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file photo: Shekau Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has vowed that the group would defeat the regional coalition force fighting the terrorists in Nigeria’s northeast, Niger and Cameroon. “Your alliance will not achieve anything. Amass all your weapons and face us. We welcome you,” he said in a 28-minute speech on one of three videos released by the extremists on Sunday, according to Daily Trust. In the second of the latest videos, images of the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, are shown along with archive footage and a voiceover recalling a battle between British colonial soldiers…
Canada has advised the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to guarantee credible elections, even as it expressed concern over the postponement of the general elections. INEC had on Saturday shifted the general elections from Feb. 14 and 28 to March 28 and April 11 citing security advice by Nigeria’s military chiefs. In a statement issued on Monday by Deepak Obhrai, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and for International Human Rights he said “Canada is concerned that Nigeria’s general elections have been postponed”. “The people of Nigeria must be allowed to exercise their democratic right to choose their…
National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki has said “all known Boko Haram camps will be taken out” by the time of the rescheduled vote. “They won’t be there. They will be dismantled,” he told AFP in an interview when asked what gains could be made against the Islamists before the new polling date of March 28. Dasuki had made the call for election dates to be shifted, citing security issues. He got his wish at the weekend when the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the polls had been postponed by six weeks due to security concerns. Nigeria has previously set…
In a step widely applauded as exemplary, the warring Fulani and Mwaghavul communities in Mangu, Plateau, have reconciled their differences and contributed food items for victims of the recent violence in the state. The violence broke out between the two communities in January, leading to loss of lives as well as destruction of properties. Those displaced were being accommodated in Internally Displaced Persons camps. Disturbed by the development, the Plateau chapter of the National Orientation Agency initiated a meeting between the warring groups where they resolved their differences. The groups, after forgiving each other, went ahead to raise some funds…
The Nigerian Army on Sunday dealt a heavy blow on Boko Haram as scores of the insurgents were reportedly killed in an attempt to attack Damboa town, the headquarters of Damaboa Local Government of Borno State, local residents and a member of the Civilian JTF have said. Damboa is 87km south of Maiduguri, the state capital, one of the exit point out of the state capital that was once seized by the insurgents. A resident of the area, Aisami Bukar who escaped to Maiduguri, the Borno capital, disclosed that the insurgents, who came in large numbers at about 12:00 noon,…
Governor of Kogi State, Cpt. Idris Wada, has assured that the people of the state would not disappoint President Goodluck Jonathan in the forthcoming presidential election. Wada made the promise at the PDP West Senatorial District campaign in Kabba at the weekend. According to him, Kogi is home to the president, adding that the people will vote en masse for him and all other candidates of the PDP. Wada explained that the decision was informed by the enormous gesture shown to the state by the PDP-led Federal Government. “The Jonathan administration established a Federal University and completed the Lokoja- Abuja…
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] in Lagos State, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, on Monday called on his supporters to eschew violence ahead of the coming general election. Agbaje spoke at the PDP rallies in Mushin and Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Areas of the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the governorship candidates in the state, had earlier in the day, signed a pact for non-violence before, during and after the polls. Addressing supporters at the PDP rally in Mushin, Agbaje who spoke against the backdrop of the peace pact, said that no meaningful development could…
A former governor of Kwara State and Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, Senator Bukola Saraki, on Monday vowed that the National Assembly will look into the circumstances surrounding the postponement of general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). INEC had shifted the general elections, earlier slated for February 14 and 28 to March 28 and April 11, 2015 following submissions to it by the security chiefs that the military would not be able to guarantee security should the elections hold this month. In his reaction, the senator representing Kwara Central, in a statement issued in Abuja…
A group of Nigerian professionals, We Stand For Lagos, have endorsed the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode. The group, in a statement by its spokesperson, Mr. Jide Ayobolu on Sunday, said Ambode’s public service experience in Lagos makes him the best candidate to govern the state. According to the group, good governance had been crucial to making Lagos a mega city since 1999, adding that the APC-led government had “unleashed the creative and productive potential of the people”. It argued that there was no need to vote for another party because the…
The Rivers State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says it has uncovered clandestine moves by Governor Chibuike Amaechi to sneak out of the state when the All Progressives Congress, APC, loses the March 28 and April 11, 2015 general elections. This, the PDP argues, is an act of cowardice, because it proves that Amaechi is lacking the spirit of sportsmanship, which is the hallmark of a good leader and politician. In a statement signed by Jerry Needam, the Special Adviser on Media to the State party chairman, Felix Obuah, the Rivers PDP said Amaechi’s discomfort with the PDP governorship…
A pro-Jonathan group, the Niger Delta United for Jonathan, has apologised to President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party over the booing of the Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, by a crowd of party supporters during the presidential campaign rally of the PDP in the state last week. The group said the booing of Gov. Dickson by the people of the state was not meant to ridicule Mr. Jonathan, his wife – Patience and the party’s national executives. They described the development as a clear show of pent up frustration by the people of the state with the Dickson…
The ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said on Sunday that the postponement of the general elections did not give it any undue advantage. The presidency came under the hammer for allegedly instigating the nation’s security chiefs to ask for the postponement, following unfavorable reports that President Goodluck Jonathan, who is seeking reelection, was trailing behind the Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress. The PDP, however, said that while is supports the postponement based on reasons adduced by the electoral agency, INEC, it was not benefitting from the postponement. The INEC chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, had said on Saturday night…
The Ekiti State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has decried how the presidency allegedly planned and executed the June 21, 2014, governorship election fraud in Ekiti State in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, using the military. The APC said in what looked like a movie, Ayo Fayose won all the 16 local governments in the election, leaving tongues wagging on how a performing incumbent Governor Kayode Fayemi got none. In a statement by the state publicity secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, the party said it was vindicated by its claim that photochromic ballot papers were used to fix elections…
Plans by unscrupulous elements to smuggle arms into Jos, Plateau State, was scuttled on Monday when the trailer conveying the arms was intercepted by security officials. The spokesperson of the Special Taskforce on Jos crisis, STF, Captain Ikedichi Iweha, confirmed the development to journalists. Iweha said the taskforce was aware of the transit of the arms, insisting that the arms were illegal. According to PREMIUM TIMES, the arms were transported in a private trailer and was intercepted by a traffic police officer on duty. A witness stated that the driver of the vehicle transporting the arms refused to be searched…
One of the leaders of the Igbo community in Jos, Plateau State, Chief Samuel Achi, has advised members of the community not to panic over their safety during and after the 2015 general elections. He advised all Igbo residents in Plateau State to remain in their location and exercise their franchise and avoid the greater mistake of running away and putting their lives at risk on the roads. The Igbo leader, who addressed journalists in Jos on Sunday, said that the community had received adequate assurances from the police and other security agencies in the state to safeguard their lives…
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Kanye was all over his wife at the Grammys last night.Her outfit may not have been a hit but as usual he made her feel like the luckiest woman in the world. Beyonce and Jay Z were also allover each other after they won the Grammy for Best RnB song (Drunk in Love) . Bey and Kim finally posed together too.
Human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has described the postponement of 2015 general elections by six weeks as a coup against the constitution by the National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.) and the security chiefs. Accordingly, he called for the prosecution of the NSA and the service chiefs, saying “even though the NSA is a member of the National Security Council, he cannot usurp the constitutional responsibilities of the body with the connivance of the service chiefs”. In a statement he issued Sunday condemning the postponement of the polls, the Lagos lawyer alleged that since President Goodluck Jonathan…
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Sunday faulted the postponement of the general elections earlier scheduled for February 14 and 28, saying the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was ambushed and hoodwinked by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party-led federal government into postponing the polls. Fashola, who said this yesterday while fielding questions from journalists shortly after collecting his permanent voter card at Polling Unit, Ward G3 Unit E002, State Junior Grammar School, Itolo Street, Surulere, noted that the ruling party scored an own goal of failure by shifting the elections as a result of its inefficiency. He said, “I…