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The Saraki and Dogara Meeting In France By Bamidele Ademola Olateju The information filtered in immediately Dogara got to London. I was told he will be meeting with Atiku and they are up to no good. My laser was focused on Atiku and word got to me that he was in Dubai at the time. Sources in the Gulf States were contacted and they confirmed his stay. We kept tabs on him. He stayed in Dubai and did not leave. Dogara went to Dorchester Hotel to meet the Zamfara governor. While we were on Atiku watch, Saraki crept into Paris and he met with Dogara. I was alerted but it was too late to deploy. Dogara did not alert the embassy. They wanted their clandestine meeting under wraps but hey, we will always know. Here is the plan: Buhari must NOT have a second term An Atiku/Fayemi ticket An El-Rufai/Fashola ticket Destruction of Magu Attacks must begin on Obasanjo from their new and social media platforms Deliberate sabotage from within to make Buhari unelectable The batt...

PRESS RELEASE RE: BAN ON PUBLIC PROTEST PROCESSION · NO BAN ON PUBLIC PROTEST The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K Idris NPM, mni wishes to state categorically that at no time did Nigeria Police Force place a ban on peaceful public protest/ procession anywhere in Nigeria most particularly Federal Capital Territory. 2. Peaceful Public protest/ procession is an integral part of democratic norms in as much as it conforms with the rule of law and public order. 3. The Nigeria Police Force recognises the constitutional rights of every law abiding citizen to express his or her view through public protest/ procession and other legitimate means. 4. In order to ensure that public protest/procession is not hijacked by hoodlums and miscreants to unleash mayhem and disturbance of public peace, persons or group of persons undertaking public protest/procession should endeavour to notify the police to enable the police protect and process the public proces...

UN report says Nigeria is one of the poorest and most unequal countries in the world The United Nations, UN, has painted a gloomy picture of Nigeria in a recently released report, saying the country is one of the poorest and most unequal in the world. The report, Nigeria’s Common Country Analysis, CCA, read out during a consultative meeting of the UN Development Assistance Framework IV, UNDAF IV, for the South East in Akwa, the Anambra State capital, also said the country is deeply divided along ethnic, regional and religious lines. The report equally said the divisions have largely defined political existence in the country while development and social indices are said to be at unacceptable levels. Below is the report in part: “Nigeria, with a population of over 75 million, is the most populous nation in Africa and the seventh most populous in the world. Her population will be approximately 200 million by 2019 and over 400 million by 2050, becoming one of the top...

Remarks by President Obama and President Erdogan of Turkey After Bilateral Meeting at G20 Summit PRESIDENT OBAMA: This is the first opportunity that I’ve had to meet face to face with President Erdogan since the terrible attempted coup that took place in July. By taking to the streets to resist the coup attempt, the Turkish people once again affirmed their commitment to democracy, and the strength and resilience of the democratic institutions inside of Turkey. I indicated at the time the unequivocal condemnation of these actions, and spoke personally to President Erdogan to offer any support that we might be able to provide in both ending the attempted coup, but also in investigating and bringing the perpetrators of these illegal actions to justice. And I’ve assured him that our Justice Department and my national security team will continue to cooperate with Turkish authorities to determine how we can make sure that those who carried out these activities are brou...

Transcript @G20 Summit, China: Prime Minister Theresa May's press conference – 5 September 2016 It has been an opportunity to showcase Britain as a bold, outward-looking nation. We are the fifth largest economy in the world – the second fastest growing major economy in the world last year. We are ranked in the top 6 countries in the world as a place to do business. We have record employment. And the deficit has been cut by almost two-thirds since its peak in 2010. So we can be confident about the fundamental strengths of the UK economy and optimistic about the role we will forge for the UK – building on our strength as a great trading nation – in the future. And here in Hangzhou, I have had the chance to talk to other leaders about the role that the United Kingdom will play to advance free trade, to make sure the world’s economies work for everyone, and to confront the global challenges of terrorism and migration. Let me say a few words on each. Trade First...

Angolan president fires finance minister over economic slump José Eduardo dos Santos, president of Angola, has fired Armando Manuel, the country’s finance minister, following a slump in the country’s economic situation stemming from crashed crude oil prices. The sack, which was announced on Monday, come two months after the Angolan government pulled out of talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over emergency funding. A statement quoted by Reuters said Manuel, who was appointed in 2013 and whose term had been due to run to 2017, would be replaced by Archer Mangueira, capital markets commission head. Over the last two years, Manuel had presided over an economic slump caused by a sharp drop in oil prices that sapped dollar inflows, hammered the kwanza — the Angolan currency — and led heavy government borrowing. Like Angola, Nigeria has also been hit by the plunge in crude oil prices and a rapid depreciation of the local currency. The kwanza slid more...

Osun and Its Investment In Education, By Ademola Adesola ‘No nation goes bankrupt educating its people’ – Confucius. The epigraph to this piece by the Chinese philosopher, Confucius, speaks appositely to the significance of education in the development of a country. His view correctly implies that investment in education will always yield the highest dividends. If quality investment in education produces the highest dividends, it is incontestable that a country which invests hugely and consistently, and substantially, and not symbolically, in education cannot become bankrupt. In any case, human beings remain the surest agencies of development. If their capacities are purposefully enriched, meaningfully enhanced, and consistently improved, they will creatively initiate workable ideas and contribute considerably in driving the multifarious engines of sustainable socioeconomic development. Education, for any society which privileges and prioritises it, becomes the s...

Mark Zuckerberg, Nigeria’s Youth and the Politics of Things, By Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji This for me is a season of mixed feelings. For once, I think our public sector leaders and a few young Nigerians should swap roles, positions, offices and responsibilities for some months for the good measure of service, work ethic, effectiveness, vision and leadership. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, 32, worth over 40 billion dollars visited Lagos last week, walked on the streets of Yaba without any pomp and circumstance, knelt behind children to see how they were writing codes at Co-creation Hub and visited only businesses and ventures run by young people. The sterling efforts of our youth excited and attracted Mark to our country. He could sense the potentials of Nigeria’s tech sector, and didn’t just visit our country for a taste of Jollof rice and shrimps, but to explore and consolidate his ties and relationship with the next big thing within the world tech business s...

MY LETTER TO THE YOUTHS OUR LEADERS HAS DONE IT WELL   This is a great project our leaders has done irrespective of their Political Parties, Religion or Ethnic group, the have collectively achieve these great project. I don't know if that was what was handed over to them by the their predecessors in likes of Obafemi Awolowo, Murtala Mohammed, Aminu Kano, Nnamdi Azikwe, Tafawa Balewa, Adekunle Ajasin and many more of them but I know that is what they handing over to us.           I sat down and flash back to my University days when the zeal for politics started, I remembered how I, Ibinaiye Anthony Milar and other comrades in CDHR do sit down, talk and agree on a particular struggle which we will collectively execute but now diversity in opinion and interest has separated us from the same target.      I remembered how it was in NASS when Olupona Oluspecial Olugbode Ayomikun Emmanuel Fawale Olayinka Semileniola Fawilous Samuel Abiodun G...

Buhari orders arrest of food aid thieves Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered police to arrest government officials accused of stealing food aid intended for victims of Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria. Garba Shehu, President Buhari’s spokesman gave this indication on Thursday. “The president has asked the Inspector General of the police to catch some of these alleged thieves, to look out for them and make public examples of them,” Shehu, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone. The Nigerian Senate last week launched an investigation into allegations of food aid being stolen and sold by state officials in Borno state, where aid agencies have warned of starvation, malnutrition and dwindling food supplies for the displaced. Public outcry was sparked in April when photos posted on social media appeared to show food aid on sale in shops. The items had logos of aid agencies, leading many to believe they had been diverted by state officials in camps for...

Starvation: Nigeria’s Internally Displaced Persons As President Buhari’s Frankenstein Monster By Kayode Ogundamisi Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote is reported to have donated over 11 million USD to Nigeria’s internally displaced persons (IDPs). The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also donated 1 million dollars. International donors channel funds by donating millions of dollars to Nigerian agencies and government, in addition to the billions of naira officially budgeted by the Nigerian government and its agencies, yet we continue to receive photographs of malnourished IDPs, mostly children. Nigeria’s IDPs have not crossed a border to find safety. Unlike refugees, they are on the run at home. While they may have fled for similar reasons, IDPs stay within their own country and remain under the protection of its government, even if that government is the reason for their displacement. As a result, these people are among the most vulnerable in the world. The recen...