See how Senator Shehu Sani reacted to his suspension from APC

Senator Shehu Sani representing Kaduna Central was recently suspended for 11 months by his Tudun Wada North, Ward 6 of APC for anti party activities.

Read his reaction in this statement by his Special Assistant on Politics and ideology, Mallam Suleiman Ahmed.

“The senator will continuously criticise any (government) policy that is anti-people up to the end of (his tenure in) the Senate and beyond.

“So if you feel that the senator should not criticise the government of the day because he is part of the party that brought the current government to power, then when he comes out to re-contest in 2019, do not vote for him.

“He will criticise the government,whether or not he comes back as a senator in 2019.

"This is because Sani has been consistent in his criticism of anti-democratic processes and elements; he did not start his criticism (in the current) democratic (dispensation).

“He has been doing criticism of anti-people policies right from the military era. That’s what has taken caused his imprisonment on several occasions.”

It's okay. Sani and El-Rufai make una take am easy oo, abeg.

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NLC angry over planned backdoor removal of fuel subsidy.

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC is threatening the Federal Government with fire and brimstone over what it perceives as plans to remove fuel subsidy through the backdoor.

Read the statement signed by the General Secretary of the NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson.

“In the past few weeks, we have heard discordant tunes from government officials and chieftains of the ruling APC on what the future portends for the prices of petroleum products and the management of the subsidy scheme.

“Party chieftains who supported and encouraged the massive protests against subsidy removal in 2012 are now preaching the inevitability of subsidy removal. The honourable Minister of State for Petroleum first announced that come next year the price of petrol will revert to ₦97 per litre and that subsidy will be phased out.

“Two days thereafter, he denied this and stated that what he said was that the price will operate within a band of ₦87 to ₦97 and that this did not mean removing the subsidy. The same minister now said that the price of petrol will now be ₦85 in January signifying the deregulation of the sector.

“These vacillations and flip flops are, in our view, designed to confuse Nigerians and pave the way for deregulation of petrol prices through the back door. The fact of the matter is that as long as we continue to depend on imported refined products, deregulation and the abandonment of a subsidy scheme will unleash hardship on Nigerians.

“In any case, according to our laws, the determination of the recommended prices of petroleum products is the responsibility of the Petroleum Products Prices Regulatory Agency (PPPRA). By law, the board of PPPRA is made up of stakeholders.

“None of the contradictory prices the minister is throwing up is a product of the agency. Indeed, the board of the PPPRA has not operated for over two years, although we have made repeated demands for the convening of the board.”

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Zakzaky’s Islamic Movement above the law - Sheikh Gumi

Prominent Islamic scholar, Sheikh (Dr.) Ahmad Abubakar Gumi has accused the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, aka, Shi’ites , Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky of running a parallel government in parts of the North in the last 40 years.

Sheikh Gumi told newsmen in Kaduna on Tuesday that the Shi’ites have been ‘’operating a state within a state’’ by conducting military trainings and producing cadets and soldiers.

‘’The Islamic Movement of Nigeria does not recognise the corporate entity of Nigeria. The group is not registered. They operate above the law and they get direct foreign aid,’’ he said.

Sheikh Gumi recalled how late President Umar Musa Yar'Adua had told him of massive importation of arms by the Shiites and how Iran had been fingered in supplying arms to them.

He also recalled writing Zakzaky last year to warn him of the dangers of blocking the roads during their yearly
Ar’baeen trek, where his followers travelled on foot from different parts of the country to Zaria.

He noted that "unnecessary blocking of roads and shouting slogans on the way increases the tension in the north.,’ adding that the recent clashes between soldiers and Shiites in Zaria was ‘’a divine intervention to prevent us from a catastrophe like that of Boko Haram. It came sudden and powerful to eradicate and uproot any plan that they must have been having to harm the society.’’

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Buhari is confronting Sambisa forest head-on - AGF

The government of President Muhammadu Buhari is doing everything possible to ensure the safe return of the missing Chibok girls.

Boko Haram terrorists abducted over 200 girls from Government Secondary School, Chibok in April 2014.

Speaking to members of the #BringBackOurGirls  group in his office in Abuja on Tuesday, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami described the abduction of the girls as “tormenting and psychologically traumatising” for the nation‎.

His words :
“It is tragic for a nation to have a budget meant for arms procurement for the protection of lives and property of the citizens, and end up not having the arms but compromising the process of making adequate provisions for the protection of lives of its citizens.

“The government of President Muhammadu Buhari has demonstrated sufficient skill and commitment to the protection of lives and property. Within the shortest practicable time of coming into existence, it has recorded tremendous success including confronting Sambisa forest head-on with the hope rescuing the Chibok girls.”

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Buhari To Hold Media Chat On Wednesday

President Muhammadu Buhari will hold his first Presidential Media Chat on Wednesday, December 30, 2015.

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adeshina said in a statement that the media chat will be live on the network services of the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA and the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN.

President Buhari is expected to answer questions from a panel of journalists on a broad range of burning national issues.

“Other television and radio stations in the country may hook-up to NTA and FRCN to relay the programme to their viewers and listeners,” the statement said.

The media chat is scheduled to begin by 9 am.

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Mubi Youths Arrest Truck Driver Attempting To Divert Fertilizer

Vigilant youths in Mubi, Adamawa State on Tuesday arrested a truck driver as he tried to divert 600 bags of fertilizer loaded from a government-owned warehouse.

An eyewitness, Mallam Yusuf Mohammed told News Agency of Nigeria, NAN that the fertilizer was loaded from a warehouse along Maiha road.

“When we accosted the driver, he said he was directed to take the commodity to Gombe. There and then, we realised that something was wrong.

“We held the vehicle and invited the police who took the suspects and the loaded trailer to the Mubi South Police Station,” he said.

Adamawa state Commissioner for Information, Mallam Ahmad Sajoh, confirmed the incident.

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Northern Obas beg kinsmen to accommodate Fulani in South West

The King of Yorubas in Abuja, Oba Olusegun Salau has cautioned his kinsmen against expelling the Fulanis from the South West, despite the insecurity associated with their activities in the region..

Oba Salau told journalists in Abuja that all the Yoruba Obas in the 19 northern states have taken a position that the Fulanis should not be ejected because, “they have nowhere else to go other than where they find themselves today.”

His words:
“All the Obas in the North met in my house here and we issued a press release, stating our position regarding the issue as Yoruba Obas in the North. Actually, Nigeria is one. From where I  come from, we have Fulanis that if you don’t study carefully, you won't know that they are Fulanis.

“I will advise that the community and governments of the South West region should sit down and dialogue on the way of resolving this insecurity problems in the region other than resorting to this means.

“There is no where you are going to push the Fulanis to. Fulanis, Igbos, Yorubas and the rest are all the same, no one should sit down and begin to think of how to chase another out of his territory, we are all the same." he declared.

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