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Edwin Clark Today Nigeria

 

Elder statesman, Edwin Clark, has said that Nigeria as an entity won’t make any meaningful progress without being restructured.

Clark, who was a guest on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, believes that restructuring the country will help address its many challenges.

He said, “Without restructuring, no meaningful progress will be achieved in this country.”

Clark faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s Independence Day address to the country, noting that there was nothing in the speech that he had not said before.

He said that that while it was commendable that Nigerians had continued to live together over the last 59 years, a lot of issues needed to be addressed.

The elder statesman also called on the government to tackle poverty and unemployment, as well as reduce the number of out of school children in the country.

 

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Edwin Clark Today Nigeria

 

Elder statesman, Edwin Clark, has said that Nigeria as an entity won’t make any meaningful progress without being restructured.

Clark, who was a guest on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, believes that restructuring the country will help address its many challenges.

He said, “Without restructuring, no meaningful progress will be achieved in this country.”

Clark faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s Independence Day address to the country, noting that there was nothing in the speech that he had not said before.

He said that that while it was commendable that Nigerians had continued to live together over the last 59 years, a lot of issues needed to be addressed.

The elder statesman also called on the government to tackle poverty and unemployment, as well as reduce the number of out of school children in the country.

 

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President Buhari Observes 59th Independence Anniversary

 

President Muhammadu Buhari has warned promoters of hate speech in the country to desist from such actions or get ready to face the consequences.

Buhari gave the warning on Tuesday in his Independence Day speech to the country.

Noting that his administration recognises the freedom of expression of the citizens, he insisted that they would resist the abuse of such rights, especially through the social media.

He said, “Our attention is increasingly being focused on cyber-crimes and the abuse of technology through hate speech and other divisive material being propagated on social media.

“Whilst we uphold the constitutional rights of our people to freedom of expression and association, where the purported exercise of these rights infringes on the rights of other citizens or threatens to undermine our national security, we will take firm and decisive action.”

President Buhari urged Nigerians to exercise restraint, tolerance and mutual respect in airing their grievances and frustrations.

 

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President Buhari Observes 59th Independence Anniversary

 

President Muhammadu Buhari has warned promoters of hate speech in the country to desist from such actions or get ready to face the consequences.

Buhari gave the warning on Tuesday in his Independence Day speech to the country.

Noting that his administration recognises the freedom of expression of the citizens, he insisted that they would resist the abuse of such rights, especially through the social media.

He said, “Our attention is increasingly being focused on cyber-crimes and the abuse of technology through hate speech and other divisive material being propagated on social media.

“Whilst we uphold the constitutional rights of our people to freedom of expression and association, where the purported exercise of these rights infringes on the rights of other citizens or threatens to undermine our national security, we will take firm and decisive action.”

President Buhari urged Nigerians to exercise restraint, tolerance and mutual respect in airing their grievances and frustrations.

 

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The police in Enugu State has arrested 15 suspected criminals for their alleged involvement in various crimes in the state and across the country.

The Command also recovered four locally-made guns, four live cartridges, 13 mobile phones, three vehicles, one tricycle and a sword from suspects.

Parading the suspects in Enugu on Tuesday before journalists, Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Ahmad Abdurrahman, said the arrest of the suspects followed intelligence information and collaboration with other security agencies.

Abdurrahman noted that the command made the arrest within three weeks in various locations within and outside the state.

He said that within the period under review, the command through painstaking intelligence was able to bust a seven-man armed robbery gang in the country.

He said, “This group, whose members were arrested in Lagos, Port Harcourt, FCT, Aba and Enugu, had been terrorising and snatching vehicles all along within the state and move them to other parts of the country for sales.

“The Command through its intelligence operatives travelled to most parts of the country to round-up this network of criminals.”

The commissioner said that three suspects were also arrested for conspiracy and armed robbery as well as disturbing the peace of Umuebi community in Udi Local Government Area of Enugu, according to the News Agency of Nigeria. 

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Busola, wife of musician, Timi Dakolo, has called on the Founder of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo, to present himself to the court for the sake of justice.

Dakolo urged the FCT High Court in Abuja to discountenance preliminary objection filed against her case by Fatoyinbo.

She made the plea while responding to the preliminary objection by Fatoyinbo, insisting that she sued the pastor because of the continued emotional injuries she suffered as a result of the rape he committed against her.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Mrs Dakolo took Fatoyinbo before the FCT High Court for allegedly raping her on different occasions when she was a teenager about 20 years ago.

The court in a writ of summons dated September 6 had ordered the pastor to appear before it within 14 days of the service or judgment may be given in his absence.

However, Fatoyinbo through his lawyer, Mr Alex Izinyon (SAN), tried to discharge the suite by filing a preliminary objection dated September 20, saying that the case was filed out of time and the court cannot hear the matter again.

But responding to that objection, Dakolo, through her Lawyer, Mr Pelumi Olajengbesi, argued that the action was not statute-barred (filed out of time) and that it is predicated on continuous injury which is an exception to the statute of limitation.

She said, “My cause of action is predicated on a continuing injury which I have continued to suffer over a long period of time.”

Dakolo urged the court not to allow the defendant run away from justice by hiding under the cloak of statute of limitation, noting that emotional distress is a tort that cannot be quantified by time.

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Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa has suspended his Special Assistant on Special Duties, Ovie Ossai, without salary for two months.

Our correspondent reliably gathered that the suspension of the governor's aide was not unconnected with statements he made on his Facebookpage re-echoing a grant of N3.5bn given to the wife of the state governor, Mrs Edith Okowa.

It would be recalled that few days ago, a United States based non-profit organisation, the Initiative for Global Development, had through its Chief Executive Officer, Leila Ndiaye, at a sickle cell sensitisation forum organised by 05 Initiative in New York announced a donation of $10m in support of Mrs Okowa’s pet project, 05 Initiative, for the management of sickle cell disease in Delta State.

Confiding in SaharaReporters, a top government official revealed that Ossai’s sin was that he issued a statement on his Facebook page amplifying the $10m grant to Mrs Okowa.

The News Agency of Nigeria had reported the grant story but the annoyance of the governor was that his aide made the news more prominent through his post.

The source said, “After the statement was posted on Ossai’s Facebook page, one of the governor's daughters, who was not happy with the publicity being given to the grant her mother received, she confronted him over the issue and expressed disappointment. 

“All efforts by Ossai to explain his motive fell on deaf ears, and she promised that he will be dealt with by her father.

“Barely 24 hours after the confrontation, the governor invited Ossai over the issue where he explained things to the governor and the governor asked him to leave.

“Shockingly, Ossai got a suspension letter signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Chiedu Ebie, for two months without salary.”

When contacted over the issue, Commissioner for Information in the state, Charles Aniagwu, said, “I have not gotten the details of Ossai's suspension.”

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Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa has suspended his Special Assistant on Special Duties, Ovie Ossai, without salary for two months.

Our correspondent reliably gathered that the suspension of the governor's aide was not unconnected with statements he made on his Facebookpage re-echoing a grant of N3.5bn given to the wife of the state governor, Mrs Edith Okowa.

It would be recalled that few days ago, a United States based non-profit organisation, the Initiative for Global Development, had through its Chief Executive Officer, Leila Ndiaye, at a sickle cell sensitisation forum organised by 05 Initiative in New York announced a donation of $10m in support of Mrs Okowa’s pet project, 05 Initiative, for the management of sickle cell disease in Delta State.

Confiding in SaharaReporters, a top government official revealed that Ossai’s sin was that he issued a statement on his Facebook page amplifying the $10m grant to Mrs Okowa.

The News Agency of Nigeria had reported the grant story but the annoyance of the governor was that his aide made the news more prominent through his post.

The source said, “After the statement was posted on Ossai’s Facebook page, one of the governor's daughters, who was not happy with the publicity being given to the grant her mother received, she confronted him over the issue and expressed disappointment. 

“All efforts by Ossai to explain his motive fell on deaf ears, and she promised that he will be dealt with by her father.

“Barely 24 hours after the confrontation, the governor invited Ossai over the issue where he explained things to the governor and the governor asked him to leave.

“Shockingly, Ossai got a suspension letter signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Chiedu Ebie, for two months without salary.”

When contacted over the issue, Commissioner for Information in the state, Charles Aniagwu, said, “I have not gotten the details of Ossai's suspension.”

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The Delta State chapter of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights has slammed President Muhammadu Buhari over what it called bad governance and disobedience to court orders.     

Speaking at a rally to mark the 59th independence of Nigeria in Warri, the state capital, Chairman of CDHR in Delta, Prince Taiga, called on Buhari to as a matter of importance focus on building Nigeria and also release pro-democracy and human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore.

According to Taiga, “We have bad roads, failure in power supply, no good water, no good hospitals and corruption has taken over the entire political system.

“Our people must resist all forms of intimidation and harassment by governments at all levels and peacefully entrench a better democratic system.”

Adding his voice to the call, Israel Joe, Secretary of CDHR in the state, called on President Buhari to immediately release Sowore and respect the orders of court in line with the creed of separation of powers practiced by every democratic society.

Joe stressed the need for citizens to resist bad governance and fight for justice.

He said, “We have right to peaceful assembly and we shall occupy the Department of State Services office if they fail to obey the order of the court that had earlier mandated them to release Sowore.

“We cannot continue to tolerate the very evil killing the soul of the Nigerian state which is militarised democracy.”

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President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his administration failed to release N1.13trn of the projected funds for capital expenditure in the 2018 budget.

He disclosed this during his Independence Day address to the country on Tuesday.

He said, “As at June 20, this year, up to N1.74trn had been released for capital projects in the 2018 fiscal year.”

The National Assembly approved the sum of N2.87trn for capital expenditure in 2018.

PMB grudgingly signed the act into law on June 20, 2018.

By his pronouncement, this implies that the government fell short of its capital expenditure promise by 39.37 per cent.

This however, is no surprise, as the government rarely meets its targeted spending on capital projects.

In 2017, the budget office notes that N1.58trn was released for projects as at June 2018— about one year after PMB signed the 2017 budget.

This was N780bn short of the 2.36trn it promised to spend on infrastructural development.

When both years are compared, the presidency could be said to have regressed in meeting its revenue targets.

In 2017, the presidency attained an estimated 65.68 per cent of its projected spending.

In 2018 however, that figure fell to 60.23 per cent. Seeing as the presidency began the voluntary Asset and Income Declaration Scheme in 2017 and oil prices started to soar as well, it would have been expected that the government would have been able to realise a higher percentage of its budget implementation target than it did.

Buhari added, “Implementation of the 2019 capital budget, which was only approved in June 2019, will be accelerated to ensure that critical priority projects are completed or substantially addressed.”

Speaking further, Buhari promised that the Ministry of Finance will be directed to release N600bn for capital expenditure in the next three months.

At this rate, the government will release N200bn per month or N2.4trn 12 months after he signed the 2019 budget.

This will still be less than the N2.93trn it promised to spend on infrastructural developments in 2019.

PMB went on to inform Nigerians that he’s government will raise N205bn from the tax credit scheme he signed in January 2019 with private sector companies.

He also promised to sign the Petroleum Industry Bill and amend the Production Sharing Contract to reform the oil and gas industry and improve revenue generation.

He said, “The Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning has been directed to release N600bn for capital expenditure in the next three months.

“To maximise impact, we shall continue to increasingly welcome and encourage private capital for infrastructural development through Public Private Partnerships.

“Through the Road Infrastructure Tax Credit Scheme, which I initiated in January this year, we are giving incentives to private sector inflow of over N205bn in 19 Nigerian roads and bridges of 794.4km across 11 States of the Federation.”

 

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President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his administration failed to release N1.13trn of the projected funds for capital expenditure in the 2018 budget.

He disclosed this during his Independence Day address to the country on Tuesday.

He said, “As at June 20, this year, up to N1.74trn had been released for capital projects in the 2018 fiscal year.”

The National Assembly approved the sum of N2.87trn for capital expenditure in 2018.

PMB grudgingly signed the act into law on June 20, 2018.

By his pronouncement, this implies that the government fell short of its capital expenditure promise by 39.37 per cent.

This however, is no surprise, as the government rarely meets its targeted spending on capital projects.

In 2017, the budget office notes that N1.58trn was released for projects as at June 2018— about one year after PMB signed the 2017 budget.

This was N780bn short of the 2.36trn it promised to spend on infrastructural development.

When both years are compared, the presidency could be said to have regressed in meeting its revenue targets.

In 2017, the presidency attained an estimated 65.68 per cent of its projected spending.

In 2018 however, that figure fell to 60.23 per cent. Seeing as the presidency began the voluntary Asset and Income Declaration Scheme in 2017 and oil prices started to soar as well, it would have been expected that the government would have been able to realise a higher percentage of its budget implementation target than it did.

Buhari added, “Implementation of the 2019 capital budget, which was only approved in June 2019, will be accelerated to ensure that critical priority projects are completed or substantially addressed.”

Speaking further, Buhari promised that the Ministry of Finance will be directed to release N600bn for capital expenditure in the next three months.

At this rate, the government will release N200bn per month or N2.4trn 12 months after he signed the 2019 budget.

This will still be less than the N2.93trn it promised to spend on infrastructural developments in 2019.

PMB went on to inform Nigerians that he’s government will raise N205bn from the tax credit scheme he signed in January 2019 with private sector companies.

He also promised to sign the Petroleum Industry Bill and amend the Production Sharing Contract to reform the oil and gas industry and improve revenue generation.

He said, “The Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning has been directed to release N600bn for capital expenditure in the next three months.

“To maximise impact, we shall continue to increasingly welcome and encourage private capital for infrastructural development through Public Private Partnerships.

“Through the Road Infrastructure Tax Credit Scheme, which I initiated in January this year, we are giving incentives to private sector inflow of over N205bn in 19 Nigerian roads and bridges of 794.4km across 11 States of the Federation.”

 

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NIGERIA as a self-deceiving nation is rolling out drums and sombers today on the auspices of President Muhammadu Buhari to celebrate itself in the midst of self-afflicted catastrophic tragedy and endless woes.

The pietistic delusion of throwing spit into the air and collecting it with the face is a symbol of a caged people and a traumatised nation whose wayward political leaders have conquered.

Only yesterday, modern China celebrated her 70th birthday anniversary with greater hope to surpass the United States of America in all its superior grandstanding, if it has not already that.

Communist China has demonstrated over the years that nation-building is a product of conscious studies, researches, and/or uncompromising patriotism by leaders and citizens alike.

That is what's missing in the "Nigerian Project".

The All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Muhammadu Buhari can only pretend that Nigeria has something to celebrate as an adult-toddler which mocks the facts that the nation stutters at 59.

Now, Nigerians are told to celebrate the birth of the nation while Boko Haram, Fulani militias and armed bandits have virtually taken over one-twelfth of entire northern Nigeria.

Nigerians are told to keep jubilating over the fulanization pinpricks that are gradually enveloping the rest of the country while the presidency is romanticizing with the behemoths for ethnic solidarity. We're encouraged to see none speak no evil of a blighted, shattered nation terrorized by a mindless dictator and tunnel-vision political elites who have grounded the country to the dust!

We're yet to witness the ultimate bloodbath. Just last week, Gen. Buratai who oversees the Nigeria military told the bewildered nation that the solution to defeating Boko Haram insurgents and armed banditry in the north lies in the spirituals rather than technical and information gathering.

Mr. Buratai should have been sacked if we still have someone who answers the name, president. Even President Buhari told Nigerians in an independence broadcast this morning that there's peace in the country when over 100,000 Nigerians of Katsina State origin alone have fled to the Niger Republic as armed bandits overran seven local government areas of the state.

As I said elsewhere, it's a reconquest mentality of a conquered people – "suffering and smiling" – who have refused to make any efforts to extricate themselves from the shackles of mental slavery. Nigeria as
we know it has to decouple along its major ethnic groups to fulfil the purpose of homogeneity of a proper nation coloration. Anything short of that is a temporary delay of the coming anarchy.

At 59, Nigerian has witnessed the infinite capacity of human beings for elaborate suffering stretched to its elastic limit. The limit that we thought was the limit was not quite the limit. A few months ago, taking a dim view of the Nigerian state, US President Donald Trump, requested that Nigeria should be declared a war zone. Nobody can fault the premise on which the request was based.

As Nigeria roils in an epochal crisis of political, cultural, spiritual and economic values with the centre almost buckling under and the federating units engulfed in anomie and anarchy. It will take a miracle of political, social and psychological engineering to reclaim it and stem the further loss of invaluable life.

As the preceding catalogue of catastrophes suggests, that miracle will have to come sooner than later either through peaceful democratic reorganization of the nation, biological coup d’etat or consuming revolutionary anarchy leading to a radical revamp of state architecture and its personnel.

There is no point in quibbling any further. Nigeria is a failed state. Given the astonishing wastage of human and natural resources, the sharp erosion of hope and faith in the nation, the veneer of modernity and civilization superimposed on primitive savagery, Nigeria has very poor prospects for surviving in one piece.

The hope of Nigeria reinventing itself in a decade and a year ahead when the nation should have been celebrating her 70th anniversary has been dashed, ultimately. The survival of the human entity in this bastardized space is only assured if that word called Nigeria is eased off.


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Nigeria is dead!

Let those words sink in. Two hundred million people are without regular and steady power. No treated water. No roads. Hunger is prevalent. Food is expensive. Salaries are not being paid as at due or not paid at all.

Ritual killings for money, unemployment, poverty, delayed and denied justice, corruption, kidnapping, abduction, armed robbery, failed education system, failed healthcare system, insecurity, hopelessness, and fear of tomorrow, and many more are the hallmarks of Nigeria at 59. This is where I grew up. This is where my family lives. This is my home.

And my Nigeria is dead!. I have been struggling to come up with the right words to express my feelings and my thoughts on the 59th anniversary of Nigeria's independence. The social media has provided me with a space to write my remarks, observations, and more often than not, rant about the hopelessness of the Nigerian situation.

I shared my anxieties. I cried in silent sobs at the pictures and the news from Nigeria that compete for sympathy and sadness. Absolute silence from the plunderers, wreckers, and the defiant rogue ruling class has become more and more unbearable for our people. As expected, despair began to unite Nigerians as we comforted each other.

Thinking of Nigeria at 59, nothing came except tears. I'm crying as I write this. How can I put into words how it feels to be completely helpless as the country as I have always loved slowly turns into Hell? How can one fully express in words that could convey, in any way, the overwhelming sense of constant pain, of horrible uncertainty, the fear of tomorrow, and the fury of wasted lives through an epidemic of manufactured evils? How can I explain to people and to the world at large that my Nigeria, my heart and soul, is dead?

The fear of death is an eternal companion in these evil times in the unlivable nation. So, as my country celebrates its 59th birthday, would it be appropriate for me to write a eulogy for its seemingly inevitable death? Perhaps some choice words as a send-off to the erstwhile giant of Africa.

As the Emperor Buhari administration struggles to figure out the way forward out of the thicket of unfulfilled promises and dashed hopes, could I dare hope for a stay in its execution? Or is this just another delay in Nigeria's preordained death? Because of the morally bankrupt and kleptomaniac legislators who continue to strangle Nigeria and choke its citizens, the army of the poor are left to fend for themselves.

Nigeria is in a perpetual state of anomie that thrives on crises precisely because the beneficiaries – the ruling class – are the ones who maintain and profit from illusion and deception.

It's no secret that a nation can choose to either exalt itself to her people, thereby becoming an object of national pride or hide by dulling the citizen's senses and intelligence, thus negating the primary purpose of a nation. So far, the body of evidence shows Nigeria pursued the second path.

The ruling native tyrants have always taken advantage of our profoundly ignorant, naive, and unsuspecting people fueled by their systemic blinding allegiance to the same people that impoverished them.

It's sad to note that after 59 years, 200 million Nigerians have been conditioned by their schools, churches, and political parties to accept oppression as natural law. No wonder, Nigerians have become easy prey to punishment and suffering for engineered transgressions of the ruling elite.

At 59, Nigeria's infrastructure and basic amenities are taken for granted have been crippled, social structure dismantled, and family uprooted by decades of neglect and abandonment by the product of an idled and corrupt political class that blindly rapes our people. These quisling parasites coasted to power via election fraud – vote-buying, rigging, and other election malpractices.

Fifty-nine years of independence has laid bare the reality of a rotten and corrupt ruling class that never puts our people first. The paralysis and complete disregard for good governance pushed our civilization back to the stone age. This crass stupidity permeates all through the different levels of government. With ravaged infrastructure, plundered and stunted economy, decimated citizens, hope against hope, yet, cruelly some people still nurse hope for a lost nation.

At 59, Nigeria is a shining example of a government of feckless inaction, fetid bureaucracy, and unfettered bullshit pilot by Emperor Buhari who has wiped out all vestiges of any symbol of democracy and rule of law. Nigeria is dead. Yes! I mean dead! It's a victim of undeserved vindictiveness of agreed, corrupt, stupid, foolish, and callous political class. As Nigeria begins her 59th year, Nigerians should come together and fight the emperor to finish. This is supposed to be a democracy. Even the other brainless Fulani military despot Abacha was more generous than democratically elected Emperor Buhari.

Nigerians are dying. But if they survive this and rise once again, they may do so inoculated from the diseased inertia, subservience, cowardice, fear, to the enemy ruling class and sheepish loyalty to a wicked and lifeless emperor that have crushed their collective spirit for 59 years.

Emperor Buhari deserves our congratulations for making 59th independence anniversary the last one for Nigeria as one nation.

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