Prevention is better than cure

Two NORAD F-15 fighter jets intercepted a Cuba-bound aircraft operated by Canada's Sunwing Airlines in upstate New York Thursday night, and escorted it back to Montreal after a passenger made "non specific threats" on board the Boeing 737 aircraft, the airline said.

"We can confirm that flight WG604 which departed Montreal’s Dorval airport for Cayo Coco earlier this evening turned around due to an unruly customer making non-specific threats," the Toronto-based low-cost carrier said Tin a statement of the flight, which was intercepted near Albany. "The flight arrived back around 7:25 p.m. and the disruptive customer was taken into police custody.

The passenger, 39-year-old Quebec resident Charalabos "Bobby" Nassios appeared in court on Friday to face charges of assault, death threats and threats to aviation security, according to Canada's CTV News, an ABC partner.

Montreal police spokesperson Andree-Anne Picard told CTV News that Nassios was allegedly drinking alcohol and disturbing passengers. Police also said he had made non-specific threats that were not terrorism related but caused the flight to turn back.

The 170 passengers re-departed for Cuba, but not for several hours.

"Unfortunately the next viable departure slot to operate into Cayo Coco is 4:30 a.m.," the airline said. "Sunwing has provided affected customers with accommodations and meal vouchers and is very apologetic for the inconvenience."

unnecessary controversy

My take on the brouhaha generated by the president sallah message to nigerians, is that I personally didn't have problem with that, but you are free to have problem with that if you don't understand hausa.
I'm among those advocating for our leaders to use our local language to communicate to their followers, especially the legislators, because I see no reason why they use our local language to campaign because they knew that the electorate will not understand them if they use English to campaign, but use English in the chamber to speak for the people that do not understand English, which explain why the electorate only rate their representative base on constituency project and other financial assistance, not base on the bills and grammar they are speaking in the chambers.
99percent of those criticizing the president for using hausa are just been mischievous, not that they do not understand the message. I am very sure that even if the president use English, they would have still complain that he sound sickly or he should have use video instead of audio broadcast. And we should not forget that hausa is the third most spoken in Africa and most spoken language in Nigeria, which means that most nigerians will understand his message better in hausa than in English.
Don't also forget that the message was a sallah message and 95percent of those celebrating sallah understand hausa, while 95percent of those complaining about the message are not even celebrating the sallah from the first place (In ba karambani ba ina ruwan biri da gada) u can interpret this proverb, but you have problem with Mr President speaking in hausa, my brother demons pursue you from your village? Our major problem is that we give too mush enfacise to English language than our local language as if we were the only country that was colonize by the British.
Come to think of it, what is your problem with the message? Is it because that you are celebrating sallah and you couldn't understand his message in hausa or you just value foreign language than hausa? If you prefer foreign language than hausa, I'm sure you will prefer a foreigner than your hausa brother. And if you have problem with the message because you do not understand hausa, please look for interpreter.
My point is that the president make the broadcast in good faith, but those that always want to find fault in him, make sure they generate controversy in his sallah message. Hausa man said, even if you land inside water, those that want to find fault in you will accuse you for raising dust at them. May God bless Nigeria

 My dear northern governors,

   Here are some advice and solution that is of necessity at this trying and challenging moment in the history of our country Nigeria.

   The Kaduna declaration by some northern youth group might be right or wrong, but one good thing about the declaration is that it revealed some information that people like me are not even aware of, e.g. it was after the declaration that I knew the huge amount of investment that the igbos invested in the north, because the northern igbo leaders have revealed how they invested more than 44trillion naira into Arewa economy.

   Investment of 44trillion can generate a minimum of 2trillion naira annually to the 19 northern states, if you share 2trillion among the 19 northern states, each state would get nothing less than 100billion annually, which would be far much more than what each state is getting from the federation account.

   A state like Kaduna that should be second or third among top ten northern states with igbo investment, should be able to generate nothing less than 250billion naira annually, from igbos investment. And I think it will be better for northern states governors to start thinking on how they can cash into this revelation by northern igbo leaders, restructure their revenue generating agencies for more effective revenue generation than just ordering for the arrest of youth group that make the Kaduna declaration.

   Northern states can generate much more revenue from southerner’s investment in the north, if they move step further and practice what I call discriminatory TAX collection, where the southerners should be paying 50percent more than what an average northerner should be paying. Don’t say it will be injustice to the southerners if such method should be adopted, because I do not think you will be happy if you were in my shoe, where as a northerner, living as a tenant in an igbo man house here in Kaduna and precisely Tudu nufawa, the igbo landlord decide to increase my rent by 25percent, while the rest of my co tenant that are igbos were not affected by the increase in rent, how will you feel if such discrimination is been carried out against you? If an igbo man can come to the north, build house, discriminate between his tenant, make a northerner to pay more than what the rest of the igbos pays in the same building, why should it be a big deal if northern governors decide to discriminate in favor of northerners in TAX collection?

   If our northern governors can utilize the potentials in the southerner’s investment across the northern region, no any southerners will ever call northerners  parasite. They will never advocate for any disintegration, because the north would have been far more richer than it is today. They say if snake no do wetin mekam become snake small children go use him as rope. We have greater potentials than the south, but unfortunately for us, our leaders are playing politics with our potentials, as in the case of this Kaduna declaration of a thing. Northern governors action against the youth that gave the igbos quit notice is not that bad, but it will be too bad if they fail to see the positive side of the declaration and utilize the potentials in igbos investment of 44trillion to develop the north. Ahmad Sardaunan Ina dalili is just trying to make a common sense. Facebook/Ahmad sardauna ina dalili twitter @ahmad dacholom.

The conspirasy continue

Blockade on Qatar is a conspiracy to replicate what was done to Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen with a view to ignite a war between Saudia and Iran for the final stage of the Magna Carta to weaken the countries surrounding the State of Israel to kill the proposed 2 State-solution for Israel and occupied Palestine based on 1967 borders to live in peace, then lay hands on the abundant resources of the Gulf countries since the West are still licking their wounds since their misadventure in Afghanistan and Iraq. Consequently the leadership the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia( KSA) should contemplate lifting the ban particularly on Food, Medicine and other life threatening essential commodities. No matter how deep a quarrel is, humanity related matters are excluded from politics. Therefore, it is urgent for some non aligned countries from Africa, Latin America, humanitarian organisations or even China be permitted to step-into the matter to quickly solve it. Otherwise, such a Crack may lead to tremendous repercussions in the Gulf region and their various organisations such as Gulf States (GCC), the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) which includes non Arab countries like Turkey and Iran. Humanity must not be politicised This if not swifty checked will affect the Leadership role of the Kingdom of Saudi Kingdom. Let me give some likely intelligence/conspiracy theories to start a war between Saudia and Iran so as to weaken them on behalf of Israel, control their companies and resources, forcefully sell of arms to them, clear their foreign reserves and infiltrate and dismantle the holy lands of Makkah and Madina with another category of insurgency. May Allah forbid such thing. In a conspiracy, a proxy war may be created by one of the big double playing allies of the Saudi Kingdom the way a war was previously ignited between Iran and Iraq. To trick them , they can use technology or mobilise special forces to attack or tinker with Saudi interests or her embassy in any country or even hire mercenaries to do it internally as recently carried out in Teheran with a swift Intelligence report from a treacherous ally indicating that professional bombers are hired to destabilise Saudi Arabia, or as a retaliation, they would give them the needed support to teach the assailants a lesson of their life. Thus, tension will definitely rise in the region. We pray Allah ( SWT) to prevent such a crisis from happening. I recommend that it is high time for the Monarchs to separate their Palace from religious affairs particularly on Hajj and Umrah matters by establishing an independent Commission possibly with Muftis drawn from other countries to run it as well as give fatawa on emerging or trending issues in future or so as to neutralise possible evil plan to pitch the Kingdom of Saudia against Qatar, Yemen or even the Iran that is feared by the west for fear of unknown just like North Korea. Therefore, (God forbid) if such a thing occurs in Saudia, Qatar, Yemen or Iran, they must not rush to draw conclusion prior to thorough investigations.
writting by Dr Khalifa Dikwa (PHD)

every region enemies are within

Wake up call to Northerners By Mahmoon Baba-Ahmed
The Northern Elders Forum, NEF has been applauded for its staunch support to the order given by the four northern youth groups to Igbos living in the North to relocate to the so-called Republic of Biafra in accordance with their spirit of self-determination. Many politicians of eastern extraction and some state governors had earlier openly criticized the action of the youths, describing it as callous and provocative, capable of plunging the country into chaos and disorder.

But the NEF had for the first time came out openly in support of that move, condemning the governors and other critics of double standards and hypocrisy, choosing always to condemn actions they view from a prism of tribalism as they overlook the excesses or depravities of their kinsmen. Prior to this, northerners have consistently reproached their leaders for complacency and inaction when the interests of their region are being trampled upon and their people persecuted unnecessarily. For this singular action the Northern Elders Forum is being complimented by all and sundry as they had this time around came up appropriately for the defense of their followers.
This is because those in power or at the helms of affairs in the North have previously been pandering to the whims and caprices of southern politicians that set them up as veritable tools for the subjugation of their fellow citizens. Their preoccupation was mainly how to distract and detract the northerners from the course upon which they will realistically attain the actualization of their varied interests. After their people have been done with they will then shed crocodile tears, lamenting the calamities that visited those that had suffered the humiliating loss of their rights and privileges.
That was the lot of Northern leaders. Even military rulers of Northern extraction that succeeded the founding fathers of Nigeria have been variably accused of gross inaction and complacency in developing the vast Northern Region which had obviously struggled to catch up with its three counterparts in the First Republic. The same bunch of people, after bowing out of power, consorted with the southern political elements that had for long been plotting the downfall of what they derogatory referred to as giant North. That was what gave impetus to the politics of tribalism which consequently gave rise to undue nepotism and excessive favoritism.
Subsequently, a detestable dimension of religious bigotry was added to the whole affair making it possible to polarize the North along reprehensible divides. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back and since then the Northern community which hitherto enjoys relative calm, fortified by strong bonds of unity and pervading fraternity, progressively exploded into a huge ball of threatening conflagration, aided by the influx of peoples from other regions and their undue influences.
That sorry state of affairs did not come perchance; it was carefully meditated to create more divisions and cleavages among the peoples bounded by a common destiny in their struggle to emancipate themselves from the shackles of their political detractors from the south. Whenever there seems to be a light at the end of their dark tunnel their unpatriotic and self-seeking leaders will provide an effective obstruction that will seal off their chance of achieving the grand objective.
That’s exactly what is obtaining now with the so-called northern leaders unable to unite and give solid economic and other necessary supports to their people who were totally unprotected from the domination of southern interlopers. Instead, they extend clandestine and covert support to people other than their kinsmen and during elections they overtly cohort with opposition politicians other than the ones wholly shored up by their people.
The purpose of these noxious northern leaders in turning away from their people is to principally deny them utilizing their numerical superiority to elect a president from the region that has the majority. That was what obtained in 1999 when the so-called leaders connived to foist on the northerners, and the nation at large, two southern presidential candidates belonging to the same ethnic stock, thus thwarting the possibility of the emergence of a more credible and acceptable candidate from the North. In the same vein, the Northern establishment conspired to throw up a defective candidate, in the previous elections, a wishy-washy contraption from their weird political machinery that was easily defeated by the secretly anointed candidate. Needless to say, the North lost out when they deliberately refused to throw their weights behind the most popular candidate hankered persistently by a majority of Northerners.
The struggle for capacity building and economic emancipation of northerners from the domination of southerners had been suffering a serious setback since they had failed to get their acts together by closing their ranks and acting in unison. Unless and until those that do not wish them exit the region they could hardly ever get their hopes fulfilled. The youths quit order to the Igbos is a wake up call to northerners that crave for rapid transformation of the region to actively support its indigenization by giving the northerners the reins of economic and political power.

may God help nigeria

From Dr John Danfulani.
To,
Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-rufai
The Governor of Kaduna State,
Sir Kashim Ibrahim House Kaduna.
Sir,
PROVE YOUR IMPARTIALITY BY ARRESTING AND PROSECUTING THE MISCREANTS AND PROF ANGO ABDULLAHI WITHOUT DELAY
On 6th June 2017 a Coalition of Northern Nigeria Youth Groups met in Arewa House Kaduna and reeled an illegal, morally bankrupt and politically suicidal ultimatum directing Ndigbos living in Northern Nigeria to relocate to their states of origin. They promised dire consequences for any Ndigbo that ignore their deadly directive.
On Wednesday the 7th of June 2017 you repudiated and nullified their 6th June 2017 ultimatum. And directed security agencies to trail, nap and prosecute them for using Kaduna State as an assembly plan and launching pad of their felonious project. Your position was fully supported by other northern governors.
A day after your rebuttal,arrest, and prosecute directive, the miscreants and apostles of doom resurfaced and reinforced their 6th June 2017 position. And unabashedly lambasted you and your other colleagues that distanced themselves and their people from their doomsday ultimatum.
As all men and women of pure conscience, goodwill, and peace were condemning the infamous quit notice to Ndigbos, on Friday 9th June 2017,Prof Ango Abdullahi,a Village Head in Zazzau Emirate of Kaduna State- a veteran nepotist, a first class irredentist,a regional warlord, and a confused ethnic-supremacist, used the platform of Northern Elders Forum(NEF) and supported the evangelists of destruction of peace and unity of Nigeria.
After Prof Ango Abdullahi's unwarranted gibberish, the Secretary General of NEF Dr. Paul Unongo distilled the air by asserting in unambiguous terms that; the gerontocratic regional champion and ethnic-supremacist has no mandate to speak for their group. From Dr.Unongo's statement, there is no second guessing that the District Head didn't speak on behalf of the conclave of self anointed northern Nigeria elders.
Dr. Unongo's declaration suggests that Prof Abdullahi is an imposter that illegally used the platform of esteemed club of NEF to support a felonious and morally bankrupt ultimatum. Therefore, Prof Abdullahi is their comrade-in-crime, his name must be included in the list of those to face arrest and prosecution. And the old Prof should be in the net with immediate alacrity.
After reading your resolved of 7th June 2017 we wrote a commendation letter to you and encouraged you to walk your talk to deter others nursing the ambition of hatching events that will trigger another civil war in Nigeria. Since then, we have glued our eyes to news bars and pay attention to electronic media without hearing the news of any arrest, let alone prosecution of these jackals of disunity.
Effecting arrest of these people shouldn't be a Herculean task, for obvious reasons. First, somebody with a specific address applied for the venue of the event. Second, somebody approved and received payment for the usage of the venue.Third, somebody gave somebody the key to the venue of their meeting. Four, the same process unfolded when they addressed another press conference that reinforced their earlier position. Some radio and television stations even conducted interviews with them via the telephone. With these multiple leads and footprints, arresting them should be a matter of minutes or hours not days. Thus, we are struggling to know why they are still walking free.
Mr. Governor, we are entertaining this fear because of what happened in the cases of Audu Maikori/Luka Biniyet ( in February of 2017) and Alh Haruna Usman versus Nigeria Army (in March of 2017). These two incidences border conscious or unconscious making of statements that were not anchored on realism on ground. Despite similarities of these incidences, you disgracefully cum selectively acted on Audu/Biniyat's case and deliberately looked the other way on Miyatti Allah versus Nigeria Army's​ case. No special wisdom is needed to know why you adopted two dispositions on cases with similar ingredients. Ethno-religious sentiment guided your decisions,period.
Similarly, you went on a live Television programme (Hardcopy Channels TV) and tagged the leadership of Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) an umbrella organization of all Southern Kaduna ethnic groups bigots because of their loud cries against the semi-genocide perpetrated by a Fulani Militia you openly accepted communing and compensating in foreign climes. The same you wore a deaf ear when Miyyati Allah and their kingpins acknowledged masterminding killings in some villages of Southern Kaduna. You refused to use your power of idioms and phrases coinage to reel-out a judgement on them.
It is clear from these cases that, you are practicing a specie of apartheid system in Kaduna. A political setting where ones ethnicity and religion determines which right he/she enjoys. No wonder all the people you have thus far arrested and persecuted pillared on your shallow intellectual definition of hate speech, bigotry and fanatism, are all Christians and mostly people from Southern Kaduna. This is illegal and morally debasing because you took an oath on 29th May 2015 to treat all manner of persons equal as engraved in our 1999 constitution( as amended).
You can not Make Kaduna Great Again by institutionalizing an apartheid system in a democratic clime. And by suppressing, repressing, crudely subjugating and maltreating people who don't share your faith or exploitative elitist political ideology.
History and posterity shall never be kind to you. Don't ever lose sight of the fact that the wicked goddess of vengeance has a long memory that never forgive nor forget. Kindly keep in mind that you must account (in local and international courts) for most of these heinous acts when your tenure and immunity expires by 10am of 29th May 2019.
Dr. John Danfulani
Chairman Centrum Initiative For Development And Fundamental Rights Advocacy(CEDRA),
P.O.Box 13777 Barnawa Kaduna.

exaggirating achievement in agricultural policies

As it was in the beginning, FG told us how they make 15,000 farmers millionaires through agricultural anchor borrowing program, but have to come back and tell nigerians that they are finding it difficult to recover the money loaned to the farmers.
Same government told us that most of intending pilgrims in 2017 are farmers, because the government have make more millionaire farmers through its agricultural policies.
Is it the money that government gave the farmers that make them millionaires or increase in food production?
Why is it difficult for government to recover their money from the farmers, when they have it in record that the farmers are now millionaires and majority of intending pilgrims? Or does that relate to increase in hajj fair, so as to indirectly recover their money? As be say majority of the intending pilgrims are farmers. If that's the case, I advice the government to identify farmers that failed to pay back their loans, but paid for hajj, so as to recover their money by subtracting from what the farmers paid for hajj.
As for farmers that couldn't complete their hajj payment due to recent hike, I advice them to collect back their money from hajj commission, pay back their debt and invest the in this year farming season.
Report reaching me have it that some farmers that started paying for hajj, could no longer afford to pay or complete their payment due to recent hike in hajj fees.
The truth is that government over exaggerate their success in agricultural sector, while the farmers also exaggerate their success in food production and gains. Any farmer that failed to pay back what he borrowed from government, but pay for hajj, he is living a fake life and not cutting his coat according to his size, but exaggerating his achievement. Please pay back our money, before paying for hajj fees. Both the farmers and the government are wallowing in deception.

Even if crude oil did not dry, it would surely loose it values.

The world as we know it, will be no longer. The balance of power on a global scale will shift. All in the next decade.
Sounds dramatic right? But independent think tank RethinkX believes it to be true, because of rapid advances in technology, and specifically the advent of self-drive or autonomous cars.
First and foremost, RethinkX co-founder and Stanford University economist and professor Tony Seba told CNBC's Street Signs that the rise of self-drive cars will see oil demand plummet, the price of oil drop to $25 a barrel, and oil producers left without the political or financial capital they have today.
"Oil demand will peak 2021-2020 and will go down 100 million barrels, to 70 million barrels within 10 years. And what that means, the new equilibrium price is going to be $25, and if you produce oil and you can't compete at $25, essentially you are holding stranded assets," Seba said.
"At $25 a barrel, that means deep-water, sands, shell oil, fields, most are going to be stranded, and also all the refineries and pipelines associated with these expensive oils are also going to be stranded. And that is going to reshape worldwide oil, geopolitics and so on."
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It's a big call, right? But if you look at what's behind Seba's premise, surprise, surprise, it comes down to money.
He says we are not going to stop driving altogether, just switch to self-drive electric vehicles, which will become a much larger part of the sharing economy. And these electric vehicles are going to cost less to both buy and run.
"The day that autonomous vehicles are approved, the combination of ride hailing, electric and autonomous means that it's going to be ten times cheaper, up to ten times cheaper, to use a robot taxi, transport as a service car, than it is to own a car. Ten times."
Investment Case
Interestingly enough, if you believe this thesis, you may want to look at selling out of any exposure you have to car parks. "In fact what is going to happen, in 80 per cent or maybe more, parking spaces are going to be vacant. Because we are going to have, fewer cars on the road" Seba says.
And given that $25 forecast for oil, you certainly want to look at selling oil, and expensive oil producers. Oh, and sell the car makers that are slow to adapt too, given there will be no more petrol or diesel cars, buses and trucks sold anywhere in the world within 8 years. Which also means no more car dealers by 2024.
And wait, you can sell insurers too, as the cost of car insurance will drop dramatically when you take human error out of the equation, and a much lower direct ownership of vehicles in general.
But, according to Seba, it is time to look at buying into anything that will help to produce and manufacture the next generation of cars, which are "computers on wheels."
He says to look at companies that make the operating system, the computer platform, the batteries, mapping software, and those that adapt to the new environment.
"Imagine a Starbucks (SBUX) on wheels. Essentially transportation is going to be so cheap, it's going to be essentially cheaper for Starbucks to run around and take me to work, which is, you know, 60 kilometers away, and give that transportation for free, in exchange for going to buy coffee in that hour of commute."
There is some good news for economic growth too. The savings households make on cars, will drive higher consumer spending in the U.S., which in turn will drive business and job growth. Seba forecasts that productivity gains will boost GDP by an additional $1 trillion.
But on the other hand, outstanding auto loan debt in the U.S. stands at more than $1 trillion. And there are those who see the U.S. subprime-auto market as a big problem already.
Josh Jalinski, president of Jalinski Advisory Group told CNBC's Street Signs that it's a huge risk. "We have a potential auto subprime crisis looming in America, the likes we haven't seen since 2008. … I see the car subprime loan debacle as something that could be the catalyst of upending the Trump train."
Oil and Cars
Seba is not alone in his predictions, although others believe the shift will take longer, and will not be so dramatic.
China and India are accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles. China wants to get electric, plug-in hybrids and fuel cell cars to account for 20 per cent of all auto sales by 2025, while India aims to electrify all vehicles in the country by 2032.
But as always with any thesis, there are those who argue for the other side. Oil majors are the obvious ones, with recent reports from both ExxonMobil (XOM) and BP (BP.-GB)'s suggesting electric cars will comprise less than 10 per cent of the global car fleet by 2035.
As for the auto industry itself, in the latest moves, Ford (F) announced a new CEO, James Hackett, the head of its self-driving subsidiary Ford Smart Mobility LLC. That moves speaks for itself.
Also Monday, Toyota Research Institute ramped up their investment, teaming up with MIT Media lab and five other companies to explore blockchain technology for the development of driverless cars.
And of course, there is the market interest in Tesla (TSLA). The Elon Musk-backed electric automaker now has a bigger market cap than both Ford and GM (GM).
Trip Chowdhry, managing director and senior analyst at Global Equities Research, points out that while some people think Tesla is an Auto company, it is not.
"It is a cloud computing company, it's a machine and an artificial intelligence company, it is an app company, it is an energy company, and just an automobile is nothing more than a laptop on four wheels."
One point that is agreed, is that the auto industry will look vastly different in the future. The question is, just how long will that change take, and who is going to successfully adapt.
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EITHER WE STOP THE RHETORIC AND REVOLUTIONIZE AGRICULTURE OR WE WOULD BE LEFT STRANDED IN THE NEAREST FUTURE.

NO INVESTMENT IS TOO MUCH FOR AGRICULTURAL AND MINERAL RESOURCES.

We always claimed that the oil infrastructures was constructed by revenue generated through agriculture and mineral resources, but what stop the northerners that ruled this country from investing revenue generated from oil, to massively develop agriculture and mineral resources?
The same people blackmailing the southerners about the fact that revenue from agriculture was used to developed the oil infrastructures, are the first to call Ahmad Sardauna Ina Dalili names, because he criticize the inadequate funding to agriculture and minerals development.
What we suppose to be asking those telling us that oil infrastructures was constructed by revenue generated from agriculture and mineral resources,is that they should be able to tell us the percentage of what was allocated for the construction and development of the oil industry by then, so that we can have better analyses, to know whether we spend less on agricultural and minerals development with oil money or we spent more for the development of oil industries with revenue generated from agriculture and mineral resources.
What we should be doing is to advocate for more funding to agricultural and mineral resources development, not this old story using grand nut and cotton money to developed oil infrastructure, because that no longer sell market.
You can invest more than 1trillion on agriculture in Lagos alone, the smallest state in term of land mars and much more to develop the minerals resources within the southwest. my point is that, investing in agricultural and minerals development doesn't necessary mean investing in the north, because even if its true that revenue generated from agriculture was used in developing the oil industries as claimed, the agricultural product comes from all over Nigeria, such as cocoa, palm oil, etc.
No investment is too much for agricultural and mineral resources development. @Ahmad dacholom

PDP resurrecting in APC

After all the struggle to change PDP with APC, our struggle is gradually becoming useless by the day. The people we criticize and challenged their quality of leadership, have today being celebrated as hero, just because the decamp to APC, they end up in public offices or have immune against anti corruption war.
I know people that were victimized for their change Ideology, after 23month of APC administration, they were not call back to their professional job neither compensated, but rather, the same people that victimized such people are now either becoming more powerful in this administration or appointed into sensitive position, thereby reducing the chances of those that were victimized and Harassed by PDP to get justice.
APC government have to take urgent action, either return such people to their previous job or compensate them, because such people were dismissed, evicted from their homes, disgraced and traumatized, just because of their resilient to change. Justice delayed is justice deny, don't wait until they loose hope and decide to look somewhere else for justice. God bless Nigeria

Budget bruohaha

What if police arrest and detain the chairman senate committee on appropriation, what would have happen? Would you expect the senate to appoint another senator to start all over again or to just pass it as presented by the executive?
The fact is that Some people in the executive, do not really want the senate to work on the budget, but pass it as presented. But why should anyone expect the senate to pass frivolous budget without taking time to work on it?
If it would take them 12month to work on the budget, they should please do. After all, what have 2016 budget of change that was passed and sign into law change in the life of ordinary nigerians? The problem is not the senate failure to pass the budget, but the executive failure to implement the budget. If the executive want the budget to be pass early, they should present the budget early enough. You can not present budget by December and expect the lawmakers to pass it by January. Just as writer of a book took time to wrote his book, the editor also need time to edit the book.

Lets focus on 7trillion executive budget, not 115 billion national assembly budget.

ARE NIGERIANS BEEN FAIR TO THEIR LEGISLATURE?

Though I’m not in support of the legislators to be collecting huge salary and allowance, but I would not be among those trying to discredit the legislative arm of government.

   Let’s assume the national assembly budget of 115billion is to be share among the 469 legislators, no legislator would get up to 350million annually, which mean that a legislator cannot earn up to 1.5billion in his four year tenure. What can 1.5billion do to a senatorial zone of 8 local governments in 4years?

   You disturb yourself on knowing how the national assembly spent the 115billion allocated to them, by publishing their budget for public scrutiny, what have you done about the frivolous executive budget that was made public? You see nothing wrong with executive planning to spent 94million naira to buy tire, but you are quick to criticize the legislator for planning to by vehicles that could cost 35million naira.

   The fact is that Nigerians where made to believe that legislators are the main problem or obstacle to good governance, which is not true. The executive are putting Nigerians against the legislators, just to divert their attention from executive flop and their inability to deliver on their campaign promise.

   Why disturbing yourself  about 115billion naira allocated to the national assembly when a single individual  from the executive can divert more than 115billion for his personal use? Before you start accusing me of supporting the legislators, please can someone tell me of any legislator that was accused of diverting billions for personal use or is there any legislator that was found to hide billions somewhere? Almost all the money that was discovered by Efcc was stolen by people that serve under the executive, not legislative, because 95percent of Nigeria money is with the executive. Instead of focusing on how the executive are managing the money under its control, we are here wasting our time and resources on 115billion naira, when we suppose to focus on how the executive spent the more than 7trillion budget of change that did not really change the hardship Nigerians are passing through.

   The moneys that is been stolen under this current administration is far more than any corruption that is taking place in the legislative arm of government, as revealed by the chairman of presidential adversary committee on corruption, when he boldly told Nigerians how corruption continue to take place in this current administration, by even mentioning some government institutions.

   We should not smear the integrity of the legislators out of ignorant or selfish reason, because the people we love could be there tomorrow and it would become difficult for us to defend them.

VARNER, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas overcame a flurry of court challenges that derailed three other executions, putting to death an inmate for the first time in nearly a dozen years as part of a plan that would have been the country's most ambitious since the death penalty was restored in 1976.

Ledell Lee's lethal injection Thursday capped a chaotic week of legal wrangling that left Arkansas scrambling to salvage any part of its attempt to execute eight men before one of its drugs expires at the end of April.

Lee, 51, was pronounced dead at 11:56 p.m., four minutes before his death warrant was due to expire. He was put on death row for the 1993 death of his neighbor Debra Reese, whom he struck 36 times with a tire tool her husband had given her for protection. Lee was arrested less than an hour after the killing after spending some of the $300 he had stolen from Reese.

The state originally set four double executions over an 11-day period in April. The eight executions would have been the most by a state in such a compressed period since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

The first three executions were canceled this week because of court decisions. Two more inmates are set to die Monday, and one next Thursday. Another inmate scheduled for execution next week has received a stay.

After a hiatus of nearly 12 years, Lee's execution was carried out without any apparent glitches. Lee showed no signs of consciousness two minutes after the lethal injection, which began at 11:44 p.m. With arms extended, covered with a sheet, his head and hands covered with leather straps, Lee made no final statement and showed no apparent signs of suffering during the execution.

"The governor knows the right thing was done tonight," said J.R. Davis, a spokesman for Gov. Asa Hutchinson. "Justice was carried out."

The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Lee's execution less than an hour before his death warrant was set to expire, rejecting a round of last-minute appeals from the condemned inmate's attorneys.

"Arkansas' decision to rush through the execution of Mr. Lee just because its supply of lethal drugs are expiring at the end of the month denied him the opportunity to conduct DNA testing that could have proven his innocence," said Nina Morrison, senior staff attorney with the Innocence Project, a non-profit legal organization that helped represent Lee in his last appeals.

Arkansas dropped plans to execute a second inmate, Stacey Johnson, on Thursday after the state Supreme Court said it wouldn't reconsider his stay, which was issued so Johnson could seek more DNA tests in hopes of proving his innocence.

Another state Supreme Court ruling earlier in the day allowed officials to use a lethal injection drug that a supplier says Arkansas obtained by misleading the company. McKesson Corp. had filed a lawsuit accusing the state of obtaining its vecuronium bromide, one of three drugs used in the state's lethal injection process, under false pretenses.

McKesson said it wants nothing to do with executions and was disappointed in the court's ruling.

"We believe we have done all we can do at this time to recover our product," the company said in a statement.

Justices also denied an attempt by makers of midazolam and potassium chloride — the two other drugs in Arkansas' execution plan — to intervene in McKesson's fight over the vecuronium bromide. The pharmaceutical companies say there is a public health risk if their drugs are diverted for use in executions, and that the state's possession of the drugs violates rules within their distribution networks.

The legal delays frustrated Hutchinson. The state's elected prosecutors also criticized the roadblocks to the execution plans.

"Through the manipulation of the judicial system, these men continue to torment the victims' families in seeking, by any means, to avoid their just punishment," the prosecutors said in a joint statement.

Lawyers for the state have complained that the inmates are filing court papers just to run out the clock on Arkansas' midazolam supply. Prisons director Wendy Kelley has said the state has no way to obtain more midazolam or vecuronium bromide. At one point in the proceedings before a federal judge last week, Arkansas Solicitor General Lee Rudofsky declared, "Enough is enough."

who own the money and the house at Ikoyi?

gaskiya its unfortunate, Efcc could not tell Nigerians who kept millions in 3bags at Kaduna Airport, they also didn't want to tell us who the owner or tenant of the Ikoyi building, where 43million dollars was found. why should it take them time to know the owner or tenant of a house in a well planed city like Ikoyi? malam bahaushe yace gane mani hanya

you can never please human being

The story of an old man and his son.
An old man told his son to accompanied in a journey, so as to see how human are difficult to please.
When they came close to a city, the father ride on a donkey and told his son to follow him on foot, while passing through the city, the people accuse the old man of been heartless, because he ride on a donkey and make the little boy to walk on foot.
While approaching the next city, the father told his son to ride on the donkey, while he walked on foot. The people in the second city accuse the son of been disrespectful for riding on donkey while his father walked on foot.
While approaching the third city, both father and son ride on the donkey, the people in the third city accuse them of been heartless to the donkey.
While approaching the forth city, they both walked on foot, but they were accuse of been foolish for not riding on the donkey.
Nomatter what you do in life, you can not please everybody and people must find something negative to speak against you. God have not create you to please human being, but to please Him by been truthful and obeying his commandment.

anti corruption fight in trial

Why should anyone be playing with our intelligent? 44million dollars found by Efcc belong to NIA government agency, meaning that the money belong to government. Government also keep money in private building, even without maximum security. Was the money provided for covert operation to be paid for ransom to release Chibok girls or what? Is either lack of synergy between our security agencies cause this national embarrassment or the government is tryin to protect some corrupt individuals, as it happen with 15million dollar that was transported to South Africa using private Jet.

Western Democracy in Sick.

Western Democracy in Sick. America as the Mother of all modern Democracies after old Greece, is getting more confused along with her naive mother Blair's UK under foolishly followed her enfant terrible daughter (America under Bush) to tell lies and snub UN red cards against an unjust invasion of other sovereign countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria among others to forcefully Americanise them. America led other countries to invade and destroy administrative and infrastructural structures without having enough brains to cover up their mess back home as the awakening American taxpayers were asking for valid reasons behind the rush into other countries despite warnings not to do so by the United Nations. Governments of America and her Allies are made up of a greedy, selfish and racist and tiny 1% establishment and backed by money bags from Wall Street and other Mega Banks as aptly described during last Nov 2016 campaigns by Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Senator and presidential candidate who was out-rigged by the Democrats establishment in favour of Hillary Clinton who was unexpectedly defeated Donald Trump who, as an outsider and Business tycoon who had earlier miraculously defeated 17 other co-Republicans including favoured GOP Republican establishment candidates from both leading parties as corrupt, treacherous, thieving, murderous and lawless in pursuing their business hiding behind imaginary media driven diseases and selling of arms that are doggedly defended by NRA ( National Rifle Association ) through the creation of ethnoreligious wars across the globe. In all the misadventures, America in coalition with her passive mother Britain enrolled the unconditional support of France and the armtwisted Arab/Muslim nations to destroy, thus weakening other Muslim nations surrounding godmother Israel, ended up sinking billions of dollars without a guaranteed fall back economic position. They went in, but the war dragged them on for more than expected thereby spending more and that wrecked their own economies, exposed their treachery, created awareness and disdain for America. That outcry was said to have propped up home terrorism in sympathy for the weak, women, old and children and non combatant adults who were killed thereby exposing their peace loving citizens to unwarranted hate, having been enlightened by various whistle blowers from Wikileaks, liberal media and others. This brief apperçu leads me to speculate that both presidential and parliamentary styles of democracy are heading for the rock because their champions have not only lost their tactics to convince or coerce their traditional Allies with valid reasons but also found themselves economically left behind by China and Germany, diplomatically underrated by Turkey and Iran, militarily confused by Russia and tiny North Korea ( DPRK) and politically shattered by UK and Trump's over protectionism. As for Nigeria, let me refresh the memory of teaming followers that over 95% of my predictions have come to pass. I still stick to my earlier stand and advice to all leading political parties that former Pres Obasanjo was wrong to have pocketed his party PDP after winning election in 1999 as a bad example given to governors to follow suit in portraying themselves above their party chairmen, a complete departure from the high respect accorded to NPN National Chairman Adisa Akinloye in 1979-1983 by Pres Shehu Shagari. That was the foundation of impunity that also got INEC officials and National Assembly members addicted to corruption via budget padding and Ghana-Must-Go the proceeds of which got them reelected whether their constituencies liked it or not. I also maintain that BUHARI factor is now unbeatably institutionalised despite its unexpected tortoise speed at taking revolutionary decisions for fear of mistakes and naivety to have overly listened to voodoo economists and double agents who treacherously advised on keeping its change drivers out of decision making. With Erdogan winning a referendum for power expansion that will, hopefully not lead to autocracy, Nigerians too may ask for a referendum on some laws, not only in defiance of the National Assembly's refusal to pass antigraft laws but to also get some electoral laws modified in order to elect credible and independent nominees outside APC and PDP. No longer sakk mantra of 2015 that paved way for some recalcitrant globetrotting legislators and governors engaging outsiders in self enriching business with official travel documents when they indeed are building castles in the air with numerous white elephant projects on newspaper pages and social media that there are indeed transparently pulling their people out of the woods and New York's types of infrastructural development in their states. while they are in fact stealing and diverting public funds to buy assets, laundering billions while doling out a fraction of their loots to some influential serving and retired judges /senior lawyers in order to sabotage the antigraft war and economic diversification drive of Buhari govt i mean the insanity with which the devil's advocates are bent on delaying or truncating budget implementation at federal and State levels to later load it on PMB who is apparently blocked from listening to us and reading our sincere write-ups. Pres is making the mistake of his life if he keeps begging Nigerians for more patience while he is waiting for the shameless actors, particularly those who had one bad dossier or the other in the previous regime of impunity and institutionalized corruption to give up their bad habit for this country to redefine its democracy for transparency and good governance to the satisfaction of the starving and impoverished people of Nigeria. While we should all condemn violent attacks on elective officials by hired mobs and restive voters, selfish politicians should await extraordinary surprises if they are thinking of edging out Pres Buhari to return to business as usual. Unless they do the right thing to calm nerves, prevent ugly replicas in some world cities such as mass street protests and occupation of National and State Assemblies. For peaceful 2019 campaigns and elections, it is imperative for the National Assembly, particularly the Senate, to pass Laws for the speedy trials of corruption cases by Special Tribunals, forfeiture of loots based on primal facie evidence to be quickly used for the benefits of all Nigerians. Lest i forget, Nigerians are sick of empty promises, slowness, inactivity, insensitivity and indifference to the ticking clock. The confusion cum cul de sac seemingly facing American, British and French democracy, other nations should redefine their own by choosing best parts of other democracies and anchoring them on best cultural values. May Allah bless Nigeria and her neighbors, guide our leaders to think and do aright, to strengthen our Armed Forces and other security agencies to keep us safe. In the Name of Allah, i join millions of other well meaning Nigerians to appeal to BH remnants to say enough of serial deceits by their inhumane leaders and contractors, to weigh rationally and give up their heinous acts meted on the innocents, release the hundreds of captives including Chibok girls, and to surrender for a lasting peace. We have suffered enough, please.
writting by Dr Khalifa Dikwa

Nigeria a potential rich country

The Amir of Kano Sanusi Lamido Sanusi have said the fact about northern Nigeria, but some people are trying to pull him down, when he actually need to be commended. He said that some part of northern Nigeria would be among the poorest countries if remove from Nigeria, but I want to add by saying that Nigeria at large is already among the poorest, if you analyze and compare Nigeria annual budged with other African countries, base on per capital income.

   Let start with South Africa, the country with the highest budget in Africa, followed by Egypt, Algeria, Angola, morocco, and then Nigeria.

   South Africa expected revenue in 2016 budget was 76.620billion dollars, with expenditure budgeted at 86.450billion dollars and deficit of 9.830billion dollars, while Nigeria expected revenue of 2016 was 11.408billion dollars, with expenditure of 21.210billion dollars and deficit of 9.810billion dollars. This means that Nigeria total expenditure of 21.210 billion dollars is no up to one third of South Africa expected revenue, not to even talk about the total expenditure.

   The point is that South Africa have budgeted more than 1.5 billion for 1 million South African, while Nigeria was only able to budget 117 million dollars for 1 million Nigerians. Which make me think is one of the reasons why Nigerians prefer to die in South Africa than to come back to Nigeria.

   You might not know that Nigeria is poor, until you discover hat Nigeria is only ahead of countries like Central Africa republic, Somalia, Madagascar and Burundi, in budget expenditure base on Nigeria population, and also ahead of just Burundi, Somalia and South Sudan in generated revenue expectation.

   The point is that Nigeria is a potential rich country, but  technically among the poorest, base on budget estimation.

  Niger Republic 2016 expected revenue for 1.2million people was 117 million dollars, while Nigeria 2016 expected revenue for 1.4 million people was 89 million dollars, this means that despite the fact that Nigeria expected to generate 11billion dollars more than that of Niger Republic expected revenue of 1.715billion dollars, Niger Republic are technically ahead of Nigeria, due to the fact that Niger population is just little above 20million, while Nigeria have population of more than 186million people.

   The corruption in revenue generating agencies such as NNPC, CUSTOM, FIRS, NPA, NCC, NIMASA, MIGRATION SERVICE, CBN, CAC, are the major limitation to Nigeria revenue potentials. If only the present government could be able to manage corruption, provide the needed manpower and equipment for all the above mentioned revenue generating agencies, I see no reason why Nigeria with land boundaries of 4,047 kilometers, 853 kilometers of coastline, with population of 186million, land and natural resources, cannot generate 50billion dollars annually. May God help poor Nigeria to maximize their potentials?