PRESIDENT BUHARI THANKS NIGERIANS FOR PRAYERS; SAYS NO CAUSE FOR WORRY

STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE

President Muhammadu Buhari thanks millions of Nigerians who have been sending good wishes and praying for his health and well-being in mosques and churches throughout the country.

The President is immensely grateful for the prayers, show of love and concern.

President Buhari wishes to reassure Nigerians that there is no cause for worry.


During his normal annual checkup, tests showed he needed a longer period of rest, necessitating the President staying longer than originally planned.


FEMI ADESINA
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)
February 21, 2017

Osinbajo Rejects N7b VP Residence, Says He Will Remain In Current Accommodation

The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Sunday said the Federal Government would at the appropriate time convert the new official residence being built for the Vice President to another use.

Osinbajo said this in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, amid continued criticism of the project which is expected to gulp over N7b.

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory, Dino Melaye, had disclosed recently that only the security post, also known as gateman’s house, in the building will gulp N250m.

This was revealed on Thursday by the ‎Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory.

But Akande said the decision to build the new residence and the controversial gatehouse preceded the present administration.

He said Osinbajo’s position had remained that his present official residence, Akinola Aguda House, is good enough for him.
He gave an indication that the 14 building in the residence which is already in about 85% completion stage would be used for another purpose.

The statement read, “For the umpteenth time, we like to clarify that the proposed plan of the immediate past administration to build a new official residence for the occupant of the Office of the Vice President, including the controversial gatehouse preceded this administration.

“The project which started in 2010, was initiated and funded by the immediate past administration, but had never featured in the two budget proposals of the Buhari administration: neither in the 2016 nor the 2017 spending plans.

“Any suggestion therefore that this project benefits our administration or that it reflects our spending style or preferences is not only misleading but blatantly false.

“Besides, the incumbent Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has said publicly that he considers Aguda House, which he currently occupies, a befitting official residence for the Vice President and sufficient for his needs.

“While the project is now about 85% complete, the Federal Government, in the circumstances, will decide at the appropriate time what is the best use for the 14 buildings already on the project site.”

Source: Sahara Reporters

"Bring back corruption" by Ademola H. Adigun

Iya Joe is a civil servant. Every time she sees Buhari on TV she gets angry. Buhari is responsible for all her problems. The man is the ...devil.

Iya Joe earns N250k monthly as an Assistant Director. She is long separated from her useless husband. She has 2 Children in Bowen. The last two attend a private secondary school. She has a house in Kubuwa. She was building one in the village. She has another two in her sisters name in various property schemes in Abuja.

Before PMB's emergence, she estimates that she spent annually about N25m. Money flowed. There were a lot of leakages. She had paid her dues as a civil servant. It was her time to eat. And eat she did.

The word TSA gives her shivers. She gets annoyed when that word is bandied around. The death of PMB would give her much pleasure. Every time she imagines the enemy, she sees PMB.

She knows that the leakages are proceeds of corruption. In her mind she is not corrupt. What is corruption? Is registering a company and mopping excess funds with that company corruption? Is taking "thank you" corruption? What about political office holders?

She does not care that before TSA that government only realised 35% of revenue. That illegal retention by MDAs was up to 80%.

She loves GEJ. What good man he was. That he built no roads, that he built no infrastructure, that his government on comparative basis earned what in 4 years what Nigeria had earned in 16 years before: that is not her business. She prospered.

She used to buy the shank from Baba Ireti. Now she was lucky to visit Baba Ireti once a week. Her freezers were now empty. She had to mop up to pay fees at Bowen the last time.

She was not the only one. Musa was complaining. Her tailor Safiya was complaining. Baba Ireti was complaining. Her patronage of their wares had lowered. In fact Kelechi her mechanic called to "greet"her.

Buhari had brought this upon them. He should do quick and die. When he did, she would know there was a God. This felt like 1984 again. And that useless Kemi and her efficiency unit, that one would soon learn the power of public servants.

There was a knock on her door. It was her Pastor. The man now visited her. She had not paid her "normal tithes" in a long time. The Devil Buhari was even causing her to offend God.

Bring back corruption. That is her song. Who cares that the economic growth was not real or creating value but false wealth? Who cared?

Copyright: ADEMOLA H. ADIGUN

#FuelSubsidyRemoval: Labour Union Ends Strike........

The Ayuba Wabba faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress has suspended an industrial action called to resist the new price of petrol.

The leader of the union announced the suspension on Sunday.

It came after an emergency meeting of its organs – the National Working Committee and the National Executive Committee.

At the meeting, talks were focused on the strike and the way forward.

Mr Wabba said the strike was suspended due to the intervention of well-meaning Nigerians including the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Bola Tinubu.

In a statement issued after the meeting, Comrade Wabba said the industrial action was informed by the twin issues of the unjustified and illegal hike in electricity tariff and increase in the pump price of petrol.

The Congress also announced plans to resume negotiations with the Federal Government, with a view to resolving the issues that prompted the strike.

The NLC President added that the Congress would continue to resist wrong legislations, policies and programmes that would impact negatively on the lives of ordinary Nigerians.

Pump price of petrol was increase from 86.50 Naira to 145 Naira by the Federal Government on May 11.

The 67.6 per cent increase had angered the labour union, with the union saying it was insensitive.

Source: ChannelsTV

Integrity Not Enough To Run Nigeria – Tunde Bakare

Pastor Tunde Bakare

The former running mate of President Muhammadu Buhari in the general election won by former President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr Tunde Bakare, says institutional reforms and constitutional amendments are required if Nigeria must overcome its systemic national challenges.

The Convener of the Save Nigeria Group and Pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly proffered these solutions as part of the road-map to a new Nigeria.

He was speaking at a public policy forum in Lagos to provide solutions to the present challenges facing Nigeria.

Mr Bakare believes Nigeria’s problems are not a product of the global economic cycles, but the consequence of counterproductive national standards and self-limiting frameworks.

He stressed that three factors contribute to political stability which include the type of constitution, the form of government and the caliber as well as character of the political leaders in and outside of government.

“Integrity is not enough to run a nation, Nigeria must be born again,” he said.

Constitutional Rebirth

The clergyman said that the solution to the present challenges was setting up a Presidential Commission for National Reconciliation, Reintegration and Restructuring that would adopt a new constitution.

“This commission should be mandated to work closely with the stakeholders and power-plugs, as well as legislative houses to create a new national identity for the Nigerian people and facilitate the creation of an acceptable functional governmental structure for Nigeria,” he said.

Pastor Bakare called for a process of constitutional rebirth that would culminate in a referendum by which Nigerians adopt a new constitution.

Source: ChannelsTV News

Yeye Baff Us By Pius Adesanmi

If the knuckleheads bombing and sabotaging Nigeria's infrastructure in the creeks had remembered what I wrote about elite understanding of "progress and development" in Nigeria's power sector, they would would not have resorted to crime against the Nigerian people and the Nigerian state to "avenge" darkness imposed on them by 8 years of Obasanjo.

The darkness was sustained and amplified for 8 years by their own son, Goodluck Jonathan, whose own mother relied on the benevolence of others for a borehole after her son left office. They are still supporting him despite daily evidence of the financial genocide he wrecked on Nigeria. The least we say about those still campaigning for a future Nigeria in the hands of Diezani, Dasuki, Badeh, Obanikoro, Fani Kayode, and Tompolo, the better.

Just as Jonathan stole billions but did not provide potable water for even his own mother, Olusegun Obasanjo stole and stole and stole until stealing had to appeal to him for amnesty. Yet, he has no road to his own house in Ota. Jonathan has first world infrastructure in his compound in Otuoke. Obasanjo has first world infrastructure in his compound in Ota. Obasanjo stole all the money meant for power under him. Ditto Jonathan. You stupid Creek terrorists, does your bombing affect the first world lives they both live right there in Nigeria under your poverty stricken noses? Yeye baff una!

What links Obasanjo to Jonathan to Buhari is the idea of progress in Aso Rock. Under Obasanjo, the generators powering Aso Rock were not soundproof. By the time Ogbeni Goodluck Jonathan got there, we were in the era of noiseless soundproof Mikano generators and that is how he and Dasuki and Diezani enjoyed 8 years of uninterrupted electricity in the Villa. The light did not blink once to interfere with their daily shipment of dollars in raw cash.

I tell you, the only improvement the villa can make to her Mikano generators under Buhari is to ask the Japanese to invent newer ones that can be suspended in the clouds so that Aso Villa will be powered by generators that are not only silent but also invisible. It doesn't matter their ethnic, religious, or political differences: this is how the Nigerian elite basically defines progress in the power sector. More silent, less visible, less intrusive Mikano generators in the Villa, in Government House, in their homes.

Then you brainless retards calling yourselves a freedom movement in the creek go about bombing infrastructure. Oho, it will affect Buhari's electricity supply in the Villa? Is that not why the utterly insipid and intellectually impecunious Femi Adesina brazenly told the Nigerian people to go and catch you folks vandalizing infrastructure in the creeks? What is his own with una when he and his Oga exist in Mikano's nirvana 24/7?

I am of course not surprised that nobody is bothering to ask Baba and Femi Adesina for any reaction to the Creek bombing. Maybe they have eve reacted. I don't know. I did not bother to check in with them for a simple reason: whether they react or not is of no moment for their reaction has been deligitimized beforehand by the irresponsible manner in which they handled the terrorism of the Fulani herdsmen until they were literally dragged kicking and screaming to react.

Self-delegitimization in the arena of perception is the worst form of violence a government can inflict on herself. The moment a government allows the perception to spread that she operates from the perspective of an Orwellian ranking of crimes, where some criminals are more equal than others and some crimes of terrorism are more deserving of the government's heavy hand than others, she loses the capacity to fulfill her fundamental obligation to fight crime for her actions will always appear biased to one segment or the other.

The Buhari administration has extremely serious work to do to reclaim lost ground and lost confidence in this domain. Anybody telling them otherwise or defending them for losing the ground in the first place does not mean well for them. The administration has shown itself as effective as the one before her in the assemblage of pin-headed supporters who privilege fetish loyalty to a man above the fundamental and transcendental obligation of loyalty to Nigeria.

Let' have a society where crime is crime. Let's have a society where the punishment fits the crime irrespective of the ethnic, religious, and political provenance of the criminal. If we cannot agree on this minimum, well, yeye baff us before the world.

GOD IS NOT DONE WITH YOU YET ......BY AYOBAMI OYALOWO

Ayobami Oyalowo

I felt God impressing it upon me to share this with you, I don't know what your situation is but I know that God isn't through with you yet. Read and be blessed.

Romans 8:28

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

I went to bed late and in my usual manner, I made sure to read two chapters of the book I am currently reading and when I was done, I was as tired as I could be, but God impressed it upon my heart to read my bible before I could call it a night. Time was around 1.30 am. I therefore took my bible and opened without knowing where to read but a still small voice asked me to read the first chapter of Matthew. I laughed within me thinking what would I benefit from reading this one beget that one blablabla but God is indeed mighty, I learnt a most amazing lesson in a long while.

Have they told you that you are useless and cannot amount to anything in life? Who has drawn a line and said you can’t go beyond a certain point in life? Who has set a limit for your life that you cannot exceed? The quoted scripture above is as clear as the noon day, it says ALL THINGS work together for good to them who love God and ARE THE CALLED according to God’s purpose. Wow! Amazing!

Even the things we count as sins, errors and weaknesses, shortcomings and failings are all working to help us achieve God’s purpose for our lives. You doubt me, let’s see what God taught me over the course of a rapturous 2hours last night/this morning (Saturday 7th of May, 2016).

Matthew 1: 1-7 (The Living Bible translation)

1 These are the ancestors of Jesus Christ, a descendant of King David and of Abraham:

2 Abraham was the father of Isaac; Isaac was the father of Jacob; Jacob was the father of Judah and his brothers.

3 Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah (Tamar was their mother); Perez was the father of Hezron; Hezron was the father of Aram;

4 Aram was the father of Amminadab; Amminadab was the father of Nahshon; Nahshon was the father of Salmon;

5 Salmon was the father of Boaz (Rahab was his mother); Boaz was the father of Obed (Ruth was his mother); Obed was the father of Jesse;

6 Jesse was the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon (his mother was the widow of Uriah);

7 Solomon was the father of Rehoboam; Rehoboam was the father of Abijah; Abijah was the father of Asa;
This was the verse God made me read and I saw nothing in it, just like you may not have seen especially if you read from the KJV until the Holy Spirit started to espouse to me the mind of God.

In Genesis 38 you can please read the entire chapter for the story of the life of Judah. You may recall that Reuben was the first born but when Jacob (also named Israel) was blessing his children and prophesying what will happen to his descendants in Genesis 49 from the first verse, the blessing of the firstborn was denied Reuben for sleeping with his father’s concubine. Simeon and Levi were also denied because of their violent nature, therefore Judah got the blessings of the firstborn. In Genesis 49: 9-10 we read:

Judah is a lion’s whelp:
from the prey, my son, thou art gone up:
he stooped down, he couched as a lion,
and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah,
nor a lawgiver from between his feet,
until Shiloh come;
and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

Mark the “the scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a law giver between his feet until Shiloh come”. Judah will be the fulfillment of God’s promises on Israel, he will produce the king and Shiloh, i.e. The Christ shall come from his lineage.

Now that we’ve established that, let’s turn to Judah as seen in Genesis 38. Judah married a Canaanite and she gave him three sons, Er, Onan and Shelah. Er got married to Tamar but was wicked in the sight of God so God took him away. Their tradition is that his brother would marry Tamar and the first seed would be Er’s son, inheriting his name and all that is his. Onan was made to take up that responsibility but he refused. You can read the entire story in Genesis 38. Onan also died and Judah was afraid for his last son.

Guess what? By a twist of faith, Judah eventually slept with his daughter in law and she gave him a set of twins namely Pharez or Perez and Zarah.

Now let’s us go back to Matthew chapter 1 in verse 3 guess who made the genealogy of David and eventually that of Jesus Christ? It was Perez, the son born out of adultery by Tamar. But God wasn’t done with me yet…

After the debacle that was Pharez or Perez see what we now have; Perez fathered Hezron who in turn was the father of Aram; Aram was the father of Amminadab; Amminadab was the father of Nahshon; Nahshon was the father of Salmon; Salmon was the father of Boaz (Rahab was his mother).

Do you remember Rahab? She was the harlot who saved the two spies that Joshua the son of Nun sent to spy out Jericho and when Jericho was finally destroyed in Joshua chapter 6, we saw in verse 12 that Joshua gave express command that she and her father’s household be saved. And in verse 25 she was saved. But guess what? She became an Israelite by marriage. She married a greater grandson of Judah, Salmon and became the mother of Boaz who also married another outcast called Ruth through whom eventually our Lord and Savious Jesus Christ was born.

So who has told you that you are useless? Who says your sins are such that you cannot make it? Two harlots and one outcast, all of them Gentiles and foreigners were mothers to men who eventually birthed King David.

Now to David. Of all the wives he had, God decided to continue the genealogy of his only begotten son through another woman the world would call despicable but who found grace in the sight of God. The wife of Uriah! We all know the story of the adultery, conspiracy and everything that dogged her path? She was so despicable she had no name in the bible except being called the wife of Uriah yet the Lord had mercy on her and after the initial child of sin died, Solomon was born through her and she was ingratiated into genealogy of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Romans 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

God asked me to tell you that nobody can condemn whosoever he has decided to bless and forgive. And yes, you. God has forgiven and love you and no man can call you an outcast.

No matter the low pit you find yourself today, look unto the rock. Isaiah 51:1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

That Rock is Jesus Christ look unto him. For in Hebrew 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

No matter how bad you think your situation currently is or how low you are, how despicable the world describes you, come unto him for he is able to save you…

If God saved those four women that the world has condemned and they found grace to be ingratiated into the greatest genealogy ever, then you have a hope. You are not finished, God is working in you and when you are done you will be bright as gold.

Fear not, the Lord is not done with you yet…

Ayobami Oyalowo is on twitter as @Ayourb