"16 YEARS OF PDP DAMAGE - THE PEOPLE AROUND BUHARI" EXCUSE - Moses Ochonu

First, they said it was too early to criticize PMB for non-performance. Why not wait a year before criticizing, they said. Thankfully, a year has since passed and things have worsened, so that excuse has expired.

When "too early to criticize" wore thin, the Buharists transitioned to another excuse: 16 years of PDP damage cannot be fixed in a year, they said; never mind that at least 40 percent of the people in the current administration have origins in the PDP and participated extensively in this 16 year destruction they speak of.

It is September 2016 and the economy lies comatose, rendered dysfunctional by a combination of outmoded economic thinking, arbitrary statism, and panicky policy flip-flops. It is increasingly clear now that it's not the 16 year PDP plague or the low oil price, or Niger Delta Avengers, that has taken Nigerian into recession. Rather, It is key decisions taken in the early days of this administration and stubbornly maintained against wise expert counsel. These foundational knee jerk measures are responsible for the recession as Emir Sanusi of Kano correctly stated. Although some of these policies have been reversed, their debilitating aftermaths persist, deepening the recession.

NIGERIA'LL KEEP FAITH WITH ECOWAS BANK -PRESIDENT BUHARI

President Buhari $ H.E. Bashir Mamma
(IFO) President of the Ecowas Bank
for Investment and Development
(EBID)

Despite the economic downturn caused largely by fallen prices of oil in the international market, President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria will fulfill its obligations to the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID).

Receiving President of the bank, Mr. Bashir Mamma, at State House, Abuja, Monday, President Buhari said: "We may be limping because of fallen oil prices, but we will fulfill our commitments to the bank. We may have fallen behind, but we will live up very soon. We will maintain the objectives of setting up the bank, which is to help our less financially endowed neighbours."


Mr. Mamma disclosed that EBID is the financing arm of ECOWAS, which has been there for about 30 years, and was initially set up as a Fund, "to help less developed West African states, but we now cover all parts of the sub-region."

WE'LL GET OUT OF OUR PROBLEMS, PRESIDENT BUHARI ASSURES AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

President Buhari receives
Dr Akinwunmi Adesina
President of the African
Development Bank

Nigeria has the people and the resources to surmount her economic problems, President Muhammadu Buhari has assured.
Receiving President of the African Development Bank (ADB), Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, at State House, Abuja, on Monday, President Buhari said: "God has given us people and resources. It will take hard work on our part, but we will make it. We will get out of our problems. We are determined to produce what we eat, and stop importation. We will also chase those who stole, and get them to refund."


The President said the country appreciates helping hands being lent by the ADB, assuring Nigerian-born Adesina, who was the immediate past Minister of Agriculture, that "we will not let you down. Your country won't disappoint you."

PRESS RELEASE: RIVERS APC ENDORSES NIGER DELTA PEACE INITIATIVE

*Congratulates Amaechi, other stakeholders

*Urges those sponsoring bombings in the region to have a rethink

The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has endorsed the Niger Delta Peace Initiative recently launched by South-South leaders under the leadership of the Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi. The party in a statement issued on Monday in Port Harcourt by the State Chairman, Chief (Dr.) Ibiamu Ikanya, praised Amaechi for assembling South-South stakeholders under the umbrella of the Initiative for Peace, Governance and Development of the South-South to proffer solutions to the current destruction of the oil pipelines and ecosystem of the region.

PRESS RELEASE: EDO STATE RE-SCHEDULED 2016 GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION

 IGP Charges Officers to be apolitical

The Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K Idris NPM mni, determined to ensure that the rescheduled Edo Gubernatorial Election is conducted in an atmosphere of peace and security has ordered the activation of the revised operation plan for the governorship election slated to hold throughout the State on Wednesday, 28th September, 2016.

2. The revised election security operation plan will guarantee free, fair and credible election, secure electoral process, enable eligible voters exercise their franchise freely and voluntary, protection of election materials and officials, ensure adequate security before, during and after the election.
3. In the same vein, protection of life and property in the entire State will be of paramount importance. However, the Police will be firm and decisive in dealing with any infractions of the law, actions and activities that constitute breach of peace and contrary to public order.
4. For avoidance of doubt, the Police will mobilize and deploy adequate resources and personnel to prosecute the Edo Governorship election conclusively.
5. To this end, in order to achieve the expected outcome of credible election acceptable to all stakeholders, the police will deploy:
(i) Twenty Five Thousand (25,000.00) conventional Police Officers.
(ii) Tactical Teams which include:-
a. Police Mobile Force [PMF]

THE SAME GOD - BY SHOBAYO

The same God that created Brazilian hair, American hair, Chinese hair, Mexican hair and Indian hair is still the same God that created African hair. If God want to give African women especially you, a Chinese hair or Brazilian hair, He would have did so, right from your Mother's womb before you were born. Women that wearing artificial hair and human hair are never have freedom from the bondage of Satan, in fact......... They are always customer of spiritual husband and never get delivered from the spirit of lust, seduction and immorality.

DUE PROCESS WILL PREVAIL AND MY MANDATE, THE MANDATE OF THE GOOD PEOPLE OF ONDO, WILL BE RECLAIMED! SAYS OLUSEGUN ABRAHAM

Olusegun Abraham

Dear members, delegates, leaders of our great party, the All Progresssives Congress (APC), and the members of the public in Ondo state, I greet you all.

The past few days have been quite eventful in the annals of our party in Ondo state, the eyes of the entire nation was on us, waiting to see how we were going to emerge from the unfortunate irregularities that befell the September 3rd gubernatorial primary election of our party.

After painstaking deliberation and consideration of evidence-backed petitions by our party's Electoral Appeal Committee and the National Working Committee (NWC), it was recommended that the September 3rd Primary election be annulled, and thankfully, this recommendation was ratified and upheld by a majority of our NWC, yesterday.

And just like most of you, I was disappointed at the inexplicably unexpected and unjustifiable move by our party's National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, to have disregarded this informed stance of the NWC that favored annulment of that fraud-ridden primary, moving ahead to submit a name to the Independent National Electoral Commission.

EFCC, IBADAN QUIZZES FUNAAB PRO CHANCELLOR

Senator Adeseye Ogunewe, the Pro Chancellor, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, FUNAAB is being quizzed at the Iyaganku office of the EFCC, Ibadan yesterday August 31, 2016 in respect of an alleged case of abuse of office and misappropriation of funds reported against the University Pro Chancellor, Vice Chancellor, Professor Olusola Oyewole, management and some members of the Governing Council.

According to a petition submitted to the EFCC by the Concerned Stakeholders of the Federal University of Agriculture, it was alleged that the Pro Chancellor and the Vice Chancellor engaged in an “unbridled corruption and betrayal of public trust”. Ogunewe is still being interrogated by the EFCC operatives of the Commission.