Friday, April 8, 2016

Fulani Herdsmen Clash With Youths In Okada, Edo

Reports reaching us suggest that Fulani herdsmen and locals have been locked in a bloody clash since the wee hours of Friday, in Okada, Edo state.

Okada is home to Igbinedion University and due to the fracas, students have been advised to stay indoors while lectures have been canceled for the day.

YNaija understands that Okada youths set up a roadblock restricting movement around the village as commercial motorcycles, vehicles continue to get torched.

I Didn’t Sign Budget Without Details – Obasanjo


ABUJA – Former president Olusegun Obasanjo Thursday displayed surprise over comments credited to the National Assembly that during his time, he signed budgets into law without seeing the details.
Obasanjo said that the purveyors of the news at the National Assembly needed to be contacted the second time to prove the authenticity of the information.

Kwara Government Worsens Saraki’s Case

Kwara state government confirmation that it was paying Senator Bukola Saraki’s pension, instead of salary as stated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has not helped the embattled senator.

Instead it has only worsened the case against the Senator, as no public officer is entitled to draw money from two government sources at the same time, people with inside knowledge of government said.

Saraki governed Kwara state between 2003 and 2011.

Sinners And Saints: Who Destroyed Nigeria? - Enemi George

We have been inundated with this narrative of how the Peoples Democratic Party destroyed Nigeria, and the media has been awash with same for quite a while now. The story is that all PDP did in Nigeria within the 16 years of its leadership is to destroy all that was built by our founding fathers. This was one of All Progressives Congress’ strong arguments during their campaigns, which preceded the 2015 general elections, and which saw General Muhammadu Buhari (GMB), now President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) emerge as winner and consequently President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Anambra State University Exam Questions For Final Year Students


See The Final Year Exam Questions Set For Students Of Anambra State University So these are the set of questions set for students from the Department of Political Science in Anambra State University, now known as Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University. How sure are we it is not Honourable Patrick Obahiagbon that did not set this for them? See grammar abeg...

NASS To Scrap NNPC, DPR And PPPRA

Shock As NASS Moves To Scrap NNPC, DPR, PPPRA
By Midat Joseph, BY TORDUE SALEM

The current move by the National Assembly to scrap the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) and the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) through its new version of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) has sent shock waves across the oil industry.

National Assembly’s version of the controversial PIB clearly recommends the dissolution of the NNPC, DPR and PPPRA.

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Why Nigeria Is A Target For Terrorists - Maitama Sule


Terrorists are targeting Nigeria because of her rich natural and mineral resources, elder statesman Amb. Maitama Sule has said.
The former Nigerian Permanent Representative to the United Nations made this submission on Thursday while speaking at the 2016 Comptroller General of Immigration's annual conference and stakeholders interactive forum in Lafia, Nasarawa State.
Sule, who spoke on the theme: "Identifying the nexus between the working conditions of security personnel and patriotism at our borders" said Nigeria's wealth was attracting international criminals.
"Nigeria is a target of interest from other parts of Africa because of our resources. We have got natural resources in abundance.

4 PDP Stalwarts, Over 400 Others Defect To APC In Kwali

An ex - officio of the PDP, Abdullahi Yau, who defected to APC with 433 others addresses a crowd at Kwali recently. | Photo: Abubakar Sadiq Isah
Four stalwarts of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and over 400 members of the party in Kwali Area Council, Abuja, on Tuesday defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The PDP stalwarts who defected to APC were a former PDP caucus member in Kwali, Alhaji Bako Jibrin Kwaita, a former PDP elder, Musa Umar Dafa, Alhaji Audu Yeye and former PDP ex-officio member, Abdullahi Yau, Sarkin-Hausawa of Ashara community.

Why We Can’t Execute Boko Haram Convicts —AGF

ABUJA — The Attorney General of the Federation, Mallam Abubakar Malami, said yesterday that convicted members of the Boko Haram sect in the country could not be executed because the laws under which they were tried did not prescribe death sentence.
He disclosed this at the launch of amnesty’s report on Global Death Sentences and Executions 2015, in Abuja, yesterday.

Work Begins Soon On Lagos-Kano, Lagos-Calabar Rail Routes – Osinbajo -


Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that the Federal Government would soon commence work on the Lagos-Kano and Lagos-Calabar rail routes to boost economic activities in the country.
Osinbajo, in his keynote address at the “First National Forum on Economy” organised by Vintage Press Limited, publishers of The Nation Newspapers, on Thursday, also disclosed that the Federal Government would also begin work on 31 major road projects across the country to stimulate the nation’s economic revival.

Violent Political Organizations – an opinion

by Gavin Don

An old Chinese curse runs “may you live in interesting times”. These are interesting times. Today’s geopolitical strategists learned their trade in a bi-polar world, in which two clear competing ideologies wrestled for global dominance within a fairly weak framework of international law. Occasionally the wrestling match became violent, but for the most part lethal violence was confined to wars between states – North Korea against South Korea, North Vietnam against South, Egypt against Israel, among others. Occasionally lethal violence between Capitalists and Communists cropped up in civil war within states, with the two camps each supporting a side (think Angola and Afghanistan for significant examples). But in general the Cold War was characterised by the lack of open war fighting, and a pleasingly low level of general violence compared with what might have been.

The EU’s “suicide by reality denial”

This article was written for the Unz Review: http://www.unz.com/tsaker/the-eus-suicide-by-reality-denial/

What had to happen did happen. The EU, being the chain of weak links it is, did eventually give in, and the Dutch people were the first one to vote against the association with the Ukraine. Of course, the Euroburocrats can now find some reason to declare the vote invalid, they can declare that some law was violated, they can even negotiate some minor change the to association agreement, or they might even decide that they can simply ignore this vote. But none of that will make any difference: the undeniable truth is that the Ukrainians are not welcome in the EU, not as associates and even less so as members. So no EU, no NATO no “European future” for the Ukraine. The entire hot air balloon which has been fueling the naïve and ugly hopes of the Euromaidan has burst and the Euro-Ukrainian project is crash and burning like the Hindenburg.

Chaos….Success!

This comment, in response to the post ‘The Daesh Chronicles:…”, was selected by mod-hs. He felt that it provided an alternative view of the current world situation, a view that sees everything going quit well for the US and NATO, with all goals being met. Quite cynical and thought provoking.

by FromSerbia

The author writes: “It was as if they did not learn from Afghanistan…Iraq…Libya” My question is – learn what? All 3 cases are a resuonding success for the empire. Look at the facts:
Afghanistan – total chaos rules in the heart of Central Asia. Heroin production is better than ever. ISIS is spreading fast and radical Wahhabis are poised to threaten CSTO members, and Russia and China, eventually.

Iraq – total chaos and lawlessness rules large parts of Iraq. The central gov is weak and cant do much about the lawlessness. The Kurds can declare independence and get away with it because there is no one to stop them. Through the destruction of Iraq they facilitated the creation of ISIS since the core of the organization is made up of ex Iraqi officers and soldiers. I presume that the plan was also to have ISIS infiltrate Iran and Caucuses once they were done in Syria/Iraq.

And lastly, Libya. Besides plain robbery of the Ghadaffi family in particular, and the Libyan and African people in general, the goal was once again chaos. Instability in Libya means instability in all surrounding regions. Egypt will never finish off Muslim Brotherhood so long as there is a jihad highway coming in from Libya. Tunis is threatened, and so is another gov that the empire would love to bring down – Algeria. Mali has been taken under control of the empire due to Libya’s instability. All of east, west, and central Africa is threatened by ISIS. So Libya, perhaps, is the biggest success of the empire.

Lastly, let’s take a quick look at why this was panned. Refugees, and terrorist infiltrators, are not some blowback – it is a planned campaign. The first part of the plan was to surround America’s “allies” (read, colonies) by chaos from the south (all of Levant and south coast of Middle Earth Sea – yes, thats how we call it in Serbia – ruled by ISIS & collaborators such as Muslim Brotherhood and assorted local Wahhabi lunatics); the second part of the plan is the threat represented by the big bad bear from the east and north (Arctic).
Is the plan working? It is, and magnificently. True, the empire cant get their natural gas pipeline to Europe, just yet. They certainly won’t stop trying. In the meantime, NATO presence in Europe, and around Russia and China in general, is being drastically strengthened. For now, it’s just another American battalion here and there, but the long term buildup is obvious. The NATO forces serve 2 purposes in Europe:
1st (and foremost) to occupy Europe and keep it in America’s grip tightly. 2nd purpose is to threaten Russia. Has the empire succeeded with respect to both purposes? Spectacularly. Destroying all those countries was a resounding success for the empire.
Whats a few thousand American/ NATO soldiers/ cannon fodder lives in the end? To the empire it means nothing.
Whats a trillion dollars spent, more or less? How hard is it for them to just add a few more digits into electronic accounts, or print more dollars? Who’s going to stop them?
And now, let’s talk about the refugees, and terrorist infiltrators. Is somebody actually trying to argue that the planners of Arab Spring (but really, Arab fall) didnt anticipate the mass migration? That it wasn’t planned, and supported by colonial EU governments? Don’t be fooled by Mogherinis crocodile tears. She is probably dancing on the graves of the victims right now.
The goal behind the refuge crisis is, once again, chaos. Surprised? Don’t be. The Saker said that he expects popular revolutions across the EU, starting with the rebellious and free spirited people of France. He expects them to say “enough is enough” to their respective colonial governments. So do I. And so does the empire. Hence the terrorist infiltrators. All of EU will burn before they are free of imperial oppression. When people do rise, first will come attempts to co-opt them, and hijack popular revolutions. Syriza anyone? If that doesn’t work, the empire will do what it does best – create chaos. There will be war in Europe.
The war in Europe can take on many forms: right vs. left; Christian vs. Muslim; terrorist vs. police/army. It doesn’t matter. The point is, Europe will burn.

The empire will never allow any colonies to become free. EU, Japan, Korea, and Wahhabi kingdoms will all burn before they are free. The logic is very simple, yet exceptionally effective. When the rich and powerful who are used to neoliberalism face the prospect of their entire country burning before their eyes, where will they go? Russia, China, or USA?
The rich will move to USA, bringing their wealth and thus allow the empire to continue to prosper, for a while longer. The USA will continue to play the role of bastion of economic/political/security stability while the world burns. Thats how they are going to remain powerful for now and the foreseeable future.

The empire does not look ahead for 1,2 or 5 years, nor does it aimlessly wander from one crises to another depending on the presidential administration. Their plans are set for decades, even centuries ahead, and all apparatchiks work towards the realization of the plans that are far bigger than them.

There are no mistakes or coincidences in the policies of the empire. Iraq and Libya (and all victims of the empire) were not mistakes; it was policy. The policy will continue. It seems that the witch Hillary Clinton is to become the public face of the empire. A criminal (according to American law) & a lunatic like her coming to “power” signals that the empire’s policy if chaos and destruction of nations is about to go into overdrive.

I hope that Donald Trump represents the other side of empires policy, the need to retreat and regroup in the face of recent defeats. Although I sincerely doubt that anything will change regardless of who is the president, or, better put, the public face of the empire.

US-Turkey-Saudi Arabia Arm Terrorists with Surface-to-Air Missiles in Syria

Second Syrian plane shot down by Islamist rebels in one month as al-Nusra and Daesh continue to acquire American weaponry from Turkey, bankrolled by Saudi Arabia.


​On Tuesday, Islamist rebels shot down a Syrian plane, the second such incident in less than a month, and captured the pilots. Inquiries are being made at the highest level as to how the al-Nusra Front, a branch of al-Qaeda in Syria, has come into possession of advanced Western surface-to-air missiles.


Loud & Clear’s Brian Becker sat down with Institute of Islamic Thought director Zafar Bangash on Thursday to discuss the developing situation in Syria and whether access to this weaponry will undermine Syrian air superiority.

Angola, Hit By Collapse Of Oil Prices, begs IMF for Aid

Angola said Wednesday it had asked the International Monetary Fund for help after the crash in oil prices ravaged government finances. The IMF said discussions would begin next week in Washington on what could be a three-year support plan for the government.

“The sharp decline in oil prices since mid-2014 represents a major challenge for oil exporters, especially for those economies that have yet to become more diversified,” the Fund said in a statement. “The IMF stands ready to help Angola address the economic challenges it is currently facing by supporting a comprehensive policy package to accelerate the diversification of the economy, while safeguarding macroeconomic and financial stability.”

Multiple Car Accident On Lagos-Ibadan Highway. Photos


Here are photos of from the multiple car accident which happened yesterday near Otedola Estate on Lagos/Ibadan expressway. The accident which occurred after the cars collided with each other -got some passengers seriously injured as the number of casualties is yet to be known....

Father, Two Daughters Die In Lagos Explosion (photos)

A 65-year-old man, Alhaji Kamorudeen Ajibade and his daughters, Wuraola (19) and Shakirat (15) died on Tuesday in Somolu area of Lagos when their generator exploded. The incident, according to neighbours, happened about 10p.m. at 5, Adebiyi Street, Somolu.

Witnesses said Ajibade was pouring fuel inside his generator near a burning stove at the back of their apartment while Shakirat held the torchlight for him when the generator exploded. The sound of the explosion, the neighbours added, attracted Wuraola’s attention. According to them, she rushed outside but fell into the fire while trying to rescue her father and sister.

Driver Shot Dead In Katsina By Customs Officer For Smuggling Contraband Spagheti

I am not very good in Hausa but from the little I understood from the person who shared the photos on Facebook(Zuma by name),a bus driver was shot dead in Batagarawa in Katsina for smuggling contraband spaghetti.Our Hausa readers should please explain. See photos above

Senator Blames Jonathan For Buhari’s Frequent Foreign Trips

The Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Trade and Investment, Senator Mohammed Sabo Nakudu has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s frequent trips abroad were part of the price Nigeria had to pay for the impunity and reign of terror witnessed in the country during the regime of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Nakudu, who spoke with newsmen said the 2016 federal budget which focuses on the diversification of the economy would address the problems of unemployment and poverty if faithfully implemented.


President Buhari Receives Details Of 2016 Budget

Presidency has finally received the comprehensive details of 2016 national budget on April 7, Thursday. Chief of Staff to President Buhari Abba Kyari has got budget from Senior Special Assistant to President on National Assembly matters Senator Eta Enang and Hon. Kawu Ismaila in Statehouse. Buhari laid the document before a joint sitting of the National Assembly on December 22 last year. But shortly after that the appropriation bill became involved in controversy due the inconsistencies, errors, omissions and padding of figures.

Dangote Trailer Kills Five On Auchi-Benin Road (PHOTOS)


News reaching IDOMA VOICE from Edo State has it that no fewer than five persons have been crushed to death by a trailer belonging to Dangote Group of Companies after colliding with a Bedford truck in Ikwo village along the ever busy Auchi-Benin road.

Wife Kills Husband In Lagos As He Slept b

Detective at the State Criminal Investigation department, SCID, Panti, Yaba have unraveled the circumstances that led to killing of a 49-year old man by his wife in Lagos State Western Nigeria.

Just like a Christmas goat, the victim, Lucky Bassey was murdered by his wife, Grace after she used a kitchen knife to slice his throat while he was sleeping on their bed.

Lucky bled profusely and helplessly as Grace watched and ensured that he died before she alerted their neigbours, a police source said.

uhari bans govt officials from flying first class


President Muhammadu Buhari has banned ministers and all top government officials from flying first class while embarking on officials trips. Festus Akanbi, media adviser to Kemi Adeosun, minister of finance, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday. Akanbi said the decision was taken in a bid to reduce the amount being spent on overheard expenditure. The statement said permanent secretaries, chairmen of federal government committees, chairmen and chief executives of parastatals and agencies are to travel on business class. Akanbi said the directive had been captured in a circular on review of overhead expenses released by the office of the secretary to the government of the federation. He said the development was one of the recommendations made by the efficiency unit which was set up by Adeosun in order to reduce overhead expenses.

Foreigners Responsible For Killings In Kaduna –El-Rufai

…Says gold deposit in Kaduna surpasses S/Africa
KADUNA State governor, Mr. Nasir el-Rufai yesterday linked the frequent killings and other violent activities in the state to cattle rustlers, who he said were mostly Fu­lani from neighbouring coun­tries.
The governor, who spoke during a television pro­gramme, Sunrise Daily on Channel Television monitored in Lagos, however, expressed delight that such killings have ceased within the last six months due to some measures put in place by his administra­tion.
According to the former minister, the intervention of a committee he set up under the leadership of Gen. Martin Lu­ther Agwai (retd) did a very good job. His words: “By go­ing round and tracing the root of these killings, we found that most of those who come in to do those killings are from oth­er countries like Cameroon, Chad, Mali and Senegal.

There’re Many Things Wrong With APC -Babatope

CHIEF Ebenezar Babatope is a member of the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Peo­ples Democratic Party (PDP). He believes that so many things are wrong with the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). In this interview, he spoke on vari­ous national issues including the need to address the issue of Biafra. Excerpts:
With the situation of things in the country today, there is no gainsaying that there is tension in the land. What are your reflections on the state of the nation?