₦airaland Forum

Even me wei stay at home sef know ICC meeting will hold.. how come you no know about the meeting? that means I'am more desearved to be in your position.

Phone Calling...

Voice: Saraki, you are invited to a party general meeting by Osinbajo

Saraki: hmmm. I cannot be sumon by a mere commissioner


Another Phone Calling...

Voice: Saraki, you are invited to ICC meeting by his Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari

Saraki: Hello.. hello.. I no hear this one bad network. hello

Hang up.

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Never in your life messed up with Fulani man

Sign: IBB

I welcome you all with humility and gratitude
to the very first Town Hall meeting we are
hosting as a government. It is not yet one
month since we were sworn-in, but to the
extent that it has pleased Allah to bestow His
grace upon us, we have set about doing the
work of change that you mandated us to do.

During the campaign, we promised that we
shall be engaging and interacting with the
public regularly. We pledged that we will
provide you regular updates and listen to
your feedback, including criticisms and
suggestions. Here we are before you today to
do as we pledged. As we have started, so we
intend to continue, always striving to get
better at achieving results.

Immediately after we were sworn-in on 29
May 2015, we reported for duty with the
sense of urgency that you demanded. As we
expected, we met a state that is broke, and
whose schools, hospitals and roads are in
poor shape. We knew that a lot of sacrifice
will be required to restore the state to good
health. This government’s priority is actually
growth and development in a safe and secure
environment; because we understand that the
things that matter are the public goods of
quality schools, decent hospitals and good
roads; we know that leaders must pursue the
creation of a climate that promotes security,
social harmony and is therefore conducive to
bringing jobs and economic opportunity. Thus
our first step was to announce that the
deputy-governor and I will be taking a 50%
pay cut.

As we took briefings from the ministries,
departments and agencies in our very first
week, the depth of the financial problem
became clearer to us as well as the impact the
decades of impunity have had on the mental
attitudes of the institutions that constitute the
public service. As one astute observer of the
situation commented recently, the public
service does not serve the public; rather it
considers itself as the public and thus serves
only itself.

We emphatically reject this mentality. The
new government of Kaduna State has
therefore declared that the resources of the
state will be devoted to serving the public,
with schools, hospitals and roads; aiding our
farmers and doing our utmost to create jobs.
To do that, we must cut the cost of running
government. Ours will no longer be the state
that has too little left for the needs of the
majority of the people.

That is our guiding principle as we reduce
costs. And we have taken concrete action in
this regard. We have restructured our
ministries from 19 to 13. We have also
decided that we will have only 13
commissioners, ten special advisers and 12
special assistants. You all remember that the
previous government had 24 commissioners,
41 special advisers and about 400 special
assistants. But good governance is not about
recruiting vast numbers of political
appointees. It is about the smallest number
that can provide the quality of service that is
required.

We are saddened by the condition in which
we found the state. But we shall never use
that as an excuse for non-performance. It is
our duty to do our best always. That is why
we are finding creative even if difficult ways
to deliver on our promises.

What we have done

In our first month, we have done the
following things:

Governance Reforms

Prioritising the People: We have made clear
our intention to devote a larger chunk of the
state’s resources to providing public services.
We have signalled that a government elected
by majority vote should serve the majority.
Pay cut: the governor and the deputy
governor have taken a voluntary pay cut of
50%, and we have urged other political
official holders, elected or appointed, to
follow this example.

Cost-cutting: ministries have been reduced
from 19 to 13; while your government has
committed to appointing only 13
commissioners and the handful of needed
special advisers and special assistants. The
selection of the Commissioners, Advisers and
Assistants will be based on merit, capacity
and experience because what is priority to us
is getting the necessary skill sets that will
facilitate moving the State forward.

Biometric verification: Our government is
already conducting biometric verification of
its employees in order to update the payroll
and provide reliable data as to the precise
number of personnel in the public service.
Two of Nigeria’s leading banks, UBA and
Zenith, are working with us on this project.

Tax Reform Committee: We have set up a
committee chaired by Ifueko Omogui, former
chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue
Service, to review our internal revenue
generation structures, systems and laws. The
committee will recommend ways by which we
can improve our internally generated
revenue. This will reduce our dependency on
the federal government. We will be masters
of our own fate.

Transparency: We have signed up to Open
Budget, a tool that enables you to track what
we are doing with your money.

Health

Your government has already convened a
summit of Kaduna State Healthcare partners
to set out the state’s priorities in the Health
Sector, and to also ensure that all funds in
the health sector are streamlined to ensure
an effective coordinated service delivery. The
donor community and multilateral agencies
attended, along with businesses that are
active in the state’s health sector.
Kaduna State has signed an Memorandum of
Understanding with General Electric
Healthcare to modernise our primary health
centers and public hospitals. Both parties
have committed to identifying the specific
needs of the centers and hospitals, so that
modern equipment can be installed to
improve the diagnosis and management of
patients.

We have signed the 2015 Kaduna State-
UNICEF 2015 workplan. The state government
is ready with its counterpart funding for the
agreed initiatives in healthcare, nutrition,
HIV/AIDS, water, sanitation and child
protection.

Installation of two dialysis machines and the
repair of three dialysis equipment at Barau
Dikko Hospital. Arrangements are being made
to purchase consumables for the next 12
months so that dialysis will be affordable to
Kaduna citizens.

Security

Peace Committee: A committee, chaired by
the respected General Martin Agwai, is
working to identify the causes of conflict and
insecurity in Southern Kaduna and thereafter
recommend ways of tackling the problem.

Interstate cooperation: Kaduna State is
working with Zamfara, Katsina, Kebbi and
Niger States to design a collective approach to
common security challenges in the forest
ranges that strides our respective States. A
meeting is being held today with the
respective State Governors and Security
Agencies to advance the implementation of
this initiative.

Presidential support: Kaduna State has
briefed and updated the president on the
security challenges, and the president has
pledged FG support for the comprehensive
security plan.

Relief: We have conducted multiple aerial
surveys of the Birnin-Gwari area and have
visited affected communities there and in
Southern Kaduna, offering medical assistance
and condolences.

Prisons: we have visited prisons in Kaduna
and Zaria, pursuing rehabilitation of facilities
and decongestion. As a result of these efforts,
98 persons awaiting trial for minor offenses
were released by the Chief Judge of Kaduna
State.

Infrastructure

Zaria Water Project: We have ordered
accelerated work to complete this project as a
priority item for our government. We have
visited the site of the project and reviewed it
with the contractors. A firm decision has
been taken to commit funds monthly so that
the project can be completed by early 2018.

The African Development Bank and Islamic
Development Bank, the major funders of the
project, have been consulted and they share
our desire to speed-up completion. In
addition, we are working on a project to
upgrade the capacity to supply water to
Kaduna residents through a new Kaduna
Water Project.

Job creation

Kaduna Cabs: We have initiated a scheme to
revive taxi services in our major urban
centres. The aim is to create jobs for owner-
drivers who will help improve the commuting
experience with their comfortable cars and
excellent customer service. The scheme is
starting with 200 vehicles in Kaduna, and is
being implemented in collaboration with
Peugeot. We have already placed adverts to
invite participation in the scheme.

Indorama: Our drive to attract new investors
to the state has attracted positive response
from Indorama, a leading player in
petrochemicals. They have selected Kaduna
as their regional distribution centre. They
will be building warehouses, fertilizer
blending plant and a training centre in
Kaduna.

Shopping Mall: Our main urban centres,
including the state capital Kaduna, are
lacking modern shopping malls. We have
indicated our readiness to partner with
capable investors in this sector.

Agriculture

Fertilizer: One of our first actions in office
was to stop the unfair practice of allocating
subsidized fertilizer to prominent persons to
the detriment of ordinary farmers. We
launched the 2015 fertilizer sales season in
Kachia with a clear structure that sells
fertilizers to interested persons from
designated sales point. We shall be reviewing
and improving the process of procuring and
distributing fertilizer to make access easier
for the farmers.

A New Agricultural Policy is being prepared
with the aim of enhancing the capacity of the
sector to create viable jobs; improve farm
productivity and raise the involvement of
Kaduna citizens in the value chain.

Sanitation

Clean city agenda: We have met the
sanitation contractors and have expressed to
them our dissatisfaction at the squalid state
of our urban areas. We want our towns and
cities to be clean, and we shall do it.

Sports

Kaduna has, for the first time in a long while,
hosted an international football match when
the Super Eagles played a friendly match with
Chad at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium. Our
people turned out to see the game, showing
that Kaduna is a sports city. That impressive
turnout has now placed us on the radar to
host many competitive matches because the
football authorities now know that our great
people will actually come to the stadium, fill
it up and cheer the players.

What we intend to do

In the following months, we shall be focused
on the following issues:

Education : we shall begin implementing our
comprehensive agenda to improve education.
School repairs, and the provision of facilities
like furniture, water and toilets will begin as
we fulfill our responsibility to provide a
better learning environment. Alongside this,
we shall begin to enhance the capacity and
quality of the teachers generally, and we
shall pay extra attention to getting more and
better teachers in English, Maths and
Science.

Health: hospital upgrades, in terms of
facilities and equipment, will be accelerated
as our MoU with GE Healthcare is steadily
implemented. We have a commitment to
properly equipping our hospitals so that most
of our people’s healthcare needs can be met
by our own public hospitals.

Township Roads : neighborhood and
township roads in our major urban centres
will be upgraded to the extent we can within
this rainy season.

Transport: our multilayer transport
architecture will be executed. That includes
preparations, studies and projects to put in
place:
– the new cab scheme and expanding to Zaria
and Kafanchan,
– a BRT system for mass transit starting with
Kaduna,
– a major project to establish Kaduna-Zaria
light rail system between Shika and through
the Kaduna Metropolis and up to the
Refinery,
– new bus and truck terminals in Kaduna,
Tafa, Mararaban Jos and Zaria

Security

Comprehensive security plan for Southern
Kaduna and the Birnin-Gwari/Giwa axis
Forensic laboratory under the control of our
State Internal Security outfit – Operation Yaki
– to enhance the investigative capacity of
law-enforcement agencies

Clean Cities: We would not allow our urban
centres to continue to be defaced by waste.
We shall be improving waste collection, then
we would introduce sanitary inspectors and
engage the public in a voluntary commitment
to make our cities clean.

Rural and community development: Under the
leadership of our Deputy Governor, we shall
be mainstreaming the Millennium Village
Pampaida programme as a viable model
across our rural communities. It will have
components to improve education, healthcare,
rural roads and the farming activities that
engage most of our rural residents.

Job Creation : your government will
undertake direct recruitment of qualified
doctors, nurses and teachers to urgently raise
the quality of service in our hospitals and
schools. We shall also employ at least 50
youths per ward over the next four years, in
our initial efforts for traffic control and
environmental enforcement. But try as it
might, government can only employ a
minority of youths who need jobs. Thus we
remain focused on creating a favourable
climate for the private sector to create jobs.

Textile Revival: We have the support of Mr.
President to work on policies and schemes
that will revive this sector as viable and
sustainable employer of labour. We are
cooperating with current and potential textile
investors on a package that stimulates the
value-chain from cotton farming to
garmenting.

There is so much to do, with fewer resources.
But we have no option than to deliver quality
performance for the people who have
invested so much hope in us. We need your
understanding and support for the difficult
decisions that we must take if we are to serve
you to the best of our ability. We will need
committed people in and out of government
to contribute to achieving the goals we have
set out.

We are not shrinking government for its own
sake. We are making government leaner so
that it can work better for you. Let us all
make sacrifices for change.

Above is the Keynote address by Nasir El-
Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State, at the
first Town Hall meeting of the APC Kaduna
State Government, at the Hassan Katsina
House, Kawo, Kaduna, on Saturday, 27
June 2015

http://blogs.premiumtimesng.com/?p=167964

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Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, said it is
not going to be business as usual in
running the affairs of the country. He
stated that anyone caught creating
loopholes in order to siphon public funds
would face the consequences.

Osinbajo who made this known while
speaking at the 3rd Annual Christopher
Kolade’s lecture on business integrity in
Lagos, pointed out that weak public and
private institutions, corrupt practices
coupled with ineffective public policies
had remained the bane of economic
stability in the country.

The Vice President whose address dwelt
on “Beyond Compliance: Imbibing a
Culture of Business Integrity,” said
integrity should be an acceptable
standard and aspiration of every
business leader.

Osinbajo said, “The most important thing
is to do things right. It is important that
we comply with the rule of law. There is
need to ensure that people’s rights are
not trampled on. And there is need to
ensure that people face the consequences
for wrongful actions. That balance is
necessary.

“The administration will ensure that
loopholes compliance are plugged and
those responsible for creating loopholes
will face the consequence.”

“The greater good of the company also
means the greater good of many people,
their lives and families. The question is,
how do we respond to the ethical
dynamics of poverty and corruption
when it concerns our friends, ethnic or
religious groups?”

Painting a gloomy picture on the poser
raised by the vice president, the Former
Nigerian High Commissioner to the United
Kingdom, Dr. Christopher Kolade,
lamented that many Nigerians no longer
stand on the side of what is right.

Kolade averred that the country was a
difficult place to practise integrity
because corruption was perceived as the
right way of life.

“We use corruption in our conversations
than we talk about integrity. Integrity
should feature more in our
conversations. Integrity is meant to be
natural to human beings,” Kolade said.

http://leadership.ng/news/443176/create-corruption-loopholes-go-to-jail-osinbajo

The Aridolf hotel in Yenagoa that is Allegedly Owned By First Lady Patience Jonathan is an unlikely monument to kitsch on a reclaimed swamp in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger delta……

The Aridolf hotel in Yenagoa is an unlikely monument to kitsch on a reclaimed swamp in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger delta. In the lobby, Louis XIV furniture is accompanied by bowls of plastic fruit, faux Dutch landscapes and a grotesquely gaudy chandelier. The hotel Is redolent of the riches on display in a region that for half a century has generated the bulk of Nigeria’s wealth.

Only a decade and-a-half ago there was just one petrol pu mp in Bayelsa state, which produced a quarter of Nigeria’s 2m barrels per day of oil, and Yenagoa, the state capital, was a string of tin-roofed shacks. Resentment at the region’s under-development erupted in violence, with militants blowing up pipelines
and kidnapping oil workers.

Today, Yenagoa is a sprawling construction site. But the Aridolf, which is owned by Patience Jonathan, wife of the outgoing
president, is symptomatic of how superficial progress has been in addressing the festering sense of marginalisation in the region, which remains desperately impoverished despite benefi ting from a tide of petrodollars in recent years.

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I dont believe you are a practicing Muslim If not, of what reason do you get to date a non-Muslim in the first place.

If you dont want to marry a married man then you have to wait for some time... I am sure your right person will come by Allah's grace.

Go go go PMB/GMB sky no be limit

We love you and we pray for you

Nigeria’s four refineries will resume production next month, a spokesman for the state-run oil group said Thursday, raising hope of an end to perennial petrol shortages that have plagued Africa’s largest crude producer.

“The refineries at Warri, Port Harcourt and Kaduna will resume next month after a successful turn-around-maintenance (overhaul) of their facilities,” Ohi Alegbe of
the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC) told AFP.

“The turn-around-maintenance has been on for some time. We did not just want to make any noise about it. The refineries will start production as soon as they have delivery of crude oil for refining,” he said.

The NNPC has four refineries — two in Port
Harcourt in the south, one in northern Kaduna and another in southern Warri, with a combined installed capacity of 445,000 barrels per day.

A network of pipelines and depots located throughout the country link these refineries. Nigeria’s Refineries Nigeria produces a massive two million barrels of crude oil a day, but has to
export it due to a lack of working refineries. It then imports fuel back into the country at international market prices — a situation blamed on corruption and mismanagement.

To cushion the blow on the general population, the government sells fuel on the streets at subsidised prices, and makes up for the higher amounts spent by importers by reimbursing them the difference — a system seen as rife with false claims and overpayments.

Last month, a crippling fuel shortage almost grounded Nigeria to a halt, as fuel importers and marketers shut their depots to protest some $1 billion (900 million euros) in unpaid reimbursements.

http://www.newsheadlines.com.ng/latest-news/2015/06/19/goodnews-nigerias-4-refineries-to-resume-production-next-month-nnpc-official/

Some one should read the text, make an audio recording and send it to me via whatsapp @08034***051. I have no time to read this rubbish.

Oyefoods:
hmmmm I see u re a kid! D way u re shows how u talk! U lack manners and tel ur elders at home to teach u how to talk boy!

Thank God i have family who can tech me some manners unlike you who is a product of baby factory!

Oyefoods:
Am sorry to say dis: u re sick!! Get his number and tel him what's on ur mind!

your dislike for PMB/GMB will do you no good. you will die with hypertension

NobleG1:
I'm losing some brain cells arguing with you, because your sense of reasoning is too poor for me. You're not smart at all.

He held the so-called secret meeting with military chiefs in regards to relocating the Military Command Centre to Maiduguri! That's his "strategy" which he acted upon immediately! Nothing more.

If he had any real strategy, it would have manifested in the battle field. No war strategy goes into effect unnoticed. When Obama became U.S. president, he acted on his strategy immediately, because they were at war extremist and still are. Buhari was also elected at a time Nigeria is at war with extremists, but was has he done? He hasn't even created his government for more than two weeks now!

You're either high on something or just plain st*upid! Remove your head from Buharis' hairy as*s. You're embarrassing yourself.

i am still on my point.. you are an a**hole. relocating chiefs is one of many. Tell me what strategy your hero, the clueless had while he was on power.

Hmm, i know right now TANoids are busy with their calculator. Checking Mrs. Buhari

NobleG1:
Have a strategy to tackle a problem in your country first before asking other countrues to come in and help! Unless you're incompetent!

Wake up fool!

You are turning from bad to worse. Must you know all the plans GMB/PMB has in respect to BH? Didn't you hear that he had a secret meeting with chief of staff?

Good government always have a secret plan against pessimists people like you. Stop opening your dirty mouth because no one will tell you strategies and plans on ground. Telling to public is like telling to Shekau you fool.

ChimaAdeoye:
Was the Daura President pretending to be reading a newspaper? Does the dullard read newspapers?

I don't know what to say to you about this question. But what i surely know is that PMB/GMB is your President like it or not

NobleG1:
Firstly, I didn't mention or criticize his trip to Germany. This shows how st*upid you're.

Secondly, having no plans at all to combat BH before jetting to Niger and Chad is an evidence of incompetence. Chad and Niger have no BH today on their soil because their had plan in fighting BH and it worked!

BH wasn't created in on their soil. BH is home grown and it's stationed here, and yet Buhari didn't have any strategy to fight them before and after he became president!

You are more st*pid than you look. Do yoi think he went there just to cheer up with his co-presidents? he went to get their cooperation in tackling BH by given their supports via controlling their borders and stopping any possible means of supplying funds, food and weapons to BH.

All you know is to criticize GMB/PMB which will always put you in shame.

NobleG1:
It concerns every Nigerian because he's the president of Nigeria, if you're too dumb to know that.

Blind support for politicians by some st*upid Nigerians like you, helped make this country the mess it's today.

I supported Buhari too during the election but it doesn't blur my sense reasoning.

Buhari has been behaving like someone who was never prepared to be president. He has not be leading like a president should since his inauguration.

Immediately after his inauguration, he jetted out to Chad and Niger to discuss about BH when he had no plan at all at home on how to fight BH. BH is home grown, home based and produces it weapons in Nigeria. He should have a plan as the president.

His only strategy to fight BH was by ordering the relocation of Central Military Command. Where on earth has something like this done? What a terrible idea!

He promised transperancy and yet nobody really knows what's happening in his presidency. There's confusion everywhere.

During the election, he promised to declare his assets publicly but he did it secretly and said anyone who's interested to see it should invoke Freedom of Information act. What a nonsense! Afrer massive criticism, his reps later lied that they were waiting for the Conduct Bureau to finish verifying his assets before making it public. Why would they wait for the "verification" if they were sure the assets he declared to the CB were correct?

Since he became president two weeks ago, he hasn't formed his government yet! The only appointments he announced was for two spokespersons. What the hell is he doing with two? Someone who promised a lean government!

I could go on and on.

you are too dumb to understand how important his travelling was. wasn't he there (Chad and Niger) for the purpose of ending BH? wasn't he there at Germany for the interest of the nation.

Come back to your sense and embrace reality. PMB/GMB is the man!

NobleG1:
He hasn't created his government yet. Not a good sign.

wetin concern you?
with or without cabinets PMB IS THE MAN

Bifwoli:
Gosh,if you can't even write proper grammar I highly doubt you can even decipher what a reliable,visionary,exemplary and astute politician really is.

Go back to school 1st and leave this to real visionaries and those with academic insight.

See yourself. You cannot write a good grammar but you are challenging others.

Let me quote you direct.... "I highly doubt you can even decipher what....."

Let me correct you. It should be "doubted". Is like your English teacher mama peace never teach you past tense.

And this "can" in the sentence is opposite to what you want to say... but "can't" would have been better.


See, you don't correct my English but i corrected yours. So, i thing you are more deserved to go to school than me.

asunaobi:
Enjoying White man's craft made out of sheer hard work, common sense, proper organisation and right thinking for all human race.

And who made the thing you are using to type any nonsense in Nairaland. As if your mama and papa create am

Oyefoods:
So, what's so special about Buhari in d presidential jet. Others ve bin dere so?

what is wrong with you eyes? Cant you see how passionate he is. I think you need Opera Glasses

Ifebazz:
Why don't the admin scrutinise topics and language? " you are once dictator..." what kind of grammar is that?
In my opinion, West Germany is not so exemplary, well, except of course, for fellow dullards like you.

Scrutinise topics? From which country you came from? Why not SCRUTINICE THE TOPIC because my topic is one and specific. Is Mama peace your English Teacher or what? You dont know Grammer but you want to open your mouth to challenge others. So pity.

I wrote "You are once a dictator" not "you are once dictator" as you quoted. When you want to quote somebody make sure you quoted him correct.

And if you think my English is incorrect then provide the correct one lets see.

idee91:
sai mai rusau. ....
yaushe za'a fara rusawa ne ??

soon

heryeendey:
HANDSOME PRESIDO

Indeed

cc: lalasticlala do the needful

Buhari you are once a dictator but now you are the most reliable and trusted politician you are an exemplary. carry go Baba.


One love Mr. President

More

cc lalasticlala

The stadium is filled up. Change is here!

Who is to be blamed for lack of spirit and moral amongst our soldiers? Government or the Army?

Cc: lalasticlala

An extraordinary meeting of Heads and
Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission
and Benin has approved that Nigeria retains the
position of the force commander in the war
against Boko Haram until the end of the
mission.

It also approved that the slot of the deputy
force commander and chief of staff be rotated
between Cameroun and Chad every twelve
months.

Their decision followed an earlier rejection of a
rotational six-month tenure of the Multi-
National Joint Task Force’s Commander, by
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari.
Mr. Buhari suggested instead that Nigeria heads
the force for the period of the war against the
insurgents since it was providing the bulk of
troops.

Mr. Buhari had earlier argued that such a
process will undermine the military’s capacity to
sustain the push against the insurgents “who also
have the uncanny ability to adapt and rejig
their operational strategies”.

“This command will be to the effectiveness of
military strategy, since Nigeria will be providing
the bulk of the troops and the main theatre of
the war is on Nigerian soil,” he said.

A Nigerian, Tukur Buratai, a major general,
had only last week been appointed the force
commander of the Multi-National Joint Task
Force, The summit which held at the Presidential
Conference Lodge of the Nnamdi Azikiwe
International Airport, Abuja was attended by,
Mahamadou Issoufou, President of Niger
Republic; Idriss Deby, President of Chad; and
Boni Yayi, President of Benin Republic.

The Cameroonian President, Paul Biya, was
represented by Mebe Ngo’o Edgard Alain,
minister delegate at the presidency in charge of Defence Deliberations at the summit focused on The Security Situation in the Lake Chad Basin, the Immediate Operationalization of the Multinational Joint Task Force and the Adoption of Emergency Development Plan.

They were preceded by a preparatory meeting of
the Ministers of Defence, the Chiefs of Defence
Staff and Heads of Security and Intelligence
Services of the LCBC member States and Benin.

The heads of state and government of the
LCBC and Benin Republic acknowledged with
satisfaction the success recorded on military
operations jointly conducted in the field by the
coalition of the troops from Cameroun, Niger,
Nigeria and Chad which have significantly
broken down the military capability of Boko
Haram terrorist group.

However, they agreed on the need to keep up
the drive marked by solidarity in action by
taking decisive measures in order to totally curb
Boko Haram insurgency.

According to a communique released at the end
of the one day summit, the Heads of State
agreed on the need to support military
operations with an emergency development plan
in favour of vulnerable populations in the region
in order to fight against the root causes of
insecurity relating to poverty.

At the end of their deliberations, the Heads of
State also approved the Concept of Operations
Strategic and Operational and related
documents of the MNJTF for the fight against
Boko Haram terrorist group.

Approval was also given for the immediate
deployment of the MNJTF HQ at N’Djamena
(Chad) by implementing its human, logistic
and financial requirements as well as the
deployment of the national contingents to the
MNJTF under the operational command of the
MNJTF commander assisted by his joint
headquarters by July 30, 2015.

The leaders also approved $30million for the
installation and equipping of the MNJTF HQ.
MNJTF will require $30 million in the next one
year to reduce terrorism in Nigeria’s north-east
and neighbouring countries to its barest
minimum, the executive secretary of the Lake
Chad Basin Commission, Sanusi Abdullahi, had
said on Wednesday, at the end of a two-day
meeting of the Ministers of Defence and top
military officials of the LCBC, in Abuja.

The leaders approved the establishment of the
executive secretariat as the headquarters of
the mission and the executive secretary of the
LCBC to be the head of mission.

It requested the African Union’s support to the
MNJTF in its operations, logistics and general
mission support; by mobilizing financial support.
The heads of state also resolved to seek the
support of strategic partners, notably
European Union, France, United Kingdom and
United States of America in favour of the
MNJTF.

It also requested the president of the UN
Security Council to make a declarative statement
in support of MNJTF Operations against the Boko
Haram terrorist group.
The Emergency Plan for Development in the
Lake Chad Basin, was also adopted at the
summit.

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An extraordinary meeting of Heads and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission and Benin has approved that Nigeria retains the position of the force commander in the war against Boko Haram until the end of the
mission.

It also approved that the slot of the deputy force commander and chief of staff be rotated between Cameroun and Chad every twelve months.

Their decision followed an earlier rejection of a rotational six-month tenure of the Multi-National Joint Task Force’s Commander, by Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari.

Mr. Buhari suggested instead that Nigeria heads the force for the period of the war against the insurgents since it was providing the bulk of troops.

Mr. Buhari had earlier argued that such a process will undermine the military’s capacity to sustain the push against the insurgents “who also have the uncanny ability to adapt and rejig their operational strategies”.

“This command will be to the effectiveness of military strategy, since Nigeria will be providing the bulk of the troops and the main theatre of the war is on Nigerian soil,” he said.

A Nigerian, Tukur Buratai, a major general, had only last week been appointed the force commander of the Multi-National Joint Task Force, The summit which held at the Presidential Conference Lodge of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja was attended by, Mahamadou Issoufou, President of Niger Republic; Idriss Deby, President of Chad; and Boni Yayi, President of Benin Republic.

The Cameroonian President, Paul Biya, was represented by Mebe Ngo’o Edgard Alain, minister delegate at the presidency in
charge of Defence Deliberations at the summit focused on The Security Situation in the Lake Chad Basin, the Immediate Operationalization of the Multinational Joint Task Force and the Adoption of Emergency Development Plan.

They were preceded by a preparatory meeting of the Ministers of Defence, the Chiefs of Defence Staff and Heads of Security and Intelligence Services of the LCBC member States and Benin.

The heads of state and government of the
LCBC and Benin Republic acknowledged with
satisfaction the success recorded on military
operations jointly conducted in the field by the coalition of the troops from Cameroun, Niger, Nigeria and Chad which have significantly broken down the military capability of Boko Haram terrorist group.

However, they agreed on the need to keep up the drive marked by solidarity in action by taking decisive measures in order to totally curb Boko Haram insurgency.

According to a communique released at the end of the one day summit, the Heads of State agreed on the need to support military operations with an emergency development plan in favour of vulnerable populations in the region in order to fight against the root causes of insecurity relating to poverty.

At the end of their deliberations, the Heads of
State also approved the Concept of Operations
Strategic and Operational and related documents of the MNJTF for the fight against
Boko Haram terrorist group.

Approval was also given for the immediate
deployment of the MNJTF HQ at N’Djamena (Chad) by implementing its human, logistic
and financial requirements as well as the
deployment of the national contingents to the
MNJTF under the operational command of the
MNJTF commander assisted by his joint
headquarters by July 30, 2015.

The leaders also approved $30million for the
installation and equipping of the MNJTF HQ.
MNJTF will require $30 million in the next one year to reduce terrorism in Nigeria’s north-east and neighbouring countries to its barest minimum, the executive secretary of the Lake Chad Basin Commission, Sanusi Abdullahi, had said on Wednesday, at the end of a two-day meeting of the Ministers of Defence and top military officials of the LCBC, in Abuja.

The leaders approved the establishment of the
executive secretariat as the headquarters of
the mission and the executive secretary of the
LCBC to be the head of mission.

It requested the African Union’s support to the MNJTF in its operations, logistics and general mission support; by mobilizing financial support.

The heads of state also resolved to seek the
support of strategic partners, notably
European Union, France, United Kingdom and
United States of America in favour of the
MNJTF.

It also requested the president of the UN
Security Council to make a declarative statement in support of MNJTF Operations against the Boko Haram terrorist group.

The Emergency Plan for Development in the
Lake Chad Basin, was also adopted at the
summit.

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Jaiz Bank Plc, has declared a profit of
N157.7 million for the financial year
ended December 2014.

By this, the bank has broken even after
three years of operations as the first
and only fully fledged non-interest
bank in Nigeria.

Chairman of the bank, Dr Umaru Abdul
Mutallab, while speaking at the bank’s
third annual general meeting, in Abuja,
yesterday said the profit was a feat
considering that there was no platform
yet for the bank to make income from
its treasury management activities due
to the absence of Sharia complaint
liquidity instruments in the market.

According to Mutallab, Jaiz Bank could
not invest in the normal treasury bills,
bonds among others as they do not meet
the ethical requirements of the bank.
He therefore called for a national Sukuk
bond, that would give them a wider
range of investment opportunities.

Also speaking, managing director and
chief executive officer of the bank,
Muhammad Nurul Islam, said the
profitability was driven by continuing
revenue growth, disciplined cost
management and lower financing
impairment expenses.

Islam said the bank limited its
expenditure growth to only 20 per cent,
even expanded its branch network from
10 to 15 during the 2014 financial year.
Shareholders of the bank, while
commending the bank for the profit,
however, called on the management to
work seriously towards recapitalising it
to fast-track its expansion to other
parts of the country.

The bank with 17 branches currently
operates as a regional bank, licensed to
operate in the north-west and north-
eastern parts of the country, and seeks
to increase the number to 25 by the end
of this year.

During the year under review, the bank
grew its total assets by about 24 per cent
from N33.9 billion in 2013 to N42 billion
in 2014.

Also, total earnings grew by 114 per cent
from N11.5 billion to N24.5 billion, while
total income increased by 220 per cent
from N915 million to N2.94 billion by
December 2014.

According to the MD, the bank provided
financing to about 1, 076 projects
valued at N22.2 billion in 2014, as
against 375 valued at N10.5 billion the
previous year.

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