Insurgency: 90 per cent of displaced persons in Adamawa back home – Officials By Daily Post Staff on February 7, 2016

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Mr Haruna Furo, Secretary, Adamawa State
Emergency Management Agency, said on Sunday
that about 90 per cent of Internally Displaced
Persons in the various camps in the state had
returned home.
Furo, who disclosed this in an interview with the
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yola, said the
affected persons were from seven local
government areas of the state.
“Following recapturing of the areas and return of
normalcy, about 90 per cent of the displaced
persons in the camps have left.
“The displaced persons that remain in the camps
are those whose villages are at the fringes of
Sambisa, who felt it is still not safe to go back
home,’’ Furo said.
Also an official of the National Emergency
Management Agency (NEMA) in the state, Sa’ad
Bello, told NAN that the displaced persons that
remained at the camps were those recently
evacuated from Cameroon.
“With the return of peace in parts of the North
East, many displaced persons have left the
camps on their own; we assisted some of them
with food and transport to go back home,” Bello
said.
He said not more than 10,000 of the 30,000
affected persons were still at the camps, adding
that most of them were from Borno.
Bello said some of the displaced persons were
however staying with their relations and friends.
He said that NEMA in collaboration with the
state government and other international
organisations, have been working to put some
basic things, such as hospitals and schools in
place for the returnees.
“We are providing the returnees with little
support, while resettlement and rehabilitation of
the affected villages will be handled by the
Presidential Committee,” Bello said.
NAN recalls that the Adamawa House of
Assembly had passed a bill establishing the State
Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency.
The agency to be funded by the state
government, would reconstruct damaged
facilities and residential houses in Madagali,
Michika, Mubi North, Mubi South, Maiha, Hong
and Gombi.
The bill, sponsored by Mallam Hassan Barguma
(APC-Hong) was aimed at alleviating the
suffering of the affected communities. (NAN)

Ugwuanyi moves against fuel racketeers in Enugu, dissolves monitoring team, By Ameh Comrade Godwin

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In a bid to maintain his administration’s
commitment to the welfare of the people, zero
tolerance to impunity and other forms of
irregularities undermining the progress of the
state, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State
during the weekend ordered the immediate
dissolution of the State’s Petroleum Products
Monitoring Team (PPMT).
A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to
the Governor on Media, Louis Amoke, stated that
the dissolution order was contained in a letter
signed by the Secretary to the Enugu State
Government, G. O. C Ajah.
Amoke quoted the Secretary to the State
Government as saying that the action was
“following persistent complaints over the
unauthorized activities of the Petroleum
Products Monitoring Team (PPMT) and in
keeping with Government’s zero tolerance to
impunity as well as the governor’s promise to
administer the state selflessly and with the fear
of God at all times.”
The letter which disclosed that the team will be
reconstituted in due course, advised Petroleum
Marketers in the State to desist from engaging in
illegal activities and ensure that they run their
businesses within the confines of the extant
laws of Enugu State.
It added that government will not hesitate to
bring to book, any marketer found to be
operating outside the law, stressing that the
governor was committed to a smooth and
transparent petroleum products marketing
operation in the state.
It would be recalled that Governor Ugwuanyi had
recently constituted the now dissolved team to
monitor diversion of petroleum products and
regulate prices of the products in the state in
line with the Federal Government’s approved
pump prices.

Don Jazzy Reminisces On When He Worked With Kanye & Jay Z; Remembers The Mo’Hits Days (Photos), by Emmanuel Lala Published: Feb 7, 2016

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Don Jazzy is the biggest music producer in
Africa as of today and he continues to be
influential.
The super-producer and record label
owner shared throwback photos from when he
worked with Kanye West and Jay Z , he shared
the photo with the caption:
Reminiscing about that time I collaborated
with greats like Jay and KanyeWest. No be
beans. GOD has been good. #RareAsMyLove
#TheGoodLife. (Photo cred: @ricktennis101 )
He also went on to reflect on the Mo’hits days,
talking about how he’s been lucky enough to
start and manage two big record labels. He
shared a photo from the Mo’Hits era with the
caption:
#TBT I have been fortunate to start and run
two major music labels in Nigeria. Mo’ Hits
and @MAVINRECORDS. Gave me rare
opportunities to collaborate with artists on a
global scale. What rare moments have
shaped your life? #RareAsMyLove

‘Dasuki To Face Fresh Charges Over 1994 Millitary Charge’ – Yahoo News! by Emmanuel Lala

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Abuja (AFP) – Nigeria’s former national security
advisor remains in custody as he is under
investigation for alleged offences committed
decades ago when he was an army officer, a
state prosecutor said Thursday.
Sambo Dasuki is already facing three trials with
a slew of charges in connection with looting
billions of dollars that were supposed to go
towards fighting Boko Haram Islamists.
He is one of just 55 people the Nigerian
government claims stole more than $6 billion
between 2006 and 2013, leaving Africa’s biggest
economy reeling in the wake of the global oil
price plunge.
But despite being granted bail in December,
Dasuki has been kept in custody by Nigeria’s
intelligence agency, the Department of State
Services (DSS), without access to his legal
counsel.
Prosecutor Rotimi Jacobs told an Abuja court
that Dasuki was rearrested because the
government is investigating an “alleged breach of
service law” when he was serving as a colonel in
the army before his retirement in 1994.
Defence lawyer Joseph Daudu said Dasuki — a
powerful member of former president Goodluck
Jonathan’s administration — is being denied the
right to a fair trial and that all three cases
against him should be dismissed.




“There’s really no way he can get a fair trial in
the circumstances,” Daudu said to AFP, vowing
if necessary to take the matter to the Supreme
Court.
Dasuki is rumoured to have arrested
Muhammadu Buhari at gunpoint when he was
overthrown in a 1985 coup after serving nearly
two years as head of a military government.
Daudu said that Dasuki will neither “confirm or
deny” that rumour, but added there is “no love
lost” between his client and Buhari, now
Nigeria’s elected president.
Political analyst Chris Ngwodo said that far from
settling old grievances, the ultimate reason for
Dasuki’s continued incarceration is that the
government is struggling to stitch together its
case against him.
“What is the most important thing for them is for
him to be in custody, they do not want to make
him free,” Ngwodo said.
“So they are resorting to somewhat underhanded
tactics,” Ngwodo said. “What they will keep doing
is finding fresh ways of holding him in custody
until they can fine tune their case.”

Chidinma Ekile Steps Out In All White Outfit; Did She Slay The Look? (Photos) by Emmanuel Lala

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Beautiful singer, Chidinma is one beautiful singer
whose beauty is something that everyone can’t
help but gush about.
The singer shared lovely photos of herself
rocking an all white outfit and we must say that
she nearly looked like a bride in the outfit.



Some fans have admired the outfit, while some
others revealed her make-up was too heavy and
doesn’t fit her.. what are your thoughts?

How Lai Mohammed, Mo Abudu and Nigerian Entertainers embarrassed each other at Southern Sun Hotel meeting

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The meeting began with exchange of
pleasantries; hugs and handshakes, friendly
gestures and smiles. As the folks settled down,
the Honourable Minister for Information gave a
brief remark on what the agenda for the meeting
was, seeking their buy in for what he called the
new change mantra “it begins with me” He also
informed that campaign which is like the War
against Indiscipline will be launched on the 15th
of March, 2016 by President Muhammadu
Buhari.
Lai Mohammed said the ‘Change Begins with Me’
campaign and the South African consulting firm
handling the project had produced a theme song
for the campaign already but he had changed his
mind based on the advise he got from Mo Abudu,
the CEO of Ebony Life TV who facilitated the
meeting on the need to get the Nigerian top
entertainment industry acts to ‘Jazz it up’
referring to the theme song.
Some of the artistes present who had sensed
that the campaign is a National project of great
importance which they have to key into
immediately requested for the theme song.
However the theme song was not presented by
neither the Minister, the South African consulting
company nor the Facilitator. The Artistes started
saying that there was truly no theme song
indirectly accusing the Minister of telling a lie.
Mo Abudu, the facilitator quickly intervened and
said ‘theme song or no theme song, the essence
of the meeting was to come up with a theme
song that will be befitting’.
Lai Mohammed then asked the artistes to come
up with a theme song before the launch of the
Campaign and Mavin Records owner and award
winning producer Don jazzy was mandated to
lead the assignment.
DonJazzy however told the Minister that due to
the time frame which is 45 days from the day of
the meeting, that he will not be able to handle
that and suggested the that the project was
assigned to legendary producer Cobhams.
The Minister, Lai Mohammed insisted that he
cannot push the launch date further and it was
either the Artistes agree to do it or forget it.
This comment was said to have infuriated rap
artiste Jude Abaga aka MI, who told the minister
that he was being very disrespectful and
grandstanding saying that the mere fact that he
brought a South African company to boss a
strategic project to Nigeria was a slap on the
face of the Industry.
Several other artistes backed MI’s position and
the Minister of Information Lai Mohammed did
not give a damn. Contrary to the pictures, the
event was a waste of time as no deal concerning
the theme song was struck between the
Entertainers and the Minister of Information. As
a matter of fact everyone in the meeting left
with the slogan ‘Jazz it Up’ making mockery of
the phrase Lai Mohammed had earlier used.
Present at the meeting were; Kwam 1, KSA, Don
Jazzy, MI, Supreme Mavin Dynasty, Chocolate
City, Tiwa Savage, P-Square, Jude Okoye,staff of
the Ministry of Information and consultants were
present at the meeting.

Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s Minister of

Information and Culture held on the 24th of

January an interaction with Nigerian Entertainers

and stakeholders at the Southern Sun Hotel in

Lagos. Contrary to the photos in the media, the

meeting was an embarrassment and a waste of

time. Read the account of what happened from an

Insider:

#NigeriansAreNotCriminals: Citizens, Leaders Blast Buhari Over ‘Nigerians Are Criminals’ Comments [TWEETS] By Idoreyin Sampson

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On Friday, Nigerian President Muhammadu
Buhari granted an interview to Telegraph
Newspaper in London in which he declared that
Nigerians are known as criminals abroad and as
such their asylum requests are denied.
“Some Nigerians claim is that life is too difficult
back home, but they have also made it difficult
for Europeans and Americans to accept them
because of the number of Nigerians in prisons all
over the world accused of drug trafficking or
human trafficking,” Buhari told The Telegraph.
“I don’t think Nigerians have anybody to blame.
They can remain at home, where their services
are required to rebuild the country.”





Nigerians have taken to social media websites to
express outrage at a leader of the country
demarketing Nigerians abroad. On Twitter, the
hashtag #NigeriansAreNotCriminals began to
trend after political leaders and citizens took to
the micro-blogging website to condemn President
Buhari for talking down to the citizens of the
country while speaking with foreign press.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari | Getty

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Election Verdicts: Who Paid TMG To Disparage Nigeria’s Supreme Court Justices?... By News Release - Feb 7, 2016

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It was with great shock that we read the
inglorious reaction of the Transition Monitoring
Group’s (TMG) to the verdicts of the Supreme
Court on the Akwa Ibom and Rivers States
election matters. The words used by the body in
describing the judgements and judges betray the
fact that this has always been a group set up by
desperate politicians to masquerade as
independent election observers while doing the
infamous bidding of their paymasters.
This is not surprising. Coming just very few days
after the national chairman of APC called for the
probe of the Supreme Court Justices over the
same issue, we do not need to look too far to
know who the sponsors of the so-called
“Transition Maligning Group” are.
To say that the Supreme Court judgements are
“clear cut attempts at legalising electoral
robberies”, is the most uncharitable thing anyone
or group could say about the Supreme Court.
What the TMG fails to understand is that unlike
their sponsors who are so desperate to “capture”
the oil-rich states especially, that they would do
anything including harassment, intimidation and
alleged attempt at bribing the honourable
justices, the Supreme Court justices are men of
integrity, fearless in their endeavours, audacious
in the dispensation of justice and unrelenting in
remaining the last hope of the common man and
the oppressed. The joy that greeted those
judgements across the nation is an eloquent
testimony to the fact that the honourable
justices are in tandem with realities in the land
and the law.
TMG should not think that everybody
condescends so low as to pervert justice like
they do in their analysis of justice dispensation
just because they live off the crumbs that fall
from their masters’ tables. One wonders where
groups like this were when the Supreme Court
upheld the elections of Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun
State, Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State and even that
of Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State among many
others.
The statement by TMG smacks of recalcitrance
coupled with excessive exuberance and political
rascality taken too far. These attempts by APC,
their leaders and foot soldiers, to continue to
intimidate, insult, disparage and calumniate our
judiciary are absolutely unacceptable. One
wonders why TMG is so particular about Rivers
and Akwa Ibom States? Does this obsessive
concern for these states even as earlier
expressed by Oyegun not justify our position that
TMG has sold its soul to the devil?
Our organisation with over 500,000 members
nationwide is, however, consoled that no matter
the level of political brigandage exhibited by
insolent groups like the TMG, our courts shall
continue to remain the last hope of the common
man and the bastion of justice. We are most
glad that the justices of the apex court are
neither swayed by the archaic antics of groups
like TMG nor are they going to ever succumb to
their subtle threats.
Thank you.
Jude C. Ndukwe
National Coordinator
Movement for the Advancement of National
Transformation

APC National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun