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Saturday, 26 December 2015
John McAfee: Developer of Anti-Virus software to run for US President as Libertarian Party Candidate
FG removes fuel subsidy, says petrol to sell for N85 by Jan 1st 2016
He said efforts were on to get the refinery to achieve 60 percent production capacity and to supply about 11 million liters of petrol daily.
“If you look at the new PPPRA template that we developed and which I just signed off two days ago, when it is announced you will find out that for now ,and I use the emphatic word of the President for now, the price of the refined product will actually be lower than 87 naira, It will be 85. We will probably announce that in January if the prices hold.
“Like I said, we have done a modulation calculation and it is showing us below N87. I imagine that if PPPRA publishes it today, it will become effective immediately. But the 1st of January that is when we are looking at.”
“What that does for you is that its modulating. If it goes up you move up, if it comes down you come down. So we take away the fact of having to go find funds to pay for these subsidies that we cannot afford.
“More importantly we try to be as close to the pump price that we have now as possible,” he said.
Vanguard
Friday, 25 December 2015
Chicago 'Black Christmas' protesters march against police violence
The demonstration was peaceful, but after the main march concluded, police scuffled with a few dozen protesters who were trying to block the entrance to an H&M store and to obstruct traffic both ways on Michigan Avenue, a major thoroughfare.
During the march, demonstrators chanted "Sixteen shots and a cover-up," protesting the year-long delay in bringing murder charges against police officer Jason Van Dyke, who shot and killed Laquan McDonald in October 2014 as the black teenager walked away from police, according to footage of the incident.
Shoppers and tourists mostly took in their stride Thursday's protest, which was not as big as a 2,000-person march on "Black Friday" Nov. 27, which blocked traffic into several Michigan Avenue stores.
"I think it's a good reminder, especially on Christmas Eve, that it's not all about gifts and the commercialization of Christmas," said Barbara Hutchinson, 64, from St. Louis.
Reuters
Thursday, 24 December 2015
Technically we have won the war against Boko Haram - Pres. Buhari
President Buhari says that his government has technically won the war against Boko Haram. He said this in an interview with BBC
"I assure you we haven't failed. Adamawa state, Yobe state are free from Boko Haram. Borno state which is there base, I think they have two to three local government. Boko Haram has reverted to using IEDs Improvised Explosive Device, indoctrinating young girls from 15 years and below to go and explode it in churches, mosques, market places, motorparks.
They have now been reduced to that but articulated conventional attacks on centers of communication and population in towns and so on, they are no longer capable of doing that effectively. So I think technically we have won the war because people are going back to their neighborhoods. We have our committees on the ground liaising with Local governments. People are going back. Our major problem now is rehabilitation because over 1.5 million Internally Displaced Persons, repairing the infrastructures, schools, health centers...the number of bridges blown..that is what we are facing now. But Boko Haram as an organized fighting force, I assure you that we have dealt with them"he said
When
asked what his opinion is about Nigerians criticizing him for always
blaming the last government instaed of focusing on how to make the
country better, he said
"I think they are
being unfair. Boko haram was effective on 16 local government areas
before in the three states. Borno Yobe and Adamawa. Yobe and Adamawa are
absolutely free and there are about three local governments were Boko
Harams are there and I have told you they cannot marshal forces and
attack towns or military installation as they did in Maiduguri before. I
don't think this is mere talking. We have moved Service Chiefs, we
re-organized the military. We have got some hardware for them and we
have gotten retraining from the British, Americans and with the French. A
lot of is being done"he said
Listen to the interview here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/
Tuesday, 8 September 2015
Thursday, 3 September 2015
New Party To Emerge From PDP – Senator Balogun
Sen. Lekan Balogun, a PDP stalwart and Osi Olubadan of Ibadan, has predicted that a new party would emerge from the PDP ahead of the 2019 general elections.
Balogun disclosed this on Thursday during the monthly Guest Forum of Oodua Newspapers held at Ijikodo, Ibadan.
“I foresee a new party emerging out of the fall of PDP from power after the 2015 elections and not that the All Progressives Congress has taken over.
“Some members of the party have gotten to a point of no return and I think they could break away,” he said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the PDP, which came to power in 1999, ruled the country for 16 years.
Balogun said that the party failed in its re-election bid because its leadership refused to listen to the advice of elders.
The former lawmaker, who took a cursory look at the collapse of the PDP in Oyo State, warned APC not to make the same mistake.
“The fall of PDP in Oyo State and at the federal level is dialetic.
“ Former President Goodluck Jonathan was good, but some of his ministers and party men did not help matters,” he said.
Balogun, who claimed to have sent several text messages to PDP leaders in Abuja advising them without any response, said he predicted what happened to the party.
He said that the extent of the damage to the party’s fortunes was more obvious after the elections.
Balogun also said Nigerians should be patient with President Muhammadu Buhari over allegations of lopsided appointments.
“Appointments are made based on principles of intellect, character and national spread.
“ President Buhari is a very disciplined leader and I know he would address the issue in subsequent appointments,” he said.
He, however, called on the National Assembly and the executive to work together to promote good governance.
On creation of Ibadan State, Balogun said this was desirable but negated by the prevailing paucity of funds.
He said: “Take Oyo State for instance where government cannot pay workers and teachers salaries.
“ Would any sane person be talking of creation of Ibadan State again?”
He also said the late Premier, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, was noted for his Free Education Programme, wondering why Gov. Abiola Ajimobi’s administration would stop payment of SSCE fees and also impose N3,000 education development levy.
Balogun also expressed reservations at the failure of the state government to conduct local government elections after four years.
He said this was not only against the tenets of democracy, but contradicted the principle of rule of law. (NAN)
Army reinstates over 3000 dismissed soldiers
Friday, 28 August 2015
Two Indian sisters to be raped as punishment after their brother ran off with married woman
An unelected all-male village council in India also ordered that 23-year-old Meenakshi Kumari and her 15-year-old sister are paraded naked with blackened faces.
The horrific order was revealed by Amnesty International which said the sisters and their family have fled their village in the Baghpat district, just outside of Delhi.
According to news site Zee Media, the sisters' brother Ravi fell in love with a girl from the Jat caste, a higher social caste than Ravi and his family, who are Dalit, once known as the 'untouchables', who are at the bottom of India's caste system.
The Jat woman's family married her off to someone else in February but she later escaped and eloped with Ravi in March.
As punishment, on July 31 a village council decided Ravi's sisters should be raped to avenge his actions.
Since the family fled their village their home has been ransacked.
Sumit Kumar, another brother of Meenakshi, told Amnesty that members of the Jat caste were powerful members of the village council, saying: "The Jat decision is final."
His family fears for their lives if they return. Meenakshi has filed a petition with India's Supreme Court asking for protection.
Meanwhile her father has also lodged a complaint with two national bodies saying he has been harassed by the family of the Jat woman and by police.
They are also worried about the safety of the Jat woman, who is believed to be pregnant with Ravi's child.
Amnesty International has launched a petition calling on India's authorities intervene immediately and protect the two sisters.
In an appeal, Amnesty said: "Unelected village councils such as this are widespread in parts of India.
"More often than not they are made up of older men from dominant castes, who prescribe rules for social behaviour and interaction in villages.
"Nothing could justify this abhorrent punishment. It's not fair. It's not right. And it's against the law."
Amnesty International
Obasanjo is a liar and an economic illiterate – Soyinka
Soyinka talked about the former president on Friday night when he
responded to questions during a programme tagged: ‘An evening with Wole
Soyinka’, organised by Globacom.
Asked to respond to Obasanjo’s assessment of him in the former
president’s book titled ‘My Watch’, where he notes that Soyinka is good
at hunting and wines but a political illiterate, Soyinka said that he
was hardly bothered because he believed that Obasanjo was a liar.
Soyinka said, “Obasanjo is entitled to his opinion. But the question is: ‘Who respects the opinion of a liar?’
I can spend the whole night proving that he is a liar. Obasanjo was once
described by an economist, the late Prof Ojetunji Aboyade, as an
economic illiterate. They nearly went into blows that night. It was
Prof. Mabogunje who separated them.
“So, if an economic illiterate calls somebody a political illiterate, no problem at all.
“In ‘ My Watch’, Obasanjo told the first lie when he said he deplored
lies. Anybody who said he never plotted to have an unconstitutional
third term in office, even as a writer, I need a word to describe him.”
The former President and the Nobel laureate have been in a running
battle taking swipes at each other over a lingering issue between them.
Obasanjo had once stated that Soyinka once vowed that the differences
between the two of them would not be resolved on earth.
Obasanjo had also in his book, My Watch, and at public events described Soyinka as an expert in wine matters than in political analysis.
He had said:
“For Wole, no one can be good, nor can anything be spot-on politically except that which emanates from him or is ordained by him. His friends and loved ones will always be right and correct, no matter what they do or fail to do. He is surely a better wine connoisseur and a more successful aparo (guinea fowl) hunter than a political critic.
“Wole Soyinka is a gifted man. I have always acknowledged that but he is a bad politician and I have also always said that. That is my own point of view. He may agree with it, he may not agree with it. For instance, I know that if I want somebody to give me the best wine, one of the people I will go to is Wole Soyinka and I know he has a taste for good wine and I said that in the book.”
Punch
Nigeria-bound terror chief coming on invitation
According to the sources, without a letter of invitation the hate preacher’s visa application would not have been approved. Discussions within the security circles in Nigeria centred on a popular middle-eastern company operating in Nigeria as the originator of the invitation letter for the issuance of the visa. A source said allegations that a bribe of about $8,000 was paid by Al-Assir to obtain the visa has not been confirmed. Security sources however said even if a bribe that big was offered, it was highly unlikely that the official who issued the visa received such money alone. It was hinted that the intelligence report of the plans of Al-Assir to visit Nigeria was given to the Lebanese authorities by Hezbollah. He pointed out that the lack of an active Foreign Service liaison with security and intelligence organization at the Nigeria embassy in Beirut made it difficult to share such intelligence operations with Nigeria directly.
It is suspected in security circles that Al-Assir is coming to Nigeria to link up with Boko Haram leaders to lend support. Sources emphasized that Nigeria needs to improve its foreign service liaison in Beirut and other embassies abroad ´so as to obtain vital intelligence of security concerns, because apparently non-existed.”
Foreign Service officials are supposed to liaise with intelligence and security organizations of host countries and share intelligence information in the tradition of “give and take,” the sources added.
President Buhari has ordered an investigation into how the ISIS leader secured a valid Nigerian visa in Lebanon.
Tuesday, 25 August 2015
Check out Sunday Oliseh's brand new Nissan Altima official car
Monday, 24 August 2015
After killing corruption, kill godfatherism - Speaker Dogara tweets
In a series of tweet, Speaker Yakubu Dogara addressed the
issue of god-fatherism and the problem it portends. Continue to see more
of his tweets..
Sunday, 23 August 2015
Nigerian Army reinstates 2,500 soldiers and 102 officers
Over 2,500 soldiers who were dismissed or asked to withdraw from service
for refusing to fight Boko Haram and other counter-insurgency offenses
have been recalled by the Nigerian army. 102 officers who were facing
prosecution over their involvement or lack of involvement in the fight
against Boko Haram, have also been re-instated. They were re-instated by
a panel set up by the Army last week.
The soldiers and officers are now retraining at the Nigerian Army Training
Centre, Kontangora, Niger State.
GEJ is not a drunkard - Reuben Abati
"President Jonathan does not drink. You see, that’s one of the myths about that administration and you must understand how this thing is, it’s all about perception, communication, it’s all about what goes out and it’s about stereotyping. People just stereotype people from a particular part of the country as drunkards, and they look for justification for one type of behaviour or the other.
But I can tell you that in my 4 years of working for President Jonathan, I never found him in a bibulous situation. If he ever tasted any drink, maybe a glass of wine during special occasions. All those stories about him drinking, about President Jonathan always being berated, about bibulous situations inside the Villa, those things did not exist. The people must find justifications to say this is why we think this situation is this way it is. I tell you and Nigerians will remember that he is a very humble man; he is a very committed person to the Nigerian project. If you look at the results of the elections, you’ll see that he lost the elections with about 2.5 million votes or thereabout, which means that a large number of Nigerians still believed in him and also believed in his ability and his capability of his administration to move Nigeria forward. We were dealing with a democracy; the people have a right to make a choice, when the people make a choice, we respect that choice. And our commitment as Nigerians, whoever we may be, whatever we maybe our station, is to remain committed to Nigeria, and to support whoever has emerged and to respect the choice and the decision of Nigerians. This is not about witch-hunt, it’s not about criticising people, the Nigerian people have spoken and we stand by the decision of the Nigerian people. And we all support whoever is there to move Nigeria forward. So this backward looking, can we just look forward? Can we all just work together to move Nigeria forward? For me, that is where the emphasis should be, because we are all Nigerians and at the end of the day the country is more important than all of us"he said.
Saturday, 22 August 2015
No More Office Of The First Lady – Presidency
Mrs. Aisha Buhari, the wife of the President.
The Presidency has stated that Mrs. Aisha Buhari, the wife of the President, has not been assigned any portfolio yet.
It also described as totally false and fictitious, the recent media reports that the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari had moved into the First Lady’s office in the Aso Villa.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said the “First Lady’s office” is no more, but “Office of the Wife of the President” which will be completely different from the former.
He stated that under president Buhari, the office shall be completely different from what obtained in the past, saying that the era of the First Ladies issuing oil wells and licenses was gone.
“President Buhari promised that there would be a clear difference between the role played by his wife during his tenure and that played by many previous First Ladies.
“All that ostentation, ubiquitousness and arrogance we have come to expect from the office are over and done with. Change has come.
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“The ideal platform from which she will be useful to Nigeria’s women and children is still being thought out. Once this has been concluded on, Mrs. Buhari’s role will become clearer to all Nigerians. There will be nothing shady or hidden about it. There will be no access to public funds. It will be purely private and voluntary”, he said.
The presidential spokesman recalled that the time Mrs. Buhari had to make use of the office was at the beginning of the present administration.
He added that the meeting during which she hosted the wives of governors was held in a section of the Villa’s banquet hall, not in the First Lady’s office.
“Her only visit to that office was at the point of the take-over of the Villa by the incoming administration
“Out of respect to Mrs. Buhari, the Sierra-Leonian First Lady, Mrs. SiaKoroma recently surrendered her position of head of Africa’s First Ladies to Mrs. Buhari, inviting her to take up the same seat which Mrs. Jonathan hurriedly handed over a few weeks to the handover of her husband’s government to President Buhari. Again, all these things are currently under consideration and no decision has been arrived at presently,” Shehu said.
President Buhari to set up special courts for looters
All the states of the federation will have these special courts so FG is looking for 36 incorruptible judges. A source told Punch that Buhari decided to set up the planned special courts because of the long delay by regular courts in deciding corruption-related cases.
Friday, 21 August 2015
Police enjoins doctors to treat accident victims and persons with gunshot wounds without police report
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Solomon E. Arase, NPM fdc has enjoined members of the public including medical personnel to attend to accident victims and persons with gunshot injuries and thereafter, inform the Police for necessary action.
This became imperative, following neglects and consequent untimely death of victims in this regard out of fear of being implicated without Police involvement.
The Police High Command also directed its Officers and men not to harass good Samaritans/Nigerians in this regard, but endeavour to elicit correct facts in relation to incident from them.
Doctors on duty are equally duty bound to treat victims of gunshot wounds and further inform Police of relevant facts. The safety of Nigerians is a collaborative effort of all and sundry. Police therefore, enjoin citizens not to relent in their cooperative attitude in ensuring safety of all. While they are also to report any suspicious person or persons to the nearest Police Station.
CP EMMANUEL C.S. OJUKWU, psc
FORCE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER
FORCE HEADQUARTERS
ABUJA.
Thursday, 20 August 2015
Reduce number of policemen attached to VIPs - Buhari tells IGP
According to a statement by the Special Assistant to the Presient on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, President Buhari gave the directive at a meeting with officials of the Ministry of Police Affairs and the Police Service Commission in the Presidential Villa today August 20th.
President Buhari at the meeting also warned that he will not tolerate any irregularities or extortion of money from unemployed Nigerians in the coming recruitment into the police. He said that applicants having to pay bribes before being accepted into the police in the past was totally unacceptable.
He told the officials that those in charge of recruitment and training in the Police must be above board and must not be involved in any form of extortion and underhand dealing.
"You must ensure that the recruitment process is transparent. Those who will conduct the recruitment must be above board. It should not be heard that they receive gratification or extort money from those who want to enlist in the police," he cautioned.President Buhari recently approved the recruitment of 10,000 men and women into the police force.
Pakistan to hang disable convict from his wheelchair
A "Black Warrant" was issued for his execution on July 29 but appeals from Basit's legal team led to a stay of execution.
They now await a final hearing on August 25 which will decide whether to go ahead with the procedure.
It means that prison officials are grappling with the conundrum of how
much rope is required to hang a man who cannot support his own body
weight.
Basit's lawyers at Justice Project Pakistan have issued an urgent mercy
appeal to Pakistan's president, Mamnoon Hussain, claiming that hanging a
wheelchair-bound person is in breach of its own prison regulations.
"Given that the condemned prisoner is unable to use his lower body to support his own weight and unable to stand, it is not possible to accurately measure the length of rope required for his hanging," they wrote.
"Consequently, no provision can be safely made for the accurate measurement of the rope that would hang him and to proceed with an inaccurately-measured length of rope would place him at risk of an appalling death."
Extracts from a prison handbook, seen by The Telegraph, stipulate that prisoners must be able to "stand" on the scaffold.
One extract reads: "The drop is the length of the rope from a point on
the rope outside the angle of the lower jaw of the condemned prisoner as
he stands on the scaffold, to the point where the lope is embraced in
the noose after allowing for the constriction of the neck that takes
place in hanging.
“The condemned prisoner shall mount the scaffold and shall be placed directly under the beam to which the rope is attached, the warders still holding him by the arms.”
As Basit would be unable to "mount" the scaffold or "stand" beneath the
noose, and there are no legal provisions in place for hanging disabled
people, the execution should be called off, his lawyers said.
Maya Foa, the head of legal charity Reprieve's death penalty team,
warned Basit's hanging would be a "cruel and violent spectacle".
"The decision to go ahead with the hanging of a severely disabled man would mark a new low for the Pakistani justice system," she said.
"Abdul Basit contracted tubercular meningitis while imprisoned; authorities failed to provide proper medical assistance and as a result, his illness worsened, leaving him entirely paralysed from the waist down.
"Abdul’s hanging would be a cruel and violent spectacle, unlawful under both Pakistani and international law, and an affront to justice and humanity. Abdul’s execution should be stayed, and the moratorium reinstated, before more lives are senselessly lost.”A medical report describes Basit's paraplegia as a "complication of tuberculous meningitis."
"At this moment, he is having 0/5 power in lower limbs and 4/5 power in upper limbs," Dr Javaid Iqbal and Dr Anjum Mehdi wrote in the report.
"In our opinion, patients with this condition are usually permanently disabled and there is almost no chance of any recovery. He is likely to remain bed bound for his life," they added.Source: The Telegraph
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