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omenka:
Like I said earlier, the FG screwed up on this one. That decision shouldn't have been taken in the first place- now they'd be forced to retreat- bad for public image.

Now you know that your lords are dullards! They screw up again you said? What have they ever done right since taking over?
By the way, I hope Aisha will not be angry reading this.

This will be a good one for First Lady - Mrs Aisha M. Buhari

High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF 2016)

The Fourth High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), convening under the auspices of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), will take place on 11-15 July 2016, followed by a three-day ministerial meeting of the Forum on 18-20 July 2016. The theme of the 2016 session will be 'Ensuring that no one is left behind,' as decided in an ECOSOC plenary session on 14 March 2016.

dates: 11-20 July 2016
venue: UN Headquarters
location: New York City, US

read more: http://climate-l.iisd.org/events/high-level-political-forum-on-sustainable-development-hlpf-2016/

[size=18pt]Next time Buhari is going for any event in US, do you expect Aisha Buhari to follow her husband? If not WHY[/size]

Association of Wailers, please let us start gathering money to sponsor Aisha M. Buhari on her next trip to USA. Since APC is now saving money, we can help the First Lady to make good this trip. If you support this project, kindly comment and sign-in for the project.

BolaHenri:
A story by New York Times in 2007, detailing the track of this Aisha Buhari, did not say she was the president’s wife, but that she'd claimed to be his daughter.
Joshua Assiba, an African migrant who knew the Aisha in question, said she was a very affluent woman who spent thousands of dollars shopping at a pharmacy in the US.
Assiba, who was a security guard at the time, said he struck up a conversation with Aisha and subsequently became friends, adding that “she told him that her father was the former military ruler of Nigeria, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, and that her American friends included politicians like Mr. Jefferson of Louisiana”.
The international passport of the said Aisha, obtained by TheCable, also shows she is not the same as Aisha the president’s wife.

The faces are clearly not alike.But her claims that she is the president’s daughter would look credible to anyone.

According to the passport numbered A034120637, Aisha is surnamed Buhari, and has a given name Mohammadu, not Muhammadu as the president spells his name, and was born in Daura on August 4, 1975 – four years younger than the president’s wife, who was born in February, 1971.

The passport was issued by the Nigerian embassy in Washington DC on January 19, 2012 – and neither the president’s wife nor his daughter ever lived in the US, and could not reasonably have travelled to the US to obtain a Nigerian passport.

Please you guys should take a chill. Fayose should thank his God he has immunity at this moment as a sitting Governor

Let me take you up on the bolded portion.

A) Surname: Buhari - no issue
Names given: Aisha Mohammadu. Now I have issue with this. Why? Because, in procuring passport, names given are usually first name and other names given at birth. How a woman came to be bearing Mohammadu is questionable. That makes this passport FAKE. As usual the hurriedly prepared passport exposes the incompetence of this administration.

B) The passport No 034120637 implies that we already had 34, 120, 637 holders of Nigeria passport as at Jan 2012. This is pure LIE. I got my first e-passport in 2010 and my passport number was A plus 8 digits starting with A 016*****, implying less than 2m passports issued at that time. I renewed same this year and my new number is A 06******, implying we had just about 6-7 million passports issued at 2016. How did this Aisha get passport number in the range of 34 million in 2012

Silvofitz:
It still beats my imagination how a person of the status of a governor would just hit the media with unsubstantiated story. It's shameful. One would have expected that he would have verified his story before coming to feed the public. I begin to suspect that Fayose has skeleton in his cupboard. The timing of the story makes the whole melodrama suspicious. It's like a calculation to garner sympathy from unsuspecting members of the public,to make it look as if Buhari is persecuting him. Alas! Fayose miscalculated. He wanted to create the impression that all of them are not saints.
Unfortunately, Fayose is his own distractor. Instead of concentrating on the business of governance, he's busy gallivanting around as opposition. I know many PDP governors doing so well for their states. He couldn't pay workers' salary; he couldn't even attract investors to the state; he couldn't come up with a team that could formulate policies to move the state forward; and Ekiti state is becoming a laughing stock. Yet, he's busy looking for how he could tarnish the image of the Federal Government. Who would that help?
Mr Governor, stop chasing shadows, and face the business of governance.

The picture below is that of Aisha Buhari involved in Jefferson Scandal. And this is not Buhari's wife.

As I looked at you profile pic, I saw a fine girl, but reading you tells otherwise! Please, do you have a passport? If you do not, ask your parents to procure one for you. Try obtaining one with your ears covered and see if you would be obliged. Again the Aisha M Buhari listed on the Jefferson case matches our president's wife. Please, relate them to the following and see if you still believe yourself:

Both Aishas are Buharis
Both Aishas are from Duara
Both Aishas are related to a former military Head of State
Both Aishas maintained accounts at former Citizen International Bank
Both accounts maintained by both Aishas were domiciled in Citizen International Bank, Plot 130, Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria

Then more curiously, one Aisha lives in the US and have NEVER been arrested by FBI, while our president's wife have LOATHED visiting USA, just like Atiku Abubakar also fingered in the Jefferson case. Curiously, since President Mohammadu Buhari was elected President, the first lady has never followed him to his numerous U.S trips. At the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, she rather sent the wife of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to represent her at the First Lady’s Conference of UNGA. Like someone advised, use your head and stop flowing with the flow!!

project8:
As shared on her facebook wall

Aishat Alubankudi


All those desperately looking for PMB and his
family's downfall, this is Aisha Buhari the
impostor. Kindly share for the world to see. Bring
it on we would counter it!!

How did this "impostor" get $170K in 2006? Why are the coincidences so near perfect? This may go as one of the wonders of the world:
Just imagine:

Both Aishas are Buharis
Both Aishas are from Duara
Both Aishas are related to a former military Head of State
Both Aishas maintained accounts at former Citizen International Bank
Both accounts maintained by Aishas were domiciled in Citizen International Bank, Plot 130, Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria

Then more curiously, one Aisha lives in the US and have NEVER been arrested by FBI, while our president's wife have LOATHED visiting USA. Curiously, since President Mohammadu Buhari was elected President, the first lady has never followed him to his numerous U.S trips. At the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, she rather sent the wife of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to represent her at the First Lady’s Conference of UNGA.

wirinet:
Fayose and his supporters must have noodles in place of brains. Did they read the report at all? The report talked about a Ms aisha Buhari, a middle aged woman (in early 2000s) living in the US, who claimed to be the daughter of a former head of state, and Fayose and his supporters ( fellow waiters) interpret it to mean Buhari's wife ( whom they also accused of being child when she married Buhari in 1989).

If anybody named Aisha Buhari is Muhammadu Buhari's wife, then the president must have dozens of wives. A simple Facebook search will show some of them

Abeg, which of the Aisha Buhari is related to Mohammadu Buhari, a frmer military ruler in Nigeria Use your common sense!!!

Sunnynwa:
Pastor Osagie Andrew Ize-Iyamu who just won the primaries to fly the flag of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State Governorship election scheduled for September as just named his running mate as Prince Odi Okojie.

Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu polled 584 majority votes in a landslide victory that saw him clinch the party’s ticket to slug it out with the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Mr. Godwin Obaseki in the political battle that will produce the next governor of Edo State.

http://leaders.ng/2016/06/20/breaking-just-elected-pdp-governorship-candidate-for-edo-state-picks-running-mate/

This signals the burial announcement of APC in Edo State. Edo South and Central with their HUGE population is already dancing. I am expecting mass defection in the Edo House in a couple of months from now!!

Horus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOD5vp-1F70

[size=14pt]Fashola Blames Power Shortage On Pipeline Vandalism[/size]

As if hydro-power is connected to pipeline. Worst government world over. Even Iraq and Syria that have been in war have NEVER achieve Zero generation. Rocket science my foot!!!

olawalepopoola:
I dare Nigeria senate to impeach President Mohammodu Buhari and see wrath of God and men

You will do nothing my friend. A few riot policemen chased you guys away from Ojota in 2012 and you are here ranting. Buhari is biting more than he can chew and the earlier the senate shakes him a little, the better for our democracy!

TippyTop:
Ize-Iyamu wins and he is going to be our governor.

https://leadersandco.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/21224811/Ize-Iyamu.jpg

My former Pastor at Upper Room Parish of RCCG. I am coming back to support your candidacy. Congratulations in advance, Your Excellency the next Governor of Edo State!!!

Moneyyy:
This is good for the Nigerian economy. Do you guys have any idea the amount of money being sent outside the shores of Nigeria every year in the name of scholing abroad? Such money is better spent in Nigeria and it would help prop up the Nigerian economy.

If we are in support of home-grown manufacturing, I don't see why we should not be in support of home-grown graduates.

Which universities are up to world standards in Nigeria? Check all their websites how many of them have what it takes to compete globally? Anyway, it is for those who want to remain backward. As for the children God has given me, they are all already in schools in Canada and by God's grace they will all complete their masters before ever thinking of coming to Nigeria. That way, when Buhari's children are talking, they also will be talking. You can continue to play politics with the lives of your children and generation in the name of supporting APC.

[size=18pt]And why has mod not deem it necessary to move this to front page. Is it because it concerns Fayose?[/size]

WARRI, Nigeria — Every attack on an oil pipeline leaves Felix Timileami feeling as if he’s on top of the world. The 39-year-old, who belongs to a recently formed — and as of yet unnamed — militant group, has taken part in raids on a number of oil facilities in the Niger Delta. Last month, they hit one operated by Royal Dutch Shell.
“It’s the only means to vent our anger and to draw the world’s attention,” says Timileami, who hails from the Delta city of Warri.
For six decades, the people of this swampy southern region have been the sore losers in Nigeria’s scandalous game of crony capitalism. Oil worth billions of dollars is pumped directly through communities here, but residents see almost none of it. For most of the 2000s, an insurgency fueled by bitter resentment claimed thousands of lives and, at its height, cut Nigeria’s oil production in half. Now, after a brief respite, it is beginning to re-emerge.
Seven years after an amnesty agreement persuaded most militants to put down their weapons in exchange for monthly stipends — and in some cases, contracts to guard the same pipelines they used to bomb — the Niger Delta, a region of more than 20 million people, is suddenly sliding back into chaos. This month, a militant group calling itself the Niger Delta Avengers has already claimed three separate attacks on oil installations and promised to cut the country’s oil output to zero. The Ijaw Youth Council, an influential grassroots organization that has its roots in the armed struggle of the 2000s and advocates for local control of natural resources, said last week that the security situation is “rapidly deteriorating and getting out of control.”
At issue is President Muhammadu Buhari’s perceived abandonment of the region. Already viewed suspiciously in the Delta because he is a Muslim from the north, Buhari has courted trouble by slashing funds for the amnesty program and revoking some of the security contracts. When he abruptly called off his first planned presidential visit to the region last week, people saw it as proof that he does not care about Christians in the south of the country.
“The body language of the president does not favor us at all,” Eric Omare, a spokesperson for the Ijaw Youth Council, told Foreign Policy. “But we in the Niger Delta have oil and gas pipelines in our backyards. So when we are angry, we can attack the pipelines and that will force the federal government to pay attention because we are affecting the national economy.”
The Niger Delta produces 90 percent of the country’s commercial crude and accounts for roughly 70 percent of government revenue. The total dollar amounts are staggering. According to OPEC, Nigeria made $77 billion from oil exports in 2014 — and that was a low year. The U.S. Department of Energy says Nigeria’s oil export earnings hit $99 billion in 2011. (The figures were $94 billion and $84 billion for 2012 and 2013, respectively.)
In the communities of the Niger Delta, there is a feeling that these mind-boggling profits belong to the people here.
Oil money, people feel, is a birthright. They say God blessed them with oil and they deserve to reap its wealth
Instead, they have borne the costs of environmental degradation while the benefits have largely passed them by. Much of the wealth, which is supposed to flow back to the states from the federal government, is simply siphoned off. A recent federal government audit showed that the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC) failed to pay $16 billion in revenue that it owed to the state treasury in 2014 alone. (NNPC officials disputed that figure, claiming it was closer to $1 billion.) The revelation came after then-Central Bank Gov. Lamido Sanusi accused the NNPC of failing to pay $20 billion to the federal government between January 2012 and July 2013. (Sanusi was immediately suspended after making the accusation and eventually forced out of his job.)
The discovery of oil in 1956 forever changed the face of the Niger Delta. Located in the southernmost part of Nigeria, it is the largest mangrove swamp in Africa and the third largest in the world. Its dense forest and complex labyrinth of creeks and waterways breathes life into over 339 plant species and more than 100 species of birds and fish. Tall palm trees with thick branches stretch upward before bending to touch the water below. The natural wonder stretches for miles and miles, but today it’s only a fragment of what it once was.
A burgeoning population coupled with rapid urbanization has swallowed much of the mangrove, which is being reclaimed to create more habitable land. Meanwhile, multinational oil companies have dredged the swamp to build pipelines, disturbing the delicate saltwater and freshwater balance, eroding banks, and depriving the roots of plants and trees of vital nutrients. Oil spills have clogged the soil and contaminated just about every community in the Delta, contributing to myriad health problems, including cancer.
The list of environmental mishaps reads like a criminal record. Royal Dutch Shell, one of many multinational oil companies pumping crude from the troubled region, has admitted to 1,693 oil spills since 2007. (Advocacy groups like Amnesty International claim the figure is much higher.) In just one of those spills, in 2008, 100,000 barrels seeped into the Ogoni Land region of the Delta. Thousands of hectares of mangroves were damaged, and 69,000 people were affected. Four months later, Shell was responsible for another spill that further devastated Ogoni Land.
For the Niger Delta communities that rely on farming and fishing, the environmental damage has been catastrophic. All told, the United Nations says it could take 25 to 30 years and at least $1 billion to clean up pollution from more than 50 years of oil operations here. But the government has done little to help the region bounce back.
Countless studies reveal that access to water, electricity, health facilities, jobs, and education remain limited. A 2006 report from the United Nations Development Programme highlights “administrative neglect, crumbling social infrastructure and services, high unemployment, social deprivation, abject poverty, filth and squalor, and endemic conflict.” The report goes on to call the Delta one of the world’s starkest examples of the “resource curse.”
This is why Timileami and his fellow militants are destroying pipelines again. The son of a retired soldier and a petty trader, Timileami participated in the last insurgency here in the mid-2000s. “We wanted to make Nigeria fall to its knees,” he says.
Hundreds of young people in the Niger Delta shared the same ambition. For a decade ending in 2009, they attacked oil infrastructure and kidnapped oil company workers for ransom. Nigeria’s crude oil output dropped by nearly 50 percent and the militants, collectively known as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), brought the nation’s economy to a virtual standstill. It was during this period that the Ijaw Youth Council was founded as a civilian counterpart to MEND, documenting local grievances and advocating for greater autonomy. All told, thousands of people were agitating for change in the Niger Delta, some through nonviolent protest, some through militancy, and some by aiding militants.
Teenage girls cooked for MEND fighters, cleaned their guns, and served as lookouts. Whole communities took part in the struggle against the Nigerian government, which ended only after the Ijaw Youth Council helped broker an amnesty agreement that covered some 30,000 Niger Deltans. These former militants and their family members began collecting monthly stipends of 65,000 naira — then, roughly $400 — from the government. Some received scholarships for foreign study or vocational training. Others landed lucrative contracts to secure oil installations or target illegal refineries, some reportedly worth as much as $100 million.
Suddenly, it paid to be a former militant, and warlords became superstars in the Niger Delta. One of them, still known by the name he used during his MEND days, Pastor Reuben, lives in a palatial mansion in Rivers State with gold-plated furniture. Another, Ateke Tom, bought two lions that he keeps in a house “far away” because he’s “afraid of them,” he says.
But the high life is winding down for the former militants. A frugal disciplinarian, Buhari slashed the budget for the amnesty program by about 70 percent and yanked some of the security contracts. He has also scrapped a plan to build a new university in the Niger Delta. As a result, resentment is building in the region. Some people say Buhari is retaliating against communities that voted overwhelmingly for his opponent in the 2015 election.
Timileami is one of those people. He voted for former President Goodluck Jonathan, a native son of the Delta, and sees Buhari’s presidency as a threat to his livelihood. Before the election, he was dismantling illegal refineries as part of a contract offered through the amnesty program. But then his monthly government stipend became irregular; he soon went back to the way of the gun. He says he will continue hitting pipelines until Buhari “comes to his senses.”
The recent wave of attacks has contributed to a gradual reduction in oil output — from 2.2 million barrels per day at the beginning of the year to between 1.5 million and 1.6 million per day — that has cost Nigeria its claim as Africa’s largest oil producer. (It has fallen behind Angola.) A major port has been closed because of the violence, along with two refineries.
Buhari has responded by announcing a deployment of troops to the Delta. In a May 29 address marking the end of his first year in office, he finally offered to “engage” leaders in the region and pledged to restructure the amnesty program. But he also implied that his military would continue to use force against those targeting oil installations. “If the militants and vandals are testing our resolve, they are much mistaken,” he said. “We shall apprehend the perpetrators and their sponsors and bring them to justice.”
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/06/14/trouble-is-brewing-in-nigerias-oil-country/

Boko Haram have been tekniqually depeated, what we have os sopt targets

Compliant:
SHOWS YOU ARE JOBLESS

BETTER APPLY FOR N-POWER NOW BEFORE IT BECOMES TO LATE

BLOGGER INDEED

Is op's post buharifying you? Please do not become buhsrificated by that.

Defending stupidity, oh did I say st..pidity, I meant to say idiocy. How many Universities of Agriculture do we have?

Some just read headlines and shared commenting ignorantly. Zombies!!!

Yes. I need the one currently controlled by that Alh Indimi and family. Others can take Atiku and Danjuma own.

What title do you have? Which area of Ogba? Headrest bus stop would do.

abuayman:
Serious Magana. How second quarter go come be?

Your guess is as good as mine, Just double that number. First quarter did not experience NDA attack, yet a deficit if N725B was recorded. Be sure that Qtr. 2 would be a total mess.

menstrualpad:
Will you shut up and stop displaying your crass ignorance?

Actually, it should be pathetic crass ignorance!!!

EFCC charge them to court and stop masturbation on the pages of newspapers! We are not interested in media trials on the pages of Saharareporters.com, premium times, punch and the Nation. Please get real and go to court and prove your cases!

seunmsg:
You are just a pained wailer. Unfortunately for you, you will remain pained till 2019.

Oh, you sure know this rambling will not exceed 2019. Good to know you guys are seeing how transient this is. Just a matter of time.

Why is this man seeking to appear relevant to Christendom? Who does he think he is deceiving? If you are so much in love with Christianity, please repent and be baptised. NONSENSE political charade!!!

Amaehi just FOOOOOOOOOOLED himself again BIIIIIGGGG Time! The minister of transport says N13B can buy half of Lagos, invariably Lagos as a whole is worth N26B. How naive can a Nigerian Minister be? It shows the quality of "technocrats" in Buhari's cabinet.

Mynd44:
The market women in Bodija market(Ibadan) sweat for those things they wear. They dont have corruption charges on their backs, they were not oil ministers when oil sold for the highest and money started growing wings.

Do not insult Ibadan women, they might sound/look razz but they have honor and pride in not having their names smeared in thievery.

Madam, they wear gold yes, but they also have honor.

Guess you did not reason your thoughts before posting this, please read Dezianni's statement with open mind again:

"With all sense of modesty, I say this only for posterity and for the records. I have strived within my means and the blessings of God to live a decent and accomplished life. I studied architecture in England and obtained a bachelor’s degree from Howard University, United States of America in 1992. When I returned to Nigeria that same year, I joined Shell Petroleum Development Corporation. In 2002, I obtained an MBA at Cambridge University, United Kingdom. In April 2006, I was appointed by Shell as the company’s first female Executive Director in Nigeria. In July 2007, I was appointed by the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua as Minister of Transport. The next year in December 2008 I became Minister of Mines and Steel Development. In April 2010, I was appointed as Minister for Petroleum Resources and served in that capacity till May 2015. During this period as Petroleum Minister, I had the honour of serving Nigeria and representing her in the Organization of Oil Exporting Countries (OPEC) where I was elected first female President. All through my career, I have strived to maintain a record of hard work, integrity and excellence, giving my best to society, because my parents raised me in the consciousness that a man or woman’s greatness is defined not by the amount of wealth they have acquired but the impact of their service to God and humanity."

Let me break it down for you:

> Graduated 1992 (24 years ago) and joined Shell Petroleum Dev Co
> In 2002, obtained MBA at Cambridge University, United Kingdom, that is after 10 years in SPDC
> In April 2006, she was appointed by Shell as the company’s first female Executive Director in Nigeria.
> In July 2007, I was appointed by the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua as Minister of Transport.
> The next year in December 2008 I became Minister of Mines and Steel Development.
> In April 2010, I was appointed as Minister for Petroleum Resources and served in that capacity till May 2015.

In summary, Deziani worked in Shell from 1992 and rose to Executive Director in 2006, that is over 14 years. Thereafter, she served as a Federal Minister for 9 years. Headed OPEC and led the Ministry of Petroleum resources. Do you really think that such a woman cannot afford jewelries? Let us make sensible assertions my friend!!!

If EFCC/Buhari have any case against her, let them go to court and stop disturbing the media space with circus dance!!!

Wetin Kayode Fayemi use all the loan do self? APC with gbese na like rice and beans! Federal don dey borrow now ooo!

Keep it coming, perhaps our leaders can feel the pulse of the real people on ground.

All through the Nigeria political landscape it is one bad news or another. Either Boko Haram is attacking, Fulani herdsmen are killing or Avengers are blowing pipelines. In the midst of all of these, we have a wrecked economy. No salaries, no money, people losing their jobs. Etc. I ask, what good news do you wish to hear in Nigeria today?

falanaadeola:
I perfectly understand your POV.... So, you'd rather praise their actions? Let us call a spade a spade, they are going about it the wrong way at the expense of everyones else. J
There are better ways to sort things out... They are terrorists and thats the truth

What better ways? They presented PIB, the North and SW killed it. They presented their case at the National conference, Buhari sat on it. They asked for resource control, you said no. What were you expecting? A pat on the back? This problem has been on before the civil war years and have remained un addressed. Adaka Boro died fighting same, Saro Wiwa and the Ogoni 9 died for same matter. For me, Buhari caused this escalation by his utterances.

Op, stop misleading people, you are not from ND.