Year: 2018

Probe Obasanjo, Danjuma, Group Tells UN, ICC

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…asks them to account for Odi/Zaki-Biam massacres The Good Governance Advocacy Project, a Civil Society Organization has called on the United Nations and International Criminal Court to investigate, prosecute and convict former President, Olusegun Obasanjo and erstwhile Minister of Defence TY Danjuma, for alleged involvement in war crimes and other offenses against humanity that took place at various times between 1999 and 2007. The group is calling on the international bodies to probe Obasanjo and Danjuma for alleged their involvement in crimes against humanity and offences bordering on war crimes…

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IMN Threat And The State’s Monopoly Of Violence By Richard Murphy

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There must be a limit to deluding ourselves. Metamorphosis is real. The process moves from egg to larva to pupa and finally the adult insect emerges to do good or unleash evil. The Islamic Movement in Nigeria is at the verge of evolving to the adult stage of destruction – having gone through the pupa stage of relative inaction until it began a campaign of violence in the last few days. Boko Haram went through similar stages with different acceleration in time past. It began as a collection of youths…

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USIP Prediction On 2019 And Shehu Sani’s Reactions By Isaac Atuluku

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The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) has in line with its mandate to promote conflict resolution and conflict prevention worldwide conducted a research on the forthcoming general election in Nigeria with a view to identifying flash points and likely areas of conflicts. But based on its interactions with Nigerians in the course of the research the institute noted that there’s every indication that the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, President Muhammad Buhari is likely to win the 2019 presidential elections. Anybody going through the report will see that it…

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El-Zakyzaky: Centre Writes US Over IMN Activities, Insists Group Not ‘Harmless Protesters’

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The Save Humanity Advocacy Centre (SHAC) has written the United States of America over the activities of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) otherwise known as Shi’ites. The centre specifically frowned at the recent protests staged by members of the group which led to lost of lives and crippled commercial activities in the Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. The letter signed by its Executive Director, Dr. Grace Akatu, SHAC called on the United States to speak up on the side of truth by urging an end to the terrorist activities of IMN…

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Discharge Your Duties With Professionalism, Integrity, Minister Of Finance Tells TAT Commissioners:

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The Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, on Monday urged the newly inaugurated Tax Appeal Tribunal (TAT) Commissioners “to discharge their duties with high level of professionalism, integrity, diligence and fairness to all parties”. The Minister of Finance, who stated this while inaugurating the new commissioners in Abuja, also implored the commissioners to avoid unnecessary delays and adjournment of cases and that their decisions should be in line with tax laws. A statement by the special adviser to the Minister of Finance on media and communications, Mr Paul Ella…

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2019: Will Plateau Return To Egypt? By Sunday Thomas

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These are very auspicious times. For states under induced violence and killings, there is every need to tramp with caution, because the political scavengers are back. They are on the prowl, enriched in more tricks and deceptions in the quest for power. Leadership of any state in Nigeria is quite difficult. It has enormous responsibilities. Governors battle seen and unseen forces to keep the ship of state afloat. I must not pretend to be a happy man, when my home state of Plateau, an acclaimed home of peace and tourism…

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WASC: PDP Finally Confirms Saintliness On Buhari’s Integrity BY EDE-ANYA GEORGE

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There has been much fury in the clan of PDP, Nigeria’s main opposition. Drily voices vibrated in consuming chants; there were ruckus hullaballoos or inexplicable excitement in the opposition camp everywhere. They were demanding President Muhammedu’s Buhari’s secondary school certificate. So, tongues meaninglessly wagged in haughty ambience. Similarly in 2014, when President Buhari as the then main opposition Presidential candidate of the APC, contested against the PDP incumbent, former President Goodluck Jonathan, same queries and voices of discontent stampeded every ear. Then, as now, PDP members were piqued that Buhari…

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Alkali: Former Police Chief, Tsav Hails Nigerian Army Conduct In A Letter To Buratai

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Elder statesman and former Commissioner of Police, Lagos and Kano States, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, has penned a thought-provoking letter to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukkur Buratai, over the abduction and murder of Major General Idris Alkali (Rtd) in Dura-Du area of Plateau State. Tsav described the murder of Gen. Alkali a serious temptation, capable of eroding one’s faith in the protection of the Nigerian project. In the letter obtained by our reporter on Sunday, the retired police boss observed that what happened in Dura-Du district had enough…

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Strike: Labour Must Respect Court Order Halting Action, Says CSO

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A Civil Society Organsation, Network for Accountability and Transparency Crusade has urged organised labour to respect the court order halting its proposed nationwide strike action schedule to begin Tuesday. The group in a statement signed by its national coordinator, Dr. Roland Giwa at the weekend said it is aware that the government has indeed put forward tangible explanation why the N30,000 minimum wage demanded by the labour unions was not feasible due to the precarious state of the nation’s finances. He said there are already allegations the intended strike is…

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WAEC: Atiku’s Volunteers Salute Buhari’s Courage, Integrity Ahead Of Polls

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The Atiku-Obi Volunteers Network, a group supporting the presidential ambition of the Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Pete Obi of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has reacted to the issuance of the certificate of attestation to President Muhammadu Buhari by WAEC. Recall that the exam body had on Friday presented the certificate to Presdient Buhari in his office, a development which put to rest the claims in some quarters that the president did not sit for his WASSCE. Speaking on the development, the Atiku-Obi Volunteers Network saluted the courage…

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