WHY WE OPPOSED GEJ's FUEL PRICING IN 2012 AND SUPPORT PMB's IN 2016 - Ekujumi

"President Buhari may not be abundantly blessed with the intellectual capacity to change Nigeria as he hopes to, but his weaknesses cannot become anointing oil for making the former President a saint overnight. No, it can’t."

FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO KNOW WHY WE OPPOSED GEJ's FUEL PRICING IN 2012 AND SUPPORT PMB's IN 2016 - Read this Enlightening Piece on the New fuel price regime - "My take on fuel-subsidy removal by the Buhari Administration" - by: Nelson Ekujumi - May 13, 2015

Flashback to 1 January 2012
Goodluck Jonathan removed fuel subsidy on New Year’s Day in 2012. This took fuel price from N65 to N141 at filling stations. This led to massive protests by civil-rights groups, labour unions, and Nigerians generally. APC, the opposition party at that time, took political advantage of the situation by identifying with the suffering and criticizing the Jonathan administration for removing subsidy. Goodluck Jonathan eventually backtracked. Fuel subsidy was restored.

NIGERIA RULING CLASS: FANTASTICALLY CORRUPT, FANTASTICALLY BINEPT, FANTASTICALLY INCOMPETENT, AND FANTASTICALLY INSENSITIVE - JAYE GASKIA

President Buhari and British PM Cameron

I know that the most topical issue in Nigeria for a while now and particularly today, at least for the ordinary citizen is the lingering phenomenon of unavailability, scarcity and significant spike in the price of petrol. And for very obvious reasons, not the least today’s astronomical hike in the pump price of the product, this issue will continue to dominate public discourse and shape public action for some time to come.

So knowing and understanding this why do I appear to be focused on corruption and the congenital and historically intrinsic incompetence and ineptitude and insensitivity of the Nigeria ruling class? The reason is simple. The substrate of corruption powered by impunity has contributing significantly to the nurturing of the incompetence, ineptitude and insensitivity of Nigeria’s ruling elites is what has brought us to this penkelemesi, that is this state of peculiar mess to borrow from the immortal expression of one of Nigeria’s first republic leaders, the late Adelabu of Ibadan.

Latest on Anti-corruption Summit: Setback for David Cameron as British Virgin Islands rebuffs his calls to publish details of who owns offshore firms

British Virgin Islands has rebuffed calls by David Cameron for British overseas territories and crown dependencies to publish details of who owns offshore firms.

Mr Cameron’s anti-corruption summit risked ridicule this morning after it emerged that Panama, and UK overseas territories like the British Virgin Islands (BVI), which have been at the centre of tax avoidance controversies, had also not been invited.

Mr Cameron opened his Anti-Corruption summit in London with a call for the British Crown dependencies to move to a "gold standard" of publishing in full lists of beneficial ownership of companies.

NIGERIA WOULD HAVE DISINTEGRATED IF ............. SAGAY

Nigeria would have either disintegrated or be confronted with harsh economic crisis similar to that of Zimbabwe had Dr. Goodluck Jonathan been re-elected as president in 2015, eminent lawyer, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), declared on Thursday.

Sagay, who is Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), faulted those comparing the current administration with the immediate past regime and seeking a return to the lawless past because of the prevailing economic challenges.

The lawyer, who said the government was laying a solid foundation and building solid structures to combat corruption, hinted of plans to establish a special court to try corruption and kidnapping, among others.

European Commission: Juncker named as president, could push Britain towards EU exit

European union leaders meeting in Brussels have nominated former Luxembourg PM Jean-Claude Juncker as the next president of the European Commission.

The move came despite strong opposition from Britain. David Cameron has failed in his attempt to block the nomination of arch-federalist Jean-Claude Juncker as the next president of the European Commission

PM’s bid to block Jean-Claude Juncker has ended in defeat after the arch-federalist was nominated as the next president of the European Commission.

Mr Juncker was confirmed as the official nominee at the end of a tense lunch in Brussels during which Mr Cameron told EU leaders they could “live to regret” their decision.

"This is a sad day for Europe," Mr Cameron is understood to have told his counterparts.

U.K, China to deploy advanced tracking technologies in the rescue of Chibok girls - Abati

As the search and rescue operations to rescue the kidnapped students of Government secondary School Girls in Chibok, Borno state continue. President Goodluck Jonathan has requested and received the assistance of British government in term of the deployment of an advance tracking technologies for the operation.

According to Dr. Reuben Abati, who is the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, President Jonathan spoke with the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, on the phone after meeting with Premier Li Keqiang of China, who is on an official visit to Nigeria, “asked and received a promise of the deployment of British Satellite Imaging capabilities and other advanced tracking technologies in support of the ongoing effort of the federal government”.

Abati said, “The President thanked Mr. Cameron, the British Government and people for their concern over the fate of the abducted girls and their willingness to provide concrete assistance to save the girls from the terrorists who seized them from their school.

Global Security Summit: Nigeria Committed To Fight Against Nuclear Terrorism – Jonathan

The Nigerian President, Dr.  Goodluck Jonathan on Monday in Hague, the Netherlands capital assured world leaders Nigeria’s commitment to the global fight against threat posed by nuclear terrorism. This, he noted, is the reason why Nigeria, under his leadership has continued to pursue efforts to harness nuclear energy and technology, apart from socio-economic development.

Speaking at the third global security summit which opened in that country yesterday, Jonathan said, while Nigeria will continue to support all efforts against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, the world must respect the right of countries to the peaceful use of nuclear energy for development purposes.

Palestinian militants fire barrage of rockets into Israel

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired at least 130 rockets into southern Israel, the Israeli military said. No immediate casualties were reported. 

The military said its “Iron Dome” defence system intercepted at least three rockets, while the others fell in open areas.

Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said one rocket exploded near a gas station and another near a public library.

Police raised the level of alert in the south, saying the rockets struck along the length of Israel’s border with Gaza.