Current Minister for transport, Rotimi Amaechi was responsible for leaking Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo's letter to Jonathan over a missing sum of $20 billion to the media.

 
In an explosive interview with Forbes, former CBN governor and current Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has revealed that former governor of Rivers state and current Minister for transport, Rotimi Amaechi was responsible for leaking Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo's letter to Jonathan over a missing sum of $20 billion to the media.

Sanusi said that in 2012 and 2013, government revenue collapsed by $10 billion, without a collapse in oil prices or production capacity, adding that the CBN found a $49 billion revenue gap.

Sanusi said he then wrote Jonathan, saying:

“If this continues, we are going to have a big problem if the price of oil came down. We can’t protect interest rates, we can’t protect exchange rates, we can’t protect reserves.We may have to tighten money to prevent inflation, there will be unemployment, government will suffer – all of the things we are seeing today.”

Sanusi further stated that Jonathan did not do anything until Obasanjo's letter went public. he says

“This was in August 2013, the president received the letter and did nothing. A few weeks after that, the finance minister called to say, governor, can we do some reconciliation on oil revenue numbers? I said minister, I report to the president.I have written to the president, if the president wants me to sit with you and do reconciliation, the president will tell me.

After Obasanjo’s letter, all hell now broke loose. The letter was then leaked to online media, and it became public. That was when the president got angry and we then had to sit and do reconciliation."

Sanusi says he was then summoned by the president;

“In the middle of all these, the president called me and said I should see him at 3pm. I turned up at 3pm and the entire place had been swept. There was no one apart from security services. I got to his office, it was just me and him. It was as if everybody had been asked to go.And so he says to me, he’s calling me because he is surprised that letter I wrote to him got to Obasanjo, I said I’m surprised too.

He said he’s convinced that the letter went from the central bank to Obasanjo, and I had 24 hours to find who leaked the letter or sack somebody; the director who prepared the letter or my secretary and if I did not sack them, that was proof that I leaked the letter and therefore, I should resign.

“I said to him that I’m surprised that I’m being asked to resign for raising an alarm over missing funds and the minister in charge of the portfolio is not being asked to resign.From then I knew I had signed my equivalent for death warrant. But I said I was not resigning. He got very angry and said whether you like it or not, you’re going to leave that office, I cannot continue to work with you, either you or I will leave government."

Afraid for his life, Sanusi said he did the following;

“I was amused that leaking the letter is far more crime than leaking money. I went straight to the office of the principal secretary to the president, and I met him with a gentleman from Kano, who was foreign minister Ambassador Aminu Ali.I said to them, gentlemen, I’m coming to you because I just had a meeting with the president, and there were no witnesses, and the president had threatened me.

I repeated what happened and told them I am going to tell people close to me, if anything happens to me, it is the president.I don’t think I was really in fear of my life. Even if you don’t like someone – Jonathan was not the kind of person that would have someone killed. He wasn’t that kind of leader.

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“I Will Kill More Igbos To Save The Country” – Buhari In BBC Hausa

 
Maj Gen Muhammadu Buhari has dropped the bombshell, on the reason he has been losing election in Igboland and parts of Nigeria where Igbos are residing, stating that it is because he was involved in the Nigerian civil war. …
The former dictator speaking today on BBC Hausa services monitored in kaduna, said with regrets that, “the igbos hate him for what happened during the Biafran war”. “I don’t have any regret, and at such do not owe any apology to them, infact if there is a repeat of the civil war again, I will kill more Igbos to save the country”.

The APC presidential candidate, added that this was the reason they never bothered to vote for him anywhere in Nigeria

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PDP moves to oust APC come 2019; zone Presidency to northern Nigeria.

 Ahead of the May 21 National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, indications have emerged that the party has zoned the positions of president and vice president to the North and South East, respectively.

By the zoning arrangement, while the North will  retain the seat of the Senate President, the South South will produce the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the national chairman of the party.

Daily Sun gathered that in the proposal, the party has zoned the position of deputy Senate President, deputy National Secretary and National Organising Secretary to the South West.

In the document obtained by Daily Sun on Thursday, the South East, apart from producing the vice president, will also have the positions of national legal adviser, national treasurer and national youth Leader.

And, apart from the North producing the President and Senate President, the region will also produce the deputy Speaker, deputy National Chairman and the party’s national secretary.

Other offices zoned to the region include the national financial secretary, national publicity secretary, national auditor and national women leader.

The document proposed that further zoning to the South for the May 21 PDP convention be guided by so many factors.

One is that South West and South South had produced the country’s presidents and that the South East has not and should be given the opportunity for the highest office in the new dispensation.

Another factor is that the South West and South East had produced Speaker and President of the Senate, respectively, while the South South has not produced any of those.

The South West had also produced the national treasurer, national youth leader, national financial secretary as well as the national legal adviser, while the South East has produced national women leader.

Records also show that the South South hasalso produced national secretary and national organising secretary while the South South and North Central traditionally swap positions in the party’s zoning arrangement.

In the proposed 2016 zoning arrangement, the party stated that in order to give PDP a new lease of life, it was imperative that a clause in the guidelines for the 2016 National Convention be included, barring all those who had served the party, especially during the immediate past tenure of the outgoing National Working Committee (NWC) from contesting for any office in the incoming dispensation.

The zoning arrangement

1  President                                   North

2  Vice President                          South East

3  Senate President                       North

4  Speaker                                       South South

5  Deputy Senate President          South West

6  Deputy Speaker                          North

7  Chairman of PDP                        South South

8  Dept National Chair of PDP      North

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BOMBSHELL: ‘Aisha Buhari, Garba Shehu Got $22.8 Million From CBN, Sold In Black Market’ [TWEETS]

Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the first lady of Nigeria, Aisha Buhari of involvement in round tripping.

In a series of tweets on Saturday, March 26, 2016, the PDP exposed what could be the biggest scandal to rock the Presidency since Muhammadu Buhari was sworn into office on May 29, 2015.

According to the party, Mrs. Buhari got $22 million allocated to her by the Central Bank of Nigeria at official rates and she made a killing by turning around to resell it in the black market on the same day at N340 per dollar. The official rate for the sale of dollars by the CBN is N197 per dollar.

The political party alleges that the Central Bank governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele approved a discounted rate for the first lady who says she wishes to be referred to as the wife of the President. However, she runs an official office in the Presidency, has a routine of staff, and is assigned one presidential jet for her travels. Pretty much retaining the perks of the office of a first lady.

Mentioned also in the scandal is Garba Shehu, a spokesman for President Buhari. He is alleged to have received $800,000 at a discounted rate of N185 per dollar and sold it at N350 per day.

The allegations are made with the #CorruptionAndBuhari hashtag which is now trending on Twitter Nigeria.

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Gov Fayose goes on a motor cycle again

Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose pictured riding on a motorcycle (Okada) round Aramoko Ekiti in Ekiti West LGA of Ekiti State today to inspect some of the water fetching points in the community as his government just installed portable water to the locality after 8 years of no water. See more photos after the cut ...

Photo credit: Lere Olayinka

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N200 per dollar proposal: I'm moved by Nigerians' hardship - Ubah

The Chairman of Capital Oil and Gas Industries Ltd, Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, on Wednesday, continued his drive to halt the current free-fall of the Naira.

Ubah, who has staked his N500 billion assets in his campaign to cause the Naira to appreciate to N200 per dollar within a month, disclosed that he was moved to intervene in the dangerous downward slide of the Naira against the dollar because of the hardship the local currency depreciation had imposed on Nigerians.

The billionaire businessman, who is also the Publisher of The AUTHORITY Newspapers, stated this when he featured on the Africa Independent Television (AIT) programme: “Global Business”.

While fielding questions from the presenter, Ubah explained that he threw his hat into the ring because Nigerians were passing through a lot of hardship even when it was possible to do something to halt the worrisome slide of the Naira to the dollar.

Ubah recalled that the first time he spoke on the issue last Sunday on Channels TV, the Naira exchange rate to the dollar was over N400, noting that a few days after he challenged the authorities on forex management, the Naira is curiously firming up.

He blamed the managers of the forex and not the Bureaux de Change operators. Specifically, he contended that the officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) cannot continue to accuse the operators of speculation when obviously, there are people sabotaging the system and inducing panic buying with others making so much money in the process.

“The CBN was faulty in not managing the Bureaux de Change operators. You have to manage them well and not be accusing them of speculating. Even in Dubai, the Bureaux still thrives. It is not about academics; it is about being street-wise. We speak a lot of grammar in this country rather than getting things done,” Ubah declared.

He also said that he did not need to be paid or be made a minister to bring about the naira stability, saying that being a consultant to that effect would be it. Ubah, nonetheless stated that he had nothing to lose if the Federal Government decides to ignore his offer, saying that the most important thing to do is to ensure transparency and effective information management system.

Ubah however applauded President Muhammadu Buhari for refusing to devalue the Naira which would bring about an increase in the prices of goods and services and demand for salary increase by workers, insisting that, “we need to wake up our governance structure and put up a competitive edge.”

He challenged those managing the economy, especially the forex, to be more innovative and be in tandem with modern trends. He opined that monopolists that have skeletons in their cupboards, “those that enjoy a whole lot of waivers and other things, cannot be sincere to the government and will always want to block things of interest from them.”

The company chief maintained that the government needs people that are not thinking of benefitting from the system, who will also be courageous in doing things that can only be of benefit to the economy and Nigerians.

He reiterated that he was only driven by the desire to help Nigerians and mitigate their sufferings, especially when they are induced to undertake the naira revaluation.

Ubah likened his intervention to the oil subsidy crisis era when Nigerians were also subjected to serious hardship with banks and telecommunications almost closing shop before he arrested the drift by releasing oil into the market.

“I’m throwing myself up for the sake of the Nigerian masses. I’m in the position to change things and that’s why I’m offering my services. I am a critical thinker, expert in conflict resolution management. I’m not a super human being but I try to do my best. If I’m not consulted, I’m Ok, but I have to let the government know that it can be done. I’m happy to observe that since the day I made it public, the exchange rate of the Naira has improved,’’ he said.

When he featured on Channels TV last Sunday to challenge the system, the Naira was on a dangerous downward slide to about N400 to a Dollar. Curiously, as at Wednesday, the Naira has gained some strength to exchange for about N250 to a dollar.

Source: Ifeanyi Uba.

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Buhari has travelled to 24 countries in 8 months and spent 16 days out of 29 this month outside Nigeria. ... Ayo Fayose

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has called for the devaluation of the nation’s currency, the Naira, saying, “With the gap between the official rate of N199 and open market rate of over N400 to one dollar, Naira has already been devalued. Therefore, President Muhammadu Buhari must stop deceiving himself and short-changing Nigerians, especially States and Local Councils in the country with his Forex Policy.” Fayose Governor Fayose, who said there was no time in the history of Nigeria that the gap between dollar official rate and open market rate was more than N200, pointed out that it made no economic sense for the Federal Government to be calculating the country’s revenue on the basis of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) official rate of N199 to a dollar while States and Local Councils that are sharing the revenue with the Federal Government run their businesses at the open market rate of over N400 to one dollar, thereby causing business to be folding up by the day and prices of goods skyrocketing everyday. Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media to the governor, Lere Olayinka, in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday, quoted the governor as saying that apart from breeding corruption through round tripping or foreign exchange arbitrage, Nigerians are also being duped and middle class Nigerians, the main people that grows the country’s economy are being decimated. The governor said President Buhari was applying his 1984 failed economic policy in which prices of goods were fixed not minding the cost of supply, such that essential commodities like milk and sugar became scarce and Nigerians were made to line up under the sun to buy rationed commodities. He urged the President to pay more attention to the ailing economy of the country instead of junketing around the world, wasting $1 million per foreign trip, saying; “President Buhari has travelled to 24 countries in eight months, and will be spending 16 out of the 29 days in February outside the country, with over $500,000 being spent on estacode while the Presidential Air Fleet, which includes fueling of the planes and allowances for crew members is said to be in the range of $500,000. “The President’s entourage obviously collect their travel allowances in dollars on official rate of N199 and come back to Nigeria to change it at the open market rate of N400. That must be the reason they encourage the President to be junketing abroad when life is becoming unbearable for Nigerians.” The governor said; “The situation is such that Nigeria gets say $2 billion revenue in a month, calculates the $2 billion revenue on the basis of the official CBN rate of N199 and share the revenue among the three tiers of government. “In elementary economics, the implication is that when revenue is calculated based on N199 to one dollar and the federal government will be declaring say revenue of N400 billion to be shared by the three tiers of government, the value of revenue that should have been shared will be over N800 billion at the open market rate of N400 to one dollar. “Meanwhile, the three tiers of government pay salaries to workers on the basis of N199 per dollar while the workers pay for goods and services which prices are determined by the open market rate of N400 to one dollar. “Also, Nigeria is now faced with a situation whereby funds are obtained from the official forex market (at lower rates) and diverted to other markets and sold at a higher rate by forex dealing banks and users, who make billions of naira profit just for doing almost nothing. “Therefore, the reality that we must all accept is that we must allow the forces of demand and supply to determine the value of our currency, not administrative fiat. Most importantly, the government does not have the reserves to keep the naira-dollar rate at its official level. “The Naira must therefore be devalued. Anything other than this will mean that we are deceiving ourselves with forced foreign exchange rates and it is my position that this regime of deceit must stop.”

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/fayose-to-buhari-devalue-naira-now-forex-policy-short-changing-nigerians/

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Nnamdi Kanu: Militants declare war on FG, Call on United Nations to prevail on govt

TWO militant groups in the Niger Delta region have declared their readiness to confront the Federal government in battle for its refusal to
release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Director, Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.

The groups, Concerned Militant Leaders (CML) and Niger Delta People’s Democratic Front (NDPDF) made the declaration yesterday in separate statements in port Harcourt, Rivers State, following reports that there were plans by the Federal Government, to use witnesses in
mask, to testify against the leader of IPOB, who was charged of treason in court.

Reacting to the report, leaders of the two groups, General Ben (CML) and Precious Iyoyo (aka General playboy), stated that since President Muhammadu Buhari-led government was determined to cause problem in the country particularly in the South-South and South-East zones, by stubbornly refusing to release Kanu, the groups were ready to cripple the economy.

Specifically, General Ben, who is known for his blunt statements, said when the 31 day-ultimatum given to the federal goverment to release the IPOB leader expires tomorrow, Monday, February 22, the battle line would have been drawn. Ben, in the CML statement, declared that the target areas of the first stage of the uprising would be in Abia and Anambra States, as well as Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

He said that the group’s reason for the two states and Abuja was because they were the major places where Federal Government shed
the blood of their “brothers and sisters.”

General Ben declared: “We are ready for Federal Government, which said we would be treated as criminals and saboteurs. The 31-day ultimatum will expire on Monday. We are ready and will attack them in Abia, Anambra and Abuja, where they shed the blood of Biafran brothers and sisters.

“We are not going to attack the civilians per se; but we are going to attack the presence of the Federal Government in the areas. If President Buhari could not clear Boko Haram in six months, as he told Nigerians, why didn’t he focus attention on the North? Why did he waste the blood of Biafrans people?

“We are in solidarity with the Biafran struggle and there is no going back. We are taking our revenge. We are not going to spare them. We
don’t believe in much talk. Enough is enough,” Ben threatened.

Similarly, General Playboy threatened that any attempt by the federal government, through security agencies, to use masked witnesses
against the IPOB leader, would not go without dire consequencies.

Playboy implored the United Nations (UN) to prevail on the Nigerian government to allow peace reign in the country, freeing Kanu and
allowing Biafra to have its sovereignty.

“If this nonsense is allowed to go on, lives of innocent people, both Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and foreigners will go down.

Many countries parted for peace, why is the case of Nigeria and biafra too difficult? To be together is not by force.

“If they (UN) don’t intervene in this matter, and Nigerian government goes ahead to execute its plans to annihilate Biafrans, we will cripple the economy of this country.

All eyes are on government not only Kanu but on Tompolo too.

The government is treading on very rough and dangerous path,” General Playboy declared.

Source: euphemiaudanoh blog.

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Benue South Re-run: David Mark carpets APC with 84, 192 votes

The Independent National Election Commission, INEC, has declared former Senate President, David Mark, as the winner of the February 20 Benue South Senatorial District Re-run election. Mark polled a total of 84, 192 while his main challenger, Daniel Onjeh had 71, 621 votes. Mark won in five local government areas while Onjeh won in four. The result was declared by Prof.Ishaku Enigi.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/benue-south-re-run-inec-declares-david-mark-as-winner-with-84-192-votes/

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Nigeria government will not remove oil subsidy in 2016 – Minister

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Nigeria’s government has announced it will spend zero amount on petroleum subsidy this year and would not remove the subsidy in periods of high oil prices.

Minister of state for petroleum resources, Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, disclosed this at the 45th convocation lecture of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in Enugu state.

He said government has commenced pumping of oil from two refineries to cater to the country’s oil and gas needs.

Meanwhile, 70 percent of pipelines which have been vandalized have recently been fixed and are to start conveying crude to the refineries.

Kachikwu said President Buhari’s reform agenda in the oil and gas sector is based on having the right people to do the right thing.

“With the right people in the petroleum sector there will be an increase in revenue for the country via sales of petroleum products.The reform agenda in the oil and other sectors will also provide more employment opportunities in the country,” he said.

The minister pointed out that the country has suffered poor management in the oil sector over the past 25 years. He added that previously, the country’s cost of producing crude oil and its importation of fuel was the highest in the world.

“In the recent past, the oil and gas industry has emerged from the scourge of militancy in the Niger Delta when production was at a low of 1.6 million barrels per day in 2009 to its current levels of about 2.2 million barrels per day,” he said.

The mainstream and downstream sectors he noted have witnessed challenges. The government’s focus now is to liberalise the sectors.

Kachikwu urged Nigerians to support President Buhari’s fight against corruption in order to retrieve the country’s looted funds adding the fight would restore Nigeria’s dignity as well as banish poverty.

Source: Africanews.

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Former President of the Senate and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Benue South Senatorial District, David Mark, is in a comfortable lead according to available unofficial results.

The results from some of the wards shown that the senator is leading his main challenger, Daniel Onjeh of the All Progressives Congress, APC by 4333 votes .

From the seventeen wards available, Mark polled  11,737 votes while Onjeh earned 7,404 votes. The election was conducted in 102 wards in nine local government areas of the Senatorial District.

Please note that these results are yet to be confirmed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the only body recognised by law to declare election result.

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Former President of the Senate and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Benue South Senatorial District, David Mark, is in a comfortable lead according to available unofficial results.

The results from some of the wards shown that the senator is leading his main challenger, Daniel Onjeh of the All Progressives Congress, APC by 4333 votes .

From the seventeen wards available, Mark polled  11,737 votes while Onjeh earned 7,404 votes. The election was conducted in 102 wards in nine local government areas of the Senatorial District.

Please note that these results are yet to be confirmed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the only body recognised by law to declare election result.

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Former President of the Senate and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Benue South Senatorial District, David Mark, is in a comfortable lead according to available unofficial results.

The results from some of the wards shown that the senator is leading his main challenger, Daniel Onjeh of the All Progressives Congress, APC by 4333 votes .

From the seventeen wards available, Mark polled  11,737 votes while Onjeh earned 7,404 votes. The election was conducted in 102 wards in nine local government areas of the Senatorial District.

Please note that these results are yet to be confirmed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the only body recognised by law to declare election result.

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PDP Releases Photo of Daniel Onjeh ‘Arming Thugs to Rig Benue South Rerun’

A scandalous photograph of Daniel Onjeh, the Benue South senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Saturday’s senatorial rerun has surfaced in the social media.

In the photograph, Onjeh is sighted in the forest in company of young men armed with axes, machetes, guns and other dangerous weapons.

The photograph was released in the social media on Thursday through the official Twitter handle of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

According to the PDP, the “APC candidate in#BenueSouthReRun Daniel Onjeh is sharing guns to thugs ahead of tomorrow’s election.”

Neither Onjeh nor the APC had reacted officially to the allegations by the PDP at the time of filing the report.

Source:  www.signal.com

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With Sherif as the PDP chairman, we will be at the party graveside to bid her farewel..... Okupe

A spokesperson for ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, says the choice of a former governor of Borno State, Modu Sheriff, as the acting national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party is wrong.

Okupe said it was unfortunate that the PDP was in the habit of making grave errors in its choice of leadership.

He said with the emergence of Sheriff as the national chairman of the PDP, the opposition party risked total disintegration.

In an article published on his official Facebook page on Wednesday, he said although Sheriff was his long-standing political associate, the former governor lacked the capability to hold the party together.

Okupe said, “Some of us have vowed not to leave the party (PDP). We still will not leave the party. We will continue to engage all who care to listen and seek help from everyone ready to revive this severely challenged sickened giant.

“For a morose political party, thanks to the overwhelming and effective propaganda machinery of the party in power, this may yet be the mortal wound that may cause the eventual depletion of its long perplexed following.

“But if it is the divine will of God that our present masters must kill the PDP, then by the grace of God, we shall yet tarry at the graveside to bid it farewell.”

He lamented that making wrong judgments had become a trait of the party.

“The capability of our party, the PDP, and its leadership to make grave errors in judgment is legendary. What is intriguing is that even when the party is out of power, that tendency seems not to reduce.

“Alhaji Sheriff is a long-standing political associate of mine and a very astute politician of, perhaps, a sublime class. But for the post of the national chairman of the PDP, he is a wrong candidate and (he is) also coming in at a wrong time,” he said.

Okupe said with the crisis rocking the PDP, the emergence of Sheriff might deplete the membership base of the opposition party.

The former presidential spokesperson listed impunity, presumptive reasoning, restrictive consultative process as the ‘diseases’ killing the PDP.

Okupe said the PDP leaders who supported the emergence of Sheriff hinged their argument on the fact that, being a wealthy politician, he (Sheriff) would be favourably disposed to fund the activities of the party.

He, however, said other leaders within the party felt that Sheriff would compound the problems of the party and   bring ‘a crushing weight of burden capable of fatally destroying the few strands of moral fibres in the party’.

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Just in: minister of labour, Christ Ngige Nwabueze collapsed while defending budget.....

The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr. Chris Ngige, has reportedly collapsed while defending the Ministry of Labour’s budget before the members of the House of Representatives.
Sources say he was immediately rushed out for medical attention, while the press was prevented from coming in.


Source: zubby blog

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PROF. ITSE SAGAY rolls in the murky waters of Nigerian politics.... Lawrencia Chioma

PROF. ITSE SAGAY ON MY MIND!!!

In recent times, the head of anti-corruption committee under Buhari has been making news. He has been making statements that I consider preposterous at best.
But his recent uncontained outburst in reaction to the supreme court verdict of the gubernatorial elections in both Rivers State and Akwa-Ibom State respectively, has raised dust in my mind as to the deceptive nature of Itse Sagay.

Hear him.......
"The judgments were very perverse, particularly relating to Akwa-Ibom and Rivers. Everybody knows that there were no elections in those two states."
"Everybody knows that people like Wike climbed into the governorship seat over the dead bodies and over blood of human beings. There were no elections, they wrote the results, the evidence is there."

I find it distasteful that such a man who has carved a niche for himself will stoop so low to entangle himself and roll in the murky waters of Nigerian politics.
It's disheartening to watch a revered man of high pedigree and enviable intellect sacrifice his brains, legacy and name on the altar of sycophancy.
First, when he said "everybody knows that there were no elections", did he mean the entirety of Rivers State people, including myself who exercised our franchise on that day?
There were no elections?
Where was Itse Sagay on the day of Rivers State gubernatorial elections?
Did he vote in Rivers State?
Was he in anyway an INEC adhoc staff?
Is he overruling the entirety of the LGAs where elections were held and results collated?
I and the majority of Rivers State people who voted on that day definitely and obviously do not constitute Itse Sagay's "everybody."
Irrespective of the clear case of massive rigging with underage voters during the presidential elections by Buhari and APC, and it's unconstitutionality, Itse Sagay remains selectively blind as he's oblivious of the indiscretions of his Oga at the top.

Secondly, he rants that Governor Nyesom Wike climbed into the governorship seat over dead bodies and over blood of human beings (another blab), what does that make of his hypocritical self who is presently a stooge for a man who emphatically told his kinsmen that monkeys and baboons will be soaked in blood if he looses elections in 2011.
A comment which led to the massacre of corpers in Northern states!!
Buhari climbed into power in 2015 over dead bodies and blood of hundreds of corpers!
What has he to say about it?

Furthermore, he speaks about the perverseness of the supreme court judgment.
When The Integrity Group petitioned the court against Rotimi Amaechi's nomination for ministerial appointment on the grounds of corruption, same sanctimonious Itse Sagay sat as a judge over the matter and ruled that Amaechi was discharged and acquitted of N70 billion!!
So much for a saint!!
If he is too concerned about the lacuna in the judiciary and he is patriotic about Rivers State, where was he when Amaechi grounded the judiciary in Rivers State for over a year?
Why was he silent then?

He vilifies the supreme court and brings the names of the justices to disrepute, while he watches as Buhari flaunts court orders, declare citizens guilty before proven innocent on National television, says that judiciary is his major headache!
And he says nothing in condemnation!!!
Shame••

The budget has turned into a harvest of yams by rats in the NASS, he is silent!!
Shame again!

It's sad to see men like Itse Sagay and Wole Soyinka reduce themselves to such level.
Prof. Itse Sagay will do well to remove the iroko from his eyes, before attempting to remove the speck in another's eyes!!
Shame again!!

Source: Lawrencia chioma

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I am not ready for trial....... Dasuki

ABUJA— Former National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki,  has said he was not ready for trial until the Federal Government complied with an order of the Federal High Court granting him bail. Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd.): Former NSA In November 2015, Justice Adeniyi Ademola had granted Dasuki bail but the Department of State Services, DSS, rearrested him immediately after his release from Kuje prison. Counsel to the DSS, Dipo Okpeseyi (SAN), announced to the court, yesterday, that the prosecution was ready for trial to commence. But Joseph Daudu, counsel to Dasuki, said the defence counsel was not ready to proceed with the trial because the Federal Government was still keeping the accused person in detention, despite an order of the court granting him bail. He said: “We cannot be ready for trial until the defendant enjoys his constitutional rights.  We apply that we should be given time to prepare the defence. The conduct of the prosecution has not enabled him to enjoy his constitutional rights. The worst thing is that for about seven weeks we have had no idea of his whereabouts.” However, Okpeseyi argued that the prosecution was not stopping Dasuki from enjoying his freedom, saying the accused person was not allegedly held for the charges before the court. He, therefore, asked the court to reject the request for adjournment and to commence trial. But the court adjourned till March 3 for the hearing on a motion to discharge Dasuki.

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Donald Trump threaten to sue Ted Cruz

Donald Trump repeated his threat over the weekend to sue Ted Cruz if the senator from Texas doesn't "take down his false ads and retract his lies" against the businessman. Cruz, battling him for the lead in South Carolina, has run ads drawing attention to Trump's use of eminent domain while a super PAC backing Cruz has slammed Trump by suggesting that he supports Obamacare. Trump also lumps in Cruz'smailers in Iowa and the other parts of Trump's "I really won Iowa" platform.

But that's all an excuse for Trump to talk about whether Cruz is constitutionally eligible to run for the presidency given his Canadian birth, an issue that Trump keeps threatening to force by filing a lawsuit. Which leads to three different questions that are worth answering:

1. Can Trump sue Cruz?
2. If he does, will the courts throw it out?
3. If they don't, can Trump win?

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Oil price: Saudi Arabia and Russia agree to freeze crude oil output

Saudi Arabia and Russia have agreed to freeze oil output in a meeting in Qatar.

Ali al-Naimi, the Saudi Arabian oil minister met with Alexander Novakin Doha, his Russian counterpart, and representatives from Venezuela and Qatar in Doha on Tuesday where they agreed a freeze in the oil production at January levels.

"Freezing now at the January level is adequate for the market," said Saudi Arabian Oil Minister, Ali al-Naimi.



"We don't want significant gyrations in prices, we want to meet demand. We want a stable oil price."

The agreement fell short of cutting production to shore up oil prices. 

The price of brent crude surged 6 per cent on Tuesday to trade at $35.22 a barrel in anticipation of an agreement.

It will be recalled that lawmakers differed on the $38 per barrel benchmark projected by president Mohamamdu Buhari in the 2016 budget as the price of crude of oil, the mainstay of the Nigerian economy.

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