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Celebrities / Re: Sophia Momodu Comforts Davido Over Recent News About His Friends' Death by Singingbae(m): 12:20pm On Oct 13, 2017 |
CriticMaestro:My fingers are crossed!!!!! Because I keep telling people, Illuminati is not yet proven to us!!! Endless arguments with my friends and I ask them for proof and they keep saying they say they say � � |
Celebrities / Re: Sophia Momodu Comforts Davido Over Recent News About His Friends' Death by Singingbae(m): 11:48am On Oct 13, 2017 |
CriticMaestro:Please does Illuminati exist? Please I'll need proofs like clips or anything else, cos people keep saying it and I've not seen anyone coming out to see he's an illuminant |
Education / Re: University Of Ibadan(UI) 2017/2018 Admission Thread by Singingbae(m): 6:42am On Oct 13, 2017 |
Please, anybody hear anything about the post jamb? As in the date!!! ! |
Politics / Re: Fayose Welcomes Ekiti Accountant General & Finance Commissioner After Release by Singingbae(m): 7:05pm On Oct 12, 2017 |
Why is Buhari arresting Fayose's kinsmen! You keep arresting and no trial! No greater tyranny than this!! !! Over to zombies to defend their pay masters. I know you just want to break your opposition because you're afraid you're goan lose an election against them!!! ! I'm out � � � � for zombies!! ! 13 Likes 3 Shares |
Phones / How Can I Make My Nigeria Phone Number Looks Like A USA? by Singingbae(m): 4:30pm On Oct 09, 2017 |
Please guys, I really need it, I wanna retain my Nigeria number and still make it look like an American, the service provider is deducting too much cost in my calls to Nigeria!! |
Politics / Re: Aisha Buhari Exposes Aso Rock Clinic Management: "No Single Syringe There" by Singingbae(m): 4:19pm On Oct 09, 2017 |
I won't talk! Government of the corrupt, by the corrupt and for the Zombies!! Under Bubu's nose, he can't handle the villa clinic despite that huge budget! Zombies over to you 42 Likes |
Education / Re: University Of Ibadan(UI) 2017/2018 Admission Thread by Singingbae(m): 5:45pm On Sep 07, 2017 |
MrEgghead:Please what's like the total of the post utme, I guess 400? |
Education / Re: University Of Ibadan(UI) 2017/2018 Admission Thread by Singingbae(m): 5:33pm On Sep 07, 2017 |
Bobola07:Bro, please my sister, had 201 in jamb, and when we did the final point cut off mark, she had 54.35 and she chose linguistic, based on last year's cut off mark, she didn't meet the cut off mark. Please just teach us how to add the cut off mark now that post utme is included |
Education / Re: University Of Ibadan(UI) 2017/2018 Admission Thread by Singingbae(m): 9:02am On Aug 30, 2017 |
Ajet001:Please what of now, that we're gonna do post utme? |
Politics / Re: 21 Chibok Girls Released By BOKO Haram by Singingbae(m): 11:26am On Oct 13, 2016 |
SamuelAnyawu:AFSS? You mean Apostolic Faith Secondary School? Am an alumni |
Romance / Re: Reasons Some Men Want Submissive Ladies by Singingbae(m): 2:43pm On Oct 01, 2016 |
Miladi: Wife Material!!!!!!! |
Politics / Re: Rivers Is Not Edo, Oraye Tells Amaechi by Singingbae(m): 1:24pm On Oct 01, 2016 |
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Politics / Re: PHOTOS: Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed Rides Bicycle To Play Independence Day Match by Singingbae(m): 1:21pm On Oct 01, 2016 |
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Romance / Re: 9 Ways Ladies Behave When They Are No Longer Virgins by Singingbae(m): 7:40am On Sep 28, 2016 |
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Sports / Re: Rio: Kenyan Coach, John Anzrah Sent Home After Posing As Athlete by Singingbae(m): 8:54am On Aug 12, 2016 |
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Sports / Re: Rio: Kenyan Coach, John Anzrah Sent Home After Posing As Athlete by Singingbae(m): 8:54am On Aug 12, 2016 |
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Sports / Re: Rio: Kenyan Coach, John Anzrah Sent Home After Posing As Athlete by Singingbae(m): 8:50am On Aug 12, 2016 |
Lol. Africa I hail thee 7 Likes 1 Share |
Sports / Rio: Kenyan Coach, John Anzrah Sent Home After Posing As Athlete by Singingbae(m): 8:49am On Aug 12, 2016 |
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Politics / Re: How Nigerian Army Violated Own Rules, Sacked Officers For Not Helping APC by Singingbae(m): 8:30am On Aug 12, 2016 |
Impunity everywhere |
Politics / How Nigerian Army Violated Own Rules, Sacked Officers For Not Helping APC by Singingbae(m): 8:29am On Aug 12, 2016 |
Majority of the 38 officers compulsorily retired by the Nigerian Army two months ago were sent away without recourse to the rules of disengagement in the Nigerian military,” PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report today. The army had in June announced the compulsory retirement of 38 officers on different ranks on the grounds of alleged professional misconduct during the 2015 general elections, as well as involvement in the $2.1 billion arms procurement scandal. The affected officers include Major-Generals F. O. Alli, E.J. Atewe, I. N. Ijoma, L. C. Ilo, TC Ude, Letam Wiwa, SD Aliyu, M.Y Ibrahim, LC Ilo and O. Ejemai. Others were Brigadier-Generals D. M. Onoyeiveta, A. S. O. Mormoni Bashir, A.S.H Sa’ad, A. I. Onibasa, D. Abdusalam, L.M. Bello, KA Essien, B. A. Fiboinumama and I. M. Lawson. Also affected were Cols. M.A. Suleiman, I. O. Ahhachi, P. E. Ekpenyong, T. T. Minimah, O. U. Nwonkwo, and F. D. Kayode, Lt-Cols C. O. Amadi, K. O. Adimogha, T. E. Arigbe, O. A. Baba Ochankpa, D. B. Dazang, O. C. Egemole, Enemchukwu, A. Mohammed, A. S. Mohammed, G. C. Nyekwu, T. O. Oladintoye, C. K. Ukoha and Major A. T. Williams. In the June 9 letters, seen by PREMIUM TIMES, to the affected officers, their compulsory retirement was hinged on “provisions of Paragraph 09.02c (4) of the Harmonised Terms and Conditions of Service for Officers 2012 (Revised)”. The referenced section – 09.02c (4) – of the Harmonised Terms and Conditions of Service for Officers 2012 (Revised), shows the officers were laid off “on disciplinary grounds i.e. serious offence(s)”. Emphasizing “service exigencies” and that the “military must remain apolitical and professional at all times”, Army spokesperson, Sani Usman, a colonel,on June 10, released a statement, disclosing what could have constituted the “serious offences” which warranted the 38 officers to be compulsorily retired. “It should be recalled that not too long ago some officers were investigated for being partisan during the 2015 general elections,” the statement said. “Similarly, the investigation by the Presidential Committee investigating Defence Contracts revealed a lot. Some officers have already been arraigned in court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),” Colonel Usman said. Although, some of the officers, who were shocked by their sudden retirement, had alleged ethnic cleansing, the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, said the army embarked upon the exercise to remove those “who in one way or the other jeopardized the fight against insurgency and other issues bordering on national security.” He also said that there was no better time to send the officers away than the time they were retired. But PREMIUM TIMES investigations revealed that the Army breached its own rule by retiring most of the officers without query or indictment by any panel, thereby raising question of arbitrariness. However, contrary to the claim by the Army, our investigations showed that only a few of the affected officers were queried, tried and indicted. Others had their careers abruptly cut short for reasons that smacks of high-level arbitrariness, pettiness, witch-hunting and partisanship by authorities of the Army. While officers cleared by either arms procurement panel or election panel were retired, others who were not questioned at all were also sent away. Our findings revealed that nine officers, holding the rank of Major General, 11 Brigadier Generals, seven Colonels and 11 Lieutenant Colonels, amounting to 38 officers in sum, were laid off. Highly placed sources in the Army told PREMIUM TIMES that out of the Major Generals, only one – E.D. Atewe (N/7674) faced a panel and was indicted. Mr. Atewe was indicted by the presidential arms probe panel, and he is currently being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Although S.D. Aliyu (N/7711); M.Y. Aliyu (N/8114) GOC 7 Division; Fatai Alli, (N/7914) a former Director of Operations in the Army, also faced presidential arms panel but they were cleared. Yet they were laid off for “serious offence”, our investigations revealed. Other five Major Generals – L. Wiwa (N/7665), who is late Ken Saro- Wiwa’s brother; I.N. Ijeoma (N/8304); T.C Ude (N/7866); L.C. Ilo (N/8320); O. Ejemau (N/8340) were neither queried nor indicted by any panel. On June 9, they received letters via emails, directing them to proceed on compulsory retirement. Brigadier Generals had to go because of their loyalties The cases of the affected Brigadier Generals are not different; only one of them – A.I Onibasa (N/9072) was indicted by the presidential panel on arms procurement. Sources told PREMIUM TIMES that the remaining 10 officers were simply retirement because they were suspected to be have failed to help this regime to power. For instance, two officers were laid off because of their ties to the embattled former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, our sources said. The two officers – A.S.H. Sa’ad (N/8392), who was at the Directorate of Military Intelligence; and Mormoni Bashir (N/8396), former principal staff officer to Mr. Dasuki – were retired without indictment. Although, Mr. Sa’ad faced a panel, he was not found to have engaged in any wrongdoing. For his alleged close ties to a former Army Chief, Kenneth Minimah, D. Abdulsalam (N/9169) was sent away. Koko Essien (N/8794), a former Brigade Commander, 2 Brigade, Port Harcourt, faced the election panel but was cleared. Mr. Essien was laid off nonetheless, like Bright Fibioinumana (N/8399); L.N. Bello (N/8799), former Brigade Commander, 34 Brigade Owerri; and M.G. Alli Moundhey, former Director, Campaign Planning in the North East Operations, who were even not queried in the first place. Although, the Nigerian Army said the affected officers were retired for either involvement in the 2015 general elections or arms procurement fraud, our investigations showed that officers who were not in Nigeria at the time of the elections were also sacked. That was the case of I.B. Lawson (N/8812) and G.O. Agachi (N/9363) who were Defence Attaches at Nigeria’s missions in China and Benin Republic respectively. According to a document seen by this newspaper, they retired for allegedly committing “serious offence”. But they were never informed of their offences nor were they invited to face any panel of inquiry, army insiders say. “They aided PDP to get votes” Many Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels who were laid off on June 9 were merely suspected of failing to cooperate with the All Progressives Congress to garner votes in the 2015 elections, sources told PREMIUM TIMES. In one instance, T.A Williams (N/11469) a Major; and A. Mohammed (N/10659), a Lieutenant Colonel, both attached to the 195 Battalion, Agenebode, Edo State, with the latter as Commanding Officer, were said to have been flushed out because of complaint of not cooperating with the APC, brought against them. But Mr. Mohammed was said to be away in the North-East at the time and played no role during the election. Yet he was retired. Similarly, in Rivers State, Army insiders said, APC officials accused four officers attached to the 332 Air Defence Regiment (B. Odiankpa – N/10417) and ; 5 Battalion, Elele (A.S. Mohammed -N10662); 2 Brigade Garrison, Port Harcourt (A.Adimoha – N/10421); 29 Battalion Port Harcourt (T.O. Oladuntoye (N/10338) of aiding the PDP in the state. Our findings revealed that these officers, accused of partisanship, were not queried or investigated before they were asked to forced to leave the army. In one curious case, documents seen by this newspaper revealed that Lt. Col A. Mohammed was in the North East, not Agenebode, but somehow his name was among those listed for alleged partisanship. The former Commanding Officer, 93 Battalion, Takum, O.C. Egemole (N/10423), who was also compulsorily retired, was also accused of “not doing enough” to avert APC loss in Taraba State. He was also neither queried nor investigated. Seven colonels on the list of the compulsory retirees had no formal charge issued to them nor did they face panel before they were laid off. For instance O.U. Nwankwo (N/9678) was studying at the University of Ibadan while M.A. Suleiman (N/10030) was in Chad as Defence Attaché before they were suddenly retired. Then, C.K. Ukoha (N/10319) was in Abuja during the elections, insiders told us, but was accused of taking part in electoral fraud in Benin and was retired. Also, without probe or indictment for any offence, T. Minimah (N/10185), brother to former Army Chief, Kenneth Minimah, was also removed from his post in Benin and retired. Did the retirements follow due process? PREMIUM TIMES checks indicated the army violated its own rules in the ways the officers were disengaged. The Harmonized Terms and Conditions of Service for Officers whose paragraph 09.02c (4) was relied upon to remove the officers, originates from the Armed Forces Act. The section cited by the Army provides that an officer may be compulsorily retired “on disciplinary grounds i.e. serious offence(s)” without defining what constitutes “serious offences”. But the principal law – the Armed Forces Act – establishes all actions that constitute offences in the Military. The Act prescribes steps to be taken in punishing offences, and a review shows no section empowers the Army Council to arbitrarily punish or compulsorily retire officers for any offence. In fact, the Army Council, in Section 11(a-f) of the Act, has no power to retire any officer on disciplinary ground without compliance with the steps prescribed by law. “Army did no wrong; affected officers can seek redress” The spokesperson for the Army, Sani Usman, a Colonel, however insisted the officers were properly retired. “Those that were compulsorily retired had one problem or the other that warranted their compulsory retirement from the Army,” Mr. Usman told PREMIUM TIMES. “Basically that’s it. And whoever is not satisfied with that should please seek redress. They are quite familiar with the terms and conditions of service. “None of them was arbitrarily retired and they know. Army can’t just retire you without any offence or because the Chief of Army Staff does not like your face. “It is not for them to go to newspaper. They were advised to write the Commander-in-Chief through the Chief of Defence Staff to seek redress. Their records are there and they will be given cogent reason why they were asked to retire compulsorily.” Mr. Usman was evasive when asked whether all the affected officers were queried or formally indicted before they were forced out of service. www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/208459-special-report-how-nigerian-army-violated-own-rules-sacked-officers-for-not-helping-apc.html |
Politics / Re: The Niger Delta Crusaders, And The United States Of Nigeria (part 1)-ffk by Singingbae(m): 12:13am On Aug 09, 2016 |
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Politics / The Niger Delta Crusaders, And The United States Of Nigeria (part 1)-ffk by Singingbae(m): 12:13am On Aug 09, 2016 |
5th AUGUST, 2016. It is no longer news that the new leader of Boko Haram, Mr. Abu Musa Al Barnawi, who apparantly has the backing of ISIS, has said that he will target only Christians and burn down all the Churches in the country. He has also said that Muslims and mosques will no longer be targetted and that Mr. Abubakar Shekau, the erstwhile leader and principal voice of the terror group, is no longer the leader. Mr. Shekau has responded by saying that he will continue to slaughter whoever he pleases and that he remains the authentic leader. There appears to be a very serious rift in the ranks of Boko Haram which is good news. As far as I am concerned the two factions can do us all a favour by destroying one another and burning in hell. Anyone that targets Christians and Churches, or indeed any innocent civilians for slaughter, is not worthy of life. They are nothing but vermin and, like the cockroaches that they are, they must be crushed. Mr. Shekau is evil but Mr. Al Barnawi is even worse: he is the devil incarnate. He represents ISIS and we all know what that means. Whichever way we look at it and whatever is going on within the ranks of Boko Haram we must not loose sight of the bigger picture. And that bigger picture points to one thing: Nigeria is in a mess. Quite apart from the poverty and hardship that has afflicted the land coupled with the total destruction of the economy and quite apart from the shattering of peoples dreams and the drastic reduction in their standard of living by the ineffectual and barren fiscal and economic policies of an inept and incompetent government, our President did not stop there. He also went as far as to appoint as his Minister of Sports a man who is clearly (to use Donald Trump's words about Hilary Clinton) "unbalanced and unhinged". This is a man that can barely speak english and who, during the week of the Olympics, publicly referred to our country as "the United States Of Nigeria" whilst reprimanding our Olympic football team for getting stuck in America and arriving late in Brazil. Someone should tell Honorable Minister Solomon Dalung that it was HIS job to get our boys to Rio De Janeiro on time and that it was something of a scandal and a national embarrasment that it took the last minute intervention and assistance of Delta Air, a private American airline, to get them there in time for their match with Japan. Whilst our boys did us proud by going on to defeat Japan and later Sweden, the video of the Minister disparaging them and spouting nonsense about some fictitious and imaginary country called 'the United States of Nigeria' whilst wearing his ridiculous red beret went viral on the internet. A fool goes by no other name. In normal climes the Minister would have been forced to resign the following day and he would have been compelled to apologise to the nation that he is purportedly serving for forgetting its name. Sadly though there is nothing that is "normal" about Nigeria or the Buhari administration. Equally abysmal was the recent outing of Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, President Buhari's "super Minister" of Power, Works and Housing, on BBC TV's Hardtalk. Before millions of viewers from all over the world, the Minister told his host Mr. Stephen Sackhur a shameless and pernicious lie by claiming that he never promised Nigerians an increase in power generation and supply. It is his inability to be forthright, to appreciate the virtues of telling the truth and to keep his election promises that has earned my aburo Tunde Fashola the nickname of Minister of Darkness. Since he was appointed 'super Minister' the power generation in our country has dropped from 5000 megawatts at the time when President Jonathan left office just over a year ago to under 2000 megawatts today. Worst still he has not managed to construct or complete the refurbishment of a single road. Yet it is not the crippled economy, the erring and dim-witted Minister of Sports, the intellectually dishonest and lying Minister of Power, Works and Housing or any of the other numerous foibles of the Buhari administration that gives us the most concern today. It is rather the gradual and systematic generation and invocation of a frightful and cataclysmic atmosphere of war and the looming threat and increasing likelihood of a great and violent ethnic and religious conflict, the likes of which Africa has never seen before. If it is not Boko Haram that is slaughtering our people it is the Fulani herdsmen. Worse still they are doing these despicable things with the active connivance and support of a few people that are in the corridors of power today whose objective is to islamise our nation, plunge us into a fiery abyss and create chaos. The bible says 'there is no fellowship between light and darkness'. We have said it before and we will say it again: we must restructure Nigeria before it is too late. If we fail to do so we will have no choice but to reconsider our so-called unity. If things don't change quickly we must consider the possibility of dividing our country and renegotiating our union. We cannnot afford to wait any longer because we are playing with fire and we are sitting on a keg of gunpowder. We must attempt to do whatever needs to be done peacefully and we must not allow the butchers and those that kill in the name of their god to provoke us into another civil war. Nothing represents the danger of the war that is looming more than the response of the Niger Delta Revolutionary Crusaders (an affliate of the Niger Delta Avengers) to Al Barnawi's threat. They responded by saying that if Christians and Churches are targetted by Boko Haram they will kill all the Muslims in the Niger Delta area and they will burn down all the mosques. It is a simple case of "action" and "reaction" and I sincerely hope that those that are use to killing others and not being killed themselves take them seriously. Clearly we are living in dangerous times and I sincerely hope that those that brought religion into our politics in 2015 and that used Islam and the Boko Haram offensive as a political tool against a southern Christian President are seeing the fruits of their labour. When you invoke the proverbial genie and let it out of the kettle you must be prepared to live with the consequences and whatever follows. Yet the folly does not stop there. As if our sensibilities were not already sufficiently provoked President Buhari took the religious dance to yet another level last week by directing the Central Bank of Nigeria to sell foreign exchange to Muslim pilgrims that were on their way to Saudi Arabia for hajj at 197 naira to 1 USD. This whilst everyone else, including students, manufacturers, businessmen, Christian pilgrims, the ailing and holiday- makers, must continue to buy at 400 naira to 1 USD. When the math is done this amounts to a whooping N7.9 billion naira concession for Muslim pilgrims. And all this in a country that is not only impoverished and whose people are suffering from the worst economic hardship and poverty crunch since independence but also one that is meant to be a secular state. Such is the national outrage that President Buhari's forex concession to his Muslim brothers and sisters has provoked that a well-known political commentator and activist Mr. Paul Achalla wrote the following on his Facebook wall on August 5th: "N410 to $1 for business, education, entrepreneurship, food processing, manufacturing, etc. and N197 to $1 for pilgrims going to Saudi Arabia? Bluntly put, Boko Haram ideology won Nigeria's 2015 general election!!!" Paul Achalla is right. How can this sort of nonsense be justified in a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-religious secular state? Is Buhari's Nigeria crafted only for the Muslim north? Is Saudi Arabia now the spiritual headquarters of our nation? If it is not the Sultan of Sokoto declaring public holidays, it is the President giving subsidised rates of foreign exchange and preferential treatment to members of his own religious faith. If it is not that he is leading our country into a sinister and dangerous military coalition of Sunni Muslim nations it is that he is holding conferences in Abuja with foreign Muslim clerics whose stated objective is to "spread sharia throughout Nigeria" and islamise our country. Worst still virtually all his Service Chiefs and principal commanders in his Armed Forces together with his National Security Advisor, his Minister of Defence, his Minister of Internal Affairs, his Inspector General of Police, his Chief of Defence Intelligence, his Director General of State Security, his Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, his Commander of the National Civil Defence Corps, his Comptroller General of Customs, his Comptroller General of Immigration, his Comptroller General of Prisons and ALL his other security, para-security and intelligence agencies, bar one, are northern Muslims. Can there be any greater form of corruption, abuse of power, injustice and betrayal of trust than this? Does this not prove the fact that our country is in dire need of restructuring? (TO BE CONTNUED). https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10206199459054868&id=1516216357&refid=28&ref=opera_speed_dial&_ft_=qid.6316592619613325705%3Amf_story_key.-7057437308811524655 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Deji Adeyanju Picks Nomination Form To Contest For PDP National Secretary (pics) by Singingbae(m): 5:17pm On Aug 08, 2016 |
Bubu is coming for you |
Sports / Re: RIO2016 Olympics: Sweden Vs Nigeria 0 - 1 (Full Time) by Singingbae(m): 12:37am On Aug 08, 2016 |
Mikel dey play free-kick ehn, chelsea players go dey laff us ni for training 2mao 1 Like |
Sports / Re: RIO2016 Olympics: Sweden Vs Nigeria 0 - 1 (Full Time) by Singingbae(m): 12:33am On Aug 08, 2016 |
Etebo get R2 gan ooo, he and Messi+Robben ehn |
Sports / Re: RIO2016 Olympics: Sweden Vs Nigeria 0 - 1 (Full Time) by Singingbae(m): 12:14am On Aug 08, 2016 |
Pls av not noticed any team that can defeat Nigeria n dis tournament, apart from SA |
Sports / Re: RIO2016 Olympics: Sweden Vs Nigeria 0 - 1 (Full Time) by Singingbae(m): 11:58pm On Aug 07, 2016 |
The commentator said mikel is playing as if his possesses #SWENGR 1 Like |
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