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Tuesday, 1 March 2016
Boko Haram: Nigerian troops reclaim Gudumbari
Boko Haram: Nigerian troops reclaim Gudumbari
Displaced people celebrated in Borno state as troops of the Nigerian
military under the Armed Forces Special Force (AFSF) cleared all trace
of Boko Haram occupation from Gudumbari, the headquarters of Guzamala
local government area of Borno state.
Gudumbari is one of the
remote local government areas in northern Borno state that was sacked
and occupied by Boko Haram fighters.
It was once reclaimed in the past, but the insurgents crept back and reoccupy the area after the troops had moved.
But
with the Tuesday take over of Gudumbari after a victorious operation by
the Nigerian AFSF troops, the news sent wave of jubilation from
displaced residents of the area who were all in IDP camps in Maiduguri.
Spokesman of the Nigeria Army, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, confirmed the development in a press statement.
”It was in continuation of the clearance of the remnants of recalcitrant members of Boko Haram terrorists in the various nooks and corners of the north east, the Armed Forces Special Forces (AFSF) carried out successful clearance of Boko Haram terrorists hiding in Gudumbali general area”, Colonel
Usman, who is Acting Director Army Public Relations, said.
”It was in continuation of the clearance of the remnants of recalcitrant members of Boko Haram terrorists in the various nooks and corners of the north east, the Armed Forces Special Forces (AFSF) carried out successful clearance of Boko Haram terrorists hiding in Gudumbali general area”, Colonel
Usman, who is Acting Director Army Public Relations, said.
Aisami Goni, an IDP from Guzamala said, ”we give glory to God for the
good news we are hearing about soldiers’ victory over Boko Haram
terrorists in Guumbari; now our hope of going back home is assured”.
President Buhari under pressure to reshuffle cabinet
President Buhari under pressure to reshuffle cabinet
Following recent happenings, President Muhammadu Buhari, is poised
to effect some changes in the federal cabinet in the next couple of
weeks.
The president is said to be under intense pressure from
some ‘powerful’ forces, including his party, the All Progressives
Congress (APC), to “undertake a cleansing of the Federal Executive
Council (FEC),” it was gathered.
As part of the impending changes,
the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, and her foreign affairs
counterpart, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, may be moved to other ministries.
Also,
the tripod of the Works, Housing and Power Ministry under former Lagos
State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, may be split into three. Besides,
the Transportation Ministry under Mr. Rotimi Amaechi might also be
split into Transport and Aviation Ministries.
Senator Hadi Sirika may fully man the Aviation Ministry if it is eventually severed from transportation.
For
Fashola, whose volume of work is considered ‘unwieldy,’ he has already
engaged the man who served as his Works Commissioner in Lagos State,
Toyin Hamzat, as his Special Adviser on Works, while equally appointing
Faud Oki as Adviser on Housing and Urban Development. Oki served
Fashola’s government in Lagos.
Specifically, a source privy to the
move hinted that the Finance Minister is seen as being ‘overwhelmed’ by
her position and may give way for someone from the South-East
considered more ‘grounded’ in economic and fiscal matters.
But it
could not be confirmed if the plan to move the Finance Minister to
another ministry has anything to do with the cold war between her and
the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali
(rtd).
Contrary to established practice where the CG of Customs
reported to the Finance Minister, the former military administrator of
Kaduna State reports directly to the Presidency.
The Finance
Minister has had it rough with about three ministers whose suggestions
on the possible solutions to stem the nose-diving economy, especially
the weak naira, have been interpreted as undermining her job.
She was also said to have had an altercation with Transport Minister, Amaechi, while on a presidential delegation to China.
Adeosun,
the immediate past Finance Commissioner in Ogun State, who rode on the
back of Governor Ibikunle Amosun to get the ministerial position, is not
alone in this category.
Onyeama, who mans the Foreign Affairs Ministry, is likely to be affected in the cabinet change.
Already,
the president recently appointed a former member of the House of
Representatives, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, as his Senior Special
Assistant on Foreign Affairs.
“Truly, both finance and foreign affairs ministers are having issues. The expected changes may affect them,” a minister said.
The
education minister, Mallam Adamu Adamu, has also come under heavy
criticism that he lacks the requisite knowledge and experience to
supervise the ministry compared to a renowned educationist and former
vice chancellor, Prof. Anthony Anwuka, who is junior minister in the
ministry. Adamu is a journalist by profession.
Though
it could not be independently confirmed if some ministers will be
dropped, feelers are strong that the number of ministers of state might
be reduced in the event that the president bows to the pressure
currently on him as some of them are likely to man the split ministries
under the envisaged regime.
Senior Special Assistant to the
President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, could not be
reached for comments as he did not pick calls made to his mobile line.
He had yet to respond to a text message on the issue either.
Regardless,
a source in the forefront of the president’s election on March 28,
2015, confided that a group of northern politicians had met Buhari
before he travelled out to Saudi Arabia and Qatar on the need to ‘do an
urgent thing’ about his cabinet.
On the delegation to the
president, according to the source, were two former governors, now
senators, a serving northern governor and two traditional rulers.
The
source said: “We cannot pretend that all is well, especially when there
are brazen acts that can bring disrepute to the government of President
Muhammadu Buhari.
“From
what we have discovered, the need for the president to reorganise his
cabinet is becoming increasingly necessary by the day, particularly when
there are signs that some incompetent persons have found their ways to
the cabinet.
“This is not to disparage or denigrate persons, but
the truth need to be told this time that there are some round pegs in
square holes and the need to arrest or stem this tide is now because,
from all indications, if nothing is done now, more issues that will
ridicule the president and government are likely to emerge in the next
few months.
“For God’s sake, what is a journalist doing as
education minister and supervising a professor of education? Is that
thinkable at all? And you think people should not talk to the president?
“So, the need to urgently do something came up and a few concerned
persons had to approach the president to sound him out that something
urgent must be done as far as his cabinet is concerned, those found to
be incompetent must pave the way for those who can make things happen.
“In
fairness to the last administration, aside the plundering of the
nation’s finances, it had one of the best economic management team with
sound ministers of finance at different times.
“We are in an era
that only ideas can make things work and, from our assessment of some of
the ministers, they are just filling slots without inputs from them and
we think such era is gone.
“It is our duty to let him know and it
is his responsibility to do the needful because the whole world is
watching us as a nation as we are battling with our economy and the
security challenges.”
It was learnt that Adamu may be moved to man the Information Ministry while Lai Mohammed moves to a new ministry. (Someone said Lai Mohammed has been feeding Nigerians with lies)
The
president is said be considering taking out Culture and Tourism from
Information. Though the pressure on Buhari to effect changes in his
cabinet could not be confirmed as a pan-northern agenda, coordinator of
the Concerned Northern Professionals, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, saw nothing
wrong in the development.
He alleged that there are saboteurs around Buhari in the Presidential Villa.
“There
is nothing wrong in the need to rejig the cabinet because the bulk
stops on the president’s table. So, if there are serious needs, which I
think are many, the president should go ahead.
“For instance, the
unjustifiable negotiation between the communications minister and MTN
over the fine slammed on it by the Nigerian Communications Commission
(NCC), to my mind, was criminally done because the minister does not
have such powers to do so. It is an act of sabotage that must be
sanctioned by the president.
“There are several of such persons
around the president in the villa some of whom without official
designations but are there obstructing and sabotaging and even
undermining serving ministers.
“Such persons must be weeded out
and the earlier that is done the better for the president because
without such moves, the man will not succeed as president.
“In a
civilised nation, all those who had a hand in the budget scandal would
have resigned. But even if they do not, we are ready to encourage the
president to cleanse such bad eggs,” Mohammed said.
The ruling All
Progressives Congress (APC) is also worried about the slow pace of work
of the administration since it came into office in May last year.
A
member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party, in an
interview expressed concerns that there appears to be a lull in
governance. This is even as he confirmed that a reshuffle of FEC was
necessary for optimum performance.
“What we are seeing appears to
be a lull in governance. From the outset, it was a wrong move that the
president on his own without considering the party, picked persons to
man ministries.
“If, for instance, party leaders were consulted,
who would have agreed that works, housing and power be given to one
person? The result is that today, so many files are unattended to and
this is not good enough for our party,” he said.
He added that the
planned reorganisation of the cabinet could take any form without
necessarily increasing the number of ministries as presently composed.
“No,
it is not true. There’s nothing like that on the table to the best
knowledge of the party,” Alhaji Mai Mala Buni, APC national secretary,
said.
Imagine Cup: Microsoft begins search for best innovative students
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By Emeka Aginam
Technology giant, Microsoft has begun search for the best innovative
technology students for the 2016 Imagine Cup software competition
Being the world’s premier student technology competition, the biggest
student software competition in the world has brought together 400,000
competitors representing over 183 countries since its inception in 2003.
With this, Microsoft has now opened entries for the 9th edition of the
competition which is open to students in the tertiary institutions
across the country.
Already, semi finals for the South West will be held tomorrow at the
Wennovation Hub, Samonda Ibadan, Oyo state.
Similarly, semi finals for South-East/South-South will be on 5th of
March, 2016 in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, while semi finals for North
will be held on 7th March, 2016 at the G-Learning Center Africa,
District Abuja.
The competition inspires students around the world to innovate across
all of Microsoft’s technology platforms while cultivating a spirit of
entrepreneurialism throughout the year-long competition and creates
opportunities for students to learn how to launch their business and
bring ideas to market.
Microsoft fosters a student developer community through Imagine Cup;
providing tools and resources beyond the competition that allow students
to continue growing and developing their knowledge and skill sets
Currently in its 9th edition in Nigeria, Microsoft Nigeria has sponsored
over 30 students from public and private tertiary institutions across
the federation to participate in this competition.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/imagine-cup-microsoft-begins-search-for-best-innovative-students/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/imagine-cup-microsoft-begins-search-for-best-innovative-students/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Former President Obasanjo's Son Discharged From Hospital After Auto Crash
Former President Obasanjo's Son Discharged From Hospital After Auto Crash
Oba and his Wife |
''I
must say that I am greatly overwhelmed by the enormous prayer support
for my cousin,Oba who was involved in a ghastly accident on Sunday Feb
28th.
I am
happy to announce that he has been discharged from hospital. We spoke
last night and it was gladdening to hear him sound vibrant . His driver
and P.A are also fine. God has indeed hearkened to our prayers
individually and collectively.
Yes,
the vehicle is a write-off; Satan can "carry go"!. A special shout out
to the medical team at the University of Ibadan teaching hospital that
God used to perform this miracle. That no life was lost after such a
horrible accident is a testimony and to God alone be the glory,'' said his cousin
Buhari’s government is a 'one-chance' bus - Gov Fayose
Buhari’s government is a 'one-chance' bus - Gov Fayose
His words
"Everything Buhari and his party promised Nigerians when they were looking for votes, they have denied and it won’t be a surprise if one day, Buhari comes out to even deny that he was elected on the platform of APC. Nigerians have now realised that they are inside a ‘One Chance Bus’ because Buhari and his APC have disowned their entire campaign promises by disowning their campaign document titled; ‘My Covenant with Nigerians. This document that they disowned in August, last year contained everything they promised Nigerians and if today, President Buhari chose faraway Qatar to announce that he won’t pay the N5,000 promised unemployed youths and Lai Mohammed is here in Nigeria saying no job was promised, no one should be surprised. Rather, Nigerians can only begin to pray that God, who rescued Daniel from den of lions will rescue us from this Buhari/APC one chance bus that we have entered.”
Court orders Obasanjo, Yar'Adua and Jonathan's government to account for stolen funds
Court orders Obasanjo, Yar'Adua and Jonathan's government to account for stolen funds
Delivering judgement in a Freedom of Information suit filed by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) today March 1st, the presiding judge, Justice M.B. Idris, ruled that successive governments since the return of democracy in 1999 “breached the fundamental principles of transparency and accountability for failing to disclose details about the spending of recovered stolen public funds, including on a dedicated website.”
He thereafter ordered that President Buhari “ensures that his government, and the governments of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, and former President Goodluck Jonathan account fully for all recovered loot.”.
Details ordered by the court to be made public include: information on the total amount of recovered stolen public assets by each government; the amount of recovered stolen public assets spent by each government as well as the objects of such spending and the projects on which such funds were spent.
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Pastor Explains Why He Butchered Wife To Death In Imo State
Pastor Explains Why He Butchered Wife To Death In Imo State
Hmm! An acclaimed man of God and the General Overseer of the Victory Pentecostal Church
located in Mbaitoli Loal Government Area of Imo State, Pastor Mark
Chukwudi Etiti, has been arrested by the state police command for
allegedly butchering his banker wife, Perpetua Udoka, to death.
According
to reports, Etiti an indigene of Agwa in Oguta Local Government Area of
the state, is a secondary school drop out and was a wheelbarrow pusher
before he got the 'call', had allegedly deceived Udoka into marrying him
after she went to him to seek God's intervention over whom to choose
out of three suitors who wanted to marry her including a medical doctor,
a fellow banker and a public servant.
But Etiti told her that none of them men was the chosen one for her except himself, and she ended up marrying him.
According
to sources, the Udoka’s family was not particularly happy about the
union considering Pastor Mark’s educational background and social status
but she stood her ground by telling them he was God's choice for her,
not knowing that the man she loved and got married to would turn round to be her killer.
Account of a close relative of the murdered woman:
"Unknown
to Udoka, the biggest attraction was her lucrative career at the time.
Just within a space of twenty months, a car was bought, a landed
property and a shop was paid for all in the name of the husband Pastor
Mark Chukwudi Etiti.
Udoka
built a house for her Pastor husband on bank loan. She did a lot both
for the husband’s family and the husband himself on loans including
borrowing money on behalf of the husband to the extent that repayments
become a serious challenge and she ultimately lost the bank job.
It
became a pitiable situation better imagined, after she lost her job.
Udoka became a punching bag. On many occasions, the mother in-law will
come all the way from the village to order Udoka out of the very house
she built.
Udoka
had sustained various degrees of injuries inflicted on her by the same
husband she picked from the gutters. She was hospitalized severally. The
mother in-law had once threatened that it is either Udoka leaves the
son alive or the deceased body will be carted away like nobody and her
threat came to pass after all.
Udoka’s
thirteen year old daughter had once reported to the police of how the
father had beaten the mum to stupor on the fear that the mum was dead.
The first brutal cutlass injuries on Udoka were recorded in 2013. This time, Udoka’s family thought it was indeed enough.
The
matter was formally taken to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID)
of the Nigerian Police in Owerri, who documented the evidences,
detained the pastor and later released him.
The
family had actually concluded plans to forcefully relocate her and her
children after so many refusals from her before the brutal murder of
Udoka by the same man who she gave three beautiful children."
Account by the couple's teenage daughter:
"On
that faithful day, my mummy in her usual manner, woke up around 5.00am,
got us ready for school, gave us our food, asked me to take my younger
sister to her school and return the key to her in the church, while she
left for our church early morning prayer session.
I
finished dressing up and told my daddy who was in his room that I’m off
to school. He asked me to lock the gate to our house from outside and I
asked why and he shouted me down. I did exactly that and returned the
key to my mum in the church. I went back to my mummy’s shop around
1:00pm and could not meet her in the shop.
That
was unusual knowing fully well when we usually come back from school. I
called her line and she was not picking. I asked her neighbors and they
said she told them my daddy called her. I then took my siblings along to
the house.
On
getting to the house, every place looked deserted. We usually access the
house through the kitchen door, but that faithful day, the kitchen door
was locked. I called my dad to ask him if he has seen mummy. He asked
me where we are and I said we are at home and the doors were all locked.
Within 2
minutes, daddy appeared. Unusual of daddy, he decided to follow the
back door instead of the usual front kitchen door and asked me to stay
outside. I could not comprehend my father’s body language and I quickly
followed him and went straight to my mum’s room while he made his way to
his room.
The
sight of flowing blood in mummy’s room got me more frightened and when I
shouted blood, my dad ran straight to the kitchen where my mum’s body
was used to block the kitchen door, the same door my daddy strategically
avoided on entering the compound.
I later saw my mum’s phone near the kitchen window with my daddy’s 3 missed calls on the phone.
My
daddy has always been chasing us about with cutlass all the time. He has
severally threatened to kill mummy and her people won’t do anything.
The last time, I thought my mummy was dead when she was brutally beaten
with cutlass by my daddy and blood was gushing like water.
I
called my uncle and he was not responding. I then went to police to
report him and he was arrested. Two days before he killed mummy, I saw
him from the bathroom cutting the ceiling of our house.
The
following morning, I heard him telling my mother that armed robbers came
to the house and that the entered through the ceiling. He was showing
mummy the note he claimed they brought which read;
“Pastor
Mark be careful, this is to tell you we can come and go”. I told mummy
that I saw dad cutting that place two days back and was not done by any
armed robber. I told mummy we should go to my aunty’s place that dad is
up to something but mummy refused. Now look at where she has brought us
to. Daddy has simply fulfilled his wish and God will judge him.”
Pastor
Mark is currently in detention and the state police
command has vowed to do everything for justice to prevail.
Culled from pulse.ng
Skipper Enyeama And Emenike Out of Super Eagles
Skipper Enyeama And Emenike Out of Super Eagles
Lile of France
Goalkeeper, Vincent Enyeama has said his days with the Super Eagles are
permanently over, after reports linked him with a return to the team.
The former Super
Eagles skipper quit the national team he served for close to 17
years on October 8, 2015 after a row with coach Sunday Oliseh in
Belgium.
Oliseh
announced his resignation from the team last Friday, with coach Samson
Siasia taking over the reigns in an interim basis. Enyeama and coach
Siasia also had a showdown during his first spell with the Eagles.
Speaking yesterday on BrillaFM, Enyeama said:“I don’t want to talk about this issue again. I think my earlier decision stands,”
Similarly,
former Super Eagles striker, Emmanuel Emenike, has insisted that he is
done with the national team and will not make a return under Samson
Siasia.
The player, who is currently on loan at West Ham in England, retired from international football last year, while Sunday
Oliseh was still the handler of the Eagles. “I’m done with the Super
Eagles, and I am making it clear again that I am not going back.It’s my decision and I am not going to reverse it, I am sorry if I have offended anybody regarding this but no Eagles return for me,” he said, according to SportingLife.
“Like I said, I didn’t quit because of anybody,
it was a personal decision. Oliseh didn’t force me out of the Super
Eagles as it was reported, I don’t need anybody to speak with me before I
take a decision. It was my decision and I won’t reverse it.”
Emenike made his debut five years ago for Nigeria and was top scorer at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, which the Eagles won.
Ese Oruru: See the face of her alleged abductor
Ese Oruru: See the face of her alleged abductor
Checkout Ese Oruru's abductor, Yinusa (pictured above) both of them have been flown to
Abuja where they are to meet with the Inspector General of Police who
will then hand her over to her parents. The said abductor is about 20 years old.
Na wa o! this kind mumu love sef.
Court orders EFCC and Nigeria Army to release former President Jonathan's ADC
Court orders EFCC and Nigeria Army to release former President Jonathan's ADC
Justice Yusuf Halilu while delivering judgement on the suit this morning, ordered EFCC to release Adegbe pending his arraignment before a competent court.
The judge held that Adegbe's continued detention is unconstitutional as it violates Section 35 of the 1999 Constitution. The former ADC was invited from the UK where he was by the Nigerian Army to answer some questions relating to the $2.1 billion arms deal scandal.
Please o! let justice prevail.
Toke Makinwa Becomes Brand Ambassador for Mecran Cosmetics
Toke Makinwa Becomes Brand Ambassador for Mecran Cosmetics
Mecran Cosmetics recently launched the Mecran Skin-Lightening Beauty set, a self-complimenting lightening set of three, specially formulated in the USA, with FDA approved ingredients that leave zero skin toxicity, and ensure spotless, light-skinned perfection from your face to your toes.
To know more about the Mecran
Skin-Lightening Beauty set, how skin-lightening works and how to make the most
of it, visit
the website www.mecran.com
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