STUDENT OF THE STATES INSTITUTION PROTESTING THERE INDEFINITE STRIKE

The student of all the state owned institutions  on the March to the state governor's  office in person of OGBENI  RAUF AREGBESOLA to show there displaces about the ongoing indefinite strike at all the state own Institution. 

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See face of fake Army General who sponsors Boko Haram

Another suspected Boko Haram sponsor, Aliyu Hussaini, who has also been parading himself as a military brigadier general has been arrested.
The Nigerian Army in a statement on Tuesday said that Hussaini was arrested by soldiers of the 33rd Artillery Brigade in Bauchi State during a raid.
The fake Army General, Aliyu Hussaini
The statement read, “The 33 Artillery Brigade, Nigerian Army, has recorded another landmark success in the ongoing Operation Zaman Lafiyah as troops of the brigade recently arrested one Aliyu Hussaini, popularly known as Colonel, a suspected Boko Haram terrorist and an Impostor who has been parading himself as a Brigadier-General in the Nigerian Army.
“The troops, who were acting on a tip-off, said Aliyu Hussaini was a sponsor and also a member of the Boko Haram terrorist organisation. (They) carried out a raid operation, which led to the successful arrest of Aliyu and another suspected Boko Haram member, one Ibrahim Mohammed, who is also known as Yuram.
“It was later gathered that Aliyu had been defrauding innocent citizens (with the claim) that he was a general in the Nigerian Army.”
The military had earlier today announced the arrest a financier of the terror group in Bama, Borno State. It was reported that the sum of one million naira and other items were found on the suspect.

MEET THE NAME IN #THELIST AS IT IS BEEN FINALLY UNVEILED

President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki finally unveiled the names of the Ministerial nominees submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari.
They include;
1. Dr. Chris Ngige Fmr. Governor of Anambra State
2. Dr. Kayode Fayemi Fmr. Governor of Ekiti State
3. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi Fmr. Governor of Rivers State
4. Mr. Babatunde Fashola, SAN Fmr. Governor of Lagos State
5. Gen. Abdurrahman Dambazau (Rtd.) Fmr. Chief of Defence Staff
6. Hajiya Aisha Alhassan Fmr. Federal Lawmakers and Governorship Candidate
7. Dr. Ogbonaya Onu Fmr. Governor of Abia State and Fmr. National Chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (which is part of the ruling All Progressive Congress)
8. Mrs. Kemi Adeosun Fmr. Commissioner for Finance in Ogun State (South West Nigeria)
9. Alh. Abubakar Malami A Senior Advocate of Nigeria
10. Dr. Emmanuel Kachikwu Group Managing Director, NNPC
11. Chief Audu Ogbeh Fmr. Minister of Agricultural and Fmr. National Chairman of PDP
12. Sen. Hadi Sidika Fmr. Federal Lawmaker
13. Ibrahim Usman Jibril
14. Udoma Udoh Udoma Fmr. Federal Lawmaker
15. Ahmen Musa
16. Alh. Lai Mohammed Nat. Publicity Secretary of APC
17. Suleiman Adamu
18. Chief Adebayo Shittu
19. Barr. Solomon Dalong A Legal Practitioner
20. Missus Amina Ibrahim - Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Post-2015 Development Planning.

Ministerial List: What Buhari Did That Shocked Tinubu, Osinbajo

Geopolitical zones lobby for ‘juicy’ portfolios
A cold war is brewing among top leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the ministerial list released last Wednesday by President Muhammadu Buhari, New Telegraph gathered at the weekend. Sources said some party leaders, especially Vice- President Yemi Osinbajo and former Lagos State Governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, were upset that the list did not contain the names of their nominees. It was learnt that the ministerial list, comprising 21 names, did not feature any of the nominees compiled by Tinubu for the South-West, which is regarded as his major sphere of influence.
Even in Lagos State, which is Tinubu’s exclusive preserve, he did not have the final say on who will represent the state in the cabinet. Rather than pick any of his nominees for the cabinet, Buhari did it alone and even selected Tinubu’s estranged godsons such as former Governors Babatunde Fashola (Lagos) and Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti). Osinbajo, a protégé of Tinubu, also failed to get Lagos-based lawyer and human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), on the list. Falana, from Ekiti State, was being tipped to emerge as the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice.
Osinbajo was said to have made a case to the president four times to consider Falana, without securing any commitment from Buhari. Instead of Falana, the president opted for Fayemi, whom sources said was being positioned to head the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Osinbajo also rooted for Prof. Pat Utomi as a ministerial nominee for Delta State, but the president opted for the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Ibe Kachikwu. Kachikwu will serve as Minister of State for Petroleum since the president has said he would hold the portfolio of Minister of Petroleum Resources.
One of the sources said Tinubu, who had relocated to Abuja since Buhari came into power on May 29, hurriedly returned to Lagos last Thursday. “Asiwaju was disappointed with the ministerial list as none of his nominees made the Buhari’s cabinet. He felt used and dumped,” a senior party member told New Telegraph.
Tinubu invested his resources to prosecute the Buhari presidential election such that the president’s wife, Aisha, said the former governor drafted her to join the campaign train. But a source in the presidency said the president sent copies of the ministerial list he sent to Senate President Bukola Saraki to Tinubu and the APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun.
It was learnt that Tinubu received the ministerial list in company of his aides and political associates, including former Interim National Chairman of APC, Chief Bisi Akande. A source said Tinubu ran through the ministerial list and was so surprised that he did not utter a word.
“Tinubu just took the list and called Chief Akande into an inner room in his Abuja residence,” the source said. The discussion, it was learnt, centred on the ministerial list after which Akande called the president requesting for an audience. The president was said to have fixed a meeting for last Wednesday at 11p.m. New Telegraph learnt that at the meeting, Akande sought to know why the president rejected Tinubu and South-West leaders’ recommendations for the ministerial list. Buhari was said to have told Akande that since Tinubu produced the vicepresident, he has to allow other ‘tendencies’ in the South-West to have a share of the appointments meant for the region.
Buhari explained that since Fayemi lost his reelection in Ekiti, he has served the party in many capacities unlike Falana. Fayemi was the chairman of the APC National Convention in Lagos where Buhari emerged as the party’s presidential candidate and was the Director, Directorate of Policy and Strategy of the APC Presidential Campaign Council. On Fashola, the president said Tinubu’s successor was chairman of the presidential fundraising committee and he worked more for his campaign unlike Mr. Yemi Cardoso, a former Lagos State Commissioner that Tinubu had proposed. New Telegraph learnt that Buhari had earlier told Fashola and Fayemi to reconcile with Tinubu to ease their appointments. It was learnt that Fayemi, through the intervention of Akande, met Tinubu in Lagos to rebuild their relationship.A source said the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, intervened on behalf of the former governors to appease Tinubu.
The president also justified the choice of Mr. Adebayo Shittu as Oyo State ministerial nominee. He added that Shittu had been with him since his days in the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). Shittu, a 2007 CPC governorship candidate in Oyo State, is not on good terms with Governor Abiola Ajimobi. Buhari said he had to defer to Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, on the state’s nominee, because of their relationship since the days of the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP).
While Buhari was the ANPP’s presidential candidate in the 2007 general elections, Amosun was the gubernatorial candidate of the party in Ogun State. Former National Auditor of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode Mustapha, was the candidate of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. However, Buhari agreed to cede the Osun ministerial slot to Obasanjo’s candidate, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, a former governor of the state.
Besides the reasons adduced by the president for rejecting Tinubu’s ministerial nominees, a group of young elements close to the president worked against the APC leader. It was learnt that Governors Nasir el-Rufai (Kaduna) and Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto), former Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi and Pastor Tunde Bakare played crucial roles in the choice of the ministers.
It was learnt that the idea was to whittle down the political influence of Tinubu as El-Rufai’s group was said to have impressed it on the president the need to cut Tinubu to size before he takes over the government. But an associate of Tinubu said his camp was not surprised about recent developments. “We knew it was a conspiracy.
I can tell you El-Rufai and Tambuwal’s marriage is that of convenience because the two of them have presidential ambition. So, let’s see how it plays out,” the source said. Also speaking on the ministerial list, National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, stated that Tinubu had lost out in the Buhari’s government. Odumakin said: “When a man thinks he’s too smart, he will ultimately dribble himself. What has happened to Tinubu is that those he launched all kinds of war against have become the victors. He never knew that the attack he was launching against them was a way of actually helping those people.
“President Buhari who appointed Fashola, Fayemi and others doesn’t want people under Tinubu’s influence in his cabinet. Now, he can’t begin to claim them after they have been appointed despite his opposition.” Former Chairman, Presidential Advisory Council on National Conference, Senator Femi Okunroumu, also told New Telegraph that his prediction had come to pass that Tinubu would be humiliated by Buhari. “I am having a good laugh. This is what I expected. In any case, Tinubu is stretching his luck too far as he wants to dictate who will rule Nigeria. Tinubu’s wings need to be clipped.
With the ministerial list, Tinubu has been dumped. He should not just be dumped, he should be disgraced,” Okurounmu told New Telegraph. Afenifere chieftain, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, said he was not surprised with Buhari’s approach to governance. “I’m not disappointed at all. I warned before the election that Buhari would not change, although he said he is a converted democrat.
“APC is not a party; it is a gang of people whose sole aim was to remove Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as president. In a real party, you share the spoils of office before elections not after elections. This is what is happening in APC. We warned our people, but they failed to listen,” Adebanjo said.
New Telegraph also gathered at the weekend that ahead of tomorrow’s screening of the ministerial nominees, lobbying had begun among geopolitical zones to corner portfolios considered juicy for their kinsmen. Senate President Bukola Saraki is expected to read out the full list of 21 nominees who made the first batch of the federal cabinet tomorrow.
Besides Fayemi and Fashola, other ministerial nominees included Senator Chris Ngige, Amaechi, Lt-General Abdurrahman Dambazzau (rtd), Senator Aisha Al-Hassan, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, Mallam Abubakar Malami (SAN) and Senator Sirika Hadi.
A top party source confided in New Telegraph that although Buhari could not be directly approached by the nominees, their lobbyists commenced moves to engage the services of those they considered close to the president to make a case for them. It was gathered that the most sought after ministries are those of Justice, Works, Finance, Defence and Interior. For the Finance Ministry, while some powerful APC elements are already said to have argued that the portfolio had eluded the region for too long, APC leaders from the South-West are also making a case for one of their own to be the next Finance Minister. Same argument is being pushed in respect of the Agriculture Ministry.
For the Justice Ministry, Fashola and Malami are strong contenders, even as close confidants of the president, like Alhaji Ahmed Joda, are favourably disposed to Malami who once served as national legal adviser of the defunct CPC. For the Works Ministry, some APC elders were said to be rooting for Onu.
However, some Northerner leaders were said to be rooting for a nominee from the zone, whose name is to be in the second batch of the ministerial nominees to be sent to the Senate. The source said: ”I think lobby is part of politics; it is allowed like the would be ministers are said to be doing with the senators.
We like it because as a party, we have no intention to coerce the senators to give the nominees a blanket clearance. Let all prove their worth before the lawmakers. ”The only thing we find laughable is that aspect of going beyond that level to scheme for specifics in the planned cabinet.
”You know that people are naturally insatiable in their wants, especially when it comes to politics, nothing is seen to be enough until the last is given out. ”As a party, we all waited for this moment in anxiety and apprehension because no one knew before now, I think no one still knows what is contained there.
”But it is curious and unexpected that some persons are already lobbying to be made minister of this, minister for this, it is wrong because the thing is already generating interregional concerns among the party leadership. ”All we know is that President Buhari has picked his team.
They have to work as a team and not what any of them desire to hold as a portfolio. Only the president has the right to allocate offices and he should be given the chance to so do. ”For God’s sake, what do we want a juicy ministry for? Under the present arrangement, there is nothing like Grade A or B ministry. So, for those who have the chance of being nominated that are already lobbying for specific portfolios, they will be disappointed at the end of the day.”

2016 Budget’ll Diversify Nigeria’s Economy – PMB

President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated that the 2016 national budget is being fashioned in a manner that would accommodate fresh policies and measures to encourage rapid diversification of the Nigerian economy away from its current over-dependence on the oil and gas sector.
The president hinted this during a meeting with the president of the Movement of the Enterprises of France (MEDEF), Mr. Pierre Gattaz, and a delegation of French investors.
LEADERSHIP recalls that following Buhari’s visit to France last month, firms under MEDEF had offered to visit Nigeria between October 4 and 7, with a view to exploring its business climate for possible investment in the country.
The president had got this assurance at a meeting with French firms and investors who had converged at the Nigerian-France presidential business forum held at the headquarters of MEDEF in Paris three weeks ago.
Buhari’s visit to that country may have started yielding results, as the umbrella organization of French investors, made up of 800,000 French manufacturing firms and businesses, met with him behind closed doors at Aso Rock, Abuja, yesterday.
At the meeting, Buhari stated that policies being evolved by his administration to boost domestic manufacturing and attract greater investment in Nigeria’s agricultural and mining sectors would be given full effect under the 2016 budget.
The delegation of the French investors that met with President Buhari included over 50 companies with interest in manufacturing, agriculture, infrastructure development and other areas.
The president’s senior special assistant on media and publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, noted in a statement after the meeting that the president urged Gattaz and the French trade mission to return to Nigeria again next year in order to take full advantage of the new policies.
Buhari also assured the French investors that, under his leadership, Nigeria will not fall short of international standards in the protection of foreign investments and the repatriation of returns on such investments.
According to Shehu, the president admitted that domestic security and the inflow of foreign investment were intrinsically linked, and gave the assurance that his government was taking all necessary measures to overcome Nigeria’s security challenges.
The presidential aide quoted the president as saying, “Our government came into office at a time when many people had abandoned the country’s manufacturing, agricultural and mining sectors.
“We are doing our utmost best to encourage diversification into these sectors which can employ a lot of people and we will welcome your support in this regard. Ultimately, reducing unemployment will also help to improve security because unemployment and insecurity are inseparable.”
Buhari further said that Nigeria would also welcome more French investment in its power sector because the availability of steady power would lead to the reopening of closed factories and the creation of more jobs.
He also assured the delegation that his administration was tackling corruption with vigour to ensure greater probity in the management of national resources.
Earlier, MEDEF president, Gattaz, who spoke on behalf of the French investors, had sought assurances from President Buhari on the safety of their planned investments in Nigeria and the easing of bureaucratic bottlenecks.
He noted at the business forum that the organisation’s delegation that would embark on the trade mission to Nigeria next month would consist of prospective investors with varieties of interests in area like agriculture, mining, automobile, energy, skills development, light manufacturing, food processing, military and civilian transportation services and “business to consumer” products among many others.