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The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has paid a surprise visit to Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi at his country home in Uburu, Ohaozara Local Government Area.
Neither Onu nor Umahi spoke to the press after the visit which was seen by a large gathering at the Umahi compound ass ending a seemingly political animosity between the two Uburu-born politicians.
The governor belongs to the Peoples Democratic Party while Onu, a former governor of the old Abia State, is a member of the All Progressives Congress.
The Caretaker Committee Chairman of Ohaozara LGA, Justice Ogbonna, described the visit as a sign of peace and unity in Uburu community.
The visit has put to rest the peoples’ insinuation that Dr. Onu and our governor are not enjoying good relationship, forgetting that both of them come from the same community’’, the council chairman said.
He described governor Umahi as a special gift to the people of Ebonyi State who has within a short time of his administration recorded many achievements.
Others that paid Christmas homage to the governor were the state Commissioner of Police, Peace Abdallah, a delegation from the Ezza South LGA , Association of Persons with Disabilities, Abakaliki Main Market Traders Association and Governor Umahi’s 1976 classmates in Uburu.
Addressing the people of Ezza South,Engr. Umahi described the Ezza nation as a major force behind his success at the April governorship election.
He saluted the courage displayed by them during the electioneering period even in the face of intimidation.
Explaining that the appointment of many Ezza people as his cabinet members was a reward for their strong support and commitment, he promised to energise Onueke in the first quarter of next year in the ongoing rural electrification in the state.
The member representing Ikwo/ Ezza Federal Constituency, Chief Lazarus Ogbee, assured Umahi of the continued support of the people of Ezza . He said that the National Assembly would remain focused in 2016 to make good laws that would improve the lives of every Nigerian.
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ONITSHA—Leader of Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike has appointed a Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Samuel Aniebonam as Chairman of Biafra Independent National Electoral Commission, B-INEC.
Announcing the appointment at Ojukwu Memorial Library, Owerri, Imo State, Uwazuruike explained that the measure was in line with BIM’s principle of non-violence towards establishing a sovereign control over the territorial boarders of the new Biafra.
In a issued in Onitsha, Anambra state d by the newly promoted Biafra Director of Information, Chris Mocha, Uwazuruike noted that Fr. Aniebonam and his team of other members of B-INEC would conduct and supervise the internal election in all the offices of BIM on February 22, 2016.
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The Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, and a cross section of Rivers people received with shock the news that the Rivers State House of Assembly [RSHA] received and passed a N307 billion 2016 budget proposal by Governor Nyesom Wike administration under 24 hours of presentation by the governor.
The APC believes that this is the height of banditry because what the RSHA has done, with most of the members still contesting the nullification of their elections at the Appeal Courts, is a confirmation that the legislative and executive arms of government in Rivers State have a common agenda to wreck havoc on the peoples’ commonwealth and legitimize their actions through a spurious budget before being chased away by the law courts.
The APC calls on Rivers people to hold Barr. Nyesom Wike and his co-travellers responsible for the last minute schemes to short-change them as demonstrated by series of criminally curious actions the governor and members of the RSHA have taken in the twilight of their temporary sojourn in office. We wish to inform the governor and his co-actors that, to the extent that the law allows, they will be made to account for all the anti-people actions they perpetrated against Rivers people while exercising their stolen mandates.
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Book Title The Igbos And Israel; An Inter-cultural Study of the Largest Jewish Diaspora
Genre Historical
Chapters 20
Pages 302
Long before this work, it has been said that the Igbos of South-eastern Nigeria have strong ancestral connection to the Jews, but the first thing the author, Ilona, does is inform you that there is no “clear-cut archaeological evidence of any presence or otherwise of Jews in the region to that effect”. In a nutshell, this book is not for those who want archaeological evident that Igbos are descendants of Jews. Rather, it is about the degree of similarities between the way of the Jews as described in the Bible and the tradition of the Igbos.
In a non-ambiguous manner and style, the author leads takes the reader through a gradual expose of history, inter-woven with some scriptural aspects, to give his opinion some form of credence. This is no product of a sleight of hand; rather, it is the product of 12 long years of hard work and pure research compressed in 302 pages.
One thing Ilona’s work l do is shock everyone who reads it. After all, who ever thought the Igbos had some significant connection (tradition-wise, at least) to the Jews. In gripping language and style, he takes you on a trip, even dragging you at some point, against your wish. You never really know what he is driving at, until you read to a level of no-return, that is, until about the second chapter, where he tries to differentiate, yet single out the similarities, between what the Igbos call omenana (tradition) and Judaism.
How much Ilona put into his book is evident in the pain he takes to weave a thread, howbeit tiny in some instances, stitching the Igbo custom to the Jewish one. His ability to marry both ways of life, from childbirth to initiation rites, marriage, mourning, socio-religious customs, dressing, hygiene, land inheritance, sacrifices and offerings, to kingship, amongst other aspects, almost leaves one without argument. Ilona, thankfully, does not sign off without talking about the reaction of both cultures to what he termed ‘irresponsible and unnatural sexual behaviours’ (of course, the meaning here is not lost on anyone).
The objective of Ilona’s work is, perhaps, not just to link the Jews to the Igbos, tradition-wise. That may be secondary. Beyond the similarities and the slight differences, Ilona is chiding his kinsmen for not holding dear their beloved culture as the Jews have done centuries after a way of life was handed down to them by their fore-fathers.
It is fair to assume that Ilona’s desire to see tradition and custom respected again is not limited to the Igbos. It is a call to all Nigerians to see to upholding their cultures, irrespective of ethnicity. Beneath Ilona’s tone can be detected some form of bitterness for the Western Incursion which has claimed Africa’s most priced heritage – his tradition – and a chiding for all those who have imbibed Western culture, instead of cleaving to their tradition and culture.
The only flaw in Ilona’s work, if it can be called that, is that he easily sacrificed finesse for a tell-it-as-it-is style. His justification is in the fact that he is writing a book of facts and history and not a work of fiction. While many will think that the author did a good job by translating some Igbo words into English, others will opine that all translations will be better off in a glossary.
Ilona’s work is good for two groups: those who want to know how far they drifted from the beacon of tradition and culture and those who are curious as to how much the Igbos have got in common with the Jews.
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The Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, received with satisfaction the judgement of the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja upholding the judgment of the Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal which sacked Rivers State Governor, Ezebuwon Nyesom Wike.
The APC considers the decision of the appellate court that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, did not comply substantially with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) as trite and incontrovertible. We believe that the decision today by the Appeal Court is a confirmation that evil can triumph over good but only temporarily.
We would like to urge our followers and supporters to remain calm and would be directed by our leaders through God Almighty’s inspiration. We also urge all intending members of our party to go and register at their units and old members to go and re-validate their membership now. We assure all that thunder would never strike in the same place twice.
The APC is happy to recognise that today is the birthday of Bro. Felix Amaechi Obuah, the State Chairman of the PDP in Rivers State. We are glad to offer him this Appeal Court judgment as a perfect birthday gift.
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“I write to request for your kind consideration and approval of the distinguished members of the Senate of the Federal Republic to appoint 15 special advisers as prescribed in Section 151(2-3) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended). While trusting that this exercise will receive the traditional prompt attention of the Senate, please accept, Mr. President, the assurance of my highest consideration.”
Those were some of the words contained in President Buhari’s letter to the last senate headed by Senator David Mark, dated the 2 day of June 2015. The following day, June 3, the President’s request “receive(d) the traditional prompt attention of the Senate”. But alas, the appointments have received the traditional slow attention of the President.
Up till date, exactly 6 months and 3 days, the President has only appointed 1 of the 15 Special Advisers he requested approval for. Why this delay? I don’t understand; especially when I look at it against the backdrop of the urgency contained in the President’s letter seeking for the Senate’s approval. Why will a man who has contested for the president 4 times in 12 years find it so difficult in finding 14 Nigerians in advising him?
Section 151(1) of the 1999 Constitution as amended says “The President may appoint any person as a Special Adviser to assist him in the performance of his functions.” I believe this power is discretional and as such the President may choose not to have Advisers. I also believe that the president has chosen to have advisers that is why he asked for the Senate approval. Or has he changed his mind?
The framers of our constitution were well aware of the enormous responsibilities the President of Nigeria will have, this is why a constitutional provision was made for the President to have Special Advisers who will assist him in the performance of his functions. The continuous refusal of the President to appoint Special Advisers is communicating to us that we have got a President who thinks he knows it all and can do it all. But no one knows it all and no one can do it all.
Personally, I had expected an improvement in this area. I have always been appalled with what Special Advisers do in real life. They had become a bunch of eggheads who use their intelligence and imagination to spin commentaries that will suit the whims and caprices of their Master, the President. They are a bunch of yes-men who spend their entire time parroting the President’s virtues and explaining his vices to look like virtues.
An ideal meeting with SA’s, PA’s and SSA’s should be an intellectual wrestlemania: disagreeing with the President, with hard facts and data flying around, delivered with clinical erudition and then agreeing and forming an indivisible front. But this is not what we have seen in past administrations.
SA’s, PA’s and SSA’s gather round the President to chant “yes sir” like a bunch of apprentice dibias gathering round the shrine of Amadioha. They are errand boys, period. I believe strongly that if a President fails, his Advisers should be crucified. They failed to advise the president right. And if they claim the President didn’t listen, they should have resigned in protest.
So I expected PMB to reform this by giving more latitude to the advisers to perform, but it seems things might even be worst. President Buhari has begun by showing he doesn’t even need them. By the time they are appointed, the message must have sunk in; and the ritual of gathering round the President to chant “yes sir” will continue.
The President should appoint his Special Advisers soon. The wait is getting too long. And please this time around, we need competent and fearless people, not a bunch of choristers singing the Responsorial Psalm of the President.
On the President incessant foreign trips. Every President must travel abroad. That is part of governance. The world is a global community and we can claim to be a member of this global community by having a president who sits at our backyard always.
But I hope the President understands that there is a political and socio economic flip side to all of this. The President should do more of travelling inbroad than abroad. What he is looking for in Sokoto might just be in his Shokoto.
And I hope what happened to him recently in France were there was no welcome Party to greet him is instructive. President Buhari by his unending frequent travel is breaking one of the laws of power: “Too much circulation makes the price go down; the more you are seen and heard from, the more common you appear.”
No powerful President who is serious about governance travels up to 12 times in 6 months like our dear President has done. The records are there. Check it. Is Vice President Osibanjo not eminently qualified to represent him in some of these meetings?
The wheel of this government is spinning too slowly. Those who are asking us to be patient should know that patience is a verb not a noun. Patience is what you do after you have done what you should do. Patience is what a farmer does after he has sown. Patience is what a woman does after she has gotten pregnant.
We know some things take time. You can’t get a baby in 1 month by getting 9 women pregnant; but you can’t expect to get a baby even in 12 months if you have not impregnated a woman. Before you ask us to be patient, show us the road map, show us the economic policies, show us the blueprint, show us the plans, and show us where you have sown… then we will patiently wait for the harvest. Show us the pregnancy and will endure the gestation period.
Mr President, focus and impregnate us.
First Baba Isa (FBI) writes from Abuja 07037162029 meandisa@gmail.com 52F84BE5 @firstbabaisa
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I realised early, as I grew into adulthood in Rivers State that the average Rivers man was a proud man. This is even worse with those of us from the Ijaw extraction, we were bold and fearless in calling a spade a spade; we called the bluff of the wealthiest of men asking them to get to hell with whatever gift they bore and allow us the freedom to express ourselves without undue influence -that was the pride of the true Rivers man.
Today, what I see is frightening, as the same fearless people are cowed into lies and deceit just for personal gains. They line their pockets up with peanuts from political overlords and double speak without an iota of shame. They are ready to defend skewed and unpopular vendetta-ridden policies out of bias. It is very sad and shameful that the Rivers man has suddenly lost his voice in this NEW Rivers State, swallowing hook, line and sinker, the balderdash of a drowning macabre dancer.
I was employed into the Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency (RSSDA) barely eight months after Mr. Noble Egbert Pepple became the Executive Director of the Agency in October 2010. I served in the Agency in the capacity of Technical Assistant to the Executive Director/CEO and Manager, Government Relations. By virtue of my position as Technical Assistant to the ED/CEO I was also a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) – the highest decision making management team of the Agency.
It is a fact that as at the time Mr. Pepple got on board RSSDA, there were legacy issues he inherited from his predecessor such as:
1. Absence of a well-defined organisational structure.
2. Undue influence of politicians in the Scholarship Award process.
3. Absence of the Agency’s Board as stipulated by law.
4. Properly defined key performance indicators for project implementation.
5. Students sent to Indian Universities the Federal Ministry of Education in Nigeria had not verified their accreditation status.
6. Use of consultants to drive scholarship process
Amidst these challenges, His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, did not shut-down the Agency, neither did he abandon the vision of RSSDA which in the first instance was not his vision, but that of his predecessor, Dr Peter Otunnuya Odili (RSSDA started as Rivers State Sustainable Development Project, RSSDP – a project under then Governor Peter Odili, with Odein Ajubogobia as its first Executive Director). Instead, he appointed a new Executive Director/CEO, in the person of Mr. Noble Egbert Pepple in the first quarter of 2010 to replace Mr. Bolaji Ogunseye and charged him with the responsibility of fixing the problems.
This well thought-out strategy by Governor Amaechi yielded the following results:
1. Mr. Noble E. Pepple with the help of Accenture, started out by setting out a clear and well defined Organisational Structure for the Agency.
2. Mr. Pepple, to ensure transparency of the process and adhering to global best practices introduced a policy that banned children and wards of members of staff of the Agency from applying for the Scholarships. He also put an end to the seemingly undue influence of politicians over the scholarship program by approaching Governor Amaechi in the company of the Agency’s Chairman Sir Precious Omuku, requesting the Governor to officially set aside 30% of the scholarship for the political class to which Governor Wike was also a beneficiary. This was referred to as the Protocol List which I coordinated by virtue of my position as the Government Relations Manager of RSSDA. In other words, if you feel you are influential in Rivers State, go to the Governor and if he agrees to include you in his 30% that is fine. Otherwise, your child or ward will be subjected to competing for the remaining 70% with others via a transparent test/interview process driven by Cinfores and some University professors respectively. RSSDA has always made this process including the official 30% public in several press interviews.
3. The RSSDA Board is a very complex one. As a matter of fact it is the most complex Board of all the parastatals in Rivers State. However, after over3 years of hard work both from the office of Governor Amaechi and the then State House of Assembly, the Board was finally set-up and inaugurated, with the captains of different industries on-board in 2014. Our expectations were very high as all the board members came with several years of experience and anticipated value addition. Regrettably, hardly had the members settled in to work before Governor Wike dissolved the Board with a wave of the hand. Over three years high level consultation and interfacing just wasted because of an obvious lack of the sense of continuity.
4. Mr. Noble Pepple redefined the Agency’s project implementation strategy with the following key performance indicators: Partnership, Sustainability, a well-defined Social Component to be borne by RSSDA just to accommodate the poor and finally, Market Access. That was the model on which subsequent projects like the Songhai Farm, the Alanblankia Project, and the DADTCO Rivers Cassava Initiative were built on; giving them a stand-alone status to stand the test of time.
5. The issue of the students in India was resolved as Mr. Noble Pepple commissioned me to drive the process which required me to engage with the then Minister for Education and her Minister of State for Education and current Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Nyesom Wike. After six months of moving back and forth, the Federal Ministry of Education eventually confirmed the accreditation status of all the Universities our students were attending in India, and the students were allowed to proceed to NYSC.
6. Mr. Noble E. Pepple discontinued the use of consultants to drive the scholarship process as he considered it an unnecessary burden on the Agency. As at the 1st quarter of 2011 barely one year in office, Mr. Pepple had commenced the disengagement of consultants, making room for internalized driving of the Scholarship process and direct engagement with the students abroad.
It is therefore an outright act of wickedness for someone to accuse Amaechi of using consultants to drive the scholarship process when in the first instance most of what the writer of this article dished out as defence for Mr. Wike’s poorly thought out strategy – returning Rivers students on a Government Scholarship are legacy issues that the same Amaechi’s administration had long addressed and resolved. Besides, the financials dished out by this writer is another bundle of lies, as RSSDA never spent anything near N60m per student on a first degree program.
The truth of the matter which is also very glaring to all eyes in Rivers State is that Amaechi sustained the scholarship program and several other programs he initiated while in office. He even paid RSSDA staff salaries up to May 2015 when he left office. Wike has not paid RSSDA staff salary for even one month since he came on board, as a matter of fact, I received up to my May salary before I stepped out of that office on 27th May 2015 and I am very much aware that since then, workers of the Agency have not been paid. Wike is only attacking RSSDA and punishing innocent Rivers State students because he is under the assumption that RSSDA was sympathetic to APC during the last elections.
Is it not laughable that a man who borrows one billion naira per day is not able to spend N500m every month to sort out Rivers Students abroad? Is it not also laughable that a Commissioner for Agriculture is handling scholarship matters? Is it not ridiculous that the only Agency in Rivers State that releases its annual report to the public is now being smeared with litany of accusations? It is only small heads who won’t understand that Wike did not destroy RSSDA the day he told the workers to go home, he actually destroyed it barely one week after he was sworn in when he went on air to tell the world that the RSSDA scholarship was a sham. Like I mentioned earlier, the Agency’s policy trust was centred on driving projects through partnership, which was why its Board was set-up with key players in the multinational sector, having made that statement, the wrong signal was sent to those multinationals and even if he had not dissolved the Board, they would have pulled themselves out.
I wish to state for the avoidance of doubt, that Amaechi has not paid me to do this write-up, I am a man of integrity and I am comfortable to a very large extent. As a British and Nigerian lawyer I will always have garri on my table, so although I am a member of the APC I am beyond petty party politicking and cannot be paid by anyone to do dirty works. All I have written here is to the best of my knowledge the truth of the matter and I can’t stand not saying it especially because I was involved.
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Information reaching NF-Reports from says over 15 heavily-armed gunmen Saturday night kidnapped 78 year-old Mrs. Mabel Abiante, in her residence at Ngo, headquarters of Andoni local government of Rivers State.
Mrs. Abiante was kidnapped at about 8.50pm while watching television in her sitting room. She had closed from her shop at about 8.30pm.
Eyewitnesses narrated that the gun men, who shot sporadically, had positioned some of their men around the house while others moved into the sitting room where they whisked Mrs. Abiante away.
The gun men were, however, challenged by one of Mrs. Abiante’s daughters who was home when they struck. But her efforts did nothing to stop the gunmen who used the butts of their gun on her head and right hand leaving her with swollen body..
The kidnappers made their escape through a side of the Ngo River close to the Abiante family house.
They were yet to make contacts with the family as at the time of this report.
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Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has dissociated himself from the N60bn arms deal involving the immediate past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd).
Saraki in a statement by his Special Adviser (Media and Publicity), Mr. Yusuph Olaniyonu, stated that contrary to report published in an online medium, SaharaReporters, he has never had anything to do with purchase of security equipment because in his entire political career he never served in any committee or body which has any link with Defence or national security.
“As a member of the Seventh Senate, Dr. Saraki was not a member of any of the committees which have oversight function on the Ministry of Defence or the intelligence and national security apparatus. If he was tagged the leader of the opposition to the Jonathan administration, how then will he be privy to Arms purchases and have the influence to blackmail any government agency or institution over the release of funds.
“The Senate President would like to alert members of the public to this new plot by this particular online medium, SaharaReporters to tarnish his reputation as the medium and its sponsors pursue the singular objective of removing him from the office of the Senate President, an objective they have since failed to achieve within and outside the National Assembly”
This time around, SaharaReporters and its sponsors chose to drag the Senate President to this reigning and current issue of arms purchase by insinuating that he once blackmailed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to give him and other Senators the sum of N250 million as a way of covering up the arbitrary withdrawal by the NSA from the security fund approved by the former President.
First, there is no logic in SaharaReporters’ claim as Dr. Saraki who was persecuted by the last administration could not have had the influence and good standing to walk up to the Central Bank to demand for any money having exposed many atrocities of the past administration. Again, on what ground would the Senate President blackmail anyone for 250 Million naira? It must be emphasized here that Dr. Saraki will never engage in any sharp practice or issue which will warrant him to blackmail any individual or government institution.
“Therefore for record purposes, Dr. Saraki did not collect any money from any official of the CBN in respect of any arms deal. The Senate President also challenge SaharaReporters or any official of the apex bank, Senator, serving or past, who witnessed or participated in any sharing of the alleged money purported to have been received by him, to come out with evidence.
“It should be recalled that SaharaReporters believe it can continue to disparage and defame people claiming that it is operating outside the country. The medium cannot operate above the law.
“This same medium had falsely published the data page of a forged passport it purportedly claimed belonged to Saraki. The Home Office in the United Kingdom has since written to confirm that the said passport, does not belong to the Senate President. Also, SaharaReporters once claimed that Saraki bribed some judges using a former Chief Justice of Nigeria as a front. The claim has since been proven to be false. Anybody who knows the reputation of the retired Justice in question knows that he cannot be used to pervert the cause of justice.
” It also claimed that Saraki tried to cover up the case of $20 billion missing NNPC fund and indeed collected “cash and gifts” from former President Goodluck Jonathan through Mr. Gilbert Chagoury when in actual fact the Senate President was the only member of the Senate committee who refused to sign the majority report of the Makarfi committee because he disagreed with the report which he believed did not address the matter. It is strange however that a man who dissociated himself from the probe report because he believed it amounted to a cover up was later accused by the same online medium as supporting attempts to hide the issue of the missing funds. This is not only completely false, but also a fiction concocted by SaharaReporters to defame Dr. Saraki.
“The game being played by SaharaReporters and its sponsors is clear. As they have done in previous cases involving the on-going trial of the Senate President at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, they are targeting the Appeal at the Supreme Court coming up on Thursday, December 3rd 2015. They want to prejudice the Supreme Court as they have done when they blackmailed a judge of the Federal High Court to withdraw from the case and also published false reports, which compelled the Court of Appeal to postpone its judgment at the last minute.
“Whatever the motive of SaharaReporters, it is high time we employed the instrument of the law to stop this act of impunity aimed at publishing false reports believing the victims will not go to court or be frustrated by its dubious claims that they are domiciled outside Nigeria.
” We urge all Nigerians and other well-meaning individuals across the globe to ignore this absolutely false claim by SaharaReporters. Like we earlier stated, this false claim shall not go unchallenged. We shall meet in court.
“We have allowed SaharaReporters enough latitude to indulge in their unscrupulous and mischievous method of journalism. However, enough is enough. We have no option than to commence legal action against Sahara Reporters in all relevant jurisdictions, particularly on the issue of fake passport, false claim of bribery and the recent one on blackmail, all aimed at tarnishing the image of the Senate President.
“We need to put an end to this concerted mischief of defaming the person and good reputation of Senator Bukola Saraki. We will vigorously defend the integrity of the Senate President. We believe law and global best practices should guide these cyber-warriors. They have abused the docility of the law for too long. Enough is enough.”
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