A job well done from the president

ALL HAIL BIAFRA

What a destructive religion that can't forgive or let go a thing. I dey laugh dem

Looks funny. I've not seen a religion as wicked as islam, they can never forgive or let go a thing. They claim islam is a peaceful religion but it's a lie, they are a destructive religion. BASTARDS

Good Job

Their yansh don open finish

WICKED

The families of the nine soldiers killed by the suspected insurgents in Damaturu, Yobe State have received a cash donation from the Nigeria Army through the commander 3 Brigade Nigeria Army Kano, Brigadier General Ilyasu Abba.

Brigadier General Ilyasu Abba's presentation also went to wounded
soldiers and relations of military personnel killed in the suicide bomb attack in Damaturu, Yobe State.

General Abba, who made the donation on behalf of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt Gen Azubuike Ihejirika and the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1Division Maj Gen Wahab,  at the headquarters of 241 Recce Battalion in Nguru,  urged the next of kin of the deceased soldiers to invest the money in educating their dependents wisely.

“I came here to convey the COAS’ and GOC’s condolences to those who have lost fathers, brothers or uncles in the incident and to pray for the quick recovery of the injured soldiers,” he said.

Abba assured the families that military authorities will ensure prompt payment of compensation for their lost ones and charged soldiers to not be intimidated by the killing of their colleagues.

He informed the beneficiaries that the Yobe State government had contributed N1million each for the families of the dead and N500, 000 each for the injured, while the Army chief donated N200, 000 each and N100, 000 each to the two groups respectively.

General Abba stated: “The nation and especially the army will continue to remember those of you that lost their lives in trying to bring peace to Yobe State and we will continue to pray for them, as well as those of you who are wounded in the attack. Make sure the children of the deceased’s are educated. If you educate them, they will assist you."

It would be recalled that nine soldiers died, while seven others sustained injuries when a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle rigged with explosives into two military patrol vehicles at Shagari Low Cost Housing Estate in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, on August 5.

STUDENTS of Cross River University of Technology, CRUTECH,  protested over alleged segxwal harassment of female students, molestation and extortion by some staff of the institution.



The students, numbering about 2, 000, blocked traffic at Eleven-Eleven Bus Stop on their way to the Government House, Calabar  to register their grievance.

Some of the placards carried by the students had inscriptions such as, ‘segxwal harassment of female students’, Female molestation’, ‘Extortion of money from students’, ‘No better CRUTECH, No better Cross River’, ‘CRUTECH, no better lecture hall’.

CRUTECH Students Union president, Mr Ekong Eka, accused the state government of neglecting students of the university, adding that, two months ago, some groups of people came to the school to tell them that government wanted to pay them bursary.

She's doing a good job and God will surely bless her more for that, this is what our first lady's and the governor's wife's should be doing rather than lavishing our wealth

Britain own don too much o, I don't know why dem like to dey show demselfs. nonsence

Wireless trash

That man is devilish. Is that his baby with him there or his babe? Idiot

I agree with you bro, don't mind the selfish leaders that went to sell our language to buy that stupid english that's killing our country and community now

A country with useless leaders

Screw driver

Pals na the same people o

THE current state of insecurity in the country seems to point to missed opportunities by successive governments to avert imminent upheaval.

One of such missed chances came when the solution proffered by the then supreme leader of Muslims in the country, and Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, was ignored.

In 1991, Alhaji Dasuki, as Sultan, had chaired the “Peaceful Co-existence Committees” that reeled out a strategy — the “Sultan Ibrahim Dasuki 1993 Peaceful Co-existence Plan” — for lasting peace in the north and Nigeria in general.

The plan focused on eight cardinal areas of reforms, some of which were Administration of Justice, Civil Service, Security System, the Press, Education and Employment Opportunities that needed urgent attention for peace, progress and national unity.

Unfortunately, the findings and recommendations of the committee did not see the light of the day, even long after Alhaji Dasuki left the throne.

Given the increasing socio-political and religious upheaval in Nigeria, Alhaji Dasuki has, in the last two weeks, repeatedly drawn attention to his “1993 Peaceful Co-existence Plan,” as what the country needs to implement in these trying times.

He said justice and good governance are the bedrocks of national security and development, and a guarantee to Nigeria’s survival as a nation.

Alhaji Dasuki, who spoke in Kaduna, recalled that, “Last year, somebody asked me: ‘What are we going to do about this Boko Haram?’ I said, ‘Let the government, from the local level up to Aso Rock declare from today they will do justice, and we wait and see.’

“To me, in so doing, we shall live in peace and not in pieces. I may be wrong, but I think that is the correct thing because I am doing it according to our own scripture.”

The former Sultan listed three things that would allow Nigeria emerge as a united nation from the present morass. They included giving traditional rulers a role in the polity, appointing competent leadership and encouraging inter-faith dialogue.

Referring to his 1991 document on how to move Nigeria forward, Alhaji Dasuki said, “People have to talk now,” citing what motivated him into doing that.

“One… Muslims and Christians (have) to meet and discuss what is worrying them. Two, leadership (has) to emerge through the community to intra-state, state, regional and then national.

“So, I hope by this method, honest leadership will emerge; competent leadership, committed leadership from the intra-state, the community, to regional and even to national level,” he said.

Alhaji Dasuki spoke under the backdrop of worsening insecurity with the Boko Haram sect spreading fear and death across northern states, while armed robbery, kidnapping and other dastardly acts are commonplace in the southern section of the country.

Only at the weekend, an All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) chieftain, a tea vendor and a painter were gunned down in separate attacks at Abaganaram, Gambouru and Lamisula wards of Maiduguri, Borno State.

The killings came barely two days after the visits of the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshall Oluseyi Petinrin and Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Dikko Abubakar.

Petinrin had commissioned nine boreholes sunk by the military and distributed 50,000 exercise books in Gambouru, where the painter was shot yesterday by persons suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect.

In another attack, at about 8.40pm, an ANPP leader and aide to former Governor Ali Modu Sheriff was shot dead at his Lamusila residence.

An eyewitness said the gunmen arrived at the residence in an unmarked tricycle and shot the victim in the presence of his wife and children.

Officers of the Joint Task Force (JTF) subsequently rushed to the scene and cordoned off the area.

Some prominent leaders, including serving state governors, have blamed the dwindling fortunes of the North on low allocation from the federally collected revenue, which, they said, was responsible for the ravaging poverty and birth of insecurity being spread by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram.

Their response was to call for a review of the revenue allocation formula and the onshore-offshore dichotomy law that will give more money to the states.

However, respondents to The Guardian enquiry on the declining fortunes of the economy of the North say the leaders, particularly the governors, have not been prudent with the allocations they receive, and should take responsibility for the economic decline in the states.

The solution, they said, should include efforts by the governments to tackle insecurity, epileptic power supply and smuggling of foreign goods, while diversifying the economy away from reliance on federal allocation to agriculture and agro-allied industry, as well as generation of more internal revenue.

Senator Walid Jibrin, member, Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party called for improved electricity supply.

“The epileptic supply of electricity in the North,” he said, “is really affecting industries, typified by low current and poor patronage, which necessitates purchase of costly generators and diesel.”

Kwara State Commissioner for Information, Tunji Morounfoye, said the economic conditions of the 19 states of the North had been comatose for long, stressing, “we should not blame Boko Haram for the decline.”

“We need to (emphasise) areas of our advantage, like Adams Smith stated. We can develop our agriculture through the youth.  We can emulate the example of China that brought out 300 million people out of poverty through agriculture in the spate of five years.”

To Dr. Wada Ademu, senior lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of Jos, “no matter how much we develop the oil sector, it has a maximum capacity it can absorb in terms of labour force.”

“If you diversify the base, develop agriculture, develop industry, every one of these sectors will definitely have to employ people, and we will have no problem of unemployment.”

Lagos State Police Command’s determination to rid the state of criminals, especially armed robbers, may not be an easy task, unless advanced strategies are quickly adopted. Reason: some criminals have devised a heartless way of forcing their victims into submission and in a manner that hardly raise suspicion. Instead of guns, they now use short cutlasses, the type popularly called “UTC” in Lagos.

And when they attack their victims, they usually go for the wrists. The criminals operate mostly in Ajeromi/Ifelodun Local Government Area. Sunday Sun investigation revealed that one of their favourite areas of operations is around Tolu area of the council and the most notorious axis is Kumuyi Street and its environs. According to our source, the reason for the concentration of their nefarious activities, which occurs mostly at night in that axis, is because of a very busy road known as Amodu Tijani, through which people link up Apapa with commercial boats.

Sunday Sun learnt that the criminals always lurk in dark corners from where they suddenly pounce on their victims before they dispossess them of their valuables. Our source informed that in most cases, if they are not satisfied with the victim’s possession, they give him/her a deep cut on the wrists, perhaps, as warning that he/she should work harder. Some residents in the area told Sunday Sun that the criminals have become more than a pain on the neck for pedestrians and inhabitants of the area. “Those boys are really terrorizing us in this area and it seems the police are helpless.

They have guns, but these days they use cutlasses and they always like to cut their victims’ hands,” said a resident who claimed she knows some of the victims. Another resident added that the criminals are taking advantage of the thriving night life in the area to rove around until they are ready to begin operation. “The night life in this area is almost round the clock, and you can hardly know who is who,” the resident said. It was gathered that a victim was terribly beaten and given machete cuts because he had nothing that interested the criminals when he was accosted. Sunday Sun investigation revealed that there are uncountable joints in the area where local gin otherwise known as Paraga are sold and those are veritable hide-outs for the criminally minded.

Also, there are several hotels where young jobless youths while away time with prostitutes, smoking all sorts of hard drugs, particularly marijuana. It was gathered that police from the nearby Tolu Police Division occasionally raid the black spots to dislodge the bad boys, but they return as soon as the police leave the scene. “The police sometimes raid the place, but they come back shortly after they leave. Some of them come from outside the council. They just come around, stay in the hotels with prostitutes till late night. In fact, it is very easy to identify them, because they smoke Indian hemp openly in public places,” a resident who preferred anonymity said.

A police source at Tolu Police Division confirmed that the area is a notorious place and some teams from the station have been going there constantly to dislodge the criminals. “Yes, there are criminals there. Our patrol teams sometimes go there to raid them,” the source said.. Sunday Sun learnt that another convergence point for the criminals is the popular Maracana Field around Tolu School complex.

The place is a dangerous spot at night, as the bad boys regroup there for their nefarious acts. It was gathered that several times, police from nearby Tolu Division would storm the place, but the hoodlums return as soon as the security agents leave and people living near the field had severally fallen victims to the criminals.

A self-appointed prophet in Edem community in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State has threatened to blow up the catechist of a Catholic church in the area for allegedly discouraging people from going to his prayer house. It was gathered that trouble started between the two men of God when the prophet identified simply as Ekene, noticed that people no longer trooped to his church.

He was said to have made inquiries and gathered that the catechist of St. Dominic’s Catholic church, Mr. Joseph Ugwu,, allegedly acting on the orders of the Catholic parish priest, Rev. Fr. Patrick Ujah, had repeatedly announced in the church that members of the congregation should desist from visiting the prayer house. Sources stated that this did not go down with the prophet who had stormed the town like a cyclone for some time, seeing vision for people and thereby pulling crowd to his church.

He held vigils almost every night and people trooped to his centre because of “mind-blowing testimonies” from those who visited him. “Things assumed a dangerous dimension when the prophet allegedly applied some Catholic doctrines in his prayers apparently to attract more people. He began his prayers with the sign of the cross, while the rosary was also said in every gathering.

“However, the style of his vision brought confusion among people, enthroning rancour, and mutual suspicion. People began to see their brothers as the source of their problems, while some who visited the prophet insisted that the names of their enemies should be revealed to them,” a source said. It was gathered that the parish priest, Rev. Fr. Patrick Ujah, had sent for the prophet and told him to get authority from the Catholic secretariat in Nsukka and identification from his home parish before he could continue with the mode of worship, but he failed to do so.

Consequently, the priest forbade Catholics from visiting the prophet or risk excommunication. Enraged by the adverse effect of the order on his church, the prophet sent emissaries to the catechist to mind his business. Sensing that the catechist was unperturbed, the prophet personally confronted him and allegedly warned him to steer clear or risk being bombed out of existence.

He was also said to have threatened to become ruthless at those who would not let him operate the way he deemed fit in the community. Community sources also told Sunday Sun that the deafening noise from the prophet’s prayer ground had attracted the attention of the traditional ruler of the town, Igwe Odomeh of Ozi Edem, who also invited him to his palace. On interaction, the prophet was said to have told the royal father that he was a Catholic, but when the latter asked if he had the permission of the parish priest before conducting prayers, he said he planned to do so.

The Igwe consequently told him that he ought to have met with those in charge of the community before pitching his tent in the place. However, things took another dimension when youths of the community arrested the prophet for allegedly defiling some boys in the community and took him to the Igwe’s palace.

The accusation was further corroborated by two of his victims. On interrogation, the prophet allegedly confessed that he committed the offence adding he learnt the filthy act from an Onitsha-based popular musician. Sources told Sunday Sun reporter that he would have been lynched but for the timely intervention of the traditional ruler who handed him over to the police.

When contacted on telephone, the Police Area Commander, Nsukka, declined comment on the incident. Also, the Police Public Relations Officer in the State, Mr Ebere Amaraizu, told Sunday Sun reporter that he had not been officially briefed on the matter. However, sources stated that the prophet was granted bail, and has “temporarily” fled the community.