Saturday 31 March 2018

Fani-Kayode Drops Bombshell, Disagree With PDP Apology, Expose APC, Buhari, Others

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Fani-Kayode Drops Bombshell, Disagree With PDP Apology, Expose APC, Buhari, Others 
"Apology for what?" FFK disagrees with PDP chairman Uche Secondus 
The former Minister of Aviation doesn't agree that PDP National chairman, Uche Secondus should apologize to Nigerians. According to FFK, the apology was ill-conceived and unnecessary as the giant strides of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, cannot be matched by the APC government. Read his new article below
I received the news of the apology offered to the Nigerian people by my friend and brother Prince Uche Secondus, the National Chairman of the PDP, with mixed feelings.
For goodness sake what is the apology for? Is it the great achievements of President Olusegun Obasanjo or the commendable strides of President Goodluck Jonathan?
In my view Secondus' apology was ill-conceived and unnecessary.
And if PDP must apologise for its 16 years in power then on its own part the Buhari administration and each and every one of the APC leaders must be compelled to pull out a loaded gun, point it at their own temples and blow out their own brains.
It is either that or they must be compelled to take some lethal poison and die a slow and terrible death for the corruption, hardship, penury, bloodshed and evil that they have foisted and inflicted on the Nigerian people over the last three years.
I proudly served in President Obasanjo's government, which was a PDP government, for four years and his achievements were legion.
He inspired and encouraged our people and made them proud to be Nigerians again and he paid off our foreign debt, stabilised the country and pulled us back from the brink of war.
He treated every Nigerian fairly regardless of faith or tribe and he left a total of $64 billion USD in our foreign reserves.
He strengthed the economy and ensured that Nigeria was readmitted into the comity of civilised nations.
He boosted agricultural growth, fought an effective and non-selective war against corruption and ushered massive foreign and local investment into the country.
He built up local industries and assisted the manufacturing sector to prosper and thrive and caused the Stock Exchange to flourish.
He strengthened our Armed Forces, reformed the education sector, improved the health sector, encouraged freedom of speech and ensured that not one journalist, dissident or opposition figure was locked up for expressing his or her views.
He also managed the sharia crisis well and avoided a civil war, pulled us back from the brink of war with the Cameroons, brokered a successful peace deal in Liberia, quelled a military coup d'etat in Sao Tome and Principe and so much more. Is that what we are apologising for?
Anyone may say whatever they like about Obasanjo, and I do not for one minute suggest that he is an angel or that he is infallible, but one thing you can never take away from him is the fact that he remains probably the most patriotic, dedicated and effective leader that Nigeria has ever had and one of the greatest that the African continent has ever been blessed with.
Frankly we need to be careful what we say as a party and we should stop accepting and feeding into the deceitful and mendacious narrative that is being encouraged and fuelled by the Buhari administration and our collective enemies which asserts that we were all hopelessly corrupt and that we never achieved anything at all!
When we say that we are apologising it simply means that we have accepted that false narrative and that is not only a grave error but it is also unacceptable simply because such a narrative has no basis in reality, rationality, reason or truth.
It also does a great disservice to all the former PDP Governments and Presidents over the 16 years that we were in power.
We may have made a few mistakes here and there and we may not have scored 100 per cent on all fronts but to suggest that we are guilty of some heinous crime for which we are now constrained to apologise is not only misplaced, inappropriate and ill-advised but it is also unwise.
Worst still in the coming months we may be forced to pay a heavy price for it as we become the subject of ridicule and opprobrium.
The only thing PDP needs to apologise for is allowing a bunch of incompetent fools, unlettered rogues and uncivilised sociopaths and sadists like the APC to take power in 2015.
That is what we must ask God and the Nigerian people to forgive us for and nothing else.
My friend and brother Donald Duke, the former Governor of Cross Rivers state, and others have suggested that we must reach out to other political parties and form a broad-based coalition to confront and defeat the APC in next years presidential election.
That is a duty that is incumbent on each and everyone one of us and if we fail in discharging it God will judge us and deal with us ever so severely. Worst still, if we fail and Buhari returns to power next year, as Obasanjo has said, Nigeria will collapse.
If anyone needs to be reminded about just how inept and degenerate Buhari's government is I urge them to kindly consider the events of the last few days and weeks which prove beyond any reasonable doubt that they are nothing but a government of unconscionable liars, professional propagandists, disinformation merchants and first class scammers.
First came the Dapchi scam. Then came the Martin Luther King award scam. Then came the Lagos bus terminal scam in which Lagos, the largest city in Africa, was put under lockdown and all its roads were blocked simply because Buhari was coming to open a glorified bus stop and attend a colloquim for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu's 66th birthday.
For the last few days it has been one merry little photo-shoot and disingenuous scam after the other but two events which struck me more than any of the others were the following.
At the colloquim Vice President Yemi Osinbajo reiterated his view that the PDP were corrupt and a party of looters and that the looting under President Goodluck Jonathan's government and in the 5 years before Buhari came to power had destroyed the Nigerian economy.
This is a lie from the pit of hell. Osinbajo is not only a disgrace to his country but also a traitor to his Christian faith and Yoruba race.
He is hopelessly corrupt and he is a pernicious liar. All he ever does, apart from being the resident slave and proverbial Uncle Tom in the Presidential Villa, is accuse the PDP and other members of the opposition of looting and corruption yet the government that he heads with Buhari has indulged in MORE corruption in 3 years than the PDP did in 16.
Worst still they delight in wasting their enemies, shedding innocent blood, locking up their adversaries and encouraging and supporting their friends and associates to indulge in mass murder, genocide and ethnic cleansing.
The second event was the release of the list of names of those who have been described as "looters" by the Federal Government even though not one person has been convicted by a court of law of looting amongst all those whose names were listed.
It is simply ridiculous when a government of murderous slanderers, heartless disinformation agents and vicious scammers says and does things like this.
Simply put it is a clear case of the pot calling the kettle black. Yet before I go into that permit me to touch on an aside.
During the festivities they wheeled out an undoubtedly beautiful black British super-model called Naomi Cambell to pose in pictures with Buhari during his visit to Eko Atlantic whilst he was in Lagos.
Quite what the point of this exercise was I have not been able to grasp or fathom but it is interesting to note that the last African Head of State that this "pretty babe" took a picture with ended up being convicted for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court at the Hague.
His name was Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia. I wonder whether history will repeat itself and Buhari will end up in the same place ? I guess that remains to be seen.
It was the day after the pose with Naomi that the Buhari government came up with their list of so-called "looters" which did not have the name of Rotimi "Oloriburuku" Amaechi or any other APC leader or government official on it.
Yet the truth is that no list of looters is complete without the names of Muhammadu Buhari, Yemi Osinbajo, Rotimi Amaechi, Babachir Lawal, Babatunde Raji Fashola, Abdulrasheed Maina, Maikanti Baru, Abdulrahman Dambazzau, Abdullahi Adamu, Mohammed Burutai and all the other APC leaders and Federal Government officials on it.
They are not only thieves but they literally invented the art of corruption and they are experts in it. They are corrupt in body, spirit and soul. They have stolen and misappropriated vast sums of money from the Nigerian state, diverted billions of naira from state government funds for their 2015 presidential campaign and they have snuffed out and destroyed more innocent lives than any other government in the history of Nigeria outside of the civil war.
When, God-willing, we get them out of power and take over we will open the books, expose them for what they are and each and everyone of them will suffer the consequences of their unprecedented graft and monstrous larceny.
One day Nigerians will discover that Buhari is not an angel but a devil and that his entire government and team is infested with demons and incorrigible rogues.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote the following in one of my essays:
"President Buhari forgets that our system of government is meant to be a modern-day democracy where the rule of law prevails, where dissent and a plurality of views and opinion is tolerated and where freedom of expression, freedom of association, the right to life and the right to a fair hearing is held sacrosanct and is guaranteed.
Worst still he believes in demonising and crushing all his enemies and holding on to power at all costs and through any means both fair and foul. If you doubt any of these things please ask Sambo Dasuki, Sheik El Zak Zaky, Nnamdi Kanu or countless others.
He leads a corrupt government which operates double standards and which turns a blind eye to the theft and graft that is being perpetrated by its officials and their friends whilst at the same time persecuting his perceived enemies and labelling them as being corrupt even though there is no real and tangible evidence of that so-called corruption.
And if anyone doubts that Buhari and his government are hopelessly corrupt then they should please read the latest Transparancy International report in which they said that corruption in Nigeria is "getting worse under Buhari".
Buhari is a tyrant and a genocidal maniac who believes in conquest and oppression and who has turned a blind eye whilst his subjects are butchered in their thousands by Fulani terrorists who call themselves herdsmen.
He has brought nothing but carnage, division, destruction, death, poverty and evil to our nation.
On several occasions he has watched silently and done nothing after his security agencies and Armed Forces killed thousands of his own citizens, whether they be Igbo youths that are members of IPOB or Shiite Muslims, after which they are buried in mass graves.
These are crimes against humanity for which he should be charged at the International Criminal Court at the Hague.
Those that are not killed are thrown into prisons or horrific detention cells all over the country where they are tortured and left to rot without any form of due process and against court orders to release them.
If anyone has any doubts about that they should please read the latest report by Amnesty International.
To add to all these horrors poverty and hunger has ravaged the land. If anybody doubts that they should please read the latest IMF report where the International Monetary Fund claim that Nigerians are "hungrier today" than they have ever been and that more of our people are living below the poverty line than ever before.
The truth is that apart from being monumentally incompetent Buhari is also shallow, sectional, divisive and vindictive and he has proved that he is wholly unfit and undeserving to be the President of a complicated, multi-cultural, multi-relgious and multi-ethnic mega-nation like Nigeria which needs to be led and handled with sensitivity, caution and care".
I stand by every word that I wrote in that essay and frankly, as each day passes, things are getting worse for the Nigerian people under his watch.
Permit me to conclude this contribution with the following:
Like President Obasanjo's devastating letter, President Goodluck Jonathan's consistent criticism, President Ibrahim Babangida's public admonition and Vice President Atiku Abubuakar's pungent opposition, General T.Y. Danjuma's bombshell, which was unleashed just few days ago against the Buhari government, was not only timely and courageous but also absolutely necessary.
He rightly alleged that our government, through its Armed Forces, are involved in ethnic cleansing and genocide and he boldly encouraged the people to defend themselves, defend their territory and defend Nigeria.
He has confirmed what yours truly and a handful of others have been saying for the last two years that the Buhari administration and their security forces collude with the Fulani herdsmen to slaughter and commit mass murder against our people.
This is unacceptable, it will never be forgotten and it will not go unavenged. It is only a matter of time before ALL those involved will suffer the consequences of their barbaric actions and be brought to justice.
Danjuma's concerns, coupled with the admonitions of Bill Gates, the worlds richest man, who has criticised the Buhari government viciously both whilst he was in Nigeria and after he returned home to America, prove beyond any reasonable doubt that Nigeria is in danger and that the Buhari government has messed things up very badly. Like Nero, they are playing the fiddle whilst Rome is burning.
If anyone needs to apologise to the Nigerian people it is Buhari, Osinbanjo and their APC and certainly not the PDP or indeed any of the other political parties.

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Lagos State Police Command Orders For The Arrest Of A Police Officer, Lawal Murtala Who Assaulted A Lady In A Bus

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Lagos State Police Command Orders For The Arrest Of A Police Officer, Lawal Murtala Who Assaulted A Lady In A Bus
Lagos state Police orders the arrest of a police officer who assaulted a lady inside a bus  
The Lagos State Police command has released a statement ordering the arrest of a Police officer, Inspector Lawal Murtala who slapped a lady during an altercation at Obalende, Lagos state. 
The attention of the Commissioner of Police Lagos State Command has been drawn to a posting in the social media alleging that a police inspector serving in Lagos State Command, slapped a young woman during an argument inside a commercial bus that commuted them from Obalende to Dopemu, along Agege Motor Road, Lagos.
 
In view of the above, the CP Lagos had directed the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Dopemu, CSP Mary Ayim to arrest the Inspector, get the facts of the case and transfer the matter to the Police Provost Department for further investigation. 
The CP assured that the findings in this case would be made public as usual.
SP Chike Oti Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Police Command.
The victim of the assault, Bibi Anne was slapped by the police officer for videoing him after she accused him of oppressing the passengers inside a commercial bus. Watch the video and read the lady's report below

Lagos state Police orders the arrest of a police officer who assaulted a lady inside a bus


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Graphic Photos Of A Soldier Allegedly Stabbed To Death By His Wife For Cheating On Her

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Graphic Photos Of A Soldier Allegedly Stabbed To Death By His Wife For Cheating On Her
Graphic Photos: Wife kills husband who is a military man?in his sleep for having a baby with another woman 
A woman has been arrested for allegedly killing her husband while he was fast asleep following an accusation of infidelity. The woman was said to have stabbed her husband to death in his sleep for having a baby with another woman.
According to reports, the incident reportedly happened in Gabon. The deceased who is reported to be a sergeant in the Gabonese army died immediately after the knife attack by his jealous wife in their room. He wasn’t even taken to the hospital.  
During interrogation, the woman allegedly confessed that she killed him for cheating on her and having a baby behind her back. Taking advantage that he was asleep on Wednesday night, the scorned woman inflicted several stab wounds on the man which led to his death.  
Ibe Caleb shared photos of the incident on Facebook and wrote;
Now she will spend the rest of her life in a military prison without a child of her own. The man though dead, has a child to carry on his name. Stupid actions degat dare consequences  You would have asked yourself what is really important and then have the courage to build your life around your answer instead of killing him  there are better ways of getting back to people than killing them…now you’ll cool off in prison.
That wasn’t the best thing to do but y will a married man keep a secret child in the first place.. If he had the child before the wedlock what prevented him from telling his wife. if he had it after wedlock then he brought the stabbing upon himself
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Graphic Photos: Wife kills husband who is a military man?in his sleep for having a baby with another woman
 Graphic Photos: Wife kills husband who is a military man?in his sleep for having a baby with another woman
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Graphic Picture Of A Man Beheaded By His Nephew In Akwa Ibom

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Graphic Picture Of A Man Beheaded By His Nephew In Akwa Ibom
Man beheads uncle in Akwa Ibom over disagreement (graphic photo) 
On Sunday 25th March, 2018, at Eyosio Osung Village in Udung Uko local government area of Akwa Ibom state, a man reportedly killed his uncle identified as Chief Joshua Ekpo, over a disagreement.
A Facebook user who shared the graphic image wrote, 'what do you wish a young man that did this to his Uncle on Sunday 25th March, 2018, at Eyosio – Osung Village in Udung Uko LGA? “Do not pay back evil for evil suggest he should be forgiven completely. Rest in peace Chief Joshua Ekpo. I will ever miss those moments we joked together with your son Kolobee.'
 Man beheads uncle in Akwa Ibom over disagreement (graphic photo)
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Tyga Flaunts His Buggati, Maybach A Day After He Was Sued For Unpaid Rent

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Tyga Flaunts His Buggati, Maybach A Day After He Was Sued For Unpaid Rent
Unbothered Tyga flaunts new Bugatti and Maybach, a day after getting sued over unpaid rent?(Photo/Video) 
Tyga who's being sued alongside his five-year-old son King Cairo over unpaid rent appears to be unbothered about it.
The 27-year-old rapper took to Instagram to show off his new luxury automobiles, a white Mercedes-Maybach and an orange and black Bugatti Veyron.
Unbothered Tyga flaunts new Bugatti and Maybach, a day after getting sued over unpaid rent?(Photo/Video)He captioned the photo: 'ItookthetopofftheMaybach'
He was also spotted driving down the 101 freeway in L.A. Friday in the new orange Bugatti, 
This comes just after Tyga and his 5-year-old son, King Cairo were sued by Simon Cowell's ex-fiancee Mezhgan Hussainy for allegedly failing to pay rent for her $40k/month Beverly Hills home since January.  Tyga's son Cairo was put on the lease
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A Homosexual Allegedly Caught In Act With A Young Boy In Edo State

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A Homosexual Allegedly Caught In Act With A Young Boy In Edo State
Suspected homosexual caught pants down while trying to sleep with young boy in Edo State? 
A suspected homosexual identified as Daniel has been apprehended just after he tried penetrating a boy from behind in Benin, Edo State.
According to reports, the suspected homosexual was beaten mercilessly and stripped naked, after his victim’s elder sister caught him red handed and raised an alarm.
The alleged bus conductor in Benin who confessed that this wasn’t his first time of having homosexual sex with a young boy, further disclosed that he had slept with three young boys in Warri, Delta state.
Recall that few months ago, the Delta State police command confirmed the arrest of two male teachers of a secondary school (names withheld) in Agbor, who were allegedly involved in homosexuality.
It was gathered that the teachers allegedly ruined the lives of some students in the school, a popular male secondary school. According to the father of one of the students, (name withheld), the suspects had been in the act with male students for over four years before nemesis caught up with them with the arrest by the police.
They were allegedly caught in the act inside the school premises and upon interrogation, confessed to the crime. Investigation revealed that the victims were treated at the Agbor General Hospital for bruises in their anus.   
The police image-maker in the state, Mr. Andrew Aniamaka, who spoke to journalists yesterday in his office, confirmed the arrest of the two teachers. He said the two suspects are in grade level 10 and 12 respectively, adding: “investigation is ongoing while the suspects are being detained.”
This followed up report of the Lagos State government, arraigning 28 adults and 12 minors before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court for allegedly engaging in homosexuality, contrary to the laws of the land. They were all arrested by the police in Owode Onirin area of the state, after being caught in the act of homosexuality at a popular hotel in the area simply known as Vintage Hotel.

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Friday 30 March 2018

3 Miners Shot Dead, Many Injured In Kaduna Mining Site Clash

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3 Miners Shot Dead, Many Injured In Kaduna Mining Site Clash
 
About three persons have been reported killed following a clash at a mining site in Bakin Kogi village of Kaninkon Chiefdom in Jema’a local government area of Kaduna State.
Alhaji Yusuf Usman, the administrator of the local government area, who confirmed the incident, said the three persons lost their lives during a shootout between illegal miners.
He explained that during the scuffle, four other persons sustained injuries and were receiving treatment at the Patrick Yakowa Memorial General hospital, Kafanchan.
He said security personnel had been deployed to the area to ensure the sustenance of law and order in the area.
He urged people to go about their normal businesses and report any suspicious persons to the appropriate authority.

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Donald Trump Laments The Waste Of $7trn In Middle East As He Pulls Out Of Syria

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Donald Trump Laments The Waste Of $7trn In Middle East As He Pulls Out Of Syria
 
US President Donald Trump insisted Thursday that US forces would pull out of Syria “very soon” and lamented what he said was Washington’s waste of $7 trillion in Middle East wars.
In a populist address to industrial workers in Ohio, Trump said US forces were close to securing all of the territory that the Islamic State jihadist group once claimed.
“We’ll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon. Let the other people take care of it now,” Times of Israel quoted him as saying.
Trump did not say who the others were who might take care of Syria, but Russia and Iran have sizable forces in the country to support President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
“Very soon — very soon we’re coming out. We’re going to have 100 percent of the caliphate, as they call it — sometimes referred to as ‘land’ — taking it all back quickly, quickly,” he said.
“But we’re going to be coming out of there real soon. Going to get back to our country, where we belong, where we want to be.”
The United States has more than 2,000 military personnel in eastern Syria, working with local militia groups to defeat the Islamic State group while trying to keep out of Syria’s broader civil war.
Trump’s eagerness to quit the conflict flies in the face of a new US Syria strategy announced in January by then secretary of state Rex Tillerson — who has since been sacked.
Tillerson argued that US forces must remain engaged in Syria to prevent IS and Al-Qaeda from returning and to deny Iran a chance “to further strengthen its position in Syria.”
Later in a speech at Stanford University, he also warned that “a total withdrawal of American personnel at this time would restore Assad and continue his brutal treatment against his own people.”
“We spent $7 trillion in the Middle East. And you know what we have for it? Nothing,” Trump declared, promising to focus future US spending on building jobs and infrastructure at home.

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How Tinubu Made Me, Osinbajo, Fashola, Kayode, Others - Lai Mohammed

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How Tinubu Made Me,  Osinbajo, Fashola, Kayode, Others - Lai Mohammed
 
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed on Thursday described former Lagos Governor, Bola Tinubu as “an exceptionally visionary politician who has invested in many people’’.
The minister spoke at the 10th Bola Tinubu Colloquium and his 66th birthday celebration held at the Eko Hotel, Lagos with the theme “Investing in People’’.
Speaking on how Tinubu had invested in people, the minister recalled how he made him Chief of Staff about 20 years back as Lagos governor.
He also noted that Tinubu contributed largely to his success and that of some current ministers, governors and ex-governors.
“Not being from Lagos state, many people found it strange for him to have made me his Chief of staff.
“Today, I can say boldly that at least in the federal cabinet, we have those occupying positions who had served in his cabinet at one time or the other.
“We have the Vice President, myself, the Minister of Power Works and Housing, Raji Fashola and the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi.
“If you also look at governor in many states today whether it is Osun or elsewhere, they had worked with him in one capacity or the other.
The minister, who said he felt elated about the day, wished the celebrant a long life in the service of the nation and mankind.

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PDP Challenges Osinbajo To Name The Party's Corrupt Members

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PDP Challenges Osinbajo To Name The Party's Corrupt Members
The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kola Ologbondiyan, has challenged Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to name corrupt members of the party and provide proof of his allegations against them.
He spoke in reaction to the claim by Vice President that the PDP-led government at the federal level destroyed Nigeria’s economy. 
Professor Osinbajo made the claim while delivering a speech during a colloquium in honour of a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Mr Bola Tinubu, in Lagos, earlier in the day.
The PDP National Publicity Secretary, who was a guest on yesterday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today, however, faulted the Vice President’s allegations.
He argued that as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Professor Osinbajo, ought to have substantiated his allegation by providing names.
Mr Ologbondiyan said the Buhari administration, which the VP is a part of, should have used the evidence it had, if it actually had any, to arrest and try the members of the PDP it said were corrupt.
“We challenge him to stop branding figures. He should mention names of those whom he claims corrupted themselves,” the PDP spokesperson said.
“If he cannot mention their names, and he cannot cause their arrest and he cannot even list these people, he should keep quiet,” he said.
Ologbondiyan further advised the Vice President to stop blaming the party for corruption over the years.
He said, “Our advice to the Vice President, as a professor of law, he knows the pathway to follow when you accuse somebody of corruption.
“It is not enough to come to the public arena, more so as a man of God, and begin to make an allegation about corruption always.”
Mr Ologbondiyan also reacted to the Vice President’s claim that the Goodluck Jonathan administration allocated just N99bn to three critical ministries – power, works and housing (they were separate ministries then) in 2014 when oil price range from between $100 and $114 per barrel.
According to him, the money in question was not released for the PDP’s use.
Mr Ologbondiyan added that rather than continue trying to drag the PDP’s name and those of its members in the mud, the APC-led Federal Government should tell Nigerians its achievements in the three years it has been in power.

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EPL: Chelsea Boss, Conte Reveals Morata's State Ahead Of Tottenham Clash

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EPL: Chelsea Boss, Conte Reveals Morata's State Ahead Of Tottenham Clash
 
Chelsea manager, Antonio Conte says striker Alvaro Morata will play an important role in the final stretch of the English Premier League, EPL.
He also said Morata now has the chance to boost his call up for Spain’s squad for the World Cup this year.
Chelsea hosts Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday. Yeah
Morata scored the last of his 10 league goals in this campaign in December as Chelsea beat Brighton and Hove Albion 2-0.
The 25-year-old was left out of Julen Lopetegui’s Spain squad for last week’s international friendlies against Germany and Argentina, but Conte said Morata had used the time during his enforced break to raise the level of his game.
“He has been working very well, and he needed to work hard. Now he is really fit and is ready to have an important end to the season for Chelsea,” Reuters quoted Conte as saying on Thursday.
A win for fifth-placed Chelsea in Sunday’s London derby will take them to 59 points, two points behind Tottenham in fourth.
The defending champions are looking to overtake Mauricio Pochettino’s side and seal a top-four finish that will ensure Champions League action next season.
Chelsea are also in the semifinals of the FA Cup where they take on Southampton and Conte is aware of the need to ensure a strong finish to a difficult season.
“These are our targets. Sunday is an important game because if we win we go very close – otherwise we continue to stay not so close and with seven games to go it will be difficult to take a place in the Champions League.”
Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois could miss the game after picking up a hamstring injury on international duty with Belgium while defender David Luiz is still battling a knee injury.

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Osinbajo Lists School Feeding, N-Power, Others Buhari's Achievements

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Osinbajo Lists School Feeding, N-Power, Others Buhari's Achievements
 
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday stated that the Buhari government has committed N500billion to Social Investment Programme.
He described this as the largest pro-poor programme in Nigeria’s history, and the largest social safety net in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Osinbajo, in his speech at the 10th Bola Tinubu Colloqium in Lagos, sad this was despite the fact that by 2015, oil prices fell by over 50% and production also fell from over 2 million barrels a day to less than 700,000 barrels a day, sometimes even 500,000 barrels in 2016.
He said: “We have seen today the empirical evidence of the successes of this programme, and all of that is evident for us to see and listen to several testimonies and stories. 200,000 jobs for undergraduates employed under the N-Power programme, 300,000 more waiting to be employed; they have been pre-selected; over 7 million children being fed daily in 22 States so far; beneficiaries of microcredit loans going to about 300,000; and almost 300,000 households benefiting from conditional cash transfers.
“In 2014, when oil was at between 100 dollars and 114 dollars a barrel, the actual releases for capital for three ministries – Power, Works and Housing – then they were three separate ministries, was in total N99 billion; while Transportation got 14 billion, and Agriculture got 15 billion. I’m talking about actual releases, not budgeted, what they actually got.
“Let’s compared that with capital releases to the same ministries in 2017, when oil price was between $50 and $60 a barrel, N415 Billion for Power, Works & Housing, N80 Billion for Transportation; N65 Billion for Agriculture; totalling N560 Billion, in a time when we were earning at least 50% less than we were earning in 2014.
“And when we say that this same government that spent N139 Billion only on all of Agric, Power, Works and Housing, Transport, etc; spent between January 2015 and the elections, the sum of a N100 Billion in cash and 289 million dollars, altogether about a 100 Billion in cash, was released and spent, shared. This sum of money was in excess of the amount of money that was spent on Power, Works and Housing.
“I will just give you one last example. Three billion US dollars was lost to something called the Strategic alliance contracts in NNPC, 3 Billion US Dollars, and never paid back. Now, the same 3 Billion dollars, the Minister of Finance sat with us at a meeting of the Economic Management Team, and we are proposing; in fact 3 billion dollars is about a trillion naira.
“We are now proposing foreign loans for the same 3 billion dollars: (to build the following roads): Abuja-Kaduna-Kano road, 2nd Niger Bridge, Enugu-Port Harcourt road, East-West road, Sagamu-Ore-Benin road, Kano-Maiduguri road, Abuja-Lafia-Akwanga-Keffi road, and Lagos-Abeokuta: the old road, all for the same 3 billion.
“Today we earn almost 50% less than five years ago and we are investing several times more. In 2017 we spent 1:3 Trillion on capital, the largest in the history of this country, despite earning 50% less. The majority of our people depend on the integrity of those who govern them because they don’t have the odds. They are far too poor, in many cases, far too vulnerable to be able to say anything for themselves.”

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This Is Senate President, Saraki's Easter Message To Christians

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This Is Senate President, Saraki's Easter Message To Christians
 
President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki has admonished Christians to emulate Jesus Christ.
The call was part of his Easter messages on Thursday to Christians and Nigerians in general.
Saraki called on Nigerians to work towards emulating the virtues of Jesus Christ.
His message was signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, in Abuja.
The lawmaker noted that Nigerians must remain constant in their efforts to promote unity across all lines.
Saraki stated, “This weekend, we join our Christian brothers and sisters in Nigeria and across the world to celebrate the Easter festivities.
“This commemoration is a time for deep reflection as it marks the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and his victory over death.
“It is a time to reach out to our brothers and sisters in need.
“It is also a time for all of us–regardless of faith, or ethnicity–to come together to pray for the peace of our nation.”

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