Realizing the difficulties of identifying the Boko Haram members from
the populace, local vigilante and youths have mobilized themselves to
identify with the smooth operation by establishing what is now known
as the ‘Civilian JTF’
Author: Reuben Abati
Speaking on the product, the Managing Director of FBN Life, Valentine Ojumah, stated that it was designed to make a difference not to the rich, but to the majority of low-income earners in the society who suffer from the effects of non-indemnity in the event of death or permanent disability of a bread winner
UNHCR’s annual Global Trends report covers displacement that occurred during 2012 based on data from governments, NGO partners, and UNHCR itself. The report shows that as of the end of 2012, more than 45.2 million people were in situations of displacement compared to 42.5 million at the end of 2011. This includes 15.4 million refugees, 937,000 asylum seekers and 28.8 million people forced to flee within the borders of their own countries
The peaceful protest, which attracted scores of residents, hindered human and vehicular movement on the busy Molete Road
The statement reads in full: “The Presidency totally rejects the false, hypocritical and self-serving claim by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu at a lecture in Kaduna on Saturday that Nigeria under President Goodluck Jonathan is a “sinking ship” in which the yearnings of the masses are being neglected by a tyrannical leadership
The main part of the campaign is the claim that the minister is pursuing an Igbo agenda because she has appointed many Igbos as heads of agencies under her ministry. To support this false thesis, they cite as examples the following South Easterners in such positions: Mustapha Chike Obi- DG AMCON; Arunma Oteh- DG, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); Abraham Nwankwo- DG, Debt Management Office and Osita Onyema- DG Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE)
But the opposite seems to be the case, especially with the current administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, in which several instances of press antagonism from the armed security operatives have assumed frightening dimension
It is dangerous to have such a navel-gazing, narcissistic group inflict themselves with so much ferocity on an otherwise impressionable public. We are in reality dealing with a bunch of hypocrites
I should like to dispel the putrefacious stench of the fart that seems to have overtaken the subject by returning all of us to certain basics that have not changed since President Goodluck Jonathan approved the setting up of committees to inquire into different aspects of the petroleum sector and particularly since the reports were presented and accepted