Arewa
Youths
say
Northern
Peace
Conference
is a
talk
show;
blames
Northern
elite
for
religious
violence
…How
many
Peace
Conferences
did
Sir
Ahmadu
Bello
organize
to
bring
about
unity
and
development
in
the
North?-AYF
…Jubril
Aminu
says
Christian
Association
of
Nigerian,
CAN,
should
be
proscribed,
failure
to
do
so
would
force
Muslims
to
come
under
one
umbrella
as,
Muslim
Association
of
Nigeria,
MAN
with
the
attendant
consequences;
Gov.
Yakowa
of
Kaduna
State
calls
for
state
police,
Ribadu
says
Northern
leaders
were
out
of
tune
with
modernity,
and
they
should
give
the
young
ones
the
opportunity
to
develop
their
potentials;
while
Bishop
Kukah
blamed
Northern
leaders
for
underdevelopment
of
the
North,
and
for
hypocrisy
for
claiming
they
are
following
the
footprints
of
the
late
Premier
of
the
North,
Sir
Ahmadu
Ballo
Mike
Adenuga,
Wale
Tinubu,
and
other
Beneficiaries
of
N4
trillion
oil
subsidy
scam
will
appear
before
the
senate
next
week
to
defend
the
amount
they
were
paid
… On
Friday,
the
Senate
Joint
Committee
investigating
the
fuel
subsidy
came
out
with
a
list
of
over
100
fuel
importers
who
allegedly
received
huge
sums
of
money
as
subsidies.
The
committee
had
claimed
that
it
discovered
that
about
73
of
the
companies
did
not
qualify
to
participate
in
the
process
since
they
had
no
depots
or
tank
farms
as
required
by
the
guidelines
Boko
Haram:
Is
institutional
response
enough
to
make
the
violence
fade
away?
By
Ralph
Odua
…
Speaking
at
the
17th
Nigeria
Economic
Summit,
NES
17,
in
Abuja
recent,
President
Jonathan
said
Boko
Haram
will
fade
away;
he
described
the
terrorist
attacks
by
the
Boko
Haram
Islamic
sect
as a
temporary
setback
which
will
soon
be a
thing
of
the
past.
Western
dominance
and
control:
Nigeria
Anti-Gay
Marriage
Bill
Risks
AIDS
Funding
…The
U.K.
government
spends
an
average
of
$31
million
dollars
a
year
on
HIV/AIDS
programs
in
Nigeria,
he
U.S.
govt,
has
given
an
average
of
$308
million
dollars
a
year
to
groups
working
in
HIV
prevention,
treatment,
and
support,
according
to
the
U.S.
Consulate
in
Lagos
…
Nigeria
has
the
continent's
second
highest
number
of
people
living
with
the
disease,
says
the
United
Nations.
More
than
3
million
people
are
infected
with
the
disease
and
many
do
not
know
their
status,
according
to
U.N.
estimates.
Shame!!!
Senate
says
Mike
Adenuga,
Folawiyo,
construction
companies,others
are
beneficiaries
of
about
N4
trillion
oil
subsidy
scam;
but govt wants
ordinary
folks
to
pay
… Breakdown
of
the
amount
shared
by
those
involved
in
the
fuel
subsidy
management
showed
that
Oando
Nigeria
Plc
allegedly
got
–
N228.506billion,
Integrated
Oil
and
Gas
Plc,
N30billion,
MRS-N224.818
billion,
ConOil-
N37.96billion,
Enak
Oil
&
Gas-
N19.684billion,
Bovas
&
Co.
Nig
Ltd,
N5.685billion,
Obat-
N85billion
and
AP-
N104.5billion.
Others
are
Folawiyo
Oil-
N113.3b,
IPMAN
Investment
Limited-
N10.9billion,
ACON-
N24.1billion,
Atio
Oil-
N64.4billion,
AMP-
N11.4billion,
HoneyWell-
N12.2billion,
Emac
Oil-
N19.2billion,
D.Jones
Oil-
N14.8billion
while
Capital
Oil
and
A-Z
Oil
got
N22.4billion
and
N18.613billion
respectively.
Also
as
beneficiaries
according
to
the
Senate
were
Eternal
Oil-
N5.57
billion;
Dozil
Oil-
N3.375
billion;
Fort
Oil-
N8.582
billion
while
some
construction
companies
were
also
on
the
list
but,
the
committee
said
they
shut
down
their
web
sites
since
the
commencement
of
the
probe.
THE
6
TRILLION
QUESTION:
TREASURY
LOOTERS
VERSUS
NIGERIA;
WHO
SHOULD
PAY
FOR
NIGERIA’S
N6
TRILLION
DEBTS?
…Nigeria’s
debt
hit
about
N6
trillion,
fed
govt.
owe
about
60%
of
the
debt
…
Between
2004
and
2006,
the
implementation
of
the
exit
from
Paris
Club
was
completed
such
that
Nigeria
was
forgiven
60
per
cent
of
the
$30
billion
foreign
external
debt,
and
$18
billion
was
written
off
while
$12
billion
was
paid
and
so
we
completely
exited.
Don’t
insult
me
with
CFR,
I
already
have
GCON;
Domkat
Bali
tells
Jonathan
…
According
to
him,
“it
makes
no
sense
to
me.
I
saw
the
recent
national
merit
award
given
to
me
as
an
insult
to
my
personality.
They
told
me
the
2011
honor
awarded
me
is
Commander
of
the
Federal
Republic,
CFR.
“But
the
Federal
Government
of
Nigeria
gave
me
in
the
past
a
higher
national
merit
honor
as
Grand
Commander
of
the
Order
of
the
Niger,
GCON,
which
is
the
second
highest
national
honor
in
Nigeria.
So
what
this
current
government
offers
me
in
2011
National
Merit
Award
is
inferior
to
what
I
have
before
now.
Arewa
Consultative
Forum
says
North
is
helpless
on
Bokos;SSS
arrest
419
Bokos
…There
is
nothing
we
can
do
but
to
condemn,
talk
and
appeal.
We
are
making
some
efforts
but
I
don’t
want
to
say
we
have
enough.
We’ll
continue
to
make
efforts.”
France
to
lend
Nigeria
$100m
towards
Lagos
bus
network
plan
…
The
French
Foreign
ministry
said
in a
statement
Friday
that
the
funds
will
go
toward
Lagos'
$330-million
urban
transport
plan.
It
said
the
plan
is
co-funded
by
The
World
Bank
and
the
Global
Environment
Facility
Nigeria's
Lamido
Sanusi
voted
Africa
Person
of
the
year
2011
by
Forbes
magazine
…Sanusi
is
nigeriapolitico
man
of
the
year
2010;
he
has
pledged
to
root
out
unethical
practices
in
banks
… He
beat
Mrs
Sirleaf,
the
Liberian
president
who
was
awarded
this
year's
Nobel
Peace
prize,
Mr
Dangote,
a
Nigeria
business
tycoon
who
tops
Forbes'
list
of
Africa's
richest
people,
former
Cape
Verde
President
Pedro
Verona
Pires,
who
won
this
year's
$5m
(£3.2m)
Mo
Ibrahim
prize
for
good
governance
in
Africa
and
Wangari
Maathai,
the
Kenyan
Nobel
Peace
laureate
who
died
in
September.
Senate
prohibits
marriage
or
civil
union
entered
into
between
persons
of
same
sex,
says
it’s
strange
to
Nigerian
cultural
values
and
practices
…
Senate
rebuffs
UK,
bans
same
sex
marriage.
No
gays,
no
lesbians,
you
do
it
you
go
to
jail
for
14
years
…Ghana’s
President
John
Atta-Mills
had
also
called
the
bluff
of
Britain
and
asked
the
latter
to
keep
her
aids
for
the
passage
of
anti-gay
marriage
bill
after
British
Prime
Minister
David
Cameron
threatened
to
withhold
assistance
to
countries
who
are
anti-gay
and
are
sponsoring
legislation
against
its
practice
Onolememen
delivers:
Benin
to
Lagos
now
4
hours,
no
longer
9
hours
By
Godson
Aliyu
…Soon
after
he
took
over
the
leadership
of
the
Federal
Ministry
of
Works,
Onolememen
collected
the
soil
of
Ore
area
which
has
been
giving
subsequent
government
pains.
He
took
the
soil
for
laboratory
analysis
and
found
out
that
there
was
a
high
water
bed
in
Ore
region
which
has
been
the
reason
the
road
was
always
failing
since
it
was
constructed
in
the
70s,
even
though
the
road
was
mature
for
replacement.
…Ore
Bad
spot
now
fully
rehabilitated;
Abuja-Abaji-Okene
dualization
to
be
completed
by
July
2012
There
will
be a
revolution
in
Nigeria
in
the
next
4
years
if
we
don’t
create
jobs-
Jonathan
…President
Jonathan
says:"The
rate
at
which
students
are
graduating
from
universities
and
other
tertiary
institutions
in
the
country,
if
we
don’t
do
anything
to
create
jobs
for
them
in
the
next
four
years,
they
will
revolt
against
the
state
governments,
against
the
local
governments
and
against
the
Federal
Government."
Jonathan
says
he
will
work
with
INEC
to
ensure
Nigerians
abroad
vote
in
2015
elections
…
According
to
him,
President
Obama
of
the
U.S
said
of
Nigeria,
“Nigerians
are
very
fantastic
people
and
not
because
of
your
crude
but
one
basic
resource
you
have
are
your
brains”.
Jonathan
said:
“There
are
25,000
qualified
Nigerian
medical
doctors
living
in
the
U.S
alone
and
that
is
only
in
medicine
Bokos:
Explosions,
heavy
gunfire
Geidam,
Yobe
State
…
While
authorities
declined
to
say
who
they
suspect
in
the
attack,
it
mirrors
other
assaults
recently
carried
out
by a
radical
sect
known
as
Boko
Haram.
The
group
has
launched
a
series
of
attacks
against
Nigeria's
weak
central
government
over
the
last
year
in
its
campaign
to
implement
strict
Sharia
law
across
the
nation
of
more
than
160
million
people.
Bokos:
Fearful
politicians
flee
Borno
State
following
threat
to
attack
party
offices
…It
will
be
recalled
that
during
a
phone
interview
with
journalists
in
Maiduguri,
the
spokesman
of
the
sect,
Abu
Qaqa,
said
that
whoever
tried
to
stand
on
their
way
would
surely
die.
He
also
said
that
the
sect
had
on
their
death
list:
President
Goodluck
Jonathan,
Senate
President
David
Mark
and
former
Information
and
Communications
Minister,
Professor
Jerry
Gana,
amongst
others.
Grave
economic
consequences
if
oil
subsidy
is
not
removed-Sanusi
…The
economic
decision
was
taken
on
the
basis
of
what
is
best
long-term
interest
to
the
economy.
To
continue
borrowing
trillions
of
Naira
and
subsidizing
current
consumption
is
to
ask
our
children
to
pay
for
our
comfort
today.
Inheritance:
Wives,
family
members of
corrupt
recycled
politicians
get top
public
office
positions in
Nigeria
…Ex-Convict
Bode
George’s
wife is
member of
the Board of
Directors,
NPC; Mariam
Alli, wife
of former
PDP
chairman,
Ahmadu Ali,
is
Diezeani
Jumoke-Akinjide-
Daisy
Danjuma
SA on
Inter-government
Affairs;
Bianca
Onoh-Ojukwu
wife of Late
Chief
Odumegwu
Ojukwu is
SSA on
Diaspora
Affairs to
the
president;Josephine
Anenih,
ex-wife of
PDP leader,
Chief Anenih,
was Minister
of Women
Affairs in
2010; Mrs
Diezani-Madueke,
Petroleum
Minister is
married to a
former Chief
of Naval
Staff and
former gov.
of Imo and
Anambra.
Daisy former
senator is
married Gen.
Danjuma (rtd.),
former
minister of
defence.
Richard
Akinjide’s
former
Justice
Minister
made his
daughter,
Jumoke
Akinjide,
Minister for
State, FCT;
Former
president
Obasanjo’s
daughter,
Iyabo
Obasanjo-Bello,
was a
commissioner
in Ogun
State and
later a
senator.
Remi Tinubu,
wife of a
former
Gov.Tinubu
is a
senator. Read
more...
Add new
comment
… In his
reaction,
Chief Maxi
Okwu, the
presidential
candidate of
the Citizens
Popular
Party in
2007, said:
“Like a
comet that
streaks
through the
sky”, Ikemba
came and
blazed the
trail for
justice,
equality and
emancipation.
“Okeosisi
Adago, the
great Iroko
has fallen.”
…Masud
Aliyu said
corrupt
politicians
should be
killed.
Ebhokhae
Stanley who
lives in
Lagos said:”
We need a
national
reorientation,
people don't
really know
what
corruption
are these
days, and
they just
see it as
having a
fair
advantage -
Read on
Firing
Farida
Waziri won’t
fix EFCC–
Human Rights
Watch
IN- Ibrahim
Lamorde
OUT-Farida
Waziri
…She must
have also
stepped on
big toes by
her recent
arraignment
of some big
fishes. If
the war
against
corruption
must be won
and
sustained in
Nigeria,
there must
be
continuity
and the
political
will to tame
the
monster,”
Waziri
discharged
her
responsibilities
with all
diligence;
posterity
would
definitely
judge and
assess her
achievements
as the
chairman of
the
Commission-Tsav
read more
Muslim and
Christian
groups says
7 people are
dead in
another
clash in Jos
…Sani
Mohammed, a
Muslim
community
leader, said
Thursday
that they
collected
three dead
bodies. Mark
Lipdo who
heads a
Christian
group said
it counted
four others
