September 2019

Boko Haram now stronger, well equipped with drones

Boko Haram now stronger, well equipped with drones

September 16, 2019 12:45 am

•Controls 4 of 10 zones in northern Borno
•Nigerian military demoralised, on defensive, as weapons, vehicles fall into disrepair
•West African leaders agree billion-dollar anti-jihadist plan

A report just published in The New York Times (NYT) has painted a depressingly grim picture of the Nigerian military in their battle against Boko Haram, claiming the terrorist sect has returned to the battlefront stronger and better armed. The story follows hard on the heels of audacious raids on military brigades at different times by Boko Haram, using more sophisticated weapons, including drones, to aid their operations.

Meanwhile, West African leaders on Saturday …

Unfathomable Mercy: A full length TV drama series 47

Unfathomable Mercy: A full length TV drama series 47

September 15, 2019 4:27 am

By MarkAnthony Nze

(All Rights Reserved)

 

133. EXT. MR. KADIRI’S COMPOUND.DAY.

JEFF exchanges pleasantries with Adamu and the LAND LADY as he comes in.

 

JEFF

Adamu, how’re you now?

 

ADAMU

Oga Jeff, wa lahi ta la hi! That your friend no be human being, na animal, na bad one em be, na kill em wan kill me.

 

JEFF

But you’re getting better now?

 

ADAMU

Small, small oga Jeff. But my body still de pain me.

 

JEFF

Sorry, you’ll be all right soon, okay.

 

ADAMU

Okay, oga.

 

JEFF

Good evening ma!

MRS. KADIRI

Good evening, Jeff, how’re you?

 

JEFF

I’m …

Tunde Baiyewu: Being a Lighthouse Family

Tunde Baiyewu: Being a Lighthouse Family

September 15, 2019 4:10 am

Growing up in an era where cigarette adverts were permitted to air on television and radio, it was a tad difficult to miss those deceptive cuts that told us it was a mark of pristine masculinity to puff on neatly wrapped nicotine.

It was also one of those ads – St. Moritz’s – that introduced me to the music of Lighthouse Family. Ocean Drive’s simple yet inspiring lyrics contradict the reality cigarettes represent, but the minds behind it found it beautiful enough – maybe it’s Tunde Baiyewu’s voice – to rest the soul of the commercial on. Such was the …

DR Junaid Mohammed, a medical doctor, politician and member of the Northern intelligentsia, speaks on the self-determination quest by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, the xenophobia attacks by South Africans on Nigerians

‘Southeast is landlocked, can’t survive outside Nigeria’

September 15, 2019 2:59 am

Dr Junaid Mohammed, a medical doctor, politician and member of the Northern intelligentsia, speaks on the self-determination quest by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, the xenophobia attacks by South Africans on Nigerians and other foreign nationals in South Africa, the $9.8 billion judgment debt against Nigeria, 2023 presidential elections and power shift. He also speaks on other contemporary national issues. Excerpts.

What do you think about the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other foreign nationals in South Africa and the nature of reaction to it by the Federal Government and the people?
This is very unfortunate. The xenophobic attack …

'Nigeria has been under serious bastardization for years'

‘Nigeria has been under serious bastardisation for years’

September 15, 2019 2:34 am

Senator Anthony Agbo represented Ebonyi North Federal Constituency at the 6th Senate on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and was appointed to committees on National Identity Card and Population, Housing, Federal Capital Territory and Drugs Narcotics Anti-Corruption.
During the last governorship election in Ebonyi State, Agbo was the Director-General, Senator Sonni Ogbuoji Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
He was a former Speaker, Commissioner of Finance, as well as Commissioner of Public Utilities. Agbo, who was reputed to be very active in plenary and committee work at the Red Chambers in this encounter with Sunday …

How Jonathan signed himself into trouble in 2015

How Jonathan signed himself into trouble in 2015

September 15, 2019 2:07 am

Sizzling details of some of the behind-the-scene power games during the five years reign of former President Goodluck Jonathan are beginning to surface, one of which was how the former president had already signed himself into trouble with the Fourth Amendment Bill 2015, if not for the last minute intervention by his former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke.

Apart from this, the former president also endured intense pressure from prominent members of the political class, who wanted him to use his office to annex more states ahead of the 2015 general election, using …

Orji Uzo Kalu

Orji Kalu and nullification of his election by tribunal

September 15, 2019 1:08 am
Abia State’s former governor, Orji Uzo Kalu is not a political neophyte. The All Progressives Congress (APC) senator representing Abia north was governor for eight years. On two occasions, he contested for presidency and lost. At other times, he contested the senatorial seat of his zone and lost. The defeats did not whittle his spirit.Providence, however, smiled on him during the build up to the 2019 general elections when he pitched membership with the APC and won the senatorial election. It was a victory that was however, suspected to have been earned dubiously.

But Kalu, according to the Independent National

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Trump confirms death of Osama bin Laden’s son Hamza

Trump confirms death of Osama bin Laden’s son Hamza

September 14, 2019 11:39 am

US President Donald Trump on Saturday confirmed that Hamza bin Laden, the son and designated heir of Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, was killed in a counter-terrorism operation along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

US media reported in late July and early August, citing intelligence officials, that the younger Bin Laden had been killed sometime in the last two years in an operation that involved the United States.

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper confirmed the death last month, saying it was “his understanding” that Bin Laden was dead, but Trump and other senior officials had not publicly confirmed the news.

“Hamza bin …

Israel’s longest-serving premier fights for his future

Israel’s longest-serving premier fights for his future

September 14, 2019 10:54 am

Benjamin Netanyahu has become Israel’s longest-serving prime minister with right-wing leadership and by repeatedly besting rivals with deft political moves, but he will have to pull another rabbit out of his hat in Tuesday’s elections.

The 69-year-old is fighting his second election in five months with a potential corruption indictment looming.

After April polls, he suffered one of the biggest defeats in his political career when his Likud party along with its right-wing and religious allies won a majority, but he failed to form a coalition.

Rather than risk allowing another candidate to have a shot at doing so, he …

Election tribunal judgment saved me from trauma - Jubril

Election tribunal judgment saved me from trauma – Jubril

September 14, 2019 10:03 am
The Guardian, Nigeria reports, and addresses the impostor as President Muhammadu Buhari:

President Buhari did not hide his feelings while playing host to a delegation of State Governors elected under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State House, Abuja, yesterday. The National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, led the delegation

Apparently elated by the

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Nigeria as an Army arrangement

Nigeria as an Army arrangement

September 14, 2019 12:00 am

By Odumodu Gbulagu

Nigeria as it stands today is simply an army arrangement.
Because of the ban on teaching of history in schools, the current generation barely know next to nothing as what has transpired in the history of our country.
Most of them are comfortable with phones and data abusing people who do not share their views in the name of working for one politician or another.

The history of Nigeria cannot be fully appreciated without taking into account the military incursion in politics. It all started with the January 15, 1966 coup d’etat led by Major Nzeogwu and …

Prof Okonjo, Ex-minister Okonjo-Iweala’s father, dies at 91

Prof Okonjo, Ex-minister Okonjo-Iweala’s father, dies at 91

September 13, 2019 10:40 pm

His Royal Majesty, Professor Chukwuka Okonjo, Obi of Ogwashi-Uku Kingdom in Aniocha South Local Government Area, Delta State, has joined his ancestors.

Obi Chukwuka Okonjo, who ascended the throne as the traditional ruler of Ogwashi-Uku in 2007, passed away recently in the United States of America (USA) at the age of 91.

The renowned professor of mathematics and father of former Nigerian finance minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was also an astute education administrator and prolific author of many mathematics and general science books.

He was also an activist of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Nigeria.

Secretary …

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