Ugandan President mocks Pres. Jonathan for accepting international assistance

<br /> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_1AO0zlrsvjf-UhjyuRIEoj08REkzwPfoDEK8ELqXXPWmZAuG3YSdF54nrLno-xr7jqG-5LVEVivpRpc4GO6nc-o0dW_WF-qTWTcLIMAaCERDohyBT4Wg1uzuIjz7wXF6l2iwtQHyFJYI/s1600/Goodluck_jonathan3.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(180, 30, 32); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7xLIDaXVHU95ODPP1Hma1QgMwe-9-a7mwmsNAkVvSkyyEaPpdvPVp2fAP86tj7XP2nlHlPkkoPP_sQ01NO7IoB3DKdoYW-LTmCoUbXGvbOHNVv7PBTPFWetUHQSNk3W6vhqA4BeM8w32w/s1600/Ugandas-President-Yoweri-Museveni.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(180, 30, 32); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> He actually made an ignorant statement (my opinion). While speaking at a campaign rally yesterday, Uganda’s President, Yoweri Museveni mocked President Jonathan for accepting foreign assistance to help fight Boko Haram. The former guerrila fighter said he'd rather commit suicide than ask the international community to protect his people against terrorists</div> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <div class="p1"> “I have never called the United Nations to guard us. Me, Yoweri Museveni to say that I have failed to protect my people and I call on the UN: I would rather hang myself. We prioritized national security by developing a strong Army, otherwise our Uganda would be like DRC, South Sudan, Somalia or Nigeria where militias have disappeared with school children.</div> </blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <div class="p1"> “It would be a vote of no confidence in our country and citizens if we cannot guarantee our security. What kind of persons would we be?” He said</div> </blockquote>

Ugandan President mocks Pres. Jonathan for accepting international assistance

He actually made an ignorant statement (my opinion). While speaking at a campaign rally yesterday, Uganda’s President, Yoweri Museveni m...

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Soyinka says he's never referred to Patience Jonathan as 'illiterate'

<br /> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicpLO4gREN9TKrS2JUpsj43R6JiRQoT_sjiMqX-zwtYVUJ8xNoev_p-MjfSQEb8-_8ig2pGXNbmKSYfiz8PNc9GDtqhIEgIjG0C5alKA7rP7jjQ27X-QBUeu4WffxGy0fgD46heEb7OL76/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #b41e20; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicpLO4gREN9TKrS2JUpsj43R6JiRQoT_sjiMqX-zwtYVUJ8xNoev_p-MjfSQEb8-_8ig2pGXNbmKSYfiz8PNc9GDtqhIEgIjG0C5alKA7rP7jjQ27X-QBUeu4WffxGy0fgD46heEb7OL76/s1600/2.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(180, 30, 32); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Literary icon Professor Wole Soyinka in a statement released yesterday to media houses said that while he may have publicly chastised First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, he has never referred to her as an illiterate. He said his name is being falsely used to disrespect the first lady and will take legal action once he finds out the source of the lies. I recall him referring to Patience Jonathan as</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> that woman </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">on his CNN interview with Amanpour though. Anyway, his statement reads in part below;</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> "It commenced over a year ago, I seem to recollect, as a telephone text, 'tweet' or whatever it is called, died away after strong rebuttals, and is now being provided renewed life by some faceless cowards with their own private agenda. Let me state quite clearly that literacy is no indicator of intelligence, even though we all believe (I hope) in universal literacy. From childhood I have interacted with so-called "illiterate" men and women, sipped from their innate intelligence, and learnt much from them outside formal schooling"...<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a> </blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> "Your readers may wish to know that when I first encountered the statement, I was sufficiently appalled to send a personal message to Patience Jonathan dissociating myself from such a base sentiment. The associated commentary on the president's decisions - I have no idea which decision, if any - is equally outrageous and disgusting. To attribute to me the slightest interest in the choice of a spouse by man or woman is a complete travesty of my near obsessive belief in the sanctity of private relationships"</blockquote> <blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> “Let me take this opportunity to announce yet again that I do not tweet, blog or whatever goes on in this increasingly promiscuous medium. I do not run a Facebook, even though I am aware that one or two serious-minded individuals/groups have instituted some such forum on their own, for the purpose of disseminating factual information on my activities. I neither contribute to, nor comment on the contents of their "calendar".</blockquote> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">On how the internet is being used to disrespect people, Prof Soyinka said professional actions should be taken to protect the integrity of the medium, and save it from becoming “a mere vomitorium” for unprincipled scallywags who may or may not have a particular axe to grind.</span>

Soyinka says he's never referred to Patience Jonathan as 'illiterate'

Literary icon Professor Wole Soyinka in a statement released yesterday to media houses said that while he may have publicly chastised Fir...

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CNN's Jim Clancy supports GEJ not visiting Chibok, says its risky

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CNN's Jim Clancy supports GEJ not visiting Chibok, says its risky

One of CNN's respected news anchor, Jim Clancy has supported President Jonathan not going to Chibok, tweeting that the president can...

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Dora Akunyili releases statement about her health, says she's not dead

<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghbcmVLpJxJfBbM1rXCo6vboD0MGKhAq0hl8cIMjj3_GIf5XnjjYGm2tIwve2uqSUoa6g1xht1ZPEpAj0YAGj8SB3w2PY5hOC3VOUr5q2AX9tepQDiVSNmbMoNKGG3g0fK38QeBTxrMczR/s1600/Image+(6).jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(180, 30, 32); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8E-Om0oIx_hoNodvpZ4lDdAKXsmVaBm8hJfOzvJSJaM3q3LiDOLhUoQaC-AK5JA29SFN_SAN7wGqoudnVi04Iyk6b2FHdV-te__iEGE4SEdPCUGRqPWsmqVe53-UieQ-v-BnkssKFSNXq/s1600/00.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(180, 30, 32); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /></div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Apparently there were rumours flying around that former NAFDAC boss Mrs Dora Akunyili,who is currently undergoing medical treatment in India, had passed on...(I didn't hear it) but the rumour was apparently strong enough to get a response from the former minister's media assistant. He released a statement via her FB page to dispel the rumour and says she's responding to treatment</span>

Dora Akunyili releases statement about her health, says she's not dead

Apparently there were rumours flying around that former NAFDAC boss Mrs Dora Akunyili,who is currently undergoing medical treatment in Ind...

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Made-in-Nigeria vehicles to roll out next month – FG

<br /> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCtClVfBdCCM08tACjZPc6F7tXDjP8Nla7AQIpy90s0nTiFySqUiW8JwkEZz_Nlb113XQSHRXb1GYslB8xE0AjNTDu0FwqWhqTCILYuhKq9Q6H9NTvndnymA8NWFZHkhtO-Fl8BHHr4K6g/s1600/unnamed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #b41e20; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCtClVfBdCCM08tACjZPc6F7tXDjP8Nla7AQIpy90s0nTiFySqUiW8JwkEZz_Nlb113XQSHRXb1GYslB8xE0AjNTDu0FwqWhqTCILYuhKq9Q6H9NTvndnymA8NWFZHkhtO-Fl8BHHr4K6g/s1600/unnamed.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(180, 30, 32); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a></div> <div> Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Samuel Ortom has revealed the Federal Government's plans to roll out made-in-Nigeria vehicles into the market next month, June 2014. The Minister made this known when he received a delegation from Automobile Peugeot, France in his office in Abuja, Punch reports.</div> <br />The minister, while addressing the delegation which included the company's Vice President, Mr. Yves Moulin, said the newly introduced auto policy is quite effective and is attracting automobile brands to establish assembly plants in Nigeria. Continue...</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a><blockquote class="tr_bq"> "The automotive policy is derived from the National Industrial Revolution Plan, and we are happy with the response we have been getting from the automotive industry worldwide; and with your coming, it shows that this policy is working. When the policy was introduced, people criticised it and most of them do not understand the benefit of the policy. We have had several stakeholders from the automotive industry approaching us to set up assembly plants and spare parts plants in the country. I want to assure up you on behalf of the government that we will do everything to make sure the policy succeeds.” the minister said</blockquote> </div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Meanwhile the first set of Peugeot cars assembled here in Nigeria would be reeled out next month, says Managing Director, Peugeot Automobile Nigeria Limited, Mr Ibrahim Boyi. He said this was made possible due to the Auto policy placed by the government.</span>

Made-in-Nigeria vehicles to roll out next month – FG

Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Samuel Ortom has revealed the Federal Government's plans to roll out made...

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Reuben Abati says the president never planned to visit Chibok today

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border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(180, 30, 32); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /></div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">CNN, Reuters and many news agencies yesterday reported that GEJ would be visiting Chibok today...but now his media spokesperson Reuben Abati says he never made such plans. The president is being criticized for choosing to go to Paris today for a security summit instead of visiting Chibok.</span>

Reuben Abati says the president never planned to visit Chibok today

CNN, Reuters and many news agencies yesterday reported that GEJ would be visiting Chibok today...but now his media spokesperson Reu...

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President Jonathan to visit Chibok this Friday

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President Jonathan to visit Chibok this Friday

According to Reuters Africa, President Jonathan will  this Friday May 16th  visit Chibok Community where over 200 girls were abducted by...

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GEJ heads for Paris talks with leaders of neighbouring countries on joint action against Boko Haram

<br /> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivgX6kphy0LLQpI_-1lhG84-CtzyFbiguPDzrYdOD_lTuSXugSPhB_PI8yYfn20FFz5o24qX2EnSSeC4LN6Z50z_pcJKSRijDK7aiHHhkdFLDBsPbbub0t1_bsntXb1DrvZ3qQ-tsGEcs/s1600/President-Jonathan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #b41e20; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivgX6kphy0LLQpI_-1lhG84-CtzyFbiguPDzrYdOD_lTuSXugSPhB_PI8yYfn20FFz5o24qX2EnSSeC4LN6Z50z_pcJKSRijDK7aiHHhkdFLDBsPbbub0t1_bsntXb1DrvZ3qQ-tsGEcs/s1600/President-Jonathan.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(180, 30, 32); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Find the State House Press Release below...</span><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN" style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will travel to Paris, France, <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1906541018" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Friday</span></span> to participate in a summit convened by President Francois Hollande to discuss fresh strategies for dealing with the security threat posed by Boko Haram and other terrorist groups in West and Central Africa.</span></span></span></div> </blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN" style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">President Jonathan will be joined at the summit by Heads of State and Government of Benin Republic, Cameroon, Niger and Chad.</span></span></span></div> <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a></blockquote> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN" style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN" style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">It is also expected that Britain, the United States of America and the European Union will be represented at the talks which will give special attention to the coordination and intensification of efforts to curtail the destabilizing activities of Boko Haram in Nigeria and neighbouring countries in the wake of the recent abduction of college girls from Chibok, Borno State.</span></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN" style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN" style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">President Jonathan, who will be accompanied by the Minister of Defence, Lt-Gen. Aliyu Gusau (rtd.), the National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd.) as well as other principal aides and advisers, will return to Abuja at the conclusion of the summit on Saturday.</span></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN" style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">Reuben Abati</span></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN" style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">Special Adviser to the President</span></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN" style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">(Media & Publicity)</span></span></span></div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><span lang="EN" style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">May 14, 2014</span></u></span></span></div>

GEJ heads for Paris talks with leaders of neighbouring countries on joint action against Boko Haram

Find the State House Press Release below... President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will travel to Paris, France,  Friday  to participate in...

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Chris Okotie writes on Boko Haram, Chibok girls and Int'l assistance

<br /> <br /> <div class="post-footer" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> </div> <br /> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2968815802964798442" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; position: relative; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; width: 616px; word-spacing: 0px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJk0NanBlTmyV6II2PtXwrGoOOFWhshF9aWOuJ6-dEAHqbaK7g9B2qVwmQzKRyI_1GEN8MklVrThw2L-zvax2g5yVqUwFiinpap5BlQV7OcMJ2Q3lQveSlVIrz2YGyZFHyQAn7P_mHomE/s1600/Rev-Chris-Okotie-360x225.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #b41e20; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJk0NanBlTmyV6II2PtXwrGoOOFWhshF9aWOuJ6-dEAHqbaK7g9B2qVwmQzKRyI_1GEN8MklVrThw2L-zvax2g5yVqUwFiinpap5BlQV7OcMJ2Q3lQveSlVIrz2YGyZFHyQAn7P_mHomE/s1600/Rev-Chris-Okotie-360x225.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(180, 30, 32); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div> Former Presidential aspirant and Head Pastor of the Household of God Church Pastor Chris Okotie today May 14th posted an article he wrote on the missing Chibok Girls, state of the nation and the international help Nigeria is receiving in the fight against Boko Haram, on his Facebook page.<br /><br />In the interesting piece, Rev Okotie said Nigeria should not accept help from Israel to avoid Islamizing the terror war because of Israel's long drawn conflict with the Arab nations with whom our predominantly northern brothers share a common faith. See the article below<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> "In modern times, apart from Adolf Hitler’s Holocaust which killed an estimated six million Jews; the more recent ethnic cleansing in the Balkans and the Rwandan versions, no other massacre of the innocent surpasses the Boko Haram killings in brutality. These guys have kidnapped a part of this nation. We need a new strategy to rescue it. Thank God, First World leaders with experience and proven competence in counter-insurgency have responded to President Goodluck Jonathan’s call for assistance.</blockquote> <div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> What makes Boko Haram’s case puzzling is that the group targets its own people, and especially weak demographic groups like women and children that are normally spared, along with civilian populations, in conventional warfare. Although, terrorists hardly respect this convention, even groups like Al-Qaeda do not attack their own people, expect where they establish a case of betrayal by fifth columnists within their ranks.<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a></blockquote> The unbelievable cruelty of the Boko Haram insurgents as evidenced by the recent abduction of more than 200 girls in a school hostel in Chibok, Bornu State ordinarily would have shocked the sponsors of the Islamists, if they have human hearts in their chests. Nothing suggests that they do, otherwise, they’d have called the fighters they unleashed on this nation to order.<br /><br />At the time of writing the United States, Britain, France and China had pledged support for Nigeria’s efforts to help track Boko Harm and rescue these defenseless girls. This has given hope to Nigerians that, at last, a greater, more realistic action is in the offing.<br />It may be too late for the falcons to hear the falconer. If you ride the back of the tiger to power, it would devour you if it has nothing more to eat. That is the case of Boko Haram. Those who use the hoodlums to rig themselves to power abandoned them when they finally left power.<br /><br />Then, the thugs, abandoned to their own devices were hijacked by politicians of diverse tendencies, and pseudo-Islamic militants, who use the renal youths to pursue dubious objectives. As disparate criminal elements infiltrated the group, it became amorphous, leaderless and difficult to control.<br />The killing of the original leader of Boko Haram, Mohammed Yusuf allegedly in police custody provoked the initial reprisal attacks against the police. Gradually, other targets were being hit. As the sect made headlines it attracted jihadist partners from neighbouring countries like Chad, Niger, Sudan and Mali. Arms from the failing state of Libya after the death of Col. Maummar Ghadaffi fell into the hands of these mercenaries, who have strengthened Boko Haram, to the extent that members of the terror group are now strong enough to frustrate our army.<br /><br />That is why arms and ammunitions captured by Nigerian security forces from Boko Haram fighters appear to be more sophisticated than those our soldiers use against them. We must understand the forces we are dealing with before we could defeat them.<br /><br />It is doubtful if the terrorists have a well structured command and control system like Al-Shabab of Somalia or Al-Qaeda – in the – Islamic Maghreb, which almost over-ran the Malian government, before they were stopped by an African intervention force led by French troops.<br />If we must destroy Boko Haram, we need foreign help in the shape of highly sophisticated intelligence which the aforementioned Western powers who have experience in combating global terrorism have started offering. Some of their personnel are already here; but the President must act with greater decisiveness on this terror war. We need help from anywhere we can get it except Israel. Israel is out of it to avoid Islamisizing the terror war because of the former’s long drawn conflict with the Arab nations, with whom our predominantly northern brothers share a common faith.<br /><br />Therefore, we must carefully select our foreign partners in the war against Boko Haram to avoid introducing international rivalries into it. President Goodluck Jonathan should summon the political will. With foreign help we could fish out the sponsors of the terrorists, and pre-empt the attacks before they are launched. The kidnapping of those young girls at Chibok has set a world record; it is a monumental disgrace, it strikes at the soul of our nation.<br /><br />As it were, Nigeria has been kidnapped. At no time in our checkered history did we live like this, in perpetual fear of being attacked by criminal elements who are now on the prowl across the nation. For the first time, armed groups are laying siege on our military installations; invading army barracks and police formations, leaving heavy casualties in their trail. They appear capable of engaging our last line of defense as hit and run urban gorillas.<br /><br />Now, after the failure of every trick in our books, we obviously have no answer to Boko Haram. We thought the terrorists have been dislodged permanently from Abuja and restricted to just the three North Eastern States of Bornu, Yobe and Adamawa, until the two recent Nyanya bombings. Chibok, which capped this brazen assault is a terrifying reality. How a group could abduct more than 200 girls from their school in an operation that required huge logistics, without being detected in an area where a State of Emergency is in force, is amazing. Nobody knows where they’d strike next, except the terrorists themselves.<br /><br />This recurrent circle of condemnation after a strike and visits by the President or top government functionaries to bombed sites has continued for too long. While this may be a painful imperative for our leaders, what is lacking is a strategy to seriously decapitate the terrorists to such a point that their strike capability is completely destroyed. Effective intelligence could stop the terrorists in their tracks, while a swift, well organized counter-insurgency operation could annihilate them completely.<br />So far, we have not succeeded in containing the terrorists because, either our security forces are ill-equipped, incapable for some reasons, or are over-stretched to police the vast area they are supposed to cover. The Chibok tragedy and the frequent attacks on soft targets like motor parks, worship centres, markets and academic institutions ought to be prevented by the military authorities, because we all know that is the stock-in-trade of Boko Haram. Nobody should claim ignorance of the history of these attacks on such targets.<br /><br />Boko Haram is a special problem in our country, and we require a special arrangement to move ahead of their logistics to nip them in the bud. Aside international assistance as earlier mentioned, localized knowledge of the terrains is an important factor. We have enough Para-military forces, which could be deployed to compliment efforts by our armed services, to provide adequate security coverage for our nation. There’s nothing wrong if we incorporate our ethnic militias and vigilante groups in this security arrangement because the nation is at war. And anyone, except the terrorists, could be a victim. When a nation is kidnapped, no effort should be spared to rescue it. So that’s why I join the rest of the world in saying: Bring Back Our Girls Now!<br /><br />Rev. Okotie, a Presidential Aspirant, wrote from Lagos.</div> <div style="clear: both;"> </div> </div>

Chris Okotie writes on Boko Haram, Chibok girls and Int'l assistance

Former Presidential aspirant and Head Pastor of the Household of God Church Pastor Chris Okotie today May 14th posted an article he ...

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Prof Dora Akunyili begins treatment in India

<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl63puTzWaLB19pVspH2fTdrTYAq-wrREq6nRiOCQ8gFQFH-xSN-qqyVlBoLJUu4vk9iKlSFDsWkBB_2HVXRob9PxrsgR4WF5o0D1A7iBDbasThrkC_wNaGxz8_sJjBikSDXW8C3Dm9vs/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #b41e20; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl63puTzWaLB19pVspH2fTdrTYAq-wrREq6nRiOCQ8gFQFH-xSN-qqyVlBoLJUu4vk9iKlSFDsWkBB_2HVXRob9PxrsgR4WF5o0D1A7iBDbasThrkC_wNaGxz8_sJjBikSDXW8C3Dm9vs/s1600/1.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(180, 30, 32); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a></div> <div> Ailing ex-minister of Information and former NAFDAC boss, Prof Dora Akunyili who reportedly left for India on Sunday May 11th after her health deteriorated, is said to have started her treatment.</div> <div> </div> <div> According to a statement she released through her Media Advisor, Mr. Isaac Umunna, Prof. Akunyili expressed gratitude for the outpouring of prayers and goodwill towards her since the information of her deteriorating health emerged <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_689282628" tabindex="0">on Sunday</span>. The statement reads in part;</div> </div> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> "I am touched – indeed, overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and affection by my fellow countrymen and women, as well as numerous other well wishers around the world, many of whom have not only been praying for me but have also been mobilising through the various social networks for God’s healing hands to come upon me. I am confident that Almighty God will hear our prayers and grant me quick recovery. I love you all and pray that Almighty God blesses you all."</blockquote> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Akunyili left for India in company of her husband, Dr Chike Akunyili. She is said to be responding well to treatment.</span>

Prof Dora Akunyili begins treatment in India

Ailing ex-minister of Information and former NAFDAC boss, Prof Dora Akunyili who reportedly left for India on Sunday May 11th after her ...

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Anambra Governorship Election: Obiano declared winner

The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Willie Obiano, has been declared winner of the governorship election in Anambra State.<br /> The returning officer,  Prof James Epoke said Obiano satisfied all the requirements of the law “and is hereby declared winner. ”<br /> The result showed APGA polled 180,178 votes, PDP polled 97,700 votes; APC got 95,963 votes,<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSrufLhQLTX8wU6FM93UwYnoQtQVINIhT9cnVi6qkJX2pPC-HzVO9w4QYWWLbRTgcryZZGs0F3eFmvIKsVmQ5rMu7nyg7IjFm81QkSqHYM5kzTK2e-hRjE_jNPILYo28NGf9nQQXKU174/s1600/Anambra-2013-Obiano.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSrufLhQLTX8wU6FM93UwYnoQtQVINIhT9cnVi6qkJX2pPC-HzVO9w4QYWWLbRTgcryZZGs0F3eFmvIKsVmQ5rMu7nyg7IjFm81QkSqHYM5kzTK2e-hRjE_jNPILYo28NGf9nQQXKU174/s1600/Anambra-2013-Obiano.jpg" /></a> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> while LP had 37495 votes.</div> <br /> Before yesterday’s supplementary election conducted in 210 polling units in 16 local councils across the state where the exercise was cancelled during the November 16 exercise, Obiano was already coasting home to victory, having scored the highest number of votes and securing 25 per cent in 18 of the 21 local government areas of the state.<br /> The 16 local government areas where INEC conducted the supplementary election are Aguata, Awka North, Awka South, Anambra East, Anambra West, Ayamelum, Anaocha, Ekwusigo, Idemili North and Idemili South. Others are Ihiala, Nnewi South, Onitsha North, Onitsha South, Orumba North and Oyi.<br /> Residents flout restriction order<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmum1iBXiSQoaItZvcWcMe-dmLZRC072qoMLQDv19P4d6GMkMVzSpxbJeToNi5u6RwqjKuEgg2zUgu5vmltWa6rNIhSkgU-uKQpLw3YD8Tg8iIkrczGbRQQi_6lK5SDEp-5z3-7IKJugc/s1600/Anambra-supplementary-election.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmum1iBXiSQoaItZvcWcMe-dmLZRC072qoMLQDv19P4d6GMkMVzSpxbJeToNi5u6RwqjKuEgg2zUgu5vmltWa6rNIhSkgU-uKQpLw3YD8Tg8iIkrczGbRQQi_6lK5SDEp-5z3-7IKJugc/s320/Anambra-supplementary-election.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_422550" style="width: 422px;"> <div class="wp-caption-text"> ADHOC Staff wait for voters during the Governorship supplimentary election at Chukwura Primary School II, Abatete in Idemili North LCA  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></div> </div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);">Though there was restriction of movement in the affected areas, some people were still doing their normal businesses and traffic was light on the roads in all the areas.</span><br /> Soldiers were stationed along all the roads leading to Idemili North local government area and Onitsha South local government area, which had the highest number of polling units of 160 and 17 respectively where the supplementary election took place.<br /> APC, LP agents take part<br /> Though the All Progressive Congress, APC, the Labour Party, LP, and the campaign organization of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Comrade Tony Nwoye, said they would not participate in the exercise, their agents were seen in many polling units. However, while APGA and PDP agents wore tags, those who claimed to be APC agents did not wear their tags. At Abatete in Idemili north, agents of the PDP and LP were at the polling units.<br /> Voters’ apathy<br /> In all the polling units where the supplementary polls took place yesterday, there was very low turnout of voters and heavy presence of security operatives.<br /> In most polling units visited by Sunday Vanguard, electoral officials and sensitive electoral materials arrived early. But, despite the early arrival of these materials, the number of eligible voters, who came out for the accreditation exercise, was very low compared to the turn-out during the November 16 and 17 elections.<br /> Early results<br /> At Zik Avenue, Onitsha polling units 8, 9 and 10, APGA scored 18 votes, APC – 8, while PDP polled 6. At polling unit 006, APC scored 9, APGA got 26, while PDP scored 2.<br /> REC commends Anambra voters, says there’s no boycott<br /> Despite the low turn out, the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Rivers, Mr. Aniedi Ikoiwak, who supervised the election in Onitsha South and Onitsha North council areas, commended the people of Anambra for coming out to vote yesterday’s supplementary governorship election.<br /> Ikoiwak spoke at Okija Hall where voting took place in four polling units.<br /> APC out to cause mischief – PDP chairman<br /> Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Anambra State, Prince Ken Emeakayi, has accused the APC of causing mischief and deceiving Nigerians.<br /> Emeakayi spoke with journalists at Akpkogwe polling booth Ogidi ward 1 where he had gone to observe the supplementary election.<br /> He said that despite APC’s call on voters to boycott the election, the party has agents in all the polling units.<br /> INEC ignores Ubah’s case<br /> Meanwhile, the supplementary poll held, yesterday, in apparent disregard of a case by the LP candidate in the November 16 election, Dr Ifeanyi Ubah, seeking to stop it.<br /> A letter by Ubah’s lawyers, Olagoke Fakunle, SAN, and Co, to INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, dated  November 29, 2013, notified  INEC about the case.<br /> “You would have noticed that amongst the processes is a Motion on Notice for interlocutory in juntion restraining you from conducting any further election in Anambra State, with regard to the office of the Governor of the State, until the court has had an opportunity to review the legality of your pre-election processes towards that election”, the letter said.<br /> “It was for the reason of the urgency and importance of  this action that the Federal High Court, on 28th November 2013, made an order to abridge the time within which you and other Defendants may file your responses to both the application for injunction and the originating summons. The court also granted accelerated hearing of the matter by adjourning the hearing to 9th December, 2013.<br /> “We therefore hereby demand that you postpone the proposed supplementary election for the Governor of Anambra state to avoid a situation whereby you would have foisted a fait accompli on the court and the court in response will therefore be constrained to void everything you have done including the outcome of the proposed supplementary election, with attendant waste of national resources.<br /> “The appropriate thing for you to do at this stage, therefore, is to enter appearance and file your responses to the processes you have been served with and await the court’s determination of the illegality or otherwise of the pre-election process leading to your decision to hold a supplementary election for the Governor of Anambra State, before you continue with any further plans for the conduct of any election of the Governor of Anambra State.”<br /> <br />

Anambra Governorship Election: Obiano declared winner

The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Willie Obiano, has been declared winner of the governorship election in Anambra State. Th...

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