Friday, 23 January 2015

Boko Haram Insurgency Overshadowing My Achievements – Pres. Jonathan.




President Goodluck Jonathan says his administration has achieved a lot but his achievements are being overshadowed by the activities of Boko Haram insurgents.



He said this at the palace of the Emir of Bauchi, Alhaji Rilwan Suleiman Adamu, on Thursday, shortly before addressing a political rally in the state capital.



Jonathan, however, assured that his administration would soon put an end to insurgency in Nigeria.



“When we moved round in 2011, we got massive support from you and since then, we have been working hard to justify your support.



Insha Allahu, we will also succeed this time.



“The unfortunate Boko Haram excesses are taking attention away from our numerous achievements.



Everybody wants security, everybody wants to be safe and to be able to move freely.



“I am, therefore, assuring you that we will bring the situation to a reasonable degree and will eventually end it very soon.



“We have worked very hard to improve agriculture and ended decades of fertiliser scam. We want Nigerian farmers to crop three times a year.



“We are thinking of different options to fully diversify our economy due to the fall in the global price of oil and Bauchi is one of the states we will tap into its solid mineral potentials,” Jonathan said.



In his response, the emir commended Jonathan for his respect and love for traditional institution. He also praised him for steps taken to tackle insurgency in the North-East. He expressed hope that the school girls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents in Chibok, Borno State, would soon be rescued.



He also commended the president over his commitment to free and fair elections, as well as the Abuja peace accord he recently endorsed with other presidential candidates. He noted that the accord would encourage Nigerians to embrace peace before, during and after next month’s general election.


Ekiti To Ban Places Of Worship From Demanding HIV Test Before Joining Couples In Marriage





The Ekiti State Government would soon promulgate a law banning places of worship from compelling prospective couples to go for HIV/AIDS test before conducting marriages.



The law would also make it an offence to reveal results of such test to other parties before the tested person knows his or her status.



The Project Manager of the State Action Committee on AIDS, Dr. Charles Doherty, made this known in Ado Ekiti on Thursday during the commemoration of year 2014 Worlds Aids Day and awareness programme with the theme: “Stigma ends with me”.



Doherty said a bill to that effect was already before the state House of Assembly and may soon be passed into law.



“The bill is already in the state House of Assembly to be passed into law. It proposes to ban places of worship from demanding HIV test from prospective couples.



“It is illegal for any individual or organization, especially religious bodies, to mandate people to go for HIV/AIDs screening exercise. The results should be given to the individual concerned. A married couple should be treated individually”.



Doherty urged people not to be scared of going for HIV/AIDS screening as drugs were available for the treatment.



Also speaking at the occasion, wife of the Ekiti State Governor, Mrs. Feyisetan Fayose, who led the awareness walk, advocated for increased support for AIDS patients.



She said, “Ekiti State government is not unmindful of the barriers to the treatment and prevention of the disease some of which include stigmatisation, lack of proper medication and support for awareness creation, among others.



“The state has been supporting the various agencies attending to cases of AIDS/HIV and will continue to do so”, she added.


No Basis To Postpone February Polls – INEC





Amid calls by some stakeholders, with the most recent coming from the National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) that dates for the general election in February should be postponed, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has declared that there was no operational reason, including the concerns over the distribution of the PVCs, to postpone the polls.



The commission further added that it was not aware of concerns by the presidency over complaints of the distribution of Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs.



The NSA, yesterday, during a talk show at Chatham House, the London think-tank group, said he had discussed the issue of postponement of the polls with the INEC chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, adding that a delay within the time frame allowed by the law will not be a bad idea.



“That is what we are encouraging at the moment”, Dasuki said, noting that INEC had been able to distribute 30 million PVCs but had an outstanding 30 million others to hand out.



But, the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC chairman, Kayode Idowu, said: “We have not received any official or unofficial communication to that effect. From the point of our operation, the commission has not seen any good basis to postpone the election”.



Mr. Idowu, however, pointed out that information available to the commission with regards to what transpired at the London meeting, was contrary to what the NSA was quoted to have said.



He stated that the claims that 30 million PVCs were uncollected are not true, noting that there has been accelerated distribution and collection of cards since the decentralisation of the process.



According to the INEC chairman’s spokesman, rough estimates indicate that the collection process has surpassed 70 percent since the decentralisation of the distribution of the cards at the ward level.



“Where are the 30 million cards that have not been collected? Statistics are cold; they are not flighty. By the commission’s rough estimation, even though we have not collected the raw data from the states, we have cases of over 26,000 PVCs collected in states in a space of three days, and this could be the trend across the country.



“I can assure you that the percentage is much higher than 70 percent.



“What we do is that immediately the cards come in, we move them to the states. We just moved four million cards recently”, Idowu explained.



He assured that before the end of the month most of the PVCs would have been distributed and collected.


Assassins Murder Popular Pharmacist In Benue State (Graphic Photo)

The life of Pharmacist Cletus Ternenge Labe was cut short yesterday, Wednesday, January 20 by unknown gunmen in Gboko, Benue State.



The deceased who is the founder and director of La-Bet Pharmaceuticals was reportedly murdered in his office at Bristow roundabout, Gboko after he was lured by a false emergency phone.



According to Benue State local newspaper, Idoma Voice, Cletus Ternenge Labe was attacked by four of the six assassins that came for him. Two of the assassins remain in a red Toyota car which they came with while the remaining four attacked the pharmacist with machetes and guns.



Cletus’s head was split open by the assassins who also shot him. The men later robbed the pharmacy of some money before escaping.



The death of the popular pharmacist has been met with so much grief and anguish in Gboko, the ancestral headquarters of the Tiv community.



According to the information gathered, youth in Gboko town are at war with the Nigerian Police Force for their inability to prevent the robbery attack and assassination



The deceased has reportedly being at war with Doctors Association within Gboko for administering health services which the doctor’s association say is not his job. Pharmacist Cletus Ternenge Labe however continued to attend and tend to the sick at a very subsidized and affordable rate which made him popular and liked within the community.



A resident told Idoma Voice that aggrieved youths and elderly people whom he often administer drugs to, have taken to the street since last night to condemn the dastard act.



The Gboko market has been closed down as well as hospitals after angry youths embarked on violent protest, destroying properties and sign posts of hospitals.



There were also reports of gunfire exchange between the furious angry youths and the Nigerian police at central police station Gboko.







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Nigerian Defence website hacked ISIS style; see the guy claiming responsibility


The Defence website was defaced 'ISIS' style by hackers today. Spokesperson of Defence HQ, Chris Olukolade confirmed it, then later revealed that the website has been taken back from the hackers...


Meanwhile, someone on twitter with user name @imamsadiq123 has been boasting about being responsible for the defacing. Check his chilling tweets after the cut...