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BREAKING: U.S. House passes bill banning abortions after 20 weeks on a 237 to 189 vote.

The problem isn't the gun. It's the person holding the gun.

Liberals all thought Rex Tillerson was going to announce his resignation. � #Morons

Tillerson: "Let me tell you what I've learned about @POTUS... He loves this country. He puts America and Americans first."

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson denies report of rift with President Trump, as Trump rips 'fake news'

Trump slams NBC as a ‘disgrace’ after report that Tillerson called Trump a ‘slowpoke’

Tillerson: "NATO members are now contributing more to shared security."

Strange. No clamouring for gun control after a Somali took out a Christian church - stopped by brave usher with his own weapon. #LasVegas

Has #ISIS infiltrated #Antifa? I'd bet on it.

• FG announces inability to fund capital projects
• 60 per cent of capital votes to be rolled over

The Federal government has announced that it can no longer fund the capital projects provided for in the 2017 budget. This came to light yesterday when the Senate joint committee on Finance and Appropriation subjected the ministers in charge of Finance as well as Budget and National Planning, Kemi Adeosun and Udoma Udo Udoma, to intense grilling over what it considered as very poor implementation of the budget.

The Senate described as unacceptable the release of less than 15 per cent of the N2.240 trillion voted for capital projects in the N7.44 trillion 2017 budget just as many Senators pointed out that such development would be very inimical to the fate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the next election.

Udoma linked the poor implementation of the budget to the delay by the Senate in approving the Federal Government’s plan to borrow some money to fund the 2017 budget.


Adeosun revealed that the Federal Government has so far released N340 billion to fund capital projects for which N2.240 trillion was budgeted.

“At the end of this week we would have released about N440.9 billion on capital budget for 2017,” she added. Adeosun also informed that cumulative releases on current expenditure is N1.5 trillion

The minister said that N128.8 billion has been released for statutory transfers, while funds released for pensions stood at N37.8 billion.

For overheads, N92.4 billion has been released while Service Wide votes has so far gulped N223.6 billion. The budget passed by the National Assembly and signed by the then acting president in June showed that Statutory Transfers got N434 billion, while N1.8 trillion is for Debt Servicing, N177.5 billion for Sinking Fund for Maturity Bonds and N2.99 trillion for Recurrent Non-Debt Expenditure.

The minister disclosed that 60 per cent of the budget for capital would be rolled over to the 2018 budget.

This disclosure attracted further criticisms by lawmakers who queried her on how practicable it would be to implement projects budgeted for in 2017 and the ones in 2018.

Asked to explain why many workers in some federal agencies were not being paid their salaries, Adeosun said it was due to the illegal recruitment in most of those agencies.

Director General in the Budget Office, Ben Akabueze, informed the lawmakers that of the N2.05 trillion earmarked as revenue to fund 2017 budget, only N1.2 trillion has been realised so far.



http://guardian.ng/news/senate-grills-adeosun-udoma-over-breach-in-budget-implementation/?F

I'm somewhat confused. Weren't the weapons used in Las Vegas illegal anyway? How would tighter gun laws prevent them?

Michelle Obama + Dr. Seuss: Inspiring

Melania Trump + Dr. Seuss: “Racist Propaganda”

And the left wonders why they’re losing elections

The Left wants a "conversation" about our Second Amendment rights but those rights--like all basic rights--are not subject to negotiation

MEANWHILE: DOWJones HITS ALL TIME HIGH...


22,650.00+-

Bill O'Reilly @billoreilly

Killing England is #1, beating Hillary Clinton by over 20k copies for week ending Oct 1. Thanks for supporting the book. Viva la Revolution!

obixcel:
Jesus! You mean you couldn't decipher? and I should have to give you a spare brain to figure out properly? phew!

My broda the thing tire me

fact

Well @CNN lied again.no shock

Reports that PR trip is negative when it's overwhelmingly positive.

Trump visits Puerto Rico and the media rips into him.

Trump was correct months ago: The American media right now is our political enemy.

UMUAHIA, Nigeria (Reuters) - A secessionist leader seeking independence from Nigeria has been missing since an alleged military raid more than two weeks ago left his house in the city of Umuahia riddled with bullet holes, its windows smashed and doors hanging off hinges.

The disappearance of Nnamdi Kanu, after the raid the army says did not happen, threatens to ignite separatist unrest capable of destabilizing southeastern Nigeria, a region where a million people died in a 1967-70 civil war over the short-lived Republic of Biafra.

Kingsley Kanu, 48, said he was with his older brother Nnamdi, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, at their family home on the evening of Sept. 14 when soldiers stormed in.

“They were shooting everything they saw,” he said, pointing to bullet holes in walls and windows.

“They came here just to kill everybody,” he said, adding that around 20 IPOB members were shot dead but most of the bodies were taken by soldiers.

Reuters witnesses - a reporter and TV cameraman - on Sept. 27 saw six corpses with bullet wounds in a morgue, who IPOB said were among their members.

Two resembled men in photographs held by weeping relatives who told Reuters their brothers were killed in the raid, though nobody could verify the identities of the four others.

“The military did not raid Nnamdi Kanu’s residence,” a military spokesman told reporters in the capital, Abuja. “Nnamdi Kanu is not in the custody of the military.”

The allegation and denial are the biggest flashpoint of a military deployment in the southeast that began in September.

Civil society groups and analysts say the military presence, last month’s designation of IPOB as a “terrorist organization”, and its leader’s disappearance could prompt the separatists to abandon their policy of non-violence.

President Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim northerner, made a crackdown on secessionists the focus of his first speech in August after returning from three months of medical leave in Britain.

He then held talks with armed forces chiefs who days later launched Operation Python Dance, which the military said was intended to reduce violent crime and “secessionist agitations”.

Soldiers with rifles are present across Umuahia, capital of Abia state, in armored vans and at checkpoints where motorists are routinely questioned.

Buhari is already contending with Boko Haram’s jihadist insurgency in the northeast and seeking to maintain a ceasefire with militants in the southern oil-producing Niger Delta.

But some say the former military ruler risks exacerbating the situation, just as militant attacks in the Niger Delta surged last year after troops were deployed.

HEAVY-HANDED?

“The government’s heavy-handed approach will only shore up local support for a radical group that previously struggled to broaden its base,” said Malte Liewerscheidt of global risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft.

Ryan Cummings, director of Africa-focused risk management company Signal Risk, said the Igbo ethnic group that dominates the region, and has long spoken of being marginalized, felt targeted.

“The government has allowed insecurity to burgeon in other areas of Nigeria without similar deployments,” he said, citing attacks by Fulani herdsmen that have killed hundreds of people in central Nigeria over the last few years.

A wall at the family home of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu features a painted flag of the former Republic of Biafra and holes purportedly caused by bullets, in the city of Umuahia, southeastern Nigeria September 27, 2017. REUTERS/Alexis Akwagyiram
Tension followed the arrival of troops in the southeast.

Abia’s governor imposed a curfew in the city of Aba last month. Several days of tension between IPOB members and troops led to claims by the group that Kanu’s house had been besieged by soldiers, which the military denied.

Videos circulating on social media including footage purportedly showing troops in Abia using sticks to flog men stripped to the waist, which the army said it was investigating, have heightened anger.

“The presence of the army scared our people. People spoke about what happened during the Biafran war,” said Onyebuchi Ememanka, a special adviser to the state’s governor who is a member of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

“There were no serious security challenges that would justify the deployment of troops,” said Ememanka.

He said he never saw IPOB’s members carrying weapons, though he added that a uniformed national guard and secret service had held parades in the last few weeks, which he called a “new dimension”.

Red, black and green paint - the Biafran flag’s colors - daubed on walls and tree trunks across Umuahia follow calls for a referendum on independence.

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Kanu’s release on bail in April, after being held for nearly two years on charges of criminal conspiracy and treasonable offences, brought attention back to the issue.

However, talk of secession among people on the streets of Umuahia mostly hinged on whether or not they had the right to make a democratic choice about their future rather than aligning with IPOB’s belief in a need for a separate state.

Opinions tend to be divided along generation lines, with younger people born long after the war expressing an interest in a referendum while older people who remember the war or grew up hearing stories about the conflict are often wary of even discussing the subject.

However, a pronouncement earlier this year by activists in the northern state of Kaduna that Igbos, who are mainly Christian, should be evicted stirred ethnic tensions. The dispute acted as a lightning rod for frustrations against Buhari, who fought in the civil war on the government side as a young soldier.

A lack of development in the southeast for decades has cemented a belief among Igbos that they have been marginalized.

IPOB ARRESTS

Michael Ogbizi, Abia state police commissioner, said 74 IPOB members had been arrested since Sept. 12 and charged with offences including murder and arson.

Many charges related to the burning down of a police station in mid-September in Aba where nine people died. Ogbizi said police had no records of IPOB members being killed.

An IPOB spokesman denied the group was involved in the fire.

Amid differing opinions about the group’s past conduct, Kanu’s disappearance has created uncertainty about its future.

“If they [the army] have killed him, let them give us the corpse,” said the IPOB leader’s brother, adding that his missing 82-year-old father and 67-year-old mother should be released if they are being held.

Liewerscheidt said if Kanu were to die at the hands of the authorities parallels could be drawn with the origins of the Boko Haram insurgency that began after the death of Mohammed Yusuf, the Islamist militant group’s founder, in police custody.

“This would likely transform IPOB into precisely the terrorist organization the military claims it already is,” he said.

Additional reporting by Camillus Eboh in Abuja and Anamesere Igboeroteonwu in Onitsha; editing by Giles Elgood
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.@TomiLahren: Las Vegas Victims Were Americans, Not Democrats or Republicans

Steve Bannen @SteveBannen

Don't lecture me about gun violence when you support the mass murder of millions of unborn babies.

House Democrat Katherine Clark refuses to participate in moment of silence for Las Vegas victims, walks out of Chamber. This is so sick.

The fact Trump has set so many economic records with ZERO help from Congress is nothing short or miraculous

9inches:
Those were donations by Putin

Or Hillary

#SanJuanMayor says residents are "dying," & somehow @realDonaldTrump is to blame. I'm here. Who is dying? Why? Where? Let me help save them.

People are not dying in Puerto Rico,
The Death Count was 16 a week ago
and its remains 16 today.

GERALDO:
I've been here a week,
I don't see people dying
MAYOR:
You're not going to the right places #Fraud

There uyou have it...

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