BREAKING NEWS: LAGOS PDP CARETAKER COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN IS DEAD

Lagos State PDP Caretaker Committee Chairman, Chief Babatunde Osolanke Is Dead.

Details of how he died will be sent shortly.

'IT'S AN INSULT ON NIGERIANS FOR YOU TO SAY WE GOT TO POWER BY DECEIVING THEM' APC SPOKESMAN, BOLAJI ABDULLAHI REPLIES GEJ

The spokesman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bolaji Abdullahi, has reacted to the statement made by former President Goodluck Jonathan that the ruling party runs a government of lies and propaganda.

Recall that the former president while receiving one of the chairmanship aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prof Tunde Adeniran at his private residence in Abuja on Thursday, said that the PDP did well for the country when it was in power for 16 years but that the APC has failed the country as it is a government of lies and hi-tech propaganda.

Reacting to Jonathan's comment, Abdullahi who served as a Minister during Jonathan's government said

“I doubt that President Jonathan actually said these words you have reported because he would be exposing himself to reactions that would not be edifying of his status as a statesman by so doing. Secondly, I know the former President to be of even temperament.

Only a few days ago, I read that he was counseling his party on the choice of Chairman and Publicity Secretary. Statements like these wouldn’t represent an example of the kind of attitude he was canvassing.

But if he truly said that, I would say with due respect that he may need to commission a more dispassionate study of how and why APC won the 2015 Presidential election. To say that APC won the election simply by deceiving the people would be too simplistic and may even be interpreted as an insult to the millions of Nigerians that voted the APC into power”.

MAGU ADMITS THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION IS "GETTING TOUGHER" - ISHOLA BALOGUN

The Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of America-Nigerian Political Action Committee(ANPAC), Mr. Ishola Balogun has lambasted the EFCC chairman, Mr. Magu after his famous statement that the fight against corruption is getting tougher.

Mr. Ishola in his statement told him that the fight against corruption is getting tougher because he his the one fighting it himself. Corruption is killing us and kicking our proverbial behinds because you refuse to remove the incentives for corruption who in their right minds expect anyone fighting corruption to put their friends, relatives, in-laws classmates, course mates, supervisors, village heads, sons, daughters etc. behind bars? Very un-Nigerian right?

So why don't you just abandon this phony war against corruption and start fighting the war against poverty. Elevate the standard of living of the masses reward hard work provide good jobs with sustainable wages, create law and order, protect life and property and oh, before I forget emphasize CRIME PREVENTION and not this phony Law enforcement that never brings anyone to justice.

Thank you for your service to our country but it is never a good sign when a public figure admits that his job is difficult especially if he was interviewed for the job and was able to convince the presidency that he is the right person for the Job. In any country other than Nigeria that official will tender his resignation rather than publicly admit failure. God bless you all and God bless the federal republic of Nigeria.

ABOUT ANPAC
The America-Nigeria political action committee (ANPAC) aims at forging strong bilateral relations between the USA and Nigeria for the purpose of mutual strategic development and advancement of western political principles and agenda in Nigeria. Based in Houston Texas, USA, ANPAC has as its goals.

1. The general development of the Federal republic of Nigeria as a democratic nation with a free market economy, free media and equal rights and justice for all.

2. Emphasize the need for the American Public, Government and policy makers to understand and operate a foreign policy agenda that will enhance the strategic importance of a stable, economically vibrant and progressive Nigeria. 

3. Forster a strategic transfer of commerce and industry between the two countries particularly in the areas of, technology, manufacturing, aviation, agriculture and urban development.

4. The promotion of a robust partnership between the two countries in the areas of military training, defense hardware, law enforcement and crime prevention initiatives.

POLITICS BEHIND PLATEAU MASSACRES – GEN. WAHAB

A former Director of Operations, Army Headquarters, Maj-Gen. Garba Wahab (Rtd), has said the recent attack in Plateau State by gunmen leading to the death of over 27 people, is politically motivated.

Monday’s attack was about the third in Nkiedonwhro community, Bassa Local Government Area of the state, after the state government imposed the indefinite dusk-to-dawn curfew.

Speaking on the recent Plateau killings when he featured on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday, the retired general said: “It is politics. Whoever is the winner of a political contest takes over and is the one who disburses whatever.

“And all of us are political animals, whatever you are. The political issue is involved, and the election is coming, 2019 is nearby. So those who have been keeping quiet are now coming out to release those youths.

“Some of these things are political issues. But one thing you need to realise is that, when you want to solve a problem, you need to analyse where that problem really is.

“The political and social problems in Plateau are very difficult to solve because they are value-based.

“We grow up with value-added situations, and so to remove those values becomes problematic because we have added politics into the whole thing.”

PMB RESTORES FORMAL PENSION BOSS THAT WAS FIRED FOR OVER ‘N200 BILLION FRAUD BY GEJ

The former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Force Team, Mr Abdulrasheed Maina, that was sacked under the Goodluck Jonathan regime has been reinstated by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.

We recalled that Mr Maina was sacked by the Federal Civil Service in 2013 after he was found to have allegedly swindlled pensioners out of N200 billion pension fund.
The former pension boss, as reported by Premium Times, was however secertely reinstated and promoted to rank of director in the Ministry of Interior.

“He should not have been reinstated. Doesn’t Mr. Maina have a case in court? The rules provide for action to be taken only after the courts have dispensed of the case fully,” a retired director in the Office of the Head of Service told Premium Times.

The seventh Senate had indicted Maina of diverting the said pensioners’ fund into private accounts including that of himself, using fictitious names.