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Buni’s absenteeism hitting the people of Yobe hard

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March 5, 2022

Buni’s absenteeism hitting the people of Yobe hard

The Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, has spent two years governing the state but with a questionable system of running the activities by having fewer people attend to his office as governor.

From an authorized idea gathered from the social monitoring of the people’s basic livelihood, there is an immediate need to draw the attention of the governor to constitutionally consider his governorship role, and save an outgrowing state from facing social and economic shrinkage.

Undoubtedly, Buni has been working in all sectors and trying to recover most of the local health and education sectors through restructuring them.

However, there is an inexplicable challenge in the governor’s flight without handling the roles of carrying out services to his deputy governor, as a close inmate to look after the state whenever the governor is away for national assignments.

When the governor is absent, all projects that required an important signature, or any other monitoring report, remain unfinished, and this may continue to cause the state a serious downfall in all aspects.

The people of Yobe state are being hit by the governor’s absenteeism through social and economic incitement, which transcends the situation of the people to an inferior standard. Such an awkward situation corrupts the hope built by people that the governor can be a game-changer and come to their rescue, but seemingly unattended acts are continuously becoming very harsh.

For instance, the part of education reformation and low revenue generation that can help the state stand firm in maintaining standard economic value is another factor against the governor’s absenteeism and how people suffer around the state.

Moreover, the appointment of Governor Buni as the Chairman Care-Taker of the Extraordinary Conventional Committee brings more harm than good to the people of Yobe State —as they continue to face numerous challenges of missing democratic opportunities, and some other people running with the government keep digging a deep hole of mismanagement by using the possibility of Buni’s absenteeism.

Governor Buni should have to step down from his current national party and stay in the state to meet the demands of his people, or else leave the office as a governor in the upcoming 2023 general election.

Therefore, Governor Buni needs to make a choice and free the state and its people from undergoing such a situation of economic destruction. His presence as a governor is very important to save his people and the state at large.

Kasim Isa Muhammad wrote from Potiskum, Yobe State.

Anambra community cries over activities of criminal gangs, land grabbers

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March 4, 2022

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Anambra community cries over activities of criminal gangs, land grabbers

By: Dilibe Michael

Umugama Village Ukwulu in Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State has called on the security agents and government authority to save them from the Activities of a notorious criminal gang and land grabbers led by Philip Dilibe.

Speaking to the press, Peter Okoye who is the Chairman of Umugama Progressive Union, Ukwulu stated that for years now Mr. Philip Dilibe and his gang have been terrorizing the community despite several reports and complaint s to relevant security agencies including the Force Headquarters, Abuja.

Okoye who led the entire community to register their displeasure at Anambra State Headquarters, Awka alledged that apart from intimidation, harassment, extortion, threat to life, Philip Dilibe and his gang have upped their activities into grabbing and selling of the community land and challenge anybody who would dare them.

He further alledged that Philip Dilibe engages unknown gunmen who guard those he engages in destroying their farm land and crops.

He lamented that his life and that of his people are being threatened on daily basis.

Okoye cited an example of the sad event of 25th February, 2022 where the gunmen engaged and led by Philip Dilibe shot and wounded two persons from his community but for the Swift intervention of the Police from Dunukofia Division more harms would have been inflicted on his people.

In the process the Police recovered one pump action gun, one Tundra vehicle and some surveying equipmens from the attacker.

He also accused Phillip Dilibe of collaborating with other land grabbers outside the community to sell the community land to prospective buyers without the concern and approval of the authorities of the community.

He further alledged that Philip Dilibe stock in trade is rush to the police as the complainant and later subvert and truncate the police investigation.

Okoye stated that Philip Dilibe who is not holding any position in the community at any level has made several attempt with his partner in crime to remove him as the Chairman of the Village, but his people resist him because they believed in his leadership style.

He also accused Philip Dilibe of hiring thugs from their neighbouring communities such as Enugwu-Agidi, Nawgu and Awkuzu and sponsoring them to stage violent protest against the Traditional Ruler of Ukwulu Kingdom, HRM Igwe Peter Uyanwa who has stood by the Village against the activities of Philip Dilibe, so as to cover and divert the attention of the public from his criminal activities.

Okoye therefore, wants Philip Dilibe to desist from his iglonoble attitude, noting that the accestors of the land are currently against him.

Okoye further averred that he believes in the ability of the Police to restore peace to his community.

Corroborating the Chairman, Mrs. Nonye Okeke, the village women leader, in her brief comment, appealed to the Police to sanction Philip Dilibe for peace to returned to the village.

Nigerian Striker To Sign Deal Worth N9 Billion

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March 4, 2022

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Nigerian Striker To Sign Deal Worth N9 Billion

Sevilla are reportedly interested in signing Nigerian striker Umar Sadiq who currently plays for Almeria and has been on a brilliant form so far this season.

Premier League side Newcastle United and Barcelona have also been linked with a move to sign Sadiq when the ongoing League season comes to an end.

According to multiple reports, Almeria chiefs are ready to sell Sadiq Umar in the summer but the club interested must be able to pay N9 billion.

The Super Eagle striker made 22 starts and two substitute appearances in the Segunda Division for Almeria so far this season scoring 13 goals in the process. His performances also helped him to make the Super Eagles squad that went to Cameroon for the 2021 African Cup of Nations netting one goal as Nigeria crashed out in the knockout.

Super Eagles of Nigeria are expected to be in action this month (March) for the 2022 final World Cup playoffs against Ghana which will be two-legged with the aim of qualifying for the big tournament which will hold this year in Qatar.

2023 Polls Will Be Challenging, Says INEC

2023 Election

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March 4, 2022

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Despite the coming on board of a new Electoral Act that will guide the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said the polls will come with challenges.

Though the Commission restated its determination to surmount the challenges, it noted that “so many of the IDPs are in the houses of friends and relatives and have lost their Permanent Voters Cards and it is next to impossibility to recreate their constituencies and polling units”.

INEC National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee Festus Okoye, who spoke at a town hall meeting organized by the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), noted “growing insecurity in several parts of the country and the increasing number of internally displaced persons will pose challenges to the conduct of the 2023 general election.

This is because section 47(1) of the Electoral Act clearly provides that a person intending to vote in an election shall present himself with his voter’s card to a Presiding Officer for accreditation at the polling unit in the constituency in which his name is registered.

“Some of these persons are no longer in their constituencies and can no longer access their polling units and so many of them have lost their Permanent Voters Cards.

“While it is easy to recreate constituencies and polling units in clustered camps of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP camps), it is next to impossibility to do so for persons staying in scattered locations”.

He added: “For the internally displaced, the Commission will print new Permanent Voters Cards for them and recreate their polling units in their camps and they will be eligible to vote in some of the elections depending on their location and their proximity to their State and Federal Constituencies.

This is in accord with section 24(1) of the Electoral Act, which provides that “In the event of an emergency affecting an election, the Commission shall, as far as practicable, ensure that persons displaced as a result of the emergency are not disenfranchised.

“Based on this, the Commission developed regulations and guidelines on IDP voting and will implement the intendment of the law and the Regulations and Guidelines.
As you are aware, the Commission is currently at the terminal phase of its Continuous Voters Registration Exercise (CVR).

“There are so many communities that are still inaccessible to our registration officers. In the next few weeks, the Commission will roll out modalities for the further devolution and rotation of the CVR to our registration areas and the security of our personnel and the registrants are fundamental to the success of the exercise.

“We are determined to register all eligible registrants but will not expose our staff to unnecessary danger. We will roll out and roll back depending on the security situation in different parts of the country.”

I Will Dump PDP Before End Of March —Kwankwaso

2023 Election

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March 4, 2022

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I Will Dump PDP Before End Of March —Kwankwaso

Former governor of Kano state, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has said he is set to dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the New Nigeria People Party (NNPP).

Kwankwaso said preparations were in top gear and he would announce his next step of action before the end of March.

Although he did not give reasons for choosing NNPP, recently Kwankwaso said the two leading parties (APC and PDP), have nothing to offer Nigerians in 2023.

“I didn’t see anything that either APC or PDP will show or tell Nigerians to get convinced and vote for them in the coming 2023 elections.”

So I think people should now come to think of the right party and people to support and vote for so that we can rescue the present situation.

“In 2015, we gave the leadership of the state to some, thinking that they will make it, but not knowing that it won’t yield any positive outcome. That is why we are back to rescue our state,” Kwankwaso had said.

An associate of the former governor, said poor handling of the leadership crisis in Kano PDP forced Kwankwaso to exit the party.

Last month, Kwankwaso had joined forces with some of his associates to launch a new movement ‘The National Movement, TNM.

PDP Will Improve Quality Of Nigerians’ Life —Wike

Nyesom Wike

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March 3, 2022

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PDP Will Improve Quality Of Nigerians’ Life —Wike

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has vowed that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was resolute to end the economic hardship introduced on Nigerians by the All Progressives Congress (APC).

He direct Nigerians to show that they were truly tired of the bad leadership style of the APC and to be willing to use their Voter’s Card to vote the ruling party out of office in 2023.

Wike spoke yesterday at the inauguration of the 3.5 km long Mgbuoshimini-Nkpor Road in Rumuolumeni Community, Obio/Akpor local government area of the state.

The governor stated that the APC gropes in failure because it does not have in its kitty the quality of productive good governance.

He said: “If this crowd that has come out here will come out in 2023, the election will be free. If you don’t change the bad government, you too, you are part of the bad government.

“So, use your Voter’s Card to throw away this government at the federal level that has killed Nigeria. That has made hunger, and poverty everywhere. People don’t have jobs, hard economy policy that does not work. But by the grace of God, PDP will change all these.”

Wike noted that since the APC cannot give what it does not have, PDP was gearing up to steer a national revolution in infrastructure delivery and it will begin from 2023.

The governor assured that the leadership that will be seen then will not give excuses, but be committed to growing the economy of the country and restore hope and meaningful living.

He said: “It is only in PDP States that you can see commissioning of projects. While the other (APC) governors are meeting their president on whether convention will hold or not, we are doing projects upon projects.

“So, that is what Nigeria will witness when PDP takes over in 2023. It will be a revolution in infrastructure. There will be no excuses at all. APC government has nothing to offer. It is said that you cannot give what you don’t have.”

Ondo students shut down Akure, Ilesha highway over ASUU strike

Assu

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March 2, 2022

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Ondo students shut down Akure, Ilesha highway over ASUU strike

Students from Tertiary Institutions in Ondo State led by the National Association of University Students, NAUS, on Wednesday shut down the popular Akure/Ilesha highway while protesting the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

The blockade generated heavy vehicular traffic along the highway, with numerous heavy-duty trucks and passenger buses stranded on their way to and from Abuja, Lagos, as well as Benin.

from Tertiary Institutions in Ondo State drove by the National Association of University Students, NAUS, on Wednesday shut down the well known Akure/Ilesha interstate while protesting the continuous strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

The barricade produced weighty vehicular traffic along the interstate, with various substantial trucks and traveler transports abandoned en route to and from Abuja, Lagos, as well as Benin.

Subsequent to hanging tight for a really long time, drivers who could never again bear the bar took elective however longer voyaging courses.

Esedere Abraham, the former Student Union President of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, said the showing would go on until ASUU cancels the strike.

The student association pioneer said student ought not be made to endure on account of a question among ASUU and the central government.

Shittu Folarin, Vice Chairman of NAUS, Ondo State Chapter, said student will guarantee that “this is ASUU’s final step.”

ASUU strike will soon be halted, agreement reached – Ngige

Assu

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March 2, 2022

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ASUU strike will soon be halted, agreement reached – Ngige

In Abuja, the federal government of Nigeria communicated the expectation that the one-month cautioning strike set out upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on February 14, would before long be finished.

ASUU called its individuals out on the advance notice strike to constrain the Federal Government to address their requests, some of which had been waiting beginning around 2009.

Sen. Chris Ngige, the minister of Labour and Employment communicated the expectation of truncation of the advance notice hit when he talked with newsmen toward the finish of an assuagement meeting between the public authority and the association.

Ngige said the gathering settled on many issues and a course of events was booked for the execution of the arrangements.

As per him, ASUU authorities consented to get back to their individuals with offers made by the public authority and return to him before the week runs out.

He noticed that a considerable lot of the things in the 2020 Memorandum of Action (MOA) had been managed thoroughly, while some were being tended to.

“We have only one or two areas that are new. One of the new areas is the renegotiation of the Conditions of Service, which is called the `2009 Agreement’.

“An agreement was reached in 2009 that their Conditions of Service would be reviewed every five years. It was done in 2014.

“We started one in which the former UNILAG Pro-Chancellor, Wale Babalakin (SAN), was chairing the committee.

“After Babalakin, Prof. Manzali was in charge and the committee came up with a draft document, proposed by the Federal Ministry of Education and ASUU.

“Today, Manzali’s committee has become defunct because many of the people in the committee are no longer pro-chancellors,” the minister explained.

Ngige said that a new team had been constituted to take a second look at that document.

“This is to make sure that some of the allowances are not against the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC) fixed rates for wages and allowances.

“If you propose allowances that do not comply with NSIWC rates, the government will not be able to accept it.

“So, it is important that they do the right thing from the beginning so that whatever the committee presents can be approved by the Federal Executive Council,’’ he said.

Adamu Adamu and NANS’ Infantile Radicalism By Farooq Kperogi

Adamu Adamu

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March 1, 2022

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Adamu Adamu and NANS’ Infantile Radicalism By Farooq Kperogi

I just watched the trending video of Education Minister Mallam Adamu Adamu’s interaction with the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and was disappointed both by the unproductive and embarrassingly infantile jabbering of the NANS president and by Adamu Adamu’s inability to rise superior to the provocative infantilism of the NANS guys.

NANS misused an opportunity to plead with the minister to meet ASUU’s demands so students can return to classes. They also missed an opportunity to ask why he supported ASUU when he was out of government but has now become university teachers’ worst nightmare in government. What does he know now that he didn’t know before?

NANS went into the meeting unprepared, and their president attempted to compensate for his unpreparedness by engaging in unprovoked yelling and poorly executed, grammatically challenged melodramatic declamations.

He said Adamu celebrated the graduation of his child from a UK university. I’m prepared to be contradicted and corrected, but this appears to be false. I only read on social media that one of Adamu’s daughters recently graduated from a private university in Abuja at the top of her class; I’ve never heard of any of his children graduating from a foreign university.

I think the NANS president was confusing the education minister with the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, who was criticized in 2017 for celebrating the graduation of his son from a UK university.

But even that criticism stemmed from misinformation. Rasheed’s son was (perhaps still is) a university lecturer who benefited from a TETFUND scholarship (which, by the way, is a legacy of ASUU strikes) to study for a graduate degree in the UK. He won the scholarship BEFORE his father was appointed as NUC’s Executive Secretary.

I know it can be exasperating for a man young enough to be your grandchild to yell at you and lie against you while the cameras are rolling, but Malam Adamu should have shown maturity and restraint by not walking out on the NANS delegation.

The French say noblesse oblige, i.e., people who are privileged to be in a high rank have an obligation to be honorable, restrained, and generous.

Well, Mallam Adamu is also obligated to tell us why he is allowing this ASUU strike to linger on when he, in the past, consistently and vigorously defended the broad principles that undergird the grievances of Nigerian university teachers.

What is needed now isn’t more futile and pointless negotiations but action. Where is the action from him? Students and parents are hurting. This can’t continue.

Cameroonian Forces Seize Farmlands In Nigerian Territory

Adamawa

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February 28, 2022

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Cameroonian Forces Seize Farmlands In Nigerian Territory

Cameroonian armed security operatives have intrude and seized farmlands from Nigerians in border communities.

Some residents of Kwaja, a border community in Adamawa State, have cried out, urging the Nigerian government to recover their land from the Cameroonian authorities.
The residents have vehemently protested, saying they were denied passage to their farmlands.

Their protest message says, ‘Maintain ICJ position’, ‘We agreed to the 1932 Thompson Marchand Declaration’, We request for Protection from Nigerian Government’.

The community alleged that Cameroonian officials on 14 February, 2022 erected demarcation signs in Kwaja, Kinga, Jugrma, Fajawa Girziya villages in the Mubi South Local Government Area, known for the cultivation of Irish potatoes.

The spokesman for the community, Dr Ibrahim Kwaja said a letter requesting the Nigerian government to protect the rights and interest of the people has been addressed to the federal and state governments and Nigeria/Cameroon Mixed Commission on the boundary, stressing that the community was amalgamated as part of Northern protectorate in 1914.

The letter agrees with the Thompson Marchand declaration which the International Court of Justice accepts as the correct instrument defining the boundary in the Kwaja area against the watershed line.

The letter reads in part, “In respect of the ICJ judgement, we stand to argue that our people from generation have never in any case spread beyond Nigerian boundary.

“We would not continue to watch our community tortured by confiscation of our shelter and farmlands.”

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