Olu Owerri Set Criteria For Endorsing Gubernatorial, Senate Candidates

In line with her quest to enthrone a credible  Imo State Governor of Owerri zone extraction come 2019, the apex sociocultural organization of Owerri zone, Olu Owerri has published template for choosing one out of the candidates from Owerri Zone for endorsement for the exalted  office of the governor in the coming election.

This comes after three weeks the union mandated an eight man committee to map out the modalities for choosing whom Olu Owerri shall give her massive support in both the gubernatorial and senatorial seats.

The committees headed by Dr Charles Ugwuegbulam and Mr Eddy Anyanwu respectively, recommended that  guber and senatorial candidates from Owerri zone be assessed using the following criteria;

GOVERNORSHIP

1). Educational qualification: BSc or equivalent(HND).

2). Political Party structure and strength.

3). Experience: Should posses requisite  public/ private sector/ administrative experience.

4). Financial standing ( MUST not have been adjudged  bankrupt by the courts or tribunal and MUST have a reliable means of livelihood).

5). Exemplary track record of Integrity, morality and character.

6). Quality of manifesto.

7). Must be a candidate of Owerri zone origin.

SENATE:

1. Educational Qualification: BSc or its Equivalent.

2. Experience: Must posses relevant administrative and leadership experience.

3. Financial Standing: Must not have been adjudged bankrupt by a competent Court or Tribunal and must have a verifiable means of livelihood.

4. Exemplary Track record of Integrity, Morality and Character.

5. Quality of Manifesto.

In video, Boko Haram override Nigerian army, 100 dead.

Boko Haram killing Nigerian Army's in their numbers. This is one of the most deadliest attacks this year. On Monday the dreaded terrorist group came with hell.
Reactions from different quarters are asking if this is the same Boko Haram that is technically defeated as announced by the Nigerian government.
This is a humiliation to the Nigerian army.

Election group holds public debate for Buhari, Atiku; Osinbajo, Obi, others

As the 2019 election draws near the Nigerian Election Debate Group has said that All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari and his Vice-President Professor Yemi Osinbajo with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Mr. Peter Obi will engage in a public debate on the 14 of December.

The chairman of the Broadcasting Organisation Mr. John Momoh who is also the chairman, of the group speaking in Abuja on Thursday said December 14, 2018 has been set for a debate for presidential candidates of all the different political parties in Nigeria.

He also said that the debates take place at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja and will be broadcast live by all BON members.

Source: Vanguard

North Korea Declares Buhari Dead

The official news service of Democratic People's Republic of North Korea today made it public that the president of Nigeria Muhamadu Buhari is dead.

The news service called the president of Nigeria " deceased ".
This was published in her official tweeter handle " Nigeria calls snap elections to replace deceased president Muhammadu Buhari in 2019"

This is coming weeks after the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra IPOB Mazi Nnamdi Kanu broadcasted from Israel claiming the Nigeria president has died since 2017. He made bold to say the current occupant is an impostor from Sudan.

APC, Buhari Under Fire For 'Plagiarising' 'Next Level' Logo

President Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the All progressives Congress (APC), are under fire on social media for what appears to be the passing off of a foreign logo as theirs.

Buhari launched his 2019 presidential campaign on Sunday, titling it ‘Next Level’ on the argument that “the past few years have put us in good stead to trudge on the Next Level of building an even stronger nation for our people”.

It is not the President’s words that are currently attracting public opprobrium, though, but the ‘Next level’ logo, a striking feature of which is the creative elongation of the ‘x’ in ‘next’ in a manner as to give the pass mark to a candidate.

Less than 24 hours after the unveiling of the logo, it appears internet surfing rather than creativity is the anchor on which the logo rests.

A quick search of ‘Next Level’ will show, among others, a project of the Winthrop University-School Partnership Network in collaboration with Fort Mill School District (York 4), Lancaster County School District, and Rock Hill School District (York 3). It is a Professional Development Program grant funded by the US Department of Education and administered through the Office of English Learner Aquisition (OELA), PR/Award # T365Z160278.

‘Next Level’, in this case, means NETwork for Leading Education that Values English Learners. In recognition of students’ right to a high quality education, Project NExT LEVEL “provides professional learning opportunities for educators from pre-service to in-service to district and higher education faculty aimed at meeting the unique needs of English Learners and their families”.

One look at this logo and its similarity with Buhari’s ‘next Level’ is easy to see. The two pictures have been circulating on social media, and the comments are far from palatable.

It is not the first time Buhari and his handlers have been enmeshed in a plagiarism scandal.

In September 2016, his ‘Change Begins With Me’ speech contained several sentences that were identical to some in Barack Obama’s 2008 victory speech.

For instance, Buhari had said: “We must resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship, pettiness and immaturity that have poisoned our country for so long".

Meanwhile, eight years ago, after his victory over Republican John McCain in the race for the White House, Obama had said: “Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long".

Source: Channels

Netanyahu Retain Defense Chief, Avoids Israeli Snap Polls

A key Israeli minister said Monday he will not quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government for now despite sharp disagreements, handing the premier a victory and potentially ending a crisis that has threatened to provoke snap elections.

The announcement by Education Minister Naftali Bennett was a dramatic climbdown from his Jewish Home party’s earlier threat to leave the coalition if he was not named defence minister.

Netanyahu has refused to give the high-profile post to Bennett, one of his main political rivals, despite the coalition crisis threatening to topple his government following a controversial Gaza ceasefire.

Bennett, whose far-right party holds eight seats in parliament, said he would give Netanyahu time to correct course on a range of issues as he pushed for an even more hawkish approach toward the Palestinians.

Netanyahu’s current coalition is already seen as the most right-wing in Israel’s history.

“If the prime minister is serious in his intentions, and I want to believe his words from last night, I am saying here to the prime minister we are removing at this moment all of our political demands and will help you in the huge mission of making Israel win again,” Bennett said in a statement to journalists broadcast live on television.

He acknowledged the backlash he may face for backing down from the earlier ultimatum.

“It’s better that the prime minister beats me in a political battle than (Hamas leader Ismail) Haniya beats Israel,” Bennett said in a parliamentary committee room packed with journalists.

Bennett’s comments followed an impassioned address to the nation on Sunday night by Netanyahu.

Netanyahu said he would retain the defence portfolio for now and seek to convince coalition partners to remain in the government.

He said calling early elections would be “irresponsible” due to what he described as a complicated security situation facing the country.

He did not explain why Israel’s security concerns would be more complex now than at other times, saying he could not publicly describe in detail the sensitive moves being taken.

Netanyahu also defended his security credentials, seeking to hit back at criticism of last week’s ceasefire that ended the worst escalation between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza since a 2014 war.

On Monday at the parliament’s foreign and defence committee, Netanyahu repeated some of those arguments, saying “we’re in the midst of a battle that hasn’t ended yet".

Back to winning

Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s resignation last week over the ceasefire threw the government into crisis.

After Lieberman’s withdrawal along with his Yisrael Beitenu party, Netanyahu’s government was left clinging to a one-seat majority in parliament.

Key coalition partners had said that was unworkable even though elections are not due until November 2019, but Netanyahu has been in discussions aimed at staving off an early vote.

Bennett hit back at Netanyahu’s argument that Israel was in an especially complicated security situation, saying the country has always faced threats and managed to overcome them.

At the same time, he accused Netanyahu of leading a defeatist defence policy.

“What’s most dangerous to Israel is that we’ve begun thinking there’s no solution to terror — to terrorists, to rockets, that there’s nothing to do,” Bennett said.

“When Israel wants to win, we’ll go back to winning.”

Netanyahu has defended the ceasefire and his backers say he and his security chiefs are on the same page when it comes to Gaza.

Many analysts question the wisdom of starting another war in the Gaza Strip without a strategy for how it will end.

But Lieberman labelled the ceasefire “capitulating to terror” when he resigned on Wednesday and Bennett says he disagreed with it as well.

Israeli residents of southern communities hit by barrages of rockets from Gaza last week have also protested, calling for tough action against Hamas, with which Israel has fought three wars since 2008.

A poll published after the ceasefire found 74 percent of respondents were unhappy with Netanyahu’s handling of the escalation with Gaza and its Islamist rulers Hamas, though it also showed his party would still easily win the most seats.

Many analysts believe Netanyahu would like to buy more time before heading toward elections to allow him to move on from the Gaza ceasefire.

A range of other issues on the agenda could also threaten to topple the government before November.

Shmuel Sandler, political studies professor at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University, said Gaza will nevertheless play an important role.

“If it quiets down and there’s some movement forward to a (longer-term) ceasefire, then the government will hold together,” he said. “If not, it will fall apart".

AFN

Four INEC Officers, NYSC Member, Three-Year-Old Die In Kogi Accident

Four staff members of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), an NYSC member and a three-year-old girl died in an accident on Ajaokuta-Lokoja Road on Saturday, an official has confirmed.

It was learnt in Lokoja on Sunday that the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member was performing his primary assignment with INEC office in Lokoja and that the child belonged to one of the INEC staff members.

It was learnt the  victims were returning in the evening from Ayingba, Kogi, where they attended the wedding ceremony of another INEC worker.

Ahmed Biambo, the Director of Voter Education and Publicity at Kogi Office of INEC, confirmed the incident.
Biambo said that the victims were from the Information and Communication Technology and Account departments of INEC

Source: Independent

Breaking: Again, Buhari meets governors over proposed N30,000 minimum wage

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday met behind closed doors with representatives of Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) over the disagreement between the organised labour and state governors on the proposed N30,000 minimum wage.

The Amal Pepple Tripartite Committee on the Review of National Minimum Wage, had on Nov. 6, submitted its report to President Buhari where it recommended N30,000 as the new national minimum wage.

While receiving the report, the president expressed his commitment to ensuring the implementation of a new national minimum wage and pledged to transmit an Executive bill (on National Minimum Wage) to the National Assembly for its passage within the shortest possible time.

He expressed delight that the committee had successfully completed its assignment in a peaceful and non-controversial manner.

President Buhari said that the Federal Government would soon transmit an Executive bill (on National Minimum Wage) to the National Assembly for its passage within the shortest possible time.

However, the 36 state governors had since expressed reservations over the proposed N30,000 new minimum wage by the Amal Pepple committee, saying the state governments were not in a stable financial position to pay the new minimum wage.

The Chairman of the Governors’ forum and Governor of Zamfara, Alhaji Abdul’aziz Yari, had on Nov. 15, told newsmen at the end of an emergency meeting of the governors in Abuja that payment of N30, 000 wage was impracticable.

The representatives of the Governors’ forum, who met with the president over the issue, included Governors of Zamfara, Lagos, Kaduna and Enugu, while the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige was also in attendance.

Source: Tribune

Atiku Releases Policy Document, Promises To Create Three Million Jobs Each Year

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar, has promised to create three million jobs every year if he is elected as president in the 2019 election.

This is one of the key points in the policy document released by the PDP flagbearer today (Sunday), which details a seven-year timeline in which he intends to deliver on his campaign promises.

Apart from job creation, the document also lists three other areas of priority namely infrastructure development, human capital development and poverty eradication.

According to the former Vice President, he has plans to lift 50 million Nigerians out of poverty, by 2025.

Furthermore, he stated that he has plans to privatise the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and also sell all four national refineries.

Other areas of focus in terms of infrastructure is the construction of 5,000 kilometres of roads, and 5,000 kilometres of modern railway.

A statement released on Saturday, by the Atiku Campaign Organisation, had explained that Atiku’s decision to kick-start his presidential campaign with the launch of his policy document was to reiterate his commitment to running an issue-based campaign.

It added that the intention was to take their policy directly to Nigerians and to register Atiku’s belief that it would take the collective efforts of every Nigerian to rebuild the country.

It read in part, “That is why we want Nigerians to access the policy directly and ultimately take ownership of it,” it said, adding, “Our campaign offers a simple message: United, the people of Nigeria can begin anew, creating a prosperous and secure future and a better life for every Nigerian.

“Our policy document focuses on creating jobs, ensuring security, growing business, developing power and water infrastructure, agriculture and education and how we will empower women.

“Our policies outline the goals and methods for developing and revitalising Nigeria as the foundation of our campaign. This policy document is being launched to encourage a dialogue with the people of Nigeria, inviting everyone to join us in helping to get Nigeria working again.

“The PDP presidential candidate looks forward to conducting vital discussions as he travels across the length and breadth of Nigeria, meeting and talking with stakeholders – farmers, small business people, workers, students, mothers, and children".

Source: Channels

BREAKING NEWS!!! “THE MAN IN ASO-ROCK NIGERIA IS A $536MILLON HIRED IMPOSTOR WikiLeaks Assange

Following the recent and unstoppable accusation by the Leader of the movement fighting for Biafra freedom (IPOB) circulating that the President of Nigeria is a cloned impostor created to keep power in the North and avoid the unfortunate incidence which took place during the last Northern president in Nigeria.

Nnamdi Kanu the leader of the Indigenous people of Biafra has raised several alarms and this notice is beginning to take a toll in Nigeria. Nigerians are taking measures to explore the facts and evidence brought forward by Kanu and the IPOB members. Nnamdi Kanu accused the world leaders of being part of this monumental deception leading to the bamboozling and swaying of over 200 million people despite their hardship and incompetent leadership.

View Africa reported that it was shocking to reveal this as at the early hours of today that right from the day the IPOB leader raised this alarm, a popular dreaded underground Journalist Julian Assange, embarked on his private investigation to uncover the truth. Julian concluded his investigation yesterday confirming it that the man in Aso Rock in Nigeria is not a good option for the betrayal of the people’s trust. he stated further that “The man in Aso-Rock Nigeria, is a $536 million hired and manipulated imposter, his name is AL-Sudanni Mahmmod Jubril, a Sudanese, this is the greatest betrayal of a people’s trust I have never seen such in my entire life not even as an investigative journalist”.

His revelation revealed that Abba-Kyiari is the man behind the entire concepts, he is

the one presiding over Nigeria, and the other entire political class is all aware of it. Britain is fully aware of it. and the Bishop of Canterbury backed the solution in order to keep the power in Nigeria in the Northern region.

They have stated that they are not ready and willing to accept misfortunes from having old presidents who die before their time thereby setting the northern region backward. Nigerians have been totally hoodwinked and mentally backlashed our source concluded. 

Source: View Africa 24

Unknown gunmen kill Gov. Belo's aid in Okene

The camp of Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has been thrown into mourning following the assassination of one of his aides Mr Yusuf Adabenege, by unidentified gunmen  in Okene town, Kogi State.

Adabenege, a Personal Assistant to the governor on Domestic Matters until his death, was reportedly killed alongside two of his aides while driving on Obehira-ege road in Okene.

He was at the forefront of re-election bid of the governor and also the custodian of Aneku Okuku Cementi masquerade of Obehira.

Reports say late Adabenege was ambushed at the front of Living Faith Church, Okuha Anatahu Okene Obehira road around 6:40 p.m. on Friday when a hand grenade was thrown at his convoy forcing the vehicle to stop abruptly.

He was said to have been dragged down from the vehicle and killed using a hand grenade that hit him on the head.

The gunmen also fired at his vehicle which resulted in the death of his driver identified as Musa immediately.

Following his death, security operatives were drafted in to man strategic positions around the city.

The state Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, who addressed the people of Ebiraland on Saturday morning on TAO FM  mourned the death of Adabenege.

He condoled with the people of Ebira, vowing that he would work with the security agencies to bring the perpetrators to book.

NAN