Melaye’s Recall And The Banging Drums Of War In Kogi By SOLOMON AYADO

Since the eruption of political fracas between Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello and the Senator for Kogi West senatorial district, Dino Melaye, a lot of ugly events have been unfolding. SOLOMON AYADO takes a look at issues surrounding the frosty relationship betwen the duo and the move to recall the vocal senator.
Although the much anticipated 2019 general elections are still ahead, the political gimmicks, the clever maneuverings and

Anti-graft war in Federal Republic of ‘Thieves’

Recent developments in Nigeria seem to suggest that the country is one in which only the criminalminded individuals and brazen thieves hold the reins of power. The current anti-corruption crusade of the government has lifted the veil off the deep and serious existential issue of corruption. Rarely does a week passes without one celebrated case of money, mostly in foreign currencies, found somewhere, albeit, without owners.
Despite the huge challenges of the war against corruption as witnessed in the poor investigation, lack of cohesion among law enforcement agencies and the inability of EFCC to secure convictions in most of

Nigeria, under GEJ rejected British offer to rescue seized Chibok schoolgirls by guardian.com

RAF mission detected Boko Haram kidnappers but action was refused 

British armed forces offered to attempt to rescue nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, but were rebuffed by Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s president at the time, the Observer has learned. In a mission named Operation Turus, the RAF conducted air reconnaissance over northern Nigeria for several months, following the kidnapping of 276 girls from the town of Chibok in April 2014. “The girls were located in the first few weeks of the RAF mission,” a source involved in Operation Turus told the Observer. “We offered to rescue them, but the Nigerian government declined.”

The girls were then tracked by the

The Political Permutations Towards 2019 (1)

Almost two years into the Buhari/Osinbajo administration, the anxiety in the political arena and uncertainty in the economic sphere are palpable. No Nigerian leader has ever gotten the genuine love and support of the ordinary people of this country like Buhari. It appears, unfortunately, no one has over squandered his enormous goodwill like him too. This year, 2017, will define the success or failure of the Buhari era. This is why it is important to bring out the salient issues clearly so that mistakes can be corrected and what remains of the goodwill can be saved and possibly built upon.
Buhari had the misfortune of wasting very precious time, 166 days in all, before forming his cabinet. Buhari’s greatest misfortune is that he appointed some of the

Graphical Representation of the Plateau State Budget, 2017

Summary of the Budget Presented by Plateau State Governor His Excellency Rt. Hon. Barr. Simon Lalong

Graphical Representation of the Plateau State Budget.








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MMM Better Than APGA-led Government – Civil Servant Laments Over State-owned Rice

“Gentleman, we’re finally finished, completely finished” – Chief Bonaventure Mokwe
“MMM better than APGA led government – A civil servant victim.”

 

When a government is built on deceit, blackmail and propaganda, the electorates become end victims.

The scope about the abundant production of #Anambra Rice  backfires, as civil servants and

Our Stand: The Opposition In The Gambia And Common Sense - Leadership Editor

Leadership Editors

The late Professor Sam Aluko, a Nigerian economist, once defined economics as “common sense that is not common”. Nigeria’s first president, a quintessential political grandmaster, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, also posited that only a fool would argue with an armed man.
These aphorisms are applicable in politics, especially in the developing nations of Africa still moving in measured steps as they struggle to embrace the democratic system as a governance process. In more civilised climes, when there is a change in leadership, courtesy and protocol demand that an incumbent, who still wields the reins of power, authority and

Here are the names of senate committee chairman and vice chairman as constituted by Saraki

SPECIAL COMMITTEES

·        COMMITTEE ON SELECTION

S/N

Committee

CHAIR

VICE

1.	Committee on Rules & Business	Babajide Omoworare	Ali Ndume
2.	Senate Services Committee	Ibrahim Gobir	Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi
3.	Committee on Ethics & Privileges	Samuel Anyanwu	Bala Ibn Na’allah
4.	Committee on Public Accounts	Andy Uba	Gbolahan Dada
5.	Committee on National Security & Intelligence	Shaaba Lafiagi	David Jonah Jang

Algerian Hacks 200 US Banks, Financial Institutions; Donates Millions Of Dollars To Palestinian Charities

Bendelladj was dubbed the ‘happy hacker’ because he was photographed smiling after he was taken into custody in Bangkok [EPA

Depending on who you ask, Hamza Bendelladj is either a Robin Hood-esque hero or a cyber-age hoodlum.

The 27-year-old Algerian computer science graduate will be sentenced on Tuesday in a US court for using a computer virus to steal money from more than 200 American banks and financial institutions. He then reportedly gave millions of dollars to Palestinian charities.

Bendelladj, who is alleged to be the co-creator of a banking trojan horse called SpyEye, was indicted in absentia by US authorities in 2011. The program – a malware toolkit that saw its popularity peak between 2009 and 2011 – is believed to have infected more than 1.4 million computers in the US and elsewhere, according to Wired, a San Francisco-based technology magazine. The software enabled users to steal login information for online financial accounts, which they then pillaged.

On Tuesday, Bendelladj, who hails from Tizi Ouzou in Algeria, will be sentenced in court in the US state of Georgia. He has already pleaded guilty and faces a prison sentence of more than 65 years and up to $14m in fines, according to the US Department of Justice.

Dancing with my father’s friend by Nation Newspaper

•Adelabu Adegoke

It was the time of music and memorable melodies, of spellbinding lyrics from those earthy geniuses of the talking drum and percussionists of political palavers. There are certain images that are lodged in the consciousness forever, certain impressions that can never be erased from the human memory bank. Memories are made of this. When shall good times return to Nigeria?

It is an act of filial affection. Snooper takes a walk today away from the sclerotic deadliness of contemporary Nigerian politics to give a rare glimpse, a historic cameo, of one of Nigeria’s most charismatic politicians and his father’s bosom friend and fallen comrade in political arms, the late Gbadamosi Sanusi Adelabu Adegoke, a.k.a Penkelemesi.

Adelabu Adegoke died fifty years ago last week in a car crash around Ode Iremo aged forty two. For the gifted ironist and great Ibadan nationalist, it must

Buhari and the agents of darkness by Vanguard Newspaper

President Muhammadu Buhari must decide how he plans to deal with Nigeria’s agents of darkness – past leaders who mismanaged trillions of Naira while claiming to be attempting to solve the nation’s power problem.  With the on-going anti-corruption war, Mr. President would need to pay more attention to revelations from the Senate probe while at the same time not sparing those who would be indicted.August 25, 1985, Lagos, South West, Nigeria

In the wee hours of August 25, 1985, a young man was dragged to Dodan Barracks and beaten mercilessly.

His name is Muba, a station officer of the then National Electric Power Authority, NEPA.

He was a victim of the coup that had just deposed then General Muhammadu Buhari.   Citizen Muba’s only offence was that he was in the Ikoyi office of NEPA when a power surge from Kainji Power Station in the North Central go-political zone, occurred and caused a sudden power outage at the Barracks which was Nigeria’s seat of power at that time.

Misconstrued to be