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Barely less than 7 days to the deadline ATMs are still dispensing old notes and that is if they are dispensing at all. To make matters worse, banks are not giving new notes over the counter. Godwin Emefiele is an Economic Hitman, or simply put, an Economic Terrorist!

The former Minister of Transport Rotimi Ameachi is expected to decamp to the PDP soon. That was an optimism shared by a former Director General of the FRCN in person of Malam Ladan Salihu today, 29th Dec. 2022 via his Twitter handle.

All that Na Rivers State Government money wey Wike dey spend anyhow while going round the state dey make noise in the name of commissioning projects. Rivers people shine una eyes �...

nairavsdollars:
https://independent.ng/apc-leaders-confident-wike-will-declare-support-for-tinubu-in-january-2023/

The day Wike make an open declaration to support another presidential candidate other than Atiku is the day they will bury him politically. There's only one punishment for the crime of anti-party activity. Expulsion!

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I understand that Politics is perception and the moves may appear like witch-hunting but anything to make kwarans feel good governance is welcomed. The Land revoked may be used to the benefits of Kwarans and since the Sarakis' did not acquire the land legally , then the governor is right to take such action as applicable to ordinary citizens. Let's see the way it goes![/quote[/s]]

Abdurrazaq is demolishing a building where elderly people goes everyday for their daily bread and turning it to a parking lot of a nondescript clinic. Tell me how is that going to benefit Kwarans? It seems the only reason why that man became a governor is for him to destroy everything Sarakis. This is madness!

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Rem22:
Saraki is the cause of his own misfortune. Since he hijacked the state Political architecture from his father and imposing his stooge(fatai) on the people of kwara,he technically sent himself into political oblivion

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This new Kwara Governor doesn't understand the way of politics. The Sarakis are way too formidable adversaries for him to handle. By the way, what actually will he do with the lands he revoked when the place had been a source of solace for the elderly and the less privileged?

4601CE:
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Defender of looters.
Come and say this nonsense in real life and Chop the beating of your lifetime from well meaning Nigerians .

As I said before, Sambo Dasuki was just another victim of a failed and corrupted system. From the very moment his trial began, he insisted on an open trial but they refused. They were scared, which simply means there's something fishy. It seems that when push come to shove Mr integrity himself might have a skeleton in his cupboard in connection with the arms deal scandal.

I commend the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for appointing technocrats and mostly legal practitioners into his cabinet of ministers. Over the last 16 years, we have witnessed high level of impunity in government and mindless lawlessness on the part of the citizenry more than any other time in the history of this country. The Government was in a state of near-collapse. Of course if any nation wants to save their system it has to be the lawyers. You cannot have a rational society without the rule of law, and you cannot have the rule of law without lawyers in place to administer it. And who is better to help you fix things than the man who knows exactly how they had been broken? Long live Baba Buhari!

Go and find job dude, or better go back to School.

Anti-corruption: Senator backs Buhari, flays ex-defence boss’ revelations on insurgents


Pulished 26.08.2015.


The senator representing Bauchi South in the Sen­ate, Senator Ali Wakili has said that the upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly is solidly behind President Muhammadu Buhari on his renewed commitment to fight corruption in the country.


This was just as he also flayed the recent revelations of former Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Air Chief Marshal, ACM, Alex Badeh, blaming former Heads of State for compromising the nation’s sovereignty for their personal benefits.


The outspoken senator made the statement in an interview with selected newsmen in his house in Bauchi, saying that the senators’ decision to back Buhari is in line with the All Progressives Congress, APC, blueprints to get rid of the damages corruption has done to Nigerians.


Wakili stressed that the Senate is ready to compliment Buhari through legislative procedures to enact and amend laws in the fight against the corruption scourge.


He regretted that Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s 16-year mis-rule was characterised by impunity and legalisation of corruption, saying that the APC will not be selective in its fight against corruption.


According to Wakili, the eighth Senate is already working on 12 bills, which are awaiting second reading, explaining that top among the bills is the move against insurgency.


The senator had described as not only a national shame when the former CDS Badeh revealed that former Heads of State compromised the nation’s sovereignty in their favour, but that


“Badeh not only betrayed the confidence repose on him by Nigerians, he was a total disgrace having stand grounds that the army were capable enough to tackle the insurgency, even when he was fully aware of the destruction done by the former Heads of State leading to insurgency.”


He noted that Badeh refused to declare his position for fear of leaving his office to the detriment of innocent bloods even when Borno State governor had raised the alarm that the army was ill-equipped to fight the insurgency.


The senator therefore called on Buhari to in­vestigate the declaration of the former CDS, if he was determined to end the insurgency.


m.nationalmirroronline.net/article/anti-corruption--senator-backs-buhari--flays-ex-defence-boss--revelations-on-insurgents/?category-id=3&article-id=33936

NO RIFT BETWEEN SENATE AND PRESIDENCY;- Senator Wakili...
Tuesday 11/08/2015 Via National Mirror Newspaper

Ali Wakili is the senator representing Bauchi South senatorial district in the upper chamber of the National Assembly. In this interview with selected journalists in Bauchi, he maintains that there is no rift between President Muhammadu Buhari and the Senate President, contrary to reports in some media. EZEKIEL TITUS brings excerpts:

What is your take on the insinuation making the rounds that President Muhammadu Buhari and Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki are engaged in a cold war?

I am getting sick and tired of how some people are trying to destabilise this nation through false propaganda by creating bad blood between the National Assembly and the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. As a senator of the 8th National Assembly, as one of those that supported Senator Saraki, I know for sure that neither I nor Saraki nor any supporter of Saraki has on his table the idea of fighting with the Presidency. The powers of the executive, the Presidency inclusive, that of the legislature, including the Senate and that of the judiciary are spelt out in sections 4,5, and 6 of the constitution. They are very explicit. If you look at the constitution, the powers of National Assembly are in section 5 and the powers of the executive and judiciary are in section 6. Similarly, on issues of oversight functions, you will discover that the National Assembly has oversight functions on all government activities, but that will not warrant that there is going to be a clash between the National Assembly and the Presidency, especially under President Muhammadu Buhari’s watch. We are piqued and tired because our names are being dragged to in the mud. Our constituents are wondering and inundating us with questions, asking why are we quarreling with Mr President? We are taking our time to explain to them that there is no quarrel between the Senate and Mr President. Mr President himself has accepted the Senate Presidency of Saraki, because he has transmitted letters of congratulation to Senator Saraki as Senate President; also about two letters have also been sent by the President to the National Assembly. So, the issue that Mr President not recognizing Senator Saraki is not true. Saraki as a person that has been brought up properly, everyone knows his family’s pedigree. Everyone also knows the powers of the President and recognises Buhari and the constitution of Nigeria and the Senate is not in any way ready to have any clash with Mr President. Forget about the fact that because one permanent secretary, Mrs Nwaobia did not attend to a letter calling on her and the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, governor to attend a meeting with the Senate leadership. This will not amount to us having a quarrel with the Presidency. It has been very normal from the first National Assembly to the seventh Assembly, there have been occasions that when the National Assembly calls on government functionaries to come, sometimes out of one reason or the other, or other expediencies, they don’t have the time to attend. You will recall that former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Maduekwe had to go to court over her refusal to answer the call of National Assembly. If for one reason or the other Mrs Nwaobia did not answer the call of Senate President or the National Assembly leadership, that does not amount to a declaration of war between the Presidency and the Senate. As an ardent supporter of Saraki, neither him nor I nor other members are quarelling with the Presidency. That is the figment of the imagination of those that want to destabilise Nigeria by sending false propaganda to heat up the polity. I am appealing to you to inform Nigerians that no member of the Senate, not even the Senate President, is ready to quarrel with the Presidency over trivialities. Let those of them that are dishing out propaganda have the gear of God. If you have personal scores to settle with Senator Saraki, take him up as Bukola Saraki, don’t take it on all of us in the Senate. There is no quarrel personally between Saraki and President Buhari. There are no institutional clashes between the Senate and the President. Some of these garbbges being sent out through some sections of the media for reasons best known to them should be stopped. They are heating up the polity and I want to assure you that as a serving senator of the eighth Assembly, the Presidency has not transmitted any letter that is requiring the action of the Senate that we have not sat down to look at. Before Saraki left for lesser Hajj, I was in his office; we were there to receive the governor of the CBN. We had briefing with him. So if the governor of the CBN from the executive arm will attend to Senate calling, I don’t think there will be any other civil servant or technocrat that willfully will not want to attend to our call. Those are not things that should be brought to the front burner. People should be able to help us do away with the scourge of the insurgency. How do we deal with this insurgency that has regurgitated itself that innocent lives are being killed in the name of the devil not religion? These are our problems, not these trivialities that if I am looking towards 2019, then every Nigerian must be involved. I am appealing to those heating up the polity stop henceforth. Some of them are dragging our name to the mud. If there is any quarrel, it is not known to us, we are not involved and we will not partake. We swore by the constitution, and we are going abide by the constitution.

What is the implication of all these in the Senate and the country?

In terms of what? There is a Senate leadership, we have a Senate President, a Deputy Senate President, DSP, Majority and Deputy Majority Leaders, Chief Whip and Deputy Whip. I don’t know this hullabaloo and I am sure based on Senate standing orders, by the time the Senate resumes from recess, maybe the Senate leadership would have constituted committees, because the powers to constitute these committees from our standing rules is vested on the Senate leadership. You have been seeing the Senate President working. You saw him in Saudi Arabia condemning the visa policy of Saudi Arabia whereby they are discriminating against Nigerians. They are making things hard for us. You saw him appeal to the CBN to liaise with the Custom Service to ensure that the N30 billion shortchanged from the import waivers are retrieved from those shortchanging the country. Things are working; it is only those few who are trying to destabilise the polity that are sending speculative things through the social media, through newspapers that they are controlling.

There are reports that the President refused to see Senate President, how far are these reports true?

That is very speculative. There has never been a situation where Senator Saraki applied to see the President and denied. You all saw them at the International Conference Centre, ICC, during the last National Working Committee, NWC, of the All Progressives Congress, APC. You saw him when he received Mr President, having banters with President Buhari and I have confirmed to you that the President has written letters addressed to him as Senate President. If he doesn’t recognise him, will he write letters to him?

You just talked about the insurgency and there have been complaints that Mr President is slow in tackling the insurgency. What is your take?

On the issues of this insurgency, the President himself has told you it is very multidimensional and that is why you saw him going to Niger, Chad and Cameroun. You can see he has visited the U.S. Part of what he discussed while in the US was the issue of the insurgency. You saw him in the U.K talking about insurgency and you have seen how development partners and developed countries are contributing to how to deal with this insurgency. We visited Rear Admiral Nyako. As a former Chief of Naval Staff, CNS; Deputy Chief of Defence Staff, DCDS, he has said that there is nowhere in the world where insurgency is defeated by war. You have to sit down and identify those behind the insurgence; negotiate with them and know how to disarm them. You are dealing with a ragtag army, not a conventional army. If you check on the social media, you would have seen how a man dressed as a woman went to a market in pursuance of the Boko Haram agenda. Providence was on the people’s side, he was arrested. When they searched him, they discovered he was a man. Look at what happened in Jos. As citizens, we have our part to play. If we don’t expose these insurgents, they are humans like us, they are our sons and daughters. we know them, we can trace them, if we don’t expose them, we are not helping the situation..

Are you hopeful that all issues in both chambers will be resolved in no long distance?

I have said it before, there is no crisis in the National Assembly. These are things being orchestrated by outsiders not from the National Assembly. All the issues of propaganda are not from the National Assembly. They are coming from outsiders that have interest or would have gotten their interest protected and their interest will not be served by Speaker Yakubu Dogara or Saraki’s Senate Presidency. Let me tell you, put it on record, former governor of Nassarawa State, Abdullahi Adamu, now a senator, was among those rooting for Ahmed Lawan. He has turned himself to the nationalists that the election is over, it is now the issue of Senate and anything that will bring disrepute to the Senate he will not be a part of it. You will see him going with Saraki. Former governor of Kebbi State Aliero, they were the core leaders of the Senators Unity Forum, SUF. After the elections, he said there are no more groups that the leadership has emerged. Former governor of Kano State, Kabiru Gaya and so many others in the SUF, have sheath their swords. I have told you with all sincerity, if Saraki is not behaving according to the constitution, I for one will deviate from him publicly, because when I rooted for him, I supported him publicly, everybody knew. I have told him that whenever his personal interest conflicts with those of my people, we will part ways. Let us not belabour the issue of National Assembly, especially the Senate.

With the recent development, how do you look at the role of the media?

For the records I didn’t lampoon the media. I said a section of the media was being used to heat up the polity. In developing countries like Nigeria, we are having problems with media because, the media is the creation of their sponsors. They are there to say what their owners want them to say. Few of them have balance. If you look at the problem Saraki is having with the media, 95 per cent is coming from one of the media house and each and every one of us knows the owner of the media. A section of the media is heating up the polity by dishing out propaganda. The media is supposed to be vanguard for development. They are supposed to initiate good governance. They are supposed to educate the people about their rights. They are to ensure that accountability, probity and transparency are entrenched in governance. That should be the focus, not where they will exploit our problems and sow seeds of disunity.

Recently, the police invited the Deputy Senate President over alleged forgery in the Senate, what is your reaction?

I don’t know that. I have read in the papers but I don’t think it is true. Senator Ike Ekweremadu has spoken on the issue. He said traditionally at the end of every National Assembly, the standing rules are adopted for the incoming Assembly except where the members decide to alter it. Look at the issue of ranking of senators, which was inserted at the end of the sixth National Assembly to prevent people like Saraki himself, Danjuma Goje and others that were aspiring for the Senate Presidency at that material time. All this sensational reporting is not helping us as a country. The President promised to deal with security, insurgency, corruption and others. Let us concentrate on those issues and not issues of Senate leadership, where the Constitution states that the senators will have the prerogative of electing one of them as the President or Deputy Senate President, and not in a situation that the standing rule states that the leaders of the Senate shall be from the ruling party.

In the newly unified Nigeria, old horrors are reborn. Plans are afoot to destabilize the new ruling party. Atiku Abubakar cannot be trusted. The Yorubas knows better since the time when their late leader Abiola refused to pick Atiku as his running mate and choses Babagana Kinkibe instead. Now, the National Assembly leadership has been hijacked by those same old cabals. I am a Nigerian, I don't want to be a Northerner, I am against the late Shehu Yar'dua's political ideology of 'Northern oligarchy'.

[b]WE WILL DEFEAT BOKO HARAM: By Muhammadu Buhari
14-April,2015

ABUJA, Nigeria — When Boko Haram attacked a school in the town of Chibok, in northeastern Nigeria, kidnapping more than 200 girls, on the night of April 14, 2014, the people of my country were aghast. Across the world, millions of people joined them in asking: How was it possible for this terrorist group to act with such impunity? It took nearly two weeks before the government even commented on the crime.

This lack of reaction was symptomatic of why the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan was swept aside last month — the first time an incumbent president has been successfully voted out of office in the history of our nation. For too long they ruled, not governed, and in doing so had become so focused on their own self-interest and embroiled in corruption that the duty to react to the anguish suffered by their citizens had become alien to them.

My administration, which will take office on May 29, will act differently — indeed it is the very reason we have been elected. This must begin with honesty as to whether the Chibok girls can be rescued. Currently their whereabouts remain unknown. We do not know the state of their health or welfare, or whether they are even still together or alive. As much as I wish to, I cannot promise that we can find them: to do so would be to offer unfounded hope, only to compound the grief if, later, we find we cannot match such expectation. But I say to every parent, family member and friend of the children that my government will do everything in its power to bring them home.

What I can pledge, with absolute certainty, is that from the first day of my administration, Boko Haram will know the strength of our collective will and commitment to rid this nation of terror, and bring back peace and normalcy to all the affected areas. Until now, Nigeria has been wanting in its response to their threat: With our neighbors fighting hard to push the terrorists south and out of their countries, our military was not sufficiently supported or equipped to push north. As a consequence, the outgoing government’s lack of determination was an accidental enabler of the group, allowing them to operate with impunity in Nigerian territory.

That is why the answer to defeating Boko Haram begins and ends with Nigeria. That is not to say that allies cannot help us. My administration would welcome the resumption of a military training agreement with the United States, which was halted during the previous administration. We must, of course, have better coordination with the military campaigns our African allies, like Chad and Niger, are waging in the struggle against Boko Haram. But, in the end, the answer to this threat must come from within Nigeria.

We must start by deploying more troops to the front and away from civilian areas in central and southern Nigeria where for too long they have been used by successive governments to quell dissent. We must work closer with our neighbors in coordinating our military efforts so an offensive by one army does not see their country’s lands rid of Boko Haram only to push it across the border onto their neighbors’ territory.
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But as our military pushes Boko Haram back, as it will, we must be ready to focus on what else must be done to counter the terrorists. We must address why it is that young people join Boko Haram.

There are many reasons why vulnerable young people join militant groups, but among them are poverty and ignorance. Indeed Boko Haram — which translates in English, roughly, as “Western Education Is Sinful” — preys on the perverted belief that the opportunities that education brings are sinful. If you are starving and young, and in search of answers as to why your life is so difficult, fundamentalism can be alluring. We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: They offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group’s mentors twist their minds with fanaticism.

So we must be ready to offer the parts of our country affected by this group an alternative. Boosting education will be a direct counterbalance to Boko Haram’s appeal. In particular we must educate more young girls, ensuring they will grow up to be empowered through learning to play their full part as citizens of Nigeria and pull themselves up and out of poverty. Indeed, we owe it to the schoolgirls of Chibok to provide as best an education as possible for their fellow young citizens.

Boko Haram feeds off despair. It feeds off a lack of hope that things can improve. By attacking a site of learning, and kidnapping more than 200 schoolgirls, it sought to strike at the very place where hope for the future is nurtured, and the promise of a better Nigeria. It is our intention to show Boko Haram that it will not succeed.

My government will first act to defeat it militarily and then ensure that we provide the very education it despises to help our people help themselves. Boko Haram will soon learn that, as Nelson Mandela said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

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FFK ask Nigerians to investigate the relationship between GMB and MEND... Guys are you seeing what I am saw? Symptoms of a dying Government is now clear for everyone to see...

No, Buhari does not have any link with #MEND talkless of #BOKOHARAM, and I think they endorsed him only because in GMB they see a hope that thier grievances with the Nigerian Government has come to an end. I would have think this twice if it comes from the mouth of a serious-minded politician rather than Fani Kayode. FFK is just a confused folk, and his brain is now shallow so much so that his head is only full of innuendos and malicious lies. Why don't they order thier oga madam of DSS to arrange another one of their gestapo drama? coz in this court of public opinion Buhari will always emerged victorious... #Changeontheway

SOME QUESTIONS FOR THE DSS!!!

In as much as I don't want to comment on this cheap campaign of calumny some questions do not have to be left unanswered.

One. Base on the facts that Marilyn Orgar presented in her press conference, Is there any business with APC multiple member registration and INEC that could affect the conduct of 2015 general election?

Secondly, does the APC planned to hack INEC database or have they hacked it already?

Can the DSS also display to the media the forensic items they used in finding out their fabricated clone facts?

And can the DSS also explain to Nigerians what happened to a truck that was caught with full load of ballot papers here in Darazo LG of Bauchi State which was said to be already thumb printed in favour of the ruling party?

Last but not the least, is our DSS forensic team (if there is any) so bad and ineffective that it took them almost two months before displaying their so-called evidence to a press conference?

Until the DSS provide answers to all my questions, I dare say Marilyn Orgar is and she remains a big time fool. And if she or any of her personnel is reading this, I put it to her that she is an epic slowpoke, a disgrace to the worldwide intelligence community. Too bad for her and her sponsors because they cannot fool Nigerians anyway!

BUHARI

Willdidi:
Once the bombing stop in the north when buhari wins you think it will not resume back in the Niger Delta, this will have more adverse effect because the pipelines will be targeted and Nigeria is still an oil dependant country where close to 90% of the countries income are generated from one sector of the economy. In my own view feel GEJ is playing politics with this Boko Haram issue, he knows what to do as the president but will rather keep quite untill he wins a second term in office, if after winning a re-election and after 6months there is no change in the state of security in Nigeria then I will agree with others who call him all sorts of names and him not been fit to run the country, till then is all politics.

He will Rather keep quiet until many more innocent lives butchered right? It's easy for you to say. But I don't believe you will say these foolish things if it were your fathers and siblings that were being killed day in day out.

datguru:
We are unstoppable

Who's we?

omenka:
The last thing Jonathan wants before next Valentine is a quiet and tranquil north!!

#WeShallOvercome

Crook liar.

I think GEJ was very insensitive to have done that. Just a day after 50 students were butchered by some mad and evil suicide bomber. And despite the pressure from his party stalwarts to postpone the celebration GEJ went ahead with it in a lavish jamboree which was marked with joyous songs and shokie dances. How insensitive! What even added salt to the wound was the mindless and irresponsible statement that President vomited at the occasion. Here him out "anyone can die but life must continue, Nigeria will not stop" And the ironic theme was "Nigerians first and Nigerians always" Haba! Did the PDP ever truly consider the people as their first and always? I wonder whether "anyone can die but life must continue" is the Jonathanians new campaign slogan...

Inside the Vigilante Fight Against Boko Haram - NYTimes.com - http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/magazine/inside-the-vigilante-fight-against-boko-haram.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0&referrer=

Only a fool will believe the ravings of a mad Professor...

bombay:
are u mad

No am just curious.

Unlike the 1914 Lugard's mysterious amalgamation of Northern & Southern Protectorates of Nigeria; and the merciless cold blooded murder of some prominent Nothern leaders in Lagos which drag the two opposing regions into a bloody civil war in the 60's.
Now, at this very moment, in the 21st Century mystery does generates curiosity in the minds of many rather than fear.
In the end I don't see how the extra-judicial killing of Muhammad Yusuf in Maiduguri immediately after he was captured alive will remain a mystery forever.