figures,the likes of Sheikh Jingir, Pakistani, Albani Zaria (killed by Boko Haram for speaking out), Sheikh Gumi and Muslims Against Terror organisation were the few to talk and condemn the terrorists, turning the tide against them.

The second thing noticeable from the Nuhu Ribadu talk was his direct defense of his premier and political party, the PDP government of Goodluck Jonathan. Nuhu Ribadu wasnot shy to come all out to defend the past regime.

It is necessary to remind of how in the prelude to the recently concluded May 29th presidential elections, in a widely published piece, Nuhu Ribadu delivered what was considered a threat to Nigeria, that the country “must re-elect a corrupt Goodluck Jonathan or face disintegration.” Defending Jonathan he said “Nigeria is at war” and as a result, must re-elect Jonathan in spite of his noted corruption or the country will be split to pieces by terrorists.

It was not the first or last time people of his party had patronized terror or used it as a political tool. Several PDP candidates including the Akwa Ibom governor and a Lagos gubernatorial candidate at the time were using Boko Haram and restive terrorists of the South south as blackmail for solicitingJonathan’s re-election.

Ribadu’s party’s past Chairman who was later transferred to head the Nigerian Railway corporation, Bamanga Tukur bluntly defended BokoHaram as“Fighting for justice and another name for justice” in a publication in 2012 at a point when the terrorists had killed thousands in a spate of bombings of mostly Churches usually every Sunday.

Nigeria’s former president, Goodluck Jonathan had at the time rejected pleas to send the army to crush the formation in its early days with the words, “how shall we send the army to kill our family. Boko Haram are my siblings.” The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN immediately asked Jonathan to resign for his insensitivity and embrace of Boko Haram terror. See:Punch, August 13, 2012; “Jonathan should resign – Northern CAN.

”Undoubtedly, Nuhu Ribadu’s posture using a supposed later date weapons embargo to attempt to defend the former “kid gloves approach” PDP administration he belongs to, recognized for being reluctant to fight, invite to fight or give the right to fight the terrorists for the entire 5 years of its power till as he gave account, “the past two months” and a little over when as Jonathan faced re-election challenges, engagement was finally commenced is next to impossible. Nuhu Ribadu failed to mention why a member of his PDP’s G9, a prominent middle belt politician, Jerry Gana bailed Mohammmed Yusuf, the Boko Haram founder, not once but twice

!While the former EFCC boss gave a succinct account of the origin of the Nigerian Taliban/ Yusufiyyah movement, a group better known as Boko Haram I led by late Muhammad Yusuf, his account was misleading in not explaining to Nigerians that Boko Haram II, the one led by the loony and heroin junky Abubakar Shekau is a totally different terror network that established during Jonathan’s era andhad no common ideologies with the Boko Haram that had roots in the Yemeni meeting. Muhammad Yusuf’s Boko Haram as bad as it was would never go about in active pogrom, eliminating the entire indigenous population. Muhammad Yusuf’s Boko Haram fought only one notable war = awar with the state due to a burial helmet incident and police brutality. Muhammad Yusuf was an extremist, but the ideology that Boko is Haram, “western civilization is sin” is not an ideology of genocide.

On the contrary, Boko Haram II, founded by the French speaking Nigerien Abubakar Shekau after defeating his Cameroonian co-aspirant in a power tussle, from onset operated with single mission – mass eradication and displacement of all human beings and life around the resource rich Chad basin and in extension, across the entire north.Boko Haram II who never stated an ideology unlike Boko Haram I, ISIS, alQaeda or other organizations never bore semblance to these. Taking no prisoners except forcibly conscripted disposable youth soldiers and abducting women to rape for the next generation of terrorists as they hoped, Boko Haram II was on a mission to destroy the farming in the north, conquer the oil, uranium and other resource blessed basin and eliminate the northern populace. The differences between Boko Haram I and Goodluck jonathan’s Boko Haram II is no better illustrated than by their own submission when remnants of Boko Haram I aka the Yusufiyah movement condemned and promised to expose and battle Boko Haram II to their death. See Vanguard of July 2011:http://allafrica.com/stories/201107210066.html
http://nigeriamasterweb.com/Masterweb/breakingnews-11615-abroad-nuhu-ribadu-opens-boko-haram-seeks-defend-jonathan-administration

Those who were hell bent on pinning the Boko Haram terrorism on Muhammadu Buhari as a campaign weapon must be ashamed of themselves today. They had hinged their conclusions on the statement allegedly made by Buhari to the effect that the federal troops were prosecuting the war in the beleaguered North-east axis without any regard to the rules of engagement.

It is the same accusation the Amnesty International has been pelting the military with till this moment. Not even the attempt on Buhari’s life in Kaduna, last year, when his convoy came under attack by some criminal elements believed to be members of the Boko Haram could clear their doubt. The likes of Chief Edwin Clark, the godfather of former president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, went as far as saying that the gruesome attack was stage-managed, insisting that he was their sponsor. When the defunct government of Jonathan finally succumbed to pressure and agreed to institute a dialogue with the warring sect and Buhari declined to be part of the process, they reasoned that he objected because he did not want the crisis to end since it would affect Jonathan’s electoral fortunes in 2015.

As it turned out, his electoral fortunes were actually affected owing to a number of other factors. May we never see that kind of horrible government again! It was wise of Buhari to have refused being part of any dialogue. That regime was not sincere in their approach. Having tarred him with religious fundamentalism, they believed it was an opportunity to link their arch-enemy with the activities of the dreaded criminals.

It is about a week and half today that Buhari came on board as the new president and commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. And I have lost count of the number of times the sect has unleashed suicide bombers on Maiduguri and even attempted to overrun the city. Renewed attacks have been recorded in Yobe and Adamawa.

The criminals recaptured Mafa town in Borno state. Although the military appears to have made some inroads into the terrorists’ strongholds located in the Sambisa Forest after flushing them out of the territories under their control in recent months, the criminals are only retreating but not surrendering. They have returnedto their old tactics of hit and flee. Had the hostilities ceased immediately Buhari mounted the saddle on May 29, his traducers would have jumped into conclusionsthat of a truth, the Boko Haram was the military wing of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).The new regime of President Buhari has made the war against terrorism as one of its main priorities. In his inaugural address, he announced theannounced the establishment of Command and Control Centre in Maiduguri, the epicentre of the terror war to complement the existing structure, the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army, put in place in the wake of the ineffective state of emergency clamped on the North-east of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe. When the Division was created, many believed that it was a step in the right direction. But as it turned out, the move was like fury without fire.

The formation housed soldiers who had no weapons to confront the rampaging criminals that were well-equipped, well-fed and better motivated. When Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno state raised the alarm about superior armaments at the disposal of the terrorists in contrast to the “shabula” which our ill-fed soldiers went to battle with, an angry Jonathan responded with the withdrawal of military personnel attached to him. His aides berated him for rushing into a territory where even those versed in military sciencehad carefully avoided. Many feared for the governor’s safety. But what kind of security could ill-equipped soldiers guarantee, anyway?

The new command centre is seen in many quarters as inevitable since it will place a higher hierarchy closer to the theatre of hostilities. However,beyond the new initiative is the vexed issue of state police which I have advocated in the recent past, and long before the National Conference okayed its formation. In other words, the police system should be placed on the concurrent list and any state that desires it could establish same. As we have all seen, military might alone cannot subdue terrorism because of its unconventional nature and the tactics employed by the operators. It is like might without intelligence.

At the height of the war in Borno, the state government set up a Civilian-JTF to complement the efforts of the military. The C-JTF became a case study in some states and the strategy yielded appreciable results in Borno because the support the military got came from the locals, mainly youths and hunters, who knew everyone and the terrain like the back of their hands.The importance of intelligence gathering has been overemphasised in several discourses at different fora. In my previous write-ups on this issue, I argued for the establishment of state and local government police and stressed the importance and positive impact its existence would have on the localities.

Personnel of the state police can be given specific training in intelligence gathering apart from maintaining visible presence in their familiar territories which will serve as deterrence to faceless terrorists and suicide bombers. What is more, the United States after which we patterned our system of government operates three patina of police system: the federal, state and countypolice. Besides the daunting security challenge posed by terrorism, Nigeria, with its over 170m people, is grossly under-policed by 250, 000 personnel.

Although the APC, then in opposition,did not participate in the National Conference which recommended the formation of state police in its recommendations, the Buhari administration should take a critical look at the issue and consider it on its merit.
http://www.blueprint.ng/2015/06/11/still-on-the-state-police-question/

The US spends more than $9m (£5.7m) a day on the war against Islamic State, and has poured$2.7bn (£1.7bn) into the bombing campaign since the start.An international coalition has been conducting air strikes in Iraq and Syria since last August.The first breakdown of US costs, released by the Pentagon, show thattwo-thirds of the total bill has gone to the Air Force.It came as Congress rejected legislation banning further spending.The US House of Representative approved a $579bn defence spending bill.It rejected an amendment calling for a stop to cash going on the fight against IS unless Congress passed anew authorisation for the use of force.The cost of the US military operationhas risen sharply since it began last August in Iraq.This week, the White House announced another 450 advisers for Iraq, bringing the total military personnel to 3,500.But officials emphasise there are no combat troops and the US mission is to train local forces to do the fighting.On Thursday, the top general in the US said the country's intervention in Iraq could extend further.General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the role of calling in air strikes, which would put troops nearer the front lines, remained a future option.And he raised the possibility of establishing a network of US training hubs in northern Iraq.
http://m.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33104829

president Muhammad Buhari .May Allah lead u right

we nid more of this

WILSON:
BUT THEY DIDN'T HELP JONATHAN. THEY WERE INSTEAD CASTIGATING HIM IN-SPITE OF ALL THE EFFORTS HE WAS PUTTING ON TO STOP THE BABOON THAT HAVE BEEN SOAKING IN BLOOD. THEY EVEN REFUSED SELLING ARMS TO HIM. TODAY, NO CAMPAIGN IS ONGOING AGAIN ABOUT THE MISSING CHIBOK GIRLS. ALL WAS TO DISCREDIT JONATHAN. OH! POLITICS! YOU ARE INDEED A DIRTY GAME WITH NO CONSCIENCE. JUST AS THE BLOOD OF ABEL CRIED TO GOD, MAY THE BLOOD OF INNOCENT NIGERIANS WHO HAVE BEEN KILLED CONTINUE TO CRY TO GOD FOR VENGEANCE.

small girl go siddon just spewing rubbish

JackBaueress1:
kindly shut the hell up you daft Ijaw drunkard!

The tweet said they will "HELP" Nigeria fight corruption and boko haram. It will not be their responsibility to do so. They are only rendering help.

Oluku!!

I love u iron lady ur bf should be proud of u

barcanista:
New UK Unit Will fight Corruption and Boko Haram

I never knew that Nigeria has become an extension of the UK. The UK anti-corruption agency will be the one fighting corruption in NIGERIA, and their Military will fight BH(another Iraq). So what is the use of Buhari in power when the UK is to take care of our domestic issues? Nigerians should have been told that we are the newest British territory.

To think that paid APC trolls are hailing this is pathetic, and more pathetic that President Buhari saw no shame in retweeting it.

guy wahali u no get sense read ur comment again and point out Any tangible thing in it

may Allah help u my presidor ,u shall shame ur hater and they will all perish inside the lagoon.

[quote author=Magician1503 post=34645794]Behind every successful man is a proud

stop that if u I hear

DNA carries traces of past events meaning poor lifestyle can affect future generations
IS poverty a disease? It is generally believed, in Nigeria, that poverty is a curse and could be inherited from generation to generation.

Now scientists may have provided an explanation. Genetic faults caused by trauma, poor lifestyle or environmental stress can be passed down to future generations, scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered

.Previously large studies have shown that devastating events such as famine can scar future generations, making them more prone to obesity and diabetes

.However it is the first time that the biological mechanism for the effect has been seen.


The research was published in the journal Cell.

Although the same genes are passed down through generations, scientists now know that our genetic material that is Deoxy Nucleic Acid (DNA) is being altered all the time by environment, lifestyle and traumatic events. It is thought that these changes drive disease, premature ageing and early death.

However it was believed that these faults could not be passed on to future generations, with the slate essentially being wiped clean.

But now scientists at University of Cambridge have found that in some areas of DNA, including those linked to mental illness and obesity, some of the faults remain.

In fact, around five per cent of our genetic code carries traces of past events, meaning that trauma, poor diet or poor lifestyle choices may by leaving a devastating legacy for children and grandchildren.Professor Azim Surani, from the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UKGurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge, said: “The information needs to be reset in every generation before further information is added toregulate development of a newly fertilised egg. It’s like erasing a computer disk before you add new data.”Between week two and week nine of an embryo’s development the genetic code is being rewritten to erase genetic alterations from the parents. However the researchers found that the processes does not clear all of the changes. Around five per cent of DNA appears resistant to reprogramming.

These ‘escapee’ regions of the genome contain some genes that areparticularly active in neuronal cells, which may serve important functions during development, the researchers believe.

Those genes are associated with conditions such as schizophrenia, metabolic disorders and obesity.

Walfred Tang, a PhD student who is the first author on the study, adds: “Our study has given us a good resource of potential candidates of regions of the genome where information is passed down not just to the next generation but potentially to future generations, too.”related MPs say yes to three-person babies IN an historic move, MPs have voted in favour of the creation of babies with DNA from two women and one man. The UK is now set to become the first country to introduce laws to allow the creation of babies from three people. In a free vote in the…MPs say yes to three-person babies IN an historic move, MPs have voted in favour of the creation of babies with DNA from two women and one man. The UK is now set to become the first country to introduce laws to allow the creation of babies from three people. In a free vote in the…In "World"
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/06/poverty-is-a-disease-study-finds/

A common African proverb says that if the owl howled in the night and, in the morning, a calamity befalls within the radius, it becomes absolutely difficult, if not impossible, to absolve it of blame or complicity. Before now, there was a substantive doomsday prediction that the largest black democracy may not survive the rigours of electioneering for the last general elections in the country. This fear of disintegration was heightened and intensified by a report which the United States state department reportedly issued, warning of a possible political cataclysm which was predicated on rancourous general elections in the country. But against all expectations and in spite of the fact that the elections, which were driven by rancorous propaganda, not only held successfully, a civilian-to-civilian transition was seamlessly achieved. As a matter of fact, this seamless transmission is what is driving international acclamation for the former president, Dr Goodluck Jonathan as eminently qualified for a Nobel Peace Prize for being, perhaps, the first African leader to have voluntarily conceded victory in an election

.His example, which has been commended worldwide, narrowly pulled the country from the brink of possible political disaster which would have been triggered by any contest of the election results. As attested to by President Muhammadu Buhari, that singular action by Jonathan to call the Victor and voluntarily concede defeat, thus under-cutting desperadoes who plotted to manipulate crisis to create chaos which, he said, would definitely have consumed the country. Certainly, Nigeria owes Dr Jonathan a debt of gratitude for that singular act of political maturity and foresight. This huge sense of gratitude has been re-inforced by sensational allegations that having failed to manipulate crisis from the expected residual angst from the elections, a subsisting international conspiracy against the country resorted to manipulating the human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, to sponsor wild allegations against the Nigerian military in its fight against insurgency. According to this argument, the expectation was that the country would not survive the rigours of the elections but having done so without possibility of disintegration, the conspiracy was stepped up, even widened, to exploit the instrumentality of hitherto credible platforms like Amnesty to legitimize a travesty which is what the hare-brained assault on the military amounts to.

‘They had thought that the country would not survive the 2015 elections or be able to manage the likely crisis that would result therefrom’, a source close to the alleged conspiracy said. Adding, the source said: ‘But they (alleged sponsors of the conspiracy), were surprised at the way the general elections was resolved without any crisis.’ According to the source, the United States particularly, for example, had been very vocal in its criticism of the country’s military campaign against Boko Haram since the insurgents began their indiscriminate attacks against the country. ‘When the terrorists were killing innocent civilians and destroying communities, Amnesty International did not issue any threat or complaint against the terrorists, except when the Nigerian military decided to fight back’, the source who is deeply-rooted in the intelligence community said.

According to him, such unwarranted attacks on the country’s military usually came whenever the military was making a head-way or pushed back the terrorists into the defensive. ‘You can recall that it was when the country wanted to buy arms from the U.S. to fight the randy Boko Haram terrorists that Amnesty International released its so-called damning report, accusing the military of human rights abuse. The U.S. consequently turned Nigeria’s request to buy arms from it down, citing Amnesty’s allegations as reason for its refusal’, the source further said.The latest report stepping up allegations of rights abuse against the military, the source further claimed, was coming on the heels of the promise made by the countries to support President Buhari when he met with the Prime Minister of the U.K., Mr David Cameron and U.S. representatives in London shortly before his inauguration. Citing an exclusive newspaper publication last Sunday that President Buhari successfully met with the British Prime Minister and was promised assistance ahead of the G7 Summit, the source querried the timing of the latest report by Amnesty which was targeted to cause Nigeria maximum diplomatic embarrassment during the G7 summit where the country expected further expressions of assistance by the international community. The timing of the latest report by Amnesty, most regrettably, was to ridicule the country and blackmail President Buhari in order to discourage him from his resolve to re-assert the country’s sovereignty which is seriously threatened.
http://newtelegraphonline.com/the-assault-by-amnesty/

Also, she was accused of not accounting for the excess crude fund under the Jonathan’s administration, when the new governors’ forum was constituted, where she urged the governors to probe their finance commissioners whom she alleged had been coming to Abuja for the sharing of the funds.

This is in addition to the $20 billion NNPC missing fund which it was believed that the fraud happened under her watch.

Another big shot in the administration of Jonathan that might not find fresh relief in the Buhari-led administration is the NIMASA director-general, Ziakede Patrick Akpobolokemi. His major crisis included his alleged withdrawal of $30million without the approval of the board.

It was alleged that the director-general withdrew funds secretly to pursue the Tompolo project agenda of acquiring boats for the maritime security.

According to Nigeria Standard, an online news portal, there was disagreement within the agency’s management over the award of contract to a firm that allegedly belonged to ex-militant, GovernmentEkpemupolo, alias Tompolo. The contract was a supply of five boats for the patrol of the Nigerian waterways.

This led to the withdrawal of $30 million from the agency’s account without Ministry of Transport’s approval.It was alleged that the ex-militant’s company, Messrs Global West Vessel Specialist Limited, had demanded N60 million monthly from the DG to police the waterways but the agency had in a controversial contract signing approved the sum of N49.7 million monthly. Tompolo has to date allegedly collected the sum of N250 million.

However, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) reacting through the Chairman of Ogun State Chapter of the party, Engr BayoDayo warned the anti-corruption agency not to be used to witch-hunt anybody

.“Okonjo-Iweala did not do any bad thing for Nigeria, she gave her best, so why the harassment?” he asked

Dayo asked the new government to learn from the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration that refused to probe past government despite several breaches including Halliburton scandal among others.

The new government should concentrate on its assignment and refrain from distraction which probe and witch-hunting represents” he advised.

Calls made to the line of The Head, Media and Publicity, EFCC, Wilson Uwajaren,were not picked and text messages sent were not answered as at the time of filing this story but impeccable sources close to the organization informed Nigerian news direct that the arrests of these officials will be made anytime from now.

Meanwhile, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to quiz the Contd from Pg 9

immediate past Minister of interior Abba Moro and the Comptroller General of Nigerian Immigration Service Mr.David Shikfu Parradang.

Nigerian NewsDirect gathered that the former minister and the CG would be questioned over the N6bn realized from the sale of forms to jobless Nigerians early last year which they could not account for even when they were asked to do so .

A top source at the commission’s office who confirmed this to our correspondent explained that the former minister, the CG and other key officers involved in the exercise would get their letters of invitation this week adding that it had become necessary for the principal officers in the NIS scam to come and explain to the commission why they refused to refund the N6bn to the jobless Nigerians.

The House of Representatives panel on federal character had at the twilight of the 7th assembly directed the Nigerian Immigration Service to stop the planned recruitment for not following due process and insisted that the said N6bn be refunded.

The decision was sequel to a meeting between the House of Representatives panel and Comptroller General of Immigration which ended in a deadlock as the authorities of the Immigration service and the ministry could not convince the panel the procedure its used in carrying out that botched exercise and the failure of the ministry to refund the N6bn it realized during the exercise from innocent jobless Nigerians.

Mindful of the expiration tenure of the 7th assembly and the federal executive council, the ministry and the Immigration service turned down the directive by the House panel, an action the EFCC is coming in to investigate and punish those found guilty and ensure the recovery of the N6bn

.The bone of contention was the inability of the Comptroller General of Immigration Mr.David Shikfu Parradang and his team to convince the committee on how the service intended to ensure that salaries of the newly recruited personnel would be paid, given the state of the economy and the fact that there was no budgetary provisions for it.

Also miffed by the inability of the immigration service, headed by its Comptroller General to convince the parliamentarians in concrete terms how the service intends to offset the over N6 billion cumulative fee of the N1,000 collected by the service from applicants during the aborted exercise as well as not first seeking approval of the federal character committee of the parliament, the chairman of the committee Hon. Idris Ahmed ordered the immigration comptroller to stop with immediate effect the planned recruitment and to refund the N6bn to the said applicants.Speaking exclusively with our correspondent in Abuja, Hon Idris Ahmed who chaired the committee in the last 7th assembly expressed dissatisfaction over what he described as “Impunity of the highest order and insincerity” on the part of the last government, for going ahead with the exercise without budgetary provisions and clearance from the federal character commission.The chairman was particularly unhappy that the Immigration service and the ministry of interior could not refund the N6billion realized from the sale of forms to jobless Nigerians, yet planned to go ahead with the exercise without following the due process “Things must be done in a transparent and fair manner” he saidThe Immigration service and the interior ministry under Comrade Abba Moro had last year conducted a failed recruitment exercise where jobless Nigerian died in stampede, the exercise was cancelled and monies paid by applicants were to be refunded before the next exercise which had not been done up till now.Expressing dissatisfaction over the issue was Senator Dr. Bukola Saraki who faultedthe poor handling of the ill-fated Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment exercise by the leadership of the 7th senate.Saraki who spoke with journalists in Abuja during the weekend expressed concern that the Senate did not act on the report of the probe instituted by the upper legislativechamber on the unfortunate incident during which many applicants lost their lives.According to him “The 7th National Assembly allowed itself to be enmeshed in fights and political wars that only served selfish purposes and party politics with little general public good, the result of which was the further dilution of public perception of the Assembly and the weakening of its general influence and authority” he said
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Respite may not seem the way of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s aides as some major players in his past regime maybe under the searchlight of the nation’s anti-graft agency, which is out to position itself in good light in the face of heavy criticisms while under the Goodluck Jonathan administration’s watch

.Also in the watch list is the former petroleum minister, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, who has been facing series of allegations of corruption and the NIMASA boss, Ziakede Patrick Akpobolokemi.

The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Alison-Madueke, got the shocker of her life when the CBN governor knocked hard on her with the allegation of $20 billion missing fund from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC),an organisation that was under her watch. It was denied by both the federal government through the finance ministry and the ministry of petroleum resources that such money was not missing.

The drama that followed the controversial issue got so exciting that it pitched the finance ministry against the CBN governor until the Presidency under Dr. Goodluck Jonathan could not handle the scandal leading to the eventual suspension of the CBN governor.

In September, 2014, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, former CBN governor, had written an alarming letter that shook the nation that was battling with credibility and corruption issues. The former CBNgovernor had raised the alarm that out of atotal of $67 billion worth of crude oil that was shipped out of the nation’s shores under Jonathan, only $47 billion could be accounted for by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) as payment to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

On his insistence that NNPC was withholding $20 billion, the ex-CBN governor stated at a Senate hearing on the matter that; “Let us know what happened to the remaining $20 billion We have accounted that out of $67 billion that NNPC shipped, $47 billion has come to CBN,” Sanusi had further retorted that, “NNPC must show where it got the authority to buy kerosene at N150 and sell at N40, and then put the burden of loss on the federation account.

”Sanusi’s revelation it was believed led to the rough ride he had with former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, who on February 20, 2014 announced the suspension of the controversial CBN boss and replaced him with Mr. Godwin Emefiele, a former Zenith Bank Plc chief executive officer who resumed duty on June 42014 after the expiration of Mallam Sanusi’s tenure ended on June 1.

However, in a development that might look like a soft- landing at least for now for the former minister, she has been reported to be outside the country, undergoing a new round of treatment for breast cancer, according to a family source knowledgeable about her condition.

The source disclosed that Mrs. Alison-Madueke is currently in a hospital in London where she started a fresh round of therapy on Friday. The treatment was described as a daily therapy that will last for one week, according to the source.

Mrs. Alison-Madueke left Nigeria on May 23, 2015 on a British Airways flight.

Then President-elect, Muhammad Buhari, was also on the same London-bound flight, raising speculations that the former minister might have hurriedly booked herself on the flight for the opportunity to speak with President Buhari.

However, a source on the flight told SaharaReporters that Buhari quietly but firmly rebuffed all efforts by Mrs. Alison-Madueke to hold a conversation during the six-hour flight.

The former petroleum minister has not returned to Nigeria since that trip. Our source also disclosed that Mrs. Alison-Madueke, whose tenure as minister was marked by several billion-dollar scandals, underwent surgery last year to remove tumours from her breast.

As one of the closest ministers to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Alison-Madueke was at the centre of a controversy over more than $20 billion in oil revenues that the Nigerian National PetroleumCorporation (NNPC) reportedly failed to deposit at the Central Bank of Nigeria. The NNPC is an agency overseen by the Petroleum Minister.

Owing to the pervasive corruption in the oil sector, President Buhari has indicated that he would personally run the Petroleum Ministry.

In the same light, the former coordinating minister of the economy and minister of finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was accused during the Obasanjo’s administration of planting her relation in the centre of the negotiation for debt forgiveness by the Paris Club, which was alleged to be one of the reasons she was removed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration.

FourNigerianwomen were rescued from "voodoo" death threats after six people were arrested bySpanishpoliceon suspicion of keeping the frightened victims as sex slaves.According to investigators, the trafficking ring prostituted women in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands and other parts of Spain after luring them from their families in Nigeria. They areaccused of binding them to an oath to pay back money for the passage to Spain and casting voodoo-type spells to guarantee their obedience.The women were recruited from poor families in Nigeria and told they wouldget regular employment in Spain. Theywere then made to swear oaths that they would work off a debt to the gang of up to €50,000 (£37,000) before they could gain their freedom.A kind of juju voodoo ritual was then performed, the police said, in which ananimal would be sacrificed and something from the women's bodies, nail clippings or pubic hair, kept by their new masters.The women believed that they and family members would be killed if theydid not cooperate with the 'madames' who ran the brothels they ended up in, according to the police version of the gang's modus operandi.• Spanish police uncover human organtrafficking ringThe women were brought to Spain overland through Niger and Algeria to Morocco, where they joined other African immigrants attempting to reach the Canary Islands by boat.The police said they could not give more specific information on the identities of the six suspects while a judge in Lanzarote oversees a full investigation. Court authorities believed that the criminal gang soughtto use under age girls as prostitutes but none of the four women freed from their virtual captivity by the police wasbelieved to be under 18.The investigation began in February when police in Lanzarote started to suspect that a woman had been the victim of illegal trafficking. Officers then uncovered what they believe was a sex-slavery ring run by Nigerian citizens. Spain's National Police said that prior to this case, between April 2013 and December 2014, they carriedout 462 investigations into sex trafficking, leading to 1,450 arrests and the detection of 11,751 possible victims.Prostitution is not illegal in Spain, but abusive pimping and soliciting in public places are penalised. There are 1,400 identifiable brothels in Spain, not counting clandestine apartments or other places where sex can be bought, police said.According to the National Statistics Institute (INE), prostitution accounted for 0.35 per cent of Spain's GDP in 2010, with trade amounting to €3.8 billion.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/11659882/Voodoo-sex-slaves-freed-from-blackmail-by-Spanish-police.html

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Our unelected president doing the job of our brainless president

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Long after he narrowly escaped being sacrificed to the gods, in the year 1927, he arrived Lagos and he was enrolled at the St. Johns School, Aroloya. From there, he proceeded to the Christ Church Cathedral School, Lagos, and finishedthere in 1934. Two years after his education, he was enrolled as an apprentice under a tailor named Rojaye. He was a tailor-in-training for nine good yearsbefore he got his ‘freedom’. When hestarted working as a tailor, he noticed that the income was not just going to be sustainable for him and he needed an alternative fast.Therefore, when the younger brotherof his late dad, STA Torimoro, was going to Cameroon on a commercial trip, Baba Alajo Somolu decided he would also seize the opportunity andfollow him too. Thus, in 1950, BabaAlajo Somolu was on his way to Paul Biya’s nation. Uponreaching Cameroon, Baba Alajo Somolu unleashed the ferocious entrepreneurial spirit that was in him. A very determined fellow, he tried his hands on various tasks and duties in Cameroon. He sold goods, newspapersand tried his hands on many ventures. In Cameroon, one of his neighbours was a thrift collector and hegistedhim about the business which immediately caught his fancy.As a a result, by thetime he returned to Nigeria in 1954, he already had it in mind that he was going to start the business of ajo gbigba (thrift collection). He was 39 at that time. Before he left Cameroon, he took with him a copy of the thrift collection card used by his Cameroonian neighbour. Upon reaching Nigeria, he made his own copies of the card and he named his own venture Popular Daily Alajo Somolu.His house at Somolu.At the peak of his career, he was so hardworking and diligent at his work that sayings were coined in his name.The sayings are as follows:‘’Ori e pe bii ti alajo Somolu, to fodidi oôdun meta gbajo lai ko oruko eni kankan sile, ti ko si siwo san fenikeni.’’ (Your brain is as sharp as that of Alajo Somolu, who collected thrift for three years and paid back all his customers without writing down a single name and without making a single mistake withthe payment)There is also another one that goes thus:“Ori e pe bii Alajo Somolu, to ta moto,to fi ra keke”. (You are so intelligent like Alajo Somolu, who sold his car to buy a bicycle)For Baba Alajo Somolu to collect thrift and financial contributions from his countless clients without writing down their names and then returning to pay them as due and asscheduled at the end of every monthfor years without making any mistake points to an eidetic (photographic) memory. Only someone of a vast and prodigious memory with an outstanding power of recall can effortlessly carry out such an amazing feat.One very interesting thing is that many people actually think the story of Alajo Somolu is of mythsand legends and that he does not exist. But alas! He did truly exist!After establishing his Popular Daily Alajo Somolu thrift collection business,he got a bicycle that he planned to use in moving around collecting money for saving from his customers. Then he called an older relative and hinted him of the business, seeking his counsel, advice and suggestion. But he was shocked.His elder relative took a good look at him and thoroughlydiscouraged him. He told Alajo Somolu that thrift business was not for people like him, that is was a very difficult and challenging job andhe even counted about six people who had started the business of thrift collection but ended up bankrupt.He summed it up by telling Alajo Somolu to try another business as he will not succeed in thrift collection.

Alphaeus Taiwo Olunaike is not a name that many Nigerians are familiar with. But once you mention Baba Alajo Somolu,the eyes of millionsof Nigerians will light up. Yes, they are more familiar with this nomenclature. Baba Alajo Somolu was just three years of age when he lost his father. However, he was able to proceed with his education. He started his primary education at the Emmanuel Primary School, Ijebu-Isonyin. He had not finished hiseducation at his small hamlet when his paternal uncle, STA Torimoro came and took him to Lagos where he was able to further his education.ALAJO SOMOLU, Nigeria’s Most Famous Thrift CollectorEARLY DAYSHe was born at a very dangerous time. A perilous period in history. It was on the 16th of September 1915 in the tiny city of Isan-Oyin (now called Isonyin), close to Ijebu-Musin and Ijebu-Ode in Ogun State, southwestern Nigeria. Within the thick groves of thick forests and the brilliant foliage of green tropical plants, the cries of newly-born babies pierced the calm and peace of the forest. A woman named Grace Okuromiko Olunaike had given birth to triplets. Three at once!Immediately she was told that she just gave birth to three babies, her face went sullen. She could not hide the sadness. Her heartbeat increased as tears streamed down herwarm face. She was visibly confused. It was anabomination for a woman to give birth to triplets at that time in Yorubaland. One child must be sacrificed to the gods. One of the babies was eventually sacrificed to the gods. The other two were spared. One of them is whom I am writing on right now – Alajo Somolu.

Some leaders of the former ruling partyare not oblivious of the distress and danger of fighting from the trenchesBy Emmanuel Aziken,Political EditorAnyonein doubt of how the vicissitudes of life have hit the PeoplesDemocratic Party, PDP should have seen the arrangements for the one day retreat of the party’s elected members into the forthcoming National Assembly.The retreat in Port-Harcourt involving senators-elect and members-elect into the 8th National Assembly was held in Port-Harcourt on Monday, June 1, 2015 and was remarkably the first official outing for the new governor of Rivers State, Chief NyesomWike and the handful of the PDP governors inaugurated the previous Friday.The occasion would have been the firstouting for former President Goodluck Jonathan since his retreat from Abuja last Friday, but the former president did not turn up.RETREAT: From left: Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu; Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha and Senate President, David Mark at a one-day retreat of the Peoples Democratic Party, Pdp, National Assembly members-elect in Port Harcourt. Photo: Nwankpa Chijioke.Among the governors who came besides the host governor, Wike, were Governors Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe, Emmanuel Udom of Akwa Ibom, Ifanyi Ugwuanyi, Enugu, while Chief Dave Umahi of Ebonyi represented by his deputy.For Governor Dankwambo, he has become like a rare or endangered item,being the only PDP governor serving a second term.However, everything about the retreat, from the timing, venue, packaging, duration, theme and the attendance reflected the hard times that have hit the political party that once boasted that it would dominate the Nigerian polity for an unbroken 60 years in the first instance.In respect of timing, the retreat was like an afterthought after the exciting but controversial two-day retreat organised by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC for its senators-elect and members-elect in Abuja. The two day retreat held for each of the two set of legislators by theAPC in Abuja in the opinion of some observers may have ended in an anti-climax given the fact that the understated reason of getting a consensus on the new leadership for each of the two chambers was not realised. However, that did not take away the fact that the two day retreat for each set of legislators by the APC had its glitz, grandeur and gambles.However, the event by the PDP was seemingly an afterthought reportedly spearheaded by one of the outgoing principal officers on the platform of theparty in one of the chambers of the National Assembly.Though the acting national chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus was present for the one day event, there was every indication that the party officers were there merely as officials more than the organisers that they should have been.The venue of the meeting also showed how far the PDP that once boasted of being the second unifying factor in Nigeria after the security services has been seemingly reduced to a sectional enclave strong only in the South-South and Southeast regions of the country.Few months ago only few would have imagined the PDP holding a national retreat and taking it to Port-Harcourt. However, now with almost 80% of its elected legislators coming from the South-South and Southeast, it looked feasible for the party to save already diminished funds in finding a central location for the majority of the returning members and Port-Harcourt seemed feasible. Even more, the party has only four governors outside the South-South and Southeast; Taraba, Gombe, Ondo and Ekiti. Taraba and Gombe were far from the base of the majority of the conferees while Ekiti now in the eye of the storm upon the issues around Governor Ayo Fayose was simply not under consideration. For whatever reason, Ondo was also ruled out.The harshness of the times was reflected by the fact that unlike the APC, which hosted its elected members in the two chambers to separate two day functions, the PDP restricted its outing to a one day affair with the members elected to the two chambers put together.The retreat with the theme: “The role ofthe opposition in facilitating development and good governance” was especially apt and was reflective of the promise by the party to present aformidable opposition to the ruling APC.The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu who was reportedly one of the rallying points in organising the conference said the party’s members in the forthcoming National Assembly must hold the APC accountable to its promises including the release of Chibok girls, creation of two million jobs every year among others.“Members of Parliament have always been the springboard for their parties’ return to power each time they suffereddefeat. The PDP lawmakers in the 8th National Assembly should hold the ruling APC accountable on each of its campaign promises.Erstwhile chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Mallam Nuhu Ribadu who was also the party’s governorship candidate in the Adamawa State, however, affirmed that the party must purge itself of its bad attitudes if it would mount a reasonable challenge to the APC.“But to keep government on its toes, ensure fiscal discipline, minimise corruption in the system and ensure strict compliance to appropriation anddue process laws, the guard – here, you the legislators, have to go to equity with clean hands. You must demonstrate personal will and commitment to be above board if you really want to checkmate others.”The incoming lawmakers in their communiqué released at the end of theday resolved that they would shun defection, speak with one voice, and benchmark the activities of the APC to the benefit of Nigerians.In an eight-point communiqué issued at the end of its retreat, members of the Forum of PDP National Assembly Members-elect said they also undertook to “provide the nation with ahealthy, robust, vigilant, and responsible opposition, to promote democratic good governance, and development”.The communiqué notes that PDP leaders and Governors attended the retreat en masse and promised to avail their contingent to the 8th National Assembly all necessary support and cooperate with other critical stakeholders to provide a responsible and effective opposition inthe polity.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/pdp-hard-times-are-truly-here/

Tell Tolu that heartbreaks do heal and she will show you putrefying sore her heart is nursing.

That life has been the direct opposite of the glamour that average human being clamour is more than a fact for Tolu.

She's had her share of untold shame and gloom, enough menace that is too much to get past. Five minutes with her is enough to tell the full version of heartbreak she is in.

Seeing her for the second time this week, and begging that she would just let the past go, Tolu was ever resolute. The only thing she wanted was a payback - and a quick one at that.

As everybody knows where their shoes pinches, Tolu sure knows exactly where her heart aches, even if she can do practically nothing to bring it back to its original state

.Ask me what her problem is and I will say she is one in a million who has signed up for the SUPER LIES THAT YOU ARE WITH THE RIGHT LOVER"You will just kill yourself," I reiterated, but that sounded like more of an energising portion to get her wishes done: she would kill his boyfriend and kill herself following was her plan, but it sees she's getting the whole punishment pack now.

Her hair has been unkempt for three weeks and she didn't bother. Going to school for lectures was the last thing in her to do list. And whenever her parents called, she would act as though everything was normal.

She's been one of the best students in the Sociology Department until her third year when she wet Dancier.It was during a birthday party of friend. Dancier, as popularly known, was one of the best dancers on Campus, and a big boy at that. His dance steps at the party was all the goodies that made Tolu gave herself away freely.

Dancier was in his finals when she met him, thinking he would wait a year, have enough money for them to get married the moment she would graduate. All those thoughts and plans are now gone without any scintilla of hope to get them back.

Now Tolu wishes she never even went to that party, let alone meeting Dancier. Their few minutes introduction that got him into her heart was something that won't stop to make her sad: how she sheepishly agreed to be Dan's girlfriend at first sight was the most stupid decision she ever made all her life. Or so she thought.

Now the regret is much more than the pleasure the relationship gave. She would even have loved to have a magic wand to turn back the hands of time.

Tolu didn't have much but she gave her all for love. She thought giving her all to a man was all a lady needed to cement her place in his heart - oh how she's wrong!

The chair she was on was the worst source of relief at the moment. She stood up as though she wanted to get something, looked for a dirty spot on the corner of her self-contained room and sat there.

"This is the best place for me sir", weeping as she looked at me.

She didn't wait to let me say a word that she continued...

"Sir, I spent all I had for Daniel... Gave my body, my money and my life for him thinking I have found an angel to call my own... Until I had that is wedding was two weeks back... Dan is married sir... That heartless Dancier is Married.

"She paused a little wanting to hear me say few words and her eyes took the show as streams of water rolled down her cheeks uncontrollably.

I gather enough strength to talk to her as I said.... "See, young girl, that a man had broken your heart doesn't make you break your life following.

""No matter what you have lost through the relationship is not worth losing your life on. You don't even need a payback plan on him

."All you need do now is to make sure you don't get yourself stopped by carry over; because, you will regret more in the future than you are now.

"I looked at her only to discover she was holding her stomach, grinding her teeth in pains.... There is no need to tell me she had used some drugs to terminate Dan's3-month-old pregnancy.

I rushed at her and the next is taking her to the hospital.....

I pray she makes it!

But, I wish I tell her more!

I wish I make her see many reasons to let go more than she would let revenge overtake her heart.

Over to you if you are in my shoes, what would you tell her once she wakes up (that's if she makes it).

And as a lady, what would you do if this happens to you?

Imagine you need to Make a Decision and you were given this 2 Conditions where you have to choose one and turn the other one down.

Homes and hotels can be seen outside of the sacred mosque’s perimeter. Much of these historical buildingshave had to be demolished to make way for the mosque’s expansion.

Muslims are only allowed to enter the places to perform Hajj.

For those who could afford it, they would embark on their journey on board small planes from nearby countries.

Catch a glimpse of how it was like to perform Hajj in 1953. Though this was onlyjust over 60 years ago, a lothas changed mainly due to the increase in the number of pilgrims going to perform Hajj.
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A Nigerian minister, Segun Aganga, PDP chieftain, Tony Anenih and the Governor of Benue state, Gabriel Suswam today departed Nigeria on a British Airways flight out of the Abuja’s Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport apparently to avoid getting caught. The threewere last seen boarding the BA flight scheduled for an 8:00am departure to London.Sahara Reporters MediaSaharaReporters learnt that more party officials and President Goodluck Jonathan’s aides, ministers and several appointees have either fled or planning to flee the country afraid that incoming President Muhammad Buhari will probe the administration of Mr. Jonathan and jail those found guilty of corruption. Last week, the Minister of PetroleumResources, Diezani Alison-madueke traveledon the same flight with Buhari to London, while on the six hour trip she made several attempt to start a conversation withMr. Buhari, but the 72-old winner of Nigeria's presidential election known for his no-nonsense stance on corruption rebuffed all her entreaties. It is not known if she ever returned to Nigeria.The wife of the Mr. Suswam, Yemisi, reportedly left yesterday to Houston in the US to avoid getting caught up in the sweep.Interested in Ad
http://saharareporters.com/2015/05/29/benue-governor-gabriel-suswam-segun-aganga-and-pdp-chieftain-tony-anenih-flee-nigeria

In the name of the Almighty, the Beneficent, the Merciful “You shall not follow what you do not know—you must use your hearing, sight, and heart (intellect)…” (17:36)
Yes, dear brethren, kindly join me in praying that today marks the end of ‘their history’; kindly join me in supplicating to the Most Merciful that today marks our arrival to the promised-land.

Pray, let this be the end of history of the suzerainty of the underlings in our land; open your palms to the heavens and pray that today should signal the beginning of the reign of the notables.

Pray that this generation and the ones to come never have to suffer the ignominy of being citizens of a failed leadership.

Pray that never again shall we experience the authority of those who have eyes but cannot see; pray ceaselessly that never again shall Nigeria be inflicted with the pain of having a leader who can only lead from behind.

Brethren! It was Francis Fukuyama, the American thinker and writer who, in 1992, wrote a book titled The End of History and the Last Man.

In the book, Fukuyama, in atypical American mentality,argues ‘that the advent of Western liberal democracy may signal the endpoint of humanity’s sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government’.

He says: “What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Westernliberal democracy as the final form of human government”.

Brethren, Fukuyama would have known by now that in reference to, among others,‘mankind ideological evolution’ the end of historyis actually not here yet.

I thought Fukuyama would have become wiser upon pondering events in Russia,China, Iraq, Syria and in other parts of the world that ‘history’ is not made in America; that history cannot and could not have ended with the triumph or the emergence of western liberalism

.He would have known that in reference to human history and its interactional reality, no single scholar could pontificate on that precipitous point in human life when the world would simply evanesce.

It is my argument that that which would come to an end in our socio-cultural and economic realities are those streams and trends that we, as active and conscious agents in the phenomena, desire to bring to an end. Such is the event which took place on March 28, 2015 in Nigeria.

On that day ‘history’ came to end for some; on that day an uncanny collusion occurred between terrestrial and celestial portents which eventuated in the dissolution of the dissolute powers at the ‘centre’; powers which have held this nation in the jugular since close to a decade now.

Thus today, brethren, Nigerians are saying let there be an end to ‘their history’- the history of leaders who deal not in hope but hopelessness.Let there be an end to ‘their history’- the history of men and women who thought the infestation of the polity with naira and dollars and the consequent corruption of some people’s integrity can provide alibi and an escape yacht for them from the typhoon of retribution. Let there be an end to their history- the history of ‘jackals in government offices

.Here the word Jackal is deployed as a metaphor for those men and women whose conscience, with reference to their perfidious search for personal lucre, became not a guide but an accomplice.

I reference that assemblage of opportunistic persons who took over the political space during the past couple of years and mismanaged the resources of this nation.

Ernest Hemming way, the American author and journalist, once said that “the first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin.But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists’. Brethren! Please pray that today marks the end of the era of ‘business as usual’ in governance in Nigeria. Pray that today marks the beginning of business ‘unusual’.In the latter, Jackals would have no space and chance.In the former, Jackals usually appropriate all spaces of opportunities

.At dawn ‘Jackals’ are in business; at dusk, they are active. The ‘Jackal’ usually dedicates his life to the pursuit of fortune and wealth wherever such may be found even if it leads to misfortune of the other.

In fact, to him there is more fortune in misfortune than misfortune in fortune. Thus very tragedy is an opportunity, every situation is a key to providence. Ask our compatriots in the north east – there the Jackals have been in action.

Ask our compatriots in the north east- there the political vultures have beenbusy. Majority of the outgoing political class in Nigeria wanted to deny unto this country the chance to rise again. Wherever they go, like jackals, they leave their landmarks for all to see and ponder.Like Jackals which leave landmarks with their urine and feces, the out-going political class is equally leaving its landmarks in ourvillage, on our streets, on our life; landmarks of fuel crises; landmarks of insecurity; landmarks of power-outages; landmarks of …comatose nation!!! Brethren, Satan is quoted to have once said: “I hate those who trade in sin, though we may have the same merchandise”.Ironically, those who trade in sin in this country do not hate one another. Rather, they love one another.

They have a cathedral (government offices), a priest (corruptible administrators), and an unholy scripture which guide their activities: Corruption. Brethren, given the above reflections, I thought you would agree with me that today should mark the end of ‘their history’. In fact, Nigerians are unanimous that an end to our sufferings begins today.It feels we now have a Prophet Musa who would take us through the wilderness and across the ocean of infamy and indignities.

It feels, as has been predicted by Prophet Muhammad, this country is ready for change since we have given the charge of our affairs to “those who know the affairs’.Therefore Brethren, I pray that today marks the beginning of our arrival to the promised-land. The promised-land in my reckoning is that over which the honest and the truthful preside; a land overwhich the conscious and the pious are sovereigns.

It is that in which the sovereign is constantly afraid of the retribution of the Almighty should he fail to discharge the task of leadership.Ibn Qayyim says: “Be satisfied with whatever Allah grants you from this worldly life. Walking thereon is like walking in a land that is filled with beasts, and on water that teams with crocodiles.That which causes delight (in this life), usually turns tobe source of grief…’. May the Almighty grant ease and relief to our new President from all the ‘dis-ease’ and ‘grief’ that would be handed over to him today (aamin)! (08122465111 for texts only)

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