Jul 28, 2016

PHOTONEWS: Funeral Rites For Late Stephen Keshi Begins Today In Benin

Erstwhile super eagles coach Stephen Okechukwu Keshi was today laid to rest. A requiem mass was celebrated for him at Saint Paul Cathedral Benin.








A thorough coverage by JungleJunarlist gave us a live photo feeds from the Church then to Samuel Ogbehmudia Stadium there in Benin where a novelty match was played for the two time African cup of nations winner as player and coach.







His body will leave Benin to Asaba later today, from where he proceed to his final rest tomorrow in his hometown, Illah, Delta State Nigeria.

Recall that last year, Keshi announced the death of his wife Kate (Nee Anytime). Keshi was married to his wife Kate for 30 years. She died on 10 December 2015, after battling cancer for three years. They had four children.

Keshi died on June 8‎ in Benin at the age of 54, months after the end of his four-year spell as coach of the Super Eagles.

Jun 28, 2016

President Buhari Replies Senate President Bukola Saraki Over His Statement Of Cabals In His Government



The Presidency in a statement by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, called on Senator Saraki to come forward with more information on those who hijacked Buhari’s Presidency.

The statement, entitled: “Senator Saraki and the fictive cabal,” read:

“President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, claims there is ‘now a government within the government of President Buhari,’ which has allegedly seized the apparatus of executive powers to pursue a nefarious agenda.

“This claim by Senator Saraki would have been more worth the while if it had been backed with more information.

“If he had proceeded to identify those who constitute the government within the government, it would have taken the issue beyond the realm of fiction and mere conjecture. But as it stands, the allegation is not even worth the paper on which it was written, as anybody can wake from a troubled sleep and say anything.

“The Attorney-General of the Federation is the chief law officer of the state. It is within his constitutional powers to determine who has infringed upon the law, and who has not. Pretending to carry an imaginary cross is mere obfuscation, if, indeed, a criminal act has been committed.

“But we leave the courts to judge. To claim that President Buhari is anybody’s stooge is not only ridiculous, but also preposterous. It is not in the character of our President.”

Jun 27, 2016

A Joint Patrol Team Of The Military Rescued 5,000 Hostages, Kill 10 Boko Haram Members In The Northeast

A statement issued by the acting Director, Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Usman, says that the Nigerian Army has rescued over 5,000 hostages held captive by the Boko Haram sect in several clearance operation in the northeast.

The statement also claimed that 10 of these terrorists were killed in the operation. He noted that arms, ammunition and logistic equipment were recovered from the terrorists.

According to the statement, a joint patrol team of Sector One of 27 Task Force Brigade and Army Headquarters Strike Group cleared the dreaded terrorists’ dungeon at the towns of Buhari, Matari and Kaidiri in Borno State.

Colonel Usman explained that one civilian JTF member was killed while a soldier, a Policeman and another civilian JTF member were wounded during the operation. He said that the remnants of the terrorists at Kaidiri, on sighting the patrol team took off and withdrew into Niger Republic with gunshot wounds.

He added that the troops pursued them and got two Boko Haram terrorists while they recovered seven motorcycles and borehole equipment from them.

Jun 26, 2016

Tinubu Blasts Buhari, Your Presidency Is The Greatest Historic Error

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Monday, June 20, through the Chairman, Editorial Board of the Nation Newspaper, Sam Omatseye, slammed President Muhammad Buhari’s lack of political will to adopt the National Conference Report, which gives room for fiscal federalism.

Tinubu(aka Jagaban), while supporting the former Vice President, Atiku Abubarkar, on the call for the restructuring of Nigeria, faulted Buhari’s calculated attempt to throw the Confab report into the "archives."

Omatseye, who usually represents Tinubu in some high profile functions, delivers speeches on behalf of the APC National Leader, as well as come in his defense by writing rejoinder, stated this barely 24 hours when the President arrived Nigeria, after spending 14 days in London for medical treatment, in response to Buhari's recent statement that he has consigned the Confab report to the trashcan, saying that his administration will not bother to look into the report.

Condemning Buhari’s utterance, Tinubu said; “The Governors clasp bowl in their hands every month, to the counterfeit mercies of the center.
“The APC highlighted this in the course of the campaign. For all its tendentious politics, the conference in the twilight of the Jonathan era, afforded a platform for more robust dialogue.

“It was therefore, a historic error that Buhari tossed it into the archives. That big, dark vault of nothingness called archives. The time will come, when we shall build a museum of suggestions, paradigms and solutions ignored generation after generation. All the ceremonies, tea breaks, lunches, deliberations, perorations, communiqués and tomes of recommendations turn into ashes in a bonfire of time,” he stated.

Tinubu maintained that, it is a waste of resources, and ideas, if Buhari should discard the report spearheaded by former President, Goodluck Jonathan.

“If Buhari ignores the call to restructure Nigeria, it will haunt him, as he tackles our lopsided being. I expect the call to increase in its stridency in the coming months.

“The National Assembly lacks the courage, or even the depth to push it. This new restructuring fever might be another fight in futility”.

While criticising Buhari’s hostility to new ideas, he maintained that the cries for restructuring, may make the country a “catacomb of echoes, room after room, relaying the same calls. But the audiences are dead, with worse than ear infections”.

In his conclusion, Tinubu said: “I am for restructuring. The federal system sits a centre like a leviathan in shallow waters, ponderous, stuck and “swimless,” and at the mercy of the nibbling rapacity of a swarm of small fishes.

“We cannot sustain a system where the centre owns over half of our money, our power, our morality, our constitution. It is a garishly decorated monarchy, a throwback to our monarchical and feudal loyalties with a despotic shadow of our military past”.

Apr 1, 2016

US GOVERNANCE REPORT: Buhari More Corrupt Than Jonathan As $4.2 Billion Miss in NNPC

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Nov 28, 2015

Appeal Court Nullifies David Mark’s Election

A Court of Appeal sitting in Makurdi, the capital of Benue State has nullified the election of former senate president, David Mark.  The Makurdi division of the Court of Appeal on Saturday, ordered a re-run of the poll within 90 days.  The All Progressives Congress (APC) senatorial candidate for Benue South, Mr Donald Onjeh had challenged the decision of the National and State Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal, which upheld the victory of Senator Mark of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).  Mr Onjeh’s lawyer, Adetunji Oso, also urged the Appellate Court to allow his appeal and set aside the decision of the Tribunal.  He said the court erred when it held that the papers tendered by his client were mere documentary hearsay.  The documents, according to Mr Oso, demonstrated that while the collation of results for the Benue South senatorial district’s election on March 28 was still ongoing in seven of the nine local government areas, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), declared Senator Mark winner of the poll. http://www.channelstv.com/2015/11/28/appeal-court-nullifies-david-marks-election/