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Saturday, March 15, 2014

SUSPECTED FULANI HERDSMEN KILL AT LEAST 100 IN SOUTHERN KADUNA




Heavily armed Fulani herdsmen attacked several villages in Southern Kaduna killing at least 100 villagers in the early hours of today in Southern Kaduna.

According to eyewitnesses the attacks took place in Moro’a Chiefdom in Kaura local government area of Kaduna state.

Saharareporters sources said residents of  Me-sankwai, Tekum and Ungwan Gatah villages all under the Moro’a Chiefdom were woken from sleep in the early morning raid  by Fulani attackers overnight with several men, women and children massacred.

Several homes were also set on fire by the rampaging attackers. Some eyewitnesses stated that some villagers were simply roasted in their homes.

“We are mourning, they came around 11pm when we were sleeping and started attacking until around 2am. There was no security presence or protection.” said a villager who lost family members.

“Children, women and aged ones were among those they killed with guns, machetes and others were burnt to death in their homes.” stated a traditional chief in the area who spoke to Saharareporters by phone.

“They took scores of our people with them into forests in all the villages; this is not fiction but the reality of our predicament. Please, help us let the whole world know because the security agencies and the government are suppressing information about our communities.”

A senior police officer who did not want his name revealed also confirmed the attacks, but said they are yet to ascertain the actual number of those killed.

Southern Kaduna, a predominately Christian community has been subjected to reprisal attacks by Fulani herdsman since violence erupted after the 2011 general elections.

Armed Fulani herdsmen also slaughtered at least 113 people in Katsina  and also killed several people in Benue and Plateau states since last week. - Saharareporters

FINAL ONSLAUGHT ON FLEEING BOKO HARAM MEMBERS BY CIVILIAN JTF IN BORNO




The volunteer fighters, tagged Civilian JTF yesterday crushed some of the members of the Islamic terror group, Boko Haram who attacked Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.

A total of 248 Islamist fighters were killed by the soldiers when the Giwa barrack was attacked including neighbouring towns in the state capital.
The terrorist who were trying to escape the military fire power in the battle zone in the barrack, were butchered or crushed to death by the Civilian JTF

Friday, March 14, 2014

Lamido Sanusi Accuses Pastor Adeboye Of Shielding Fraudster

14 REASONS YOU SHOULD START EATING CUCUMBER




Cucumbers are number four most cultivated vegetable in the world and known to be one of the best foods for your overall health, often referred to as a super food. Pick a handful of firm, dark green cucumbers and drop them into your shopping cart. Congratulations! You have just bought yourself stuff full of good health.

Cucumber rehydrate the body

If you are too busy to drink enough water, eat the cool cucumber, which is 90 percent water. It will cheerfully compensate your water lost.

Cucumber fights heat inside and out

Eating cucumber will get your body relief from heartburn. Apply cucumber on your skin and you will get relief from sunburn.

Cucumber eliminates toxins

All that water in cucumber acts as a virtual broom, sweeping waste products out of your body. With regular eating, cucumber is known to dissolve kidney stones.

Cucumber replenishes daily vitamins

Cucumbers have most of the vitamins the body needs in a single day. A B and C, which boost your immune system keep you radiant and give you energy. Make it more powerful by juicing cucumber with spinach and carrot. Don’t forget to leave the skin on because it contains a good amount of vitamin C, about 12 percent of the daily recommended allowance.

Cucumber supplies skin friendly minerals

Cucumber is high in potassium, magnesium and silicon. That is why spas abound cucumber based treatments.

Cucumber aids in digestion and weight loss

Due to its high water and low calorie content, cucumber is an ideal source for people who are looking for weight loss. Use cucumbers in your soups and salads. If it is not your favorite snack you can crunchy cucumber sticks with creamy low fat yogurt dip. Chewing cucumber gives your jaws a good workout and the fiber in it is great for digestion. Daily consumption of cucumbers can be regarded as an aid for chronic constipation.

Cucumber revives the eyes

Placing a chilled slice of cucumber over puffy eyes is a cliched beauty visual but it really can help reduce under-eye bags and puffiness due to its anti-inflammatory properties.

Cucumber fights cancers

Cucumber is known to contain secoisolariciresinol, lariciresinol and pinoresinol. The three lignans have a strong connection with reduced risk of several cancer types, including ovarian, breast, prostate and uterine cancer.

Cucumber cures diabetes, reduces cholesterol and controls blood pressure

Cucumber juice contains a hormone which is needed by the cells of the pancreas for producing insulin which is widely spread to be beneficial to diabetic patients. Researchers have found that a compound called sterols in cucumbers can help decrease levels of cholesterol. Cucumbers contain a lot of fiber, potassium and magnesium. These nutrients work effectively for regulating blood pressure. That is why cucumber is good for treating both high blood pressure and low blood pressure.

Cucumber refreshes the mouth

Cucumber juice heals and refreshes diseased gums. Get a slice of cucumber and press it to the roof of your mouth with your tongue for a half minute, the phytochemicals will kill the bacteria in your mouth responsible for causing unpleasant breathe.

Cucumber smoothes hair and nails

The wonder mineral Silica in cucumber makes your hair and nails shinier and stronger. The sulfur and silica in cucumbers help to stimulate your hair growth.

Cucumber promotes joint health, relieves arthritis and gout pain

As cucumber is an excellent source of silica it promotes joint health by strengthening the connective tissues. When mixed with carrot juice, cucumber can relieve gout and arthritis pain by lowering levels of the uric acid.

Cucumber cures hangover

To avoid a morning headache or hangover you can eat a few cucumber slices before going to sleep. Cucumbers contain enough B vitamins, sugar and electrolytes to replenish many essential nutrients and reducing the severity of both hangover and headache.

Cucumber keeps kidneys in shape

Cucumber lowers uric acid levels in your body and in turn keeps the kidneys healthy.

ANAMBRA TRIBUNAL: NGIGE TENDERS 40 SACKS OF EVIDENCE



SENATOR Chris Ngige, the candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in last year’s governorship election in Anambra State, yesterday, brought to the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Awka, 40 sacks, popularly known as ‘Ghana must go,’ containing his evidence.

Ngige petitioned the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in Anambra State for declaring Chief Willie Obiano of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, winner of the election.

Contained in the sacks were voters’ register, ballot papers, oath of neutrality and list of adhoc staff used during the election - VANGUARD

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS BEG SOLDIERS FOR MERCY


The Defence Headquarters yesterday said scores of wounded terrorists captured by soldiers in the ongoing military operations against insurgency in the north east have been pleading with soldiers to spare their lives.

The terrorists according to the Director, Defence Information(DDI), Major-General Chris Olukolade, were captured from their various camps in the fringes of Lake Chad by the Multi-National Joint Task Force and  other locations around Dikwa, Cross Kauwa, Kukawa and Alargarmo.

He said, the captured terrorists, some of whom are fatally wounded, were already making useful statements regarding the locations of their remnant forces and that “they are full of apologies and pleas for their lives to be spared promising to cooperate”.

“In their confessions, it was revealed that some of the camps have been disbanded following the directive of their clerics, who declared that the operation of the sect had come to an end as the mission could no longer be sustained.  The terrorists who are giving useful information as to the locations of their remnant forces, are full of apologies and pleas for their lives to be spared promising to cooperate.

“They confirmed that starvation was a major problem in addition to ceaseless bombardments on the camp locations even when they kept relocating.  They also confirmed that several members of the group have been wounded and no treatment was not forth coming.  Troops have continued their assault on other locations across the states covered by the state of emergency” Olukolade said in a statement.

Meanwhile, the DHQ has warned members of the public, who have suddenly embarked on sight-seeing on some dislodged camps and fringes of forest at Sambisa and other locations to desist from doing so as the tendency would no more be condoned while operations are still ongoing.

He said  “The general area still remains a theatre and movement remains restricted as the environment has to be cleared for safety of citizens.

The public will be informed when the locations are safe enough.”

2ND NIGER BRIDGE, ONITSHA IN NIGERIA.


President Goodluck Jonathan Flags off the Construction of 2nd Niger Bridge in Onitsha, Anambra state.

The Six Lane Bridge which is about 1,590 metres long and forms part of the 11.90 km length project. It has double lane and a Speed train track.

The project is expected to be completed in 48 months. The bridge structure is also designed to ensure effective use of the Sea Port.

According to
President Jonathan ,"It is an important economic artery that will connect the great markets of Onitsha and Aba, as well as the industrial hub of Nnewi and beyond, to both the Northern and Southern parts of our country".

This is a good development.

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

AN OPEN LECTURE/LETTER TO PROFESSOR WOLE SOYINKA. by Sadiq Abacha, Kano.




If you want to think, speak and act logically then you should know all three.
1> The law of identity
2> The law of excluded middle
3> The law of non contradiction.

Now let's look at each one of these and see what they mean in practice.

1] The law of identity
The law of identity means that things are what they are, which at first doesn't seem very illuminating, but wait; it implies also the following, that things are what they are, whether you like them or not, it implies that things are what they are whether you know them or not, it implies that things are what they are whether you agree with them or not.
However, if you don't like the facts as they are you are going to have to put up with them, because facts are what they are, if it's raining on your golf day, get used to it! Because the facts are what they are and are often not what you want them to be, like if the traffic lights turn red when you approach, stop complaining!
The law of identity means that you must adapt yourself to the facts and start your work from there, it implies that the facts will not bend to meet your expectations. You must first adapt yourself to what life is and then get to work changing and improving things in your life, be brave to meet reality as it really is and not how you would wish it to be.

2] The law of excluded middle.
The law of excluded middle means that you should give a straight yes or no answer always and there is no middle ground. The law means that there is no kinda yes and kinda no, there is no ‘sort of’ being married because you are either married or you are not, you are either a thief or you are not, you are either on time or not, you are either living in Nigeria or you are not. The law is the idea that you should not try to keep all of your options open by staying in the middle or hedging, when it suits you, like when you accepted an appointment during IBB's regime as chairman of FRSC. I bet that was a military regime you partook in. Please pick one wife and state your claim 100% to her, pick one idea and go for it 100%! Decide and commit Sir! There you might find great power and self satisfaction in the doctrine of decide and commit. No half way measures, no middle ground, exclude the middle! Here! The law of excluded middle Sir.

3] The law of non contradiction.
The law of non contradiction says don't contradict yourself simple. If you say you will be there then be there. If you say you will do it then do it. Don't say or fight for one thing and then do the opposite. Don't say one thing and then later deny that you said it. Don't say one thing and then later contradict it. Be consistent in your thoughts and actions. Observing someone who was a socialist in the morning but then became a capitalist in the evening is a textbook on contradiction, these are two polar opposites, such a person is clearly inconsistent and is therefore considered a flip flop, confused, easily led or misled or at best a lunatic who has no clear understanding of the basis of either doctrine.

Apply these three logics to others with consistency and then you can ask for the same or expect the same from others, and then you can also ask for others to deal with facts not fantasy, which is the law of identity. Ask others to make up their mind to decide and commit. The law of excluded middle.Then ask others to follow through on the things that they say they would do. The law of non contradiction.

Sir, I believe brilliance is not perfection. I have grown and watched you criticize regime after regime and at that young and naive age I was thinking why wouldn't this man just contest to be president so that Nigeria can be saved, I would have defiantly voted for Mr Soyinka if it would have brought an end to Nigeria's woes. To my utter surprise, I heard about your FRSC leadership and how funds were misused and a great deal of it unaccounted for. "Oh my God! In the end he turned out to be just the same as everybody else" were my next thoughts. My hopes for you, all ended up in great disappointment.

Here I find myself defending my father 15 years after his death because some of you have no one else to pounce on, or rather, you have chosen a dead person to keep pouncing on over and over again when you have more than an array of contestants. A coward's act I believe. "A common writer" is what I have heard you being referred to lately, and I believe a mature mind would now agree to such referrals. With all due respect, there is a great challenge that faces the country, we have to put our heads together, rather than clashing, our collective ships must sail in the same direction, let us leave the ghosts of past contention and face the future bravely as one, criticizing the past does not help the present or define a path to the future.

You say, with the weight of your sense of history and the authority you possess on national issues that " a vicious usurper under whose authority the lives of an elected president and his wife were snuffed out" referring to my late father, you must be growing old, or you would rightly recall that that president elect you refer to did not die while my father was alive. Did you slyly change your facts to fit a history that would better serve your narrative, or are you just plain forgetful? Either way, it shows you are losing your grasp of reality.

Comparing my father’s leadership to Boko Haram's current reign of terror, is a rather cheap shot, you are in no position to examine, judge and sentence an entire regime based on the information you think you have, you are privy to almost none of the true facts, what is at your disposal is at best, hearsay, or were you ever minister of defence? did you ever sit in during security meetings, evaluate the facts and subtleties of national security? You remind me of Obama criticizing the Republicans before he became a sitting president himself, vouching to put an end to all American occupation, this all came to an abrupt end once he had access to the briefs and security issues, economic and political, facing his nation. Surely he did what he could, and history will judge him. To lead is not to be a rock star, and to be a Nobel laureate is not to be a an antagonist of this countries legacy..We are Africa's leaders, whether we like it or not, we cannot trivialize the centenary celebration, it happens only once, let us come together, if only for this one occasion and agree to disagree.

Open rebellion against the current government at this time, on the manner of the centenary celebrations, for whatever reason, is tactless, it is not about you, it is about our nation, our beloved country. There is a time and place for everything. My late father was a Nigerian, lived in Nigeria and died protecting our interests to the best of his ability, critiquing placing him on the honor roll, along with many deserving dignitaries is your right, you have the right to your own opinions, but you do not have the right to your own facts. Facts stand alone, regardless of who espouses them, let posterity judge, but you are clearly politicizing a dead issue, how could you not be? Having an issue with the naming of a hospital after the late General and leader? really ? Now ?

It almost seems as if you want to turn back the hands of time, what else would you like to undo besides the naming of the hospital, would you like to unmake Bayelsa state, Zamfara state or the others? What about the advances we made in commerce, reducing the inflation rate, what about security and welfare, how many projects, hospitals and schools were created?
Inflation went from 54% to 8.5%! my father oversaw an increase in our foreign currency reserves from 494 million dollars in 1993 to 9.6 billion dollars by the middle of 1997, that is unprecedented.

15 years after the PTF the benefits are still being reaped today in Nigeria, What of peace keeping and nation building, not just in West Africa but the entire continent, restoring democracy in Liberia and Sierra Leone, all these under my father’s leadership, are all these not laudable? Or would you like to undo them all. All this on $8 per barrel of oil! You have to be kidding me.

You are a learned man, you would have to undo all your learning to knowingly wish to undo all these achievements! I will be the first to proclaim that my fathers leadership was not pitch perfect or spot free, that does not exist, maybe in utopia but not here on this earth, so let us keep our discourse set in the sphere of reality please, he deserves the award, and he did not campaign for it, let it go Sir and allow Nigeria to at least bask in our survival and endurance in our growing prosperity and development in these trying times.

I have been accused of being an optimist, hence, I am optimistic that you will come around and accept that we can all come together and face the future together, forgive each other our wrongs while celebrating our rights, I am still an admirer of your works after all, however, I cannot and will not attempt to answer your every charge, this is not the time or place, this is a time for solidarity, if only you were wise enough to grasp this.

I applaud the patience of President Goodluck Jonathan and his composure and restraint in not having a knee jerk reaction at such a pivotal moment in our nations history, but you would mar the occasion, Sir, in the future, please pick your battles, and do better to safeguard your relevance, Enough Sir!