Sunday, January 10, 2016

Our View

People keep on talking about arms, arms, and arms but nobody has seen the facts and figures to know whether the money was meant for arms or not. 

I am saying that it could not be meant for arms but security votes. It was for security votes. Normally, security vote is at the mercy of the governors and the President and some security chiefs. It is something that is a secret. Nobody knows what goes on there. Nobody will tell you how security votes are spent. 

So for the first time now, we have seen a government that appears to have engaged in deliberate act of trying to know how security votes are spent. I am not trying to justify it but I am saying that none of the APC governors could swear with the Quran or the Bible that they never dipped their hands in their security votes to bring the present government into power.

 Where did they get the money to fund the activities that brought Buhari to power? Most of these monies could have come from Lagos, Edo, Kano and Rivers states and nobody is asking questions about the security votes of those states.

Friday, January 8, 2016

Our View

If Dora Akinyilli (Of Blessed Memory) returned money meant for her medical treatment? 

Chinua Achebe (Of Blessed Memory) turning down a national award that was given by OBJ because he was destroying his home state and was not fit to honour him? 

And the Anglican Bishop in Owerri rejecting money from Rochas and asking him to pay workers instead?
Why didn't Wole Soyinka do the Noble thing and reject a whooping 82million Naira lavished for a mere Birthday Bash!!!

Yet Wole Soyinka went ahead to "criticize and condemn" GEJ and rejected GEJs national award because according to him Abacha was part of the honourees.

Only Men Of corruptable seeds remain oblivious and maintain selective amnesia to Corrupt Politicians..
Noble Character exhibit Royalty in all their lifestyles...

(Every Man Has A Price, Including Wole Soyinka)

#SoyinkaGate
#AmaechiGate

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Why I Cannot Release Leader Of The Indigenous People Of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu

By Emmanuel Aziken, Emma Ujah, Clifford Ndujihe, Dapo Akinrefon, Charles Kumolu, Godfery Bivbere, Joseph Erunke, Nkiruka Nnoorom, Emmanuel Elebeke, Jonah Nwokpoku, Ediri Ejoh & Prince Okafor

ABUJA—President Muhammadu Buhari, Thursday, explained why he cannot release leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.

The President disclosed that Kanu has two passports, one Nigerian, one British and came to the country without using any passport.

President Buhari also made a robust defence of the integrity of all 36 ministers in his cabinet challenging anyone with a contrary view to present evidence against such a minister.

Speaking in his first media chat, the president said the first gains of the war against corruption would become evident by the end of March, next year, even as he accused erstwhile National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.) of having allegedly committed atrocities against Nigeria through reckless disbursement of billions of government funds.

The president made his first dismissal of the agitation for Biafra stating that Igbo were in strategic position in the cabinet including holding the petroleum and labour portfolios besides the stewardship of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.

President Buhari also assured of the administration’s readiness to implement the N5,000 monthly transfer to vulnerable Nigerians even as he said the campaign promise did not emanate from him but from his then running mate, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo. He also frowned at the allocation of N47.7 billion for the purchase of vehicles by the National Assembly even after the lawmakers had collected car loans from the government.

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President Muhammadu Buhari during his first presidential media chat,Thursday, in Abuja.

The president, who expressed his readiness to negotiate with any credible leadership of the Boko Haram sect for the release of the kidnapped Chibok girls also disclosed his readiness to consider a ban on the use of hijab should the trend of bombing through young veiled girls continue.

Noting the dire economic conditions facing the country, President Buhari was, nevertheless, against the immediate devaluation of the naira even as he revealed that N1.5 trillion had been recovered into the federation account through the implementation of the Treasury Single Account.

The president also spoke on the fate of the Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, saying that he had allowed the Kaduna State government and the military authorities to take the lead in the investigations. He affirmed that the cleric had over time overstepped his bounds to the distress of the communities he lived.

On the panel that interviewed the president yesterday were Kayode Akintemi, Channels TV; Dr. Ngozi Anyaegbulam, Media World International; Munir Dan Ali, Daily Trust and Ibanga Isine, Premium Times.

On the ministers
“I don’t think I tolerate corruption, I don’t think I picked anybody that I know will embarrass my government. But if you have any evidence about any of my ministers, I accept responsibility for the 36 ministers that I have.

“I don’t think I took anybody among the ministers who has got a case in court. Tell me one out of the 36. I don’t think I will deliberately make that mistake.”

Asked if he would sack any of the ministers if he or she is charged to court for corruption, he said:

“No, I will insist that the case go through the courts.”

On the location and condition of the Chibok girls, he said he would be prepared to negotiate with credible elements in the Boko Haram leadership if there is precise intelligence that could help return the girls to their parents. He, however, affirmed that presently he did not superior intelligence on the fate of the girls.

“We are still keeping our options open. If a credible leadership of Boko Haram can be established and they tell us where those girls are, we are prepared to negotiate with them without any pre-condition. This we have made absolutely clear. But while they are keeping the Chibok girls, they must not get away with the idea that we will not attempt to secure the rest of Nigeria.

“We have no firm intelligence on where they are physically and what condition they are in. But what we believe from our intelligence, they keep taking the girls around, they are not keeping all the girls in one place, we don’t know how many divisions they made of them and where they are.

On the crisis in Kaduna involving followers of the Shite leader, Sheikh El-Zakzaky, he said:

“I expect the Kaduna State Government to set up a judicial inquiry because it happened in Kaduna, in one of the cities and it has been there for the last twenty years from what I have been reading from papers. They will occupy a federal highway, sometimes from Kano to Kaduna. This is what I heard.

“We have a system of investigation, the military that was involved too have a tradition of investigation and I am the head of the federal government, I have to wait for the official report before I can come out as head of the federal government and make a statement. So I am allowing the Army and the Kaduna State government to submit their report of inquiry. Meanwhile it does not mean that the police, the SSS and other directorate involved are not doing their own part of constitutional role.
Frowning at the activities of the group, he said:

“Unfortunately it is very serious. How can any group proclaim statehood in a state? I don’t want to speak about it in details now, I better leave it still after the report of the inquiry but there are a number of clips I saw, where some excited teenagers were visually hitting the chest of a general, mounting road blocks and threatening them with missiles.

On the contentious issue of subsidy, the president said that by the end of the next quarter that there would be no more talk about subsidy in the price of petroleum.

Money recovered
“Money has been recovered but whatever we recover, has to end up in court because I feel personally that Nigerians are entitled to know the truth and the truth will be what the court has discovered by the submission made to them in terms of documentation and the documentation includes the bank statement of where our money was lodged, when it was lodged and how much. Whether it is petrol from NNPC or Customs and Excise or money directly from the Central Bank of Nigeria.”

Told that he was limited in his disclosure of his assets, the president said that he had declared his assets at least four times in the past.

The president expressed reservation on proposals by the National Assembly to commit N47.7 billion to purchase new vehicles after members had collected car loans from the government.

N5,000 monthly stipend for the less privileged

“When my VP was quoted, how can I come here and disown it? First, I believe in getting facts, how many are involved? How are we going to do it? Is it state by state or geo-political zone by geo-political zone? In trying to get the bottom of the problem, a lot of work has to be done and if it is undertaken, we have to look at it very well.”

On Dasuki, Kanu and others

Asked on the alleged flouting of court orders by the state on the issue of Dasuki and detained Biafran agitator, Nnamdi Kanu, he said:

“Technically, if you see the kind of atrocities those people committed, if they jump bail? I am sorry to say this publicly…the former president just wrote to the governor of the CBN and said give N40 billion to someone while you have two million Internally Displaced Persons, what kind of country do you want to run?

“The one you called Kanu, do you know he has two passports? One Nigerian, one British and he came to this country without using any passport? Do you know that he brought sophisticated equipment into this country and started broadcasting for Radio Biafra? There is a treasonable charge against him and I hope the court will listen to the case.

Biafra and marginalisation of Ndigbo
“They say they are marginalised but they have not defined the extent of marginalisation. Who is marginalising them? Where? Do you know? Choosing a minister is not a matter of ethnicity, it is a matter of the constitution. I am limited by what the constitution says that there must be a member of the executive council from each state. There is a lot of partisan politics in it. Who is the Minister of State for Petroleum? Is he not an Igbo? Who is the governor of the CBN? Is he not an Igbo? Who is the Minister of Labour? Who is the Minister of Science and Technology? What do they want? I stood elections and I won, I am limited by the constitution, I have a member of every state in the Federal Executive Council and I have to listen to them when I sit as chairman. That is the limit the constitution gave me”.

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Nigeria

The problem is we suffered from this same irrational approach to government policy when Buhari was a military head of state. He decided overnight to change the currency, giving a deadline without realising that most of the people in the rural areas did not know anything like the bank. People who are engaged in the selling and buying of livestock, food stuff and so on. They do not take their money to the bank they know how to keep their money until the next market day. Buhari came with a deadline, and eventually they were pauperised and they suffered.



Thursday, October 29, 2015

Nigeria Today

SHOULD SELF ACTUALIZATION BE ABOUT APPOINTMENT INTO GOVERNMENT?

To secede, and to be recognised by the UN, there is a minimum standards for statehood required by the international law

These are the fundamental requirements:

*You must have a defined territory.

*You must have a permanent population. Meaning at least 80% of Biafran must be living within the permanent territory

*A referendum must be carried out within the permanent population.

*You must have a government. That is, all your current state government must resign and all the states in the SE must be subsumed and become one state with a defined government. ,

* That government must be capable of interacting with other states, outside the defined territory.

Biafra haven’t met up with just one of this criteria. Recognition by the UN is also a guarantee for freedom. But as it is now, Nobody knows which group of Biafrans to recognise. WHICH MEANS THE WHOLE ISSUE IS ABOUT BLACKMAIL TO GET APPOINTMENT AND TO RULE NIGERIA.

Nobody get things on a platter of Gold. You will have to work for for it and be consistent. You must build bridges and stop insulting people. You can stand on nothing and expect something. It can never happen.

NOBODY HATE THE IGBOS

Nigeria Today

"PDP senators turn dumb during Amaechi’s screening"

All the whole people EFCC are pursuing up and down should be left alone because no court of competent jurisdiction has found them guilty. A bad precedence has been set. No matter any corrupt allegation hanging on your neck, you can be whatever in the government of Nigeria. Power is transient. Those clapping and seeing this as a war between the APC and PDP are mistaking because it's the image of the country that is at stake. It's Buhari today, tomorrow it might be another and they should as well applaud when a politician is appointed to any position despite any allegation on his head. This will always be a reference point.

Nigeria

I am not a fan of Tinubu but I respect him for fighting for his beliefs. However, Saraki is like a toasted fish who is at the mercies of its owners.

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Campaign slogan

This governor just created a campaign slogan for the 2019 governorship elections. He will complete some 30 percent of this project with an amount that can do the job trice and use same to ask for votes for his second term to enable him complete the project.

Governors should starts getting involved in projects they can handle within their tenure. The governor has already collected loans from two banks but never told us the conditions attached to the loans. Nigerians will continue to have low thinkers as leaders until we decide to use the best among us irrespective of the GOD they serve, the language they speak, the regions they are from and the colour of our eyes.

Thursday, October 15, 2015

As president, insults were pleasant to me — Obasanjo

Old age is telling do much on Obj. He took insults and assassinated his political enemies. Obj is a special gift from the devil to torment Nigerians and he is not doing badly. Nigerians knows Obj and no amount of paint brushing will take away the evil in him.

"Lawmaker reminds Buhari of free education campaign promise"

"Lawmaker reminds Buhari of free education campaign promise"

Obviously they aren't politicians or at best they are living far ahead of their time. Promises during campaigns by politicians are meant for vote catching and nothing more.

President Buhari is not an exception and that explains why no sooner he  had won the election, he then distanced himself from his promises. Some people attributed this to ravages of old age which is adversely affecting his reflexes, but he still remember to compensate his friends. Any person expecting a fulfilment of any of his promises should be disappointed at the end of the day.

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

I Challenge Anyone To Bring An Invoice Of A N50m Bed - Fayemi


Rather than struggle to make Nigerians happy they are struggling to make the presidency happy. I am perplexed to say the least. I insist this is not screening but a favour searching moves by the national assembly members to be in the good book of Buhari. I am pained that our democracy is all about loyalty to people and not the constitution.

Ogbonnaya Onu said we as a oil producing nation are importing petroleum and we have farmers from east to west north to south we are importing food. A nation that cant feed itself does not have any reason to exist.

Saraki father screened Audu Ogbe as a minister in 1979 and the son screened the same Audu Ogbe in 2015. When will the youths of this nation wake up to their responsibilities?

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Blast Senate President

"Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, lambasted Senate President, Bukola Saraki, describing him as an indisciplined, disloyal and member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in soul"

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is an astute politician. He understands the game and he plays it well too. He's not unaware of how Alh. Tambuwal emerged as Speaker of the House of Representative against the choice of PDP (Tambuwal's party at that time). In fact, it's not unlikely that Tinubu was not involved in Tambuwal's assumption of the House's leadership then. I mean, Asiwaju Tinubu most likely played a role in ensuring that Hon. Tambuwal thwarted the PDP's plan regarding the speakership of the House at that time.

Tambuwal's emergence  as Speaker was probably part of a political game that resulted in Speaker Tambuwal's eventual defection to the APC from PDP. So, Asiwaju Tinubu, (possibly) knowing how Alh. Tambuwal remained a PDP member on paper but was an APC member in his soul throughout the period he was the House Speaker, reasonably believes that Senate President Saraki may have joined the APC on paper but has remained a PDP member in his soul. I therefore agree with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu's possible suspicion that Senate President Saraki, having become the president of the senate without his party's support, may eventually defect to the PDP.

Defection of a sitting senate president to another party is indeed a great loss to the party on whose platform he came to the office. There is every reason to fear this. Asiwaju Tinubu therefore has genuine reason to have this fear and I guess he's just doing that.

Sunday, October 11, 2015

SPORT

Oliseh is a candidate for disgrace. Oliseh is part of those that destroyed our football when he and his group introduced Mafia in the EAGLES. Oliseh is shaming those of us that believes in NIGERIAN COACHES.

"Beware of Celebrity Pastors and Mega-Churches"

You became a born again some 22 years back according to you. You went further to say you rejected an appointment from Banbagida. It is an open secret that Abacha was in power when Obj was campaigning for the position of UN Secretary General. From your words, you stayed away from politics and political appointments when you came in contact with CHRIST some 22 years, but you forgot to tell your readers that Banbagida left the scene some 32 years back that is some 10 years before you came in contact with CHRIST.

One of the principle of CHRISTIANITY is forgiveness which you seems not to have according to your post. Again, how can you teach your followers of forgiveness when you cant even forgive? Intelligent Nigerians knew that Buhari is battling the landmines placed on his ways by past government and it is a shame that people like you who ought to know better are dancing skelewu praying day in day out for Buhari to fail to justify your non existing ego.

I have a good news for you, Buhari will succeed and people like you will eat up your words and knowing how the mind of the average Nigerian work, you will come out to claim the credit for Buhari's achievements and tell the gullibles that Buhari was able to perform because of your criticism.

Somebody asked you a question which I want to repeat again, who are you actually working for?