PDP: Jalo Denies Bickering with Metuh

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 The Deputy Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abdullahi Jalo, has denied the insinuations that there is a rift between his office and that of the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Olisa Metuh.

Jalo, who made the denial in a brief chat with journalists in Lagos, said the insinuation was only fuelled by media misrepresentation, adding that he and Metuh had a very cordial working relationship.

According to Jalo, the media misrepresentation was an attempt by some elements to cause unnecessary bickering between him and Metuh.

“Some concerned members of our great party, the PDP have drawn my attention to an erroneous publication in which some media houses are trying to bring unnecessary bickering between the office of the national publicity secretary of the party and my office as the deputy publicity secretary; where there is none.

“It is true that Metuh had issued a statement last Saturday congratulating the new Emir of Kano before the official declaration by the Kano State Government which was later corrected.

“At that material time, I was in Lagos to attend the inauguration of Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) by Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC).”

Similarly, Jalo has called on the newly-appointed Political Adviser to the President Goodluck Jonathan, Professor Rufai Alkali, to expatiate on his claim in an interview he granted recently to a national daily wherein he alleged that if some people are not carried along in Gombe State, PDP could lose out in the 2015 general election in the state.

According to him, “Another issue of importance is the statement credited to the newly appointed political adviser to the president, Alkali, on the June 1, 2014 edition of the Daily Trust Newspaper, where he granted an interview that if Gombe State government does not carrysome people within the party along, there is the  likelihood of the opposition party to taking the advantage over PDP in the coming election 2015.

“There is need for the professor to expand his statement for the benefit of PDP in the state and Nigeria in general. Now that the transformation agenda of President Jonathan has been manifesting in Nigerian Railway Corporation and other sectors, Nigerians should support PDP in 2015 and beyond for more dividend of democracy.”

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Police Kill Six Suspected Kidnappers in Gun Duel

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Six suspected kidnappers at the   weekend met their waterloo as they were shot dead during a gun duel between them and policemen along Igbanke-Evwohimi road, in Esan South-east Local Government Council of Edo State.

Displaying the bodies of the suspects before newsmen at the state police command, the Police Commissioner, Folunso Adebanjo, said the incident happened when operatives of the command went to the kidnappers den with four suspects following the kidnap of a woman who was kept in a forest around the Igbanke-Ewohinmi road.

“On getting to one of their hideouts, immediately our operatives disembarked with the suspects from the van, the kidnappers opened fire on our men. The police engaged the gang in a gun battle and two of the kidnappers were shot dead. Simultaneously, the other four suspects who took to their heels were fatally injured in the cross fire.

“One pump-action shotgun with four rounds of live cartridges was recovered from the assailants." Our men chased those who fled into the nearby bush with bullet wounds. We also embarked on a search around the scene and huge sum of foreign currencies and arms were recovered,” he stated.

The CP added that “the injured suspects during the shootout were rushed to Stella Obasanjo Hospital for treatment but were certified dead by the medical doctor in the emergency ward. Our men are still combing the bushes for those who escaped with bullet wounds.”

Some of the items recovered at the kidnappers den include a Mercedes Benz C-Class car with registration Number AGL 133 CX, eight thousand, two hundred dollars, twenty thousand Francs CFA, Five Dirham’s United Arab Emirate Currency, N8,500, twelve sim cards, four cut to size single barrel shotguns, seventy two live cartridges and one locally made Revolver.

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Islamic Scholar Wants Delegates to Focus More on Peace

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An Islamic scholar, Dr. Abdulkadir Oba Solagberu, at the weekend urged the committee on religion in the ongoing National Conference to dwell more on factors capable of restoring peace, unity and harmony among religious adherents in the country.

Solagberu, who is also the founder of Darul-Kitab Wa Sunnah College of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Ilorin, disclosed this in Ilorin over the weekend while speaking with journalists.

According to him, "The gesture would go a long way of assisting the nation to witness a new dawn in fostering peace among all the stakeholders in the country. "People must accommodate and tolerate one another irrespective of religious, cultural or political affinities. He noted that the terrorism challenge confronting Nigeria was borne out of lack of respect for one another in the neighbourhood, which further more to the larger society giving birth to all sorts of social menace such as abduction, armed robbery, assassination, bad governance, among others.
"It is our hope that the outcome of the ongoing constitutional conference will shed more light to the channels to follow towards getting things right in the nation," he added.

Solagberu however stated further that research had revealed that lack of social, ethical and moral values had contributed to the deterioration of social justice and denial of fundamental human right of the citizenry.

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Ohene Ntow, What Is So Democratic About Alan’s Resignation?

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It is rather laughable to hear Nana Ohene Ntow, the former New Patriotic Party (NPP) General-Secretary, decry the legitimate stance of party members hell-bent on having Nana Akufo-Addo stand unopposed for the third consecutive time as the NPP's Presidential Candidate for Election 2016 (See "Alan Unperturbed by Renewed Support for Nana Addo – Ohene Ntow" Citifmonline.com 5/28/14).

According to Nana Ohene Ntow, such calls are flagrantly undemocratic and virulently antithetical to the political culture and tradition of the New Patriotic Party. The Kyerematen aide is perfectly right; except that his favorite horse in the lead-up to the Election 2016 NPP Presidential Primary is not laudably known to play by the democratic rules and the established political culture of the party of Danquah, Dombo and Busia. Alan Cash's most salient trait has been to selfishly walk away from the party with his hands in his pockets on every one of the two occasions that he unsuccessfully challenged Nana Akufo-Addo for the flagbearership of the party.

And recently, having grimly, albeit reluctantly, come to terms with the fact of having effectively burned his proverbial bridges, in terms of his confidence and trustworthiness among staunch members and supporters of the NPP, Alan Cash, as Mr. Kyerematen is popularly known, has resorted to making quixotic claims about being firmly in control of "floating" or "swing" voters. The fact of the matter, and Nana Ohene Ntow may not like to hear this, is indisputably that Alan John Kwadwo "Quitman" Kyerematen has always been a "floating Voter" himself.

In 2008, rather than constructively and wisely collaborate with the man who convincingly defeated him for the NPP flagbearership, Mr. Cash chose the most psychologically and emotionally immature and selfish way out by summarily resigning his party membership with barely four months to the general election. He would also spend most of the 2012 electioneering season trying to get as far away from party members and supporters as possible, by selfishly concentrating his energies and resources on his fruitless contest for the job of CEO of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

It is this crassly gross opportunism on the part of Mr. Kyerematen that clearly informed the decision of the membership of the Greater-Accra Regional Youth Wing of the New Patriotic Party to resoundingly endorse the candidacy of Nana Akufo-Addo, as well as vehemently call for the former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice to run unpposed as the 2016 Presidential Candidate of the NPP.

What is also annoying is the mischievous thinking, and mindset, of Mr. Kufuor's Trade Minister that, somehow, he has every democratic right to walk away for the greater good and interests of the party at whim, without having to pay, in any way whatsoever, for the negative and far-reaching impact of his gross misbehavior.

Indeed, if Nana Ohene Ntow half-appreciated the imperative need for team playing, against all odds, he would not be shilling for Alan Cash, unarguably the most divisive front-bench member of the New Patriotic Party. The again, why make an issue of the massive and cross-sectional support of Nana Akufo-Addo by core party members and delegates, if, indeed, Mr. Kyerematen couldn't care less about the same, Nana Ohene Ntow?

*Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
Department of English
Nassau Community College of SUNY
Garden City, New York
Board Member, The Nassau Review
E-mail: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net
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Two timed bombs’ found in Church

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The Commissioner of Police in Imo, Mr. Abdulmajid Ali, said on Sunday in Owerri, that six persons had been arrested in connection with two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted at the Living Faith Church (a.k.a. Winners’Chapel).

Ali, who spoke to newsmen at the church premises along Port Harcourt Road Owerri, said the `two timed bombs’ were planted at the church premises by unknown persons.

According to him, the command was alerted about the strange objects in the church compound.

“We were alerted that some devices were seen in the church and immediately we deployed our anti-bomb squad.

“We are happy that the squad immediately detonated the bomb on arrival and six persons have been arrested so far,” he said.

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Akunyili For Burial August 28, Family Welcomes Tributes

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Former Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. (Mrs.) Dora Nkem Akunyili, OFR, will be buried on August 28, 2014, the family has announced.

“Details about the funeral arrangements will be made available to the public in due course,” Prof. Akunyili’s husband, Dr. Chike Akunyili, said in a statement issued today in Awka, Anambra State.

Dr. Akunyili thanked Nigerians for the great love they extended to Dora both in life and at death. He also expressed his family’s appreciation to President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan for the special valedictory session of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) held in honour of Dora.

Dr. Akunyili advised anyone who has a tribute or testimonial in honour of Dora to send it by e-mail to amazon4life@doraakunyilionline.org, amazon4laif@yahoo.com, or amazon4laif@gmail.com. He advised people who wish to make enquiries regarding Dora’s funeral to call any of the following numbers: 08181333222, 08103198444, or 08098020976.

It would be recalled that Prof. (Mrs.) Akunyili, a former Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), died last Saturday, June 7, after a two-year battle with cancer.

Prof. (Mrs.) Akunyili, who was a delegate to the on-going National Conference in Abuja, would have turned 60 on July 14, 2014.

Signed:
Dr. Chike Akunyili (Husband)
Awka, Sunday, June 15, 2014.

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Nigeria: UNILAG produces Africa’s youngest PhD holder

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Olwadamilola had the best PhD thesis, titled: “Studies on Fixed Points of Contractive and Expanding Maps in Multi-Dimensional Spaces”. He scored 5.0 Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) as Bakre Oluwafemi Abubakar, a graduate of Electrical/Electronics, emerged the 2012/2013 Convocation Valedictorian — he graduated with a superlative CGPA of 4.86.

Oluwadamilola’s parents are missionaries with the Deeper Christian Life Ministry.

They gave birth to him while on missionary work in African Central Republic, a French-speaking country, where Oluwadamilola had his basic and tertiary education.

He got a B.SC in Mathematics and M.SC and Physics before returning to Nigeria in October, 2009.

According to Oluwadamilola, he began his PhD in 2010, courtesy of a scholarship from the General Overseer of the Deeper Christian Life Mission, Pastor Williams Kumuyi. He spent the minimum three years for a PhD scholar in school.

Speaking with reporters at UNILAG Auditorium One, Oluwadamilola said: “I used to come first in my secondary school days, but not always. My performances became better when I entered the university.”

On his challenges during the programme, he said: “As a Christian, my schedule is very tight. I am focused. There were times when I faced distractions from friends who wanted to take me out. There is nothing bad in it, but it can make you concentrate less. There were times when I had job offers and was tempted to take them.

“I was discouraged at the beginning. One gets a feeling at the beginning of one’s doctorate programme that all the research topics had been considered by previous scholars and so there is nothing else to do, except for the most complicated ones that are most times beyond one’s ability. “Sometimes when you send your papers to international journals, they return it for one reason or the other. That does not mean your work is not good enough, but it can be very discouraging.”

On his next plan, he said: “I want to take another doctoral programme, which will be in either Mathematics or Physics. I will think of what topic to choose before I eventually go ahead.”

Abubakar, the valedictorian, described himself as someone from a privileged home.

Born of banker parents, he said it was not too difficult for him to study Electrical/Electronics, adding: “I will not describe myself as a bookworm, as I try to normalise everything I do. I am not a party freak, but once in a while, I attend social functions with my friends. I am privileged to have been born into a comfortable home. I must confess that I am a product of good advice. I chose the kind of friends I knew would influence me positively and you will always find me in their company.”

Executive-Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC) Prof. Julius Okojie, who represented President Goodluck Jonathan, urged the university’s management to be more creative in boosting its Internally-Generated Revenue (IGR).

Okojie, who also commended UNILAG for the prudent use of funds, underscored the need for universities to seek help from the alumni.

The week-long convocation wrapped up yesterday with the inauguration of three projects – the Central Laboratory donated by an alumnus and the General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire & Miracles Ministry, Dr. Daniel Olukoya; the Biodun Shobanjo Mass Communication Multimedia Centre of Excellence, courtesy of the Chairman of the Troyka Group, Chief Biodun Shobanjo; and the Alumni Jubilee House built by the UNILAG Alumni Association in collaboration with Guarantee Trust Bank.

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Abia Govt Denies Involvement in Ihejirika’s Alleged Governorship Ambition

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The Abia State government has described the report written by one Willy Eya of The Sun newspaper linking the Abia First Family to the purported governorship ambition of the former Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Ihejirika (retd.), as deceitful and malicious.
A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Charles Ajunwa, said that the actual intention of the reporter of the said story is to paint the hardworking Abia First Family in bad light.  
According to him, the claim by the reporter that Ihejirika had the support of the Abia State governor, his wife and son to actualize his alleged governorship ambition “is not only laughable but a comic relief to justify and satisfy his paymasters.”
Continuing he said: “Mr. Willy Eya showed how connected he is narrating what happened in faraway United States where in Dr. Okey Nwadiuko’s house, former Chief of Staff assured his kinsmen and more that he will contest.
“Conversely he claimed that the governor, his wife and son have thrown their weight behind Ihejirika with full financial sponsorship without telling us where this happened.
“This delirious speculations, even assured financial sponsorship yet he passed it off as authentic information. Though we are not surprised of such coming from The Sun newspaper, it’s a joke taken too far.
His Excellency Chief T.A.Orji is proffering solutions to the problems of the state and cannot afford such mischievous distractions. Enough is enough.”

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Jonathan Descending towards Fascist Rule —APC *Condemns media crackdown, grounding of Rivers aircraft

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has castigated President Goodluck Jonathan for his brazen abridgement of the rights of Nigeria citizens, accusing him of fast descending towards fascist rule. The party particularly berated the Jonathan administration for the on-going crackdown on some of the country’s leading newspapers and the grounding of the Rivers State Government Bombardier BD 700 Global Express Jet.
The party said in a statement issued by its State Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya in Port Harcourt on Tuesday: “We have observed with sheer horror the determination of President Goodluck Jonathan to trample on the fundamental rights of Nigerians as it suits his whims and caprices. We strongly condemn this tendency which, if not checked, is capable of truncating the country’s nascent democracy.

“Since Friday last week, June 6, soldiers and other security personnel have waged a senseless war against the supposedly critical press, laying ambush for vendors and distribution vans, impounding vans and newspaper copies and beating up vendors and drivers of newspaper houses. Instructively, this unparalleled censorship gamble, the type of which was not witnessed even during the infamous Abacha days, started less than 24 hours after President Jonathan, through Information Minister Labaran Maku, publicly complained that the newspapers were giving Boko Haram undue publicity. We, therefore, do not need to look far to know the source of the directive to muzzle the Nigerian press.”

Rivers APC equally condemned “the shameful incident in Kano, in which the aviation authorities, acting at the behest of the Presidency, impounded the Rivers State Government-owned aircraft for no good reason, thus forcing Governor Chibuike Amaechi and his delegation to make the long journey back to Port Harcourt by road.”

“This is the same aircraft which was recently released after being grounded for a year on flimsy excuses. It was suddenly grounded again on Sunday, June 8, just to humiliate Governor Amaechi and the people of Rivers State on the mere suspicion that Amaechi was behind the emergence of the Presidency’s nightmare, former CBN Governor Lamido Sanusi Lamido, as the new Emir of Kano. Is Governor Amaechi a member of Kano Emirate Council? This is just mere looking for flimsy excuses to let Nigerians know how undemocratic he can be!” the party said.

Rivers APC described the action of the Federal Government as a descent into the lowest depths of decency. “We tend to agree with one perceptive analyst who rightly pointed out that what Jonathan is manifesting are the symptoms of a dying regime,” the party said. “From wrestling with newspapers on the streets to sponsoring police violence and attack in Ekiti, further down to childishly grounding aircrafts, the signs are that embattled President Jonathan is exasperated and frustrated with signs of impending electoral doom flashing. It promises to get worse with the approaching days. The man is foretold tragedy personified.”

Rivers APC appealed to Nigerians to completely reject President Jonathan and his deceptive PDP at the polls in 2015 as the country cannot afford four more years of disastrous rule under Jonathan and the PDP, as that would simply spell doom for the country.

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Army doctors: Bergdahl making progress back in USA

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U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the former Taliban detainee who was released from captivity in a prisoner swap, is making progress in reintegration, military officials said Friday.

Maj. Gen Joseph DiSalvo said Bergdahl saluted him and appeared to have good soldierly comportment after getting off the plane in the United States before going to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.

"He appeared like anyone who sees a two-star general, a little bit nervous," DiSalvo said. "Nonetheless, he saluted" and greeted the general in English.

Officials say he is undergoing a reintegration process that emphasizes slowly reintroducing him to making choices, something that was denied to him in five years of captivity.

His move from Germany to the San Antonio facility marks the next step.

The officials, who appeared at a news conference in San Antonio, declined to release many details about Bergdahl's physical and mental condition but said he is in stable condition medically, can walk and initially has been put on a bland diet.

Asked if he has made any specific requests, Col. Ron Wool said, "Peanut butter is a favorite."

A flight transporting Bergdahl from a U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, landed in San Antonio at about 1:40 a.m. CT Friday.

The U.S. Army South command is charged with helping Bergdahl re-acclimate physically mentally and socially to his new freedom. Among the medical center's personnel are specialists trained to conduct medical and psychological exams and interviews about his time in solitary confinement.

"We see the returnee as a normal, healthy person who survived an abnormal event," said Col. Bradley Poppen, an Army psychologist. "The coping skills that he used to survived this abnormal, five-year event may not be normal now," in part because he is being allowed to make choices again — little choices people take for granted, like what to eat and when to go to the bathroom.

He will decide at his own pace when he will see his family, and his relatives know this, Poppen said. They are not in San Antonio and have said they will not release their travel plans publicly.

The Taliban held Bergdahl for nearly five years after he went missing from his post in Afghanistan in 2009. He was released May 31 in exchange for five Taliban prisoners who were being held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

He will decide at his own pace when he will see his family, and his relatives know this, Poppen said. They are not in San Antonio and have said they will not release their travel plans publicly.

The Taliban held Bergdahl for nearly five years after he went missing from his post in Afghanistan in 2009. He was released May 31 in exchange for five Taliban prisoners who were being held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

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