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This is a serious issue. But there. Is light @ d end of the tunnel. Kayan Mata will do. The poonani will become born again and will be a virgin. Trust me.

This headies sef abi head or a$$ sef. Na wa o. We no go hear word again.

omogin:
Bad as these corrupt cases that are been exposed are, I have my reservations. 1999 shouldn't have been a bad date to start probing from. Cos it all now looks like this is targeted at the last administration. If we know what OBJ and Year Adua did, GEJ may well be considered a saint. GEJ is being vilified daily, and those involved in Harlliburton are free to comment about others. Those who sponsored Buharis election, have attained sainthood.

What's this one saying?

They have a lot to answer. Let the authority quiz them.

What manner of arrogance!

copiescopy:
All this shout about fighting corruption is a just a smoke screen for PMB to tighten the noose on all his perceived enemies most especially the SE /SS . The causalities are the few form the SW.

It was just a pity GEJ fell flat to ploy of the Hausa/fulani having brought the master stroke of unleashing Boko Haram as the main key to de-stabilizing the last government had done well enough o devise the means to use as a sledge hammer to break the ground with regards to the $2.1 billion dollar money for arms procurement.

GEJ in his usual naive nature may have given the approval only to now discover that Dasuki was also working against GEJ in one way by ensuring the funds does not get to the appropriate quarters . Statements credited to Dasuki indicates he helped the ruling government come into power . Aint that a fact ? It was already a master plan hatched between top the cabals in the North with one serious motive, return power to the north by any means necessary .GEJ was just a pawn even if it means distributing the entire $2.1b arms procurement sum to everyone and everyone knowing the attendant problem such could create in the nearest future which of course has dawned on the SE /SS that the North were hell bent on destroying their political strongholds thereby using the Boko Haram arms procurement funds as the invisible sledge hammer that could fell the tower of their political grip on the country . This is what is exactly playing out . Dasuki and his master planners are making proper use of the situation to tarnish the image and reputation of top politicians in the SW and SE including the SS . The only little causalities are the few top politicians from the SW.

seun,lalasticlala,copiescopy,tonyebarcanista

My question to you, who are those mostly implicated in this Dasukigate?

Source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/196479-dasukigate-how-i-disbursed-n100million-anenih-gave-me-olu-falae.html

Cc: lalasticlala, seun, mynd44, obinoscopy

A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Olu Falae, has given more details on how he disbursed N100million he received from a leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, Tony Anenih, ahead of the 2015 elections.
The money was part of at least $2.1 billion allegedly diverted by a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, from arms purchase to politicians.
Mr. Falae has admitted receiving the funds from Mr. Anenih, a former chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees.
On Saturday, Mr. Falae told PREMIUM TIMES by phone that the fund was received through the account of his party, Social Democratic Party, before it was distributed to the state branches of the party.
He also dispelled the statements by some party members that they were not aware that the N100million was received by the party from the PDP, for the elections.
“It is true I received the money for the party and then it was distributed to the state branches of the party for onward distribution to other levels of the party,” he said.
“The money came through the party’s account and it was through this account that the monies were distributed.


“The account is there for everyone to verify. I can assure you that all the branches of the party in the states received the money.”
Mr. Falae said it was unfair for some party members to claim that they were not aware of the donation, because their respective branches were informed and received the money.
“We have over 200,000 people in the party, am I supposed to go around telling every one that I have received the money,” he asked.
Mr. Falae noted that once the party leaders were involved, they reached out to those at the grassroots.
“I have my integrity in tact,” he said. “I was a former MD of a bank, I was a former minister and a former secretary to the government of the federation.
“Once they cannot link us to the Dasuki thing, they are coming up with all sorts of things.
“Based on my integrity, these allegations should be discarded. At 78, what will I be doing with public funds.”

Even AEDC and a wood construction company? Aah! What has an electricity coy got to do with arms purchase? So many questions. Nigeria ooo.

FreeGlobe:
We shall see.. APC will not even make it to the next elections

So you guys said prior to APC'ss victory at the polls. When will you eat your words?

So disgusting. Why do they see election as a 'do or die affair'. Obj esque. Its not as if Obj tutored them. All this happening in south south. Small Bayelsa. It is the people's mindset not INEC to blame. And we have Rivers and Akwa Ibom on the horizon. May God save us from us.

Abeg, this guy old pass 34. 34? Hmmmm

The kpekus

Love Machine:
They are only going after cattle rustlers while the herdsmen have a field day kill people indiscriminately.

Pls diff between cattle rustlers and fulani herdsmen?. And are both synonymous?. Explain their relationship? And finally, are the fulani herdsmen responsible for cattle rustling while in the process engage in serious crimes? Ans all of this and you position won't be the same again.

Lalasticlala, mynd44

Hunters in Borno on Sunday called on the military to allow them to join in the war against insurgents in Sambisa Forest, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
Malam Mai-Gana Mai-Durma, the Borno Emir of the Hunters, made the appeal in Maiduguri while addressing newsmen.

Mai-Durma said that the call became imperative because the hunters were familiar with the terrain at the dreaded forest, the hideout and operational base of the terrorists.

“We are appealing to the military authorities to allow us join the fight against Boko Haram at the Sambisa forest.

“We are ready to pursue the terrorists because we know the terrain very well,” Mai-Durma said.

He said that the military should align them with members of the vigilance group, popularly knwon as the Civilian JTF, for effective result.

“We will overrun Sambisa in partnership with members of the civilian JTF if given the opportunity.

“This will help to complement the effort of military in the anti terrorism operation,” Mai-Durma said.

He lamented that hunters from the 27 local government areas of the state had been rendered idle by the Boko Haram terrorism.

“Hunters from all the 27 Borno LGAs are all in Maiduguri with our leaders doing nothing at present because of Boko Haram.

“Rather than idling away, we will want to assist the military in crushing Boko Haram terrorists,” Mai-Durma said.

He lso appealed to the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Ibn Garbai, to assist in forwarding the request to the military authorities for consideration. (NAN)

The immediate past acting director-general of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Mr. Musa Mayaki, has revealed that he was issued several queries and rebuked by the presidency of the immediate past administration for daring to censor abusive and inciting comments made by some prominent members of the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during on-air campaigns.

Mayaki, who was the acting director-general of the NTA between 2012 and 2014, was not confirmed as the substantive DG; he was, instead, removed and replaced by the incumbent, Mr. Sola Omole.

He said that on several occasions, he was queried by former President Goodluck Jonathan’s chief of staff (CoS), Chief Mike Oghiadomhe, for trying to prevent live transmission of some very abusive comments and hate speeches made by some members of the then ruling.

He added that what saved him from being fired much earlier was the intervention of the then minister of information, Labaran Maku, who, as a professional journalists himself, understood that he (Mayaki) was doing the right thing.

In an exclusive chat with LEADERSHIP at the weekend, Mayaki said his travails started as far back as the last governorship election in Edo State when the PDP paid the station about N35 million to carry a live coverage of its campaign rallies.

The former NTA boss noted that PDP members who spoke during the campaign resorted to reigning abuses on the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate during the live transmission of the rallies, the same way it happened during the 2015 campaigns.

He said, “Although I can’t really understand why these things happened the way they did during the 2015 polls, because when I was DG there was election in Edo State. When the PDP came with about N35 million for live coverage of their campaign activities in the state, I took the money and then when they started the campaign I just saw on air- direct live- that it was all insult upon insult.

“It was not even the journalists covering the campaign that called me and drew my attention; it was our secretary of the board that called me and said, ‘Mr Mayaki, do you see what is going on on-air?’ So, I called the man who is on transmission, Mr Balogun, and said, ‘What can we do about this development?’ He said we can use delayed broadcast and edit (out) whatever insult before we pass it on to the public.

“And that is exactly what we did. Anything they said, once it was insulting we cut it off and, at the end of the day, we pass on only the good aspects of the message that they wanted to pass. So, we continued doing that for the three or four hours that they wanted the programme to be aired.”

Mayaki said he paid dearly for taking such professional measures as the PDP later reported him to the presidency where he was immediately issued a query by the then chief of staff to the president, Chief Oghiadohme, adding that he would have been summarily removed had it not been for the then information minister Maku who knew that he was trying to be professional in handling the campaign broadcast.

“I was so happy that the then minister of information, Labaran Maku, stood by me. He didn’t waver because he knew what I had done and he was very, very okay with it. But how many of us have that kind of stamina to withstand that kind of pressure? Pressures are always coming from everywhere, but if you are very professional, you would know that ‘this one, I should not take it’. Like for us, we were not actually journalists; I just happened to be in NTA and was the most senior officer and I know that the thing was wrong.

“If I were there during the 2015 electioneering period, I wouldn’t have taken it with all their money, and I even heard that there was no money paid for all the insults.”

The former DG added that his cordial relationship with Maku infuriated the presidency even more and the result was that he got queries upon queries.

He said, “We were so cordial that he allowed me to judge and handle all activities the way I wanted. That is why the presidency was annoyed with me, but sometimes, he was the one who always absorbed the shock. There were so many times the presidency will query me, but once I explained he would quickly know what I have done.

“So, I had very excellent relationship with him and the man was so wonderful. I am happy that he gave me the opportunity to serve for those two years because he could as well have approved that somebody else should take my position.”

Mayaki further advised federal government under President Muhammadu Buhari to be very careful about the way NTA goes about broadcasting activities in the country, because as the largest network in Africa, the station is a sensitive government media organisation and, as such, is capable of setting the whole country on fire by its broadcasts.

He also appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that somebody with very rich knowledge about television broadcasting is henceforth appointed chairman of the NTA board.

“It is not every position that you just give to politicians because, in the past, politicians who were board members did a lot of damage to NTA. They just come in and start looking for money. They are least interested in the NTA,” he said.

Source: http://leadership.ng/news/488817/punished-censoring-hate-campaigns-ex-nta-dg

mostyg:
I like constructive critism, it makes me see things that needed to be improved on.
What does PDP actually want? They wrote that they are the best opposition, who are they competing with? Isn't the Dasukigate revelation enough for them to bury their head in shame?

APC has mastered the act of opposition that they have forgotten that they are now the ruling party or governing party.Why would they be critizing the critics?

Nah! APC have also mastered the art of a ruling party. They need to remain alert, vigilant and engage the opposition. That's the beauty of democracy.

It's 1-1

It's Valencia Vs Real Madrid. Benitez returns to his old stomping ground.

Wonders ooo. HURIWA, human rights! Chai!!!!

What have they got to do with prophesies. Are they not also delving into an unfamiliar territory.

In as much as this is an issue, it is not their business.

This is a welcome development. It goes to show this government is for the masses. 'Government of the people, by the people and for the people. Price modulation is the answer now. And who said subsidy doesn't exist. It does. Except for the fact that it is on the negative.
Now we can concentrate on other sectors and our developmental goals. No wonder, that budget. It is also important we get solutions to our refineries. That way, by the time oil price goes high, we can use it as a buffer to help. This will reduce the burden of importation.

With Buhari at the helm of affairs(integrity-wise), and hiss support base, that is, his policy implementors, we are going far.

Nigeria will rise again.

EternalTruths:
When will he talk about the disobedience of Buhari to court orders


Is it because Buhari appointed him.?

It seems you just birthed into this world. So Buhari appointed him?

Diariz God o. The picture u are sharing in Dubai will answer

Cc: lalasticlala, mynd44, seun, obinoscopy

President Muhammadu Buhari’s first interaction with the nation this Week highlighted the hope of a new Nigeria, as well as the potholes, speed bumps and roadblocks ahead. It’s perhaps the most honest ever revelation by a Nigerian president, even as such blunt and frank positions may undermine the efforts and popularity of the government he heads.

I’ll leave the praises of Buhari’s performance at the chat to his media handlers and their fire-spitting minions, and address a few issues not exactly impressive.

The revelation that our security agencies have no intelligence on the whereabouts of the girls of Chibok is saddening, and perhaps even worse is the statement that the government has no credible means of establishing contact with the leadership of Boko Haram. What have the intelligence units of our various security agencies been up to all these months? This, to say the obvious, is reckless and not something any leader should say without feeling a sense of guilt or embarrassment. So, who have we been fighting all along? Ghosts? We’ve people like Ahmad Salkida and Barrister Aisha Wakkil around to serve as consultants in contacting this terrorist group and Nigeria still confesses to cluelessness.

The president’s seeming disinterest in the Shiite—Army clash is only a leeway to an imaginable disaster. Despite claiming to have no conclusive report on the clash yet, he’s already judged the clash and couldn’t even mask his disgust at the activities of the sect. His reaction was more of old military elite losing his mind over the audacity of a gang of teenagers to dare confront members of the active military elite class.

The Shiites have already lost on moral grounds, and perhaps only need an unbiased foreign court, through interested human rights organizations, to file a case against the government of Nigeria for the unjustifiably brutal use of force to decimate their erring members. This court may interpret and exact the rule of engagements employed by the militaryand point out the moment their traffic offence degenerated into criminal offence, punishable by such horrible death.

The probability of banning the hijab, if the suicide bombings continue, is just a joke taken too serious. And if we apply a certain logic in understanding this, we may have to argue that perhaps cars used in bomb attacks should also be banned in public places. If hijab was marked a threat to national security for the fact that it’s easy to conceal an object inside it, how is Agbada or Babban Riga any less spacious for hiding explosives? We should ask everyone, including the President himself, to stop wearing Babban Riga to public events. The last I checked, suicide bombing wasn’t carried out by the female alone. What our security personnel need, instead, are effective bomb-detecting devices.

President Buhari dismissed the possibility of the Nigeria Police Force investigating a civil case involving members of the Nigeria Army as an abomination, that “it shouldn’t be the other way round.” That wasn’t a joke. He meant it. That was apparently a military officer yet to understand that the system has changed, and that the present arrangement is such that the police are to investigate the Shiite—Army clash.

One confusing puzzle from the chat is a rhetoricby the President. “How can (the Shiites) create a state inside a state?” The question is, at what point did they know that the Shiites had actually created a state inside a state, knowing that investigation into their clash with the Army is yet to be concluded? If the Shiites were actually running a parallel government long before December 12, why was the present Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, romancing with them, despite knowledge of them being enemy of the state, in the course of the campaign season? Or is it that Nasiru el Rufai is a cluless politician? If the Shiites had created a state inside a state, or are running a parallel government, why didn’t the President take the decision to declare them as criminal before the clash, and dismantle their organizational cohesion judiciously? This could’ve saved us the December 12 tragedy.

It’s obvious that the President wasn’t prepared to answer questions on forex restrictions. His honesty was a buzzkill. Rough roads ahead for Nigerians overseas or likely to have private interactions that involved forex. The president seems to have no clear idea of its impacts on both the economy and social life of Nigerians. He really has to confer with the CBN Governor on the way forward. The position on forex is also a bad news for those wishing to hoard dollars in anticipation of rumoured devaluation of Naira.

The trials of Sambo Dasuki and Nnamdi Kanu, in court on charges of corruption and treason, respectively, may be one of the instances the President suspended his adopted political precepts as a reformed democrat. It’s clear that the President won’t adhere to the rule of law. Even though he claimed that he won’t interfere with the outcomes of the judiciary, the positions of the institutions trying Dasuki and Kanu, on bail applications, are already an interference with the judiciary.

Overall, the media chat is a commendable effort and, despite dampening the spirit of some Nigerians, it shows that we are finally free from a regime of mendacity, as witnessed in the years of the Hat-wearing zoologist who, without blinking eyes, and aware Nigerians were watching him, claimed the state of the nation was better; and that power supply had improved. We would be proud of a president who has not claimed to being a know-it-all, and moderate in his endorsement of lies as done on the question of N5000 stipend for the unemployed youth. To which he said, “When my VP was quoted, how can I come here and disown it?” This may be the most honest man we could have for this job. May God save us from us!

By Gimba Kakanda

It was funded by the masses as they contributed a lot through cash deposited in that first bank account and through the sales of recharge cards. Or have you forgotten so soon.

Niger state Governor Abubakar Sani Bello has presented N74.7 billion budget to the State House of Assembly, vowing to block areas of leakages, wastage and recover stolen funds.

In what he tagged ‘Budget of Restoration’ on Thursday, the budget is made up of Recurrent Expenditure of Thirty Nine Billion, Five Hundred and One Million, Seven Hundred and Ninety Six Thousand and Eighty One Naira (N39, 501,796,081.00) which represents 52.85 percent and Capital Expenditure of Thirty Five Billion, Two Hundred and Forty Two Million, Three Hundred and Fifty Five Thousand and Fifty Two Naira (=N=35,242,355,052.00) or 47.15 per cent.

He stated that the Budget would be financed through Statutory Allocation N35,792,212,748.00 Value-Added Tax (VAT) N 9, 871, 299, 803.00 Internally Generated Revenue N9,391,164,235.00 Capital Receipts N19,689,474,347.00 bringing it to a total sum N74,744,151,133.00.

The governor gave the estimated Recurrent Expenditure to include Personnel Cost N27,791,636,930.00; Overhead Cost N8,349,855,448.00; Consolidated Fund Charges N3,360,303,703.00; bringing the total Recurrent Expenditure to N39,501,796,081:00.

Governor Bello also gave the sectoral breakdown of the Capital Expenditure as Administrative N3,687,052,540.00; Economic N23,998,054,631.00; Law & Justice N896,400,000.00; Social N6,660,847,880.00; bringing the total Capital Expenditure to N35,242,355,052:00.

According to the governor, “The management of the meagre resources of the State will be a priority. In this regard, areas of leakages and wastage will be identified and blocked accordingly.

“The Treasury Single Account (TSA) will become operational in the year. I must emphasize that this Administration has zero tolerance for corruption. Stolen funds will be recovered and proven cases of corruption dealt with accordingly.”

Source: http://leadership.ng/news/487912/governor-bello-presents-n74-7bn-budget-niger-assembly

Cc: lalasticlala, seun, ishilove, mynd44

The House of Representatives committee on national security and intelligence would intervene in the release of leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzakky.

The committee, chaired by Hon. Aminu Sani Jaji, took the decision after meeting with members of the sect yesterday in Abuja.

A source at the close-door meeting told LEADERSHIP last night in Abuja that during the meeting, members of the movement demanded the setting up of a Judicial Commission of Inquiry to probe the killings of their members in Zaria on December 12 and 13, 2015 by soldiers.

The source also added that the movement also demanded for the unconditional release of their leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzakky and his wife who have been in custody since their arrests.

Members of the movement made the demands when they appeared before an Ah-Hoc committee setup by the House of Representatives to investigate the deadly clash between the Shiite followers and military men.

LEADERSHIP also gathered that the sect members have demanded for the corpses of their brother and sisters for proper Islamic burial as well as the release of the injured ones for medical attention, even as they alleged that hundreds of their members are currently being detained in Kaduna Prison without trial.

The source revealed that the movement’s members told the committee that the killings were premeditated based on the way and manner they were carried out and sustained for more than 48 hours.

The source also added that sect members alleged that apart from killing scores of the sect members and destroying their Zaria shrine, soldiers also went to Dema village where Zakzakky’s grandmother was buried and tried to exhume her body as well as destroyed their cemetery at Mararraban Jos, along Kaduna-Zaria road.

They further alleged that when the killings were going on, personnel of the Red Cross who attempted to render help to the injured and evacuate those killed were denied access by soldiers.

After listening to their submissions, the committee promised the movement that it would do a thorough investigation with a view to ensuring justice is done no matter which of the two sides is found guilty as well as ensure the release of their leader and members currently held in custody.

Source: http://leadership.ng/news/politics/487914/reps-intervene-release-shiite-leader-members

Cc: lalasticlala, seun, ishilove, mynd