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- Atiku Kick-Start Campaign With Launch Of Policy Document, Promises Three Million Jobs Each Year
- Reasons Nigeria May Turn To Desert – NCF
- Olawuyi, APC's Candidate Wins Kwara Bye-Election
- 2019 PRESIDENCY: Buhari Carpets Atiku, Ezekwesili Trails From Bottom In UK Poll
- Buhari The Dead And His Body Double - By Festus Adedayo
- Shehu Sani Reacts To Buhari Being Dead, Cloned
- JUST IN: Saraki Speaks On APC’s Victory In Kwara Bye Elections
- Kano Market Gutted By Fire
- Nnamdi Kanu Alleges Jubril Aminu Was Transformed To ‘Dead Buhari’
- Malam Daura, President Buhari's Cousin, Expresses Fears For Buhari
- 2019 PRESIDENCY: Shehu Sani Discloses One Of Atiku’s Dangerous Agenda
| Atiku Kick-Start Campaign With Launch Of Policy Document, Promises Three Million Jobs Each Year Posted: 18 Nov 2018 03:26 PM PST
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has promised to create three million jobs every year if he is elected as president in the 2019 election.This is one of the key points in the policy document released by Atiku today (Sunday), which details a seven-year timeline in which he intends to deliver on his campaign promises.The PDP Presidential flag bearer, while giving a breakdown of the rate of unemployment in the country said, "Close to 16 million people are unemployed, nine million more than in 2014."Over two million new entrants join the labour force each year meaning the unemployed share of the labour force more than tripled in less than a decade: from 5.1% in 2010 to 18.8% in 2017"Unemployment for women and young people is at 33%, 70% of unemployed youths are uneducated and unskilled."Creating jobs and economic opportunities for these people will be vital both for reducing the pool of easy recruits for violent groups and reducing underlying grievances that feed the conflict". As a solution, he said his administration, if elected in 2019 will, "Launch a new, more efficient, cost-effective and sustainable national Entrepreneurship Development and Job Creation Programme. "Target the creation of up to three million self and wage-paying employment opportunities in the private sector annually. "Target all categories of youth, including graduates, early school leavers as well as the massive numbers of uneducated youth who are currently not in schools, employment or training. "Create incubation centres, clusters and industrial/commercial hubs to provide a marketplace for MSMEs and SMPs. "Champion the repositioning and streamlining the activities of the existing Federal and State Government Job Creation Agencies". Apart from job creation, the document also lists three other areas of priority namely infrastructure development, human capital development and poverty eradication. According to the former Vice President, he has plans to lift 50 million Nigerians out of poverty, by 2025. Furthermore, he stated that he has plans to privatise the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and also sell all four national refineries. Other areas of focus in terms of infrastructure is the construction of 5,000 kilometres of roads, and 5,000 kilometres of modern railway. A statement released on Saturday, by the Atiku Campaign Organisation, had explained that Atiku's decision to kick-start his presidential campaign with the launch of his policy document was to reiterate his commitment to running an issue-based campaign. It added that the intention was to take their policy directly to Nigerians and to register Atiku's belief that it would take the collective efforts of every Nigerian to rebuild the country. It read in part, "That is why we want Nigerians to access the policy directly and ultimately take ownership of it," it said, adding, "Our campaign offers a simple message: United, the people of Nigeria can begin anew, creating a prosperous and secure future and a better life for every Nigerian. "Our policy document focuses on creating jobs, ensuring security, growing business, developing power and water infrastructure, agriculture and education and how we will empower women. "Our policies outline the goals and methods for developing and revitalising Nigeria as the foundation of our campaign. This policy document is being launched to encourage a dialogue with the people of Nigeria, inviting everyone to join us in helping to get Nigeria working again. "The PDP presidential candidate looks forward to conducting vital discussions as he travels across the length and breadth of Nigeria, meeting and talking with stakeholders – farmers, small business people, workers, students, mothers, and children." Source: Channels Television Related Topics: #Atiku #AtikuPolicyDocument Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||
| Reasons Nigeria May Turn To Desert – NCF Posted: 18 Nov 2018 02:31 PM PST
A report released by Nigerian Conservation Foundation, NCF, states that the country is losing about a half kilometre of its land mass annually to desert encroachment and time is of essence before the entire country becomes a desert.NAN reports that Dr Muktari Aminu-Kano, the Director-General of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, raised the alarm in Lagos on Sunday.He made the disclosure at the 2018 edition of the Green Ball series with theme: "Green Recovery Nigeria: Restoring Mangroves and Reclaiming the Desert."Aminu-Kano said that mangroves were also being lost in the Niger Delta and that the nation had already lost up to 95 per cent of its forest cover.He warned that urgent measures must be taken to curb deforestation and forest degradation to stop what he described as ugly consequences of climate change for the nation.The NCF chief also warned on the "firewood crisis,'' saying that the problem must be addressed to discourage use of fire wood use as cooking gas. He stressed on the need to strengthen the Green Recovery Nigeria scheme, aimed at retaining a significant proportion of Nigeria's landmass under forest. Aminu-Kano also called for sustained intensive awareness campaign among all tiers of governments to change the practice of tree felling to tree planting. He noted that government must have to promote clean sources of cooking energy to protect the nation's forests from being used as firewood. "Green Recovery Nigeria is our push to bring the agenda that Nigeria is pathetically loosing 95 per cent of its forest cover and we have only five per cent left. "350,000 hectares of land are being lost annually to desertification and the land lost is about 0.6, which is about half a kilometre every year. "If you think you live in Lagos and it cannot reach you, it will only take some time. Imagine the annual movement of 0.6 kilometres.'' The Chairman of the NCF Board of Trustees, Chief Philip Asiodu, in a speech, recalled that Nigeria entered an agreement with the Food and Agriculture Organisation in 1988 to restore 25 per cent of its forest cover. Asiodu said that while other African countries commenced implementation of the agreement, Nigeria had done nothing and had lost almost all its forest cover. He noted that with increasing population, the effects of climate change were manifested through gully erosions in the South East and desertification in the Sahel. "There is a lot of work to do to persuade the government into action,'' he said. The Wife of the Lagos State Governor, Mrs Bolanle Ambode, represented by the Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Environment, Mr Abiodun Bamgbose, thanked the NCF for its efforts at addressing environmental issues. Ambode said that humanity had become vulnerable to how it treated the gift of the environment. "The Lagos State Government does a lot of tree planting every year. All multinationals should rise and support this fight because government alone cannot do it,'' she said. Related Topics: #NigerianConservationFoundation Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||
| Olawuyi, APC's Candidate Wins Kwara Bye-Election Posted: 18 Nov 2018 01:50 PM PST
Raheem Olawuyi, the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), was on Saturday declared the winner of the Ekiti/Irepodun/Isin/Oke-Ero Federal Constituency bye-election held across the four councils in Kwara.The Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Abimbola Adesoji, while declaring the result at the Irepodun Local Government Secretariat in Omu-Aran, said Olawuyi polled 21, 236 to emerge winner.He defeated his closest rival, Saheed Damilare of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who polled 18, 095.Abimbola, who is of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, said Olawuyi having scored the highest number of votes in the election was declared winner.Other contestants in the election were Femi Ona-Ara of Labour Party, Ajadi Olayemi of Peoples Party of Nigeria (PPN) as well as Olaniyan Ayorinde of Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN).Abimbola gave the total number of total registered voters as collated as 168, 707, accredited voters as 41,185, the total valid votes as 39,599, total number of rejected votes as 1, 331 and total number of votes cast as 40,930. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some cancellations arising from snatching of ballot boxes and over voting were reportedly experienced in three polling units in Irepodun Local Government Area. The affected units as listed by the Presiding Officer in charge of the council included Registration Area (RA) 02 of Esie-Ijan Ward where two ballot boxes were reportedly snatched and 955 number of registered voters lost. Other areas were Oro Ward 1 RA 02, Polling Unit 01 where a case of ballot snatching was recorded and a total of 297 registered voters were affected and over voting in Oro Ward 2 RA 10 Polling Unit 01 with 474 registered votes lost. Election cancellation was also recorded in Ile Apaasin RA 04 Polling Unit in Isin Local Government where only 59 voters were accredited but turned in 377 votes. Some Independent National Electoral Officers were confirmed to have been attacked and had wounds in the process. NAN reports that the declaration of the results was witnessed by notable officials that included the Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Mr Bolaji Fafowora, the Resident Electoral Commissioner from Kwara, Malam Garuba Madami as well as his Imo and Lagos counterparts, Mr Emeka Nzeonu and Mr Sam Olumeko respectively. (NAN) Related Topics: #KwaraByeElection #INEC #APC Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||
| 2019 PRESIDENCY: Buhari Carpets Atiku, Ezekwesili Trails From Bottom In UK Poll Posted: 18 Nov 2018 01:27 PM PST
President Muhammadu Buhari, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Presidential Candidate has floored Alhaji Atiku Abubakar the Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)In an online poll created by CitizenPoll and published on their website, Buhari had 64.52 per cent of the votes with 8348, while Atiku polled only 3,241 votes, representing 25 per cent of the vote.The Poll which featured only eight Presidential Candidates, has Mrs Oby Ezekwesili of Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) trailing at the bottom with only 163 votes being 1.11 per cent of the poll as at the time of this report.In the 3rd position on the poll was Omoyele Sowore of African Action Congress (ACC) who polled 344 (2.66%), followed by Kingsley Moghalu of Young Progressive Party (YPP) with 264 votes (2.04%).Tope Dasua of the Abubdant Nigeria Renewal Party (ANRP) polled 215 votes (1.66%) while in the 6th position as at the time of this report was Donald Duke of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) with 195 votes (1.51%).The seventh position was occupied by Fela Durotoye with 190 votes representing 1.47 per cent of the votes. The Citizen Poll also had another running online poll of worst performing Governor in Nigeria with Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi topping the 10-man list. More details soon...... Source: Vanguard Related Topics: #Atiku #Buhari #ObyEzekwesili #CitizenPoll Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||
| Buhari The Dead And His Body Double - By Festus Adedayo Posted: 18 Nov 2018 09:37 AM PST
The notorious rumour in circulation on Nigerian streets sounds every bit like a citation from a James Hadley Chase. Chase has a pleasant notoriety with his crime fiction novels that hold you spellbound. With a gloating slide to it, the rumour is trending, with celebrated gusto, of the "death" of the man Nigerians elected into office in May, 2015. On the social media, in whispers and grisly jokes on the streets, a "man in the know," who argues with the persuasive acumen of a salesman, suddenly emerges from the blues and clinically volunteers information on how Muhammadu Buhari passed on in the United Kingdom in 2017, only to be super-imposed with a body-double, said to be one Jibrin from Sudan.It sounds more like a classic thriller from Chase. In, for instance, You Can Say That Again, Jerry Stevens, a Los-Angeles out-of-work bit-part movie actor who worked small-time, got an offer of a job that was worth a thousand dollars a day in California. What kind of job would be worth that huge pay? The brief was to act as body-double to one of the most powerful and indeed, the richest man in the world, John Merrill Ferguson. The reason for the impersonation was simple: Ferguson, at the centre of a multi-million dollar secret deal, had been on daily watch by tattler newshounds who wanted exclusive stories on his life. In order to stave off these nosey hyenas, Ferguson needed to railroad them from his moves and thus, the need for Stevens as a stand-in. The money involved was so entrapping that Stevens couldn't resist the offer, a whiff off his wildest imagination. However, from the moment he agreed to the Ferguson deal, he suddenly found himself in an intricate web of stark terror, unimaginable nightmare, murder and intrigue that swallowed him and his greed.But, how could this crime fiction model be deployed to explain the governance of the largest concentration of blacks all over the world, Nigeria? How could that almost global celebration of matrimony between Nigerians and General Buhari, consummated in 2015, descend to this level of abysmal distrust and mistrust? Is this trending narrative of a body-double borne out of the normal four-yearly Nigerian orgy of politicking, the usual friction that comes with the "we" and "them" social dichotomy between the upper and lower classes, or the ordinary human cynicism?There is no doubt that public confidence in the Nigerian leadership has broken down irretrievably. There is also no doubting the fact that galloping misrule has alienated Nigerian leaders from the ruled, so much that the "them" and "we" almost live like cat and mouse in the polity. Is this why this callous concoction is a trending narrative in Nigeria?Of a truth, rumour is not native to Nigeria or Nigerian politics. Indeed, rumour is a communication concept which involves a tall tale whose veracity is not quickly or ever confirmed. Circulated from person to person, mostly on an issue of societal concern, rumour spreads like the Californian bushfire. In 1902, German William Stern authored a pioneering work on rumour which his student, Gordon Allport, built upon. It was followed by Robert Knapp's definitive work in 1944 which he entitled A Psychology of Rumor. Of the three basic characteristics of rumour identified by Knapp, the one which says that rumour "express(es) and gratif(ies) the emotional needs of the community" seems to explain the force of this Nigerian rumour on their president. It is also in tandem with a 2004 work by Prashant Bordia and Nicholas DiFonzo, which found out that the transmission of rumour is reflective of a "collective explanation process." So, is Buhari's death rumour simply a distrust borne by perception of his failure in government?Rumour is as old as mankind. There is this Ijesha town in present Osun State where ancient myth claims that the people do not eat snail because one of its founders beheaded his wife on account of rumoured infidelity. While on the farm, dried snail sputum on the wife's wrapper had been misinterpreted to mean a concubine's semen. In memory of the fidelity of the amazon, descendants of the Ijesha town are said to be forbidden from eating snail, as totem of her death. Recent history of rumour throws up khaki shorts-wearing humanist and educationist, Tai Solarin. At the cusp of national angst with wily gap-toothed military president, Ibrahim Babangida, Solarin had been fingered as purveyor of the rumour that an international magazine, Ebony had listed Babangida among World's Richest personalities. Sure it had one of its enemies by his balls, the IBB government literally humiliated the frail and asthmatic Solarin by first arresting him and getting him to climb a number of stairs of some-storied building and immediately, beamed NTA cameras on him as he got to the grilling room. A copy of the 100-plus page Ebony was tossed at him, amid the growling bark of his interrogator asking him to point the particular page of the IBB wealth story. A vividly embarrassed Solarin coughed and sweated helplessly as he frantically flipped through the pages. To finally deconstruct the fabled newspaper columnist, his griller had asked, "Dr. Solarin, if I was one of your students and I wrote this for you in an exam, will you score me an A, B, C or F?" to which the Almighty Solarin waffled. Rumour is also a potent weaponry in political discourse and communication strategy. Negative rumors about an opponent are more fatal than a blow in the heart. In Oyo State, politicians call it ibon oselu – political gunshot, the mortal blow from which a victim may never recover. Allegedly pioneered by the enfant terrible of Oyo politics, Lamidi Adedibu, when then incumbent governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala received his own mortal shot in months leading to the 2011 elections, parceled via the tale that the food he distributed to school children had caused the death of some of them, Alao-Akala limped into the election mortally wounded by the rumour. When a wall of his house in Ogbomoso fell and killed someone, the rumour of his voodoo sacrifice of persons to actualize his re-election became a mortal sting akin only to a snake's venom. foraminifera None of the above has the scary implication as the current rumour in which Buhari is subsumed. Even though that rascally youth, Nnamdi Kanu claimed to own the patent of the rumour, it actually crept out in 2017, immediately the Nigerian president emerged from a UK infirmary for treatment of an undisclosed ailment. Many actually suspected it was cancer. Widespread permutations had reckoned that he would lose this health battle. Buhari arrived, lean and gaunt but acknowledged that he was indeed sick and transfused with blood. Subsequent incoherence in his words, a terribly receding memory and feeble grip of power, fueled the rumour that the recent Buhari was a body-double of the square-shouldered General. On November 10, 2018, Kanu made what he called a broadcast from Israel, his latest fugitive refuge. Therein, he had stoked the insinuations. According to him, Buhari collapsed on Tuesday January 17, 2017 and was immediately rushed to London via Casablanca "where his presidential jet made a stopover." In his words, Buhari stopped breathing and the plane had to make an emergency landing in Casablanca to pick up a life support machine and then flown to London. In the hospital in the UK, said Kanu, the President was declared brain dead on the 20th of January, 2017 but the life support machine was switched off on January 27, 2017 and Buhari pronounced dead. Pursuing this further, Kanu said Buhari's corpse was then flown to Saudi Arabia on January 28, 2017 for internment. The procurement for a replacement for Buhari then began, said the youth, and a .Jubrin, Sudanese, made to undergo plastic surgery in London, to become Buhari's look-alike, was made. Confirming his thesis, Kanu claimed that the Jubrin has a different earlobe from the original Buhari and that the Jubril has a full set of hair unlike the bald Buhari, among other alleged inconsistent physical characteristics. While Kanu's allegation, as bombastic as it may sound, may look literally ambitious, it has variants in history and is provoked by some incoherent manifestations of the man, President Buhari. Indeed, political decoy is a long-standing concept in use to impersonate politicians for the purpose of drawing attention away from the real person and for political or espionage purposes. For instance, for intelligence purpose, soldier M. E. Clifton James was used successfully to impersonate General Bernard Montgomery in World War II. It was only after Adolf Hitler's death that it was found out that he employed a body double, Gustav Weler. For the purpose of attending public functions after World War 11wherein he feared he could be assassinated, Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader, is alleged to have made use of a "Rashid" as his double. Saddam Hussein, Henry Kissinger and Boris Yeltsin were all alleged to have also used body-doubles. One major noticeable trait today that is at variance with Buhari who was a military Head of State, is the deviation from his dour and tough hombre persona. Except the humour he is said to inject into discussions today, you cannot but agree with that snide comment allegedly made of him by America's Donald Trump that the figure he saw in Buhari was "lifeless." The Buhari of today lacks grits, is most time askance, disinterested in virtually everything, unnaturally withdrawn, with a receding memory and acts like one being propelled like the cartoon character, Fido Dido. Witnesses to this came from some Nigerians who held a parley with him during his recent trip to France. However, there are so many holes in claims that the present Buhari in the Aso Villa is a body-double. First is that Nigeria is too porous for such a secret to endure. Second, the secret must be in possession of virtually all world leaders, especially the voluble Trump, that it wouldn't take long for it to bounce back home; third is that those who have interfaced with Buhari and his current impersonator would surely spot the difference. My haunch is that Mr. President's manifestation of acute withdrawal, austere energy of governance and other indices is a withdrawal syndrome associated with sufferers of the kind of ailment that he battled, who is probably manifesting the effects of exotic drugs administered on him to keep alive. You will recall that his memory loss and incoherence have been manifest before that infamous trip to the UK for treatment. His mis-pronouncements of the name of his party, the APC and Osinbajo's, for instance, predated his travel to the UK. But why some people won't allow this gentleman rest at home is my major bother. Vigil Nuisance At UCH Two federal institutions incubated during the regime of Immortal Obafemi Awolowo as Premier have not ceased to lure me into aimless mind wanders. One is the Liberty Stadium and the other, the University College Hospital, both located in Ibadan, capital of the Western Region. Commissioned for operation on November 20, 1957 by the Princess Royal, the UCH will be 61 years old in two days' time. The Nigerian Federal Minister of Health, Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola, took up the vision. One million, five hundred thousand pounds sterling (£1.5million) was said to have been raised for its initial construction and it first sod turned in 1953. Queen Elizabeth II of England did the partial opening of the new hospital complex while visiting Nigeria in 1956 but it was completed with a total sum of Four million, Five hundred thousand pounds sterling (£4.5 million). UCH became the hub for infirmary, not only in Africa but for many parts of the world. Gradually however like all things Nigerian, it is beginning to kiss the canvass. While medical equipment are obsolete and decaying, successive governments have contributed their own quota to its decay. Recently, religion, that destructive cancer that is whittling the cells of the Nigerian nation, crept into UCH. There is this hall at the back of the Mortuary which used to house an eatery that has now been converted into a church ground. Vigils hold on end there and patients in their wards who need peace and quiet are constantly woken up to the religious howls and shouts coming from the hall. This is what happens when people are confronted by the helplessness/hopelessness of medicine and its equipment. Yes, we know that doctors treat and God heals but confusing the church for the hospital is one tragedy that is strictly an African ignorance and symbol of our backwardness. When you go to the Liberty Stadium and you are confronted by its decay, filth and rot, you cannot but wonder what will happen if our forefathers, incubators of these dreams, wake up to life today. Someone said the stench of the rots will kill them again; immediately! Oshiomhole and a Corruption Allegation That Won't Abate Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) was riled beyond description during the week that just ended. He could not put up with constant "unsubstantiated" allegations of corruption against him which allegedly occurred during the just-concluded primaries of the party. Ordinarily, the allegations are so mind-boggling and should get anyone losing their sleep. $55 million! Is there such money in the whole of the world? And for a single person as bribe? Oshiomhole was so angered that he was emitting stings like an injured viper. Henceforth, said the party chairman, anyone who trifles with his patience and levels such "unsubstantiated" allegation will have to meet him at the law courts. Great! That is a Comrade talking. Only that, in the true spirit of Comradeship and in the true abidance with the kernel of "a name" he claimed to have built over the years, Oshiomhole should submit himself for investigation so that the "incorruptible" name could be clearly situated. The truth is, the APC will be going into the 2019 elections with a hugely stained apparel. How can a party whose credo, lingo and catchphrase is integrity, go into a general election with its Number One man wearing an apparel that the people perceive and see as grossly stained? The description of the bribery roulette is so graphic, with known go-betweens' names mentioned, that could take a literary enigma like Sidney Sheldon to concoct. No sane government or party should sleep with such huge dis-advertisement as its pillow. How can both Buhari and Oshiomhole mount a campaign rostrum and promise to clean the polity when, on Oshiomhole's table dangles a corruption Sword of Damocles of that Hiroshima and Nagazaki proportion, with his khaki shirt and trousers allegedly festooned with such army of maggots? Indeed, if I were Oshiomhole, I will tender my letter of resignation immediately. As an aside, I must give kudos to President Muhammadu Buhari. I drove past the Omi-Adio, Bakantari flank of Oyo-Ogun States' border last week and saw the massive light rail project ongoing. It is said to link Lagos and Ibadan and is billed for completion in a couple of months. I had, upon reading it in the newspapers hitherto, thought it was a fiction. Festus Adedayo is an Ibadan-based journalist. Source: PremiumTimes Related Topics: #Buhari #Oshiomhomle #JubrilElSudan Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||
| Shehu Sani Reacts To Buhari Being Dead, Cloned Posted: 18 Nov 2018 08:55 AM PST
The Senator representing Kaduna Central in the Upper Chambers of the National Assembly, Senator Shehu Sani, has reacted to the viral reports that 'real' President Muhammadu Buhari is 'dead'The speculations has been making the rounds online, that Buhari was dead and the President in Aso Rock was Jibril El Sudan.But, Shehu Sani reacting on his Twitter page, discarded such report, saying Buhari has no 'double'The Kaduna lawmaker urged Nigerians to see 'Jibrin' as an imaginative character.Sani wrote, "There's no one and nothing like Jibril El sudan. Buhari 'Caesar' is healthy and has no double, Daily Post reports."But you can literally refer Jibrin as an imaginative and mythical character in Shakespearean Nigeria.Its natural to creatively invent characters and promote conjectures in our theatre of the absurd." Meanwhile, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Saturday vowed to expose how Jubril Aminu was transformed to replace 'dead Buhari' in London. The IPOB leader describing the act as evil, promised to expose the evil work of a cabal in the presidency. Related Topics: #ShehuSani #Buhari #JubrilElSudan Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||
| JUST IN: Saraki Speaks On APC’s Victory In Kwara Bye Elections Posted: 18 Nov 2018 07:48 AM PST
Dr. Bukola Saraki, Senate President, has reacted to the APC's victory in the just concluded Kwara State Bye Elections.The President of the Senate, in a statement on Saturday, described the Election as a battle between the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and Security agencies."The public should note that today's #KwaraByElection was simply between PDP and security agents plus APC. This was due to the heavy deployment of police, soldiers and other security agents who gathered to support APC and harass PDP leaders and supporters."This is the first time that elections in Kwara State will be held under such charged, tensed and militarised conditions. We had INEC officials complaining about their own safety — and PDP supporters were brazenly intimidated, which resulted in low turn out of voters."It is important to reiterate that ahead of the 2019 elections, such open displays of intimidation are sending wrong signals. Our democracy is being undermined with this misuse of our nation's security apparatus. #KwaraByElection".Related Topics: #KwaraByElection #Saraki #PDP #APC Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||
| Posted: 18 Nov 2018 07:34 AM PST
The Kano State Fire Service said fire has destroyed 77 temporary shops at Kasuwar Kurmi ('Yan Gumama) Market in Kano.The Spokesman of the State Fire Service, Alhaji Saidu Mohammed told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Sunday that 70 of the shops were razed down completely."We received a distress call early hours of (Sunday morning) at about 07:35 a.m from one Aliyu Ibrahim that there was fire outbreak at the market."On receiving the information, we quickly sent some of our personnel and fire fighting vehicle to the scene of the incident at about 07: 43 a.m to quench the fire so as not to affect other shops," he said.The spokesman said that 70 of the shops were completely razed down while seven shops were saved due to the quick intervention of the firemen.He advised traders at the market and other residents to be more careful and desist from using instruments capable of triggering fire as a way of guarding against future occurrence during this dry season. Mohammed also advised the people to keep fire buckets, blankets and extinguishers that would enable them curtail the fire before calling on the fire service. Mohammed said the cause of the fire is still under investigation. Related Topics: #KanoMarketFire Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||
| Nnamdi Kanu Alleges Jubril Aminu Was Transformed To ‘Dead Buhari’ Posted: 18 Nov 2018 06:54 AM PST
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has vowed to expose how Jubril Aminu was transformed to replace 'dead Buhari' in London.The IPOB leader, while describing the act as evil, promised to shock Nigerians with the revelation on Saturday evening, Daily Post reports.In a tweet he shared yesterday, Kanu said he will expose the evil work of a cabal in the presidency."The transformation of Jubril Aminu to replace dead Buhari, an evil that will destroy the demonic #Nigeria and free millions of lives," he tweeted."I will expose the dirty work of the Nigerian ruling cabal tomorrow on Radio #Biafra at 6 pm."Be ready to embrace the beginning of your freedom." Related Topics: #NnamdiKanu #Buhari #JubrinAminu Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||
| Malam Daura, President Buhari's Cousin, Expresses Fears For Buhari Posted: 18 Nov 2018 06:11 AM PST
This exclusive interview of the cousin of President Muhammadu Buhari by Sahara Reporters, reveals some startling information about the President and his government.Read details below:President Muhammadu Buhari's cousin Malam Adnan Nahabu Daura has said that the number of bad people who surround the president is giving his government an ugly image and his family cause for concern. He said Buhari needs to urgently flush them out to give Nigerians sense of belonging in his administration.He dismissed claims by leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu that the president is not the original Buhari elected into office in 2015, saying two different family meetings held with the president recently in Daura, Katsina state proved the allegation wrong. Daura spoke further on various issues including the chances of Buhari winning the 2019 poll in this interview conducted by ABDULLAHI HASSAN in Zaria.President Muhammadu is facing serious political challenges in his struggle to be elected for a second term especially with the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as the presidential flag bearer of PDP. What do you think are the chances of Buhari in 2019?Let me start by telling you that the chances of Buhari winning a second term in office is sure by God's grace. It is a matter of time; all indicators are there on ground to pave way for the president's continuity in office after 2019 elections. It has always been the case in party politics; you find sharp competitions among contestants and the incumbent must be ready to face challenges from the opponents. Remember our president is a General in the Army; he is used to all sorts of rigour and counter challenges. So, I believe he is still equal to the task.Are you saying the defections from the ruling party to the main opposition party are no signs of threat to Buhari's re-election bid? There is a clear demarcation between politicians and the electorate. The politicians who defect from one party to another are doing so for selfish political interests but the masses don't care about that; their concern is only who appears to be credible and competent. In this case, the Nigerian masses who constitute majority of the electorate are with President Buhari. So, defection or no defection, Mr. President remains the most credible of all contestants including Atiku Abubakar himself whose greed for power and records are well known by Nigerians. So, I assure you that Buhari will win with wider margin. Many Nigerians believe that the greatest weakness of President Buhari is the way he allows some of his aides to abuse their positions by engaging in massive corruption and pursuing self seeking agenda. What is your reaction this? I don't know who specifically you are referring as aides. But the fact is that there are bad elements in this government and such kinds of people are everywhere. Let me share with you what happened to me recently in Abuja. I booked to see one of the presidential aides to brief him on a very important and burning political issue but you can't imagine how he treated me. First, I did not go for contract and I am not a partisan politician neither did I go there to beg for a favour. In fact, I left a note in his house before going to his office. Surprisingly, when he saw my note, according to his secretary, he tore it to pieces without reading it. And he later refused to grant me audience. So, you can see that there are these kinds of people in Buhari's government. In the real sense, such people are not supposed to be found in authority or power cycle. They don't care what happens to Mr. President, his politics and success of his policies. It is true that some of them have dominated Buhari's government, and it is really sad to have them in this administration. I believe there should be some corrections in the way and manner these people operate under the leadership of a good man and committed person like Muhammadu Buhari. This is because these aides do not have listening attitude and feelings for people; instead, they are concerned about their selfish gains and aggrandizement. With your observation, one wonders why the president still keeps them close to himself. Is it their fault to remain in government or the president's fault for keeping them in his cabinet? Most of the things that are happening, the president doesn't know. But some good people who have access to him, I believe they must be telling him about these people. Sometimes, the president puts them on watch before he takes action. It is unfortunate, that Mr. President assumes that these people are good and not knowing they are too bad and corrupt. Unless these people are fished out and thrown out of the system, Nigerians would continue to suffer. Thank God Nigerians are beginning to know them one by one as enemies of Buhari's administration. I cannot keep quiet; I must tell Mr. President the truth about these kinds of people that he works with so that he would be careful. Another criticism against President Buhari is the way he allows himself to be influenced by some governors and former governor of Lagos State, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, especially on issues that relate to the APC and its policies. What can you say on this? That is not true my friend. People should understand that Mr. President is well aware of the demarcations between policies and party matters. There are constitutional issues that must be shared concurrently between state and the federal. Therefore, Mr President cannot overlap into state powers. What is happening in states are mostly issues that are within the responsibilities of the governors. I don't see a reason why people should be relating states' issues to Buhari. I think it's wrong. Though, if they are talking of monitoring of policy, of course, from time to time and when it is absolutely necessary, Mr. President can go into the matter, like bail out, Paris Club refund, salary and wages increment etc. But if it is on politics, the matter is entirely different. Mr. President, despite the fact that both governors and any other elected officer enjoy the popularity and political patronage of President Buhari during elections, yet there are limitations to which Mr. President can intervene. Of course, his intervention on issues has to be clearly defined by nature and circumstances of the issue, because there are state crises that President Buhari can venture into. For example, the Kano crisis where Governor Ganduje is facing charges of bribery based on one journalist's revelations. How do you expect Mr. President to intervene in that crisis when the State House of Assembly is already investigating the matter. On Asiwaju Tinubu, the relationship is just political. More importantly, Tinubu is a major stakeholder in APC, the party that brought this government to power. Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB leader alleged that the current president, Muhammadu Buhari is fake and that the original Buhari has died since January this year. He said the sitting president is one Jibril from Sudan and as Buhari's blood relation, what is your take on that? It is really a funny and sad thing. Nnamdi Kanu has a chicken brain, otherwise how can he transmit this kind of thought and information to Nigerians who are intelligent , brilliant and exposed to life. The president cannot just die and information about him would be kept secret for more than a year, looking at the inquisitive nature of Nigerians. In fact, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was reported dead before his natural death. Even President Buhari was last year reported to have died until when a video showed him and his family live before Nigerians believed that he was alive. And everyone saw how he was received from medical trip and how he resumed work up to this year when he decided to visit his doctor in London after he returned from China. He was physically healthy at the time he left Nigeria. There is no any abracadabra that you can do to hide the death of Mr. President. Kanu made the absurd statement after he drank to excess, or was afflicted with all sorts of frustrations. This Kanu is a rebel and enemy of the law of Nigeria who is condemned by his own people. As a blood relation of Buhari, we are telling Kanu that he is a blunt and shameless liar. Anybody in Nigeria that knows Buhari 20 years ago, and sees him now , knows he is the same man with the same height, colour and all characteristics. To prove Kanu wrong and that he is a shameless liar; the family held meetings with Mr President twice this year precisely during Eid el- Kabir Sallah celebrations in August this year. We chatted, discussed and he recounted past and other memorable events in the family that involved each and every one of us. The question to ask is when did this Jibril learn everything in the family that could make him to be our Muhammadu Buhari. I think Kanu should know that we are not illiterates, nor barbarians that he can make these kinds of silly statements to. Let him fool his fools, certainly not Buhari's relations or Nigerians. The only thing that changed in Mr. President is his physical structure, and this is because he is ageing. Apart from that, there is nothing missing or part of his structure or attitude that has changed. He is the same Buhari we knew long time ago. So, he is just talking nonsense. Don't you think that Kanu's allegations will make a serious impact on Buhari's campaign for 2019 elections? No, not at all; I told you that the statement was nonsensical and foolish; that is why only few cynics of Buhari's administration pay attention to it. Buhari has recently overcome many character assassinations like the one by Kanu. There was a sickness saga, later WAEC certificate. We have tolerated this Kanu a lot, he has insulted our country, we kept mute; he has insulted our culture , still we kept quiet and now he is insulting our patriotic leaders and we will not keep silent again. It is only in Nigeria you will find this rubbish happening and citizens will not take any action because of the acclaimed – democratic rule. I think breaching the rights of other citizens in a country like Nigeria is unconstitutional and undemocratic. As such, Nnamdi Kanu must be brought and punished accordingly. With Buhari's record so far especially with complaints of ravaging poverty in the land, do you think he deserves a second term? To be specific, more Nigerians especially our teeming youths have been employed directly or indirectly through various programmes. Needless to talk about agriculture. More than ever before, Nigeria has produced the highest agricultural output. Farmers have access to loan and input freely. Security is another indisputable achievement of Buhari administration; road construction, and power sector rehabilitation as well as labour especially with the acceptance of N30,000 minimum wage. It is part of the good records of this administration. Related Topics: #Buhari #MalamAdnanNahabuDaura Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||
| 2019 PRESIDENCY: Shehu Sani Discloses One Of Atiku’s Dangerous Agenda Posted: 18 Nov 2018 06:40 AM PST
Senator Shehu Sani, the lawmaker representing Kaduna Central district at the Upper Chambers of the National Assembly, has described the promise to sell off part of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, as a dangerous proposal.The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku had in an interview during the week vowed to sell off 90% of the corporation, Daily Post reports.The former Vice-President, said the NNPC was supposed to have become more profitable by now, adding that he will retain only 10%.But reacting, Senator Sani tweeted on Saturday morning, "Selling 90% of the NNPC as a campaign promise is being brutally frank and honest."But its a condemnable proposal and a dangerous intention."Auctioning the country has not helped in the past and will not help in the future."
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