Niger Delta Militants Demand the arrest & Trial of Buhari, Babangida, Gusau, Others

Thursday, 28 April 2011 19:39

Press Release By The Joint Revolutionary Council (Jrc) Of Niger Delta -                                                   NOW THAT ELECTIONS ARE OVER We suspended our armed campaign for the independence of the Niger Delta when we discovered that General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and his co-travellers in the Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF)

Eye Witness Accounts on Aiks Death (Nigerian youth corper)

picture of late corper

 

 

 

 

 by "Ukeoma Ikechukwu  RIP Bro" 

 

on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 7:37am

My husband just came back from the meeting and he has briefed me what really happened since there was a witness who was with Aik.

It is sad to think that you really can not run to the police

 

 

 

 

Gregory Chukwueme

 It is sad to think that you really can not run to the police "Your Friend" when the need arises; then who do you run to? who stands up for you? when those who have sworn oaths to defend the territorial integrity, human life and property of this nation end up as effigy's of that very statute that they swear allegiance to. My deepest condolences for the families of the Youth Corp members that were slayed in active service of a country that failed to recognize them.

Nigeria police

Anne Damisa




I commend your effort! Nigerian Police needs to be exposed! It is sad that the government is not doing anything to stop them! First they need to scrap them as a federal body and let each state form their force.

Police arrest goat accused of armed robbery

Veralyne Enyia

Police in Nigeria are holding a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery

POLICE IS YOUR FRIEND???????????

       veralyne Enyia 

Is it possible we speak with one voice? Maybe not as Nigerians, but as humans with morals and the fear of God almighty. I am a Christian by faith and my religion teaches to be my brother’s keeper and i can’t speak for any other faith. Do we have to wait until its our immediate family before we stand up for the youth corpers massacred like sacred cows all in the name of serving their country?

These slayed corpers were someone’s brother, sister, aunt, uncle, so, daughter, nephew or niece. Imagine they were one of yours; will you sit and shrug your shoulders like it was a chicken? Pathetic of all, one was actually burnt at a police station; imagine stumbling across this,   POLICE IS YOUR FRIEND??????????? 

I couldn’t help but take a photo. Are you kidding me, Nigerian police, what a death trap? I advice, for your safety and that of others, beware of Nigerian police and flee when you see them in their demonic black uniforms, you must be totally insane to give them any credit at all as they have only perfected their art of begging, extortion and sometimes murder of innocent victims.

It is so touching to learn that one of the slayed youth corpers actually washed dishes to put himself through school, can you imagine after going through such pains and end up DEAD in your own country?

With due respect to Mr. President, the National security adviser (NSA), Inspector General of Police (IG), State Security Service chief (SSS) and the chief National intelligence Agency (NIA)? Should be fired as they have failed the nation. We will not accept any excuses or anything less, we are sick of mushroom investigation panels that crop up with no results what so ever. This calls for action, and so be it.   

Please who is SATANIC ARE THEY FOR REAL???????

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abby Ojo

 

Call for Buhari’s arrest satanic – CPC.. Presidential candidate of the CPC, General Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, described the call for his arrest and prosecution by Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, president, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, as satanic....

Please who is SATANIC ARE THEY FOR REAL???????..So how about those innocent youth corpers, children and adults who died????? In Jesus name may JUSTICE PREVAIL FOR THOSE INNOCENT BLOODS THAT IS FLOWING UP NORTH!

 

 

 

 

Lesley Gene Agams

 

shudders to hear the Nigeria Police Force PRO saying people awaiting trial have been found to have committed a crime. Sir, they are waiting for a trial to establish if they committed a crime

Opposition kicks against massive deployment of soldiers

Abby Ojo  

"Polls: Opposition kicks against massive deployment of soldiers"... They better kick until can kick no more, selfish insensitive things! How many innocent lives are going to be lost because of some incompetent POLITICAL PARTIES'S SUPPORTERS CAUSING MAYHEM?? Infact not only soldiers should be deployed but all SECURITY AGENTS IN NIGERIA SHOULD BE ON CALL..BUNCH OF KNUCKLEHEADS!

‎"Blame Obasanjo, PDP for violence in the North"

            Abby Ojo

 

‎"Blame Obasanjo, PDP for violence in the North" — CPC...Kai!lol.. So was OBJ in the North campaigning as a presidential candidate this April 09th 2011 and started the riot why blame baba OBJ for this?..Please why can't BUHARI and CPC eat humble pie by saying SORRY to the victims families? Now please whose PICTURE IS THIS RIOTER HOLD...ING OBASANJO OR BUHARI'S PICTURE?

The Congress for Progressive Change has said a former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, should be blamed for the post-electoral violence that has bedevilled northern Nigeria since after the presidential election.
                                                        By Ozioma Ubabukoh

ONE NIGERIA

Abby Ojo

 

 

 

 

‎"President Goodluck Jonathan Sunday declared that with his victory, Nigeria is now on the march towards greatness and urged stakeholders to join the government to rebuild Nigeria, saying that Nigeria shall be great again"....Amen in Jesus name it shall be so..Hausa,Ibo,Yoruba and other tribes shall be in peace again with one another because we are ONE NIGERIA irrespective of whether MUSLIM OR CHRISTIANS! Shikena..lol

PLEASE, if you love Nigeria, read what Sanusi has to say

Lesley Gene Agams

Ineteresting point of view

 

Please if you write a silly book,  don’t invite Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to make a presentation. I guess Olaniwun Ajayi has learnt from this.  Sanusi faults Olaniwun Ajayi on Northern domination. The Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, surprised gues...ts present at the Muson Centre for the launching of the book of Sir Olaniwun Ajayi at the Muson Centre in Lagos. The book titled: ” Nigeria , Africa ‘s failed asset?” attracted many important dignitaries, intellectuals and some governors. The argument by discussants centered on whether or not the colonial masters laid the foundation for the problems Nigeria is currently facing. Many argued that the British loved the North and that was why it gave more than 50 percent of the National Assembly seats to the North at independence.

Sanusi, however, stole the show when he spoke. His speech was anchored on the plank that the British and Nigerian rulers are responsible for the state of the situation Nigeria finds itself today. 
Below is his unedited speech.   “Let me start by saying that I am Fulani (laughter). My grandfather was an

Group sues Buhari for "urging the masses to protect their votes"

Lesley Gene Agams

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"Protect your vote" was not the problem, the people calling on voters to 'Protect' did not consider that the youth do not have skills for non violent protest. We must start teaching our young people how to protest and 'protect' non violently. During the American civil rights movement MLK and his supporters held extensive non violence training for the young protesters

If you read The Punch of today, April 23, you will find that non-natives in Kano say they may be suing Buhari and Shekarau, the Kano State governor, for inciting violence by urging “the masses to protect their votes”.   Having suffered terrible losses in ...the post-election riots up north, 

Violent reaction if the PDP wins

Lesley Gene Agams

Buhari, IBB, Atiku & several other northern leaders threatened there would be a violent reaction if the PDP which reneged on the zoning agreement won with jonathan as its candidate. This has been in the media since before the PDP primaries.... Are we surprised? After the Egypt uprising Buhari warned there could be an uprising like that here. I did not believe then he was speaking figuratively. Unfortunately, the protesters in the Egypt and Tunisia were more educated than the protesters in the north Nigeria and that is a key difference of course. No one can argue with their right to protest but they are obviously not capable of the peaceful and organized protests that succeeded. There current form of protest will lead to nothing good for the country and if there is a civil war i do not think international support will be overwhelmingly on their side. I am no fan of the PDP but do we really want to risk a war & anarchy just to get rid of them?

National interest above personal ambition

It will be recalled that in the first week of March 2011, General Buhari advised his supporters to “lynch” anybody who tries to rig the April polls. In his words: “you should never leave polling centres until votes are counted and the winner declared and you should lynch anybody  that tries to tinker with the votes.”

To leaders, election violence in north Nigeria after election an echo of bloody run-up to war

By Jon Gambrell

KAFANCHAN, Nigeria — Whole sections of towns are burned out, the smell of rot is in the air, and people are escaping with whatever they can carry across the rural lands that separate Nigeria's Christian south and Muslim north.
The religious rioting that swept Africa's most populous nation days after its presidential election likely killed hundreds of people, though government officials remain hesitant to offer death tolls for fear of sparking more violence.

mediators Imam Mohammed Ashafa and pastor James Wuye talk about the rioting in northern Nigeria

In Kaduna, just two hours' drive to the north of Abuja, the Reverend James Wuye and Imam Muhammad Ashafa are having a conversation. Because one is a Christian, and the other Muslim, they cannot travel to meet each other in a city where military roadblocks separate the two communities and a night-time curfew has been imposed.
So the reverend and the imam are talking together on the phone, linked up in a BBC interview.
They know better than most the enormous gulf that lies between the Muslim and Christian communities in Kaduna.
In their younger days, they led opposing militia groups during the sectarian violence that engulfed the region in the 1990s.
Today they are peacemakers bridging that same divide and are more aware than anyone of the dangers posed by the latest eruption of violence across the north.

Life is not a dress rehearsal

Ibinabo Fiberesima

Life is not a dress rehearsal. We have one chance to love, one chance to truly live.One chance to write the story of our lives! I believe that all of us have one chance to make a difference.1 Corinthians 9:24 says that all the runners run, but only one gets the prize. lets use our chance to heal the world, help somebody, save a soul. hug somebody and tell him/her that u love them.lets love no chance fo hate!

Religion 'hijacked'

Christian communities have been targeted and churches burned, but Imam Ashafa says the latest violence is first and foremost political.
"Religion has been hijacked as just one of the major instruments used and abused by politicians," he says.
"Religion is a tool used by those politicians, particularly if they are losing, in order to win favour by harnessing the passion of religion so deeply felt in our society."
Mr Wuye accepts that, on different occasions, politicians on both sides of the religious divide are to blame and calls those who orchestrate the violence "conflict entrepreneurs".
Both men have striven for the past two decades to bring down the wall of mistrust between the two communities.
But has it all been in vain? Does this latest flare-up of violence not demonstrate that Muslims and Christians in Kaduna are as far apart as they ever were?
No, there is progress, says Imam Ashafa, but "the sooner we stop this negative propaganda that this is all about religion", and tackle the political causes behind it, "the sooner both sides can live in peace the better".

Northerners in Onitsha Flee to Asaba, Army Barracks

Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State

By Charles Onyekamuo

20 Apr 2011

Nigerians of Northern extraction resident in Onitsha and Awka, Anambra State commercial and administrative cities Tuesday fled to Asaba, the neigbhouring Delta State capital for safety as rumours of reprisal attacks following the post presidential election riots in some northern cities of Kano, Bauchi and Kaduna in which people of eastern extraction resident in these cities were feared to have fallen victims.

A great many of them also took refuge at the 302 field artillery regiment in Onitsha.

The northerners most of who are engaged in menial jobs as security guards, shoe shinners, petty street provision shop owners deserted their business Tuesday and went into hiding for fear of retaliation attack by some equally unguided elements in the state.

 Checks also showed that police men in the state also helped some of the notherners to escape to the artillery regiment barracks.  The Onitsha central mosque at Bida street near Onitsha main market was as at Tuesday evening being protected by soldiers for fear of being torched by the mostly christains dominanted residents of Onitsha.

But even as the tension mounts, the police in Anambra State said they were ready to protect the lives and property of anybody doing genuine business in the state. The State's Police command spokesman, Emeka Chuwkuemeka  who expressed the police readiness yesterday advised the people of the state to go about their businesses without fear or molestation.

In another breath however, the Movement for the Sovereign state of Biafra (MASSOB) Tuesday warned rioters in the nothern cities of Nigeria that if the killing of Ndigbo continues till the next 24 hours, they will rise to challenge the perpertrators of the evil act.

In a communique by the organisation yesterday after its emergency meeting in Okwe-Okigwe in Imo state said that they will not fold their hands and watch Ndigbo massacred in the north.

The Communique signed by the group's Director of Information, Comrade Uchenna Madu said it was condemning the riots in some northern cities over a presidential election adjudged to be free and fair, peaceful and credible by both local and international observers.

It added that the reckless killing of innocent people especially Ndigbo in the name of post presidential election violence is condemnable and unwarranted, even as it urged Ndigbo to remain calm wherever they are in Nigeria and await further instruction.

Post election riots

Two major cities are engulfed in post election rioting arising from the announcement of presidential election results  by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that favored president Goodluck Jonathan to win the elections after polling 22 million votes to defeat his closest rival, Muhammad Buhari.
Reports from Kaduna, Kano and Zaria show massive rioting as supporters of the Congress of Progressive Change began mobilizing against the outome of the elections.

There have also been reports of rioting in Zaria. The crisis started yesterday with violence  reported in the northern Nigeria states of Gombe, Sokoto and Adamawa.

Akpabio And IG Ringim Disobey Federal Court Order To Release Akpanudoedehe

 

The duo of Akwa Ibom State governor Godswill Akpabio and the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, today brazenly disobeyed a Federal High Court order order releasing from prison custody the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate, Akpanudoedehe.
Niyi Akintola (SAN) told Saharareporters today that his team served the release order on the IGP, the Comptroller of Prisons in Akwa Ibom as well as the Chief Magistrate who had ordered Akpanudoedehe's imprisonment, but that the federal officials have ignored it. Another legal team has also filed contempt proceedings against the IGP but Justice Bello Adamu's court did not sit today due to a bereavement in his family.
 

Governor Godswill Akpabio is waxing stronger in defiance of the courts of the land because he enjoys the support of Goodluck Jonathan, the president of Nigeria who has remained silent in the face of the persecution of a major opposition candidate by one of his dependable campaign allies.
"Who would have thought that tyranny would return to our national lexicon so quickly?" a political analyst said today.  "How in the world can Jonathan preside over this and yet claim be believes in the rule of law?"

By SaharaReporters, New York

Asaba N40b Airport Test-Flights Scam: How Uduaghan Is Fooling Deltans With An Uncompleted Project

Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan and his surrogates once again are taking their re-election propaganda and sycophancy to a very dangerous level. The Uduaghan campaign propaganda has resulted to the use of smoke and mirrors, the objective is to deceive Deltans.
Ironically, it is this same evil stratagem that has continued to derail Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, obviously, he has lost focus from advancing the wheels of development in the state.
On Thursday, March, 24th, 2011, an aircraft landed on the yet to be completed N40 billion Asaba International Airport, all in a bid to confuse unsuspecting Deltans who are at loss with its progression.  Before this deceptive event which was described  “remarkable” by Governor Uduaghan and his loyalists, an impeccable government house source confided in this writer that the governor had  concluded all necessary financial arrangement with an aircraft company to land on the controversial airport in order to deceive Deltans and attract sympathy during the upcoming April polls. 
My source also alleged that the pilot of the aircraft which is owned by Overland Aviation Ltd, Captain Edward Boyo, and Managing Director of the company had confided in him what transpired before the company could agree to use its aircraft to land on the airport.
In all ramifications, the “kangaroo and arrangee” landing of the aircraft no doubt means that the airport is fully ready for business as this was packaged as a test-run. On facebook, one of Uduaghan’s aides, Mr. Sunny Areh said couldn’t hide the plot, “Before I left for Lagos today there was wild jubilation in Asaba but I cautioned that it was the first test-run, a harbinger of the real thing that will happen in no distant time. That it was a successful test-run could make some of us to be effusive, as I am now, if you understand what I mean.”, Areh is no stranger to this form of propaganda, he was James Ibori’s special assistant for media for several years until the former governor disappeared from the Nigerian political landscape recently.
It should be noted, however, that on a recent political rally at Ubiarukru, governor Uduaghan told Deltans, that the airport was yet to be completed and the completion of  an airport usually takes up to seven –eight years and promised to complete the airport if re-elected. So, this kamikazee test run flights were just desperate bid to attract votes from the people of Delta State.  The governor arranged the landing of an aircraft on the most controversial airport in Nigeria, just because he knows he has failed Deltans in his four years of a largely corrupt and inhumane administration.
Also, during the Ubiaruku rally, Dr. Uduaghan told the people not to waste their votes by supporting other parties because he cliamed they have no “record to show” for doing anything. He also dwelt on the criticism of his government, insisting that all those who compare his administration with others forget that he has been in power for only four years and not eight years. He mentioned particularly the Asaba International Airport.
Governor Uduaghan has made everyone believe that his government had the midas touch and that he was the best thing that has ever happened to Delta State but in actual truth, he has failed the people of this great state, repeatedly. Uduaghan has been on the corridors of power for 12 years in a row, first serving in various capacities as former governor Ibori strongman.
This writer who was at the airport to witness the phony landings of aircrafts  discovered that the airport is no way near completion as been sold to the world by the governor and his cohorts.
The second day of Uduaghan’s test-run of the airport saw the hiring of crowds of women and youths who besieged the airport with their usual dancing regalia and drums but some of the rented women and youths  at the airport expressed shock and surprise, according to them what Governor Uduaghan is showcasing to Deltans is far different from what is on ground.
One of the women who simply gave her name as ‘Madam Nkem’ and another youth named Benjamin told this reporter that all what Uduaghan is doing is just political gimmick which at the end will have a negative impact on the growth of Delta State.
One of the staff handling the airport project said everybody was  surprised and shocked when they woke up one morning to see aircrafts landing on the runway of the airport that is not near completion adding that apart from the runway which is half ready   nothing else is completed or operational.
According to the staff, the tower, tarmac, fire service office, airport communication equipments and navigational aids and other departments are not ready, not to talk of commencement of commercial business at the airport. He went on to state that billions of naira have gone into the project yet nothing on the ground matches  the billions spent.
“Mark my word if Uduaghan leave office today, the contractor, ULO, handling the airport project must be arrested because there are so many things he needs to explain to Deltans and law enforcement agents. We work here and we know all the kind of dirty things happening concerning this airport which they have turned to a drain pipe.”
In fact, during landing of a six passengers aircraft on the second day of the so-called test-run of the airport, the aircraft developed a fault which delay Governor Uduaghan from joining the aircraft to Warri to welcome Mr. President who was visiting the oil city for a meeting with the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).
When this writer approached the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, Mr. Sunny Ogefere, at the airport for comment he refused to comment but after much pressure, he said to me, “as you can see the tower, tarmac, fire service office are not ready and what we are doing is just to test-run the runway and in no distance time the airport shall be ready.”
Commenting on the hurriedly arranged aircraft landing at the Asaba airport, a facebook user, Jude Kakpovbia posted a status update on his facebook page stating,  “The first Aircraft has landed at the Asaba International Airport today - finally. The pilot of the aircraft which is owned by Overland Aviation Ltd, Captain Gilbert Sampa said the landing was smooth. Thank God for journey mercies. My question is - Why today? We only have a week to the elections. Well, I know as much as all Deltans do that this is strictly a Political strategy that Airport is far from being ready for any International flight. Whatever you guys want to prove to justify your looting please go ahead. We are watching.”
All the positive titles has been exhausted on Uduaghan by sycophants and his hirelings, they have called him,  “The Golden Governor; The Action Governor; The People’s Governor; Development Personified, First class Medical Doctor, etc.”,  but yet nothing to show to at least convince Deltans that indeed the corrupt and inept governor much vilified by health workers such as doctors, nurses and casual workers has done anything worthy for the state except celebrating an uncompleted airport project.
 

As expected Dr. Uduaghan is afraid of goinhg for another election in April, that’s why he  hurriedly  approached the Federal High Court for tenure elongation so that there will be no elections in the state. But there is no hiding place following the recent ruling of the federal high court Asaba,    Uduaghan must now go to the field and test his popularity .

I have recently  conducted a straw poll across the state which revealed that Dr. Uduaghan is not needed by the people of delta State and if at the end of the day, he is returned to the government house in the upcoming election either by crook or hook, God in his infinite mercy will still prevail and humiliate him from office adding that no matter how long it will take God will do it for the people of Delta state.
In a nutshell, Governor Uduaghan must among other questions answer the following queries.
(a) Where has he kept all the budgets and his often supplementary budgets monies? It is on record that his government has frequently sent supplementary budgets to the state House of Assembly when even the need did not arise,
(b) Where are the projects for which he claims he has expended the tax payers monies? As I talk Delta State has no single functional factory.

Recently questioning Governor Uduaghan on the revenue and expenditure of the state from 29th, May 2007 – 31st October, 2010, a deltan, Stephen Dieseruvwe, questioned on facebook that “The amounts spent on major projects which need some clarifications are: 1. Asaba - Ughelli Dualisation - N16.2billion (What percentage of the road has been completed) ?
2. State Independent Power Project - N15.75billion (when is the completion period)?
3. Osubi Airport - N1.33billion (How much work was done)?
 4. International Event Centre - N3.4billion (What is the revenue stream for this centre)? 5. Mass Transit - N2.8billion (Was this to buy cars and buses) ?
6. Oghara Hospital - N7.4billion (what was this for)
7. Warri Industrial Park - N799million (Where is the site? and what work done has been done).
Deltans need answers.”

Speaking of the evil associated with the kind of politics and politicking been played by Governor Uduaghan, his cohorts and some politicians, the Bible says: “Justice? You high and mighty politicians don’t even know the meaning of the word! Fairness? Which of you has any left? Not one! All your dealings are crooked: You give “Justice” in exchange for bribes. These men are born sinners, lying from their earliest words! They are poisonous as deadly snakes, cobras that close their ears to the most expert of charmers? O God, break off their fangs. Tear out the teeth of these young lions, Lord.
Let them disappear like water into thirsty ground. Make their weapons useless in their hands. Let them be as snails that dissolve into slime, and as those who die at birth, who never see the sun. God will sweep away both old and young. He will destroy them more quickly than a cooking pot can feel the blazing fire of thorns beneath it. The godly shall rejoice in the triumph of right; they shall walk the blood-stained fields of slaughtered wicked men. Then at last everyone will know that good is rewarded, and that there is a God who judges justly here on earth” (Psalms 58:1-11’ TLB).
It is an acknowledged fact that the present government in Delta state led by His Excellency Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has failed to meet the aspirations of Delta people.
It is a notorious fact that rather than meet the aspirations of the people, the PDP led government of Emmanuel Uduaghan is busy wasting the resources of the state shamelessly and deceiving the innocent people.
Now, the good people of Delta state have taken a definite stand against the Uduaghan led government.
This was made possible when patriotic citizens, masses and leaders in the state have agreed to rescue the people of the state from the valley of under-development, mis-management of leadership, devaluation of leadership and maladministration of Dr. Uduaghan.
Is it not a big shame that Governor Uduaghan who claimed to have provided employment for Delta state masses with the taxing of Deltans by purchasing employment forms in Banks and as I talk to you all the money collected from Deltans to purchase forms for employment at the yet to be completed airport have gone down the drain because no single employment has been given to the suffering and innocent job seekers. As at this feature no terminal work has near completion at the airport before the desperate governor commenced test flight on the airport just to attract sympathy votes for himself during the elections.
This article was written By Prince Amour Udemude, a journalist based In Asaba, Delta State (Princeamour2004@Yahoo.Com Or 08182020504)
 

Wole Soyinka Endorses Ribadu For President

"I am backing Ribadu as the only person, who can tackle corruption to be president. He did it when He was in the EFCC and the fear of Ribadu was the beginning of wisdom, He prosecuted so many Governors, IGP and corrupt people, he prosecuted people in UK and all over the world and was able to retrieve much looting, on this I support him to be the man".~ Prof wole Soyinka

Nigerian woman Charged in Texas Day Care Fire in Custody

Postponed Parliamentary Elections

Officials of the Nigerian Independent National Electoral Commission carry partly filled up ballot boxes at a voting centre in the Ketu district of Lagos. Nigeria postponed Saturday's parliamentary polls hours after they were to begin amid widespread organisational problems.
(AFP/Pius Utomi Ekpei)