ABDULKARIM MUSA'S BLOG: February 2015

28/02/2015

PHOTO: See how PDP Thugs beat up the SSA who Tore his Party Card

"IF I HAVE TO PAY THE SUPREME PRICE, FOR MY PEOPLE TO GAIN SUCCOR, SO BE IT. I DECAMPED TO APC AND NO GOING BACK. IF HIS EXCELLENCY FEELS KILLING ME IS WHAT WILL RETURN HIM COME 11TH APRIL, THE MASSES WILL DECIDE HIS FATE EVEN AFTER MY DEMISE".

Troops in a group photograph with one of the dismantled terrorists flag /PR Nigeria

Troops on cordon and search along Djimitillo Damaturu road axis had an encounter with a group of terrorists after their hideout was discovered by troops.

The fierce fight to dislodge them from the location which is very close to a market, resulted in the capture of Machine Guns and rifles as well as the death of some number of them.

See photos after the cut..

lagos bar

The time was 7pm, penultimate Saturday. The venue was a hotel on Abaranje Road in Ikotun, a suburb in Lagos State. He adorned black denims on a black T-shirt. He said his name was Kenny, of course, he admitted it wasn’t his real name.

He sauntered into the hotel as if his main aim was to have a couple of drinks and maybe complement it with a plate of sizzling pepper soup.

But Kenny didn’t just come to only have a drink, Kenny is first of all, a male commercial sex worker and was looking for a customer that he would ‘service’ in order to make a quick cash for the weekend. One of our correspondents got to know Kenny through a regular customer, who had been patronising the motel bar for a long time and who once had a close contact with him.

Thousands marching in Cameroon

Thousands of people took to the streets of Cameroon to march in support of troops fighting terror, extremist group, Boko-Haram.

Muhammadu Buhari with a Catholic Bishop during a recent meeting with catholics in Abuja

There is absolutely nothing Christ-like in President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.

It was Mahatma Gandhi who said he admired Christ not Christians. I guess he said this to remind people that most Christians are definitely not Christ-like. One cannot claim to be a Christian when his attitude is opposite of the principle that we are called to live by. There is no middle ground in this race. It is either you are living like Christ or you are a pretender. People like pretending to be what they are not. It is for this reason that one writer defined hypocrisy as a tribute that vice pays to virtue.

There is absolutely nothing Christ-like in President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. His policies are harsh towards the common man. He has done absolutely nothing for the poor of the land. Rather, he has done a lot to favour the rich and eminent personalities. Any true Christian knows that God loves the poor and is earnestly seeking to do them good. He is seriously looking for those to use to render service to the poor. It can only take a wicked man to increase the prices of petroleum products on a New Year day thereby causing immense hardship to numerous poverty stricken citizens. Any government that is anti poor is anti God.

Clement Nwankwo and Chidi Odinkalu

The Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room (Situation Room) and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday called on politicians across Nigeria to close ranks in protecting and defending the credibility of the country’s electoral system.

The call is contained in a communique issued at the end of a meeting of their representatives in Abuja concerning arrangements for the protection of the human rights to franchise and participation in the 2015 elections. The meeting followed the recent NHRC Pre-Election Report and Advisory on Violence in Nigeria’s 2015 General Elections.

Stressing that the allegations concerning the role of certain senior political and military personnel in last year’s Ekiti Governorship Elections are serious the communiques said it was in the interest of the credibility of the election system and of all persons and institutions associated with the allegations that there should be a credible, independent and impartial investigation of these allegations without further delay.

Larry Otu after he was brutally assaulted by airforcemen attached to mrs. Jonathan

A bevy of Navy, Army, Air Force, Police and Civil Defence officers was deployed to beef up security at the Osubi Airport for the arrival of Mrs. Patience Jonathan, and SaharaReporters reliably learned that Otu was at the airport to receive some business partners traveling in from Canada when he was seized upon by the officials.

Businessman Larry Otu, the Chief Executive Officer of Lym Consult Nigeria Limited, yesterday got the beating of his life when some overzealous Air Force personnel providing security for the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, during her campaign visit to Delta State descended on him.

Sam Chukwu and AIG Mbu

Several police and political sources have told SaharaReporters that Sam Chukwu, a sinister police officer reputed for masterminding a group of rogue policemen who carried out kidnapping, armed robbery and other major crimes in Enugu State, was recently promoted and deployed to Lagos in order to fortify a team of senior police officers charged with helping the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) carry out massive rigging in Lagos State and other southwest states. Our police sources named Mr. Chukwu, who is linked to a major kidnap and murder case in Enugu, as a key player in the scheme, whose leader is Assistant Inspector General of Police Joseph Mbu.

“Sam Chukwu is one of the biggest criminals in the police force. That is why Sir Mike Okiro gave him promotion and sent him to Lagos in January,” a top police source at police headquarters in Abuja told SaharaReporters in a telephone interview. The officer, who said he and numerous other officers were incensed at the increasing use of police officers for illegal assignments, added, “Instead of sacking Sam Chukwu, they have sent him to Lagos today to join the operation of rigging election.”

Today there was a bomb scare at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos which caused a bit of panic and rushing. Lagos. Passengers were evacuated, fire trucks and bomb disposal unit arrived and many passengers left the airport for fear of what might happen.

However, it is now being reported that it was all a fire drill. The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, was assessing the capacity of the airport to respond to a bomb attack situation. Here are pictures of the airport..

Worried by the recent order of a court calling for an. Investigation against him, the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi on Friday rushed to Abuja, the nation’s capital to seek the intervention of President Goodluck Jonathan.Alaafin of Oyo
The Alaafin, who arrived the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja aboard an Overland Air morning flight, was accompanied by two of his aides.

Justice Ayo Emmanuel of the Federal High Court in Ibadan, Oyo State, in a December 15, 2014 ruling, mandadated the Inspector-General of Police, Sulieman Abba to investigate allegations contained in suit filed by Chiefs Jacob Oluokun and Sulaiman Ajiboye Ishola against the Alaafin.
The petition to the office of the IGP, dated March 18, 2014 was handled by the then IGP Mohammed Abubakar.

Speculations that President Goodluck Jonathan intends to fire the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Attahiru Jega, before the general elections, intensified Friday after the Federal Government refused to give a clear commitment on the matter. Responding to concerns that the electoral chief would soon be mandated to proceed on a terminal leave, the Minister of Information‎, Edem Duke, gave an uncertain response, saying Mr. Jega’s exit will follow a “natural course”.

Although he re-echoed President Goodluck Jonathan’s comments last two weeks that he had not informed anyone of any plans to sack the INEC boos, Mr. Duke said that did not imply that when it is time for Mr. Jega “to naturally exit his office, then the natural course of things will not take place”.

“I think all of that is in the terrain of the Presidency and he has spoken. I have nothing to add to that,” he added.

Photo: Mobile policeman shoots police boss to death in Bauchi

A mobile policeman in Bauchi state shot dead his superior and former ADC to Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, Superintendent of Police, Chris Eza (pictured above), yesterday February 26th in Bauchi.

According to family sources, Chris Eza had gone out to get food at an eatery along Ahmadu Bello way around 9pm when he saw some police officers on patrol. On observation, he found out that one of them, the suspect, was not properly dressed and immediately cautioned him. The junior officer got angry and began to grumble for being told to dress properly.

The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, mocked the APC's chant for change when she charged women in the country to vote for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Dame Jonathan at the PDP Women for Change Initiative Presidential Rally in Delta state said:

“The PDP is a party that talks less and does more, unlike the APC that tells new lies every week. When you catch them today, they will tell another lie tomorrow. We (PDP) do not tell you about change because we are not bus conductors that ask for change.

A bomb blast, suspected to have been carried out by Islamist sect, Boko Haram yesterday Thursday, February 26, 2015 on Bauchi Road in Jos, Plateau State killed several people and left a lot more injured. See some graphic photos from the blast after the cut. VIEWER'S DISCRETION IS ADVISED

The Governor of Lagos State, Gov. Raji Fashola and APC’s Lagos State Governorship aspirant, Akinwunmi Ambode have urged Lagosians to ignore president Jonathan’s visits to Lagos, terming it, one too many. While speaking at a rally in the Ifako/Ijaye Local Government area, Fashola urged Lagosians not to give the president a listen ear, because he was never there when they needed him. Hear him;

“They have said the President is coming to Lagos. He is welcome to come; Lagos is part of his constituency but we will not vote for him because when we needed him, he did not come to help us. When the international airport road was damaged and he promised to fix it, did you see him?

The police in Abia state have arrested George Maduabuchi pictured above for allegedly selling his 14 month old son for N300,000 to a herbalist. According to a report by Punch, George, a native of Owerrinta in the Isiala-Ngwa South Local Government Area of Abia State had connived with his accomplice, one Obinna Erondu who is now at large, to sell his own child

Narrating how her son was allegedly sold by her husband, Ebere, the pregnant wife of George said after her child had developed cough, her husband had asked to take him out to get some medicine only for him not to return with the boy. When she asked the man where their son was, he couldn't give her a good explanation. She said she quickly raised an alarm which attracted their neighbors who called the police

Chief Igbinedion,Gov Rochas Okorocha,Rmasey Nouah,Egor Efiok,Mercy Johnson, Dayo Amusa and more were at the star studded event.
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Buhari Speaks At Chatham House, As Rented Hecklers Clash With APC Supporters Outside Venue

Muhammad Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) today delivered a widely anticipated speech at the Chatham House in London, affirming his readiness to run and win the postponed 2015 presidential elections.

Mr. Buhari arrived at the Chatham House venue of the event accompanied by several APC figures, including former Governor Ahmed Bola Tinubu, the party’s national chairman John Odigie Oyegun, and Governors Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State as well as former Ekiti state governor, Kayode Fayemi.

Yemen

Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s former president, is believed to have amassed between $32bn and $60bn through corruption during his 33 years in power, a UN report has said.

A panel of experts reported on Wednesday to the UN Security Council that Saleh’s assets were stashed in at least 20 countries, and the team is investigating the ex-leader’s connections with businessmen helping him to hide the funds.

The 15-member council in November imposed sanctions, including an assets freeze, on Saleh, who was forced out of power in 2012 under a Gulf-sponsored deal.

The council also blacklisted Saleh for obstructing peace in Yemen, notably for backing the Shia Houthi rebels that have seized power in Sanaa.

South Korea's Constitutional Court on Thursday struck down a 60-year-old statute outlawing adultery under which violators faced up to two years in prison. The nine-member bench ruled by seven to two that the 1953 law was unconstitutional.

Buhari in London

Buhari pictured this morning with other APC party leaders including El Rufai and Rotimi Amaechi leaving his London apartment to Chatham House where he is expected to make a presentation.

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Photo credit- Dele Momodu

Missing $20bn: Reps gives Okonjo-Iweala one-week ultimatum to submit forensic audit

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

The House of Representatives has yesterday issued a one week ultimatum to the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the economy Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to submit the report of the forensic audit on the alleged missing $20bn.

The mandate followed a resolution, passed last week by the House at plenary which directed its Committee on Public Accounts, to investigate the matter.

In this November 2012, file photo, posted on the website freejamesfoley.org, shows American journalist James Foley while covering the civil war in Aleppo, Syria.

LONDON — The world knows him as “Jihadi John,” the masked man with a British accent who has beheaded several hostages held by the Islamic State and who taunts audiences in videos circulated widely online.

But his real name, according to friends and others familiar with his case, is Mohammed Emwazi, a Briton from a well-to-do family who grew up in West London and graduated from college with a degree in computer programming. He is believed to have traveled to Syria around 2012 and to have later joined the Islamic State, the group whose barbarity he has come to symbolize.

“I have no doubt that Mohammed is Jihadi John,” said one of Emwazi’s close friends who identified him in an interview with The Washington Post. “He was like a brother to me…. I am sure it is him.”

Femi Fani-Kayode

As the presidential election enters its critical phase, the air is thick with accusation and counter-accusations about the candidates. In what is now desperation for Mr. Jonathan that he's loosing the edge, he and his attack dogs are in full throttle to pin on General Muhammadu Buhari the toxic label of hypocrite.

Politics is synonymous with hypocrisy. Historically, the original hypocrites were the stage actors of ancient Greece who wore masks and made a profession of pretending to be something they were not. Similarly, politicians like the ancient Greek actors have tried to conceal some part of themselves – their checkered past, their private habits, their personal beliefs – have found themselves accused of hypocrisy. Truth be told, most politicians have many things to hide.

I like to judge people who are judgmental. I'm intolerant of intolerant people. Mark twain was right when he observed that “Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.” Hypocrisy is a form of deception. To be a hypocrite is to be a fraud. Femi Fani-Kayode and Ayodele Fayose are frauds.

Pandemonium broke out in Mosafejo, Oshodi-Isale area of Lagos State, after rival groups said to be members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, clashed on Tuesday and early Wednesday.
Four people were reportedly killed, while several others were injured in the fracas which was stopped after the intervention of anti-riot security personnel.

Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp has been forced to relocate a news conference after an unexploded bomb was found near Signal Iduna Park.

The explosive - reported to be a relic from the Second World War - is so close to the stadium that the entirety of the ground falls within an exclusion zone that has a 250-metre radius.

Mrs Akon ImabongEsu-Nte

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will tomorrow Friday November 14, 2014 arraign Mrs. Imaobong. Akon Esu- Nte,the Head of Capital Accounts Unit of the Nigerian Prison Service before a Federal Capital Territory High Court (21), Apo, on charges bordering on stealing and money laundering.

Ayo Fayose embodies all the key indicators of aggravated mental meltdown - he has cast off all sense of restraint, he is actuated by an insatiable urge to embarrass himself in public, his utterances run like a surging stream of folly, and he finds delectation in the headshaking attention that his shameful stunts earn him!

So there is possibly no way to frame Fayose’s condition nicely. No way to make it sound tame and politically correct. It must be said as it is: simply and plainly - without a touch of varnish. And this is it: this rascal who insists on making sports of his nakedness, this pretender to the seat of Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, is sick in the head.

Fayose, who the other day, felt compelled to assert his education by brandishing all the paper qualifications he has ever garnered, from primary school to the polytechnic, before a televised campaign rally, is not a medic. Even his claim to basic literacy is suspect because he has proved unable to appreciate a simple reading of the constitution on the count of majority in the Nigerian legislature.

Obasanjo tore an expired party card - PDP

According to the National Secretary of the PDP, Professor Adewale Oladipo, the PDP membership card torn by former President Olusegun Obasanjo on February 16th had long expired as it was signed by a former acting chairman of the party, Alhaji Abubakar Baraje who is now a chieftain in the APC.

According to Professor OLadipo, Chief Obasanjo is over 80 years old and there are certain actions people of his age take that they themselves can't explain. Prof Oladiposaid this while speaking to a group of students who came to show their solidarity for President Jonathan at the party's National secretariat in Abuja yesterday.

APC just sent out this press statement. Read below...

We have received information that Femi Fani Kayode has paid some boys to mobilize Nigerians in the UK to protest against Gen. Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday (26/02/2015) at Chatham House. This is to create a wrong signal that Nigerians are happy with President Goodluck Jonathan and

Former President Shehu Shagari turned 90 years old today and President Jonathan and other former Heads of State including Chief Ernest Shonekan, Gen. Babangida, Gen. Yakubu Gowon and Gen. Abubakar Abdulsalami, stormed Sokoto state to celebrate with him. Born 25th February 1925, Sir Shagari served as President of Nigeria's Second Republic from 1979 -1983. Happy Birthday to him.

Above is a photo of members of Boko Haram captured by Chadian soldiers yesterday in Gamboru, a border town between Chad and Nigeria. 207 of the militants were killed during the gun battle...

Credit: Linda Ikeji

Nigerian Parents Give Birth To White Baby In London (Photo)

When Angela Ihegboro first saw her newborn daughter, she was “speechless.” “She’s a miracle baby,” the 35-year-old mother said yesterday. “But still, what on Earth happened here?”

What happened is that baby Nmachi is a blond, blue-eyed white baby born to two black Nigerian immigrant parents at a London hospital. “The first thing I said was, ‘What the flip?’ ” said the father, Ben Ihegboro. “We both just sat there after the birth staring at her for ages — not saying anything.”

He quickly sought to dispel any speculation.
“Of course she is mine. My wife is true to me,” the 44-year-old customer service adviser said. “Even if she hadn’t been, the baby still wouldn’t look like that.”

Kidnappers have demanded the sum of N60m for the American missionary abducted from her workplace in Kogi State. Rev. Phyllis Sortor was snatched by masked gunmen, who stormed the Hope Alive Nursery/Primary School, which she runs in Emiworo, Ajaokuta Local government Area of Kogi State on Monday.

Lol...the things some people wear sef...*sigh*.

80% of people who advise me have nothing to say – Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan has declared that more than 80 percent of his advisers have nothing to say. He stated this in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State, at a special funeral service for eight female politicians and their driver who died in a road accident on February 14.

Jonathan stated this in reaction to Governor Seriake Dickson’s disclosure that he was advised against organising a state burial for the deceased.

Jonathan said, “I was surprised when the governor said some people asked why state burial. I told the governor that more than 80% of people who come to advise you have nothing to say, but just listen to them.

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State should prepare to explain himself to Muhammadu Buhari after he would have defeated Goodluck Jonathan in the election. Read what Joe Igbokwe wrote below:

Anybody who sees Ayo Fayose, the so-called governor of Ekiti State should please beg him to see a psychiatric doctor before it is too late. From the look of things now I do not know if the man ever sleeps at all.

From the look of things I can say authoritatively that he wakes up in the dead of the night to cry and curse the day General Buhari was born. I am sure he has fallen out with everybody; his siblings and members of his family included because of this Buhari factor.

After robbing former governor Fayemi of Ekiti State, Fayose has been on top of the world celebrating his so-called victory until the bubble burst...

Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke

The Nigerian government has finally opened up on why it has refused to disclose the full findings of investigations into the alleged missing $20 billion oil money, several months after a forensic examination had been concluded by an independent firm. The audit report by PriceWaterHouseCoopers on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, accused of diverting the money, has been ready since September 2014, but the government has declined repeated demands to make the document public.

Amid pressure from the public and the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, the government early February issued a “highlight” of the report, with a conclusion that the alleged missing $20 billion, exposed by a former Central Bank Governor, Lamido Sanusi, was a farce.

A former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Chukwuma Soludo, has released a third article responding to President Goodluck Jonathan’s claim that it was impossible for N30 trillion to have been stolen when federal budget over the last four years was less than N30 trillion.

In his article, Mr. Soludo argues that Mr. Jonathan missed the point, and suggested the President did either not read or understand his last two essays on the “mismanagement” of the economy.

Read Mr. Soludo’s full article below.

President Jonathan Missed the Point on the Missing N30 trillion, By Chukwuma Charles Soludo

My attention has been drawn this morning to an article entitled: “Jonathan Replies Soludo over “missing N30 trillion” claim”— extracting from Mr. President’s interview as published by Thisday newspaper. ThisDay quoted Mr. President as saying that “Soludo said that under Ngozi’s watch they stole N30 trillion” but that since the sum of the federal budget over the last four years was less than N30 trillion, such an amount could not have been “stolen”. According to the President, “it is all political”. I had earlier stated that I would not make further comments on the issues until probably after the elections but since Mr.

Images of Boko Haram attack on Gombe were shared using the suspended handle.

A Twitter account linked to the Boko Haram sect has been suspended by the social media company.
The account, opened recently, had only 19 tweets before it was flagged and brought down Tuesday. Before the suspension, the account was used to propagate messages from the group and its leader, Abubakar Shekau.

The account posted messages in English, Arabic and Hausa languages. The account also posted videos, hosted on sendvid, and images, hosted on Justpaste.it. In its last tweet, the group claimed it was still in control of Baga, a town in Borno state, which the Nigerian military said is now fully under its legitimate control.

The Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has demanded investigation into the Ekiti rigging audio, which appears to show how the military hierarchy and some members of the Peoples Democratic Party, including Governor Ayo Fayose, planned the rigging of the June 21, 2014 governorship election in the state.

In a statement on Tuesday, Mr. Soyinka asked the Independent National Electoral Commission to work with the international community to conduct the investigation and make the findings of the exercise known to save Nigeria’s democracy.

He said brushing the issue aside as just electoral malpractice approaches criminal subversion and treason. Mr. Fayose defeated the All Progressive Congress candidate and then governor, Kayode Fayemi, in the election.

Edwin Clark.....Photo Credit: Today Nigeria

As the Nigerian army continues to battle insurgents with poorly supplied soldiers in the north, President Goodluck Jonathan has deployed more than 20 armed security agents to his godfather, Mr. Edwin Clark.

The security personnel include soldiers, mobile policemen, and civil defence agents and all of them are armed with sophisticated weapons. As early as 10am, the security operatives were seen inside the compound, drinking various brands of beer and wine next to several exotic cars.

APC demands Jonathan’s resignation; accuses President of allowing Boko Haram to fester

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has said President Goodluck Jonathan bears a huge moral responsibility that will haunt him for a long time to come for deliberately allowing the Boko Haram insurgency to fester, leading to the deaths of over 15,000 Nigerians and the displacement of over 3 million others in the past six years.

In a statement issued in London on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party also hailed the military for the successes it has recorded in the battle against Boko Haram in recent times, saying the string of victories confirms the party’s stand that the Nigerian military can hold its own anywhere and anytime, if provided with the necessary equipment and if the morale of the troops is not undermined.

The inability of Sagir Koli, the army Captain who recorded the Ekiti-rigging audiotape, to come forward and authenticate the tape, is the reason investigation into the matter cannot proceed, President Goodluck Jonathan has said. Mr. Jonathan told Thisday newspaper that he inquired from the head of the Department of State Security, DSS, if the agency was investigating the matter, but was told that investigation could not proceed because Mr. Koli, who went underground after he was tipped off about the order from the army hierarchy to arrest him, has not come forward to validate the audio.

President Goodluck Jonathan... Photo Credit: Reuters

His Name is Goodluck Jonathan but his presidency has been an unmitigated badluck infection for Nigeria - Law 10 of the 48 Laws of Power: Infection: Avoid the Unhappy and Unlucky

Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is an unmitigated "badluck" infection for Nigeria: Vote him out on March 28, 2015

His Name is Goodluck Jonathan but his presidency has been an unmitigated badluck infection for Nigeria - Law 10 of the 48 Laws of Power: Infection: Avoid the Unhappy and Unlucky

According to Law 10 of the 48 laws of Power:

"The infector possesses an inward instability that radiates outward drawing disaster to all that they touch. How to Recognize an Infector:

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