Why I chose Yar'Adua to suceed me as president - Olusegun Obasanjo

 Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed he choose the late Musa Yar'Adua as his successor because he was the only aspirant who was not corrupt at the time..After Yar'Adua died on May 5, 2010 from heart-related ailments,Obasanjo was condemned  for choosing a man who was sick to lead the country..Speaking with Channels Tv at his Hilltop residence,Abeokuta, he said

KADUNA: 5 people reported dead in a stampede over Ramadan gifts

5 people have been reported dead in a stampede while waiting to collect Ramadan gifts from a businessman in Kaduna on Monday, July 13.

 It was revealed that many others lost consciousness during the stampede. The incident happened when people found a businessman, sharing gifts at the Kabala Constain area in Kaduna North local government area of the state.

APC Vows to Release “Shocking Revelations” about former President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

The tussle between the ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party has been heated as APC vows to reveal irregularities in President Goodluck Jonathan's administration.

Former President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

 National publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Lai Mohammed on Sunday, July 12, released a statement in which he vowed that the party would disclose “shocking revelations” about ex president Goodluck Jonathan‘s administration.

 

• Again, Presidency accuses PDP of falsehood 

  

According to The Cable, the statement contains accusations made by APC against PDP.

N2bn #Fraud: Oronsaye’s #Trial Begins October 28

 Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on July 13, 2015 fixed the trial of a former Head of Service, HoS, Stephen Oronsaye, and two others who were brought before it by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a 24-count charge bordering on stealing and obtaining money by false pretence for October 28, 29; November 3, 5 and December 2, 2015 respectively.

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EFCC Reveals that Two Witnesses To Testify Against Nyako Die Mysteriously

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, during a sitting in Abuja at Federal High Court revealed that two key witnesses who were set to testify against the former governor of Adamawa State, Admiral Murtala Nyako, rtd, who has been docked for money laundering charges, have died under mysterious circumstances.

 

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The EFCC, via a counter-affidavit that was deposed to by one of its lead Detectives, Adekunle Christopher Odofin, ‎said that the witnesses, Ma’aji Mohammed Iro and Abdulmalik Dalhatu were found dead not too long after they came to its office and ‎testified against the accused former governor.

 

President Muhammadu Buhari fires Nigeria's Service Chiefs...Approves others...

President Muhammadu Buhari has fired Nigeria's Service Chiefs comprising of Chief of Defence, and the heads of Army, Navy and the Air Force.

President Buhari and Vice to recieve 50% of actual salary

 
The presidency announced today that President Buhari and VP Osinbajo have decided to take a pay cut. They will now only receive 50% of what GEJ and Sambo received during their administration.

“I write to forward the completed IPPIS registration form of Mr. President and to draw your kind attention to Mr. President’s directive that only 50% of his salary be paid to him,”

The Permanent Secretary of the State House, Nebolisa Emodi wrote to the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation yesterday. Osinbajo also agreed to take a pay cut. Buhari will now receive 50% of his annual N14, 058,820.00.


The president's annual salary is revealed to be  about N40m.

Tribalism? A brother to racism?

STOP IT

A lady walked into the office today and tried to sell a product to the boss of the office but somewhere along the line she was sidetracked. The reason for this, i did not understand at the time but much later. the same product the lady attempted to sell to the boss was the same this man came to sell.

Boko Haram sends threat mail to ThisDay Editor

A features editor with Thisday newspapers, Adeola Akinremi reportedly received a threat mail from members of the insurgency group, Boko Haram over his anti-Boko Haram articles. Akinremi received the threat mail in May after his visit to Adamawa state to investigate the plight of Internally Displaced Persons and the activities of the sect in the state. Akinremi afterwards wrote a piece titled, Why Boko Haram don’t deserve our amnesty?.

See a  copy of the threat mail signed by one Abu Musab Abul-Barnawi and exclusively obtained by The Cable after the cut...

Nigerians wanted change, they must live with the consequences - FFK

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode says he is not surprised by the increased spate of Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria. He said Nigerians wanted change and they have gotten it and must now live with it. He shared his thoughts on the issues happening in Nigeria in a piece he posted on his Facebook page this evening. See that after the cut...



Anyone that honestly believed that a man who secretly shares the same vision and core principles of Boko Haram and who spent many years defending them can do anything but give them a free hand when he comes to power is living in cuckoo land.

I am not surprised by all the recent bombings and killings. I am not surprised by the resurgence of BH and their new found barbarity, courage and zeal. Military checkpoints have been removed from our roads so what do you expect?

We may negotiate with Boko Haram - Buhari

The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, on Friday, disclosed in an interview with the BBC, that the Federal Government has said that it is open to negotiations with the Boko Haram sect in order to find a lasting solution to the security crisis in the country, if the group is willing.

 

In the interview, Adesina said the Federal Government was not ruling out negotiations with the sect if it would put an end to the activities of the group, stating that the insurgents had attacked so many villages and killed scores of people.

When BBC asked if the Federal Government was considering negotiations with the insurgent group, Adesina said:

“If they are willing, why not? You know attempts have been made for negotiations in the past and they didn’t work. Every reasonable person would want to see the end to this insurgency. So if they are willing, why not? You can’t rule that out.”

 

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“These were very vicious attacks. People were killed in scores and it’s so sad,” he said.

 

The President had during his inauguration speech said he had launched a strategy to deal with the sect by relocating the military headquarters to Maiduguri, Borno State.

 

When asked if this would work, Adesina replied:

“This is going to work. There are machineries being put in place. It’s going to work. The recent killings by the sect were meant to break our resolve, to weaken it, but that will stop. It remains a priority to him (Buhari) to deal with the group.

“You will notice that his first two weeks of administration were dedicated to tackling the insurgency. He visited Chad and Niger Republics and the following week, the Presidents of those countries also visited him in Abuja.

“The President of Benin Republic and the Defence Minister of Cameroon visited him; machinery is being put in place and once we’re through, we will see the end of the group. The target time for the deployment of the multinational force is July ending; that is in a couple of weeks.”

Buhari Is Already Confused – Etcetera

Mr. President

Controversial writer Etcetera, in his new article criticizes the new President of Nigeria Muhammed Buhari  saying, he is already overwhelmed and confused like what we’ve had in the past.
Read his Article below…..

If there is any group of individuals who can manufacture shock, political punditry out of nothing, it is the All Progressives Congress. They cried out that Jonathan was doing a terrible job as President of Nigeria. They said his inability to run the Federal Government is the reason our country has lapsed into wholesale chaos.
He is the reason corruption decimated our population, turned brother against brother. He is the reason our military became weak and our borders constantly breached by Niger, Chad and Cameroonian gendarmes. He is the reason our cities have all lost power and we have reclined back into the dark ages. He is the reason why thousands of wild dogs/Boko Haram roam our streets and rip our children apart. With democracy being an institution where we worry about how many people ‘agree’ about certain things, APC must be concerned that Nigerians are actually seeing that Buhari is not the messiah we need.
When I wrote that Nigerians shouldn’t celebrate Buhari yet, a lot of his sympathizers reached for my scalp with all types of derogatory vocabularies. Now, just a couple of days into his regime and even before the flag is hoisted up the pole, the same people have started singing the same old song that he is too slow. Just like in the time of Jonathan. Why am I not surprised? When I talked about Buhari’s age, they said presiding over the affairs of a country is different from being a bricklayer. Why is Buhari now wishing he was younger? What has “changed” him? Didn’t he know his age before “borrowing” money to acquire the form to contest for president?
Listening to APC and President Buhari’s excuses of just being in government for only few weeks is like watching a doctor on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ pounding on a patient’s chest until another doctor has to pull him off and say, ‘Sir it’s over!’ That’s what I want to say to President Buhari. Sir, it’s over! We are tired of having president with excuses. You didn’t give us these excuses in any of your campaign speeches. Nigerians, it’s time to move on! There will be other disasters. There will always be presidents with excuses.

Nigerian Student Tops At Cambridge University

Oluwatobi Olasunkanmi, a Nigerian Student, has won the William Charnley Prize for the best First Class in Law at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

He, Oluwatobi, who is the son of the former Minister of Youth Development, Senator Akinlabi Olasunkanmi, happened to be the only student of black descent in the graduating class.