Buhari Vows To Jail Those Who Stole Arms Funds

Those who conspired to steal and share funds meant for the procurement of arms for the military will be duly prosecuted and jailed in accordance with the enabling laws.

Speaking with the BBC Hausa Service on Monday, Buhari said that recovery of stolen funds is one of the ways he intends to finance the 2016 budget.

“That is why those who stole monies meant for arms procurement and shared it among themselves are being arrested and are being shown documents so that they would be asked to refund the money or face prosecution; we would use those documents to prove what they stole, collect all the assets acquired from the proceeds and then jail them,” he said.

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Someone tweeted this spat between Basketmouth and Daddy Freeze

Comedian Basketmouth hasn't been cool with his old friend Freeze this year. Here's what he said about him at a show recently.

“ There’s this former Cool FM presenter here, Freeze. I see am for red carpet, where him dey

“ Make una nor dey deceived by this guy’s fair skin o. Nor be oyinbo o, na eczema cause am o. Freeze my guy, your wife nor beat you today? ”

Here's how Freeze responded to Basketmouth's jibe on Instagram.

“ #PutAJokeInTheBasket please help an old colleague resurrect his ailing career by donating a #joke! His performance at #OLIC2 was just too weak! N50,000 for the best joke! Let’s help him keep his dream alive ”

Trust Basketmouth. He wasted no time in returning the "favour".
“ You know you’re irrelevant when you diss someone on IG and you get just 18 comments…half of them by you."

Only Basketmouth and Freeze know how long they want to continue the beef.

Credits: ISTANDTALLMEDIA

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How Army Destroyed 10 Suicide Bombers In Maiduguri

Contrary to stories in the media that insurgents attacked the outskirts of Maiduguri on Sunday, the Nigerian Army says that its men intercepted ten Boko Haram fighters on a suicide mission as they attempted to enter the city.

Media Coordinator of Operation Lafiya Dole, Col. Mustapha Anka said this in a statement he issued on Monday.

“This evening – 27-12-2015 – troops of Operation Lafiya Dole, intercepted and destroyed 10 suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers on the outskirts of Maiduguri.

“Contrary to earlier media reports and rumours flying around, two suspected Boko Haram bombers earlier intercepted by vigilant troops disclosed their colleagues’ intention to enter the city with the aim of detonating bombs in selected public places.

“Consequently, the troops laid ambush on the terrorists’ suspected routes along Damboa Road and eliminated them. The suicide bombers were intercepted in three different locations approaching the city.  The locations are – Ajiri area towards Damboa Road, High Court axis and the Eye Hospital Area.

“The Explosive Ordinance Device team had been mobilized and the members arecombing the general area and clearing the debris. Normalcy has been restored to the general area and the public are please advised to go about their normal businesses and social activities. However, it is important to maintain more vigilance and security consciousness,” he said.

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Nigerians are suffering under Buhari - Tanko Yakassai

Here is what former President Shehu Shagari's Special Adviser on National Assembly Matters, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai told Vanguard over the weekend when he was asked if Buhari could take Nigeria to the promised land.

"Everybody in Nigeria now is crying that  life is very difficult. By this time last year, life was not as it is  today  and from my prediction, we would continue to suffer through the coming year, 2016, 2017 and probably if we are lucky we would begin to see a change in 2018, if you are not prepared, you better start getting ready.

"This hardship would not go away, not just immediately. My prediction is that perhaps if we are lucky it would begin to go away by 2018.

"I know that the government is assuring everybody that it would be a temporary situation but they know that the citizens are suffering and it wouldn’t be over because unless the government is ready to print paper money and distribute it, the economy will remain the same. If the government prints paper money, it would shoot the price of everything in this country.

You see the suffering that we are having today  is as a result of the decision of the government to introduce a Treasury Single Account system for all the government departments and agencies without proper planning.

"It is not a bad thing in itself but it is not something that happens at the blink of an eye. It is something that has to be introduced stage by stage but unfortunately the present government just announced that schedule should no longer allow accounts to be operated, all the banks most return deposit from government to Central Bank.

"The banks were lending money to businesses before out of the government deposits as well as making money from them. Now that the money is not available they are not lending to the businesses and the businesses would now begin to experience lack of activities and the result would be retrenchment.

"The problem is we suffered from this same irrational approach to government policy when Buhari was a military head of state. He decided overnight to change the currency, giving a deadline without realising that most of the people in the rural areas did not know anything like the bank."

See Vanguard for more.

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I'm in Dubai to massage my knee - Atiku

Contrary to speculations that he has been having conspiratorial meetings in Dubai against President Muhammadu Buhari, former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has declared that he is in that city only to massage his injured knee and relax with his family.

He described stories linking him with conspiracy against Buhari as the handiwork of “political mischief makers and enemies of unity.”

In a statement by his media office in Abuja on Sunday and signed by his Media Adviser, Mr Paul Ibe, Atiku said he was embarrassed by the deliberate falsehoods being spread against him by “ill-motivated busybodies that don’t wish the country well.”

The statement reads;

“Contrary to the insinuations by political opponents, the former vice president says the success of the Buhari administration has been his preoccupation, and that any true APC member should have the same zeal.

“Whether at home or abroad, the Turaki is preoccupied with his unassailable support to President Buhari and his administration, especially in this critical time, as it works assiduously to turn the fortunes of our dear country around and make Nigeria work for the greater good of Nigerians.

“Rumour  mongers and mischief makers are toxic to the progress of the APC and the country at large. The campaigns are gone, and therefore, all energies should be constructively devoted to the success of the Buhari administration.

“This is yet another plot of the enemies of our country and democracy to divide, divert attention and distract the APC in its avowed commitment to secure the country, provide jobs for the mass of unemployed youths, build needed critical infrastructure, enthrone a regime of probity and accountability and pull the country out of the economic woods it has been consigned to by locust years of mismanagement.”

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Nigeria To Produce 25% Of Petrol In 2016

In 2016, Nigeria will rely on 75% of imported fuel while 25‰ will be produced locally.

The Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, disclosed this on Sunday during his tour of Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company, KRPC.

His words :
“The future is that, Nigeria is still going to import fuel in 2016 and beyond. Best case situation is 25 per cent local and 75 per cent importation. Worst case is what we are experiencing now.

“Until we begin to get individuals who can co-relocate, we are going to be doing a mixture of local and importation of fuel to meet up demands. In the next few weeks, however, queues will disappear in fuel stations.”

He also said that the Fluid Catalytic Cracking unit of the Kaduna refinery will soon be fully on stream to ensure a daily production of over two million litres of petrol.

“We need to get it back to re-kit it to work well. We will do that with some level of production going on. Our concern is to have a consistent production and provision of products at all times,” he said.

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Soldiers Arrests 7 Boko Haram Bombers, Recover IEDs

A major catastrophe was averted in Kaduna on Sunday when soldiers arrested seven Boko Haram bomb experts and recovered large quantities of Improvised Explosive Devices from them.

Army spokesman Col Sani Usman said that the arrest was the result of painstaking investigations and intelligence sharing.

"The arrest of these suspects would no doubt assist in the fight against terrorism in the country, more so as the military have technically defeated the Boko Haram terrorists in the field, the terrorists have resorted to attacking soft targets through suicide bombings, IEDs and harassing attacks on isolated communities”, he said.

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