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Federal Government Declares Dec. 25th & 26th Public Holidays

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The Federal Government has declared Thursday, Dec. 25 and Friday, Dec. 26 as public holidays to mark Christmas and Boxing Day celebrations. It also announced that, Thursday, January 1<sup>st</sup>, 2015 will also be made a public holiday. </div>
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Federal Government Declares Dec. 25th & 26th Public Holidays

The Federal Government has declared Thursday, Dec. 25 and Friday, Dec. 26 as public holidays to mark Christmas and Boxing Day cele...

Tell Nigerians What You Found After Invading Our Data Centre---- APC Dares SSS

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has challenged the DSS to 
immediately tell Nigerians the outcome of its investigations into the 
cooked-up allegation of PVC cloning that forced the security agency to 
unlawfully invade the party’s offices in Lagos over a week ago.<br />
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In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by its National Publicity 
Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said if no evidence of PVC 
cloning was found, the DSS should apologize to Nigerians for acting on 
the basis of faulty intelligence.<br />
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It said any further delay in telling Nigerians the outcome of the 
investigations, after almost 10 days, could mean that the DSS is trying 
to manufacture evidence to support its faulty intelligence.<br />
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"Without carrying out any investigation and with no shred of evidence, 
the DSS gleefully announced to the world that they stormed our data 
centre because they got information that Permanent Voters Cards were 
being cloned there. </blockquote>
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"<span style="color: #cc0000;">On the basis of this uncorroborated announcement, the PDP categorically accused the APC of cloning PVCs</span>.
 It is now over a week since the DSS carted away materials and computer 
servers after ransacking our offices for over two hours. The agency’s 
experts must have analyzed the information in the materials and on the 
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"Therefore, we are now asking them to immediately announce their 
findings to the world. After all, it took them only a few hours after 
their Gestapo-like invasion of our offices before they issued their 
baseless allegation of PVC cloning to justify their action,” APC said.<br />
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The party said while it has gone to court to seek redress, the DSS still
 owes Nigerians an explanation and, if indeed no evidence of card 
cloning was found, an unreserved apology to them (Nigerians).<br />
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It advised the DSS to always endeavour to act professionally and fairly 
in carrying out its duties, rather than taking beer parlour gossips as 
useful intelligence, adding: ”It is this type of faulty intelligence 
that has been stifling the efforts to desconstruct Boko Haram and 
faclitate the battle to end the insurgency that is daily killing and 
maiming innocent Nigerians.<br />
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<b>Alhaji Lai Mohammed</b><br />
National Publicity Secretary<br />
All Progressives Congress (APC)</div>
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Tell Nigerians What You Found After Invading Our Data Centre---- APC Dares SSS

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has challenged the DSS to immediately tell Nigerians the outcome of its investigations into the ...

Federal Government Bans Use Of Phones In Nigerian Prisons!

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The Federal Government has banned the use of mobile phones in all the prison formations by the inmates and prison officials. It also directed the Nigerian Prison Service authorities to recover all handsets from inmates within 30 days.</div>
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Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, who handed down the order on Saturday in Abuja, during an interactive meeting with the senior officers of the Prison Service, decried indecent dressing by the inmates.</div>
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He stated that no inmate should be allowed to wear their choice of clothes or shoes, as is the practice presently, “no matter highly placed they may be.”</div>
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Moro said, <b>“I have visited some prisons in other countries as the Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; Nobody, no matter highly placed you are, you don’t come to prison with your phones, not even the minister of Interior as the supervising minister over the prisons. So, why are you an exception?</b></div>
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“Henceforth, no matter who you are including myself, that nobody goes into prison with telephones. And so, as you are going from here, create a meeting platform where all the officers that work in the prisons as they walk into prisons, they submit their phones and collect them when they close.</div>
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<b>“Secondly, it means that you have one month to recover all the phones in the custody of inmates across the prison formations. Within one month, all prison formation must recover all telephones from inmates.”</b></div>
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The minister threatened to deal with the NPS management if it failed to carry out the directive, adding that he would know if the phones were not recovered from the inmates as ordered.</div>

Federal Government Bans Use Of Phones In Nigerian Prisons!

The Federal Government has banned the use of mobile phones in all the prison formations by the inmates and prison officials. It also dire...

Here's what supposedly caused the riot at Kirikiri Prisons yesterday

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There were reports earlier yesterday that inmates of Kirikiri Medium Prisons
 attempted a jail break leading to the death & injury of many. But 
according to new reports, it may not have been a jail break<br />
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Now this is not confirmed but according to someone who is involved in 
Prison Outreach and was supposed to be at prison today, he got a mail
 from the co-ordinator of the outreach informing them that their visit 
has been cancelled due to an incident at the prison yesterday afternoon<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_195758792" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"></span></span>. In the email that was sent out, what happened at the prison was explained. See it after the cut...<br />
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Please be advised that the Prison Outreach for <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_195758790" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">tomorrow</span></span> at Kirikiri Prisons has been cancelled.</blockquote>
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Apparently, at the Kirikiri Medium Prison , the inmate GO bought 
himself a microphone and a fan with his own money today and the Deputy 
Controller of the prison did not approve of it. The DCP ordered the GO 
to be locked up in isolation. This infuriated the inmates and demanded 
the release of the GO. <br />
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A mob of inmates started 
throwing stones at the authorities. Hence, DCP ordered the Prison Mobile
 Unit to shoot on sight. Shots were fired sporadically into the inmates 
and scores are dead. I was informed that the K-9 Unit was also 
dispatched into the inmate population. The GO has been bitten several 
times and in critical condition.<br />
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 Please be praying for 
him and the entire inmate population. Some of the ones who died might 
not have had any contact with family members since their incarceration.<br />
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I will keep you all posted on developments.<br />
Shalom</blockquote>
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Here's what supposedly caused the riot at Kirikiri Prisons yesterday

There were reports earlier yesterday that inmates of Kirikiri Medium Prisons attempted a jail break leading to the death & inj...

Boko Haram Takes Over 13 Nigerian Towns in Broad Daylight

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The highly dreaded Boko Haram sect on Sunday continued its expansionist 
drive by overrunning Michika and Uba in Adamawa   State. The capture of 
the two towns brings to 13, the number of communities now controlled by 
the sect in the North East.<br />
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The others are Gwoza, Buni Yadi, Gamboru Ngala, Damboa, Marte, Bama, Bara, Banki, Gulak, Dikwa and Madagali.<br />
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News of the capture of Michika and Uba coincided with lamentation on 
Sunday by the Secretary to the Borno State Government, Baba Jidda,   
that most parts of Borno had been taken over by Boko Haram.<br />
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A security source said the sect which took over Gulak on Friday night, moved from there to Uba.<br />
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He confessed that when soldiers on guard saw Boko Haram arriving in over
 50 pick -up vans and hundreds of motorcycles, they retreated because 
they were outnumbered...</blockquote>
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The source also told Punch that the   arms and ammunition   in 
possession of the insurgents were   superior to those held by the 
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The insurgents, it was learnt, moved from Uba   to Michika, which is the
 hometown of a former Lagos State military administrator and Peoples 
Democratic Party’s governorship aspirant, Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa (retd.)<br />
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It was gathered on Sunday that they also headed for Mubi, the host community to the Adamawa State University.<br />
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A source, who confided in one of correspondents, said that the military 
later deployed fighter jets and helicopters in the areas to chase out 
the   insurgents .<br />
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He added that eight trucks carrying some troops   were sighted going to   the troubled areas.<br />
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It was further gathered that the Adamawa State Acting Governor, Alhaji 
Adamu Fintiri, on learning that many of the residents of the troubled 
communities were fleeing,   dispatched six luxury buses   to move   them
 to Yola.<br />
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Our source said that the insurgents, who were firing   into the air, 
were advising the people not to flee because they had only come to 
engage the military in gun battle.<br />
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He said, “The Boko Haram members are now in Uba and Michika, the headquarters of Michika Local Government Area.<br />
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“The insurgents who were moving in over 50 hillux vans and hundreds of motorcycles, were   wielding   assorted weapons.<br />
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“When they started advancing from Madagali to Uba, the soldiers who were
 in Uba withdrew to Michika and they(insurgents) headed for Michika and 
Mubi.<br />
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“There was no shootout between them and the soldiers even though eight 
trucks carrying troops were sighted on the road leading to those 
communities.   Air Force fighter jets were also said to have pursued 
them.<br />
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“Several people fled the communities to avoid being killed by insurgents.”<br />
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One of the   residents of Michika, who is now taking refuge in Hong,   
Joseph Kwaya, said, “We left the town based on the instruction of the 
military. As I am   talking to you, majority of the people in the area 
have left   out of fear.<br />
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“The situation is very bad and we pray God to intervene and bring an end to the activities of Boko Haram.”<br />
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It was not only the people of Michika, Mubi and Uba that fled, their 
neighbours in Bazza and Marraban also took to their heels on learning 
that the insurgents were advancing.<br />
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A source,who did not want his name in print, said many people from Uba 
and Marraban Mubi were also seen trekking long distances to find 
vehicles that could take them to Hong and Yola.<br />
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A resident of Hong,   Ibrahim Danjil, said, “Our   town is now full of people who fled from Uba, Michika, Madagali and Bazza.”<br />
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Efforts to contact the Chief Press Secretary to the Acting Governor, Solomon Kumangar, for comments proved abortive.<br />
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One of our correspondents also made repeated efforts to get the Director
 of Defence Information, Maj. Gen Chris Olukolade, to comment on the 
increasing activities of insurgents in Adamawa State without success.<br />
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<b>Most parts of Borno now occupied by Boko Haram –SSG</b><br />
Meanwhile, the Secretary to the Borno State Government, Amb. Baba Jidda,
 has lamented that most parts of the state were now being occupied by 
Boko Haram.<br />
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Jidda, at a news conference in Abuja on Sunday, added that normal 
government, economic, social and political activities in the state had 
been dislocated.<br />
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He also said that a huge number of displaced persons was now living in 
refugee camps in Maiduguri and neighbouring states as well as Niger, 
Chad and Cameroon.</div>
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Boko Haram Takes Over 13 Nigerian Towns in Broad Daylight

The highly dreaded Boko Haram sect on Sunday continued its expansionist drive by overrunning Michika and Uba in Adamawa Stat...

2015: What's Attahiru Jega's INEC Up To?

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<b>by By Simon Kolawole</b><br />
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I am, evidently, one of the admirers of Professor Attahiru Jega, the 
chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Not 
that I have always liked him though. When he was president of the 
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and I was in my final year 
at the University of Lagos, I hated him and his ASUU. They went on 
strike for four months and I almost lost an academic year. I hated them.
 I just wanted to graduate and move on with my life. I remember watching
 NTA News obediently every night, hoping to hear some news that the 
strike had been called off. It was traumatic. I was impatient. I was not
 ready to look at the issues from the lecturers' perspective. I just 
hated Jega and his ASUU.<br />
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But at the back of my mind, I liked Jega. I admired him. Calm and cool, 
he was a dogged fighter who courageously led the lecturers' 
confrontation with the military government over issues affecting 
university education in Nigeria some of which remain unaddressed 23 
years after! If you left Nigeria 35 years ago and only returned 
recently, you would be surprised that the same issues are still being 
discussed. Electricity, roads, armed robbery and such like. For 
instance, General Muhammadu Buhari, as head of state, fired (and 
reinstated) resident doctors in 1984. And 30 years after, President 
Goodluck Jonathan fired (and reinstated) resident doctors over the same 
issues!<br />
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The more things seem to change, the more they remain the same. In 
politics, we are still discussing the same issues: electoral justice... I
 have watched Jega closely since his appointment as INEC chairman in 
2010 and I have seen him grow on the job. </blockquote>
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He has applied some intellectual depth to the electoral process and his 
commission improved tremendously in service delivery, given what I see 
as a free hand by Jonathan. And whenever Jega gets things wrong, he 
raises up his hands and says: "I'm sorry, we messed up." This is very 
unNigerian and, to me, an indication that we would get things right one 
day in this country. There are a lot of good and upright Nigerians out 
there who have not yet had the opportunity to show that things can be 
done differently and with integrity.</div>
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However, I am getting worried about some vibes coming out of INEC in 
recent times. The first is that they said they don't understand the 
meaning of political campaign. We've been seeing posters and billboards 
and rallies but INEC is in a tight corner in trying to define if these 
are political campaigns or not and who should be held responsible. If, 
for instance, a Simon Kolawole, who is not a politician, buys a 
newspaper page to campaign for a Waziri Adio to become president of 
Nigeria, is that a violation of the laws restricting campaigns to a 
specific timetable produced by INEC? If politicians are granting 
interviews promoting the ambitions of their associates, is that a 
violation of the law? I think INEC should be able to sort this out 
without much drama.<br />
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Two, and very disturbing, is the recent creation of additional polling 
units across the country. I have read a lot of commentaries on the 
development, and I did not really pay attention to it until I was 
confronted with the raw details. The exercise doesn't look pretty to me.
 Something is not adding up. After cleaning up the voter register, INEC 
discovered that rather than 70 million registered voters, we could only 
verify 60 million. The registration of ghost voters was recorded all 
over the country, North and South, and so no state or section of the 
country can lay any claim to sainthood in the s*xing-up of figures. We 
will discuss this more in the future.<br />
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After cleaning up the list, INEC took a step that shows a questionable 
distribution of the new 30,000 polling units. INEC has to explain to 
Nigerians the logic behind the sharing. Is this necessary? Why is it 
necessary? This has to be well addressed without leaving any room for 
doubt and conjecture. INEC spoke about distributing the new units on a 
formula of 85 per cent proportionality and 15 per cent equality. How? 
How did INEC arrive at such criteria? If the idea is to allocate 500 
voters per one unit based on the number of registered voters, then so 
let it be. Why equality? Why proportionality? Why 15 per cent? Why 85 
per cent? Is it not about smoother logistics? If the previous polling 
units were not well distributed, leaving some states short-changed, and 
INEC wants to correct the anomaly, we need to be enlightened about it.<br />
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Luckily, Jega loves to be scientific in his explanations. He would do a 
good job by explaining to Nigerians the rationale behind the move. We 
are in a very political season and we need not stoke further tension. We
 are given to analyzing things in Nigeria as North vs South and I am 
already reading a lot of that in the media.  Personally, I believe there
 is no part of Nigeria where people do not try to tamper with figures. I
 don't even believe our population is up to 170 million. During 
censuses, communities and states go a long way in inducing demographic 
officials to write favorable figures for them because of the sharing of
 the national cake.<br />
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Also, during voter registration exercises, the roll is usually longer 
than actual. Registers are heavily padded. A little village with a 
population of 5,000, including toddlers, will come up with a voting 
population of 12,000 or more. Everybody is trying to be smart. Che*ting 
is so easy for us. That is why voter turn-outs are considered 
ridiculously low given the number of registered voters on the roll. The 
moment you roll out tight security and people are unable to hij*ck 
ballot boxes or engage in ballot-stuffing, the turn-out is always "low",
 no matter the crowd that trooped out to vote. This happens all over 
Nigeria, not just one part.<br />
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Given all these complexities, I am not convinced that INEC needed to be 
creating polling units at this critical stage. What is broken? What are 
they trying to fix? How are they going to do this without reviving 
suspicion and discontent? Figures are very delicate in the country and 
INEC should come clean so that nobody will accuse them of playing this 
old game. I will not cast any stone at Jega yet until I hear his 
explanations. Maybe there is something he knows that we don't know yet. 
By the way, Mathematics has never been my favourite subject since I was 
born.</div>
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<b>Simon KolawoleLive </b></div>
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2015: What's Attahiru Jega's INEC Up To?

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‘Make abducted girls sacrificial lambs, but stop Boko Haram’ - Chibok Chairman

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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 130%;">Chairman
of Chibok Local government, Tsambido Hosea says parents of abducted Chibok
girls are willing to sacrifice the lives of their daughters if that will bring
an end to the boko haram madness.  Mr.
Hosea who spoke to Premium Times in Abuja during a protest to mark
the 130th on Friday August 30 added that parents of the victims were
seeking a logical end to their trauma either by burial or reunion…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 130%;">“The parents say they
don’t care about their life but let them go in. If they can take care of
this Boko Haram, so that they will not spread to other places. So that
they cannot continue with their menace. Let the girls be sacrificial lambs.
That’s what they told me yesterday. I phoned them, that I know that I am going
to face some interviews today. What is your opinion? So this their
opinion. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 130%;">Actually, if the
federal government has that capacity, let them go into the Sambisa. If
there are some that God said will be rescued, it can be rescued by the
force. And if some has gone, its okay, than all this troubles, than all
this trauma the parents are going through now. They cannot do anything.
But had it been they buried them, they would have forged ahead with their
lives. They are saying let the government go into the forest. Even the
corpse, let them bring the corpse of the children so that they will bury
them properly. What they are saying is that these girls in the bush, it is
better for the government, to go in with the force, with the army might to
bring them even the corpse for them, so that they can bury them properly,”
 he said.</span>

‘Make abducted girls sacrificial lambs, but stop Boko Haram’ - Chibok Chairman

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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 130%;">Chairman
of Chibok Local government, Tsambido Hosea says parents of abducted Chibok
girls are willing to sacrifice the lives of their daughters if that will bring
an end to the boko haram madness.  Mr.
Hosea who spoke to Premium Times in Abuja during a protest to mark
the 130th on Friday August 30 added that parents of the victims were
seeking a logical end to their trauma either by burial or reunion…</span></div>
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don’t care about their life but let them go in. If they can take care of
this Boko Haram, so that they will not spread to other places. So that
they cannot continue with their menace. Let the girls be sacrificial lambs.
That’s what they told me yesterday. I phoned them, that I know that I am going
to face some interviews today. What is your opinion? So this their
opinion. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 130%;">Actually, if the
federal government has that capacity, let them go into the Sambisa. If
there are some that God said will be rescued, it can be rescued by the
force. And if some has gone, its okay, than all this troubles, than all
this trauma the parents are going through now. They cannot do anything.
But had it been they buried them, they would have forged ahead with their
lives. They are saying let the government go into the forest. Even the
corpse, let them bring the corpse of the children so that they will bury
them properly. What they are saying is that these girls in the bush, it is
better for the government, to go in with the force, with the army might to
bring them even the corpse for them, so that they can bury them properly,”
 he said.</span>

‘Make abducted girls sacrificial lambs, but stop Boko Haram’ - Chibok Chairman

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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Senator
 Florence Ita-Giwa is plotting an exotic wedding for her pretty 
daughter, Kokoaka Florence Mayen. And reportedly budgeting over N100 
million for the Calabar and Lagos wedding carnival. Part of Mama 
Bakassi's N100 million budget would go to hotel accommodation, 
transportation, gift items, food, drinks and logistics for her over 
1,000 high profile guests who would fly in from parts of the country and
 overseas for the wedding extravaganza.<br /><br />In all, the influential 
politician and former Senator of the Federal Republic is reportedly 
spending about N100,000 per guest collecting the aso ebi. Koko and her 
fiancé, Chimaobi Shawcross Obioha Jnr.’s traditional wedding is on 
Saturday, September 13, 2014, while the white wedding is slated for 
Saturday, September 20.</span></span>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Lamorde-and-Nta-360x225.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Lamorde-and-Nta-360x225.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Economic and Financial Crimes  Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related  offences Commission are currently probing 150 organisations and  government Ministries, Departments and Agencies for offences related to  the violation of the Public Procurement Act, 2007.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Director-General, Bureau of Public  Procurement, Mr. Emeka Ezeh, disclosed this in an interview with our  correspondent on Monday at the opening of the Procurement Cadre  Conversion Training Programme in Abuja.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also being probed are 200 persons  involved in various infractions of the Act, which articulates the due  process to be followed by the MDAs in the procurement of goods and  services in the public service.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Offences for which the institutions and  public officers are being investigated include collusion in contract  bidding, use of fake documents, false claims by contracting firms and  suppliers, and manipulation of the procurement process.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“As we speak, about 150 organisations,  including private companies, Ministries, Departments and Agencies as  well as 200 persons are being investigated for various infractions of  the Procurement Act,” Ezeh said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Secretary to the Government of the  Federation, Senator Pius Anyim, who confirmed the probe, added that  procurement officers found culpable would be punished.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Anyim, who was represented at the event  by a director in his office, urged public servants involved in the  procurement process to conduct themselves with the highest sense of  responsibility, accountability, ethics and integrity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said, “Government remains committed  to the implementation of the Public Procurement Act. Mr. President has  recently designated the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the  Federation as the champion for the implementation of the registration,  categorisation and classification of current and intending contractors,  consultants and service providers to the government and its agencies on a  national database.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The objective is to ensure that only  competent and capable firms are selected to tender for government  contracts. This will also ensure transparency in contractors’  prequalification and selection processes, and hence minimise the  incidence of collusion and disappearance of contractors after the  collection of mobilisation fees.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He added, “It might interest you to know  that ICPC and the EFCC are currently investigating cases of  infractions, which include but not limited to collusion amongst bidders  and manipulation of the procurement processes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Any public officer found to have  colluded with unscrupulous contractors, consultants or service providers  to defraud or short-change the Federal Government shall be dealt with  in accordance with the law.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also speaking, the Lead Procurement  Specialist, World Bank, Chief Bayo Awosemusi, said 30 per cent savings  could be achieved when international procurement standards were  followed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said the best procurement did not  have to be the cheapest, but added that such procurement must meet  certain principles and objectives, including economy, efficiency, value  for money and timeliness.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Awosemusi commended the BPP for driving  the process of professionalising procurement in the nation’s public  service, adding that though the process was fraught with several  challenges, the reward was immense.</div><br /><strong><em>source: PUNCH.</em></strong></div>

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