Leave Nigeria now or suffer because we're coming for you, police tell homosexuals

The Public Relations Officer of the Zone 2 Police Command, Mrs Dolapo Badmos, has asked homosexuals to flee the country or face the law.

She also called on Nigerians who have evidence against homosexuals to come forward with such pieces of evidence.

Badmos said this in a post on her official Instagram handle.

She said, “If you are homosexually inclined, Nigeria is not a place for you. There is a law (Same Sex Prohibition Act) here that criminalises homosexual clubs, associations and organisations with penalties of up to 15 years in jail.

“So, if you are a homosexual in nature, leave the country or face prosecution. But before you say, ‘does this matter?’ Kindly note that anything against the law of the land is criminal and all crimes will be punished accordingly no matter how small you think it is.

“The law says a person who registers, operates or participates in gay clubs, societies or organisations, directly or indirectly makes a public show of same-sex amorous relationship in Nigeria commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a term of 10 years. Anyone convicted of entering into a same-sex marriage contract or civil union faces up to 14 years imprisonment. All LGBT candidates in Nigeria should beware".

While some condemned the police for going after homosexuals and ignoring more pressing issues, others accused the police of being partial, pointing out that a cross-dresser, who now identifies as a transgender, had become a celebrity but was left alone because he was rich.

In her response, the police spokesperson said, “In view of my last post about homosexuals and the law banning them, some people have been mentioning one particular name (very risky though) to be one.

“Kindly be informed that if you have any evidence or exhibits that can establish the case against him/her, please don’t hesitate to bring it up for a comprehensive investigation. Prosecution and conviction of suspects are not based on imagination rather it is based on evidence otherwise it will be treated as hearsay which is not admissible in court.

“Until then, let us keep our fingers crossed and not keep our lives risky. Thank you".

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NATIONAL COUNCIL OF STATES APPROVES N27,000 MINIMUM WAGE

The council approved the amount at its meeting in Abuja on Tuesday.
Following the Council’s approval, a minimum wage bill is expected to be sent to the National Assembly on Wednesday.
According to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, the Federal Government is topping the approved amount by N3,000 to 30,000 for its workers.
He said the states are at liberty to augment the new agreement as they see fit.

The amount approved by the Council of State is N3,000 short of the N30,000 that the Tripartite Committee on Review of National Minimum Wage recommended.

The committee, chaired by a former Head of Service of the Federation, Ms Ama Pepple, had submitted the report, which contained the recommended figure, to President Muhammadu Buhari on November 6, 2018, after many months of deliberations.
Prior to the committee’s recommendation, in October, state governors had offered to pay N22,500 as minimum wage.

Nine days after the committee recommended N30,000, on November 15, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum insisted that the states cannot pay the amount , leading to criticism by organised Labour which insisted on N30,000.

On January 8, 2019, the Nigeria Labour Congress held a nationwide protest over what it said was the delay by the Federal Government to transmit a new minimum wage bill to the National Assembly.

President Muhammadu Buhari presided over the Council of State’s meeting which had in attendance Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, as well as former Presidents, Heads of State, and former Chief Justices of Nigeria.
They include Ernest Shonekan, Olusegun Obasanjo, Abdulsalami Abubakar, and Goodluck Jonathan, while Yakubu Gowon was absent.
Others present are Senate President Bukola Saraki, governors of Zamfara, Kebbi, Plateau, Lagos, Borno, and Ebonyi, as well as members of the President’s cabinet.

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BIAFRA: IGBO DOMINATION

Igbos are such strange people in this world. Those who don't understand them to get many things mixed up about them.
The only people apart from their neighbours here in Africa whose culture is similar to theirs and who seem to understand and like them are the Jews because they are the only ones that share the similar lifestyle with the Igbos of Africa.
Someone might want to ask why am I writing about the Igbo as if I am Igbo myself. No, I am not Igbo, I am Ijaw. My ethnic group share borders with Igbos on many fronts and we share a lot in common together in terms of culture and a few words in languages but that's not what gave me the right to write about them. I studied in a federal university at the heart of Igboland for five years. Most of my friends in school were Igbos and I lived outside aa school in an Igbo community with local Igbos.

Igbos are culturally business people, they survive by buying and selling. They believe that success comes from the constant monetary exchange so they live that way and develop a system of training the younger generation from taking over from them through their mastership and apprenticeship system.

They are also very passionate people. They put their all into whatever they do. They put all their eggs in one basket until they have succeeded in that quest.
Igbos don't give a little chance to evil to mature and grow into something that cannot be controlled. This is the reason those who planned the first coup and only revolution in Nigeria were mostly Igbos.
A single individual Igbo might be very good at telling lies but the Igbo community eschewed lies. The reason individuals tell lies in Igboland is that of their business culture.

Most businessmen are not sincere or else they won't make much gain that's why Ijaws rarely do petty business and succeed because we don't know how to differentiate business life from real life and so we relax too much and feel so reluctant in business but that's not the Igbo. An Igbo would rather cheat you in business instead of to have losses, the boss that trained him taught him so.

Because most Igbo individuals are business people and may sometimes want to bring business life of insincerity into societal life, the Igbo community has more checks on the human excesses in the society than any other society I am aware of. An average Igbo detest insincere life in the society. They can ignore insincerity in business but not in the community because they understand that business is for gain while the society is for life and love for without love life will be lost.
An Igbo man is an independent man. They don't like to take what is not theirs so they work very hard to get their own. The Igbo society hates oppression so if you can prove how an Igbo has oppressed or is oppressing you or a group of people to the Igbo society, that person becomes an enemy of the whole Igbo community. If such person is an Igbo, he will be excommunicated and treated with disdain but if he is not he will be resisted whether those he is oppressing are Igbos or not.

Most of these qualities of the Igbo can be found in most other ethnic nations in Biafra but the difference is that none of them has the business culture of the Igbo society. That business culture is what makes the neighbours of the Igbo find it hard to understand them nor trust them.
Igbos are very focused people, they hate distractions and they don't tolerate it because they believe the time is money. If an average Igbo see you as a distraction he will ignore you no matter how much he loved you and move forward. If you disagree with his ideology he will do everything to kick you out of his way and only come back to listen to what you have to say after he has succeeded. So if you don't understand him you will think he ignored you because he doesn't care, no he did because he hates wasting time.
This attitude is what has caused the most trouble among the Igbos and their neighbours in Biafra. While Ijaws, Ibibios, Urhobos, Efiks, Ogonis etc want to be heard the Igbo wants results. It's easier for Ijaws to gather other tribes in Biafra like we have done over time in the struggle for freedom of the coast otherwise called Niger Delta struggle. Ijaws don't care to give the whole year listening to what others have a say on a matter but Igbo is an impatient tribe.
This is why I marvel that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu never rushed into arm struggle and is patiently waiting and taking time to convince every single individual in Biafra to understand the Biafran cause. I see in him the speed of the Igbo, the patience of Ijaw and the maturity to sustain a struggle without gain which is only found outside Africa.

Most Africans have lazy minds, sorry I must tell the truth. By lazy minds I mean they don't think hard enough and they don't have the patience to sustain a good ideology and maintain it over time irrespective of the temptations. Nnamdi Kanu is different. This is why you see most people falling out of the struggle and entertaining new ideologies, some for gain and many can't just remain in the ideology they believe in.

Now back to the Igbo.

An Igbo is fulfilled when he is on his own (independence) and you are on your own and everyone is happy. He doesn't enjoy fighting to keep you in bondage under him except you let him. He can only fight you with all his life when you attempt to deny him his right or try to oppress him.
So the fear of Igbo dominating others is not real only except the structures are not well placed.

It is normal for every large tribe to dominate in a unitary system where everyone pretends to be one when they're not. This is why a unitary system won't work in Biafra but a confederation. Only a confederation will work because like the Igbo all Biafrans love their independence and that's why Nnamdi Kanu has proposed to have a government system that promotes individual nation independence and collective alliance to form a central government United in military and foreign affairs. This system is the only system that can work in Biafra and the resistance that has caused the strife now and during the Nigeria Biafra war was because BIAFRA was operating a unitary system that made other nations felt like the central government was all about Igbo and they were subjects. They resisted being subjects to their brothers, became loyal to the invaders because they thought if the invaders free them from their brothers they all can then stand as equals in the supposed Nigerian union not knowing that the invaders see things from a different angle. In the end, the invaders proved that they all were grouped to be conquered. So helping them conquer your strong brother because you felt oppressed was the worse that happened to the coastal Biafran nations.
Igbos don't have a history of oppression because they don't have it in them to oppress. They believe all men are equal and deserve the right to be on his own. This is why Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has proposed to have one of the best systems in the world, a little advancement of what our forefathers practised before Britain came.

What I expect from other Biafran nations is to insist that Biafra is exactly the way Mazi Nnamdi Kanu envisions it to be because what we all need right now is ourselves. We need the Igbo, Ijaw, Ogoni, Ibibio, Urhobo, Efik, Igede etc to be able to survive and break free from the oppression of Nigeria.
Some Igbos and most people from the coast wants Igbo to fight alone and for Igbo territories alone so after they become independent they can then bring others on board. I laugh, I pity my brothers in the coast. If now when Igbo is here it is difficult to break free is it when you have become tinier and more easy to crush that the blood thirsty oppressors will then let you go? If at all the Igbo succeed in saving you it will take them much more than it would take them to free you now because at that time it's now interfering into other nation's sovereignty. Same reason it's not so easy for Israel to just jump in to help BIAFRA now. Certain diplomatic arrangements have to be done.

On the other hand, Nigeria wouldn't want to let go their only source of livelihood, the oil in your land. So the next time you resist BIAFRA think over it again.

Author: Tari Nemi, a revolutionary writer and refined teacher

Date: 21 January 2019

Okorocha’s AA party dumps Buhari, adopts Atiku

The Action Alliance (AA) party, formed by the Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha, in 2005 has said that it would throw its support, not for Buhari but behind the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, for the coming election. 

Governor Okorocha formed the AA in 2005 after he was unable to secure presidential tickets in the PDP and APGA years back. Recall that in the run-up to the 2019 election, Okorocha’s son in-law, Uche Nwosu, defected from the APC to the AA after he was denied governorship ticket in APC. Despite his defection, Governor Okorocha has not relented to seize any opportunity to campaign for his son in-law. Although Okorocha says his son in-law remains APC in spirit, he, however, maintains that Mr. Nwosu must succeed him as Governor of the state even though he is in AA. Meanwhile, the AA has insisted that it recognizes no other but Atiku/Obi for president and running mate. The party however said that the only link Okorocha has with it is that his son in-law is contesting under it.

 The party made its position known on Monday in a statement by its national chairman, Kenneth Udeze. According to him, all the executive committees of the party as well as other members maintains their ground on their support for Abubakar. The party’s chairman said its members will work for the emergence of Atiku/Obi presidency. According to him, “We are for Atiku/Obi leadership and we are glad to work with all believers of true federalism and efficient administration of governance at all levels to accomplish this as we approach the forthcoming elections.

“The National Executive Committees (NEC) of our party are on the same page concerning our support for Atiku, same with all our state chapters in this matter. “We hereby restate out position through this medium that AA as a certified and active member of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has not for a moment reconsidered or wished to alter that position. “For your information, AA moved the motion for the adoption of Atiku as the Presidential Candidate of CUPP, and we are on it to the end,” he said. “It is our unshakable/unfailing resolve to work for the emergence of Atiku/Obi, in the presidential election, and that we must not only be seen to be doing, but to truly do. “The only relationship between him (Okorocha) and AA is that Uche Nwosu is contesting on its platform and we are poised to deliver".

 “I will not hesitate to invoke from relevant sections of our Party Constitution to deal with erring members no matter how highly placed, as AA constitution which I swore to protect remains supremely sacrosanct. Please be warned".

Source: Vanguard

Buhari Govt Orders CJN Onnoghen To Vacate Office, To Arraign Him On Criminal Charges

The President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government has ordered the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen to immediately vacate office.

Consequently, the government will on Monday January 14, 2019 arraign the CJN before the Justice Danladi Yakubu led-Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) in Abuja on charges of failures to declare his assets as required by law and for operating Bank Domiciliary Foreign Currency Accounts.

The charge against Justice Onnoghensighted by PRNigeria has already being filed and served on him last Friday at his official residence in Abuja preparatory for his appearance at the tribunal.

The Federal Government among others is accusing Nigeria’s Head of the judiciary of refusal to declare his assets in breach of the provision of the Code of Conduct Bureau Act.

He is also being accused of maintaining Domiciliary foreign currencies account which comprised Dollars Account, Pound Sterling Account and Euro Account which are alleged to be contrary to relevant laws, especially for public office holders.

Justice Onnoghen, whose appointment suffered delay by President Muhammadu Buhari over undisclosed issues, may be the first CJN in Nigeria to be arraigned for criminal charges by the Federal Government.

Apart from putting the Chief Justice in the dock on Monday, PRNigeria learnt that a motion on notice is to be filed against him praying the tribunal to order him to vacate office and recuse himself from office so as to prevent alleged interference in his arraignment and trial.

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria was said to have been engaged by Federal Government to prosecute justice Onnoghen.

Already, eminent lawyers have volunteered to put their services at the disposal of Justice Onnoghen.

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Thieves invade National Assembly Complex, burgle Remi Tinubu, two others’ offices

The security lapses in and around the National Assembly Complex seems to have worsened, with three members’ offices looted by thieves within the week.

On Wednesday, office of the lawmaker representing Lagos West Senatorial District and wife of the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, was looted, with computers and other devices stolen.

Also on Wednesday, the office of a member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Muhammed Gausu Boyi, representing Ringim/Taura Federal Constituency, Jigawa State, was burgled, with valuable items carted away.

Mrs. Tinubu, in a statement issued on Thursday night by legislative aide, Nifemi Aje, disclosed that an HP laptop computer, Smile internet modem, some copies of the Nigerian Constitution, machine box attached to the Closed Circuit Television camera, among others, were stolen by the yet-to-be identified thieves.

Tinubu disclosed that report of the theft has been lodged at the National Assembly’s Police Post.

Boyi, in a petition to the Sergeant at Arms, Brig.-Gen Mohammed Sani (retd.), reported that his office had been emptied by the thieves.

According to the letter dated 10th January, 2019, listing items missing from his office, Boyi said two Samsung Plasma Television sets, two HP photocopying machines, one water dispenser, one Samsung refrigerator and a printer were stolen.

The lawmaker, in the letter he signed, said his office assistance, Mr. Abba Yusuf, discovered the burglary in the early hours of Thursday when he resumed for work.

He noted in the letter that a similar report had been made at the office of the Divisional Police Officer of the National Assembly Division of the Nigeria Police.

Another member of the House, Mr. Muazu Lawal, from Zamfara State, also reported to both the Sergeant-at-Arms and the DPO’s office that his office was burgled in December 2018.

The DPO, Mr. Umar Sambo, a Superintendent of Police, confirmed that the incidents had been reported to the division, saying that investigations of the crimes were already ongoing.

The offices were locked when our correspondent visited them.

When contacted, Sergeant at Arms Sani declined to comment on the thefts.

INEC Settles for Nationwide Pilot Electronics Transmission Of Results ~Chairman

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it would only do a nationwide pilot electronic transmission (e-collation) of results in  the forthcoming  general elections.

INEC Chairman, Prof.  Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this in his opening remarks at the Commission’s regular quarterly meeting with the media on Tuesday in Abuja.

He said that for the Commission to do full electronic transmission of results there must be a backing law for that.

“The Commission is also aware of the interest expressed by the media to learn more about the commission’s electronic results transmission process, including its backend processes.

“This meeting will include a presentation on the pilot we carried out in some of the off-season elections conducted by the Commission".

Yakubu urged media organisations to sensitise registered voters yet to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to do so, in order for them to be able to participate in the forthcoming general elections.

He re-emphasised that the commission would not create additional polling units for 2019 elections, other than units created for the 2015 general elections.

“No new polling unit has been created and none will be created before the 2019 general elections,” he said.

The INEC chairman appealed to the media to partner with INEC in tackling the worrisome issue of vote buying which the commission had been working to address.

“We appeal to the media to continue to partner with the Commission by making information available to us while we work with the security agencies to deal with the violators of our electoral laws.

“These include those who may be trying to compromise our staff responsible for making the PVCs available for collection by legitimate voters.

“We understand that some actors have been going round hunting for our staff responsible for the distribution of PVCs. We are aware of this and we are ahead of them, “ he said.

Answering questions on plans to introduce the rolling and flattening of ballot papers by voters as part of measures to address vote buying, Yakubu said that plans were in place to ensure that it did not lead to increased voided votes. 

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