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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP3IvyJuG2M

China and Russia are to build the world’s biggest thermal power plant with an 8 gigawatt capacity. The Erkovetskaya TPP project in Russia’s Amur region could cost up to $24 billion, and will export energy to China where domestic demand is high.

The plant will be developed by Eastern Energy Company, a subsidiary of Inter RAO, the Russian state-run power utility, Vedomosti newspaper reported.

The plant will supply 30-50 kilowatts per year, which is about 5 percent of the Russian Federation's total current production, General director of Eastern Energy Company, Mikhail Shashmurin told Vedomosti.

It will cost between $7.5 and $12 billion, according to Natalia Porokhova, an energy analyst at Gazprombank. Talking to another Russian newspaper Kommersant, Sergey Beiden from Otkrytie Financial Corporation estimated the cost to be between $12.5 - $24 billion.

At first a 5 gigawatt project was in the works, but at the request of the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), the joint venture will look at “additional exploration,” Shashmurin said. To deliver the energy to Beijing, where demand is strongest, an estimated 2,000 km of transmission lines will need to be installed.

A framework agreement was signed in 2013 between the two state-owned companies which explored the possibility of building power plants in Russia’s Far East with the goal of exporting 40-50 billion hours to China. The final decision will come from China’ Committee of Development and Reform, and will include a 5-year draft economic plan. The Chinese want to be shareholders, and according to Shashmurin, could own up to 49 percent in the project.

The first long-term power contract with China was inked in 2012, and stipulated 100 billion kilowatts of supply over 25 years to the Heilongjiang province. In 2013, Inter RAO delivered 3.39 billion kilowatts to China, Shashmurin said.

Inter RAO halted exports to China in February 2007 after Russia increased duties on Chinese sales. Trade resumed in 2009.

The Russian Far Eastern Amur region was devastated by floods last summer, with nearly 100,000 people were affected, and thousands of homes submerged. There was great concern that a heat power plant in Khabarovsk would be submerged by flood water. When floods hit in 2007, the reservoir of the Zeya hydroelectric plant nearly overflowed.

Russia’s biggest natural gas producer, Gazprom is negotiating gas delivery with CNPC.

http://rt.com/business/china-russia-thermal-plant-671/


shame on Nigerian government, the $24 Billion will provide 8 gigawatt which is = 8000 megawatt

TheCable: Do you believe in resource control?

Buhari: Who is to control what? All this is said mainly on petroleum because it is what Nigeria depends on. It gives us at least 90% of our foreign revenue at the great danger of ignoring agriculture and solid minerals, which Nigeria has great potentiality in. In fact, in my declaration speech, I emphasised the question of agriculture and solid minerals. For employment of youth generally, we have to go into agriculture very fast and solid minerals to complement the petroleum industry and stop the illegal oil bunkering and outright theft.

And we see what we can do with education, the standard of education, and the lack of it in parts of the country, especially the north. I believe some generations have been betrayed because if people fail to go to school or become dropouts before they go to university or tertiary institutions, and without going to training schools to become electricians, bricklayers, mechanics, and so on, we have really destroyed their lives. I was listening to a programme now, from the BBC, there are 64 million Nigerians that have missed education. 64 million.

Now, out of the population of a 160 or 170 million, you have a youthful chunk that has missed education. We can only take them to agriculture, solid minerals, give them quick training, for them to get employment and a means of living because you can't say you're going to send them to polytechnics, and universities that are overcrowded, lack of infrastructure, no equipment, no qualified teachers. Oh God! We're in very, very bad shape. Nigerians need to know we are in very, very bad shape.

TheCable: Do you think there is a need to restructure the federation?

Buhari: To start with, those who are clamouring for more states, I think they are exploiting the ignorant people of their respective constituencies. Look at the overheads, try and observe a meeting of governors' forum and see the number of expensive vehicles costing more than N10 million a piece [that they bring to the venue]. How many of them? Again, look at the vehicles the police and the military are using for their operations in the north-east. Consider their maintenance and cost of fuelling. We are extremely wasteful. Really, the Nigerian elite have to sit up because we are throwing our resources down the drain.

Let me tell you. I went to the United Kingdom for training as a motor transport officer in 1965. What I discovered in the British army, all the vehicles are properly registered, from motorcycle to aircraft, each one has a book, and that book is the recommendation by the manufacturer of how to maintain it, and successive commanders, from bottom to top, either monthly, quarterly or yearly have to sign that book certifying that those machineries are being maintained according to the specifications provided by the manufacturers.

If you give it to the Nigeria police or army now for their Toyota vehicle which is supposed to last 10 years, some of them don't last 18 months. We are extremely wasteful at the expense of our country. For you to bring the culture of sustained development, the elite must wake up because if the country collapses, they are the first victims. They are the ones with air-conditioned rooms, generators and can afford to go abroad to get treatment. If the country collapses, I'll like to see where they will go. The elite need restructuring (general laughter).

TheCable: Some people say the quota system and federal character no longer have a place in Nigeria, that originally they were meant to equalise the states, but that now virtually every state has educated people, that the field should be thrown open. What's your position on this?

Buhari: I think it is important in the federation when you come to the centre, it is better for people to feel that they too are participating at the centre. But it must not be at the expense of standards. Any geopolitical zone or state, if they want their people to participate at the centre, must ensure they can compete professionally. You can't take somebody who did not go to school or who said he went to the university but cannot write a two-page memo, to become a permanent secretary. How will he do it? How can he articulate policies that will be taken to executive council to be debated by ministers? We really have a problem. We have to remove sentiments and not excite or provoke our constituencies that they have to participate. You can only participate if you develop the capacity to participate.

TheCable: So it should not be at the expense of merit?

Buhari: Exactly! If you want your state to participate you must make sure you do something about education in your state. That you can produce qualified people to participate. But because you are part of Nigeria, you kill education in your state and you want your child to be taken and made permanent secretary even though he cannot write his name.

TheCable: We know you as an honest and upright man but in a democratic setting you have to deal with the National Assembly and the judiciary. How do you fight corruption within these constraints?

Buhari: As I just mentioned to you, if you go to any ministry or parastatal in Nigeria you will not fail to find out financial instructions and administrative instructions. Schedule of officers, expenditure, tenders board, but Nigerians put it in the waste basket and do their own thing. And because leadership has been compromised at various levels, if you are a personal assistant and chief clerk and your head of department knows that you are a thief, he cannot stop you from stealing. These are Nigerians, we know what is wrong with us. That is why I am putting the blame squarely on the shoulders of the elite. We have a constitution and all sorts of laws... let us revisit them. Let us move forward and stabilise the system. I am very concerned about stabilising this system.

TheCable: You said you were not going to run again in 2011. People are now using it against you. What has changed?

Buhari: The moment I made this statement, in my party and among those who support me, hell was technically let loose. And I think I wrote a letter where I mentioned some people who told me I cannot do that. Luckily for me or the system, I did not say I was abandoning partisan politics. What I said was that I would not present myself for elective office, but people told me I could not do that because to some people I no longer belong to myself, I belong to them. People really, including technocrats that were out or still in government, came to me and said if you say you are remaining in partisan politics, then you have to present yourself. It is now up to those who are backing you to come out and support you.

And if this declaration is anything to go by, going by the number of people that came to the event, I am impressed. That crowd cannot be rented. And when the ruling party conducted its TAN the following day, they were only limited to the podium. There was nobody elsewhere. The amount of people who came from the south for my declaration was amazing. It's just because we all dress as Nigerians, you won't know. People were sleeping on the streets of Abuja just to come and witness the declaration. Just declaration.

TheCable: Critics are saying that with politicians like former Bayelsa governor, Timi Sylva, who is currently undergoing trial, supporting you, your hands will be tied as president to deal decisively with corruption. What do you say to that?

Buhari: I think I have partly answered that question. You have to draw a line. I firmly believe since there is a case in the court, you have to let the process take its course. If you start interfering with the court then you are asking for confusion. But the important thing is to understand the role of the court and make it clear to the judiciary that you don’t like any lowering of standards, you know, like these laws are for these states and for these members of one party only. People can give you so many examples now where some people don't get prosecuted.

At the beginning of this discussion we talked about the hearings, pension funds, NNPC, NEPA and the attempt by the National Assembly [to question security chiefs] when soldiers started talking to the press that they were sent to the front without proper weapons and ammunition. The way state institutions have been compromised, if you say you are going to dig, you keep digging until you finish your term and you will not reach the water level. This is the fact. You cannot tamper with the judiciary. Even in a military government, you only suspend parts of the constitution to legitimise yourself. The judiciary must still interpret the rest of the constitution.

TheCable: There are fears in certain quarters that if you don’t get APC’s ticket you may not back whoever wins the ticket. Is it true?

Buhari: No. I promised to stabilise the system. My definition of stabilising the system is this: what is in the electoral act and what is the constitution of the party? We must religiously follow them. Because as long as we refuse to develop the discipline, to respect laws, to be law-abiding, so long the confusion in the country will continue and so long sustained development will be impossible. If you make a law, you have to obey it. If you want to change it you have to go through the processes and change it. So you don’t make nonsense of laws and the constitution itself.

TheCable: So others should rest assured even if you don’t get the ticket that you will work for the party?

Buhari: I would work for the party because I didn’t say I’m jettisoning partisan politics. It is not quite right.

TheCable: And there is this sensitive issue of Muslim-Muslim ticket...

Buhari: You see, Nigerians will always discover impossible room for manoeuvre for politicians. I had to face one of the governors in our party’s meetings. I told you I joined partisan politics in April 2002. In 2003, I was given a ticket. Whom did I chose as my running mate? Chuba Okadigbo. He was brought up by Zik. And he was senate president and was a serving senator when he accepted to be my running mate. He was a Roman Catholic. He was an Igbo. In 2007, whom did I pick? Edwin Ume-Ezeoke. He was a Roman Catholic. He was an Igbo. And in 2010, I even chose a pastor. Pastor Tunde Bakare. Honestly, what do Nigerians want me to do? If they don’t believe I’m not a fundamentalist, what also can I do?

In any case, who attempted to kill me? Is it Boko Haram or who because I told them they were ungodly? Again I repeated it during my declaration that they are ungodly. Because no religion advocates hurting the innocent. No religion. So if you go and kill children while they are sleeping, blow people up in churches, in mosques, in the market place, and motor park, you can't say "Allau Akbar". Because "Allau Akbar" means God is great. Now if you believe God is great, he says you must not hurt the innocent. There must be a justice system, investigations... if you find people guilty, punish them. So, you either don't believe that God is great, or you don't know what you are saying. Is it for this that they attempted to blow me up? Or somebody else did it?

So the question of this Muslim-Muslim ticket, although it was a long way from Abiola and Kingibe [in 1993], all the same, I have not absolutely closed my mind to picking a Christian or Muslim as running mate if I get the ticket. Because I firmly believe that Nigerians, having gone through what they have gone through, realise it is not a matter of religion, but a matter of Nigeria. And the main religions, Christianity and Islam, they know and they believe in the almighty God. The question of stealing and short-changing people in the name of religion should stop. Why did Nigerians line up and elect Abiola and Kingibe, both Muslims? The late Joseph Tarka, in a clearly Roman Catholic environment, brought Ibrahim Imam from Borno, to his constituency to represent Tivland in the Northern House of Assembly in 1961. This new phenomenon of religion is another blackmail political confusionists in Nigeria are bringing to the fore.

I will tell you something. Tinubu's wife is a Christian, Governor Fashola’s wife is a Christian, Governor Amosun’s wife is a Christian, Bisi Akande’s wife is a Christian, Governor Ajimobi's wife is a Christian. For goodness sake, the children of these political leaders in Nigeria were bred and brought up by Christian mothers. You think those people, wherever they participate, they will bring a religious issue? What kind of people are we? Nigerians will always bring something to cause confusion while we are trying to stabilize the system.

General Muhammadu Buhari and the Editors of TheCable
TheCable


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eCable: Why should Nigerians prefer you to any other candidate in the presidential race?

Buhari: We need to stabilise the system. And the beauty of democracy is competition. I honestly welcome the competition. I have tried to be elected president three times and I failed three times, and I ended up in the Supreme Court three times. I try to explain to those who are interested why I have been ending up in the Supreme Court. Not because I was hoping that the court would change the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announcing that it was the PDP that won, but I wanted to get it on the record that when we are trying to stabilise this system, these are part of the difficulties. We provided evidences at the tribunals. There are people who try really to see that the system stabilises, to make sure it reaches credible and international standards. That is a role I have been trying to play all along.

Muhammadu Buhari
TheCable: So what qualities stand you out from other candidates?

Buhari: That is an unfair question. I would not like to blow my own trumpet. But I think Nigerians are the judges. The only thing I would say is that I have been a governor. To begin with my career as a military man, from lieutenant colonel, that is one pip, in charge of 36 people, to a general commanding a division... I am proud to say that I am the only officer in the Nigeria army that commanded three out of the four divisions then in the Nigeria army: the second division in Ibadan, the third armoured division in Jos and the fourth division in Lagos, which was moved to Enugu and renamed 82 division. I commanded three divisions out of the four. And then I became command-in-chief, as short as it was, for 20 months.

And politically, I was governor of the northeast, which is now six states, comprising Yobe, Borno, Adamawa, Gombe, Bauchi and Taraba. From there, when Gen. Murtala Muhammed was assassinated [in 1976], and there were additional states in the country and I was moved to Lagos, I was sworn in as member of the Supreme Military Council under Obasanjo's government and then made federal commissioner of petroleum and chairman of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). And from there I went to the War College in the US, came back and became head of state. And I ended up in jail for three and a quarter years (general laughter). After that, I went home and I decided to join partisan politics in April 2002. So anything a Nigerian politician wants to be, I have been, although in khaki. So I have been attempting since 2003 to go back in civil dress and play partisan politics.

TheCable: A lot of people are saying the problems of Nigeria are so many now, more than what you met in 1983 as military head of state. If you were elected president, what would you do differently from President Jonathan on power supply, for instance? How can we tackle this problem?

Buhari: It cannot be done overnight. The hearings conducted by the National Assembly on NEPA or Power Holding Company of Nigeria, of blessed memory, pension fund and petroleum industry show the extreme mismanagement of what Nigeria stands for... because if you remove petroleum industry, if you remove the organisation of pension funds and power, Nigeria will collapse. I refer you to my declaration that in 1999 when the PDP came, power generation was hovering between 3,000 and 4,000 megawatts. It is now hovering between that number again after $20 billion had been spent. This is what the hearings exposed. And nobody has been punished.

What happened to the $20 billion? What happened to pension funds? What happened to another $20 billion exposed by a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria [Lamido Sanusi]? All these things the PDP governments between 1999 and now have not been able to explain to Nigerians. And the remarkable thing about Nigeria is that: because having been a minister, governor and head of state, you do not go to any parastatal or any ministry without meeting financial instructions and administrative instructions, but Nigerians have the audacity at each level to cast that away and keep doing what they like. And no one is being punished.

TheCable: Would you like to dig up the report before we move forward?

Buhari: If you try to do that, the state will immediately collapse because a lot of the institutions have been compromised. With whom are you going to work? My own belief now is that you just have to draw a line and move forward. But since cases are in the court no matter what, you have to allow the judiciary to do its job. We can hurry them up a bit, but we must allow the judiciary because it is not a profession you can take over their duties. It is the third arm of government. We can come as the military as we did and remove some parts of the constitution, but most of the constitution have to remain and again it is the judiciary that will have to interpret what remains.

But in a democratic setting, you cannot do what the National Assembly and the Judiciary are empowered by law to do. It is impossible. And look again, when our soldiers started giving interviews to the foreign press that they were being sent to the war front [against Boko Haram] with obsolete weapons, the National Assembly attempted to call the service chiefs and show them the budgets they have been approving over the years for arms and ammunition and for military hardware and software. Where is the money? Have you heard of the hearing again?

TheCable: What do you think they are doing wrong in the power sector?

Buhari: If you could recall, after 1983 elections, NEPA virtually collapsed. But when we came in 1984-1985, we had the late Lukman, an engineer. He was in Plateau when I was working as GOC 2 Armoured Division. I got to know him. He was an extremely truly hardworking engineer of great integrity. I put him in charge of NEPA. If you could recall, I did the tour of NEPA installations and some industries. And we ordered some spare parts mostly of the thermal station and we were using the military C130 aircraft to bring spare parts.

By the time we were removed in August 1985, blackout in Lagos had been forgotten because the thermal station had been made functional. Lagos was the home of industries. Industries were given priority because of employment. If you close the factories, as they have done now, there will be no goods and services. Power is the most important thing for our sustained development. But unfortunately, the PDP government has failed to understand or accept that. Hence money, billions of dollars, goes down the drain.

If from 1999 till now, in my own perception, Kainji, Jebba, Shiroro had been repaired and brought to optimal usage, and we do the thermal stations... it is a question of changing spare parts because the gas is there. The studies of Nigerian petroleum, the studies of 1970s when I became minister of petroleum, showed that Nigeria was a petroleum country in name; mostly it is a gas country. In the east of the Niger, the gas reserve there was fantastic. That was why LNG project was initiated. You cannot initiate LNG except you have a 30-year reserve to back you up. But this means nothing to the PDP government. It is not a priority. That's why we find ourselves where we are.

TheCable: What's your position on petroleum industry bill?

Buhari: I know the PIB is a non-issue as far as this government is concerned. So I am telling you practical things that will transform the economy [beyond the PIB]. I will tell you one thing about industries. The Nigerian textile firms in Ikeja, Aba, Kaduna, Kano, they used to employ over 300,000 Nigerians in the 1980s. Now they employ less than 30,000. A serious government would get worried if over 250,000 in one industry are put out of job. Because behind every Nigerian worker are five dependants. This is my problem with PDP government. Unseriousness. That is the textile industry alone.

TheCable: Part of the key recommendations in the PIB is deregulation that will lead to the removal of petrol subsidy. Removal of subsidy is sensitive issue. How do you hope to handle that if you are elected president?

Buhari: When we came into power, technically in December 1983 but we started in 1984, I had been part of Obasanjo's government in petroleum. Nigeria handed over to the second republic government a relatively physically-secure and economically-safe country. I can't recall exactly how much foreign reserve we had, but there was physical security and the economy was good. That is what the military handed over to the second republic.

By the time the military came back and I happened to be the head of state, if anybody told you that he knew how much Nigeria was owing, it was a lie. So we had two committees, one international and the other local, to find out the debt Nigeria had accumulated over those years and how. This report has never seen the daylight because up to the time we were removed, it was not brought to us. But when it was eventually brought, by which time I was safely under lock and key, nobody could do anything about it.

Secondly the American president then, Ronald Reagan, sent his friend, General Walters, to me saying we should accept the IMF programme. What was the IMF programme then? World Bank and IMF wanted us to remove the so-called petroleum subsidy, to devalue the naira, to remove the subsidy on flour, as they perceived it. But what we knew was that in some of the states, workers were being owed nine months salaries. I was in Plateau state and I saw the so-called progressive governors crisscrossing this country almost every other month, making a lot of noise when the ordinary worker was not being paid.

I told Walters we were not going to devalue the naira; we were not going to remove any subsidy. And if you recall by the time we were removed, one naira was equal to 1.2 or 1.5 dollars. The naira was run down to N80 to a dollar by General Babangida's regime. I refused to remove the so-called petroleum subsidy. I said I had been in the petroleum industry for three and a quarter years. I signed the contracts for Warri and Kaduna refineries. I signed the contract for more than 20 depots, from Makurdi to Ilorin to Gusau to Kano to Maiduguri. And then pipes were laid over 3,200 kilometres. Nigeria didn't borrow a kobo.

I can understand Nigerians being charged the cost of petroleum if you can work it out... because we know how Nigerian crude costs per barrel from the world market, the transportation cost to the refinery, the money for refining and then the transportation to the filling station. I agree Nigerians should pay for that to sustain the industry.

But for someone to say they are subsidising, who is subsidising who? This industry, the prospecting and development, were paid for by the Nigerian people. We spent money to discover the oil. Who then is subsidising who? To come and kill Nigerians, you know, to put that amount of burden on them when their salary is hardly enough for them to eat, pay for their bill of their healthcare, and education of their children. Who are you subsidising? It is Nigerian petrol, it is Nigerian capital that was used to mine it, it is Nigerians doing most of the work, so who are you subsidising? Subsidy for what?

And even then, if you go and interview Tam David-West, when I came back as head of state, and we stopped [illegal] bunkering, Nigeria was choked with product. We were exporting 100,000 barrels per day of refined products because Warri, Kaduna, Port Harcourt alone was doing 250,000 a day, the old refinery and the new one built... and we found out Nigeria was normally consuming about 300,000 barrels a day. All the people that were doing the [illegal] bunkering abandoned their jetties, their barges, because they knew who were sending them to jail or beyond. But now, Nigeria goes to world market and buys petrol as much as any other person does with all the infrastructure in place. That is how efficient the PDP government is (laughter).

TheCable: Some of your allies in APC believe in fiscal federalism, resource control and restructuring of the federation. What is your position on these issues?

Buhari: The important thing is to change Nigeria. And with the economy which is almost down and out, how can you bring sustainable economic development? There is the terrible problem of youth unemployment. The first one is security. Nigeria has to be secure and efficiently managed. This cannot be done overnight. Nigerians have to be prepared, at least from 2015 to maybe about 2018 to really work extremely hard. We have to work extremely hard because a lot of institutions have been compromised. Education down, infrastructure down, security almost non-existent.

So for anybody to come and create the impression that he can work wonders [is a lie]. Nigerians have to be prepared to suffer for at least five straight years before we can stabilise this country, security wise and economically because so much damage has been done. And Nigerians are feeling it. No matter how much you like Nigerian voters, if you lie to them they will know, because so much damage has been done. But we can quickly recover as we showed between 1984 and 1986 until the naira was killed, literally. We were recovering.

NL am suspecting APC will have Buhari as the party presidential candidate and Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, as his running

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Shettima: ‘No comment for now’
By Henry Umoru, NDAHI MARAMA
ABUJA- FORMER Inspector- General of Police and Chairman, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomasie, IGP, rtd said yesterday that for the Federal government and members of the Boko Haram sect to have a genuine ceasefire, there must be the involvement of a neutral and international body.
Speaking with Vanguard yesterday, Coomasie who served on the just concluded National Conference was however sceptical of the ceasefire, just as he asked of the persons involved in the process, adding that the insurgency has gone out of hand, which would need a genuine and sincere handling.
He said, “the issue of Boko Haram has gone out of hand, when it started, we asked for amnesty, nothing happened, what are the terms of reference for the ceasefire, who are those persons involved, who is brokering the peace, is it an international body, are we talking to the right people? We have lost many lives. If there must be ceasefire, we need an international body that must be neutral.”
Also Governor Kashim Shettima whose State, Borno has been at the centre of Boko Haram attacks since 2009, said he has no comment for now over the reports, noting that he would speak at an appropriate time.
Media associate to the Governor, Isa Gusau who spoke on the Governor’s behalf yesterday said, “hundreds of journalists, local and International have been making inquiries following widely circulated reports about a cease fire over Boko Haram attacks.
“Governor Kashim Shettima has no comment for now regarding the issue. He would make comments at an appropriate time. Governor Shettima has always believed in tripartite approach that involves dialogue for peaceful resolution, military and economic strategies in addressing the Boko Haram problems and he has been a strong advocate of this measure through his practical efforts, sustained public appeals at various fora, which was why he firmly supported the efforts initiated by the President, Goodluck Jonathan through the setting up of the Tanimu Turaki led committee on dialogue and peaceful resolution of security challenges, in 2013 which worked actively and remained in force.
“Governor Shettima is permanently committed to all genuine efforts that would bring the insurgency to an end especially given the fact that Borno State and its people have remained the worse hit bu the unfortunate killings and destructions since 2009″. Gusau stated
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l Progressives Congress (APC) presidential hopeful, General Muhammadu Buhari, said today it was evident that President Goodluck Jonathan knows he has not done enough for Nigerians to vote for him again since 2011.


A statement by APC spokesman Rotimi Fashakin asserted that Mr. Jonathan knows that he has run an exclusive government laden with scandals of grand larcenies in many institutions.

“For the first time, impunity reached all- time high with the famous Fayose-led desecration of the Courts of Justice in Ekiti state under the watchful eyes of security forces,” Fashakin’s statement read.

According to Fashakin General Buhari reiterated that the Jonathan government is the most corrupt in Nigeria’s chequered history and underscored the general’s resolve to forge ahead with a presidential run despite carefully-woven insidious commentaries against him.

“He is hopeful that, with the support of the long-suffering Nigerian people, the APC government under his guardianship shall sweep away the fecklessness of the PDP in the February, 2015 elections.” Fashakin added in the statement.

Full text of the press statement:

The unfortunate riposte from Jonathan’s regime

That the Jonathan government is the most corrupt in Nigeria’s chequered history has never been in doubt, what has become, clearly intolerable, is the predilection of this administration for shameful revisionism, denial of the truth and unpatriotic divisiveness.

Whilst it is not our desire to bandy words with this administration that is steeped on perilous leadership of the Nation, we feel a deep sense of responsibility to present the facts again for the perusal of discerning Nigerian People.

On Wednesday, 15th October, 2014, while declaring his intention (before a mammoth crowd of faithful Nigerian supporters), General Muhammadu Buhari (GMB) stated, inter-alia: “The economy continues to deteriorate while the Government continues to announce fantastic growth figures but manufacturing is down, agriculture is down, commerce is down

Simply because you sell oil and steal part of the money does not entitle you to cook figures and announce phantom economic growth when all the major indices namely, Employment, Manufacturing, Farming, Trading are demonstrably on the decline. “

Expectedly, the Goodluck Jonathan presidency, rather than giving truthful response to the message, lunged at the messenger in the most indecent tradition that has become second nature to the operatives of the communication of the administration.

In order to support its nebulous claim of the improvement of the economy, the Jonathan Presidency stated: “As is well known, available figures, statistics and ratings show that the Nigerian economy has consistently maintained an unprecedented growth rate of 6-7% under the Jonathan administration. They also show that the Nigerian economy is now the leading economy in Africa and the 26th largest in the world with a gross domestic product of over $500 billion per annum.” Contrary to these bogus claims by this administration, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in its June 12, 2013 online release, stated that 112 million Nigerians (representing 67% of the entire population) live below poverty line! Earlier, in its ‘May 2013 Nigeria Economic Report’, the World Bank said the number of Nigerians living in poverty was increasing too rapidly.

The relevant question that readily comes up is, of what use is gloating about with seemingly fantastic economic growth statistics when two-third of the Nation’s populating is reeling in grinding poverty? It is an incontrovertible fact that the reason for the manifested youth restiveness in the national space is exacerbated by blatant inability of the Jonathan regime to improve on Job creation. The mindset of the Jonathan Presidency is encapsulated in the famous statement made by President Goodluck Jonathan himself in Davos, Switzerland (earlier in the year) wherein he stated that his administration’s backward integration has made a Nigerian the richest man in Africa! It did not make a difference to this President that the grim fact is that there is inequitable distribution of the Nation’s wealth. It is this fact that came into the fore when five Power generating assets and ten power distributing assets were sold to known cronies in another scandalous privatization deal. Meanwhile, majority of Nigerians have not had improved supply of electricity to their homes and business offices. All these are manifestations of an administration that is unwilling to show sensitivity to the plight of the teeming population of the Nigerian people.

Indeed, the denial of fact, as a character trait of Jonathan government, should not surprise anyone, as the Jonathan administration has abundant capacity for mendacity, chicanery and revisionism. In April 2014, when the news broke that over two hundred young Nigerian female children had been abducted by unconscionable beings, the first reaction of the Jonathan regime was to make spirited attempts to conceal the fact of this abduction. It took a seventeen year old Pakistani children’s rights activist, Malala Yousafzai, after more than three months, before President Goodluck Jonathan agreed to meet the Parents of the abducted girls. In a related matter, on February 25, 2014, gunmen violated the serenity of the Federal Government College, Buni Yadi, Yobe state. After the dust settled, twenty nine male students were killed and their female counterparts abducted. These dead young Nigerians were not even considered worthy of respect with a minute silence at the centenary celebration that opened about twenty four hours later. Till date, President GoodluckJonathan has not thought it worthy to visit the school! Undoubtedly, this administration has a huge capacity for stymieing the truth, in the vain attempts at casting delusions on the minds of the people.

On January 21, 2013, as part of the administration’s agricultural reforms, 3.5 million Jobs and 20 million metric tonnes of food to domestic supply was promised to take effect by 2015. May we remind this government that 2015 is just two months away and the reality that Nigerians grapple with in their daily pursuit is a far cry from the utterly garrulous deception!

GMB stated “Quality education for development, modernity and social mobility” as part of the priorities his soon-to-happen administration shall pursue with relentless fervour. But the Jonathan Presidency derisively castigated this by stating: “All that General Buhari promises to do are already being done by the Jonathan Administration to the acclaim of ordinary Nigerians and there is no evidence before Nigerians that the APC leader and his acolytes can do them better. “

Details of the June 2014 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) showed only 529,425 candidates (representing 31.28%) out of 1.7million candidates who wrote the examination obtained credits in five subjects and above, including English Language and Mathematics. Whilst the performance of Nigerian students’ performance has been very dismal in the last three years (under Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s administration), Ghanaian students dominated the three positions at the International awards for the best candidates in the five member countries of WAEC. But this should not surprise anyone because whilst the Jonathan administration has consistently spent less than 13% of the yearly budget on education (a far cry from the UNICEF’s recommendation of 26%), Ghana spent 31% of its 2013 budget on Education!

Jonathan’s Presidency had stated with obvious delusory intent: “His most uncharitable and inexcusable accusation against the present administration was that election rigging continues to thrive in Nigeria.” In the two governorship elections conducted this year (2014), the Military and other security forces were deployed in a manner to compromise the election. On the eve of the June 22, 2014 Ekiti governorship election, over two hundred leaders of the opposition All Progressive Congress were removed from circulation in Gestapo-style manner by the over 36,000 security forces deployed to the state for a ‘do or die’ electoral battle. Buoyed by the success of its infernal impunity, over 70,000 security forces were also deployed to Osun state for the governorship election on August 9, 2014, but the steadfastness of the people saved the day. In its February 2014 report, the National Human Rights’ Commission branded INEC, Police and the Judiciary as election criminals! The questions that need to be asked are: First, what section of the electoral laws makes it mandatory for elections to be held under curfew? Second, why is the PDP administration of President Goodluck Jonathan always insistent in using the Military for election duties when sections 214, 215 and 216 of the Nigerian Constitution clearly prescribe that the maintenance of internal security is fundamentally vested in the Nigeria Police Force?

Without a doubt, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan knows he has not done enough to convince the same Nigerians, who were gored (in 2011) into believing that his presidency would impart positively on the Nation, to vote for him again. He knows that he has run an exclusive government with scandals of grand larcenies in many institutions of government. For the first time, impunity reached all- time high with the famous Fayose-led desecration of the Courts of Justice in Ekiti state under the watchful eyes of security forces. He knows that the portent of GMB’s entry into the Presidential contest shall automatically stymie his desire for a second term.

Finally, GMB is unfazed by the carefully-woven insidious commentaries against him. He remains focused on the greater task of assuaging the pains inflicted on the Nigerian people by the pestilence of PDP’s fifteen-year rule of the Nigerian state. He is hopeful that, with the support of the long-suffering Nigerian people, the APC government under his guardianship shall sweep away the fecklessness of the PDP in the February, 2015 elections.

God bless the Federal republic of Nigeria.

Rotimi Fashakin (Engr.)

For: General Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR

http://saharareporters.com/2014/10/17/jonathan-knows-he-has-not-done-enough-convince-nigerians-vote-him-declares-buhari

ss than 24 hours after he formally declared to run for president, a former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, has picked the expression of interest and nomination forms to run for the nation’s highest office on the platform of the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC.

Mr. Buhari, who is running for the fourth time, shortly after picking the forms at the National Secretariat of the APC in Abuja, said that the N27.5million levy for the forms were exorbitant but that he was helpless in getting it reduced.


Buhari receives nomination form
Premium Times
“It’s a pity I couldn’t influence this amount to be put down ‎as in the case of ladies and the disable that intend to participate. I always look left and right in our meetings but I could not read sympathy, so I kept my trap.

“But I felt heavily sorry for myself because I don’t want to go and ask somebody to pay for my nomination forms, because I always try to pay myself, at least for the nomination.

“N27 million is a big sum, thankfully I have personal relationship with the manager of my bank in Kaduna and I told him that very soon the forms are coming, so, whether I am on red, or green or even black please honour it otherwise I may lose the nomination.

“I was about to go to Kaduna this morning and I told the Chairman but he said in that case, you better pick your form and keep a straight face that means there is no excuse,” Mr. Buhari said.

In a short remark, the APC National Chairman, John Oyegun, told Mr. Buhari and his entourage that the party decided to make the nomination fees high “in order to separate the men from the boys”.

Details later…


http://saharareporters.com/2014/10/16/buhari-says-%E2%80%9Ci-pity-myself%E2%80%9D-he-collects-nomination-form

First I would like, Mr Chairman, if I may, pay tribute to Nigerians as a whole who are enduring all sorts of hardships and deprivations on a daily basis. Many millions are grappling with extreme poverty and barely eking out a living. Nearly all are in fear of their lives or safety for themselves and their families due to Insurgency by the godless movement called Boko Haram;

By marauding murderers in towns and villages;
By armed robbers on the highways;
By kidnappers who have put whole communities to fright and sometimes to flight.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is everyone’s duty to resolve and help the national effort to overcome these immense challenges. I would like us to place on record our appreciation for the efforts of our Armed Forces under new leadership and police in confronting these challenges.

I would like, secondly, to thank our supporters up and down the country for their perseverance and resolve in face of an oppressive PDP government.

Mr Chairman, this is an occasion to celebrate our efforts and to resolve to continue until victory is won. I humbly wish to present myself before you, before all of Nigeria and before God seeking to be elected as APC’s Presidential candidate. Having appreciated that the only way to relieve Nigerians of the PDP, the main opposition parties decided to pool their strengths into one party. We have worked very hard in the last 18 months to put up structures from the polling units to wards, local governments, states and the centre.

We have tried to ensure all processes in our party formation to be transparent and credible. These structures will lead to free and fair polls. There is no point in holding elections if they are not free and fair.

Interference in the form of rigging which PDP Government has practised since 2003 is the worst form of injustice – denying people their right to express their opinions. Whether they like it or not, injustice cannot endure.

Since 1999 PDP has presided over our country’s decline. Nigeria in my experience has never been so divided, so polarized by an unthinking government hell bent on ruling and stealing forever whatever befalls the country. Mr Chairman, we in APC are resolved to stop them in their tracks and rescue Nigeria from the stranglehold of PDP.

The last 16 years of PDP Government has witnessed decline in all critical sectors of life in Nigeria

There is now general insecurity in the land
Quite apart from Boko Haram, there is prevalence of Armed Robbery, kidnappings and killings, cattle rustling, market and farmland arson.

These outrages have taken a new and a frightening dimension, disrupting economic and social life across whole communities.

The economy continues to deteriorate while the Government continues to announce fantastic growth figures but manufacturing is down, agriculture is down, commerce is down
Simply because you sell oil and steal part of the money does not entitle you to cook figures and announce phantom economic growth when all the major indices namely,

Employment
Manufacturing
Farming
Trading
are demonstrably on the decline.

When PDP came to power in 1999 Nigeria was generating about 4,000 M/W of electricity. After 15 years and $20 billion spent we are generating between 3,000 – 4,000 M/W. No failure is more glaring than this.
We in APC are resolved to bring change to Nigeria. We plan to do things differently.

We plan to put priority on

Protection of lives and property.
Pursuing economic policies for shared prosperity and immediate attention on youth employment.
Quality education for development, modernity and social mobility.
Agricultural productivity for taking millions out of poverty and ensuring food security.
Reviving Industry to generate employment and “make things” not just to remain hawkers of other peoples’ goods.
Developing solid minerals exploitation which will substantially attract employment and revenue for government.
Restoring honour and integrity to public service by keeping the best and attracting the best.
Tackling corruption which has become blatant and widespread. The rest of the world looks at Nigeria as the home of corruption. Nigeria is a country where stealing is not corruption.
Last, (but not the least or final) respecting the constitutional separation of powers between the executive, legislatures and judiciary and respecting the rights of citizens.
Mr Chairman, there, in outline are some policy proposals about the direction APC should take when, by the grace of God, we are given the responsibility of serving Nigeria in Government.

General Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR

- See more at: http://aitonline.tv/post-declaration_speech_by_general_muhammadu_buhari_for_presidential_primaries__abuja__october_15th__2014#sthash.BhtKuvRD.dpuf

Take a look at this picture & absolve Dokubo & Oritsejafor of any complicity in the BH business. From left is Mohammed Yusuf(late BH leader), Asari Dokubo & Ayo Oritsejafor. Can anyone tell me what could ever be the relationship between a perceived man of God and 2 militants? This is a clear testimony that there has been a long time collaboration & direct funding of the BH by those we believed are friends.

“The truth, crushed to the earth, will surely rise again” is a maxim that exposes the short reign of falsehood over truth, suffice to say that irrespective of the intensity of confusions caused by falsehood, it cannot stand the test of time. As a result of the long reign of personalities of Northern extraction at the helms of affairs of our dear Country, the diversionary agents with intentions to exonerate the real detractors that derailed the cause of good governance in Nigeria have spread and hanged the wrong notion of born to rule mentality on the Northern elites.


Muhammadu Buhari's poster
By the formation of Nigeria, every qualified citizen possesses a right to aspire for political office as provided by a system of government inherent in our Constitution at any point in time. It is worthy to note that the bid of notable democrats from Northern Nigeria for the Office of the President in recent time has been meted with campaign of calumny by propagandists and sinister forces maligning the North by portraying the Northern elites as being desperate for power with the mentality of “born to rule”. This unfounded propaganda is indeed a calculated attempt to sow seed of discord among the adherents of an egalitarian society with equal opportunities for all Nigerians.

To put the record straight on this propaganda, it is imperative to analyse some events and occurrences within the corridor of power in the early Nigeria to defuse the misconceptions arising from brainwashing of the unsuspecting masses by the beneficiaries of rancor and promoters of the division of the country along ethnic and religion partitions. It is equally important to dissect some of the intricacies involved in the formation of the country at independence in 1960.

The country started with a parliamentary system of government with three regions known as Northern, Eastern and Western Regions. The struggle for the position of Prime Minister was between Alhaji Tafawa Balewa of the Northern Region and Chief Obafemi Awolowo of the Western Region, where Chief Nnamdi Azikwe of the Eastern Region, who eventually emerged as the Ceremonial President in 1960, aligned with Alhaji Tafawa Balewa to defeat Chief Obafemi Awolowo at the election for Prime Minister, leading to the emergence of Chief Awolowo as opposition leader at the Federal Parliament. This analysis is to confirm that the emergence of a Northern person as the prime minister of the country at independence was made possible by the people of the Eastern region.

The alliance between the Eastern region and the Northern region against the Western region eventually led to the emergence of a status quo in the leadership of the country in 1963, when the country became a republic. In the cause of administration, the Prime Minister was more powerful than the President, a normal dictate of the Parliamentary System of Government, which led to ill-feelings among the people of Eastern region that believed their brother, in the capacity of President, ought to call the shots.

Bickering started over the outcome of the 1963 population census which the Igbos thought overestimated the population of Northern people to the give the Northern region more population in the Federal Parliament. The change from a parliamentary to a presidential system of government was partly premised on that ground, but not without terror on the country by the aggrieved Igbo nationalities.

On 15th January, 1966, Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, a Nigerian of Igbo extraction from the Eastern region with support of Igbo nationalities, led the first military coup that killed many leaders of both the Northern and Western Regions including but not limited to the Prime Minister, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Premier from the Northern region and Chief Samuel Akintola, Premier, Western region. In the same coup, top army officers from the North and West were killed while the Premier of the Eastern region, Igbo army chiefs, and other leaders from the East were spared by the coup executioners.

The coup foisted General Aguiyi Ironsi on the country as the Head of State to the satisfaction of the people of Eastern region. On 18th January, 1966 the leader of the coup, Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, was arrested in Lagos in the company of another Igbo citizen, Lt Col. Conrad Nwawo. The Head of State, General Aguiyi Ironsi, also an Igbo man, showed leniency to the arrested culprits to the chagrin and disappointments of other nationalities, an action that indicted him as part of the coup.

With the reality of the underlining motives of those who gruesomely murdered Northern and Western leaders in their conspiracy coup to be in control of the country at the expense of other nationalities, other nationalities resiliently repelled the coup on 29th July, 1966 and restored sanity to the nation with the emergence of Major General Yakubu Gowon as the Head of State. Lt Col Emeka Ojukwu as the head of the Eastern region, in a premeditated manner facilitated the transfer of Kaduna Nzeogwu from Maximum Security Prison Kirikiri in Lagos to Nigeria Prison, Enugu and later released him in April 1967 in his preparation for the civil war later declared on the country by Lt Col Emeka Ojukwu.

The administration of General Gowon declared commitment and dedication to the return of power to the civilian government and moved to split the four existing regions to 12 states in 1967. The leader of the Eastern region rejected the proposal with his declaration of Biafra Republic in a violent manner that led to the bloody Civil War in Nigeria from 1967 till 1970. General Gowon failed on his promise to return the nation to civilian government which led to a palace coup devoid of bloodshed in 1975 with General Murtala Muhammad as the Head of State.

In pursuance of the earlier defeated greed of Igbo nationalities, another Igbo man, Major Buka Dimka, aggrieved over the transition programme of General Murtala to hand over power to a civilian government, led another violent coup that led to the killing of General Murtala Muhammad in 1976. General Olusegun Obasanjo, as the new Head of State, completed the transition programme and handed over government to a civilian government in the person of Alhaji Sheu Shagari in 1979.

It is imperative to state that the adjudged controversial victory of Sheu Shagari of the Northern Party of Nigeria against Chief Obafemi Awolowo of the Unity Party of Nigeria was aided majorly by Southerners who mobilized vehemently against the outstanding credentials of Chief Awolowo both at the 1979 and 1983 presidential elections. The result of the 1983 election was seriously contested in court. The administration of Sheu Shagari was alleged of a high level of corruption and poor governance which led to the abolition of that Republic by concerned nationalists in the military.

A proper analysis of the change of governments since 1983 till date does not indict the Northern elites of desperation at any point in time. Following the annulment of 12th June, 1993 presidential election involving Chief M.K.O. Abiola, it was a Yoruba nationalist chief, Ernest Shonekan, that accepted to lead an interim government at the detriment of the Yoruba nation while in 1999, the entire Northern elites supported a proposal for the President and Senate President to emerge from the Southern Nigeria and the Yoruba Nation produced the President while the Igbo Nation produced the Senate President.

It is a common knowledge that the agreement among the Northern and Southern elites in 1998, was a rotation of power between the South and North after two terms of eight years each and since the advocacy of the Northern elites for their turn to lead the country expectedly, some Southern elites mostly from the South East and South South have not spared the Northern elites with the appellation of “born to rule”. Without fear of contradiction and the avalanche of facts on the desperation of races to impoverish this country, the Northern people do not portray the born to rule mentality labelling them by the detractors of our collective goods.

People should not be carried away by the antics of subterranean forces to blackmail the Northern candidates against their inalienable rights to seek mandate of the people to lead the country in the capacity of President. It will be in the best interest of the young people to get the facts correct about struggle for power and defuse hatred for people and their race ignorantly. We must overlook the past and unite as one people of a great country to positively direct our affairs devoid of blackmail or propaganda against any region. The rights of every Nigerian must be respected in consonance with the understanding of our leaders on rotational leadership in order to restore the lost glory of our noble country.

Comrade AbdulRahman Agboola

National Coordinator,

Mass Action for Good Governance and Grassroots Developments in Nigeria.

nycnpro@gmail.com






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Youths from the South-South and South-East geo-political zones, under the aegis of Team GMB, have called on Nigerians to give former head of state and presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Gen Muhamadu Buhari the chance to fix the country, by voting for him as the next president in 2015.

The youths drawn from the 11 states in the South-South and South-East zones declared that Buhari, who contested the office of the president in 2003, 2007 and 2011, will run for the 2015 presidential election on the platform of the APC, even though he had not officially declared his intention.


http://leadership.ng/news/385557/2015-ssouth-seast-youths-root-buhari

seanet02: America and double standards.
Isnt Saudi Arabia the number one human rights abuser in the world?
yet America supplied them billions worth of weapons every year

Bros where did you get that rating from?

At the risk of being tagged once again as anti-Igbo by rabid, commissioned slave traders who see Ndigbo as easy wares to be marketed to their political masters, I write this open letter to my people.

At the huge risk of being called names by my brothers and sisters, I boldly write this piece to my people. I have been called names in the past for speaking out and I may be wrong but please forgive me. I write because I know that a story that must be told never forgives silence. I write despite all odds because I know that when a writer is silent he or she is lying. I write because I want things to be done differently, because I know that the greatest part of hell will be reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of great moral crisis. I write knowing fully well that I am not the best God ever created and therefore mine cannot be the last word. Two incidents involving Mrs. Stella Oduah, who was removed as a Minister for corruption, and General Ihejirika, who just retired from the Nigerian Army necessitated this open letter.


Sacked aviation minister Stella Oduah and former COAS General Ihejirika
Mrs. Stella Oduah was removed as a Minister of Aviation for issues bordering on corruption. She was accused of financial recklessness.

When the lid was blown open, our people went to town to defend Mrs Stella Oduah. All Igbo organizations went to town with the chorus "LEAVE STELLA ODUAH ALONE". The shouts came from our people all over the world and it was loud enough and at best, deafening. When Mrs. Stella Oduah was eventually eased out by the presidency, one thought our people will learn the lesson but not Igbo. Our leaders went to town with a project to honour Mrs. Stella Oduah and others with awards in Lagos. In preparation for the ceremony one of the leaders spoke to the press. Hear him “we are honouring our own Mrs. Stella Oduah to show the world that even when Nigeria mocks our brightest and best for doing a good job at the Aviation Industry, we must tell the world that we love and celebrate our own.” She was given an instant title of Ada Igbo. As I write this, billboards are at strategic locations in Igboland, celebrating her as ADA IGBO.

Now enter General Ihejirika, the former Chief of Army Staff.

General Ihejirika just retired from the Army after serving for more than three decades. General Ihejirika is now eyeing the governorship seat in Abia State on the platform of PDP just few months after pulling out of the Nigerian Army.

But just recently an Australian peace negotiator, Stephen Davis, who was allegedly contracted by the federal government and who spent four months in Nigeria negotiating with Boko Haram to get the kidnapped Chibok girls out, told the world that the former Governor of Borno State Ali Modu Sheriff and Ihejirika have hands in sponsoring Boko Haram. The moment Stephen Davis' statement hit the Nigerian public space, hell was let loose once again. Our people went to town with the usual mantra: "LEAVE IHEJIRIKA ALONE". Almost all the Igbo organizations have issued press statements suggesting that General Ihejirika is now being persecuted for staking his life to fight Boko Haram for Nigeria. Again the noise was so loud and deafening.

According to our people Ihejirika is being persecuted because he is Igbo. Even Igbo World Assembly (IWA) in far away United States was not left out in the drama. In the social media it is Igbo and other Nigerians.

Now the questions are: do we need to defend Mrs. Stella Oduah and General Ihejirika? Are they not old enough or competent enough to defend themselves? Were our people with them when they were serving? Can we swear we know them very well to continue this noise? Do we really know the character of these persons? Why this prebendal politics? If we continue to defend our tribes only, who will then defend Nigeria? Who is working for Nigeria if I may ask? Is it not bad behaviour for Igbo to continue to defend what they know nothing about? Are we not making ourselves objects of ridicule in the eyes of other Nigerians? When we pour invectives on other Nigerians or people who are different from us are we not endangering the lives and businesses of Ndigbo scattered all over Nigerians?

Have we forgotten that our people are the most mobile in Nigeria? Do we know how other Nigerians rate us in this predictable primitive defense? Do we consider the feelings of other Nigerians? What signals are we sending out with this improper behaviour? Don’t we have men and women who will say enough is enough in this madness of defending the indefensible?

We know Igbo history, philosophy and sociology, when did it tolerate blind and unquestionable defence of someone who might have compromised his or herself while in office? When has Igbo become so ethically compromised that they do must defend even thieves from Igboland? Are these Igbo not aware that such fight, like in the case of Stella Oduah not only ridicules the Igbo but belittles them before others? What happens to the sanctimonious resolve of our fore fathers never to get involved in war of blame?

When Professor Grace Grange, IG Tafa Balogun, and Speaker Patricia Etteh, were removed for corruption, did the Yoruba resort to this kind of blackmail? What is the North saying about Ali Modu Sherrif, the former Governor of Borno State implicated in Boko Haram insurgency with Ihejirika? These are just few cases I wanted to mention for emphasis.

To the best of my knowledge I do not think our people are playing better politics in Nigeria now. I do not think the way we are going now will help us politically. I do not think other Nigerians will trust us if we continue this way. I have slim hope that other Nigerians will take serious in matters of Nigerian politics. I am not led to believe that we are getting it right, rather I think we are going the wrong way.

For emphasis, Ihejirika may be guilty or not but it is his to prove. I am not saying he is guilty for I do not know the details. He doesn’t need all the cahoots of persuaders now striving to show their support for him to do so. In every sane society, security is a complicated issue and every person within that society, even the president, is a suspect until proven otherwise. The best for Ihejirika is to step out and put a solid defence and shame his accusers. If he believes he will get the mob to extricate him, he is making a mistake and getting himself indicted by history and that is far more dangerous for him.

I suggest that Igbo should stop creating enemies for itself in Nigeria. I suggest that Igbo should rise above ethnic preoccupation to help move Nigeria forward. If we are still one Nigeria, Igbo should consider the feelings of other Nigerians. This defeatism attitude must give way to politics of ideas. This persecution complex must stop. This leadership complex must seize to exist.

Joe Igbokwe.
Lagos


http://saharareporters.com/2014/09/12/open-letter-ndigbo-joe-igbokwe

UCATION RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (ERC)

09/09/2014

Press Statement

NANS AWARD TO PRESIDENT JONATHAN:

A Gross Misrepresentation of Nigerian Students and Youths

The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) totally condemns the Yinka Gbadebo-led leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) for the award of Grand Commander of Nigerian Students to President Goodluck Jonathan.

This award is an embarrassment to the community of students and youth in Nigeria. The best response to this national shame is for students and activists on all campuses to rise up to reclaim the NANS from racketeers and careerists like Yinka Gbadebo and his gang. A return of NANS to the democratic and mass platform it used to be and with a leadership that is sufficiently bold enough to defend student interests is vital if the ongoing onslaught on public education in forms of fee hike and commercialisation is to be resisted.

Fearful of the widespread unpopularity of his pro-capitalist and viciously anti-poor government which has failed Nigerians in all ramifications, Jonathan and his handlers hope to use this award to rehabilitate his battered image in the run-up to the 2015 general elections. Like a drowning person, Jonathan is prepared to hang onto any straw. This is why despite the lack of credibility of NANS which most Nigerians derisively see as an association of non-students and unemployed youths, Jonathan is not in the least embarrassed to be identified with it. As the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together.


Jonathan receives award from NANS leaders
This award may have been conferred in the name of Nigerian students. Certainly, it enjoys no endorsement and support of Nigerian students and youths. In 1988 when the students of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife were to confer on late Chief Gani Fawehinmi the award of Senior Advocate of the Masses (SAM), not only was the award ratified by the union parliament, Chief Gani Fawehinmi was invited to the campus where he received the award in the presence of thousands of students and the media. If the organisers of this national charade were confident of themselves, instead of taking the award to Aso Rock they should have invited President Jonathan to any campus of their choosing to receive the award.

In any case, this award will further strengthen the belief in many quarters that those who claim to be leaders of NANS are mostly non-students who are using the association to line their own pockets. Otherwise how could a genuine student, who is studying under inhumane academic environment as exists on all campuses across the country or who is faced with the prospect of losing their studentship as a result of outrageous fees, support President Jonathan or wish to have him continue in office beyond 2015?

Definitely, this award will anger millions of Nigerian Students and youths. This is not surprising. President Jonathan's government has been a failure in all ramifications. Its failure in the area of public education is embarrassing. From 7.3 million few years ago, the number of out-of-school children has increased to 10.3 million under President Jonathan's watch. If the situation in the North East is factored in, certainly the number of out-of-school children could be well above 12 million. Public Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education were if taken together, closed for more than two years as a result of strikes caused by the government refusal to meet genuine demands of education workers. Despite the success of the ASUU strike in particular in forcing a marginal commitment to release N200 billion to fund public tertiary institutions, the government has responded with steep increases in fees. Students at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) whose fees have been jerked up would definitely not support an award purportedly presenting Goodluck Jonathan as a student-friendly President.

However this award is coming on the heels of a similar fraudulent award of Senior Advocate of Nigerian Students conferred on Governor Fashola of Lagos State by the Sunday Asefon-led Southwest (Zone D) leadership of NANS. Just like President Jonathan, Fashola and the APC badly needed an image laundering after the bitter defeat students and workers of the Lagos State University (LASU) gave them in the victorious struggle for reversal of hiked fees. For all its shallow radical posturing, the NANS Zone leadership is not so much different from the National Leadership of NANS. Both are simply two sides of a bad coin. While the NANS President Yinka Gbadebo and his team of racketeers represent the pro-People's Democratic Party (PDP) wing of NANS, the Asefon-led Zone D leadership is the pro-All Progressive Congress (APC) wing. What unites the two wings however is readiness to sell out students to the highest bidder.

The ERC considers both awards as a gross misrepresentation of Nigerian students who are burdened by skyrocketting tuition fees, a broken public education system and an uncertain future all which are direct results of the pro-market capitalist policies favoured by the governments of both President Jonathan and Governor Fashola.

As election approaches, the two main capitalist parties in Nigeria - PDP and APC - are falling over themselves in a competition to use education as a ruse to hoodwink the people again. But in reality, neither the PDP nor APC deserves the votes of students, youth and workers. Nigeria under the rule of either of these political parties will continue to retrogress, public education will continue to be underfunded and commercialised while majority of the people will continue to wallow in abject poverty in the midst inexhaustible wealth.

There is urgent need for the emergence of a mass working peoples' political alternative that can fight for socialist change. If a genuine political party that represents the 99% should exist today and is able to aggregate and give political expression to the palpable anger of students, youth and workers who are yearning for change, both the PDP and APC can be easily swept away in a deluge of mass uprising. It is to this end that the ERC supports the formation of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) and plays active role in building it as a credible and formidable platform. .

Hassan Taiwo Soweto
National Coordinator
07033697259

Michael Ogundele
National Secretary

http://saharareporters.com/2014/09/09/education-rights-campaign-nans-award-jonathan-gross-misrepresentation-students

Commander-In-Chief of Nigeria's Armed Forces, President Goodluck Jonathan met up with former Borno state, Governor Ali Modu Sheriff in Chad yesterday. The meeting and the attendant pleasantry has shocked many observers, recently an Australian negotiator; Stephen Davis revealed that Mr. Sheriff is one of the key sponsors of the deadly Boko Haram sect currently ravaging Nigeria.

http://saharareporters.com/2014/09/09/president-jonathan-meeting-haram-alleged-boko-haram-financier-former-borno-gov-ali-modu

July 23, 2014 will go down as one of the sad chapters in Nigeria’s history. On that day an assassination attempt was made on the life of General Muhammadu Buhari, the leading political opposition figure in Nigeria, a distinguished war hero, a former military head of state and an elder-statesman – acknowledged to be one of the sane voices in Nigeria’s democratic march. General Buhari has left an indelible mark as an honest man of integrity who has dedicated the best part of his life towards building a Nigeria that is not just an economically stable nation, but a country where justice, fair play, equality of opportunities and discipline reign.

The assassins failed. Whosoever they may be – terrorists or the political opposition – their attempts to silence the voice of hope for the neglected Nigerian masses, have failed. This is a triumph of good over evil.

General Muhammadu Buhari was born on December 17,1942 in Daura, Katsina State. After his primary schooling, he was enrolled into the then Provincial Secondary School, Katsina where his honesty and uprightness made him the most suitable choice to become the Head Boy of the Secondary School. He joined the army in 1962 where he had a very distinguished career. Primarily, Buhari was one of the military officers who gallantly fought in the Nigerian civil war to keep the country together.

The January 1966 military coup in Nigeria which ousted the first democratic government in Nigeria after colonial rule ushered in a long period of military rule that was characterised by coups and counter coups, including the unfortunate civil war that was gallantly fought to keep the country together. The resultant effect of the civil war was that the military had to hang on to power long enough to speed up the reconciliation, reconstruction and rehabilitation processes that were needed to repair the damages inflicted by the war.

During this long spell of military rule, General Muhammadu Buhari was called upon to render various services to the nation, in what could rightly be termed as ‘beyond the call of duty’. In 1975 the military staged a palace coup which deposed the then head of state, General Yakubu Gowon. He was accused of being too lax, a situation that could foster corruption and indiscipline. In addition, the military had hoped that Gowon would announce a timetable for the return of civil rule to Nigeria which he failed to do. The coup brought General Murtala Mohammed to power and he immediately embarked on a rapid reformation process. Senior military officers like General Buhari were therefore selected to spearhead this reformation process. Firstly, he was appointed member of the country’s Supreme Military Council (the highest ruling body in the land) and was posted to serve as the Military Governor of the then North Eastern State. This is the territory that comprises the present-day Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states. This is the area that is currently facing unsettling insurgency problems.

After his stint as military governor, General Buhari became Nigeria’s oil minister in 1976 and subsequently chairman of the newly created Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). This was a period that was marked by a high sense of transparency in the oil sector of the Nigerian economy. No doubt, this was made possible by the personal integrity of the man in charge – General Buhari. Every kobo of the income accruing to the nation through oil revenue was not only accounted for, but was judiciously expended to provide goods and services to Nigerians. This rapid reformation process was unsettling to a group of renegade military officers who attempted to overthrow the government. Even though they succeeded in assassinating General Mohammed they failed to unseat the government.

The military government under General Olusegun Obasanjo who succeeded Murtala proceeded to hand over power to a civilian administration under President Shehu Shagari. The military returned to the barracks and Buhari was appointed General Officer Commanding the 3rd Division of the Nigerian army. When the Shagari government faltered, the military struck again and General Muhammadu Buhari was the choice of the military to lead the new military regime. This was inevitable. Buhari was the most credible senior military officer at the time – incorruptible, highly disciplined and imbued with an unmatched sense of responsibility.

As military head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari quickly embarked on programmes to cleanse the public sector of corrupt officials and restore discipline to the Nigerian society. Like the regime of General Murtala, a group of military officers felt he was too tough and deposed him in a palace coup. This was perhaps the greatest disservice to the nation because shortly after, the country was to fall back to the old ways as a nation that was fraught with corruption, indiscipline and disregard for purposeful progress. Nigeria is yet to recover from these ills many years after. After his overthrow, he decided to go back to Daura. Being a Fulani man, he went into mixed farming.

When General Sani Abacha became Nigeria’s military head of state in 1993, he realised that under the highly corrupt and undisciplined scenario he met, there was no way he could bring meaningful progress to the nation. He, therefore, set up a Petroleum Special Trust Fund (PTF) where incomes accruing from petroleum resources could be used to put in place meaningful infrastructures that would provide goods and services to the Nigerian populace. The likely choice of who to head this Fund fell on the shoulders of General Buhari. Here, again, he acquitted himself with distinction and quit as soon as the military handed over power to another civilian administration in 1999.

A few years into the democratic governance, with former military ruler, Olusegun Obasanjo as the new civilian president, it dawned on many Nigerians that all was not well with the new democracy. Things were sliding badly with disastrous consequences to the nation. Corruption, graft, nepotism and a total disregard for the rule of law were threatening the nation. Social services such as the provision of education, security, water supply, electricity and much more were becoming endemic. To make matters worse, sectionalism, ethnicity and religious intolerances were becoming commonplace. There were serious cries of marginalisation and some sections of the country were threatening to break away.

It was under these difficult circumstances that well-meaning Nigerians prevailed on General Buhari to join politics and contest for the presidency. They had absolute confidence that with him on the saddle, he would be able to reverse this dangerous trend. He bowed to pressure and joined the opposition and became its flag bearer in the 2003 general elections. The elections took place and many believe he lost the race because the ruling party massively rigged the election using the enormous resources in their power. Agencies of state such as police and the military were used to deny the opposition the chance to rule the country. Two other subsequent elections in 2007 and 2011 were similarly conducted.

Today, not only is the nation facing decline in infrastructure and social services, insurgency has taken centre stage. Thousands have been killed or injured by the notorious Boko Haram in the northeast of the country. Suicide bombing raids are being carried out almost on a daily basis in many major cities including the capital, Abuja. In the south of the country, illegal oil bunkering, kidnap of foreign nationals and piracy on the high seas have also become rampant. No one feels safe anymore in any part of the country. More than at any time there is yearning for change, even among members of the ruling party – a situation that has led to major defections of prominent politicians of the ruling PDP to the opposition. To all intents and purposes, the ruling PDP is now dead.

A new mega party, the All Progressives Congress has been formed with General Buhari as the leading choice to lead it to victory. General Buhari is well read and well informed. His discussions at local and international meetings display his patriotism and nationalistic credentials. He is not loud, boisterous, boastful and irritating but a special man with impressive demure. He is soft spoken. Buhari is a courteous man with friendly countenance, warmth and a face with fair sense of humour. His mien also portrays him as a man you could trust and rely on. He is not a man you would associate with, or accuse of being economical with the truth and facts, in speech or in action but a man who is quite generous in his candour, warmth and inner peace.

There is growing confidence across the land that with Buhari on the saddle, Nigeria will be restored to normalcy. The attempt to assassinate him was meant to truncate that. People are now waiting for the programme of action or blueprint of the APC to salvage Nigeria from decline. So, Nigerians here is your man. Give him your mandate so that he can have the opportunity to wield the necessary power and harness our resources and energies to confront and tackle the massive problems that are facing this country today. He has the will. What is lacking is the political power. Nigerians, here is a candidate that you have been looking for.

Nigerians, please put all sentiments aside and root for the one man who will restore the lost glory to our land.

— Alhaji Ibrahim, is the chairman, Katsina State APC Stakeholders Forum

http://leadership.ng/features/interviews/383236/president-nigerians-yearning

cheap internet plans and Tecno phone have giving childish fools like you a voice......may your wishes befall you, your family and your
entire land. Ameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen

atlwireles: There will be thousands dying across Northeastern Nigeria in the next couple of weeks. The only good news is most will be boko haram or north easterners supporting boko haram. It never had to come to this. The armed forces are now determined to make Odi look like a child's play. God bless the Nigerian army and my condolences to the Northerners that will be killed like rats in the next weeks. Remember you brought this unto yourselves.

cheap internet plans and Tecno phone have giving childish fools like you a voice......may your wishes befall you, your family and your
entire land. Ameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen quote author=atlwireles]There will be thousands dying across Northeastern Nigeria in the next couple of weeks. The only good news is most will be boko haram or north easterners supporting boko haram. It never had to come to this. The armed forces are now determined to make Odi look like a child's play. God bless the Nigerian army and my condolences to the Northerners that will be killed like rats in the next weeks. Remember you brought this unto yourselves.[/quote]

yes it sounds like a good move, and all of you who seat in their comfort zone will start singing praises.......but lets hope that the military is not going to runaway and let the BokoHaram take over this equipment's as usual. alot of stories have been going round as to where this guys are getting arms from, but the last video on YouTube has shown clearly how they get most their weapons, even the so called tanks.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl4IgD--nKg

wazoboy: Military Takes Delivery Of New Hardware, Insurgents Death Toll Rises In Bama



http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/military-takes-delivery-of-new-hardware-insurgents-death-toll-rises-to-130-in-bama/188056/

i know thats what he promised you guys.................sorry you

chinology: GEJ till 2019 after which an Igbo man takes over..

The Centre for Promotion of Ethics, Values and National Integration (CENPEVNI), has said that it has secured admission for the 57 escaped Chibok school girls from a school in the United States of America (USA), through its collaboration with other groups.

The executive director of the group, and project coordinator, Rehabilitation and Reintegration Outreach Mission (RROM), Dr Mercy Sokomba, stated this in Abuja, at a one day Stakeholders Interactive Session on Effective Victim Support Strategies.

She said, offers for completion of education of the girls, inclusive of scholarship has been made to RROM through Stefanos Foundation and the international support groups of RROM.

“The reality of this particular offer is if the girls are ready for another form of separation from their parents. However, we have initiated discussions with some leadership of the Chibok community and at some point will meet with them and the parents for consent,” she said.

Sokomba however said that they hope that the funds and support partnership will consistently get to RROM for project sustainability within scheduled time frame so as not to hinder the progress the outreach mission has made so far.

Commending the efforts of the federal government in the fight against insurgency, Sokomba prayed and pleaded for a quick resolution of the Boko Haram saga and safe return of the abducted Chibok girls and many other women and children abducted earlier or after the Chibok girls.

According to her, “The end of terrorism will bring an end to the loss of lives and properties.”


http://leadership.ng/news/381975/57-escaped-chibok-girls-gain-admission-us

114 days after the Boko Haram sect abducted over 200 schoolgirls from a government secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, a clergyman has volunteered to go to the camps of the sect to secure their release.

Speaking with newsmen yesterday in Lagos, Pastor Sunday Adebayo Joseph of the Christ Apostolic Church said the release of the missing girls could not be achieved by the use of armed force, but through divine intervention.

He said that God was angry with the sect and Nigerians for allowing the abuse of the girls and that he had been spiritually mandated to locate the sect’s hideout and rescue the girls.

“The Chibok girls that had been captured more than three months ago can be released. The message of God is that no amount of weapons and their usage that can bring them back alive. Thus, the God of Christ Apostolic Church has promised to use me to rescue the girls, one single day, no harm will befall them.

“They will be rescued alive by the power of God. With God all things are possible. Before I go on the mission, I will deliver God’s message to our president Dr Goodluck Jonathan,” Pastor Joseph said.

When reminded of the risky nature of his mission, Joseph said that he had the backing of his God to set the captives free.

“The sins perpetrated by Boko Haram have cried to God for vengeance. God has liberated people from bondage before, so this one is no exception,” he said.

http://leadership.ng/news/380062/lagos-cleric-set-storm-boko-haram-hideouts-rescue-chibok-girls

ealth workers have hailed the reported success of the experimental drug, ZMapp, on Ebola infected American doctor, Dr Kent Brantly and American Missionary Health worker, Nancy Writebol, while calling for caution.

Within an hour of receiving ZMapp, Brantly’s condition dramatically improved. He began breathing easier; the rash over his trunk faded away. One of his doctors described the events as “miraculous.”

Writebol also received a vial of the medication. Her response was not as remarkable, according to sources familiar with the treatment. However, doctors on Sunday administered Writebol a second dose of the medication, which resulted in significant improvement.

A medical doctor, Dr Osahon Enabulele, noted that with over 1,600 persons in the West African sub-region so far infected with the deadly Ebola virus and a death toll of over 887 (as at August 1, 2014), it is heart-warming that some experimental drugs for treatment of Ebola viral disease such as ZMapp and BCX4430 have shown great potential.

He said that the case of the dramatic clinical improvement shown by the infected Brantly following administration of an experimental drug strengthens the hope of finding an effective drug for the treatment of Ebola virus.

Also in his remarks, the national president, Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria (AMLSN), Dr Godswill Okara, described it as a welcome development.

He said the good result recorded from the use of the drugs on the two Americans is good and encouraging.

According to him, it’s naturally expedient to use the drugs considering the magnanimity of the problem at hand, adding that it was normal at this instance to err on the side of caution.

But, Enabulele, who is the immediate past president of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), said that it was too early to celebrate, calling for caution.

He said, “Even though the emerging results from the administration of an experimental drug on Brantly and Writebol are enthralling, I am of the strong conviction that it is still too early to celebrate as these drugs are yet to be processed through all the required drug clinical trial phases, particularly human clinical trials.”

Okara expressed sadness over “government’s lip service to laboratory services and researches because Ebola Virus was discovered in 1976, about 38 years ago, and nothing was done till date.

“One would have expected that Nigeria, being the powerhouse of Africa, would have spearheaded and championed efforts for the cure of the disease.”

Also, Enabulele, who is the vice president of Commonwealth Medical Association, called for expeditious pursuit of further studies on the experimental drugs, particularly as it concerns human clinical trials.

“In the case of affected West African countries, I strongly call on the leadership of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and particularly governments in the West African sub-region to make greater investments in research, particularly in recognition of the evident economic and political challenges militating against the rapid development of drugs and vaccines to contain Ebola disease outbreak.

According to him, while the recent effort of Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, in putting together a team to analyse all drug claims (including Bitter Cola) for Ebola virus is commendable, Enabulele urged more proactive planning for research on all issues of public health in Nigeria.

“ Furthermore, to boost the research efforts and outcome in Nigeria, particularly in the drug development process, I passionately call for an effective integration and engagement of all stakeholders, including government at all levels, the academia and professional bodies/associations, pharmaceutical companies, philanthropic organisations, and citizens of Nigeria.”

The Ebola virus causes viral hemorrhagic fever, which refers to a group of viruses that affect multiple organ systems in the body and are often accompanied by bleeding.

Early symptoms include sudden onset of fever, weakness, muscle pain, headaches and a sore throat. They later progress to vomiting, diarrhoea, impaired kidney and liver function and sometimes, internal and external bleeding.

The NMA immediate past president said until there is scientific proof of effective and reliable drugs and vaccines for Ebola virus, all efforts should be directed at raising public health awareness on Ebola viral disease (and other Viral Haemorrhagic Diseases) through public health campaign messages (utilising available ICT technologies), institution and strengthening of health preventive and promoting activities and services, including improved personal and community hygiene, strengthening emergency preparedness, disease containment measures and disease surveillance mechanisms, particularly at Nigeria’s ports of entry and the various health facilities across the country

http://leadership.ng/news/380070/zmapp-experts-applaud-discovery-ebola-drug

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has cautioned the Igbo in South eastern Nigeria against maltreating northerners, warning that such could endanger the multi-billion Naira investment of the Igbo in the North.

ACF said the ongoing controversy in the East on issuance of identity cards to persons of northern extraction was uncalled for and estimated that the Igbos’ investments in Kaduna, Kano, and Jos alone amounted to about N45 trillion.

The Deputy Secretary-General of ACF, Abubakar Umar said this while addressing members of the South-South/South-East Arewa Coalition, who paid a courtesy call on ACF on Thursday.

According to him, statistics available to them indicated that the Igbos’ investments in Kaduna, Kano, and Jos alone amounted to N45 trillion and with such huge investments in just three States of the north, the Easterners have no reason to maltreat northerners doing businesses in the East, stressing that, “If the table turns, it could be disastrous to their investments.

“They may suffer for it, but we are praying for understanding among the entire Nigerians to accept themselves wherever they live to earn legitimate means of livelihood. We express our fear that if the north should embark on similar development by screening the Igbos in the northern region, it could lead to a crisis that may lead to undeserved division of Nigerians along ethnic or religious lines.

“Yoruba and Igbo people in Jos, capital of Plateau State lost N480 billion and N410 billion investments respectively to the 2011 post election violence. The South-South also lost N970 billion in the same crisis.

‘We have these statistics, so we expect the Igbos to treat our kinsmen, our brothers and sisters in the East as kings and Queens in view of the fact that they (Igbos) have more investments in the north than in the East.

“Take Abuja, the Federal capital territory, for example, the Igbos occupy over 73 percent of the land, so these are some of the reasons why they should be everybody’s keepers in their place,” Umar said.

The leader of the Coalition, Mallam Awwal Yusuf had earlier said that northerners were doing business amidst fear in the East and called on the ACF to intervene.

“This is because every trader or Muslim from the north is considered Boko Haram”.

Yusuf said the Arewa Coalition has taken to court the issue of identity card in order to seek justice and be freed from undue molestation in the hands of the people in the area.

“We are embarrassed with this issue of identity cards. Why should it be only traders or Muslims from the north that should be identified?.

‘We have taken the case to a court in Enugu, and we are hopeful that the State Governor, Sullivan Chime is ready to help us by sending his lawyer to stand for us”,he said.

The Secretary-General of the ACF, Col. John Ubah (rtd) also told the visiting northerners from the East that ACF was established to protect the whole north and its people.

He said whatever happened to any northerner anywhere was always considered a serious issue.


http://tribune.com.ng/news/news-headlines/item/11048-igbos-n45-trn-investments-in-north-at-risk-acf

Allah is God in Arabic. i don't know where you got that from

stacomaster: Pls I want to knw why Muslims don't like putin Allah as God...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1mNgg8TtTM

talk2riel: Its better you remain at the confusion state. The next stage is YABA left, the bible is the most self explanatory book if you try not to read or quote it out of context.

your response makes it clear that you don't read or ever knew that the bible has some of this content, you can just give a reasonable reply rather than start insulting. please tell me how else to quote those verses, lets see how you can twist it?

please any knowledgeable christian here who can explain this........cause am really confused right nowwwwwwwwww

What the Bible says about Children

Children who refuse to obey their parents must be executed.
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. -- Deuteronomy 21:18-21
He that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. -- Exodus 21:15
He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. -- Exodus 21:17
Children who mock their parents will have their eyes plucked out by ravens and eaten by eagles.
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. -- Proverbs 30:17
Like Abraham, parents should be willing to kill their children for God.
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and ... offer him there for a burnt offering.... And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. -- Genesis 22:2,10
God killed all the firstborn children in an entire country.
The LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon.... And there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead. -- Exodus 12:29-30
Sometimes God kills children for misbehaving.
And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them. -- 2 Kings 2:23-24
Someday God will force parents eat their own children.
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. -- Leviticus 26:29
And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters. -- Deuteronomy 28:53
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend. -- Jeremiah 19:9
And then there's this statement, which could only be found in the Bible:
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. -- Psalm 137:9