forget oh our economy has actually come a long way if we are to be honest with ourselves

Sparkben:
Budget and National Planning Minister Udoma Udoma has said the President Muhammadu Buhari government has moved 10 million Nigerians out of poverty.



Udoma made the claim in Abuja on yesterday while unveiling plans for the 24th Nigerian Economic Summit (NES#24).





According to him, ‘‘We have taken steps towards moving our people from Poverty to prosperity. Indeed, one of the key priorities of the ERGP is investing in our people.

Read more:https://www.thevicknews.com/2018/09/i-have-moved-10m-nigerians-out-of-of.html

HE had F9 in English is that one certificate

Sparkben:

The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is disturbed over its fate and that of its standard bearer, Senator Ademola Adeleke, should the court grant the prayers of his challengers today.

Adeleke, who currently represents Osun West senatorial district, was accused of parading a forged O’level result, shortly after emerging the candidate of the party.


Recall that Adeleke was earlier challenged by two members of the party, Rasheed Olabayo and Oluwaseun Idowu.

In the suit filed on July 24, they sought an interlocutory order to set aside the election of Adeleke as the candidate of the party and to stop him from parading himself as one, insisting that he did not satisfy the constitutional requirements to contest the governorship primary.

Read more:https://www.thevicknews.com/2018/09/fake-certificate-saga-fear-grips-pdp-as.html

The worst is WIke he is quietly arming boys when him no fit pay again una go know just crying up and down that they want to kill him Mtchewwww

senatordave1:
For me, the best governor is Godwin Obaseki of Edo while the worst is Ben Ayade of Cross River.

After they say federal government is not working OYA COME AND CARRY #PMBfor2019

Malikcoker:
Aso Rocks Family Homes Fund.
Nasarawa pilot completed - 582 homes.

4000 homes ongoing in Kaduna, Ogun, Kaduna, Delta, and scheduled to start shortly in Lagos, FCT, Akwa Ibom.

The Family Homes Funds (FHF) is a 1 Trillion Naira Federal Initiative established in 2016 to deliver housing for low-income and middle-income Nigerians, nationwide.

Who says this government isn’t making efforts to impact on the masses.

The crowd that welcome ndi Money of Enugu state ������

Blah Blah Blah we will never have you as a President this traitor... No loyalty MAHN

2Ebisco:
Former Kano Governor, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso has said that the opportunity given to the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration in 2015 was not being handled properly.

Speaking during a visit to the Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu on Tuesday, Kwankwaso said Nigeria faces poverty, insecurity and other challenges because of the Federal Government’s inability to check leakages.

Senator Kwankwaso, a presidential aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general election, said: “We were thinking that Peoples Democratic Party is bad but now, we realise it is better than the All Progressive Congress.”

He added, “This is because the opportunity given to them to govern is not being handled well, we worked assiduously in 2014-2015 for APC but now, we are seeing the difference.

“The leaders lack the capacity to do certain things, that is why the country is facing insecurity and unemployment.

“Poverty is the biggest challenge in the country so we must ensure the leadership checks the leakages,” Kwankwaso said.

Source: http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2018/09/2019-kwankwaso-exposes-how-pdp-is.html

lies all this lies you are spreading e no good ohh. we dont owe a dime to China and person that believes this is just as small minded as the person that posted it

damiloladuke:
For the N3 trillion Nigeria has received from China in the last four years, every Nigerian owes China N15,000 in debt. That’s just N3,000 short of minimum wage, Daily Trust reports.

The debt comes from two huge tranches of aid from China: $3.1 billion in 2014 and $6 billion for infrastructure in the last three years, according to political analyst Theophilus Abbah.

Simple mathematics. Divide the combined total, just over N3 trillion, by the 198 million population Nigeria always talks about: that’s a nice N15,000 in debt to China for every Nigerian.

And that doesn’t even include the loan agreement signed this week in Beijing where China pledged $60 billion in credit facilities, a quarter of it interest free.

Analysts say getting governments indebted to China is the republic’s way of outsmarting the US and the UK in Africa trade

“They are active in Liberia, Ghana, Angola,” minister of state for petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, told Bloomberg.

“They are throwing money where their mouth is and in very many respect is one area where they have beaten both the US, European and British in things like this.

“Africa requires a lot of development funds; China is able to provide it. Not just provide in terms of money but provide with adequate technology.”

The implication is Africa may be unable to resist Chinese trade and international politics.

Recently, at the World Health Assembly, the US proposed watering down recommendations against breastmilk substitutes and threatened all countries who opposed its stand with sanctions.

Only Russia stood up to the US and saved the recommendation.

A United States lawmaker, Rep Chris Smith, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, said in a recent opinion article that China also uses foreign aid as a “bargaining chip” in corrupt African countries with plenty of natural resources for them to exploit.

“AidData, a research laboratory at the College of William and Mary, argued in written testimony submitted to my committee that China effectively buys the votes of African governments at the United Nations; they concluded that if African countries voted with China at the UN an extra 10 per cent of the time, they would receive an 86 per cent bump in assistance,” the lawmaker said.

Nigeria has accepted the Chinese Yuan as a reserve currency, which will begin to compete with the US dollar.

The US lawmaker lamented that the Chinese in-road into Africa could be dangerous.

“All of these trends—rising levels of debt, shoddy infrastructure projects, and investment that permits human rights abusers to consolidate their influence and power—point to serious risks for the future of the African continent.”

https://lailasnews.com/every-nigerian-owes-china-n15000-political-analysts/

Atiku clearly did not understand what Prof. Osinbajo was saying on restructuring. Atiku is just a washed up politician looking for attention and would take shots at whom ever & throwing tantrums to get it, meanwhile during Atiku's tenure as VP for 8years he could not achieve what Prof. Osibanjo had achieved #FACT

Read the real statement by Osinbajo below ��

Osinbajo addressed the issue as a stand up guy he is, but Atiku wen on to jump to another matter. @atiku Why do you like cheap publicity cause all this talk is noise to my ears please stop throwing this tantrum you are throwing ehh GROW UP!!

presidency:
Letter To The Editor, Premium Times, By Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, GCON, Vice President Of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria (Sept 4, 2018)

RE: Osinbajo Got It Wrong On Restructuring - Atiku

Dear Editor,

Kindly permit me a response to a piece in your publication, titled “Osinbajo got it wrong on Restructuring,” written, we are told, by my illustrious predecessor in office, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

First, let me say that I really would have expected Alhaji Abubakar to at least get the full text of my comments before his public refutal of my views. But I understand; we are in that season where everything is seen as fair game! He quoted me as saying that “the problem with our country is not a matter of restructuring… and we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into the argument that our problems stem from some geographic re-structuring”.

Yes, I said so.

As the quote shows, I rejected the notion that geographical restructuring was a solution to our national problems. Geographical restructuring is either taking us back to regional governments or increasing the number of States that make up the Nigerian federation.

As we all may recall, the 2014 National Conference actually recommended the creation of 18 more States. And I argued that, with several States struggling or unable to pay salaries, any further tinkering with our geographical structure would not benefit us.

We should rather ask ourselves why the States are underperforming, revenue and development wise. I gave the example of the Western Region (comprising even more than what is now known as the South West Zone), where, without oil money, and using capitation tax and revenues from agriculture and mining, the government funded free education for over 800,000 pupils in 1955, built several roads, farm settlements, industrial estates, the first TV station in Africa, and the tallest building in Nigeria, while still giving up fifty percent of its earnings from mining and minerals for allocation to the Federal Government and other regions.

I then argued that what we required now was not geographical restructuring but good governance, honest management of public resources, deeper fiscal Federalism, and a clear vision for development.

On the issue of deeper fiscal Federalism or restructuring, I explained how the then Lagos State Government, led by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, decided to fight for greater autonomy of States.

As Attorney-General at the time, it was my duty and privilege to lead the legal team against the then Federal government, in our arguments at the Supreme Court. I am sure that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar would remember these cases on greater autonomy for States that I cite below, as he was Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria at the time.

At the Supreme Court, we won several landmark decisions on restructuring Nigeria through deeper fiscal federalism, some of which our late converts to the concept, now wish to score political points on.

It was our counter-claims alongside those of other littoral States, that first addressed so comprehensively the issue of resource control. We agreed with the oil producing States that they had a right to control their resources. We argued, though unsuccessfully, that the Ports of Lagos were also a resource, which should enable Lagos State, in the worst case, to be paid the derivation percentage for proceeds of its natural resources. Years later, we also filed an action at the Supreme Court arguing that the Value Added Tax, being a consumption tax, should exclusively belong to the States.

On the issue of who, between the Federal and State governments, should have authority to grant building permits and other development control permits, the Supreme Court, by a slim majority, ruled in our favour. It held that, even with respect to federal land, States had exclusive authority to grant building or other developments control permits.

In 2004, we created 37 new local governments in Lagos State. We believed that we had a Constitutional right to do so and that in any event, a State should have a right to create its own administrative units. Several other States joined us and created theirs.

The Federal government’s response was to seize the funds meant for our local governments, thus strangulating States like Lagos, which had created new local governments. We challenged this at the Supreme Court. The court held that the President had no right under the Constitution to withhold or seize funds meant for the States. The allocations were not a gift of the Federal Government to the States. They were the Constitutional right of the States and local governments.

The court also agreed that States had a Constitutional right to create local governments, pursuant to section 8 of the Constitution, but that the creation remained inchoate until the National Assembly, by resolution, amended the existing list of local governments to capture the newly created LGs.

In response, we created by State Law, Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs), to accommodate the newly created Local Government Councils until such a time as the National Assembly would complete the process. But the Lagos State Government took up the challenge to re-engineer its revenue service, making it autonomous. With innovative management, tax collection in Lagos became more efficient, and tax revenues continued to grow geometrically. Today, the State earns more IGR than 30 States of Nigeria put together!

Further, we contested the attempts of the then Federal Government to create supervisory authority over the Finances of Local Governments by the signing into law of the Monitoring of Revenue Allocation to Local Governments Act, 2005. The Supreme Court also ruled in our favour, striking down many provisions of the law that sought to give the Federal government control over local government funding.

I have been an advocate, both in court and outside, of fiscal Federalism and stronger State Governments. I have argued in favour of State Police, for the simple reason that policing is a local function. You simply cannot effectively police Nigeria from Abuja. Only recently, in my speech at the Anniversary of the Lagos State House of Assembly, I made the point that stronger, more autonomous States would more efficiently eradicate poverty. So I do not believe that geographical restructuring is an answer to Nigeria’s socio economic circumstances. That would only result in greater administrative costs. But there can be no doubt that we need deeper fiscal Federalism and good governance.

Alhaji Atiku’s concept of restructuring is understandably vague, because he seeks to cover every aspect of human existence in that definition. He says it means a “cultural revolution”. Of course, he does not bother to unravel this concept. He says we need a structure that gives everyone an opportunity to work, a private sector driven economy. Yes, I agree. These are critical pillars of our Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP), including our Ease of Doing Business Programme.

If, however, this is what he describes as restructuring, then it is clear that he has mixed up all the issues of good governance and diversification of the economy with the argument on restructuring.

Good governance involves, inter alia, transparency and prudence in public finance. It involves social justice, investing in the poor, and jobs for young people; which explains our School Feeding Programme, providing a meal a day to over 9 million public school children in 25 States as of today. Our NPower is now employing 500,000 graduates; our TraderMoni that will be giving microcredit to 2 million petty traders; our Conditional Cash Transfers giving monthly grants to over 400,000 of the poorest in Nigeria. The plan is to cover a million households.

Surprisingly, Alhaji Atiku leaves out the elephant in the room – corruption. And how grand corruption, fueled by a rentier economic structure that benefits those who can use political positions or access to either loot the treasury or get favorable concessions to enrich themselves. This was a main part of my presentations the Minnesota Town Hall meeting.

In arguing for good governance, I made the point that our greatest problem was corruption. I pointed out that grand corruption, namely the unbelievable looting of the treasury by simply making huge cash withdrawals in local and foreign currency, was the first travesty that President Buhari stopped.

I showed the OPEC figures from oil revenues since 1990. In four years from 2010 to 2014 the PDP government earned the highest oil revenues in Nigeria’s history, USD381.9billion. By contrast the Buhari Administration has earned USD121 billion from May 2015 to June 2018, less than 1/3 of what Jonathan Administration earned at the same period in that administration’s life. Despite earning so much less, we are still able to invest more in infrastructure than any government in Nigeria’s history. The difference is good governance, and fiscal prudence.

In the final analysis, restructuring in whatever shape or form, will not mean much if our political leaders see public resources as an extension of their bank accounts.

This, I believe, is the real issue.

They know whats up

fabinfos:
The leadership of the ruling APC has devised a new pattern of political campaign using beautiful ladies, and this is working well, at least on social media.

To sway voters and ensure the return of President Muhammadu Buhari and his Vice, Yemi Osinbajo in 2019, the APC has recruited beautiful ladies to engaged in door to door campaigns.

According to rumours, a WhatsApp group has been created for the beautiful, curvy and busty ladies rocking APC-crested shirts and caps to hold meetings and mobilize others.

The ladies who are mostly attractive appear as volunteers while they are actually paid for the jobs they do for the ruling APC according to a Twitter influencer, Demola Olarewaju.

The alluring pictures of these ladies referred to as ‘Slay Queens’ have been creating the needed buzz on social media as Nigerians have been rapidly sharing them on their pages.

http://kikiotolu.com/hot-photos-of-slay-queens-campaigning-for-president-buhari-surface-online/

LMAO savage! No poster #PVCAgainstSaraki

mmb:
No Logo on his campaign poster

Thank God for all the eye opener Saraki must go

Slayedchick:
Waziri of poverty, Godfather of Offa Robbery, Kalokalo of Afonja bank looter, took ₦10billion bribe to exonerate @MTNNG from $13billion Repatriation Scam, several of the banks implicated also paid the Senate President off. Today, @MTNNG is using the Senate President to defend the scam.

Bukola has been Know to have told many lies including the case regarding the Late Yarádua State of health.

The question now is, does he deserve to be the Senate President

it is an established FACT that SARAKI is LAIR and shoul never be trusted

xtravanganza:
no more lifeless issh now saraki, who are you guys deceiving

This was a year ago but with the whole assumed great meeting he had with GEJ yesterday coming out smiling and shaking hands i'm beginning to wonder what's going on.. Perhaps he went to retrieve the oil revenue funds from him, who knows??

SolutionMee:


OK

But that still doesn't change the fact that all Nigerians know that Saraki is:

HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN THIS GUY WAS NO SAINT

Slayedchick:
N255 BILLION SCAM
• President Goodluck Jonathan at the 2015 PDP rally described Kano State governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, as a fraudster for embezzling allowances meant for party delegates during the 2010 PDP Presidential primaries.

• Jonathan further said and I quote: “Kwankwaso collected N255 billion local government federal allocation from June 2011 to date (2015) but nothing was done in the local government areas in the state.”

• Also, President Jonathan disclosed that his administration awarded N14 billion dual carriageway that would link Kano and Katsina, noting that this was in addition to two major flyovers being constructed at strategic locations in the city to aid smooth vehicular movement.

Family Fraud
In 2011, reports gathered by 247ureports.com revealed that Kano lawmakers may have “an axe to grind with Kwankwaso” over what they termed as “financial offences” committed while as a governor.

• Top on the list of the Kwankwaso’s shady deals and financial offences are the activities of the governor through his brother, Baba Musa Kwankwaso [popularly known as “Baba”] who is employed at the Kano State Housing Cooperation.

• The governor “unofficially” appointed Baba to handle all the lucrative contracts associated with the State Universal Basic Education Board [SUBEB] including the feeding contract of all State-owned boarding schools.


• It was gathered that the Executive Chairman of SUBEB, Alhaji Yakubu Adamu Wudil sacking was as a result of Baba’s undue influence into the activities of the SUBEB. He was said to be bringing written notes from Kwankwaso’s Chief of Staff, Dr Yunusa Dangwani on how to dispense contracts to Kwankwaso’s brothers and cronies. Insiders further cited a N2.8 billion classroom contracts that were awarded and allocated to Kwankwasiya associates without the Board’s knowledge.

Gov Kwankwaso, in a similar swoop, ordered all its State contractors to adhere to buying roofing zinc only from Baba Musa Kwankwaso. Baba had pre-ordered a Kwankwasiyya branded roofing sheets from China, in anticipation of getting an exclusive market since his brother (Governor Kwankwaso) “forced/mandated” all government contractors to use the type of branded zinc that he [Baba] solely sells.

Sources also gathered Kwankwaso’s wife, Salamatu as a beneficiary of the Kwankwaso’s nepotism/shady deals. Mrs Salamatu Kwankwaso produces and supplies interlocking tiles, which Kwankwaso’s government “directed” (via a circular with ref: LS/ADM/43/TP1), that owners/occupiers of properties within the metropolitan area “must be sandcreted or interlocked…” thus paving way for her company which is situated along Yahaya Gusau road to have an exclusive patronage.

FRAUDULENT SCHOLARSHIPS
In January 2017, Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State alleged that the overseas scholarship scheme of the immediate past administration of Rabiu Kwankwaso was a scam.

He alleged that instead of following due process to secure admissions for students, the government engaged the services of what he called “a contractor, who collected money improperly from both the government and the institutions, turning the whole admission exercise into a racket.

Similarly, when they want to pay the school fees, they send the money to him, to take his share, then give the rest to the institutions”, the governor claimed.

Ganduje stated that his government inherited from Kwankwaso a huge liability of unpaid scholarships for students in foreign universities, about N3 billion is still being owed to the institutions.

On local scholarships, he berated Kwankwaso for not paying the teeming Kano students for four years running, saying so far, the outstanding claim by students in private universities alone is over N2 billion, apart from the amount due to students in public universities and tertiary institutions.

MALTREATMENT OF IGBOS & SOUTHERNERS UNDER KWANKWASO

It is a known fact that Igbos used their resources, both human and financial to ensure that Kwankwaso emerged as the Governor of Kano state in 2011. But after his victory, the music changed to the consternation of political watchers.

Instead of implementing all the promises made to the people, Kwankwaso settled for using his official powers to harass and intimidate Igbos in Kano.


TOTAL NEGLECT OF THE SABON GARI AREA MAINLY INHABITED BY IGBOS
Inhabitants of Sabon Gari area contribute to about 40% of the IGR in Kano State because of the high concentration of commercial and economic activities within that area. All the public schools within Sabon Gari were abandoned and the buildings converted to commercial shops under the supervision of Kwankwoso’s Government agents.

In other words, there was no single functional public School in Sabon Gari Kano. Consequently, Southerners in Sabon Gari paid very heavily to see their children and wards through primary and Secondary Schools in Kano.

• There was no single government maternity, healthcare centres or hospitals in Sabon Gari Area. Even though Kano State has the biggest water treatment plant at Tambarawa axis, there was no single tap running in Sabon Gari area of Kano.


• Over fifty (50) roads in Sabon Gari were in very bad and deplorable conditions despite the billions of naira being generated from the Sabon Gari area. Drainages in Sabon Gari were also in very bad shape.

There was no electricity in the whole of Sabon Gari area and the inhabitants resorted to using generators permanently.

The above situation (i.e utter lack of infrastructural facilities) use of generating sets, etc caused serious ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION in the area. Thus inhabitants were exposed to health hazards.

During the celebration of Gov. Kwankwaso's 100 days in office, he said that the inhabitants of Sabon Gari should use their money to construct roads in Sabon Gari instead of building good houses…How callous could a supposed leader be?!

The non-indigenes using various platforms (Ohanaeze Ndigbo Kano State inclusive) made several unsuccessful attempts to draw the Governor's attention to the deplorable state of infrastructure in Sabon – Gari, but he remained recalcitrant to the pleas and several Save Our Soul (SOS) messages.

On the assumption of office in 2011, Gov. Rabiu Kwankwaso took the disposition of an ethnic chauvinist.

At one time, he began to promote policies that were obviously antagonistic to the wellbeing of Igbos and other non-indigenes in the state.

He set an agenda to kill and bury all the business concerns of Igbos to the glory of his own people who he believed remained backwards over the years.

Igbos were being treated as if they are not Nigerians in Kano. Igbos received this draconian agenda with utter disbelief because they voted massively for Governor Kwankwaso during the 2011 elections.

Among the numerous persecutions of Igbos in Kano include:

• Unlawful and forceful ejection of Patent Medicine Dealers from a part of Abubakar Rimi Market Sabon-Gari Kano.

Where non-indigenes bought shops at exorbitant prices from the Kano State Government at the rate of N5m to N10m.

Ask Igbos in Kano about this and you would be shocked at the details!

• Unlawful and forceful ejection of Industrial Gum/Rubber Sellers from Kofar Ruwa Market Kano where Igbos & Southerners were trading.

• Nonchalant attitude towards the security challenges, violent attacks and secret killings targeted against non-muslims and non-indigenes sanctioned by his administration.

• Inflammatory and inciting utterances plus the reaction of Gov Kwankwaso after the March 18, 2013, bomb blast at Luxury Bus Park Kano compelled most Southerners and discerning members of the public to reasonably suspect that Governor Kwankwaso was behind the bomb blast


KWANKWASO, THE RADICAL ISLAMIST EXTREMIST & HOW HE INITIATED SHARIA LAW IN KANO (2000)

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims gathered in the city of Kano 21 June 2000 for the proclamation of Islamic sharia law in northern Nigeria's most populous state -prompting fears of a fresh wave of religious violence.

As a vast crowd chanted "God is Great!" in a prayer ground in the city, Kano state officials said implementation would begin later that year. Rabiu Kwankwaso, the state governor, said: "This is a momentous day in the history of Kano state."

The declaration set the north of Nigeria more firmly than ever on a collision course with the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo who had appealed repeatedly for the Islamic code not to be enforced.

Moves earlier in 2000 to adopt sharia in the neighbouring state of Kaduna triggered Muslim-Christian clashes in which hundreds of people died.

President Obasanjo called that crisis the most serious since the Sixties' civil war over breakaway Biafra. Police struggled to control the chanting crowd at the proclamation ceremony.
Two people were crushed to death and at least 11 people collapsed from exhaustion. The state government had declared the day a holiday to reduce tensions.

Shops and major businesses, mostly operated by non-Muslims, were shut as Governor Kwankwaso smiled all through.

Local banks reported a run on deposits because of withdrawals by Southerners heading south. Observers said the flight of Christians hurt the northern economy, but he didn’t care.

Also, the repressive Hisbah police he set up alongside Sharia law to enforce it was regularly harassing, extorting and destroying Southern owned businesses as seen in this video below.

Everyday literature and children’s books perceived to be ‘western’ were routinely seized from bookshops and schools and were burnt amidst fanfare.

Here the bloodsucker of a governor was planting the seeds of Boko Haram which has eventually ravaged the North East- hating Western education which ironically he had as a postgraduate student in the UK at Middlesex Polytechnic (1982-1983) and Loughborough University of Technology (1983 -1985) where he got his master's degree in Water Engineering.

PART 1
1. I will always put Nigeria first
2. Offa robbery
3. ₦10billion bribe to exonerate MTN from $13billion Repatriation Scam
4. yaradua Health status

follow the links to find out more
https://twitter.com/SaharaReporters/status/1035084939593740293

https://www.instagram.com/p/BnGGNKUHJ56/?taken-by=lizzyempressiveness

See Theresa baby rocking our Anakara jacket, Nah dem dey rush us i dey tell you, if we no dey do well, and if government no dey try people no go dey give us all this plenty recognition to dey come here up and down, next i heard is GERMANY biko come chop some ofe onugbo

abc115:
Lifeless : Na dem dey Rush Buhari- BBC



https://www.instagram.com/p/BnEWd7Uj-mX/?hl=en

Just be ready for the real islamist Nigeria then, but Lucky enough we have our PVC against these characters NEVER will KWANKWASO RULE

Surecontents:

FORMER Kano State Governor, Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso, will officially declare his presidential ambition for the 2019 election on Wednesday, a statement by the Kwankwaso Presidential Campaign Committee, has said.

The statement, signed by a member of the committee Mr Taiwo Adekanla, was released in Abuja on Monday.

It said that Kwankwaso, a senator representing Kano Central, would join the presidential race at a rally to be held at the Eagle Square in Abuja.

The statement said that part of Kwankwaso’s policy direction if elected, would be massive infrastructural development across the country.

“It is imperative for us to embark on massive infrastructural turn-around across the country.


“This includes the judicious management of the nation’s resources without necessarily mortgaging the future of the country on excessive foreign loans and its attendant burden.

“This will eliminate insecurity in all its forms across the country and return Nigeria to the path of prosperity,” it said.

It listed some of the aspirant’s achievements as governor to include his popular “Free School Feeding Programme’’ and free uniform for primary schools, based on his ‘Kwankwasiyya’ ideology.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that if nominated by his party, it will be Kwankwaso’s second attempt at getting the presidential ticket, but on different political parties’ platforms.

First was in 2014 when he ran against President Muhammadu Buhari and others for the ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2015 election. He came second in the contest.

http://surecontents..com/2018/08/kwankwaso-to-declare-presidential.html

Buhari is more respect than Trump so hush hush

SolutionMee:
The creature below me though

Is that sarcasm or reverse psychology?

But if you're serious then you're on your own

The number one man on earth just shaded Buhari

Same man pastor Osinbanjo and Tinubu are forcing on our neck

All the yenye yenyeye i sha knew this was a fake news, cause they cant verify the sources only idle talks. If they insult our president they insult us stupid nonsense biko fllow this link to read more https://www.instagram.com/p/BnBFvucnqfL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Prettysophy:
There has been news going around concerning Trump calling Buhari lifeless. First of all, when was the visit?? It was earlier this year, April to be precise and then trump had to wait till August ending to announce it; the story doesn't even add up at all. This is just false Media propaganda. The media should really do better; they should try a lot not to spread false news or check information properly. PMB might be old but he is doing his work and that's what matters. All the "younger" and supposed more "vibrant" Predecessors didn't really do much; if you think otherwise please mention a few of their works to me. If he was lifeless he wouldn't be going for international visit with top officials to talk about the progress of the nation, if he was lifeless he would be confined to a bed. Please allow this man to enjoy himself and everyone should stop carrying about fake news. peace... What he and his administration has achieved in 3years some couldn't even achieve in 16years please let this man be, Thank you.

Follow the link to see what lifeless Buhari has been up to
https:///fKy2PBoqAd

WHy SARAKI dey fear to open house, yet he wants to run for presidency when he does not want Nigeria to function YEYE DEY SMELL

Islie:











https://punchng.com/impeachment-apc-dares-saraki-to-reconvene-senate/

NOw or tomorrow i know that this my governor hands are not clean and the law shall catch up with him, Every time his mouth will be long when it comes to spilling rubbish

hydroking23:


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/08/efcc-rivers-govt-clash-over-alleged-n117bn-fraud/

This one is just looking for attention, nah only talk him fit talk he is not relevant biko NEXT NEWS PLEASE

Limitednow:


https://www.headlineng.com/name-3-projects-initiated-started-completed-jonathans-aide-buhari/

VP too much forget it, he is comeptent loyal and well accomplished every thing he touch dey turn gold fogerrit

metronaija5:
Vice president, Prof. Osinbajo recognises beneficiary of the MarketMoni Initiative during his visit at Sangotedo.

http://www.metronaija.ng/photos-osinbajo-recognises-beneficiary-of-the-market-moni/

cc: lalasticlala mynd44

Dear Sowore why does sahara reporters keep deleting news items that dont support you or who's comments dont favour you. That is how we know you will bring curruption into Nigeria. Sowore is dead on arrival

damiloladuke:
Nigerian journalist and presidential aspirant, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and other presidential aspirants, to a debate.

Sowore is a presidential aspirant on the platform of his newly registered African Action Congress (AAC).

He said on Wednesday on Channels Television programme “Politics Today’’ that aspirants should be bold enough to participate in debates about policies and projects they will execute if they become president.

He added that young and new presidential aspirants should also be given the audience and the opportunity to challenge older aspirants through debate.

“If want you to be more serious, you should be bringing these presidential candidates to debate us.

“Buhari should be brought out. The media should force them out of their hiding. Let them come and debate the future of Nigeria,” he said.

He argued that contrary to claims, young people have come up with alternatives to the current leaders.

“These alternatives will kick out the old guards in 2019,” Sowore declared.

He stressed that younger presidential aspirants are the viable alternative and were capable of doing much more in directing affairs of the nation.

“The alternative is here, that is what we should be debating. We should be talking about the fresh ideas that we are bringing on the table.

“In Nigeria, when we have people like us who have capacity, character, and integrity. We’ve got stamina, intellect, history, and pedigree.

“Young people are here to take their country to the next level of prosperity. We want to say goodbye to poverty, incompetence and lacklustre kind of leadership.’’

https://lailasnews.com/presidential-aspirant-sowore-wants-debate-with-buhari/

WE have hear but BUhari is doing his best given the circumstances VP sha have set a pace that we cannot deny

Butterflyle0:


Buhari forecloses former DSS boss Daura’s return August 23, 2018 #THENATION

Despite pressure from some forces, including members of his kitchen cabinet, President Muhammadu Buhari has foreclosed the reinstatement of sacked Department of State Services (DSS) Director-General Lawal Daura, The Nation has learnt.

Some of the lobbyists, it was learnt, trailed the President to London to mount pressure for the reversal of Daura’s sack. He was relieved of his duties by then Acting President Yemi Osinbajo
Those against the ex-security chief’s return argued that his sack saved the nation’s democracy and boosted the Buhari administration’s democratic credentials.

The battle has since shifted to the Presidency, over the search for a new Director-General.
Some favour the retention of the office in the North. Many want acting DG Mathew Seiyefa to be confirmed to prove a point that the President has a national outlook.

The argument for Seiyefa is borne out of his having less than one year to retire. He has spent 34 years in service. A source, who spoke in confidence, said: “The forces pushing for Daura’s reinstatement have lost the battle because the President has foreclosed his return.

“The President has no plans to bring back Daura under any guise. He believes this administration is one and will not overrule his deputy. He is a man of discipline and not an ethnic bigot.
“What happened is that some ministers, a few kitchen cabinet members and influential people close to the President sneaked into London to meet with Buhari to overturn Daura’s sack.

“They alleged that Prof. Yemi Osinbajo sacked Daura before informing the President who was on vacation, said the source, who added:

“They were not aware that the President and the Vice President had discussed the fate of Daura and some security chiefs at least two weeks before the President proceeded on vacation in London. The two leaders had agreed on the need to effect a few changes.

“Osinbajo acted in line with the template set by his boss and acted appropriately.”
It was leaent that while in London, “a former Head of State and a minister in the kitchen cabinet advised the President to ignore these influential forces pushing for Daura’s return in view of the democratic mileage the administration scored with his removal after the unauthprised invasion of the National Assembly by hooded DSS operatives.

“The ex-Head of State warned on the diplomatic and international implications of reinstating Daura. The Minister also minced no words in confronting those who wanted the ex-DG back in office.” A source in government also gave insights into Daura’s removal.

The source said “while it is true that the Vice President sacked Daura before informing the President, it was in line with the earlier decision by the two leaders to tinker with the security apparatchik. “There was a template which the President would have worked on after the vacation which Osinbajo implemented.

Osinbajo informed the President of the action he took and the President endorsed it because the Presidency is one.”
“So, when Daura acted against democratic norms, he was invited to the Presidential Villa by the Acting President.

While seated in a part of Osinbajo’s office, waiting to see the VP, his removal.
“He was then escorted out of the back exit of the VP’s wing to a safe house for debriefing. There were no altercations in any manner between the VP and Daura.”


On the sucession matter, a security source said: “It is either the retention of Seiyefa or appointment of a new person as the substantive DG. For Seiyefa, who has less than a year left in service, this is the second time, he will be closer to clinching the job.”

Seiyefa In 2010, he lost to former DG Ita Ekpenyong, who was said to have been preferred by former President Goodluck Jonathan. Some “forces” are said to be pushing for a northern candidate to succeed Daura, but others in the kitchen cabinet have made a strong case for Seiyefa to prove a point that Buhari has a national character contrary to the accusation by some politicians that he is an ethnic bigot.

“ Seiyefa and three other Deputy Directors-General in the DSS are eminently qualified for the job. But Seiyefa is the most senior and for a service where hierarchy matters, he is first among equals,” the source said, noting however that “if Buhari goes out of the service to pick a new DG, it might lead to his exit and that of other three Deputy Directors-General”.

http://thenationonlineng.net/buhari-forecloses-former-dss-boss-dauras-return/amp/

Osinbajo for president every where you go you are doing well NAH YOU WE KNOW

metronaija5:
Vice president, Prof. Osinbajo recognises beneficiary of the MarketMoni Initiative during his visit at Sangotedo.

http://www.metronaija.ng/photos-osinbajo-recognises-beneficiary-of-the-market-moni/

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No chance in hell will anyone vote Saraki, NASS he cannot properly rule no talk less of Nigeria our beloved country. Saraki just mechionu there that presidency dream is dead on arrival

GOATandYAMtheory:



http://saharareporters.com/2018/08/20/apc-saraki-will-rather-rule-hell-serve-paradise

I am waiting till the day peaceful free and fair election can be run in my state too many PDP thugs

KenOne:
Nigerians see for yourself the results that came out from some polling units in Saturday's by-election in Port Harcourt constituency 3.

The moment Wike got wind of the results coming out that APC is trashing PDP mercilessly he deployed his chief security adviser (CSO) with security men in government house to disrupt the process.

Others in the frame to disrupt the process includes the chairman of Port Harcourt local government with thugs and his security details caught on camera.

These results must stand no matter how hard Wike tries to rubbish the process and ridicule the police and other security agencies deployed for the re-run.

INEC suspended collation late Saturday night to commence the next morning Sunday but that never happened and we hear Wike is putting pressure on INEC to cancel the already declared results.

Once again those crooners of South-South is PDP and PDP is South-South can see the results with their eyes and Wike's desperation.

I won't even be surprised if it is a Kenyan that came here to write all this. No body is dragging anything with you people. We are who we are deal with it NIGERIA 4LIFE MHENNN

TonyeBarcanista:
I am saddened by the continuous act of some of my compatriots to always engage in social media fight with fellow Africans, most notably our brothers and sisters from Ghana and Kenya.

It is even unfortunate that these countries Nigeria youths love to abuse on social media are doing better than our potentially great country in virtually all sphere despite the fact that we(as a country) have more revenues, potentials, and opportunities. If Nigerians are not aware of the superiority(in terms of living) of other Africans over us, I will have to educate them using Kenya as a case study.

While Nigerians have always pride in the self titled "African Giant" rhetoric, facts on ground shows otherwise. Though we generate more revenue than Kenya, which is 70% due to the gift of nature under our soil(Petrodollars), Nigerians still lag behind greatly in basic things when compared to the East African giant.

According to 2015 data from World Health Organisation, Nigeria's male and female life expectancy are 52years and 56 years respectively, meaning an average Nigerian is expected to die before he/she turns 60. Meanwhile, the expectancy for Kenyan male and female are 61 and 66 years respectively. Similarly, while Nigeria has the 10th highest infant mortality rate worldwide with average 72 deaths per 1,000 birth, Kenya's infant mortality rate is rated 52nd in the world with average 32 deaths per 1,000 births. This means it is safer to give birth in Kenya than in Nigeria, and an average Kenyan living in Kenya is expected to live longer than an average Nigerian living in Nigeria.

Though Nigeria has more tourism potential than Kenya, but Kenya is one of the choice destination for vacation in East Africa. While Nigeria managed to rake in $601 million as Tourism receipt(Revenue) in 2014, Kenya raked in $1.833 billion in the same year. Nigeria can't even boast of a National carrier meanwhile Kenya Airways, the National Carrier of Kenya boasts of 45 Aircrafts in their fleet with 4,000 workforce strength. In addition, Kenya Airways is reputed to be one of the best in Africa.

In Africa, Kenya is the leader of Mobile money. Nigeria is still still battling to get it right in the ICT sector with poor infrastructure, lack of power, lack of political will, and fantastically corruption.

At present Nigeria is experiencing recession in her economy, one would expect Nigerians to shun frivolties and seek for ways to turn the recession to prosperity instead of wasting productive hours fighting our African brethren over irrelevances. Why would one who is rationing his/her phone battery life due to epileptic power supply still spend the little battery life s/he got through his/her generator to abuse someone in Nairobi who is neither rationing his/her phone battery life nor is depending on generating set for power? There is no trophy or reward for social media fight, Nigerians should stop sending the wrong image to the world that our greatness lies in social media wars.


Nigeria is a great country with potentials, filled with great prospects, but we can never be great if we don't channel our time and resources to fix our country.

A word should be enough for the wise... May God Bless Us All, and Bless Nigeria

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RESOURCES: http://world.bymap.org/InfantMortality.html
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ST.INT.RCPT.CD
http://www.who.int/countries/nga/en/
http://www.who.int/countries/ken/en/

prices have sha reduced but it will get lower by God's grace

8Ebisco:
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad on Thursday declared that the prices of foodstuff have reduced.

He said this while reacting to a report by the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, claiming that there had been a reduction in the prices of foodstuff recently.

Ahmad claimed that a bag of Maize which was sold for N15, 000 was now selling for between N12,000 to N15,000.

In a tweet, the Presidential aide noted that a measure of maize was now being sold for N120 as against N150.

He also noted that Nigeria’s inflation rate had also fallen from 11.23 to 11.14 percent.

“Prices of food stuff crashes. A survey conducted by NAN in some part of Nasarawa State on Wednesday revealed that the prices of maize and local rice have reduced but that of foreign rice still maintains its rate.

“A bag of maize is now selling for between N13,000 and N12,000 as against N15,500 it was sold last three months, while a measure now costs about N120 down from about N150 previously.

“Nigeria’s Inflation yesterday fell from 11.23 to 11.14% for month of July,” he tweeted.

http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2018/08/prices-of-foodstuff-have-crashed.html