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[b]Spin doctors, the ones renowned for their skills in advancing government propaganda know the wisdom of subtlety and skilful persuasion instead of unhandily and shiftily passing off barefaced lies as truth. Proselytising – even for a government with mounds of goodwill like that of President Muhammadu Buhari – requires some expertise that the administration needs to urgently learn.

[/b]The newspeak by the Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to Buhari, Garba Shehu, heralding 100 days of the administration is beyond woeful. It is full of contradictions, needless self-salutations and puerile lies. Coming from a government that is 97 days old today, one wonders what dramatic flourish they will not envision for their 365 and 1461 days.

Shehu’s piece gives the impression that his boss does not have a blueprint of what to do with victory and they are currently winging out governance. After spending years rhapsodising what they – the opposition – will do differently if they snatch power from the Peoples Democratic Party, they are fast becoming what they criticised. Their unending obsession with the PDP, the unrestrained and now boring commentary on PDP’s faults, and the constant appeal for patience now seems like a riveting distraction; to keep the public busy so they will not have to own up for their current lack of ideas and ideological offerings.




The SSA can disown ‘One hundred things Buhari will do in 100 days’ and ‘My covenant with Nigerians’ but he cannot deny that the contents of those documents were extrapolated from APC’s manifesto put out during electioneering. The wordings might not be exactly the same but the scale of promises was just as ambitious, declarative and far reaching. If we distance Buhari from his campaign promises, he at least cannot deny the promises stated in thisisbuhari.com, a document circulated in December 2014.

As the ‘ghostwriter’ of ‘My covenant with Nigerians’ noted, the document is an abridged version of the party manifesto. If ‘My covenant with Nigerians’ was not Buhari’s thoughts as is being intoned presently, why were there no debunks before now? Why wait until your 100 days report card is due? Whether Buhari’s media team authorised the documents or not matters less as to whether they are on track of fulfilling the promises they made. Shehu says he can bet his last kobo that Buhari neither saw nor authorised these documents. Sophistry has a new name and it is resident in Aso Rock.

The question is, the one he saw and authorised – the party manifesto – how far has he laid the groundwork for its realisation? How far has Buhari gone with the promise to, for instance, “initiate action to amend the Nigerian constitution with a view to devolving powers, duties, and responsibilities to states in order to entrench true federalism and the federal spirit” as stated? He does not seem to be talking of restructuring the nation to make administration less unwieldy anymore, what happened? What of the promises he made in the sectors of education, infrastructure, security, economy and yes, foreign policy? How is he driving the reforms he stated in his manifesto? By his body language or through a clear and defined vision? Does Shehu realise that after the 100 days assessment, we would soon be assessing Buhari’s one year in office? His promises remain the yardstick by which we shall measure his effectiveness.

Furthermore, Shehu should stop insulting us by telling us ‘Buhari has given the job his best shot and the whole country is saying that we never had it so good.’ Such hyberbolic statements are disrespectful to both Nigerians who voted Buhari and those who voted against him for good reasons. Where was the poll carried out where Nigerians spoke in unison and agreed that their lives are perfect now since Buhari became President? If what has been seen so far is Buhari’s best, then Nigeria is in for a long and difficult ride. And no, Buhari’s endorsement by both the US President, Barack Obama, and UN President, Ban Ki-Moon, count for nothing. Those men are politicians who say what they are supposed to say even when it is either irrelevant or banal. Obama once praised former President Goodluck Jonathan such that the man questioned – in his infamous spiel, “I am not a General, Goliath, Pharaoh or a King” why Nigerians refused to see any good in him despite those high profile commendations.

Buhari was sold to us as the man with a magic wand capable of solving Nigeria’s recurrent corruption problems. By the time I got to the part of the document that states, ‘President Buhari is being praised at home and abroad for his ongoing fight against corruption….’ I had to wonder what the ‘‘ongoing fight against corruption’’ was all about and where it was taking place. What we have had so far is propaganda and lots of noise about who and who stole what.

There is practically no ruler in Nigeria – military or democratic – that has not paid the obligatory lip service to fighting corruption. The collapse of the First Republic via the coup in 1966 happened partly because some soldiers were disgusted by the depth of the corruption in government.

There is no point asking Shehu how the documents being denied presently came into existence; we were alive when the Third Term Agenda was blamed on the printer’s devil. What Shehu owes us now is to explain what Mr. President plans to do to tackle corruption beyond the simplistic and unrealistic mantra borrowed from Narendra Modi, ‘I won’t steal and I’ll not allow others to do it!’

How does the President monitor and prevent people from stealing in a country as large and as complicated as Nigeria? If an anti-corruption agenda can work simply by whom the President permits to steal, a President like Olusegun Obasanjo would have solved the problem long ago! That was one man who hounded those who stole without permission.

Shehu, in that same press release says that ‘Buhari will turn out to be a leader in the tradition of Lee Kuan-Yu and India’s current reform-minded Prime Minister Modi… He may however differ with (sic) them by not micro-managing things.’ A President whose anti-corruption plans is about who is allowed to steal is already a micro-manager.

Shehu cannot convince us this government is serious about fighting corruption until we see their action plan. How do they plan to take the anti-corruption agenda to wards and local government levels? Is their strategy bottom-up or top-down approach?

My advice to Shehu is to take a deep breath and stop talking for a while so they can put their house in order. This administration has talked so much like a tape on repeat. The energy deployed on talking could be useful for other ventures. Nigeria is not a stranger to empty rhetoric. This government talks too much for people who are supposed to be rebuilding a vandalised country. That emphasis on talks without requisite action makes them look unserious. The APC should spend some time poring over their manifesto and reminding themselves of their promises to Nigerians. That, hopefully, might put a spring in their steps.


http://www.punchng.com/opinion/viewpoint/buharis-1461-days-what-will-garba-shehu-do/

[size=13pt]Stewpid propaganda
just to bolster Buhari's image.

No name mentioned, fake source that is not opening[/size]

ew

dialfa:
source?

See above

The IG of police, Arase, has approved the postings of Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG of police.
They are:

*Tambari Mohammed to Zone 1, Kano;
*Balla Hassan, Zone 2, Lagos;
*Mohammed Abubakar, Zone 3, Yola;
*Yahaya Ardo, Zone 4, Makurdi;
*Musa Daura, Zone 5, Benin;
*Adisa Baba Bolanta, Zone 6, Calabar;
*Ballah Magaji Nasarawa, Zone 7, Abuja;
*Lawal Tanko, Zone 8, Lokoja.
*Usman Gwary, Zone 9, Umuahia;
*Mohammed Gana, Zone 10 Sokoto;
*Kalafite Adeyemi, Zone 11, Osogbo;

Others are:
*Johnson Ogunsakin, Zone 12, Bauchi;
*Patrick Dokumor, Force Secretary;
*Mbu Joseph Mbu, Commandant Police Staff College, Jos;
*Adenrele Shinaba, Commandant, Nigeria Police Academy, Kano;
*Edgar Nanakumo, Works;
*Yerima Irimiya, Maritime Police;
*Olufemi Adenaike, Training and Development; and
*James Caulcrick, 2i/c Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department, (FCID).
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Out of #19 appointments, #11 are Northerners, including another Buhari's brother from Daura (Musa Daura), who is AIG incharge of Zone 5, Benin. While the South East, South South and South West share ONLY #8 slots.
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If you still believe Buhari is not a ‪#‎NorthernPresident‬, then you are the latest clown in town.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/igp-redeploys-mbu-18-aigs-49-cps/

[size=13pt]Remi Babalola was a
Yar'Adua minister not Jonathan's[/size]

cccxxiii:
When dis man wan born sef?

That picture is photoshopped.
You know these APC propagandists are scammers

[size=13pt]But just yesterday, Boko Haram killed 80 in Borno . . .

Hahahaha, OP is a child.
At the level of a general, it is brains that works not physique[/size]

The death toll in the attack unleashed on three Borno State villages by Boko Haram fighters has risen to 80.

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen on horseback had shot dead scores of people in separate attacks on three villages in the North-East at the weekend.

The attacks were the latest bloodbath in the six-year-old insurgency by the extremist group aimed at carving out an Islamic state in the volatile region.


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Babakura Kolo, a vigilante fighting Boko Haram, said 68 people were killed in the attack on Baanu village in Borno State on Friday while residents said another 11 people were shot dead in two other villages on Saturday and Sunday.

“Reports reached us of an attack on Baanu village late Friday where Boko Haram gunmen riding on horses opened fire on the village. Sixty-eight people were killed in the attack,” Kolo told AFP.

He said the gunmen stormed Baanu around 8.30 pm, shooting sporadically.

Baanu resident, Aisami Ari who fled the attack to Maiduguri on Saturday, also confirmed the attack and the death toll.

“The attackers came on horses around 8.30 pm and began shooting sporadically. The whole village was thrown into confusion and everybody fled. We returned after they had gone and found out they had killed 68 people in the village,” he said.

“Most of us left the village on Saturday for fear of a fresh attack,” he added.

A government official, who demanded anonymity, however put the death toll in Baanu at 56.

Kolo also said four people were killed in another attack by the fundamentalists in Karnuwa village on Saturday.

“They shot dead four people in the village, including the chief imam of the village, his son and two neighbours,” he said.

A resident, Saleh Musa told AFP of a third attack on Hambagda on Sunday where they killed seven villagers and injured five others.

“The attackers arrived on horseback around 2pm while people were praying in the mosque. They went straight to the mosque and opened fire on worshipers,” said Musa who later fled to the nearby town of Askira Uba.

“They killed seven people, while five others were injured. I was late for the afternoon prayers and I was at home preparing to go to the mosque and join in the prayers when the attack happened.”

Army spokesman in Maiduguri, Col. Tukur Gusau, and the Borno State government spokesman, Isa Umar Gusau, said they could not immediately comment on the attacks.

Boko Haram has stepped up its attacks since President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in on May 29 and the wave of violence since the regime’s inauguration has claimed more than 1,000 lives.

The extremists have carried out deadly ambushes across Nigeria’s borders and in recent weeks suicide bombers, many of them women, have staged several attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad.

Boko Haram, which is seeking to carve out a hardline Islamic state in northeast Nigeria, has killed about 15,000 people and displaced 1.5 million since 2009.

An 8,700-strong Multi-National Joint Task Force, drawn from Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon and Benin, is expected to combat the insurgents soon.


http://www.punchng.com/news/death-toll-in-borno-attacks-hits-80/

It's a shame to have the likes of Buhari as president in a 21st century
The world is moving forward while Nigeria is heading backward

BankManager:
Where's ur certificate?? Go and ask Army..
Your asset declaration nko?? Go and ask CCB...
Campaign promises nko? Go and ask APC Oh
look! Probe

Almost 100days in office, not one of his
promises has been fulfilled..
100 WASTED DAYS!!!

Hahahahahahaha . . . . bros, laugh wan kill me

[size=15pt]This govt is a shame . . . [/size]

[size=15pt]This is wickedness . . .
Buhari is a devil incarnate[/size]

Nigeria is collapsing gradually

Gradually, this zoo of a country is fading out

Fashola was one silent thief

[size=13pt]APC rode to power through lies[/size]

Naija I hail oo . . . .

I no longer take Oshiomole serious