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Police Enhances Security Vigilance In Lagos Against Insurgents Attack

POLICE BEEF UP SECURITY IN LAGOS
The police have beefed up security in Lagos, following recent claim by Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau that he ordered a bombing – Apapa, an industrial hub of the former capital city.
Lagos State Police Commissioner Umar Manko told leaders of the Victoria Island community at a meeting at the weekend that the value of investment in the area cannot be take for granted hence the need for the community to be alert at all time.
“We have been on top of security situation in Lagos. Victoria Island had recorded low crime rate in recent time.
After the explosion in Apapa area of Lagos that Boko Haram claimed responsibility, the need for more enlightenment on security became necessary. I don’t want us to take the issue of Boko Haram’s claim for granted. The police and other security agents cannot do it alone.
“We must be at alert. We have all the headquarters of banks and other big companies in this area. We need to secure our residents and offices; watch the people around your homes; report to security people any strange object, vehicles and persons.
“This meeting is not to create panic but awareness of the time we area in. Terrorism is a global problem. Many countries have been facing the problem before it came to Nigeria, we must stand against it. If you see any strange bag, vehicles, can, cable connected material, don’t go close. Monitor the entering into the home and offices, control access to your building, car parks. Introduce screening devices, although, they are expensive, but not to the security of our lives and property. We should also take special note of our domestic workers. Hotels, eateries and cenemal centres must employ all security measures. No body is too big to be screen into your building,’’ Manko said.
The Chairman of Iru/Victoria Island Local Community Development Area, Mr Abayomi Daramola, urged all landlords with private guards to register them with effect from today as part of security measures in the area.
Daramola said 60 per cent of Victoria Island houses had been turned to commercial centres, warning that any private guard who is not registered would be arrested by the council’s task force.
He said the council was working with the Ministry of Physical Planning to ensure that all vacant plots of land were taking care of by their owners to avoid them being used as hideout for criminals.
Source: The Nation

The police have beefed up security in Lagos, following recent claim by Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau that he ordered a bombing – Apapa, an industrial hub of the former capital city.
Lagos State Police Commissioner Umar Manko told leaders of the Victoria Island community at a meeting at the weekend that the value of investment in the area cannot be take for granted hence the need for the community to be alert at all time.

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Presidency Threatens APC Leaders With Arrest Over Nyako's Impeachment

ADAMAWA BRIBERY ALLEGATION: PRESIDENCY THREATENS APC LEADERS WITH ARREST
THE State Security Service (SSS) is set to arrest top All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders, for allegedly offering N240 million bribe to Adamawa lawmakers to stop ex-Governor Murtala Nyako’s impeachment.
The APC leaders, it was learnt, also threatened the lawmakers with death if they refuse to collect the money and stop the impeachment process.
But the APC, on Sunday, dared the presidency to probe the alleged bribery saga, asking that the presidency should also be opened to inquiry into who provided the funds for the alleged bribery of Nasarawa State lawmakers to impeach Governor Tanko Al-Makura.
Nigerian Tribune learnt from a presidency source that security agents were in possession of recordings of attempts by some APC governors to induce Adamawa lawmakers, in order to stop the impeachment.
The governors, one from the North and another from the South, were said to have approached two members of the House of Assembly with the money, to convince them to withdraw support and make it impossible for the impeachment of Nyako to scale through.
The source added that the APC leaders were only able to buy over one lawmaker, adding that when the inducement failed, they resorted to threat to the lives of the lawmakers.
It was learnt that the presidency was convinced that crimes had been perpetrated by the opposition leaders and was contemplating taking action if the APC leaders continued to falsely accuse President Goodluck Jonathan.
According to the source, “it was the assurance that they got from the lawmaker that more members would be bought over that originated the reports that Nyako might resign.
“What they don’t know is that all these are recorded. If they continue with their unfounded allegations against the president, the security agencies would be directed to arrest them and confront them with overwhelming evidence.”
Reacting to the allegation from the presidency that it offered bribe to Adamawa lawmakers to stop Nyako’s impeachment, APC said it was the presidency that provided the money for the impeachment as well as the ongoing process in Nasarawa to sack Al-Makura.
Its spokesperson, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, told the Nigerian Tribune that the allegation from the presidency was meant to shift the attention of Nigerians from the alleged $20 billion missing oil money and the over 300,000 barrels of crude oil being stolen daily.
“The allegation is not true. They should go ahead with whatever probe they want to conduct, at least, they are in government and control the security agencies. They are blatant liars. They think everybody is like them. Nigerians know that it is their government that is swimming in corruption.
“They should first explain to Nigerians what happens to the $20 billion missing oil money and the 300,000 barrels of crude oil that are daily stolen before they would make wild allegations.
“All they are trying to do is shift attention of Nigerians from their corrupt acts. We know all the money for impeachment in Adamawa and Nasarawa states came from the presidency and they know their governors providing it,” Mohammed said.
Nyako’s impeachment, demonstration of people’s power —PDP
The ruling party has rejected the attempt by APC to blame the impeachment of Nyako on the ruling party and President Jonathan.
The party argued that what happened in the state was a demonstration of the power of the people under a democracy.
PDP, in a statement issued by its national publicity secretary, Olisa Metuh, in Abuja, on Sunday, said in linking the party and the president to Nyako’s ouster, the APC was only being escapist, adding that such attitude could only come from pretenders to democracy.
According to PDP, “the impeachment of the former governor of Adamawa State was an act of democracy. It is a constitutional right, exclusively granted to the people of Adamawa.
“This, they exercised through the votes of the overwhelming majority of the elected members of the state House of Assembly, who also accorded the rule of law and due process rightful place in removing Nyako.”
The PDP said “if a sitting governor, who has spent over seven years in office, could be removed by more than two-third of the members of his state assembly, reasons should be located to fundamental factors within, rather than the trite excuses of external influence.”
Source: Tribune

THE State Security Service (SSS) is set to arrest top All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders, for allegedly offering N240 million bribe to Adamawa lawmakers to stop ex-Governor Murtala Nyako’s impeachment.

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HOW REBELS SHOT DOWN MALAYSIAN JET’

Indications emerged yesterday how Pro-Russia rebels in Eastern Ukraine might have shot down the Malaysian airline MH17 last Thursday, killing 298 people on board.
The plane was travelling to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam, Holland before it was shot in Eastern Ukraine airspace.

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Sunday

IT’S ABSURD ASKING SOUTHERNERS TO LEAVE THE NORTH – AKA IKENGA

Igbo think-tank organisation, Aka Ikenga, on Thursday, described as a ‘preposterous order’ the call by a northern group directing all southerners, especially the Igbos to leave then northern Nigeria within two weeks.
The group’s President, Goddy Uwazurike, in a chat with Daily Independent, said Nigeria belongs to all and no ethnic group has a greater claim to the country than others.

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IMPEACHMENT: NASARAWA ASSEMBLY MEMBERS FACE RECALL

Constituents of some members of the Nasarawa state House of Assembly, have begun collation of signatures of willing petitioners, for submission to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), towards recalling their representatives in the legislature who signed for the impeachment of Governor Umaru Tanko Al-makura.

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APC Warns Jonathan Over Governors Impeachment Threats

APC WARNS JONATHAN OVER GOVS
•‘Decapitate Us And Destroy Nigeria’
•More Govs May Be Sacked
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against further plots to remove any of its remaining governors.
The warning came against the background of the removal of Ádmiral Murtala Nyako as Adamawa State governor by the PDP-dominated House of Assembly and a similar process going on in Nasarawa State amid fears that there could be a repeat of these in some other APC states.
APC’s spokesperson, Alhaji Lai Mohammed confirmed the fears to Saturday Tribune on Friday but that the party was not folding its arms on the threats and would do everything to thwart such plots.
While he was not specific on steps being taken to tackle the presidency and the PDP, the APC spokesperson, however, warned rather ominously that “the current moves to decapitate the APC will end in the decapitation of Nigeria.”
Mohammed also stated that his party was monitoring the development and circumstances in which Jonathan’s former boss and one of the main backers for his re-election, D.S.P Alameyesiegha and Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha,met days back, a meeting that has caused suppressed rumpus in the APC to which Okorocha belongs.
APC governor in Nasarawa State, Tanko Al-Makura is facing impeachment process being handled by PDP-dominated House of Assembly, which is poised to run its full course.
While Nyako’s deputy, Bala Ngilari who did not decamp to APC from the PDP with the sacked governor, was not spared, Al-Makura’s deputy, Damishi Barau who dumped the APC for the PDP, was not served with impeachment notice.
Saturday Tribune learnt that the arrangement among political gladiators of the PDP in Nasarawa state was to allow Barau serve as substantive governor after Al-Makura’s impeachment but with an understanding that he would not stand for election for governor in 2015.
A PDP leader, also being projected into the race, told Saturday Tribune that the modalities were still being worked out as regards who would be the candidate in 2015 as well as putting institutional checks in place to make sure that Barau would not renege on the gentleman’s agreement after his ascension to office.
For Al-Makura, the party chieftain said his was a concluded case, despite the reported rumour of a last-minute presidential backing and assurance he allegedly got from President Jonathan, who the embattled governor has been consulting since his travails began.
APC has also alleged that the PDP-led presidency is also targeting its governors in Edo and Rivers states for impeachment and Osun for electoral tsunami in the August 9 governorship election.
Edo and Rivers Houses of Assembly have been in crises as PDP lawmakers in minority in the two states now conduct their separate plenary sittings, with suspicions that they could move against Governors Adams Oshiomhole and Rotimi Amaechi anytime soon, despite being in the minority.
Their minority status could be changed by the suspension of some of their colleagues, if they succeed in leadership change in the assembly.
It was, however, learnt that APC may have more to fear as its governors in Ogun, Borno and Imo states, are said to have become major targets for the think-tank of the PDP for possible constitutional sack.
Despite the said states not having PDP-dominated legislature, the crisis of confidence among the leaders of the party in the three states, which has polarised the legislature with the members belonging to different power blocs in the party, is to be reportedly exploited by the PDP strategists and the presidency to further decimate the opposition party.
It was learnt that the moves to get the disgruntled APC gladiators with loyal assembly members, have begun, which a source said yielded almost immediate benefit in Borno, with the defection of the state’s ultimate godfather and former governor, Ali Modu Sheriff from APC to PDP.
He is expected to move with more than two-thirds of the state lawmakers and similar percentage of National Assembly members, who are his political protégés.
A PDP source said the princely treatment being given him by the presidency since his defection is in recognition of his political influence in the state, which PDP is reportedly desperate to take to stem the tide of international embarrassment which the incumbent administration of Governor Kashim Shettima is allegedly giving the PDP-led federal government over the fight against terrorism in the state.
The unending international embarrassment over the kidnap of over 200 Chibok school girls by insurgent Boko Haram, for which the federal government has suffered serious dip in local and international ratings, is said to have been a major reason for courting a big fish like Modu Sheriff at all cost, to allegedly enforce a regime change.
A PDP chieftain told the Saturday Tribune that the battle against Boko Haram would not be won if the opposition governors are not removed, due to the suspicion that the governors are allegedly collaborating with the insurgents to blackmail and further weaken the federal government.
According to the source, “There is no way any progress would be made with those guys (governors) there. We initially thought it was a mistake for the president not to declare a total emergency that would have removed them from office during the emergency rule, but we feel this is better and tidier now and they won’t even return.”
When asked if Yobe which is also under emergency rule like Adamawa and Borno may go the impeachment way, the source said “it depends on the what the governor is ready to offer”.
It was also learnt that even the Borno State governor is no longer maintaining a rigid antagonism to the presidency again in the battle against the Boko Haram, but a party man noted that it was doubtful if Modu Sherif’s defection had not sealed his fate.
APC in Ogun State has been torn in the middle between the loyalists of Governor Ibikunle Amosun and former governor Segun Osoba.
Osoba is the beautiful bride of the opposition parties in the state, with PDP said to be making serious overtures, considering that he reportedly almost single-handedly picked the current APC members of the State House of Assembly as the party’s candidates.
All senators from the state and members of the House of Representatives are also on his side, with his ouster from the party expected to make the governor very vulnerable for impeachment.
An APC source however doubted the possibility of the presidency moving against Amosun, explaining that the governor does not play rigid politics and could even work for Jonathan in 2015 if properly approached instead of creating a crisis of impeachment in the state.
Source: Tribune

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against further plots to remove any of its remaining governors.
The warning came against the background of the removal of Ádmiral Murtala Nyako as Adamawa State governor by the PDP-dominated House of Assembly and a similar process going on in Nasarawa State amid fears that there could be a repeat of these in some other APC states.

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UNIVERSITY DEGREE IS OVERATED –BISHOP KUKAH

Too much emphasis on a university degree in a developing country like Nigeria signifies post-colonial mentality and a misplaced priority that the country must do away with if we are to get out of our current worrisome unemployment status, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah has observed.

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LAGOS 2015: AGBAJE DEFECTS TO PDP

Lagos State governorship candidate of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) in the 2007 electins, Jimi Agbaje has defected to the People Democratic Party (PDP).
Agbaje who came third in the 2007 race has several times been reported to be romancing with the PDP and that arrangement have been concluded by the party to field him as its governorship candidate come 2015.

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Randy Abia Commissioner, Eze-Chikamnayo Impregnates Nine Women

THE darkest page in Nigerian journalism was opened on July 14, 2014, with the publication by some never-do-well ignoramuses on the perpetually wobbly stable of a rag-sheet called Insider Weekly who indulged Abia State Commissioner for Information, Eze Chikamnayo, a notorious drunken womanizer and the worst information commissioner in Nigeria, with premium space for acerbic

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YOU’VE NOT HEARD THE LAST ABOUT EKITI ELECTION …FAYEMI

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has countered the widespread belief that he conceded defeat to his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenger, Mr. Ayodele Fayose who was declared winner of the June 21 governorship poll in the state.In his first interview after the election granted to Dapo Thomas, a journalist and university teacher who also writes for Sunday Sun, Fayemi asked anyone who thought he accepted the outcome to read the transcript of his post-election broadcast again.

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ASHIWAJU FACE OF THE WEEK

Cyril Ramaphosa has been elected as the 14th president of the ANC. Ramaphosa became deputy president after his election to the position in the ANC in 2012. At the time he was wooed by President Jacob Zuma’s camp to give the slate “credibility” when then ANC deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe contested Zuma for the top post. Before that he was the chair of the national planning commission that produced the National Development Plan, the country’s blue print for growth towards 2030.

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Monday

Police Enhances Security Vigilance In Lagos Against Insurgents Attack

Presidency Threatens APC Leaders With Arrest Over Nyako's Impeachment

HOW REBELS SHOT DOWN MALAYSIAN JET’

Sunday

IT’S ABSURD ASKING SOUTHERNERS TO LEAVE THE NORTH – AKA IKENGA

IMPEACHMENT: NASARAWA ASSEMBLY MEMBERS FACE RECALL

APC Warns Jonathan Over Governors Impeachment Threats

UNIVERSITY DEGREE IS OVERATED –BISHOP KUKAH

LAGOS 2015: AGBAJE DEFECTS TO PDP

Randy Abia Commissioner, Eze-Chikamnayo Impregnates Nine Women

YOU’VE NOT HEARD THE LAST ABOUT EKITI ELECTION …FAYEMI

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