The perpetrator is said to be a 12-year-old girl.
This is happening barely three days after twin attacks there by suspected members of Boko Haram.
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Saturday, July 25, 2015
Photos: 14 dead in a suicide attack in Cameroon. Perpetrator said to be a 12yr old girl
14 dead and over 20 injured in a suicide attack in Maroua, northern Cameroon today Saturday July 25th.
The perpetrator is said to be a 12-year-old girl.
This is happening barely three days after twin attacks there by suspected members of Boko Haram.
The perpetrator is said to be a 12-year-old girl.
This is happening barely three days after twin attacks there by suspected members of Boko Haram.
Davido shares adorable photo of his dad with his daughter.
7 Easy Moves You can do to Tone and Tighten your Bum (Photos)
If you’re looking to tone and tighten your bum, I’ve found seven easy moves that’ll help you achieve that toned, firm bottom! Having a shapely bum isn’t just for those who were blessed with great genes; we can all attain praiseworthy #buns of steel!
Check out these simple ways to tone and tighten your bum and get ready to rock the hell out of your shorts and swimsuit !
1. KICKBACK SQUAT
Squats are usually the go-to exercise to tone and tighten your bum but the kickback squat is another great move that’ll tone #buns and thighs! Start by standing with your #legs shoulder-width apart. Next, sit back to a squat. Then, bring your left leg straight behind you while extending your #arms forward. Next, return to the squat position and repeat on the other side. Continue alternating sides for one minute. Remember to keep your #weight back on your heels and keep your hips square when you extend your leg behind you.
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2. STANDING LUNGES
I know lunges are a really effective way to tone your #butt and thighs but they are a killer! If you aren’t familiar with lunges, stand with feet shoulder width apart with your feet pointing straight ahead. Step your left foot forward, keeping your forward leg centered over your ankle and making sure your knee doesn’t go beyond your toes. To help you balance, remember to push off with your heels when you step forward. When coming back to the starting position, focus on straightening your knee and hip.
3. GLUTE KICKBACK
Another easy way to shape and tone your #butt is with the gluteus kickback. This #exercise is one of my favorites because there aren’t any lunges involved and it’s easy to do while watching TV! Get on your #hands and knees with your knees bent at 90 degrees. Keeping your head in a neutral position, lift your left leg back and up, making sure your knee is bent, until your foot is higher than your head. Squeeze your left glute and slowly lower your leg back to start position. Perform the same with your right leg and repeat.
4. PRONE LEG LIFTS OVER A BALL
Lie with your #stomach down on an exercise ball with your hands on the floor. Tighten your glute muscles and lift one of your #legs slightly off the floor while you keeping leg straight, then alternate sides. If you’re looking for more of a challenge, try lifting both legs up at the same #time, as long as you can do so without straining your back.
Lie with your #stomach down on an exercise ball with your hands on the floor. Tighten your glute muscles and lift one of your #legs slightly off the floor while you keeping leg straight, then alternate sides. If you’re looking for more of a challenge, try lifting both legs up at the same #time, as long as you can do so without straining your back.
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5. SQUATS
I mentioned squats earlier as the classic butt exercise so I would be amiss not to list it as an easy way to tone your #butt! Squats are another easy move that you can do just about anywhere and don’t require any equipment unless you want to add weights. Start with feet parallel and shoulder-width apart. Slowly lower your hips down, making sure not to let your knees go past your toes and return to the start position.
I mentioned squats earlier as the classic butt exercise so I would be amiss not to list it as an easy way to tone your #butt! Squats are another easy move that you can do just about anywhere and don’t require any equipment unless you want to add weights. Start with feet parallel and shoulder-width apart. Slowly lower your hips down, making sure not to let your knees go past your toes and return to the start position.
6. BRIDGE
The bridge is another easy #exercise to tighten your bottom but this isn’t one of those moves that you want to do outside your home! As #effective as it is, it can be a bit embarrassing to do in front of others! Lie on your back with feet on the floor and hip-width apart and knees bent. Slowly lift your spine off the floor from the bottom, tightening the glutes and hamstrings until you’ve created a line from your shoulders to your knees. Return to the floor slowly and repeat.
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7. SIDE LEG RAISE
Side leg raises are another great #exercise to do while you’re at home watching TV or a movie. Lie on your side on the floor or on the rear edge of a mat. Place your feet at the front edge of the mat and lift your upper leg and turn it out at the hip. Keep the hips stacked and your trunk still while you lift and lower your leg, reaching from the front of your thigh. Return to the start position and repeat on the other side.
Toning your bum doesn’t have to require a lot of equipment or tricky moves. We can easily get our bottoms in shape with these easy exercises you can do while you’re watching the TV or anytime you have some spare #time!
What’s your favorite way to shape your bottom?
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Reuben Abati: My Phones No Longer Ring Nonstop
As spokesman to President Goodluck Jonathan, my phones rang endlessly and became more than personal navigators within the social space. They defined my entire life; dusk to dawn, all year-round. The phones buzzed non-stop, my email was permanently active; my twitter account received tons of messages per second. The worst moments were those days when there was a Boko Haram attack virtually every Sunday.
The intrusion into my private life was total as my wife complained about her sleep being disrupted by phones that never seemed to stop ringing. Besides, whenever I was not checking or responding to the phones, I was busy online trying to find out if the APC had said something contrarian or some other fellow was up to any mischief.
A media manager in the 21st century is a slave of the Breaking News, a slave particularly of the 24-hour news cycle, and a potential nervous breakdown case. Debo Adesina, my colleague at The Guardian once said I was running a “one week, one trouble schedule”. There were actually moments when trouble knocked on the door every hour, and duty required my team and I to respond to as many issues that came up.
Top of the task list was the management of phone calls related to the principal. In my first week on the job, for example, one of my phones ran out of battery and I had taken the liberty to charge it. While it was still in the off mode, the “Control Room”: the all-powerful communications centre at the State House tried to reach me. They had only just that phone number, so I couldn’t be reached. When eventually they did, the fellow at the other end was livid.
“SA Media, where are you? We have been trying to reach you. Mr President wants to speak with you”
“Sorry, I was charging my phone. The phone was off.”
“Sir, you can’t switch off your phone now. Mr President must be able to reach you at any time. You must always be available.” I was like: “really? Which kin job be dis?”
The Control Room eventually collected all my phone numbers. If I did not pick up a call on time, they called my wife. Sometimes the calls came directly from the Residence, as we referred to the President’s official quarters.
“Abati, Oga dey call you!”
If I still could not be reached, every phone that was ever connected to me would ring non-stop. Busy bodies who had just picked up the information that Abati was needed also often took it upon themselves to track me down.
My wife soon got used to her being asked to produce me, or a car showing up to take me straight to the Residence. I eventually got used to it, and learnt to remain on duty round-the-clock. In due course, President Jonathan himself would call directly.
My wife used to joke that each time there was a call from him, even if I was sleeping, I would spring to my feet and without listening to what he had to say, I would start with a barrage of “Yes sirs”! Other calls that could not be joked with were calls from my own office. Something could come up that would require coverage, or there could be a breaking story, or it could be something as harmless as office gossip, except that in the corridors of power, nothing is ever harmless. Looking back now, I still can’t figure out how I survived that onslaught of the terror of the telephone.
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The intrusion into my private life was total as my wife complained about her sleep being disrupted by phones that never seemed to stop ringing. Besides, whenever I was not checking or responding to the phones, I was busy online trying to find out if the APC had said something contrarian or some other fellow was up to any mischief.
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Top of the task list was the management of phone calls related to the principal. In my first week on the job, for example, one of my phones ran out of battery and I had taken the liberty to charge it. While it was still in the off mode, the “Control Room”: the all-powerful communications centre at the State House tried to reach me. They had only just that phone number, so I couldn’t be reached. When eventually they did, the fellow at the other end was livid.
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“Sorry, I was charging my phone. The phone was off.”
“Sir, you can’t switch off your phone now. Mr President must be able to reach you at any time. You must always be available.” I was like: “really? Which kin job be dis?”
The Control Room eventually collected all my phone numbers. If I did not pick up a call on time, they called my wife. Sometimes the calls came directly from the Residence, as we referred to the President’s official quarters.
“Abati, Oga dey call you!”
If I still could not be reached, every phone that was ever connected to me would ring non-stop. Busy bodies who had just picked up the information that Abati was needed also often took it upon themselves to track me down.
My wife soon got used to her being asked to produce me, or a car showing up to take me straight to the Residence. I eventually got used to it, and learnt to remain on duty round-the-clock. In due course, President Jonathan himself would call directly.
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My wife used to joke that each time there was a call from him, even if I was sleeping, I would spring to my feet and without listening to what he had to say, I would start with a barrage of “Yes sirs”! Other calls that could not be joked with were calls from my own office. Something could come up that would require coverage, or there could be a breaking story, or it could be something as harmless as office gossip, except that in the corridors of power, nothing is ever harmless. Looking back now, I still can’t figure out how I survived that onslaught of the terror of the telephone.
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Kidnappers put Calabar on edge!
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On Saturday, June 13, Seyi Adekunle, Pastor of Living Faith Church, aka Winners’ Chapel, was praying with some of his members at his church, located opposite Margaret Ekpo International Airport, Calabar, to prepare for the next day’s service when gun men stormed the place and dragged him into their vehicle and drove off.
While one of the gunmen, who identified Seyi, was masked, others wore no mask. It was 48 hours after the pastor was whisked away that his abductors contacted the church through his phone to demand for N80 million ransom. After negotiations lasting three days, some money exchanged hands and he was set free six days after the kidnapping.
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The kidnapping for ransom is not the first in Calabar. But the sore point is that the police and other security agencies have not been able to find solution to the menace. Increasingly, the serene Cross River State capital.
The cases of kidnapping alongside other criminal activities are making residents to question if this is still the Calabar they used to know for its quiet and calm atmosphere.
Between February and July 2015, there have been over 15 reported kidnap cases in the state with majority of them taking place in Calabar. Interestingly, none of the kidnap cases has ended tragically with the death of the victim except that of Pastor Ubi, an Assemblies of God cleric, who was kidnapped in Usumutong and beheaded allegedly, over land squabble between Usumutong and their Bahomono kinsmen, Ediba.
Basically, the motivation for the kidnapping is for ransom and, once the purpose is achieved,the victim is released and the plan to abduct another victim is hatched. What the police have not been able to establish is if the kidnappers are operating as one or separate teams.
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The first notable kidnap case was inFebruary when Obong Udeh, the owner of Udensco petrol station located along Eta Agba Road was abducted and taken toan unknown destination and the family made to cough out millions of Naira before he regained his freedom. A source close to the man told Sunday Vanguard that, after leaving his office onthe evening of February 7, Udeh was driving to his residence at Eta Agbo Layout when he noticed through his rear mirror that a vehicle was giving him close marking. “When he saw that the car behind him was too close for comfort, he suspected that something was wrong. By the time he got to his residence gates, he stopped his Prado SUV and decided to run to the next house but he did not go far before the men got hold of him and forced him into the booth of their car and drove off”, the source said.
Another oil merchant, Chief Agbor, was also abducted at Ikotenim, Calabar, with ransom paid before he was set free.
In March, at the peak of the 2015 electoral campaigns, the Labour Party’s House of Representatives candidate, Chief Dominic Aqua Edem, was abducted in his Essien Street home in Calabar South and ferried into the creeks and kept for one week. He was released only after his campaign funds had been depleted by taking a huge ransom.
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Next, some hoodlums stormed the famous Watt Market and abducted Obong Obio, a popular trader, and kept him in the creeks until they got ransom from his family before he was set free.
In May, some kidnappers went up north to the dusty city of Obudu where a businessman and proprietor of Sunday and Andoya Aluminum Company, Mr. Sunday Anagwe, was abducted.
The man was kidnapped at about 12 am on May 12, at his residence located behind Government Primary School, Udigie, along Ranch Road, Obudu. and whisked away to an unknown place. His abductors initially demanded N10 million from his wife, but after negotiation, got N1.5 million before he was allowed to go home
It was the turn of Pastor Seyi Adekunle to be kidnapped in June. This month (July), there have been two abductions in the state, one in Obudu; the other in Calabar. In the Obudu incident, some hoodlums, penultimate Tuesday, at about 2am, seized Mr. Godwin Anyating, the Chief Librarian of the Federal College of Education, Obudu. He was not freed until five days later after his wife, Felicia, also a lecturer in the school had coughed out one million Naira.
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The latest is the kidnapping of a six year old boy, Monday, Master Eyo Antigha , son of Michael Anatigha , proprietor of Faith Nursery and Primary School, Anantigha who was abducted as he alighted from the vehicle that took him to school that morning. A young man who had been idling around the school entrance grabbed him as soon as he came down from the car and raced towards the creeks and a speed boat emerged and took the boy and his captor and sped away.
The spate of kidnapping led the Nigerian Air Force to bombard the creeks hide out of the kidnappers. NAF plane, M 24 gunship, for two days bombed the creeks along Cross River and Akwa Ibom waterways, targetting sea criminals and kidnappers.
Air Commodore Charles Ohwo, Commander, 207 Mobility Group, Calabar, told Sunday Vanguard that the bombardment was in response to the increasing wave of criminal activities in Cross River and Akwa Ibom States where the criminals are using difficult to access areas as hide outs and operational base.
He said several kidnappings and criminal activities had taken place in Cross River State in recent past including the attack on the Marine Police Station at the Inyang Edem Beach penultimate Sunday night. “The increasing wave of crime along the Cross River and Akwa Ibom waterways prompted the NAF authorities to deploy M24 gunship to bombard the creeks to rid the area of these hoodlums”, he added.
Governor Ben Ayade, also worried by the high rate of kidnapping, has sent a Bill to Cross River State House of Assembly to seek death penalty for convicted kidnappers and the state to confiscate their property.
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Reps raise alarm over EFCC’s invitation of Saraki’s wife
Ahead of the expected appearance of the Wife of the Senate President, Mrs. Toyin Saraki, before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday 28, members of the House of Representatives have kicked against the invitation by the anti-graft body.
The group in a statement in Abuja signed by Hon. Umar Buba Jibril, representing Lokoja/Kogi (KK) Federal Constituency and Hon. Muhammad Kabiru Ajanah, representing Okehi/Adavi Federal Constituency, on behalf of 25 other lawmakers in the green chamber, described the sudden invitation of Mrs. Saraki by the anti-graft agency as highly suspicious.
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The group said while it will continue to encourage the EFCC to carry out its legal mandate, it was optimistic that the highly professional anti-graft body, “will not lend itself as a tool to propagate the political agenda of any person or group.”
It added that it holds strongly that the days of using the EFCC to harass and intimidate political opponents are gone for good, and warned that “We must never return to that dark and dangerous side in our polity.”
The group said it was concerned that the leadership of the National Assembly is being targeted for unnecessary harassment using state institutions.
The statement titled: “Curious EFCC invitation of Barr. Toyin Saraki” read: “We the concerned Members of the House of Representatives have followed the recent trend of political intrigues since the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki as the Senate President.
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“We are acutely aware that certain power blocks are determined to use any means to mount pressure on the Senate President. It is in light of this that we view the recent sudden invitation of the wife of the Senate President, Barrister Toyin Saraki, by the EFCC with a high degree of suspicion.
“We observe that Senator Bukola Saraki was in office as Governor of Kwara State for eight years from 2003 – 2011. He left that office over four years ago. In this period of 12 years, not once has any mention been made of his wife as being involved in anything untoward. It is therefore very curious timing that this “invitation” by EFCC is suddenly raised.
“We will continue to encourage the EFCC to carry out its legal duties. Indeed we commend the recent improvement in the Commission’s performance. However, we hope and trust that the EFCC, being a highly professional organization, will not lend itself as a tool to propagate the political agenda of any person or group.
“We believe that the era of using EFCC to harass political office holders ended with the last Administration. We must never return to that dark and dangerous side in our polity. The nation wants a genuine war against corruption. At a time when the President has identified places like the NNPC as a significant source of corruption, to ignore that and try and rake up mud against the wife of a public officer would be most unfortunate.
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“We are concerned as members of the Legislature that the leadership of the National Assembly is not subjected to unnecessary harassment using state apparatus as an unwitting tool. We will continue to closely monitor this situation. The Nigerian public are also watching”, the group stated.
Signed:
Hon. Umar Buba Jibril, Lokoja/Kogi Federal Constituency
Hon. Muhammad Kabiru Ajanah, Okehi/Adavi Federal Constituency
Hon. Umar Buba Jibril, Lokoja/Kogi Federal Constituency
Hon. Muhammad Kabiru Ajanah, Okehi/Adavi Federal Constituency
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South-West forum tells Clark to keep his selfish advice from Buhari
A group, the South-West Consultative Forum, has called on the Ijaw National Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, to stop what it described as his ill-informed and selfish advice for President Muhammadu Buhari.
This was as members of the group described Clark’s call on President Buhari to urgently appoint a chairman for the Presidential Amnesty Programme as “laughable, senseless and irresponsible from a former minister”.
In a statement issued yesterday in Lagos by its president, Mr. Osinowo Ibrahim, the forum requested the former Federal Commissioner for Information to shelve his advice for Buhari, alleging that “it was his bad advice that misled former President Goodluck Jonathan while in office”.
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According to the statement, “This is to remind Chief Edwin Clark that the way he misled former President Goodluck Jonathan and the former Governor of Delta State, Mr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, with selfish advice on governance will not be tolerated this time around”.
Ibrahim went on to claim that if not for Clark’s bad advice, which caused bad blood between Jonathan and his political benefactor, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the relationship between the two leaders would have remained cordial till today.
The forum accused Clark and a former Niger Delta militant leader, Alhaji Asari Dokubo, of making some treasonable statements by threatening to mobilise the Niger Delta youths against the government in case Buhari refuses to take care of the interest of the South-South people in his government.
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Buhari deserves opposition parties’ support – Dickson
The Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Seriake Dickson, has called on all opposition parties to support President Muhammadu Buhari.
Dickson is a member of the then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party, while the President belongs to the governing party, the All Progressives Congress.
On his part, he said he would continue to work for security, unity and progress of the country regardless of the fact that President Buhari is a member of the APC.
The governor said this in Abuja on Saturday while receiving some Ijaw community leaders who paid him a solidarity visit and endorsed his second term ambition.
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He said supporting Buhari was important to move the nation forward no matter what political party that produces the leadership at the federal level.
He told him visitors, “I enjoined you to work with constituted authority because our country must be safe. We are determined to support the federal system because we must be sure that our country is safe.
“Political parties aside, we must all work for security of Nigeria; work for security in Bayelsa and work for security in the Niger Delta.
“President Buhari deserves our support and we have to rally round him to succeed without the issue of which political party produced him.
“We can’t afford to fail because the future of our children and those coming behind them is tied to the success of the government now.”
Referring to the solidarity visit, Dickson said he was impressed by what he described as the “well executed ambush” that only the Ijaw people could deliver.
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Fire service men rescue man ,40, from death by s*x enhancer
The men of the Lagos State Fire Service said on Saturday that they rescued a 40-year-old man from death after he used a s*x perfomance enhancer that enlarged his p*nis beyond expectation.
The Director, Mr rasak Fadipe, who made the disclosure in Lagos, said the man wore a metal ring on his penis.
The ring, according to him, was to enhance erection and ultimately enhance s*xual satisfaction but turned out to swell the organ beyond his expectation.
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“His experience turned sour when the p*nis became so erect and swollen beyond his expectation and could not come down and the ring could not be removed.
“When it became apparent that the condition was threatening his life, he rushed to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja for help.
“The hospital invited the service to rescue the man, when they could not easily remove the ring.
“We successfully removed the metal ring in collaboration with the hospital staff at the emergency unit using our rescue tools,’’ he said.
“The incident happened at about 3.15 p.m. on Friday and it took us about 50 minutes for the operation.
“The man wore the ring to enhance his p*nis for s*xual satisfaction, but it turned out to be a threat to his life,’’ Fadipe said. (NAN)
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Buhari to split NNPC into two; merge ICPC, EFCC
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| Muhammadu Buhari |
President Muhammadu Buhari has said his administration will be splitting the national oil company, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, into two successor entities.
The President, stated this in an interview with journalists in Washington DC during his recently concluded four-day visit to the United States, Saturday Punch reports.
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The President explained that the decision would form one of the key steps of his reform of the country’s oil and gas sector.
There had been insinuations that Buhari would unbundle the NNPC into four companies but the President, in the Washington interview, said rather than breaking the NNPC into four companies, it would be divided into two – regulator and investment vehicle.
While one of the successor companies will be an independent regulator, the President said the second would operate as an investment vehicle for the country.
He said: “I am reforming the oil and gas sector, breaking up the NNPC into two parts – the first will become an independent regulator for the sector, while the second will act as an investment vehicle for the country.”
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Buhari also hinted that there would be a new bid round for oil blocks in the country, adding that he favours transparent auction process.
“I will also end political control of the awarding of drilling and exploration rights by introducing a system of independent, transparent auctioning for licences,” the President said.
President Buhari, also disclosed that he would be merging the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission into one strong and more effective anti-graft agency.
He said: “Corruption is one of the top three issues facing Nigeria, along with insecurity and unemployment. We must act to kill corruption or corruption will kill Nigeria. I am determined to lead that fight. My government is already taking several steps to cut out the cancer of corruption that has been eating away at the state for so long.
“We are reorganising the existing plethora of anti-corruption bodies into single powerful agency that will have the focus, power and budget to clamp down on corruption at the federal and state levels.”
On the award of contracts, the President said ministers would no longer have power to award contracts while announcing the introduction of a new system of plea bargaining to encourage looters of the government money and oil thieves to return the people’s stolen commonwealth.
He said:“I have already acted to remove political control over awarding of contracts away from ministers who use them to get political favours and kickbacks.
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“I will introduce a new system of plea bargain, that will allow those who have stolen assets and funds to return them – but if they do not take that opportunity we will pursue them through the courts.”
He insisted that his administration would not relent in asking foreign countries, including the US, to help in returning stolen funds that are sitting in private accounts abroad, but rightfully belonging to the people of Nigeria, lamenting that the country had become over-dependent on oil because of the incompetence and corruption of government that concentrated on “how best to steal oil revenues instead of how best to use our oil windfalls to invest in a modern, growing economy.”
“I will not be satisfied until the label ‘Made in Nigeria’ is as common globally, as the label ‘Made in China,’” he added.
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Policeman kills cab driver, female passenger
A trigger happy police corporal attached to Yankaba Division, Kano Saturday shot to death an unidentified Cab driver conveying sick female passenger to the hospital who also died in the encounter.
An eyewitness, Isa Tanko told Vanguard that the incident occured around 9.30am between Hadejia Road roundabout and Haye quarters of Nassarawa local government area.
Tanko said that “the cab driver was flagged down at security check point by officers of the Nigerian Police force and within two minutes I heard two gunshot that send shivers to the spines of bystanders and onlookers “.
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The eyewitness also stated that “we rushed to the scene and found a driver in the pool of his own blood, and a woman gasping for air as she gave up the ghost before help could come her way”
Effort to confirm the veracity of the incident from the Police Image Maker, ASP Magaji Musa Majia proved abortive as he failed to respond to his calls.
Details shortly
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Why I allowed Abacha arrest me - Obasanjo
Former President Obasanjo has disclosed reasons why he allowed former head of state, Sani Abacha to arrest him in March 1995 for allegedly conspiring abroad against the Abacha regime, despite many opportunities to escape and accept an offer of political asylum by the US.
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Leadership reports
Obasanjo was among the opposition lights that were against the regime of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, who ordered their arrest, trials and sentences but spared their lives due to international pressure. Abacha was the most senior military officer in the illegal contraption called Interim National Government led by Chief Ernest Shonekan after the military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, was forced to resign over the historic annulment of the June 12 June, 1993 election won by Moshood Abiola, who later died in the military gulag.
In his newest controversial memoir, ‘My Watch’, he narrated his opposition to the Abacha regime which led him to the formation of National Unity Organisation which he intended to use to force Abacha to quit power.
According to his narrative, Obasanjo had been meeting with some leading politicians and non-politicians in every part of the country on the need to free the country from the jackboot of Abacha whom he said, “was so much below average as an officer that no serious attention was paid to him until he was made to announce the coup.
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“I was not in doubt that Abacha would attempt to silence me. This was clear from his apparent ambition for life presidency of Nigeria in insatiable appetite for corruption; his looting directly from the Central Bank; his need to silence everyone that could oppose him in any form; his actions towards my close friends and associates and his close surveillance of me by his security both within and outside Nigeria.”Obasanjo recalled how during his visit to Kenya for the funeral of the father of the opposition leader, Raila Odinga, where the Nigerian Embassy officials wrote a report indicting him, stating that “since Odinga was in opposition to the government of Kenya when he died, I had gone to Kenya to create problems for the Kenyan government by supporting the opposition, and the Nigerian government should restrain me from causing great problems between Nigeria and Kenya.”
Narrating further, Obasanjo said,
“Rumours about Abacha taking action against me started to spread and ring louder and louder. I had no fear because I had done nothing to cause me fear or anxiety. I was about my life and my business unperturbed.”Source: Leadership
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Nigerian Woman Shows Off Giant Cassava Tuber She Harvested From Her Farm (Photo)
A woman from Orlu, Imo State showed off a giant Cassava tuber she harvested from her farmland, NairaNaijaNews reports. See photo below.
