“Some Africans are lazy fools only good at eating, lovemaking and Stealing” – Donald Trump

Once again, US business magnate Donald Trump has expressed his deep disgust for Africans by referring to them as lazy fools only good at eating, lovemaking and thuggery. Speaking in Indianapolis, Trump who is also the republican Presidential torch bearer reiterated his promise to deport Africans especially those of Kenyan origin including their son Barrack Obama.

Buhari’s 100 Days of Incompetence and Abject Failure, By Femi Aribisala

President Buhari

After the 2015 election, I predicted on Twitter that when critical decisions are to be taken, Yemi Osinbajo, the token Southerner in Aso Rock, would be sent to go and buy “guguru and epa.” This has proved prescient. The vice-president was barred from attending a national security briefing on the grounds that he did not have security clearance. But who can have more clearance than a man elected by the people? How did Buhari himself get his?

On August 30th, 2015, the vice-president was again publicly embarrassed when armed men shut down the Aso Rock Chapel, preventing him from worshipping there.

After shouting myself hoarse, warning

Dr. Ariyo: Igbos In Texas Calls For The Removal Of The Xenophobic Doctor,Faces License Revocation

Doctor Adeniran Abraham Ariyo

Doctor Adeniran Abraham Ariyo, the doctor that prescribed xenophobic attack on Igbos across Nigeria, has been discovered by Elombah.com to have previously faced disciplinary actions instituted by Texas Medical Board on May 2, 2014, over some unprofessional activities, traits akin to quackery.

 

The Dallas Doctor who wanted Igbos killed in a fashion similar

Militant Group Blows Up Gas Trunklines In Niger Delta

A militant group, Urhobo Gbagbako, yesterday, claimed responsibility for two explosions that rocked two major gas trunk lines belonging to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, located on the boundaries of Afiesere and Ekredjebo communities and Otedo and Edjovwe communities both in Ughelli North and Ughelli South Local Government Areas of Delta State.

Urhobo Gbagbako, in a statement by its spokesperson, Priest Omodjuvwu, said that the explosions were in protest against those he called “traitors” the NPDC had continued to send to Urhoboland in a bid to manipulate their unsuspecting and once peaceful communities.

Buhari Lack The Powers To Stop AIT From Covering Him – Dokpesi

 

Dokpesi, AIT Chairman

The proprietor of Daar Communications PLC, Raymond Dokpesi, has stated that Monday’s decision by the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to bar one of its subsidiaries, Africa Independent Television, from covering his activities was an attempt by the former military Head of State to bring back the era of Decree 4.

Mr. Dokpesi said Mr. Buhari lacks the

N19.2bn Fraud: Trial Resumes Tomorrow Of Former Governor Sylva, Co-Chairman Of APC Presidential Inauguration Planning Committee

Timipre Sylva

A legal matter which holds the potential to embarrass the incoming administration of Muhammadu Buhari resumes tomorrow at the Federal High Court, Abuja, involving a former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva.

Sylva, a bitter political opponent of President Goodluck Jonathan, is co-chairman of the Presidential Inauguration Planning Committee with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Pius Anyim

He is accused of stealing N19.2billion from the state treasury while he was the governor between 2007 and 2011.

The former Bayelsa chief executive was docked by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) alongside others in July 2014, for allegedly using

PRESS FREEDOM: Buhari Bans AIT From Covering His Activities

Report has it that the media team of the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari stopped the African Independent Television (AIT) from covering his engagements until issues of ethics and standards are sorted out.

We gathered that the AIT crew was asked

Finally, The Truth About The Chibok Girls: Parents Of Abducted Schoolgirls Finger The Vice Principal

Parents of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted a year ago in the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok have suggested that the vice principal (academic) of the school where the teenage girls were kidnapped was complicit in their kidnap.

Parents of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted a year ago in the northeastern

Agbaje Asked Lagos Voters to Push APC to the Atlantic Ocean with Their Vote

 

Jimi Agbaje

Mr. Jimi Agbaje, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, has urged Lagos voters, especially Igbo residents to vote massively for him and push the ruling party in the state, All Progressives Congress, APC into the Atlantic Ocean.

Agbaje, Thursday, during his visit to Igbo traders at the Alaba International Market, urged them to ignore the threats made by the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, that if they fail to vote for his anointed candidate, Akinwunmi Ambode of the APC, they would die in the lagoon within seven days.

“Nobody can push you into the Atlantic Ocean,” Agbaje assured them , adding that ” rather you should use your votes to push the APC into the Atlantic Ocean

Islamic Persecution of Christians: Italy To Involve Military Action In Defense Of Christians

Italian Forces

“Military action is inevitable in the fight against terrorism and more should be done to tackle religious persecution, Italy’s foreign minister said.

In an unusually strongly worded interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera on Tuesday, Paolo Gentiloni said Europe has long ignored dangers

For Conceding the Presidential Election, Obama Commends Jonathan

Obama

President Barack Obama of the United States of America has commended President Goodluck Jonathan for placing the interest of Nigeria first by conceding the presidential elections and congratulating his opponent, Muhammad Buhari on his victory.

“I look forward to working with President Jonathan throughout the remainder of his term, and I thank him for his many years of service and his statesmanlike conduct at this critical juncture“. Obama said in a statement on Wednesday.

Speech by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan After The Declaration of Buhari As The Winner Of 2015 Presidential Election

President Jonathan

Fellow Nigerians,

I thank you all for turning out en-masse for the March 28 General Elections.
I promised the country free and fair elections. I have kept my word. I have also expanded the space for Nigerians to participate in the democratic process. That is one legacy I will like to see endure.

Although some people have expressed mixed feelings about the results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), I urge those who may feel aggrieved to follow due process based on our constitution and our electoral laws, in seeking redress.

As I have always affirmed, nobody’s ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian. The unity, stability and progress of our dear country is more important than anything else.

Legal Decision: Court Orders Hearing Of Interlocutory Applications And Substantive Suit In The Case To Disqualify General Buhari Over Perjury And WASC Certificate Scandal

Justice A. F. A. Ademola of Federal High Court 6, Abuja, has ordered that all the applications filed in the matter seeking to disqualify General Muhammadu Buhari who is the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the general elections, be heard together with the substantive Originating Summons seeking to disqualify him from contesting the March 28 Presidential election and not separately.

Buhari

When the case, Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/01/2015, filed by Mr. Chukwunweike Okafor, an Abuja based legal practitioner, came-up for hearing of all the pending applications on the 19th of March, 2015, Counsel to the Plaintiff, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, had argued before the court that Order 29 of the Federal High Court Civil Procedure Rules, 2009, is a mandatory provision of the law which enjoins the court to hear both the interlocutory applications and the substantive suit together in one fell swoop. Ozekhome cited several legal authorities to buttress his position, arguing that time was of the essence in this pre-election matter, so as to enable the court decide once and for all, whether or not Buhari was qualified to stand for the March 28, Presidential election.

Ahead Of Tomorrow's Jugement: Disqualification of Buhari From Election Portends Great Danger – APC

Buhari

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned against any orchestrated, last-minute disqualification of its presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu, in order to pave the way for an easy victory for President Goodluck Jonathan or even another postponement of the elections

”If it is true, as it is being widely speculated across the country, that the Jonathan Administration has procured a judgement to disqualify the APC Presidential Candidate on Wednesday, when

APC Is Suffering From “Acquired Self-Deceit Syndrome (ASS)” - Fayose

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has said Nigerians will never succumb to the deceit and falsehood of the All Progressives Con­gress (APC) on the likely outcome of the forthcoming general election.

He said:”It is self deceit taken too far for anyone to list Ekiti as part of states to be won by the APC in the Satur­day’s presidential election.”

The governor urged Ni­gerians to disregard the or­chestrated opinion polls be­ing published since Saturday in some newspapers, adding that: “Fake opinion polls won’t assist the APC, the way it did not assist the party in the June 21, 2014 Ekiti gov­ernorship election.”

We are Planning Anti-Jega Protest on Monday — Gani Adams

MASSOB Members

As we approach March 28 presidential and National Assembly elections, some groups, including the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), plan to hold a massive protest in Lagos on Monday against the continued stay in office of the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega.

The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) had carried out similar protests which rocked Rivers, Delta and all the five South East states, on Friday by members who turned out in their thousands.

The planned protest in Lagos, it was gathered, is being carefully organised to achieve maximum impact against certain decisions of INEC on the coming polls.

Claims on ING, Tinubu Hiding from His Own Shadow – Fani Kayode

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, PDPPCO Thursday took a swipe at the National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, described as baseless and false his claims that the PDP and the Presidency offered him the position of vice president in an Interim National Government (ING) if he would dump his party’s Presidential candidate, General Muhhamdu Buhari, retd.

According to PDP, the government or the party was not in any way trying to frame Tinubu for murder and that no one from the government approached him to be the Vice President of anything, just as it described him as having sn overinflated opinion of himself.

In a statement by the Tinubu Media Office had said, “From what can be gathered through informed sources, the PDP and Jonathan Presidency had recently tried to fracture the APC by offering Tinubu the position of vice President in an interim government if he would agree to Part Company with the popular Buhari.

Once Tinubu rebuffed the offer to participate in the interim scheme, the presidency decided to change tactics. It would no longer try to entice Tinubu with sugar but would now move to silence and if necessary neutralize him.

Buhari Seals Gay Deal with West, As Fani-Kayode Raises Alarm over Documentary on Jonathan, Others

Fani kayode                           Mohammadu Buhari

The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Or­ganisation, (PDPPCO) has alleged that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muham­madu Buhari may have sealed a deal with some Western nations to allow same sex marriage, if elected.

Director of Media and Publicity of the PDPPCO, Femi Fani-Kayode, made the claim at a news briefing yesterday in Abuja.

Amaechi Abandons APC Presidential Campaign – Wike

Rotimi Amaechi

The Immediate past Junior Minister for education and Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, Barrister Wike has stated that Governor Amaechi has abandoned the All Progressives Congress campaign and ran back to Rivers State to salvage his party in the face of imminent defeat by the PDP in the state.

 In a statement signed by his Special Assistant (Media), Simeon Nwakaudu, Wike said: “Whether outgoing governor Amaechi sleeps in Rivers State till election, the APC will be roundly defeated in all local governments of the state.

“Amaechi abandoned his principal and embattled APC Presidential Candidate to run back to salvage his party. But, there is nothing Amaechi can do for his boy and the APC. It is PDP all the way. The people of Rivers State belong to PDP and no matter the amount of stolen funds Amaechi spends, PDP will win Rivers State”.

First Lady's Comment On Buhari And The Mass Hysteria by Sabinus Eboh

First Lady, Patience Jonathan

Our gentle, soft-spoken Patience Jonathan caused a great stir in the buildup to the 2015 presidential election last two weeks in Cross River State when she insinuated that Muhammadu Buhari, the All Progressive Congress, APC Presidential candidate for the 2015 general election in Nigeria, may be suffering from brain damage due to old age and that anybody that mentions change should be stoned.

Since that statement, all hell has been let loose with an exhibition of mass hysteria from the main opposition party.

They APC has reacted by calling her a crude woman with a threat to pull out of the non-violence accord signed with the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Abuja.

The issuance of threat and violence by the APC anytime aspersion is cast on their candidate smacks of hypocrisy on their part. As far as one could remember, APC has remained the greatest culprit in character assassination and attack on personality instead of facing issues.

If we recall vividly, APC, through Lai Mohammed threw the first stone when they referred to the President as running a ‘clueless’ government. Bisi Akande followed on the heels when he referred to the President as a ‘kindergarten President’, alluding that he is learning on the job.

OBJ's Birthday And A Football Show: The Politics Of Old Age - By Sabinus Eboh

Anybody conversant with Obasanjo’s politics in Nigeria will definitely know where he is coming from. The recent football show by OBJ in the course of celebrating his 78^th birthday is part of his deceptive and diversionary tactics to sway the gullible minds to his selfish plans. Nigerian politicians has always shown that for you to be a politician you must first be a good comedian.

This attribute has been so exhibited by no less a person than OBJ. It was OBJ who during the PDP campaign rally of 2006 in Ogun state, when it was rumored that Yaradua is dead, in the most dramatic and comedic manner put a call through to Yaradua on his sick bed, with his phone on speaker, to the hearing of all present, ask the now infamous question “Umaru are you dead?”  The rest today, is history.

“Jega Will Go, Heavens Won’t Fall” – Fayose

Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described outbursts of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the possible removal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega as “mere comedy”, stressing that the President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, could sack him if he wishes.

The Governor in a statement on Wednesday said the APC should stop acting as if Nigeria belongs to the party.

Fayose said: “By turning themselves to advocates and defenders of the INEC Chairman, the APC and its agents have shown that they have a deal with Jega to manipulate the elections and that deal will be frustrated if he is asked to leave office.”

APC Exposes Plans By The PDP/Jonathan Administration To Manipulate 2015 General Elections, Implicate Opposition Leaders

Being the text of a press conference addressed by the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Lagos on Wednesday, March 4th 2015

Good morning gentlemen and welcome to this press conference.

It’s just about three weeks to the start of the rescheduled 2015 general elections, and the expectations across the country and outside our borders are very high, just as the tension among Nigerians!

The eyes of the world are focused on our country, Nigeria, to organize a free, fair, credible and violence-free election that will not only deepen our democracy but will also show to the world that our leadership position in the West African sub-region and the African continent is not a fluke.

Tinubu Would Have Been In Jail By Now – Fani-Kayode

Fani and Tinubu

Ahead of the Presidential and general elections slated for March 28 and April 11 respectively, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, PDPPCO Monday urged the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC to pray for the fortune of its Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, rtd,  because he was in trouble and surrounded by those he termed, snakes and vampires.

In a statement Monday by the Director, Media and Publicity, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani- Kayode said that the national leader of APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and his aides were not God, just as he asked them to pray for late Funsho Williams’ soul.

According to Fani- Kayode, if Nigerians do not have short memories, the former Lagos State Governor ought to be in jail, against the backdrop that he belongs there.

2015 POLLS: 6 Million OPC Members Set to Vote For Jonathan – Adams

National Co-ordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Otunba Gani Adams, yesterday, said that six million members of the group have resolved to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan at the March 28 presidential polls.

OPC members took the decision at their National Co-ordinating Council meeting after taking time to assess President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd) of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

He made the disclosure at his Lagos residence while hosting Special Adviser to President Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs, Hon Kingsley Kuku, who came to solicit his and OPC’s support for Jonathan’s re-election.

Adams said OPC is rooting for Jonathan because of his human rights records in not arresting or detaining any activist since he came to power, convocation of national conference and promise to implement the 633 recommendations that will help to restructure the country, which he said is in the interest of the Yoruba and South-west.

 He said: ‘’OPC is a group of six million people. We sat down at our National Co-ordinating Council to decide on who to vote for between President Jonathan and Buhari and the support for Jonathan is unanimous.”

The End of APC’s Fabricated Momentum, By Femi Aribisala

I have news for APC stalwarts.  You don’t win an election in Nigeria by being the champion of social media.  You don’t win by renting crowds to fill up your rallies.  You don’t win by putting up your billboards everywhere while tearing down those of your opponents.  You don’t win by master-minding in the media a false sense of the inevitability of your victory.  When you do all this successfully, you simply end up by deceiving yourself.

You win elections by mounting an effective ground-game at the grassroots level; designed to bring out the people on Election Day to vote for you.  Instead, APC strategy was to stampede the electorate into victory.  The design was to proclaim victory even before the election, laying grounds for protests and acrimony in event of defeat. 

B-O-K-O H-A-R-A-M: Battle-Field Account Of A Military Deserter

Soldiers tasked with fighting Boko Haram militants arrive to face

trials for mutiny in Abuja on October 2, 2014.

W hile the battle to route Boko Haram insurgents within six weeks as promised by the Federal government rages, an army officer, nursing the wounds and deep feelings over the whole incident, spoke exhaustively to Saturday Vanguard about his battle field experiences at Gombe and Yobe axis and why he deserted the profession he loves so much. His narration which runs like a ‘war memoir’ is as interesting although the military has recorded reasonable success with more equipment with which they have attacked terror camps and killed a great number of them.

However we present to you an interesting account of an officer who deserted the army from the battle front.

Excerpts: 

BACKGROUND

‘’I have served Nigerian Army for about twenty years. I enrolled through the regular course.

I have served in almost all formations in the country. I am from the middle Belt part of the country, married with two children, a boy and girl. I have also served in foreign missions in Sierra-leone, Liberia and Dafur and we always came out in flying colours. Sierra-leone and Liberia were for peace enforcement while Dafur was for peace support missions. We fought real battles at Sierra-leone and Liberia for about one year. We were there as a member of ECOWAS and we proved our mettle. It was popularly called ECOMOG. The battles were tense but rewarding in the sense that we were heavily equipped and all we needed for the war were adequately provided for us. During the battles we recorded very minimal casualty though. You know that it is difficult not to record casualties in war situations.

Non-Indigenes Protest in Lagos over PVC

Thousands of non-indigenes in Lagos yesterday marched to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Yaba to protest alleged marginalisation in the distribution of the Permanent Voter’s Card (PVC).

The protesters, who were leaders of the South-South and South-East groups in Lagos, brandishing their Temporary Voter’s Cards (TVCs) stormed the INEC office with various placards, demanding their PVCs to enable them to vote in the forthcoming elections. They had first converged on the Yaba Market before marching to INEC’s office.

Some of the placards read: “No PVC, no peace, no election,” “INEC, release our PVCs please,” “Jega, where are our PVCs?”  “INEC deliberately hold our PVCs,” “Non-indigenes of Lagos State refuse to be disenfranchised,” “We want to vote, give us our PVCs,” among many others.

Buhari Certificate Saga: CJN Probes Magistrate

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, has okayed an investigation into a petition accusing a Chief Magistrate in Abuja, Mr. Abubakar Babashani, of deliberately frustrating moves to commence hearing on the perjury charge entered against the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (ret).

Already, the CJN has directed the magistrate to immediately file his response to the petition entitled “Case of Abuse of Office and Manifest Bias by His Worship, Abubakar Babashani, in The Criminal Complaint by Shield Jones Ufot & Ors. Vs. Muhammed Buhari.”

Reacting to the petition, the CJN via a letter with Ref. No. CJN/MAN/B9/S.1/VOL.VI/389, which was signed by his Senior Special Assistant, Mrs. Hadiza Sa’eed, said he would give due consideration to all the allegations that were raised against the magistrate in the complaint letter dated February 4, 2015.

Specifically, four activists, Shield Jones Ufot, Jimmy David, Ogueri Enwerem and Tochukwu Okorie, had in a direct criminal complaint they filed before the Abuja Chief Magistrate Court, accused Buhari of violating section157 of the Penal Code.

France, Cameroun Lock Horns over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters

Following the capture of eight French nationals who are members of the terror group Boko Haram, a diplomatic spat has ensued between France and Cameroun, which has insisted on trying the terror suspects.

A top Nigerian intelligence source opened up to THISDAY on the brewing diplomatic tensions between France and one of her Francophone allies in the sub-region following the shocking discovery that some French citizens are staunch members of the sect, a throwback to their membership of the terror group, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

According to findings, France was reported to have chided her former colony for insisting on trying the terrorists in Cameroun instead of handing them over to the French authorities.

Enraged by the audacity of Cameroun to hold its citizens, the French Foreign Minister, Mr. Lauren Fabuci, was alleged to have ordered that the suspects be handed over to the European country with immediate effect.

Rapists on Rampage: Shocking Stories of How Minors Have Become Endangered

As you approach her, she  averts eye contact, preferring to look at the ground; call her name, she nods her head without saying a word. She is equally not forthcoming when you try to engage her in a conversation. Yet this is a girl who was said to be outgoing and playful before her most recent traumatic experience.

But after much prodding, 13-year-old Sadia (not real name) and a primary five pupil of a private school in Jos, the Plateau State capital, was able to tell her story, albeit amidst tears.

Residents in shock

A middle aged man was caught defiling her at about 7am on the fateful day of October 12, 2014. It was an ugly incident that has since turned her life upside down and left residents in the neighbourhood reeling in shock.

She said it was not the first time the man raped her, adding that she had before this time allowed him to have his way because he gave her money to meet her urgent need, which is food. So their being caught in the act, booed and sniggered at by a curious crowd of residents, was a “shame too much” for her bear.

The Real Reason Why Obasanjo Is on a Collision Course with Jonathan: A Revisit of Iyabo’s Letter

I said it last time when OBJ’s daughter wrote an open letter to her father OBJ. I know that for that letter alone, he will fight like a wounded lion to make sure that President Jonathan is disgraced out of power. Obasanjo sees Jonathan as the reason why his daughter went to that great extent of maligning his person. OBJ is yet to come out of that shameful exposé by his daughter.

I see this letter as a reply to OBJ’s recent outburst on Joanathan.

Below are some excerpts from IyaboObasanjo’s letter to her father, OBJ.

 

Setting the Records Straight

“It brings me no joy to have to write this but since you started this trend of open letters I thought I would follow suit since you don’t listen to anyone anyway. The only way to reach you may be to make the public aware of some things. As a child well brought up by my long-suffering mother in Yoruba tradition, I have been reluctant to tell the truth about you but as it seems you still continue to delude yourself about the kind of person you are and I think for posterity’s sake it is time to set the records straight.

Buhari: Trivializing The Irrelevant

AS Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka put it the other day, ‘this intervention has been provoked, not so much by the ambitions of General Buhari to return to power at the head of a democratic Nigeria, as by declarations of support from directions that leave one totally dumbfounded.’ Nothing best describes the upsurge of vociferous but futile calls for Nigerians to forcefully swallow hook, line and sinker the arrival of a long awaited messiah in Buhari.

 

If political irredentism is a fixation, then we become quite familiar with this journey to perfidy, having travelled along same route in 2003, 2007 and 2011. Familiar in the sense that long before elections hold, celebrations begin that opposition has won. Then comes election day, results are announced and Election Tribunals here we come, etc, etc.

But perhaps this year’s election victory celebrations have never had so much grandiloquent exhibitions as the APC is demonstrating in the current campaigns.

NIGERIA’S RICHEST OIL BLOCKS OWNERS EXPOSED: NAMES & DETAILS

The oil block business is so lucrative that Danjuma’s Sapetro divested of its investment in Akpo condensate for $1billion dollars. The business is second to none in Nigeria. That is why any attempt to investigate the activities in this sector will always be futile. The money is so much that they give bribes in millions of dollars. A birthday gift or child naming gift from an oil block owner to a government official could be as paltry as $2million dollars, and if the official’s father died, the condolence gift could reach mere $3 million dollars.

When they want to bribe legislators, it is in millions of dollars and any ongoing investigation ends within weeks. They are so confident that with excess money they can buy up Nigeria and they are succeeding OML 110 with high yield OBE oil fields was given Cavendish Petroleum owned by Alhaji Mai Daribe, the Borno Patriarch in 1996 by Sanni Abacha. OBE oil field has estimated over 500 million barrels of oil. In layman’s language and using average benchmark of $100 dollars per barrel, translates to $50 billion dollars worth of oil reserve. When you remove the taxes, royalties and sundry duties worth about 60% of the reserve payable over time you get about $20billion dollars worth of oil in the hands of a family.

SOME SENIOR CITIZENS BEHAVE LIKE MOTOR PARK TOUTS —JONATHAN

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, lampooned some unnamed senior citizens in the country for their provocative and divisive statements, saying though these people would like to be seen as statesmen, they behaved more or less like “motor park touts.”

Jonathan spoke when he received the executive and members of the Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Northern Elders Council, NEC, led by Alhaji Tanko Yakassai at the State House, saying mere occupation of a big office in the past did not confer statesmanship on any body.

He also told the delegation that it was wrong for anybody to accuse him of hating the north, saying some of his closest aides are from the north.

Although the President did not name any politician, there has been no love lost between him and former President Olusegun Obasanjo who had in recent past criticised his administration over alleged non-performance.

Obasanjo on Monday also accused Jonathan of squandering about $55 billion savings in the excess crude account and the nation’s foreign reserve.

You are ordinary motor park tout

Jonathan said: “Some people call themselves statesmen but they are not statesmen they are just ordinary politicians. For you to be a statesman is not because you have occupied a big office before but the question is what are you bringing to bear. Are you building this country or are you a part of people who tell lies to destroy this country to create enmity and make people who ordinarily would have been living together to fight themselves? Are you planning to set the country ablaze because you did not get that particular thing you want?

“At the appropriate time Nigerians will know all of us even though I know most of you know us but the younger ones do not know. Some people are hiding under some big names and creating a lot of problems in this country. Making provocative statements in this country; statements that will set this country ablaze and you tell me you are a senior citizen. You are not a senior citizen; you can never be. You are ordinary motor park tout.

“Because, if you are a senior citizen you will act like one. It is not because of the offices we occupy, it is by divine grace and providence that some of us occupy these offices. But what role are you playing to build this country?”