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allthingsgood:
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[s]A very unintelligent write up. Quite bogous and ridiculous, I must say![/s]

IMBE ordinary BOGUS you no fit spell

He who has no sin should cast the first stone..
The reps should please explain to us how they utilized their constituency project allowances I bet you when they're through about 98% of them will have no limbs left especially the returning ones.

Amputation of limbs is Sharia law, we don't need sharia law in this country. The constitution can be amended to ensure stiff penalties for treasury looters, the EFCC/ICPC can have special tribunals set up for them to enhance accelerated hearing of cases. Chopping of hands is barbaric, illiterate and stúpid.

ARGUE WITH YOUR ANCESTORS

olapluto:
All bolded statements are lies.
Gen Buratai was only director of procurement between February 17 2014 to May 18 2014. This information is available with the Nigerian army, and on many news websites. There is also a video on youtube of Buratai's time as commandant of Nigerian Army training school.

but he was sha director of procurement abi ?

HiddenShadow:
Dem no born Rochy well to try am

something that he's ready to implement

LAjibade:
What is "Lawa"?

lawa/na wa = this is wonderful

Lalasticlala

RedCapChief:
First, any place that makes you comfortable in sin is not a church. Thus, this is a redundant statement.

I'm also very comfortable in my church. We have installed some multi-split air conditioners for proper ambience. We also have sub-woofers and surround sound speakers for praising God. The nice leather chairs prevent lack of blood flow to the rump when pastor is preaching. Yes, i am very comfortable.

people are talking about spiritual comfort you're talking about the physical comfort you enjoy in church. Use your kafa

humanbeing5th:
Pls wat is ghana self?

the name of a laptop

As long as you sell audio/video cd's of papa's messages, papa & mama's books, anointing oil and holy water, you have to pay your tithe tax to Okorocha SHIKENA

Anything that will keep those murderous herdsmen off peoples farms is a welcome development, their murderous thieving activities have gone out of hand. The northern state governors should open ranches for them

The Imo State government has announced that all religious organizations in the state will henceforth be taxed.

Addressing a press conference, on Thursday, in Owerri, the state capital, the commissioner for Internally Generated Revenues, IGR, and Pension matters, Dr Orikaeze Vitalis Ajumbe, disclosed that every religious body that does business in the state will be taxed.

Mr Ajumbe said: “Every church in the state must pay tax. Every one of them that does business in the state must be taxed. Whether they run schools or other establishments, we will tax them.

“Only the offerings will be not be taxed”, he added.

Dr Ajumbe said it was to make government meet up with its responsibility of paying the workers salaries, building of infrastructures and rendering good governance to the people.

He also asserted that with the fall of the crude oil price in the international market, the state government must continue to look inwards in order to meet up with its obligations to the people.

He urged everybody in the state to promptly pay their tax.

http://www.opinionriver.com/imo-state-government-set-to-tax-churches/

satelliteDISH:
[s]Na wetin be this nah? Ok sorry, I don remember PHOTOSHOP[/s]

bolaji3071 post=42277711:
[s]Jesus is Coming soon o
Please repent and turn away from your evil ways.[/s]

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a little research on Google will give you people sense http://www.ghanakasa.com/2016/01/24/ayariga-forms-new-party-apc-all-peoples-congress/

It seems the Nigerian ruling party All Progressives Congress has opened a branch office in Ghana though with a slightly different name and veeeery slightly different logo (ALL PEOPLES CONGRESS).

Lets just hope and pray for our Ghanaian brothers that their APC party is not a violence loving fraudulent entity like our darling ruling party.

APC CHANGE

Where's the half donkey ? This viviangist can lie for state sha

Olawunmi Ojo

The implementation of the Federal Government’s plan for a special grass cultivation programme across the nation as a means of stemming incessant clashes between farmers and normadic cattle herdsmen may begin soon.

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, gave the hint when the he received the Surveyor-General of the Federation, Mr. Ebisintei Awudu.

Ogbeh said the resolve of government would improve agribusiness in the livestock sector by expanding it to include commercial production of grass in the southern part of the country to feed cattle.




According to him, it would bring to an end the roaming of the cattle-rearers and perennial conflicts between the pastoralists and crop farmers in different parts of the nation.

To this end, Ogbeh disclosed that some grasses that produced 28 per cent crude protein, taken from Africa to Brazil and which had been subjected to 16 years of research, would be brought in for use under this programme.

“By the end of April this year, the first grass supply may have arrived or could be on the way to the country.

“We are taking a radical step and we are beginning now. We are going to grow grass on a very large scale across the country,” he said.

The minister emphasised that the continued existence of cattle grazing and stock routes would continue to breed conflicts and deaths.

To reverse the untoward trends, Ogbeh stressed that cattle roaming had to end. “We just have to grow grass. The largest cattle ranch in the world is in Saudi Arabia with 153,000 cows, and the country sells milk to other gulf states. But they buy grass from Sudan and US, and are planning to buy more from Ethiopia.”

He noted that the north was not yet a desert, saying, “It is only arid.”

Besides, he said the north had many dams that could be used for irrigation and cultivation of grass, in addition to what would be done in the south.

“If certain countries sell grass to Saudi Arabia, there is no reason we cannot grow grass in Nigeria in the south and sell to the north of this country.”

While noting that the old grazing reserve system was no longer feasible as states were having problems with it, Ogbeh said if the grass programme was well implemented, Nigeria should have no roaming of cattle in another five years.

Meanwhile, the Surveyor-General of the Federation, Awudu, said that his office had mapped the entire country and had its satellite image at 2.5 metre resolution.

He said his office was ready to assist the Minsitry of Agriculture in survey and mapping of soils, placement of canals and other infrastructure, and site selection for animal husbandry.

On his part, a director in the office of the surveyor-general, Barde Jatau, who was also on the team, stressed the need for collaboration between the ministry and the office.

Jatau said, “The office had collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture on geospatial imagery, which will play a key role in site selection for animal husbandry.”

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http://www.punchng.com/cattle-grazing-fg-unveils-plan-for-growing-grass/

I have this funky feeling that the Kano state govt will use this letter as an excuse to demolish and if possible kill any Shiites there

whytfaz:
[s]Lol after reading this It is very obvious you were refering to your self meaning you are piece of shit cuz a sane Nigerian will never say this but then again not everyone that walks around is Sane [/s]

the only crázy shíthead around here is you

Emekamex:
You must be new in Nigeria.

I guess he would have had a different opinion if the report said Igbo man or Ijaw man as the perpetrators

Omotolu:
That Kemi is too young and inexperienced to be a Minister of Finance. I won't be surprised if she is "doing" a top gun in Ogun State to have got that position.

I won't say her age is the problem, lets just agree we had better people in her position before and even if she got her position because it was zoned to Ogun state, I strongly believe Ogun has people of more international clout and pedigree in the financial sector than Mrs Adeosun. Political partisanship aside, our economy is in a mess and she obviously doesn't have a handle on anything going on around her. The day I gave up on her was when she said she had no clue on where funds that were being returned to the country were a whole finance minister.... Smh

•Like Madam Zakari, INEC REC in Kogi remains in office beyond tenure
•Why Nigerians must compel FG to obey the Constitution

By Jide Ajani

Perhaps, because the more vocal sector of Nigeria’s civil society has been co-opted into the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, Federal Government, there is a creeping danger into Nigeria’s electoral system as President Muhammad Buhari has serially refused to obey the provisions of the 1999 Constitution regarding the composition of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the same body that was reformed and structured to deliver an election that ironically brought him to power.

In the latest in a long series by Sunday Vanguard, it has been discovered that the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, for Kogi State, appointed on December 16, 2010, and whose tenure should have ended on December 16, 2015, is still sitting pretty in office. Either because of an oversight, or a deliberate base appeal to primal and ethane-religious considerations, or both, Hussaini Halilu Pai, is still in office over 39 days after the expiration of his tenure. This, at a time when the statutory 13-member Commission is not in place, leading to half-baked and sometimes confusing policy statements from INEC. This report will show the danger in what President Buhari is doing and why men and women of goodwill must guide him appropriately before Nigeria’s electoral system (of which he is a major beneficiary) is sent to the dogs.

Hussaini Halilu Pai, appointed December 16, 2010, and was expected to have finished his tenure by December 16, 2015, is still in office as Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, for Kogi State. Mind you, that was the state where the controversial governorship election produced an outcome that has confounded even the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He hails from the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. Vanguard’s Boluwaji Obahopo, correspondent in Kogi State, upon inquiry from Kogi State office of INEC last Friday, confirmed authoritatively that Halilu Pai was still in office operating as REC for Kogi State.

Two others, Dr. Kwanga Godwin M., from Benue State, and Mr. Akinyemi Orebiyi, from Ogun State, who were also appointed on the same date of December 16, 2010, have since left the employ of INEC and moved on.

The question is, why is President Muhammad Buhari still keeping Hallilu Pai in office some 39days since the expiration of his tenure?

Perhaps, it is traditional with the emerging realities of the modus operandi of Mr. President in his appreciation of the fundamentality of the electoral process as a critical bastion of democracy which is expected to lead to good governance.
President Muhammadu Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari

But as was the case with Madam Amina Zakari, so it is now with Pai today. Another question is, what infraction would President Buhari come up with again, in this macabre appreciation of the real essence of obedience to rule of law?

Many and not a few stakeholders in the politically effervescent Kogi State are wondering – particularly INEC staff – that what started in the national headquarters of INEC Abuja where an “acting Chairman” of INEC was unconstitutionally imposed and continued illegally in office even when her tenure ended on the July 21, 2015, and the National Assembly kept quiet, has now been extended to Kogi State that now has an “acting Rec” on account of the unofficial extension of the Kogi State REC’s tenure, perhaps earned, according to stakeholders, from events arising from the recent inconclusive elections in the state.

This special REC, whose conditions for appointment to the office, as clearly indicated in the Constitution, requires clearly defined consecutive steps beginning at the National Council of State and Senate approval. Consequently, not a few tongues have been kept wagging in speculative anxiety over how the political appointee earned the special treatment and the very first of its kind. Inside sources at the INEC headquarters confirmed that the REC had written a hand-over note just as the then “acting chairperson” also claimed that she was not aware of anything as she was driving home when she received a call to continue in office without due process.

No doubt, the failure of Nigerians to rise up against the first unconstitutional retention of a National Commissioner as an “Acting chairperson” of the electoral commission despite the attrition of her tenure of office, has now been taken to the states starting with Kogi.

Insiders in INEC say that what is happening in Kogi with a REC whose tenure had ended but is still staying in office could not have happened under the leadership of Professor Attahiru Jega who could not be ordered by any authority to allow someone whose tenure had ended to remain in office in violation of the five-year tenure.

A senior official of INEC in Abuja revealed further that were it to be under the regime of Jega, a letter of notice would have long been written to the REC to hand-over to the Administrative Secretary but that “right now nobody could be sure of independence of the commission”.

Regrettably, the National Assembly since the inception of this administration, has been silent on the many unconstitutional acts with respect to INEC.

It was pointed out by those who make such allusions that the former “acting Chairperson “ of INEC Mrs Amina Zakari, worked in legal limbo, because she did not have a constitutionally defined mandate until she was recently re-appointed.

Observers of the electoral arena find such constitutional breaches deeply disturbing because under a very contested political atmosphere, constitutional breaches are grave impeachable offences and can be destabilising for political development. The current government has been plagued by several constitutional missteps regarding INEC, apart from the unguarded removal of an acting “chairperson” as determined by the autonomous decisions of the Commission, the President then allowed the Commission to function with just seven individulas without the defined constitutional board of 13 members and perpetuated this state of affairs till date, making all actions and decisions of the Commission susceptible to legal challenges.

In the same vein, well over 20 states according to sources in INEC, have no RECs yet to be appointed.

COMPOSITION OF INEC BOARD STILL INCONCLUSIVE

The government’s early constitutional breaches when it had not appointed Attorney General were somewhat attributed to that void but since that office now has a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, as the chief legal officer of the country, how do we explain what is going on now in INEC where seven Nigerians are now running the affairs of a constitutionally provided 13-man board from which a quorum of 5 minimum members can sit to take decisions on election matters.

If section 159 of the constitution says one third of a full board of 13 – which a Federal High Court had declared to be 5, the question then is, does one third of the current seven INEC commissioners as configured, give us five members?

Therefore, why is it that the AGF is not giving the president an unimpeachable counsel on the implications of such constitutional breaches, particularly in an atmosphere of internal and external political rancour surrounding the APC government.

The APC, which is a merged party with many internal tensions and clear obvious external tension from an opposition party that is struggling to retain its political relevance, cannot afford the luxury of constitutional violations as this is a dangerous weapon in the hands of its opponents.

INEC is one of the areas where the APC government has however continued to portray itself as inelegant in abiding by statutes and regulation.

For instance, it took the spooking reminder of a various editions of Sunday Vanguard and that of a SAN, Barr. Femi Falana, to inform the government that a subsisting court order required INEC to have its full complement of board members in order to legally conduct elections.

However – and embarrassingly so – the government only made minimalist gestures in addressing the matter by appointing an incomplete board to conduct the affairs of the Commission.

And even at that, Sunday Vanguard discovered that there was no proper background check on two of the commissioners in the light of paragraph 14(2) of the constitution.

NEXT WEEK, WE SERVE YOU THE SEEMINGLY INCOHERENT STATEMENTS FROM INEC ABOUT UPTURNED ELECTIONS

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/how-president-buhari-is-hurting-nigerias-electoral-process/

MissingBudget:
Unfortunately, nothing has been said about checking the excesses of these herdsmen, even after the high profile kidnap of Olu Falae. Fulani herdsmen have shed more blood and constitute more nuisance than Zakzaky and his followers, yet nobody from the presidency has said anything about them. Even el-Rufai and Oshiomhole of the verbal diarrhea have been quiet on the matter. Issokay.

during the Falae debacle I suggested once again that the herdsmen must be compelled to operate cattle ranches instead of trekking thousands of kilometers and destroying peoples farms along the way but you'll be surprised that educated Fulani men violently kicked against that suggestion claiming this was their traditional means of livelihood. I asked if destroying peoples farmlands, ráping peoples wives and daughters and killing them was also part of their livelihood also ? Funny country where a visitor who comes through your community has the right to kill you. I bet you nothing will happen in this case except the people resort to self help then let the skies fall

Adminisher:
I doubt it was Fulani herdsmen. They have absolutely no motive in this killing. This is some serious manipulation

how come you guys always doubt when people say they were kidnapped by Fulani herdsmen even when the victims say so. Happened with Falae, happening here again

By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South & Festus Ahon

UBULU-UKU – DESPICABLE, abominable, horrible, detestable, repugnant, name it. But words are not enough to express the act that has caused agony for the people of Ubulu-Uku Kingdom in Aniocha South Local Government Area of the State.

DELTA MONACHTheir monarch, HRM Akaeze Edward Ofulue III, abducted 19 days ago at about 4.00 pm, on January 5, 2016, by suspected Fulani herdsmen, was discovered stone dead 15 days after the creepy incident.

In Ubulu-Uku and other kingdoms, it is a taboo to kidnap a king, not to talk of killing him. Vigilante group members found his decomposing remains at the stomp of a tree in the bush at Umunede, Ika North East local government area, the boundary between Delta and Edo States.

Ofulue III, a lawyer, businessperson and an ardent Christian of the Deeper Life Bible ministry was driving with a young pastor of the church, who also served as one of his aides in his Land Cruiser Jeep, along the notorious Obior/Igbodo Road when the abductors struck at a disgracefully bad spot. The bad spot, about 40 kilometers from his country home, has been a flash-point in recent times – many persons, including two Catholic Priests were kidnapped at the spot by suspected Fulani herdsmen, who more often than not lay siege there.

How we identified his remains

A vigilante group member, who pleaded anonymity, said they discovered two decomposing corpses in the bush but were able to identify the monarch “because of his beads and apparel,” adding, “The king’s corpse was found resting at the bottom of a palm tree.” The source, who was cornered by our correspondent in the community, said; “We could not identify the second body but the fellow had Hausa shoes on. This is a very challenging period for us in this kingdom. I was one of those who went in search of the king.”



Robbery in the palace

Independent investigation by Sunday Vanguard showed that HRM Ofulue III, who was 10 years on the throne this year just marked the anniversary and was duped of some money running into millions of naira and items, including royal beads by one of his houseboys from the northern part of the country.

A dependable source said, “He kept N2million in the palace but his houseboy allegedly stole the money and ran away with the items.”

Set-up

He added, “I learned that some days after, unknown persons suspected to be the Fulani herdsmen called the king, claiming that they saw his beads and money and that he should come to collect them. They told him to drive to the notorious road and the king not knowing that it was a set-up, set out to meet with them. His fleeing houseboy linked up with the herdsmen, who talked him into arranging the monarch for ransom.

However, Sunday Vanguard could not confirm whether the pastor that went with him and his driver knew that anybody invited the king or that he was on a mission to meet the kidnappers, who pretended to have found his beads.

However, while a version said only he and the pastor were in the car, another said they were three, including his driver.

“At the bad spot, the herdsmen, who laid ambush, came out shooting sporadically. It was obvious they were old in the game, as they led him into the bush immediately leaving his SUV on the roadside.

From available information, the fleeing houseboy did not show up, but it was through him they got the monarch’s phone number with which they established contact.



Deadly escape

Miraculously, both the king and the pastor, managed to break out from the kidnappers’ grip a day after their abduction, but while the pastor was able to make it to Ubulu-Uku, the king could not.

A villager said, the pastor told the story of how he and the monarch broke loose from their abductors, but while he, being younger was able to run with more energy, the monarch, due to his age, could not make it because of exhaustion.

The king reportedly complained that he was tired and needed to rest, but the pastor ran to the community to inform the people. He gave a graphic description of the area in the bush where they took them to, but before any of the search parties could get there, the Fulani herdsmen found the king and took him away.

The escape of the pastor actually raised the villagers’ hope that they could find their king alive and gave them more impetus to comb the forest in search of him, but that was not to be.

The police confirmed the story of the pastor’s escape from the kidnappers den. The pastor, according to our sources, narrated how the herdsmen beat him mercilessly in the bush but spared the king because they know his status.

He disclosed that they took them inside the forest in Mbiri area, closer to Umunede and that their abductors came out when the monarch’s driver slowed down the Jeep at the bad spot.



Contact with palace

Inside the bush, just like the recent kidnap of the former Secretary to the Federal Government, SFG, Chief Olu Falae, by Fulani herdsmen in the Southwest region, they asked the king for the names and phone numbers of his trusted family member that would pay ransom for his release.

The suspected kidnappers established contact with the palace after about three days that they had taken the king hostage and made a demand of N100 million ransom, but later settled for N30 million after much negotiation.

They reportedly requested to speak with one of the monarch’s brothers, Nzekwue Don Ofulue, and warned him never to inform the police about the matter. It was not clear if he hinted the police but the kidnappers subsequently asked the family to bring the ransom to Auchi. On getting to Auchi in Edo State, they instructed him to move to Benin and later to Kwale in Delta State. Frustration

With the escape of the pastor, the abductors became quite perturbed and panicky. They knew that the game had become more dangerous with the police and the community people looking for them, but they were still desperate to collect the ransom. “It was to divert the attention of the police and people hunting for them that they asked the family to bring the ransom to Auchi in Edo State and when they got there, they told them to come to Benin and later Kwale,” a source said. However, they were very suspicious that the family had contacted security agents and that they would be arrested once they come out to collect the ransom.



Murder of a king

Our source was not certain whether the houseboy met with the monarch in the kidnappers den after the escape of the pastor or whether the king tried another escape, but the herdsmen took a decision that it was in their best interest to kill the king. They fled after killing him and ceased further communication with the family. Unknown to family members and elders, who thought the king was still alive and furtively discussing how to pay the kidnappers the ransom, but wondering at the same time why the abductors had cut-off communication, the Fulani herdsmen had abandoned the remains of the monarch in the forest and fled.



Dashed expectation

Not many believed the saga would end tragically for the king. In fact, the police in the state kept telling journalists that the monarch was not dead and that it was closing-in on the kidnappers.

From the comments of the Delta State Commissioner of Police, Baba Alkali Usman, it was obvious, however, that the police knew about the kidnappers’ contact with the family and demand for ransom.

Speaking at Udu in Udu local government area of the state at a meeting with the Police Community Relations Committee, PCRC days before villagers found the remains of the monarch, he said the police was trying to rescue them alive.

He said the police was aware of the location of the monarch and another kidnap-victim, a neurologist with the Delta State University Teaching Hospital, DELSUTH, Oghara, abducted before the New Year.

The police commissioners said the police was aware of the location where the kidnappers were holding the two victims but would not disclose plans to rescue the monarch in the media.

He said, “The kidnappers have made calls. We have been able to close-in on their location. We have not been able to rescue them because we are doing a lot of planning. The process of rescuing is delicate so you must be very cautious so that you do not harm the victims”.



Fresh clue!

However, a source close to the palace hinted that security agents arrested a young Hausa man found with the king’s GSM handset, five days ago by the Police.

As at yesterday, Sunday Vanguard could not confirm the identity of the second person whose remains the vigilante members also found alongside the king. A source said the other victim wore a Hausa shoe. It has not been established whether he was an aide of the king or one of the kidnappers eliminated to cover their tracks.

Continues

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/how-fulani-herdsmen-abducted-killed-delta-monarch/

APC as a piece of shít party it really is will take shìt, PDP on the other hand as a responsible entity won't take that rubbish. Thenk

Food that was supposed to be shared during break time class by class. El Rufai is an imbécile sha

talktonase:
Attention seeker!

occupy your brain with sense

It's actually quite funny funny that a budget total of 6 - 8 trillion naira was reached by this administration without the input of ANY minister or economic financial/advisory team just our president's hangers on SHIKENA.
Some time later, ministers and other noise makers were reluctantly appointed and by December last year, the budget was presented before a joint session of the national assembly by Bubu but alas, it was filled with different calibers of yams e.g 3.9 billion naira for BMW cars for the presidency alone plus some other disgraceful entrances while Nigerians were begged to tighten our belts, the noise was so much that rats had to eat the budget documents both online and offline from the national assembly.
Thinking that a good conscience will touch the hearts of our Aso rock occupants, a "revised" budget was brought forward again but its still the same ol shít i.e. 6 trillion naira +, what just happened was that figures were moved around on the document even if it meant duplicating allocations along various parastatals bottom line being there's still a 2+ trillion naira deficit that someone is seriously interested in and that person doesn't want it to go away even if he/she knows that the debt servicing will punish our children's generations to come.

Nigerians got rid of a pick pocket from Aso rock and brought in an armed robbery gang.

ARGUE WITH YOUR ANCESTORS

Topeakintola:
Boring wailers everywhere

What a hypocrite. In the last 2 months, he has tweeted 20 times about Lai Mohammed. Wailing Stalker

This Omokri has been very vocal lately.

Abi he is part of the goats that ate our yam ni?

e pain you sha GEJ IS AT FAULT

omenka:
Na lie jor. PDP been gbadun the man die!! No be him been found their first foot soldiers for election rigging- Bakassi boys??

But at first, those guys did well (if my memory serves me well), but deviated along the way and became a political tool for extortion and oppression.

Make una keep am with Nwobodo, we no need them.

how can you dash us your chieftain We don't like corrupt entities in our party that's why we dash dem to the APC eg Amaechi, Saraki, Atiku, Obasanjo, Sylva etc