The Daesh Chronicles: The Definition Challenge

by Ghassan Kadi

Islam, real Islam, is a religion of piety, wisdom and peace, and Muslims, real Muslims are not terrorists. Even though all terrorists that have been caught involved in terrorism are “Muslims”, this does not give a blanket description of all Muslims as beings terrorists.

Those who “use” terrorism to spew hatred towards Islam and indiscriminately against all Muslims have their own agenda. These are the true Islamophobes. These people do not need a reason to hate Islam and Muslims. They are now having a field day with the terror issue and using it to feed their hatred and to justify it.

Female Robbery Gang Arrested In Rivers State (Photo)

Nigeria's deadly female robbery/kidnapping gang arrested in Rivers State. Queen Eze,Osarachi Onyewu, Queen Godspowerare the leaders of the deadly group and they have been apprehended and to be taken to court.

Nigerian Army, Govt Offices Owe N60 Billion In Electricity Bills’

The Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors says ministries, departments, agencies and the Nigerian Army are owing the Distribution Companies (DISCOs) N60 billion from 2015 to February.

Sunday Oduntan, the Executive Director of the group, said this on Tuesday at a news conference.

He said the army owed Benin DISCO N2.3 billion; Eko, N1.9 billion; Ikeja, N1.6 billion; Jos, N2 billion; Kaduna, N6.6 billion; Kano, N301 million; Port Harcourt, N1.3 billion and Yola, N435 million.

Policemen Damage Passenger's Eye In Edo (photo)

A Lagos-based interior designer, Stephen Akams, is currently on admission at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital with a damaged eye.
The 41-year-old man said a medical result he would get on Thursday (tomorrow) would determine whether he would see clearly again with his left eye or not.

PUNCH Metro learnt that Akams was battered last Thursday, March 24, along the Benin bypass, Edo State, by some policemen numbering about seven while he was returning from an assignment in Enugu State.

2019: Tension In PDP Over Moves To Violate Zoning-daily Trust

The Board of Trustees (BoT)‎ of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has warned against any move to jettison the zoning of the party’s 2019 presidential ‎ticket to the North.
The BoT acting chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin, who addressed newsmen yesterday in Abuja, said anyone who tried to reverse the position, which had already been approved by the National Executive Committee (NEC) would ever remain an “enemy to the north” and a “killer” of the PDP.
Senator Walid also said that the party’s national chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, must vacate office alongside other members of the National Working Committee (NWC) in May as approved by the various organs of the PDP.

Army Spokesman Say This Circulated Photos Were Taken During Training In 2012

This goes to the general public, I apologize because I also helped in circulating the photos thinking they were recent and true, I even contacted the guy who posted the photos and said in Happen in Bayelsa and he told me they were real that he was still expecting more information on the incident, but now, I realize he merely lifted the photo from somewhere and painted a story suiting it because the Nigeria Army spokesman says these particular photos taken during in-barracks training exercise that took place in 2012.

Nigerian Airforce Under President Buhari (Photos)

Photos: See What Nigerian Airforce Have Turned Into Under President Buhari

– The Nigerian Airforce (NAF) is contributing its own quota to the fight against insurgency in the North East zone

– The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Baba Abubakar, has been a role model for the Airforce personnel in the frontline

– The CAS visited the two states recently after a similar visit in December 2015

Saying Wike Defeated Amaechi Is Laughable

PDP has it's strongest structure in the whole of the south, in Rivers state. Rivers people have never voted for any party aside the umbrella party. From Governors all the way down to councillors, it has always being PDP all the way, even as far back as 1998.

PDP is rivers and rivers is PDP. A TA orji PDP candidacy in a Rivers would Garner more votes than a Fashola candidacy, from another party. Even if you present a fowl as a PDP candidate in Rivers state, he would still win any election.

Adding to this is the sense of betrayal and hate the people feels for APC is particular for snatching the presidency from their Son, GEJ.

Why Islamic State carried out Paris and Brussels attacks?

by Nauman Sadiq

As we know that France under Nicolas Sarkozy had played a lead role in fomenting the insurgency against the Gaddafi regime in Libya in 2011 and after him Francois Hollande too had been on the forefront of supporting the Sunni militants in Syria against the Alawite-Shi’a Assad regime. That arrangement of an informal pact between the Western powers and the Sunni jihadists of the Middle East against the Shi’a-Iranian axis had worked well up to August 2014, when Obama Administration made an about-face on its previous regime change policy in Syria and started conducting air strikes against one group of Sunni jihadists battling against the “hostile” Assad regime, i.e. the Islamic State, after the latter transgressed its mandate in Syria and overran Mosul and Anbar in Iraq and threatened the capital of another steadfast American ally: Masoud Barzani’s Erbil in the oil-rich Iraqi Kurdistan.

Brazil, like Russia, under attack by Hybrid War

by Pepe Escobar for RT

Color revolutions would never be enough; Exceptionalistan is always on the lookout for major strategic upgrades capable of ensuring perpetual Empire of Chaos hegemony.

The ideological matrix and the modus operandi of color revolutions by now are a matter of public domain. Not so much the concept of Unconventional War (UW).

UW was spelled out by the 2010 Special Forces Unconventional Warfare manual. Here’s the money quote:

APC Is The Real Threat To National Security Not Me – fayose

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has described the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the real threat to the security of Nigeria and its people.

“The major threat to national security is a party that lost election since June 21, 2014 and still trying to get back to power, using crude means including turning itself to the mouthpiece of the Department of State Services (DSS),” the Special Assistant to the Ekiti State Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said in a statement Monday.
Mr. Olayinka, who reacted to a statement by the APC in Ekiti State that Mr. Fayose was a threat to national security, said “it is only in Nigeria that a party that ran Ekiti State aground in four years and was rejected in six straight elections by the people can still be talking.”

Power Scarcity, Fuel Scarcity: FG Appears Lost - Vanguard

AS the economic situation drives deep welts into the flesh of Nigerians, there is a growing air of melancholy and despair as the Federal Government appears lost for options to bring succour to the people in the near future.

The economy is biting hardest in the areas that impinge directly on the people’s material and social wellbeing, with steep drops in the supply of electricity and petroleum products, thus threatening the resilience and ability of Nigerians to survive. Both sectors are undergoing some of the worst and most prolonged stretches of scarcity.

Rivers Rerun: APC Shocked At Release Of Wike’s Aides

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Rivers state chapter, is left shocked and dumbfounded at the hurried release by security agencies of aides of Governor Nyesom Wike arrested for malpractice and violence during the State and National Assembly rerun elections in the State.

The party is surprised at the speed with which Wike’s aides arrested for attempting to assassinate the Director General of the Nigerian Maritime and Safety Agency, Dr. Dakuku Peterside; the Rivers State APC Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya; and the party’s deputy governorship candidate in the 2015 elections, Hon. Asita O. Asita, were allowed to go home and continue with their normal businesses.

Boko Haram Destroyed 1m Houses In Borno – Shettima

VangaurdNgr: The Borno Government on Monday said about one million private houses had been destroyed by suspected Boko Haram insurgents in the few years of their terror campaign in the state.

Gov. Kashim Shettima disclosed this while receiving former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Maiduguri.

“Tens of thousands of our innocent citizens were brutally killed; married and single women were abducted and raped; our sons were forced into becoming child-soldiers;

“More than 2 million citizens were internally displaced in camps and host communities in Maiduguri alone.

Okorocha Reconciles With Ohakim And Ihedioha-photos

In what appeared like a reconciliation exercise and a dawn for a new era , the governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha and his political foe cum predecessor, sir Ikedi Ohakim were seen for the first time in a long while , exchanging pleasantries, laughing at each other and joking.

Agip Oil Pipeline Explosion In Bayelsa , 3 Feared Dead

The National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) has confirmed another pipeline blast at an oil field, operated by the Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) in Bayelsa, killing three people.
The Director-General of the agency, Dr Peter Idabor, confirmed the deaths in a telephone interview with the News Agency Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Yenagoa.
He said, however, that a staff of the agency was lucky to escape death during the incident.

Why Dasuki Will Remain In Detention – Presidency

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the Federal Government was not considering the release of former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki, from the Department of State Services (DSS) custody.

The president said that Dasuki, has multiple cases in court, which he must diligently face and resolve.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, told New Telegraph yesterday in Abuja, that the issues on the shoulders of the former NSA were all complicated.

PDP Commences Committal Proceedings Against Amaechi, Army Chiefs, Others

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State has asked a High Court sitting in Port Harcourt to commit the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, the Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonishakin, and Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen Tukur Buratai, to prison for deploying soldiers during the March 19 rerun elections in defiance of a court order.

Others included in the committal proceedings are the Commander of the 2 Army Brigade, Port Harcourt, Brigadier General Stephenson Olabanji, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and Rivers State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mr Aniedi Ikoiwak.

Political Correctness working against cultural opennessin Brazil? Brazilian officials block couple from giving their daughter Yoruba name

Cizinho Afreeka and Jéssica desired to name their daughter “Makeda Foluke.” This is because they have roots with the Yoruba culture, but when they went to register their newborn daughter’s name, they were turned down.

Officials at the registration office in Rio de Jainero, Brazil stated that the baby’s name made “no sense at all” when pronounced in Portuguese and that it “could provide possible future suffering for the person in social life.”

Foluke’s parents believe that the real reason their daughter’s chosen name was denied was because of racism, according to BlackWomenofBrazil.co, where this story was first published

Cameroon Would-be Suicide Bombers ‘not Chibok Girls’

Investigators have revealed the identity of a would-be suicide bomber arrested in Cameroon. She is not one of the 219 Chibok schoolgirls.

Cameroon released the identities of the girl and another would-be female suicide bomber to Nigerian security agencies and a delegation to Yaounde.

The self-confessed bomber is Aissatou Musa and her accomplice is Mamma Sali.

But the girls were yet to be handed over to the Federal Government as at press time last night.

Economic Blackmail By Foreigners And Their Protegees

So unless Nigeria opens up its limited foreign reserves to everyone that desires as much foreign goods and services as he wants, the Country is going to blazes. But if the Country exhausts all its foreign reserves, it will be saved from economic ruins? If we are to believe these foreign trained economists, their magazines, newspapers or prostitutes, Nigeria has no choice but to devalue its currency so that it can pay more in local currency for their odious loans, goods and services.

Once Nigeria pays more in devalued naira, goods, services, transportation fare and service loan fees will increase accordingly. Housing and car purchases increase will follow and workers will demand more to meet daily expenses. It is illogical to think that paying more in devalued naira will automatically solve the problem of a market without abundant local products to export.

APC Declares Fayose Threat To National Security

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti state on Monday said Governor Ayodele Fayose’s conducts were threats to national security.  It said the governor’s recent utterances and actions suggest acts of sabotage targeted at rendering national institutions ineffective to perform their statutory roles for effective government in a federal set-up. The State Publicity Secretary of the party, aiwo Olatunbosun, said this in a statement issued in Ado Ekiti.

Tinubu Is A Pillar, Leader In Yorubaland - Fayose

Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state on Monday described former Lagos state Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as a pillar in Yorubaland and Nigeria as a whole.

Fayose said this in a congratulatory message to mark Tiunbu’s 64th birthday.

Tinubu was born on March 29, 1952.

A statement issued by Mr Idowu Adelusi, the Chief Press Secretary to Fasoye, said that the APC national leader had over the years proven to be a great political figure in the country.

Looters Risk 20yrs In Jail As Reps Moves For Economic And Financial Crimes Cour

Hard times await any politically exposed persons (PEPs) and those working in the private sector who indulge in any form of economic and financial crimes, as the House of Representatives is set to commence debate on a new legislation that seeks to establish specialised courts to try all economic and financial crimes.

The amended Bill to the EFCC Act, 2004 sponsored by Bassey Ewa, is already gazetted for second reading on the floor of the House of Representatives and also seeks to “provide for quick recovery procedures for stolen assets; implement active pursuit of cases, build capacity and improve trust and cooperation with foreign counterparts, as well as ensure adequate funding of the Commission.”

Flash Back; Okonjo's Excuse For Borrowing To Pay Salaries with Oil at $54/barrel

Nigerian govt borrowing billions to pay salaries – Okonjo-Iweala (Premium Times)

In the face of dwindling oil revenues, Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said the Federal Government has borrowed about N473billion to pay salaries and fund the 2015 budget.

The Minister, who was speaking in Abuja on the details of the N4.493trillion appropriation already passed by the National Assembly, said the federal government had to raise its borrowing level from N570 billion to N882 billion to enable it meet its financial obligations to workers and contractors.