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Hausa/Fulani . . . .

Seems they may be heading for a divorce?

The police authorities, yesterday, disputed claims by Islamic sect, Boko Haram which claimed responsibility for weekend’s massacre in some villages in Plateau State. More than 86 people including two lawmakers were killed in the mayhem, even as there were fresh attacks on two villages yesterday.

The Islamic sect in a statement purportedly issued by its spokesman, Abu Qaqa claiming responsibility for the killings said: “Jama’atu Ahlissunnah Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad wants to inform the world of its delight over the success of the attacks we launched on Barkin Ladi and Riyom in Plateau State on Christians and security operatives, including members of the National Assembly. We will continue to hunt government officials wherever they are; they will have no peace again.”

Disputing Boko Haram’s claim, however, a police source in Plateau who requested anonymity told AFP that if Boko Haram were involved, it would be because the Fulani invited them to take part. Suspected Fulani were the ones that carried out that attack. That is the opinion of the police”. The source specified that the Fulani herdsmen were responsible for both the Saturday and Sunday violence.

A member of the House of Representatives representing Jos South and Jos East Federal Constituency, Bitrus Kaze said that foreign mercenaries were responsible for the attacks in some communities last weekend. The federal lawmaker who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme said that these mercenaries some of who are from Chad have stayed in the Fulani community in Plateau State for about two years.

Two more villages attacked

Meanwhile, two more villages in Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area have been attacked by gunmen who reduced them to rubble. The attack was confirmed yesterday by member representing Riyom Constituency in the Plateau State House of Assembly, Mr. Daniel Dem who gave the names of the villages as Tse and Shong.

“I can authoritatively confirm to you that as I am talking to you now, the same gunmen from top of the mountains have attacked two more villages. The two villages, Tse and Shong have been reduced to ruin with no house standing. The gunmen came in their usual style with sporadic shooting.

“The villagers were scared and they ran out of their houses and the gunmen set the houses ablaze rendering them homeless and increasing the number of displaced people”, he said.

He said about 140 corpses were strewn all over the area now because people are afraid to go and pick them up for burial since Sunday’s attack on the burial procession.

The Plateau State Government has, however, relaxed the curfew imposed in four local government areas of the state by five hours. It announced after a State Security Council meeting on Tuesday that the curfew would now be from 6pm to 7am.

Lawmaker flays emergency rule in four LGAs

Still smarting from his miraculous escape in an attack that took away two other law makers, member representing Barkin-Ladi/Riyom Constituency in the House of Representatives, Mr. Simon Mwadkon has said that there had been more killings and destruction since President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency on four local government areas of the state, saying it is time to review the declaration.

“It is time to review the security situation, especially the state of emergency because it has achieved nothing. If anything, there has been more killings, more destruction of farmlands during this period than any other. Everybody has been pushed to the wall and I am tired of telling the people to be calm. People must defend themselves”, he said.

He told journalists yesterday that the attacks on his constituents by the Fulani is a continuation of the ‘jihad’ which started since 1804 to forcefully Islamize minority tribes in the Northern part of the country, adding that his people were regretting their hospitality to the Fulani.

He also expressed the desire of the Fulani to acquire more land for grazing as another reason adding that they are always seeking ways of gaining more grounds.

Reacting to statements credited to an official of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, Mallam Saleh Bayari that the Fulani were retaliating attacks on them in past crises in the state during which they lost several lives and property, Mwadkon said there was no truth in the claim.

“It had been the agenda of the Fulani since the jihad of Usman Dan Fodio, who proclaimed that for the whole North to be Islamized, all the Northern minorities must be conquered. It has been the agenda since 1804 when the jihadists failed to capture the Middle belt region, which they want to use as a launching pad to capture the south. It is their belief that once the Northern minorities were captured, they will be willing tools for the capture of the South.

“Another reason is the quest for grazing reserves and that was why the House of Representatives killed the bill on grazing reserves because it has caused a lot of havoc in the country. I don’t know why they are saying that they lost property in 2001 because the 2001 crisis only ended in Riyom. It never got to Gashish (the area attacked last Saturday).

“And talking about their destroyed villages, I don’t know how many villages they have because you know these people are not indigenes. They don’t have any village. All the places they settled, they bought from the natives and paid royalties. It’s just that after a time, we felt that they have integrated enough and allowed them and this we regret till today”, he said.

Mwadkon had on Monday accused some men of the Special Task Force maintaining security in the state of complicity in the attacks on his people, adding that there was an Al-Queda base within some farmlands in Riyom Local Government Area which needed to be uprooted.

STF confirms 86 killed

Meantime, the Special Task Force (STF) in charge of security in Plateau State has given the number of those killed in last weekend’s violence in the state as 86 made up of the two lawmakers, 63 villagers and 21 of the attackers.

STF’s spokesman, Captain Salisu Mustapha confirmed to journalists yesterday that two anti-riot policemen were also killed in the attack but said no other person died in the attack on the funeral procession on Sunday apart from the two lawmakers.

He denied reports that soldiers ran away from the scene following the attack on the funeral procession at Matse, adding that what happened was that the commanding officer ordered those present to lie down flat when the shooting started but rather than heed his instruction, the people started running leading to a stampede.

His clarification has, however, not doused allegations of complicity of some military men in the attacks on the villages as both Governor Jonah Jang and member representing Barkin-Ladi/Riyom federal constituency, Mr. Simon Mwadkon re-echoed this at different fora, yesterday.

Jang while receiving Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State who led a delegation on sympathy visit to his Plateau State counterpart said it was clear that there were “enemies within”.

According to him, “something must definitely be wrong. I have seen it and some of you have seen it that there is a lot of collusion even within the security forces. A lot of the members of Boko Haram and others are also part of the security men that are wearing uniforms today.

“Even when you plan operations, before you carry out the operations, the enemies have already known. Having been part of the military forces, it is a very dangerous thing to have enemy within, it is the most dangerous enemy you can ever have.”

Mwadkon had levelled similar allegation, noting that the manner of attack on the funeral precession at Matse on Sunday was suspicious.

“Before the attack, a member of the STF asked us to relocate the ambulance we brought to the village on the premise that he wants to bring in an armoured tank. We complied without wasting time, only for him to bring in a Hi-lux vehicle to block the only access road leading to the village.

“The next thing we heard was a signal shot which was later followed by the appearance of gunmen from the nearby hills. The entire military men within the vicinity took to their heels leaving behind a police man who piloted us. We could not escape because the only narrow road to the area had been blocked by the Hi-lux vehicle.

“While we were running, there was a gunshot that disorganized us and many of us fell down. The Majority Leader, Plateau State House of Assembly, Hon. Gyang Fulani and Senator Dantong were unconscious and put in separate vans. But to my surprise one hour after I got to the hospital, the two vans which left before me had not arrived. When Hon. Fulani was brought he died in my presence while Dantong was brought dead to the hospital. So something is wrong somewhere,” he said.

Suswam had during the condolence visit to Jang described the death of a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the manner Dantong died as a national disgrace advising that it should not be seen as a Plateau problem but one which every patriotic Nigerian must come together to find a solution.

He said: “This has become a recurring decimal in Plateau. I believe that as leaders, we must together, find a solution to this. It is not a Plateau problem, this is a Nigerian problem. This incident is of course a shame to the entire nation that a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic and a member of the House could die in an incident such as this.

“This is unfortunate and this must attract the concern of all well-meaning Nigerians. I believe also as leaders, we should not stand by and watch this drift into an irreversible crisis in this country.

“It is difficult for people who have lost their loved ones to take this easily except we as leaders live up to our responsibilities,” he said.

http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/nigeria/201207/89963.php

The same UK govt that announced this week that home students demand for university places had dropped by 9%.

They are only looking at how to fill the classrooms with mugs that will pay thousands and thousands for their sub standard education.

Beaf: Where any of the voices screaming in Hausa, Yoruba, Ebira or Jukun?
Ayam just axing o! Becos, bro, Satan is a Nigerian.

Lol,

So the 'Russians' have drilled through into Nigeria and claimed they have discovered hell.

The 'Bat Like creatures' are probably our deceased former politicians.

@op - it must be true.

cap28: As usual the only one who has an inkling about what's really going on.

We're doomed - if the truth must be told.

Al Quaeda is linked to the CIA (everyone knows that) - and Boko Haram is linked to Al Quaeda.

Al Quaeda have served their purpose in Iraq and Libya (and now Syria) - just as Boko Haram are serving their true masters in Nigeria.

Kobojunkie: ^^ Grow a brain already!! if you do not want to listen, find another thread to derail!

Go fc.uk yourself witch - thanks in advance.

Problem - Reaction - Solution (Send in the Drones)

Afghanistan - Iraq - Libya - Syria/Nigeria.

Budget 2013: FG to set up sinking fund on domestic debt – Okonjo-Iweala

On July 10, 2012 · In News 12:47 amEmail0

By Babajide Komolafe & Lazarus Ibeabuchi
LAGOS — The Federal Government will set up a sinking fund to retire some of the nation’s N5.3 trillion domestic debt stock from 2013 fiscal year, with the aim of gradually reducing the huge domestic debt burden.

Meanwhile, the total wage bill of the Federal Government has risen to N1.6 trillion due to the implementation of the new minimum wage, while 39 per cent of capital expenditure for fiscal 2012 has so far been implemented.



Responding to concerns about the nation’s rising debt profile, she said: “It is indeed true that our debt ratio is alright and sustainable at this moment. That is why the rating agencies upgraded Nigeria when they were downgrading everyone else. Our debt-GDP ratio, if you just take federal debt, it is about 17 per cent—both domestic and foreign. If you add what we have from the states, we could get up to 21 per cent as opposed to a standard of 25 to 30 per cent which we have set for the country.

Slow down on borrowing
“Now, we have to worry about the debt service to revenue. But even if we are okay internationally, we have to look at the composition. It is true that domestic debt is worrying. Our problem is not external debt. Our external debt is very low, two per cent of GDP. But we really need to slowdown the rate of borrowing domestically.

“The interest rate at which the Federal Government and states are raising debt at the moment is too high. We are raising debt at 15 per cent because we need the money to finance our expenditure and finance capital. But if you can raise debt at zero or one per cent somewhere else, which one will you go for?

“So, we need some expertise to manage and balance these. Now, what are we doing? Since I came on board, we have been trying to decelerate the rate of accumulation of domestic debt because since you rammed up expenditure in the past three or four years, you cannot just bring it down overnight, otherwise the country will shut down.

“What we can do is to bring down the trajectory. And we have done that sharply. For 2011 budget, we borrowed N852 billion, we brought this down to N744 billion in 2012 budget and we are going to take it down in 2013 budget. What we are aiming at is to bring it down to a level of about N500 billion in the medium term.

Sinking Fund

“At the same time we already have about N5.9 trillion of domestic debt. The issue is let us deal with the flow, because debt is two things—stock and flow. For the stock, we also begin to retire some so that we don’t continue to keep the debt and making it accumulate. We are proposing in this budget, opening a sinking fund, where we are going to take a chunk of our money and put it there in the fund and we are going to take money and retire one or two of the bonds. So we begin to be responsible. We are not going to just keep on refinancing our debt. This budget is going to be tight. We are going to use money upfront, with Mr. President’s permission to pay our debt.”

FG’s wage bill hit N1.6trn

Director-General Budget Office, Dr. B. Okogu, said increased wage bill was one of the factors for the huge domestic debt profile. He said: “In terms of expenditure, personnel cost accounted for a chunk of the recurrent budget. This includes the 53 per cent increase to civil servant, increase in minimum wage, etc. These contributed to the current wage bill of N1.6 trillion. For the first time, it ran to N1 trillion in 2004, but today, that budget cannot pay salary.

“The external debt has gone down but the local debt has been rising due to the deficit budget over the years and the wage bill contributed to this. We have to manage the debt particularly now that the oil market is slumping.

“Another challenge on the implementation of the budget is that we also have too many ongoing projects which are more than 6,000. For instance, education had 1,374 on-going projects or 22 per cent, health has 968 or 15 per cent, works has 400 or 6 per cent and power has 532 projects, among others. We need about N7 trillion to finish all these.

There is not enough money to implement the budget. But so far we have released about N404 billion for capital expenditure this year of which N304 billion was for first quarter and N100 billion for second quarter. So far, implementation level is about 39 per cent.”


No Wonder She was Shwoing Cleavage - Seems she's not performing as well as she makes out

She's obviously utilizing them as a 'distraction tactic' . . .

I've seen this many times - maybe she was about to present somemore bogus schemes and she didn't want to be questioned.

By 'highlighting' the cleavage it will divert most of those guy's attention away from what she's saying.

I've fallen for this many a time!

How much tax does Tinibu pay?

Yet he's somehow managed to start enslaving ignorant lagosians through his puppet fashola.

Wake up people of Lagos.

tunapawizzy: My broda dts ova a thousand dollars per trip...no be small something

How do I lobby NNPC to put a pipeline running through my village?

If na politician wey dey steal dis money we go hail am.

Screw the FGN.

Let each man go collect his own.

As part of the efforts to end the scourge of corruption in the country, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday convened a three-arm meeting on corruption.

The meeting which was the first ever tripatrite meeting on corruption in the country was at the instance of the president and it lasted for two hours.

At the end, the Federal Government is expected to produce a National Strategy on Fight Against Corruption.

The president in recent time has come under attacks for not doing enough to curb the scourge, which many said was systemic.

Besides, his recent refusal to declare his assets publicly also fan the allegation that he was soft on corruption, an allegation the president was quick to reject promising to bear his fang, especially with the probe on the management of fuel subsidy fund. He had promised to ensure that any individual or company found guilty will be made to face the full wrath of the law.

The meeting which was chaired by the president also have on the side of the Presidency, Vice President Namadi Sambo, Secretary to Government of Federation (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, Head of Service of the Federation, Bello Sali, Central Bank Governor (CBN), Lamido Sanusi, Chairman EFCC, Chairman ICPC and of course the Attorney General of the Federation.

The president of the Senate, David Mark, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, led the leadership of the National Assembly to the meeting which was held at the Presidential Council Chambers, Abuja.

Others from the National Assembly include, Senate Leader and House Leader, the Senate Committee Chairman on Drugs Narcotics and Financial Crimes and his counterpart from the House of Representatives.

From the Judiciary, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Dahiru Musdafa, the acting President of the Court of Appeal, the Judges of the Federal Capital Terrority (FCT), Lagos, Kaduna and Anambra.

Speaking to State House Correspondents at the end of the meeting, Senate Majority Leader, Senator Ndoma Egba said the unprecedented meeting discussed on how the three arms of government could work together to stem corruption in the country. Senator Egba, briefed alongside, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Drugs, Narcotics and Anti-corruption, Senator Victor Lar, Hon. Mulikat Akanda, Majority Leader, House of Represenatives, Chairman House Committee on Drugs, Narcotics and Financial Crimes, Hon. Adams Jagaba, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Muhammed Adoke, Chairman Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde and Acting Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Ekpo Nta.

Senator Egba also noted that the Presidency like other arms of government is worried at the level of corruption and have resolved to come out with National Strategy on Fight Against Corruption soon.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/politics/53254-fed-govt-plans-national-strategy-on-corruption.html

"Adamu, another suspect, said he was introduced to the business by one Alhaji Abdullahi and is usually paid N180, 000 per trip"

Lol,

But Alhaji dey pay well ohh . .

Has Africa made it to the list of US geopolitical priorities?
Why is the US military expanding its secret intelligence operations in Africa?
What is behind the growth of AFRICOM?
Why is the US training and equipping militaries in a number of African states?
Is it a price to pay for peace and order in Africa?
Or is it just about the protection and promotion of American interests at the expense of Africa's search for stability?

CrossTalking with Ivan Eland, Peter Pham and James Mittleman on July 9






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkinBtaZe5Q&feature=g-all-u

"The minister said that the fund would also take care of victims of other forms of violence."

So Boko Haram victims are included,

Nice initiative - if its implemented.

Nice initiative . . . if its implemented.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, says the Federal Government will soon establish a special fund to enable accident victims receive free medical treatment.

Chukwu said this in Abuja on Monday at the inauguration of a three digit free-toll emergency call line 122 for the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC).
The minister said that the fund would also take care of victims of other forms of violence.

According to him, two new trauma centres will be set up at the National Hospital in Abuja and the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada.
Chukwu said that existing centres at teaching hospitals in Lagos, Enugu, Kano, Jos, Port Harcourt and Maiduguri would be strengthened to enable them to handle trauma arising from accidents and disasters.

He said that the measures were part of efforts by the Federal Government to ensure that accident victims and other forms of violence received prompt medical attention.
Chukwu said that the inauguration of the three digit emergency call line by the FRSC was significant as it would enable the commission to respond promptly to evacuate victims of accident to hospitals.

He said it would also guarantee their prompt medical attention and reduce the complications that might arise from accidents and disasters.

The minister said that the commission’s initiative was pragmatic and a positive development, adding that it was in line with the present administration’s transformation agenda.

``I, therefore, enjoin all Nigerians and road users not to only support this scheme but to store in their telephone handsets the emergency toll-free number and make use of same promptly in case of emergencies.
``The Ministry of Health associates with the FRSC and would continue to collaborate with the commission towards ensuring that road traffic crashes are eliminated or reduced to the minimum,’’ he said.

Mr Osita Chidoka, the Corps Marshal of the FRSC, said that the establishment of the call centre by the commission was to assist accident victims.

According to him, the call centre is necessitated by the need to create a veritable window through which seamless information can flow to it whenever there are road accidents.

Chidoka said that since the inception of the call centre in 2008, the commission had received over 19,000 calls, adding that most of the calls bordered on road crashes, complaints, suggestions and inquiries on traffic issues.

He said that the centre had received calls on fire outbreak, armed robbery, bomb blasts, building collapse, plane crash and other non-road traffic crash emergencies.

Chidoka thanked the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), the National Security Adviser (NSA) and the Ministers of Health, Information and Communication and Technology for facilitating the allocation of the line to the FRSC.

In his goodwill message, Mr Anyim Pius Anyim, the SGF, commended the FRSC for setting up the free-toll call line.

He said it would facilitate communication between the commission and road users during accidents

http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/news/284-breaking-news/40844-fg-to-give-accident-victims-free-medical-treatment

Lol,

So fear kill the man,

And see the way NLanders de spit blood.

Ohh . . . a swift action as it was politicians involved.

If the death of politicians brings about a robust response from govt then let more of them be slaughtered.

warya123: well believe it or not somalis own kenya...before somalis came to kenya, the indains owned all the business...somalis are the best traders...we are good with money...economics cause i like math...am a nerd love math and science...


below are more of my beautiful people...glad am not a negroid bantu...lol

Lol,

Have you not insulted enough people already - now you claim Somalia own Kenya!

As I stated earlier - Somalia doesn't have a economy anymore.

And I suspect that like a lot of your people - you'll be a refugee for a long long time.

warya123: am somali...i came before negroid or arabs or white...



just cause we good looking don't mean that we are not african or black...we just an ethnic group that is separate from you negorids...

You people look like a 'Bad Mutation' of an Arab.

You clearly dont have an ethnicity - hence your frustration.

Your country is a 'basket case' for a reason - because of cowards like you.

Somalia is the most embarassing country in Africa - because of cowards like you.

When the time is right - blacks will reclaim Somalia and rid it of the last few cowards/Arabs that remain.

warya123: am not a coward...their are more somalis fighting than going to school...so i rather get my education and change my country for the better...alot of my people don't have the chance or opportunity to go and get a masters in economics.

Why would your people seek a masters in economics - when you have no economy?

It would have been better you study 'Piracy' or 'Explosives training' - that would have served your people better.

warya123: why do you refer to me as an arab...am somali...arabs are across the ocean....why do people always want to label me either as a arab or bantu...


am an ethnic group...which lies between the negroids...and the arab...

So your a 'Mongoloid'?

Either way your not really an Afican . . . anymore!

Who was the Negroid - Your mother or father?

warya123: I can never show up on time, i think i look too good to die...so am gonna let my other somalis do what they do...

Lol,

A true coward . . . aka 'An Arab'

warya123: people are already going back...me am gonna finish my education first...am studying economics...am getting my masters...than i will go back...goes their are too many infidels in this country.



americans are the most ugliest people...60 percent are overweight or obese...i get hit on by overweight african american females...who look at my hair and think i am god...looool

don't let me start on the black men who convert to islam cause they think they might marry a somali women...when they find out the girl won't date a black...he calls us racist...


then their are the crazy hill billies who think i will blow up if i get angry...


i need to go back to my homeland...

It sounds like your an 'Arab' who's homeland is not really Somalia but 'Arabia'.

Do you know where your people actually came from?

When you finish your studies are you going to become a 'Pirate' or Terrorist?

warya123: united states of america, home of the infidel and great satan.


I really dislike you bantu africans. You make me vomit in my mouth.

ARE YOU PLANNING A TERRORIST ATTACK ON US SOIL?

You seem to hate them?

warya123: united states of america, home of the infidel and great satan.


I really dislike you bantu africans. You make me vomit in my mouth.

Lol,

Its a shame your country is now decimated.. . . . Only becuase you people have become refugee's everywhere.

The worst thing about you refugee's is that you have never been civilized - and so wherever you people go your seen as a filthy people.

When are you going to go back to that your war torn land to start rebuilding?

Martial Law must be declared in ALL Northern states.

The military should be deployed indefinitely and a 6 to 6 curfew imposed until further notice.

"The funeral was just concluded when heavily armed men in military uniforms descended on the mourners, shooting at the senator and other officials at point blank range."

Was it soldiers - are an armed militia?

Do Boko Haram now have army uniforms? Or have the army joined Boko Haram?

@Op,

Your obviously a frustrated refugee.

What country gave you asylum?

well they do say 'two heads are better than one' . . .

I suspect she's been a recipient of some 'Bill Gates' vaccines.

He should have been arrested and charged with economic sabotage, bribery and 'the manslaughter of the english language'.

He should be remanded in custody until a trial date - the evidence he has produced should be used against him.

Lawan should turn 'supergrass' in exchange for immunity and testify against Odetola.

Once he's found guilty his businesses should be nationalised by the government and then auctioned of to the highest bidder.

Lawan after testifying should be booted out of the house of reps and banned from holding any political office again.

The $625,000 he collected should be considered as his payoff and pension.