Nigerian Soildiers Refuse Posting to Borno

The news reaching me is that the Nigerian army is at it again, some troups of the 55 Battalion have refused posting to Borno because of salary owed.

One would have thought with the morale the new chief of Army Staff resumed office payment of salaries would have been a thing of the part.

There was palpable tension at the 55 Battalion Bonny Camp, Lagos on Thursday, February 18, 2016 after about 200 soldiers who were part of the 800 who had just returned from peace keeping operation in Darfur, Sudan began grumbling over the non-payment of their three months mission allowances after they were redeployed to the North East to join the war against Boko Haram.

According to Punch, the contingent of soldiers was led by Lt. Col. H. Dasuki, who unconfirmed sources said, is related to the embattled immediate former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki.

It was gathered that the soldiers are to leave Lagos for Maiduguri on Friday, February 19, 2015, although it was reported that the soldiers said they would not proceed to Maiduguri except their allowances for the Sudan operation were paid.

The issue was yet to be resolved as at the press time as the soldiers argued that they need their allowance so as to enable them to leave money behind for their families.

A military source said such posting without payment of allowances was not acceptable to the military high command as it was contrary to a directive from the Defence headquarters.

Also reacting to the protest the Public Relations Officer of the 81 Division, Lt. Col. Kingsley Samuel, denied any grumbling among the soldiers in Bonny Camp.

He said, “There is nothing like grumbling in that battalion. It is not true.”


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Ekiti State Governor Fayose Slams Obasanjo Badly

Following rumours of deep-rooted rifts between them, Governor Ayodele Fayose has revealed that he holds no personal grudges against former president of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.

The Ekiti state governor explained that whatsoever friction tends to exist, only stems from having different points of view on diverse issues.

Governor Fayose has asked Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to declare his assests.
According to Fayose, he only says things as he sees them and that sometimes may not go down well in certain quarters.

In enunciating further the alleged tussle between himself and OBJ, Fayose said he holds nothing against the former General over his reported role in his (Fayose’s) 2006 impeachment.

He said: “The military in Nigeria should subject themselves to democratic rules. When Obasanjo was there he was behaving the same way Buhari is behaving today. It was under Obasanjo that the EFCC would lock people up because the president has power to order arrest, because the president appoints the IGP, the DG of SSS and others. He has power of coercion. The fact remains that the constitution allows me the right even in the face of accusation to enjoy my liberty. Obasanjo is not a democrat. Today, former Governor (Bola) Tinubu of Lagos would recall what Obasanjo did. It doesn’t matter what our political alignments are today, history cannot be taken away. So my position has not changed and it will never change.”

According to Premium Times, Fayose further noted that: “When Obasanjo was there for eight years, Buhari didn’t go there? Everyday Obasanjo goes to kiss the ground in Aso Rock. Everyday Obasanjo has something to go and tell him there. There are some places elders would have a bit of shame.

“They would know that sometimes we should not go to this place. Even if you look at the pictures taken of his visit you see him bending down. When he was in government he was busy abusing this Buhari. Obasanjo was busy insulting Awolowo. One of the things Obasanjo wants to lay claim to in life is that he is the longest serving Nigerian president. When you add his military rule to his civilian regime, you understand.

“So, Obasanjo doesn’t like anybody to excel or exceed his record. That’s the truth. Obasanjo, who now seems to be the father of gangsterism or whatever he seems to be today, is the same man that we used to talk about every other day. Today he is there. The most painful aspect of it is for Obasanjo to be coming out and be claiming he is a very honest man. Where did he get the money that was given to the National Assembly that time? Where did he get the money? Each senator and member of the House of Representatives collected N50 million each. How about that $2billion Halliburton money? They jailed some people in America because of Halliburton. Obasanjo knows everything about Halliburton. Let us put Halliburton to trial and see what happens. That is why I told you that this fight must not be selective. If truly we want to fight corruption, let us fight corruption head on. And the fact remains that men will judge, God will judge again.”

While entertaining questions from newsmen, Fayose vehemently said that past presidents must be probed, demanding that Obasanjo must declare his assets from before he came in 1999 till his 2007 declaration.

He said: “Who is fooling who? Buhari now declared mud house and herds of cattle. When he is going now he will go and build one house in Daura with salary. That time the mud house will now become ancient mud houses. The cattle will now become limo Mercedes bullet proof. I beg my brother! Those people who are stealing cow, should stop fighting people stealing rats.”

In his interview, Fayose also revealed that making Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the Peoples Democratic Party’s flag bearer in the 2016 general elections, was a terrible move by the the PDP.

He said it was a gross political miscalculation. According to him: “The fact is that my former president, I chose my word, my former president, Goodluck Jonathan, tried his best. But if I were him, I would not have contested at all, you understand. Because it is two ways: if he did not contest and the PDP lost out, he will still be an honourable man, and if he had given that opportunity to the north, those who defected from the PDP would not have defected. But that is story.

“Jonathan did his best and I will still continue to support him. You know I was not there when they took the decision about him becoming the flag-bearer, but it doesn’t matter. We can’t all put our mouth inside the soil. Somebody must remain with somebody. I will remain with Jonathan even if I am the only man standing. A man is not measured by the amount of food you have and the amount of properties you own. Sometimes sickness is good, it reshapes your life. Sometimes poverty is good, it helps your life. Sometimes failure makes you to reorder your life. It is not the end of your life.”

The Ekiti state governor, however, was optimistic that the PDP will get stronger, though the party is undergoing a deliberate effort to destabilize the opposition by the APC

While speaking on the challenges besetting Ekiti state, Fayose who said he had no interest in being the president of Nigeria, noted that his government will not cut down its workforce nor make any reduction in the payment of workers.

“I can’t cut anybody’s job.  Me, Ayo Fayose, I can’t sack any worker. Immediately they started the story of retrenchment, I told them count me out. You see, when you are owing me as a worker, it is different from taking my means of livelihood. When you are owing the worker at the bad times, he will have the hope that when money comes he would be paid. But if you had sacked him, you have killed him, you have taken away his life.

“I won’t cut anything. I will continue to dialogue with them. You see, you can’t make decisions for the people alone. This governance we are talking about, government is not the only factor. There are other variables. When things are not going the way you expect, you must engage the people,” Fayose noted.


Source naij.com

North Korea and South Korea fights Dirty

Propaganda wars has just taken a massive turn as North takes the battles into the streets of the South .


To highlight its contempt for the South, North Korea has started sending balloons over the border filled with cigarette butts, police told the New York Times.

The balloons were timed to detonate their payloads, but some failed to function and landed onto rooftops and cars in South Korean villages.

“We can confirm that they included cigarette butts,” Kim Hak-young, a chief police superintendent, told the newspaper on Thursday.

The balloons also carried thousands of messages that called South Korean leader Park Geun-hye a “filthy president”.

The two countries have been ramping up their propaganda war since Jan. 6, when North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test.

The South has been blaring pop songs and criticism of Kim Jong Un over loudspeakers positioned near the border.


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President Buhari Shifts Blame Game To Babangida, Says He is to Blame for Poor Performance of the Naira

Just when we thought we had heard it all from President Buhari who until now has blamed former President, Goodluck Jonathan for all the woes the country is passing through I.e Power outages, unemployment, corruption and so many others. There seems to be light at the edge of the tunnel for GEJ as PMB makes a dramatic turn around.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday revealed that the Structural Adjustment Programme, SAP, by onetime military President, Ibrahim Badamosi Babagida, IBB, killed the naira.

Speaking with the BBC, Buhari traced the origin of some of the problems facing the country’s currency to IBB’s regime.

IBB had in 1986 and 1988 instituted SAP which is said to have been responsible for the downward trend of the naira.

” I went through the devalue in 1984, its SAP that killed the naira,

“I have asked the Governor of Central Bank and others to sit and see if they can convince me to murder the naira,” Buhari said.

IBB had in 1986 and 1988 instituted SAP which is said to have been responsible for the downward trend of the naira.

SAP is a loan provided by the International Monetary Fund, IMF, and the World Bank to countries facing economic turmoil.




Edited from kelvin Djapkor blog

Massive Earthquake Rips Taiwan Apart Leaving several Buildings Damaged and Lives Lost

The Taiwanese did not know what the were up against this faithful day as most people went about their normal routine, some needs still indoors relax I as the case was on saturdays.

However, around 3:00pm  ET the country was struck by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake which toppled a 17-story apartment building in southern Taiwan on Saturday, killing at least two people, including a 10-day-old girl, and triggering frantic efforts to rescue dozens of people feared trapped inside.

The baby and a 40-year-old man are the only confirmed deaths from the building, a complex of towers whose floors pancaked down onto to each other when the 6.4 magnitude tremor hit at around 4 a.m. (3.00 p.m. ET), at the start of a Lunar New Year holiday.

Rescuers mounted hydraulic ladders and a crane to scour the wreckage, plucking more than 120 survivors to safety, with dozens taken to hospital, a fire brigade official said.

Elsewhere in the city of 2 million people, several buildings tilted at alarming angles but a fire department official said rescue efforts were now focused entirely on the apartment block.

"I was watching TV and after a sudden burst of shaking, I heard a boom. I opened my metal door and saw the building opposite fall down," said a 71-year-old neighbor who gave his name as Chang.

A plumber, he said he fetched some tools and a ladder and prised some window bars open to rescue a woman crying for help.

"She asked me to go back and rescue her husband, child, but I was afraid of a gas explosion so I didn't go in. At the time there were more people calling for help, but my ladder wasn't long enough so there was no way to save them."

The quake was centered 27 miles (43 km) southeast of Tainan, at a depth of 23 km (14 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said. Several aftershocks shook Tainan, Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau said.

One elderly woman, wrapped in blankets, was strapped to a board and slowly slid down a ramp to the ground as the cries of those still trapped rang out. Rescuers used dogs and acoustic equipment to pick up signs of life in the rubble.

"There are 60 households in that building," said Tainan fire department information officer Lee Po Min, estimating that there might be about 240 people living there.

One city hospital said 58 people had been brought in, most of them with light injuries. The fire department said a total of 115 people had been taken to hospital from around Tainan.



Sources huffpost

Man Receives Beating of His Life for Overtaking Vice Presidents Convoy Photos

Though we think we have itr hot here in Nigerian, it seems Uganda is far worse. The media isnt as anywhere near free as what is optainable in Nigeria plus if you cross the incumbent you might as well have written your own obituary.

And that's what happened to for overtaking the convoy of President Edward Ssekandi, who is both head of state and head of government. There is a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government.

Photos

Here is when he was surrounded

Now is brutally pulled out of his car

Can this happen in civilized countries

And now he is manhandled in an inhumane way

We keep praying that our politician would have common sense too keep doing the right thing as power doesn't last for ever.

Edited from mercy jatau's blog

International embarrasment President Buhari takes sit Meant for Niger Republic Instead of Nigeria

Well I must say am flabbergasted, I mean I was totally speechless. The first question that ran through my mind was, this couldn't be real I mean how on earth, it just couldn't be.

I mean how can the president of Nigerian, in an international setting mistake Niger Republic for Nigeria.

Well here it is

I know its kind of hard to believe, am finding it hard my self to digest, but this has spark heated comments on Facebook some of which might seem offence to readers

As we all wait for the much desired change to sweep across Nigeria let's keep praying relentlessly.

Zika Virus Becoming a Global Threat, Here is What you Need to Know

As the Zola virus spread to more areas and new threatening the Europe. The virus seem to have taken a more deadly turn. It have been reported that the Zika virus has turned to sexually transmitted disease (STD).

A case surfaced of a patient in Texas who reportedly became infected with Zika through sexual contact, and suddenly there were medical warnings to use condoms or abstain from sex with travelers from the region. Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control, reassured me that the risk of sexual transmission is extremely low, and Dr. Tony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told me he didn’t expect Zika to become widespread in the U.S.

So why are we so afraid of Zika?

For one thing, the name sounds exotic and mysterious, like a killer from a faraway place. For another, we had never heard of it until a few weeks ago, and we are naturally afraid of something unknown or new – especially when it is something we can’t control.

Zika is currently under the microscope of the news media and the World Health Organization, which has conducted meetings and issued ominous warnings, and this sudden public health focus alarms us. A survey conducted by travel risk manager On Call International found that 64 percent of Americans who responded, whether they were pregnant or not, said they would cancel their trips to affected areas.

We see images of infants with tiny heads and undersized brains, and they understandably petrify us. Of the 3 million live births last year in Brazil, more than 4,000 were reported – and 270 were confirmed – to have the terrible birth defect microcephaly, or small head. In a typical year, there are just over 100 cases. Frieden said Zika’s exact role in these cases has yet to be determined, and the CDC is working closing with Brazilian health authorities.

We hear about rare cases of Guilliain-Barre Syndrome (ascending paralysis) being associated with Zika, and we worry about that too.

We learn that Zika has no symptoms 80 percent of the time, which should reassure us, but it actually makes things worse. Nothing scares people more than an invisible danger.

But the most powerful virus of all is fear. It’s very contagious. Travel advisories make sense, but the need for them inflates the perception that simply traveling south puts you at risk. No public health official wants to be responsible for even one horrible birth defect, but the perception of risk is far greater than the reality.

As with all health scares, we must do our best to counter worry with information and perspective. Fauci is reassuring when he tells me that we can win the worldwide battle with the mosquito, that Brazil has effectively curtailed the problem before, only to see the Aedes Aegypti mosquito (which carries Dengue as well as Zika) swarm back when public health measures – including using larvicides and insecticides and ridding public places of still water – go lax.

A more rational focus on the Zika virus can alert us to the need for greater focus on global health concerns. The Aedes Aegypti mosquito carries Dengue, Yellow Fever, Chikungunya and now Zika. It’s a massive killer of humans worldwide, and we need a coordinated campaign to wipe it out. Public health also needs far more financial support for vaccine research. Fauci tells me that NIH is accelerating work on a Zika vaccine, and he expects one to be commercially available in two to three years.

The sudden spread of Zika is concerning, but the fear of it is worse. To provide perspective to fight the fear we need to know more than just the numerator, the number of cases of microcephaly that can result. We need to know the denominator, the number of total cases, because the vast majority have no problem at all.


Source foxnews

US Admits that Russia would defeat NATO and the US in Less than 3 Days

In a dramatic turn of events, the US has admitted that the Russian military could floor NATO and the US in just under three (3) days should war break out in the in the Baltic region.

According to The RAND Corporation, which comprised of American military officers and civilian officials, made the projection Tuesday, in an analysis of NATO’s war games in Eastern Europe.

“The games’ findings are unambiguous: As currently postured, NATO cannot successfully defend the territory of its most exposed members,” the report read.

It said that during several war games conducted between 2014 and 2015, American forces and troops from Baltic States — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — proved unable to stop the advance of mechanized Russian units, suffering heavy casualties.

The scenario involved Russian forces knocking on the doors of the Estonian capital city of Tallinn or the Latvian capital of Riga within 36 to 60 hours.

“Such a rapid defeat would leave NATO with a limited number of options, all bad,” the report continued.

According to the analysis, the US-led alliance could attempt to mount a deadly counter-attack that would be met by a dramatic escalation by Russia, as Moscow deems the coordinated effort as a threat to its homeland.

The second option would be resorting to Cold War tactics where NATO would threaten Russia with a massive retaliation involving nuclear weapons.

A third option for NATO would be to admit a temporary defeat and appear toothless, while embarking on a new Cold War with Moscow.

However, RAND suggested that NATO could set pre-emptive measures in place by deploying about seven brigades in the area, including three heavy armored brigades backed up by air and artillery support, “to prevent the rapid overrun of the Baltic states.”

US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter unveiled plans on Tuesday to deploy more heavy weapons and armored vehicles to NATO’s eastern frontier.

He added that the new Pentagon budget aims to increase spending on Eastern Europe operations from about $800 million this year to $3.4 billion in 2017.

Edited from PressTv

Illuminati Framed Cosby And Paid Fake Rape Witnesses Here is Why?

                                      Ex-Illuminati member says Bill Cosby is under massive attack by the feared Illuminati. The vilest conceivable claims are being made against him. Who would want to operate under such a burden, especially a person in the public eye? The accusers are women who have worked with the Illuminati in the past and were paid to wildly state they are all victims of rape.

The spewers of this hate are all fabricators. Moreover, without exception they are suppose “victims” of Bill Cosby. Moreover, what extreme hate they are spewing, all under the guise of righteous indignation, all under the protection of the Illuminati who already control a large portion of the global media from the music industry to television.

It should be noted that Whoopi Goldberg has defended Mr. Cosby, asking for hard evidence of the claims. Few if any others have done so, upholding the false witnesses or at least showing sympathy, tolerating their claims. All these so called “victims are paid large amounts of money to make this wild and outrageous claims about Bill Cosby” say Ex-Illuminati member. Bu why? And why make this allegations now? Ex-Illuminati member tells says Bill Cosby, NBC’s biggest star of the 80’s, was trying to buy the television network from its current owner, the General Electric Company.

Norman Brokaw, the chief executive of the William Morris Agency and Mr. Cosby’s personal agent for 30 years, confirmed yesterday that he had discussed Mr. Cosby’s intention to make an offer for NBC with Robert C. Wright, the network’s president. Illuminati leader who control NBC would lose power of the television company if Bill Cosby purchased it the only way to stop the putchase was to ruin Bill Cosby and they started with fake rape allegations.

With no hard evidence the Illuminati had succeeded and destroyed Bill Cosby’s image. Only one woman has came forward a Wilhelmina Model and she admitted being paid to destroy Bill’s reputation.




Source: tmznewsonline