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- "Shehu Sani is a bastard pulling Nigeria backwards" - Bashir El-Rufai insult Sen. Shehu Sani
- Petrol laden tanker fire consume 54 vehicles and many lives lost in Lagos
- Joi John US based Journalist compares Obama to Buhari over Plateau killings
- Shiite Muslims Protecting Police Officers During Riot In Kaduna
- Fulani threat of war is fake- MURIC
- "Buhari treating killer herdsmen with kid gloves" - Wole Soyinka
- Four lawmakers of Imo Assembly suspended over impeachment plot against Deputy Governor
- "Buhari was trusted with so much and has failed so greatly. So disgracefully" - Chude Jideonwo says
| "Shehu Sani is a bastard pulling Nigeria backwards" - Bashir El-Rufai insult Sen. Shehu Sani Posted: 28 Jun 2018 04:50 PM PDT  Bashir El-Rufai, son of the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai has called Senator Shehu Sani a bastard.It could be recalled that Senator Shehu Sani has been from one political fueds to the other with Nasir El-Rufai and the son of the Governor has now joined the dispute.See his Twitter post below: Related Topics: #NasirElRufai, #KadunaState, #ShehuSani Sharing is caring. Share this story  |
| Petrol laden tanker fire consume 54 vehicles and many lives lost in Lagos Posted: 28 Jun 2018 04:07 PM PDT  No fewer than 54 vehicles has been confirmed burnt in a tanker fire on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Thursday evening at 5.30pm, trapping many road users, An eyewitness also said that many lives were also lost in the inferno.According to the Federal Road Safety Corps, spokes person, Mr. Bisi Kazeem, who disclosed that "The accident occurred when the fuel tanker experienced brake failure," Mr Bisi further said that the affected vehicles comprised the fuel tanker, five buses, two trucks, one tricycle, and 45 cars."The registration numbers of the affected vehicles could not be ascertained, as all the vehicles were burnt," Kazeem said. Watch video: Mr. kazeem also said that the first responders, including officials of the Rapid Response Squad, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, FRSC and Lagos State Fire Service have continued the rescue operations. Other first responders include policemen, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, and the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority. Watch video: As a result of the incident road users experienced serious traffic jam, as it extended all the way to the third mainland bridge and other adjourning roads.   |
| Joi John US based Journalist compares Obama to Buhari over Plateau killings Posted: 28 Jun 2018 09:26 AM PDT  A Nigerian journalist who is based in the United States has berated president Muhammadu Buhari following his 'attitude' to the killings of over 100 people recently in Plateau state.The Journalist simply identified as Joi John revealed how she saw the humane side of president Barack Obama after she was a victim of the Hurricane Sandy (referred to as Superstorm Sandy) said to be the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season. The Lady Journalist shared her thoughts via her Facebook page. Read below; Our African leaders give the impression they want to emulate governance in the western world but when we need them to take a stand, they fumble. These random killings in Nigeria have gone on for too long and I find it disturbing that the Buhari administration seems to be handling the matter with kid gloves. The approach and response of a leader in time of a disaster or security crisis says a lot. In 2012 when Superstorm Sandy hit New Jersey, I was a victim of that disaster. It was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the Atlantic hurricane season. That tragedy was a defining moment for the Obama administration. We saw the humane side of Barack! He was swift to board the Marine One. Television cameras captured him flying over the Jersey shore with Gov.Chris Christie to obtain a first hand insight to the devastation. It didn't end there. When Obama met with the victims on ground, there were no hidden emotions.  Helpless citizens are being massacred frequently yet no crocodile dance, no lion dance ...nothing. What we keep getting is Press releases upandan. How long are we going to continue like this? This matter must be tackled ruthlessly before things get out of hand across the country. ▪️ Joi John Related Topics: #BarrackObama, #Buhari Sharing is caring. Share this story  |
| Shiite Muslims Protecting Police Officers During Riot In Kaduna Posted: 28 Jun 2018 08:48 AM PDT  The Islamic Movement of Nigeria otherwise known as the Shiite group has disclosed that they are innocent in the killing of a policeman and the chaos caused recently in Kaduna state.The group who claimed its members are non-violent - alledged that the peaceful protest they embarked on last Thursday was hijacked by hoodlums who used the opportunity to wreck havoc and stoned a policeman to death in the process. The Islamic group decided to share an unseen old picture of members protecting police officers during a riot in Kaduna state many years ago.Last week, a policeman was reportedly stoned to death in the alleged clash between members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria and the police in Kaduna.The brutal killing of the policeman came on a day that the leader of the Islamic sect, Ibraheem El Zakzaky and wife, Zeena were arraigned before the Kaduna State High Court four(4) along the Ibrahim Taiwo Road in the heart of the city on Thursday.  Members of the sect have been protesting in Kaduna since his arrest and detention, demanding the release of their leader who has been in government captivity for about two years. Related Topics: #Shiite, #KadunaState, #Police, #IbraheemElZakzaky Sharing is caring. Share this story  |
| Fulani threat of war is fake- MURIC Posted: 28 Jun 2018 05:51 AM PDT  The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has disclosed that the rumour of war by the Fulani National Movement(FNAM) is fake and urged Nigerians to disregard the rumour.Read the statement released by MURIC below:Salaam All, This is very urgent please. MURIC cautions Nigerians about a false statement being circulated today Wednesday 27th June, 2018 purportedly from the Fulani National Movement (FUNAM) and dated 25/6/18.The statement which was signed by Badu Salisu Ahmadu and Umar Amir Shehu made sweeping and alarming claims and threats against perceived enemies of the Fulani people.MURIC can confirm that the statement is fake. FUNAM president has just refuted the statement in a radio program in Abuja.Please disregard this highly explosive statement. It is one of the handiworks of enemies of the Nigerian state. It is another proof that disgruntled politicians, looters under trial and their agents are fueling the killings in different parts of Nigeria. We urge all citizens to remain calm and law abiding. We advise citizens to go about their normal businesses. Nigeria shall overcome by the Grace of Allah. Please share this message in order to give it very wide circulation. Related Topics: #MURIC, #Herdsmen Sharing is caring. Share this story  |
| "Buhari treating killer herdsmen with kid gloves" - Wole Soyinka Posted: 28 Jun 2018 04:41 AM PDT  Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, on Wednesday slammed President Muhammadu Buhari for doing little to stop killings by herdsmen amid the general insecurity in the country.Soyinka, who paid a condolence visit to Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State on Wednesday, said the magnitude of security challenge the country was experiencing under Buhari's watch was on the high side when compared to what happened during his tenure.However, Soyinka noted that killings by herdsmen had been persisting because the Federal Government under Buhari had been treating killer herdsmen with kid gloves.Obasanjo challenged the federal and state governments to identify the root cause(s) of insecurity and deal with them so that people would get a reprieve from the incessant violence in the country.Obasanjo admitted that although there were problems during his time in government, "but not in this magnitude." "Even in my time, we had problems but not in this magnitude; we thought we were dealing with them as of that time but the earlier we deal with it, the better. I believe we can find solutions, we must find solutions," he emphasised. The former President, however, expressed optimism that solutions could be found to address the challenges and extended his condolences to the bereaved families. Obasanjo said, "I'm here (in Jos) to express my condolences; what happened is very sad that in this day and age, this type of barbaric act is taking place in our country. I have suggested and I will say it again that we should find out the root cause of this problem and deal with it. "There must be the remote and immediate cause, if we deal with it; we are not going to be multiplying condolence visits. I believe that any human problem has human solutions, I do hope and plead with the government at the federal level, those of you in states and even local government level, to join hands even at the community level to find the causes and deal with them permanently. We offer our condolences to the bereaved families, all we can say is that God knows the best." In his response, Lalong appreciated Obasanjo for the visit, saying that a phone call would have been okay. He said, "Insecurity is not new to me, we thought we could handle it. When we came in, we quickly put up a team including Berom and Fulani. They came out with a road map to proffer solutions, we adopted the recommendations and have implemented some and was in the process of implementing the remaining ones. We have done our best, we have learnt our lessons. We will be very firm." But Soyinka in a statement titled, "On Demand: A language of non-capitulation, non-appeasement," urged President Buhari to make killer herdsmen pay for their crimes to send a strong warning that his administration would not tolerate forceful land seizure anywhere in Nigeria. The Nobel laureate said Buhari's claim that it was unjust for the public to accuse him of being silent on the killer herdsmen's activities was based on their observation of his "erstwhile language of complacency and accommodativeness in the face of unmerited brutalisation.'' He added that Buhari had yet to speak in the language that the "murdering herdsmen" understand by exhibiting that forceful seizure of land would not be tolerated in any part of a federation under his governance. Soyinka said, "That the temporary acquisition of weapons of mass elimination by any bunch of psychopaths and anachronistic feudal mentality will not translate into subjugation of a people and a savaging of their communities.'' The playwright noted that certain unconscionable events had taken place in the country which could not be ignored, adding that entire communities had been erased from the national landscape, thousands of family units in mourning and survivors scarred and traumatised beyond measure. He stated that famine loomed in many areas, even in those lodged in acknowledged bread baskets of the nation, adding that "impunity, gleeful and prideful impunity substitutes for decent self-distancing from once unthinkable crimes – let us not even speak of expressions of remorse and human empathy. The instigators, increasingly fingered as directors of human carnage are strutting around, defiant, justifying the unspeakable, daring a nation…'' Noting that land-grab must be reversed, Soyinka said the restored would still require to be defended and aggressors also served a lasting lesson both from the manifested responsibility of governance, and the resistant will of the people. "Accounting for crimes is also part of that responsibility, and such criminality must not be seen to be rewarded through idealistic solutions that paper over crimes against humanity. For that is the present actuality. Crimes against our humanity have been committed, and restitution must be made. Nothing less will restore confidence in a government, and reassure the people of its integrity, its commitment to equity in internal relationships and the rightful custodianship of ancient resources,'' Soyinka said. The playwright said it was a time of far-reaching, yet immediate decisions, because the nation was dying. According to him, the time for false pride is over and if the nation lacks the necessary technical resources, then there remains only one blameless, overdue recourse and it is for the President to 'Get help.' Soyinka, who bemoaned the recent attacks on Barkin Ladi council area in Plateau State, noted that five young men were recently sentenced to death by a high court in Zamfara State for allegedly killing a herdsman. The playwright stated that though he was not condoning murder in any cause or by anyone, it was necessary to insist on transparent and impartial justice. He said, "The agitating question then is this: since this rampage began, has even one herdsman been brought up before those same courts on a charge of murder, much less sentenced to death at such lightning speed? Shall we wake up and find that they have been hanged? Yet Zamfara has lost hundreds to the homicidal orgy of these same herdsmen. There is a skewed application of justicial proceedings here that baffles many, this writer among them.'' He revealed that when he visited the Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, some weeks ago, he bitterly lamented that security agencies had ordered his communities to surrender even the very machetes of routine use in farming. Soyinka also said what he termed as 'the Danjuma thesis' that helpless Nigerians should defend themselves was neither new nor strange, but simply a restatement of the logicality of human response in the face of aggression. He told the President that he strongly believed that the recent planned massacre had a numerical target which was the formal annunciation of a new law. The playwright stated, "From now on, for every missing, maimed, even legally seized cow-perhaps for trespassing and damage-one human being shall die, and the commensurate land shall be forfeited. Make no mistake, that is the message! Berom or Ondo, Tiv or Efik. Egba or Igalla — it makes no difference — this is the language, and if your government does not understand it yet, we, whose field is language, both spoken and symbolic, must decode it for you.'' Soyinka said he also learnt that a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, whose ordeal of being kidnapped by the "marauders was still fresh in the nation's mind," was still under siege by the same forces as neither he nor his workers could routinely attend to the farms. "An aggressor who sniffs, however faintly, the permissive air of immunity, is near totally beyond recall. Only the stern language of reprimand, manifested in act, will deter him,'' he stated. He noted that the language of the leaders of Myetti Allah whom he described as 'self-vaunting instigators' in the nation's herder colonisation was being promoted by the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, on behalf of the government. Soyinka added that if an individual qualified to be the guinea-pig for testing the outrageous hate bill speech contemplated by the nation's lawmakers, it was the 'unedifying pronouncements of the Minister of Defence, who "continues to defend the indefensible through his arrogant, provocative dismissals of an agenda of ethnic cleansing, dehumanising the victims anew, and camouflaging the failure of the government by his gratuitous blame-passing." According to Soyinka, the language of the Dan-Ali is a language that is now being contradicted by the meaning of 'land grabbing shall be reversed.' Credit: Punch Related Topics: #WoleSoyinka, #Herdsmen, #Buhari Sharing is caring. Share this story  |
| Four lawmakers of Imo Assembly suspended over impeachment plot against Deputy Governor Posted: 28 Jun 2018 03:43 AM PDT  The Imo State House Assembly has suspended four of his members for an alleged plot to impeach the deputy governor of the state, Mr. Eze Madumere.It could be recalled that the deputy governor has been in logger head with the Governor Rochas Okorocha, over the candidature of the 2019 Imo State APC governorship candidate.Read details below as published by Oriental Daily News:The Imo state House of Assembly has suspended four of its members to smoothen the ground for the commencement of impeachment proceedings on the deputy governor of the state, Eze Madumere, who has fallen out with the governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha.The came days after the national convention of All Progressives Congress in Abuja where supporters of the governor and his deputy engaged each other in a free-for -all while president Muhammadu Buhari was addressing the convention.The speaker of the state House of Assembly, Acho Ihim, who presided over the plenary accused the suspended members of engaging in "unparliamentary conducts." The affected lawmakers included Chiji Collins,representing Isiala Mbano state constituency, Ifeanyi Nnataraonye, Mbaitoli (deputy Governor's LGA )Uche Oguwuike, Ikeduru state constituency ( deputy governor's in-law) and Ikenna Nzeruo, representing Oru west state constituency. The speaker immediately appointed Lawman Duruji who represents Ehime Mbano as the chairman of the committee that will look into the allegations of the "unparliamentary conducts". Ihim who did not explain what he meant by unparliamentary conducts, announced that the suspension was indefinite and that his leadership would not tolerate acts that would reduce the integrity of the Assembly before the members of the public. One of the suspended lawmakers, Collins was not allowed by the speaker to speak when he raised up his hands in protest. The three other lawmakers stayed away from the plenary. But an insider source told our correspondent that the four members were suspended after they failed to endorse the impeachment proceedings on the deputy governor which would commence any time soon. One of the affected lawmakers who did not want his name in print told our correspondent that himself and three of his colleagues were suspended just to get at the deputy governor who has scores to settle with the governor. According to him "what is unparliamentary conduct? They just called a dog a bad name just to kill it. They want to begin the impeachment proceedings on the deputy governor. "They tried to win us before the just concluded national convention of our party but the four of us and our colleagues who are members of People's Democratic Party refused. "The only way they can weaken us was to suspend four of us. They know that with our suspension and coupled with the few members of PDP in the house, the impeachment process will be a smooth one", one of the lawmakers said. But the speaker of the state House of Assembly, told our correspondent that there was no political colouration in the suspension of the four lawmakers. He said that anybody linking the suspension to impeachment proceedings on the deputy governor was raising a negative alarm . Ihim advised the suspended members to sort themselves out with the committee set up to investigate their "unparliamentary conducts ." Related Topics: #ImoState, #RochasOkorocha, #ImoAssembly Sharing is caring. Share this story  |
| "Buhari was trusted with so much and has failed so greatly. So disgracefully" - Chude Jideonwo says Posted: 28 Jun 2018 12:48 AM PDT  One Mr. Chude who campaigned for President Buhari in 2015, disclosed this in a post he shared last night while applauding former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, for leading a solo march to the State House Abuja yesterday to protest the wanton killings in Plateau and other parts of the country.See what Mr. Chude wrote below:''Just like Babangida, like Shagari, like Shonekan, history will cast aside a man like Buhari who was trusted with so much and failed so greatly. So disgracefully''.Below is Chude's full post:My goodness. My goodness. I just heard about this now, and I knew I had to break my silence and say something. This is too important.Yes. Just like Babangida, like Shagari, like Shonekan, history will cast aside a man like Buhari who was trusted with so much and failed so greatly. So disgracefully. |
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