Trump will confront those with hidden agenda to Islamise Nigeria – Fani- Kayode

Former spokesperson of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, said yesterday that the President-elect of the United States of America, USA, Donald Trump, would confront those in government with hidden agenda to Islamise Nigeria and turn Nigeria into a nation of ethnic and religious vassals that must bow before President Muhammadu Buhari and his kinsmen.
In a statement yesterday in Abuja, Fani-Kayode who personally signed the statement congratulating the President-elect, said that his victory was a fulfilment of prophesing, said, “He will also confront their hidden agenda to islamise Nigeria and turn us into a nation of ethnic and religious vassals that must bow before President Muhammadu Buhari and his kinsmen.

“For those that wield political power in Nigeria and for the small cabal of ethnic hegemonists, “born to rule” irredentists and religious bigots that run the affairs of our nation,

Boko Haram attacks Borno communities, kills 22 villagers

At least 22 persons were killed in separate attacks this week by suspected Boko Haram gunmen in Monguno Local Government Area of Borno State, security sources said.
The attacks were carried out between Monday and Tuesday, according to a top official of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria in Borno State, Abbas Gava.
The vigilante usually work with soldiers to secure Borno, and the government has said many of them will be recruited into the army after the Boko Haram is defeated.
The source informed PREMIUM TIMES that the villages of Dasa and Duwabayi, both in Monguno Local Government Area, were attacked by the Boko Haram insurgents.
“We received the sad information from our colleagues operating in Monguno who said on Monday that gunmen attacked Dasa, a village about 3km away from

BOKO HARAM SUSPECTS PROTECTED ME IN PRISON – FANI-KAYODE

A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, says he was protected by Boko Haram suspects during his four-day detention at Kuje Prison. Fani-Kayode said this in an article titled, ‘Head bloodied but not bowed and the ascension of President-Elect Donald Trump’ on Wednesday. 

The ex-minister said he spent over two weeks in the underground cell of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission without being interrogated. He said he was then transferred to Kuje Prison where he was kept in a cell along with terrorists. Fani-Kayode said, “At Kuje I was kept in the terrorist wing of the prison which was built by the British government specifically for Boko Haram convicts and suspects. There were 47 of them in the facility and I was with them throughout. 

These were tough, disciplined, hardened, surprisingly well-educated and intimidating men. “This was a frightful place and those that were locked up there were very dangerous and frightful people yet thankfully the Lord went ahead of me. “The single cells, though small, were clean, well-ventilated, dry and very neat. The inmates were surprisingly very kind and friendly towards me and turned out to be my best friends and bodyguards whenever I toured the other parts of the prison. “Most of those men were not Boko Haram killers but had been falsely accused, tortured and just dumped into prison and I felt nothing but pain and sorrow when I heard their stories.” Fani-Kayode said during his time at the prison, he met with the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, who has been in detention for over a year.

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A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, says he was protected by Boko Haram suspects during his four-day detention at Kuje Prison. Fani-Kayode said this in an article titled, ‘Head bloodied but not bowed and the ascension of President-Elect Donald Trump’ on Wednesday. The ex-minister said he spent over two weeks in the underground cell of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission without being interrogated. He said he was then transferred to Kuje Prison where he was kept in a cell along with terrorists. Fani-Kayode said, “At Kuje I was kept in the terrorist wing of the prison which was built by the British government specifically for Boko Haram convicts and suspects. There were 47 of them in the facility and I was with them throughout. These were tough, disciplined, hardened, surprisingly well-educated and intimidating men. “This was a frightful place and those that were locked up there were very dangerous and frightful people yet thankfully the Lord went ahead of me. “The single cells, though small, were clean, well-ventilated, dry and very neat. The inmates were surprisingly very kind and friendly towards me and turned out to be my best friends and bodyguards whenever I toured the other parts of the prison. “Most of those men were not Boko Haram killers but had been falsely accused, tortured and just dumped into prison and I felt nothing but pain and sorrow when I heard their stories.” Fani-Kayode said during his time at the prison, he met with the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, who has been in detention for over a year.

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Judiciary must fight corruption – Osinbajo

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday said it was fundamental for the judiciary to fight corruption in order to protect its independence.
Osinbajo said this at the 2016 Fellows Lecture and Conferment of Honourary Fellowship on him and three others by the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in Abuja.
According to him, the most potent threat against judicial independence is corruption.
Osinbajo wondered how a compromised judge could be fair and just if a litigant could buy justice.
Osinbajo said: “But (and this is fundamental), it is to protect judicial independence that we must fight corruption.”
Osinbajo noted that judicial independence was spoken of sometimes as though it was a favour being done to the judiciary, saying: “No, it is not. It is not a favour or

El-Rufai replies Atiku: You are a liar, I dare you to go to U.S

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has responded to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s allegation that he (Atiku) was betrayed by the governor and former chairman of the EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu.
PREMIUM TIMES published excerpts of an interview where the former vice president made the allegations.
In a statement he personally signed Tuesday, Mr. El Rufai accused the former VP of falsehood.
He said Mr. Abubakar “has a record of spewing outright lies and innuendo against my person”.
“As we struggle to build a law-abiding society and secure progressive outcomes for our people, we cannot allow the triumph on these shores of those who will have us move to a post-factual world,” he said.
The Kaduna governor said not even Mr. Abubakar’s expertise “in the dark arts of damaging other people through a campaign of lies from him and his media machine” is capable of returning the country to its past.
Mr. El-Rufai said contrary to the postulation by Mr. Abubakar, he never had anything to do with the incorporation of Transcorp.
“Those that established that company and fronted it like Festus

Obama suggests Clinton didn't work as hard as he did

 'I spent 87 days going to every small town and fair and fish fry and VFW hall,' Obama said.

President Barack Obama didn’t quite blame his ally Hillary Clinton for causing her stunning loss to Donald Trump last week — but he chided her for not focusing on reaching out to white, non-urban voters like he did in 2008 and 2012.
Obama — about to hand off the presidency to a man whom he declared temperamentally unfit to serve — pointedly declined to endorse Clinton’s own explanation for her defeat, instead suggesting that the former secretary of state’s failure to “show up everywhere,” not just the big diverse cities she targeted in her final campaign push, proved to be her downfall.


“How we organize politically I think is something that

You Cannot attend your Father’s Funeral – FG to Dasuki

The Director General of the Department of State Service (DSS) Mr. Lawal Musa Daura has declined the request of former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki to attend the burial of his father, former Sultan of Sokoto later today in Sokoto, Sokoto State.
A close source  reveals that Dasuki sought the permission of the DG of DSS to attend the burial of his father  who died on Monday night in an Abuja hospital and who is scheduled to be buried at a funeral service to take place after Zuhr prayer this afternoon, Tuesday at the Sultan Bello Mosque in Sokoto.
The source said the DG of DSS told Dasuki that “You cannot attend the funeral of your father in Sokoto today”. The source said Dasuki repeatedly pleaded with the Director General of the DSS to allow him pay his last respect to his father even if it means he will be in handcuffs at the funeral but Daura declined saying there is no such privilege for detained suspects.
Sambo Dasuki has been detained at the headquarters of the the DSS in Abuja since December 30th, 2015. The DSS had laid siege to Dasuki’s Asokoro house for days, claiming he was being investigated for another matter, even though he was supposedly billed to travel for medical checkup abroad after a court had granted him leave to travel for medical checkup. Dasuki was later arraigned before Justice Yusuf Baba of another Abuja High court on breach of trust, and though was granted bail, was again re-arrested by the security operatives.
Dasuki has insisted that “as for my tenure as the nation’s NSA, I acted in the interest of the nation and with utmost fear of God. I did not use the office for any self-serving agenda. I occupied the Office of the National Security Adviser at a difficult moment in Nigerian history when terrorism was at its peak and I am leaving posterity to judge me accordingly Jonathan, not me, approved arms procurement deals”.

Everything under Buhari is upside down, his only focus is oil – Iyabo Obasanjo

Senator Iyabo Obasanjo, daughter of former president Olusegun Obasanjo, has lamented how old people are being allowed to spearhead the affairs of Nigeria.
Iyabo, who served as a Commissioner for Health in Ogun State between 2003 and 2006, lamented that the younger generation is not allowed to hold leadership positions.

On the state of the country under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari, Iyabo said “I have no idea but it is not only about the PDP, almost everything in the

#Election2016: Read Donald Trump's FULL Presidential Speech

Thank you. Thank you very much, everyone. Sorry to keep you waiting. Complicated business, complicated. Thank you very much.

I've just received a call from Secretary Clinton. She congratulated us. It’s about us. On our victory, and I congratulated her and her family on a very, very hard-fought campaign.

I mean, she fought very hard. Hillary has worked very long and very hard over a long period of time, and we owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to our country.

I mean that very sincerely. Now it is time for America to bind the wounds of division, have to get together. To all Republicans and Democrats and independents across this nation, I say it is time for us to come together as one united people.

It is time. I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all of Americans, and this is so important to me. For those who have chosen not to support me in the past, of which there were a few people, I'm reaching out to you for your guidance and your help so that we can work together and unify our great country. As I've said from the beginning, ours was not a campaign but rather an incredible and great movement, made up of millions of hard-working men and women who love their country and want a better, brighter future for themselves and for their family.

It is a movement comprised of Americans from all races, religions, backgrounds, and beliefs, who want and expect our government to serve the people, and serve the people it will.

Working together, we will begin the urgent task of rebuilding our nation and renewing the American dream. I've spent my entire life in business, looking at the untapped potential in projects and in people all over the world.

That is now what I want to do for our country. Tremendous potential. I've gotten to know our country so well. Tremendous potential. It is going to be a beautiful thing. Every single American will have the opportunity to realize his or her fullest potential. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.

We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals. We're going to rebuild our infrastructure, which will become, by the way, second to none, and we will put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it. We will also finally take care of our great veterans who have been so loyal, and I've gotten to know so many over this 18-month journey.

The time I've spent with them during this campaign has been among my greatest honors.

Our veterans are incredible people. We will embark upon a project of national growth and renewal. I will harness the creative talents of our people, and we will call upon the best and brightest to leverage their tremendous talent for the benefit of all. It is going to happen. We have a great economic plan. We will double our growth and have the strongest economy anywhere in the world. At the same time, we will get along with all other nations willing to get along with us. We will be. We will have great relationships. We expect to have great, great relationships. No dream is too big, no challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.

America will no longer settle for anything less than the best. We must reclaim our country's destiny and dream big and bold and daring. We have to do that. We're going to dream of things for our country, and beautiful things and successful things once again.

I want to tell the world community that while we will always put America's interests first, we will deal fairly with everyone, with everyone.

All people and all other nations. We will seek common ground, not hostility; partnership, not conflict. And now I would like to take this moment to thank some of the people who really helped me with this, what they are calling tonight a very, very historic victory.

First, I want to thank my parents, who I know are looking down on me right now. Great people. I've learned so much from them. They were wonderful in every regard.

Militants blow up pipeline in Warri

Militants in the Niger Delta on Tuesday blew up an oil pipeline in Warri, Delta, according to AFP.
Chairman of Batan community Dickson Ogugu who confirmed the incident said, “The line which was undergoing repair after the previous attack … was billed for commissioning either today or tomorrow.”
Ogugu said four surveillance guards deployed to protect the Trans Forcados export line narrowly escaped death after the militants opened fire on them.

He added, “The hoodlums after chasing them from the spot came down from their speedboat, planted dynamite on swamp boogie, barge, crane and on the line.
“Unfortunately, only the dynamite on the barge exploded and immediately sank into the water. As I speak to you, the military are at the scene of the incident trying to dismantle the other dynamites.”
An army officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity also confirmed the incident.
“We heard the shots in the middle of the night, but as you know, we do not patrol the area at night, so there was nothing we could do,” he said.

EFCC Forcing Me To Incriminate Patience Jonathan, Ex-president’s Aide Alleges

An aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, who is facing corruption trial, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of mounting pressure on him to incriminate former first lady, Patience Jonathan.
Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, who served as a senior assistant on Domestic Matters to Mr. Jonathan, in a petition to the National Human Rights Commission said he was being deliberately punished by the Commission because of his loyalty to the former president and his family.
He accused the anti-graft agency of a desperation to perpetually detain him in despite meeting the bail conditions granted him by two federal judges.
“My only sin is that I have refused to yield to the Commission’s

Amid APC crisis, former CPC members regroup in Gombe

Members of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change in Gombe State have formed a group, Adalchi, to broaden support for President Muhammadu Buhari and ensure better representation in the All Progressives Congress leadership in the state.

The chairman of the group and former member of the House of Representatives (Gombe, Kwami and Funakaye federal constituency), Khamisu Mailantarki, disclosed this to PREMIUM TIMES in Gombe.
Mr. Mailantarki said the CPC members decided to regroup to resist the activities of party leaders in the state, who they accused of jeopardising the efforts and policies of the Buhari-led federal government and marginalising them in the state.

He said though the APC emerged from the merger of three political parties, members of the defunct new-PDP in Gombe hijacked the party from ward to the state levels.
“The members of the CPC were shut out as none of the CPC member emerged in the APC executive committee or structures from the unit, wards, local government, state and national level”, Mr. Mailantarki alleged. “None of the CPC member was allowed to contest in any position during the general election in 2015,” he added.
“The party leaders in the state did not live up to expectation as a result of factionalization of the party that compelled the national leadership to dissolve four key positions in the state and constitute a caretaker committee from our neighbouring states,” Mr. Mailantarki said.
He advised new members that decamped to the party to ensure they add value to the party at the state and national levels and not to add fuel to the crisis in the party.
The APC in Gombe State had broken into two factions, with each suspending members of the other from the party.

 

On July 6, 2015, the state secretary of the party, Manu Pindiga, announced the suspension of the state chairman, Muhammed Doho, and 17 others, accusing them of anti-party activities, gross misconduct and incompetence.

Two hours after the announcement, Mr. Daho called a press briefing to announce a counter dismissal of a former governor of the state, Danjuma Goje, and 11 others, accusing them of not respecting the party’s constitution, and misconduct.

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