Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Wizkid's girlfriend caught in the act
Beta pikin crooner,Harry song shared this picture of himself and beautiful Tania doing justice to amala.She couldn't hide the enjoyment as seen from her smile.
APC members feeling Soft
During the meeting of the APC presidential campaign council at the
party’s campaign headquarters in Abuja, on Monday, January 26, it was
all smiles and back-slapping among the leaders of the opposition party.
Present at the meeting, was the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari, former Vice president, Atiku Abubakar, National leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Rivers state governor, Rotimi Amaechi, among others.
The purpose of the meeting, is believed to be centered around building a blueprint for the party’s final strategy as the general election is merely days away.
Present at the meeting, was the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari, former Vice president, Atiku Abubakar, National leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Rivers state governor, Rotimi Amaechi, among others.
The purpose of the meeting, is believed to be centered around building a blueprint for the party’s final strategy as the general election is merely days away.
Family killed on golf estate in Stellenbosch,South Africa
Cape Town - Three family members have been killed in their home on a
private golf estate in Stellenbosch on Tuesday morning, Western Cape
police said.
It is believed the father, 55, mother, 54, and
22-year-old son were attacked in their home in the De Zalze Golf Estate
in the early hours of the morning, Lieutenant Colonel Andre Traut said.
News24
spoke to Lieutenant Colonel Traut who confirmed two siblings, a
daughter of 16 and a son of 20, were injured and admitted to a nearby
hospital.
The injured daughter has since been taken to Stellenbosch Mediclinic, and is in a critical condition, Eikestadnuus reported on Tuesday. She will later be transported to Vergelegen Mediclinic in Somerset West.
Lieutenant Colonel Traut, though, would not disclose how the family was killed, or a possible motive for the murders.
"We are not speculating at this stage. The forensic guys are still on the scene," he said.
No arrests had been made.
SAD:Former Super Eagles coach Musa Abdullahi passes on
Former Assistant coach of the Super Eagles, Musa Abdullahi died on
Sunday January 25 after years of battling from stroke. He died in his
home state of Kogi.
Abdullahi assisted Coach Fanny Amun to lead Nigeria to
a second FIFA Under-17 World Cup title in Japan in 1993. He also
coached the Nigerian under 17 and 20 teams. May his soul rest in peace,
Amen.
Resist postponement of polls, Emerhor urges Nigerians
As the February 2015 general elections draw closer , the Delta
State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Olorogun
O’tega Emerhor, has given Deltans reasons why they should kick out the
People Democratic Party (PDP).
According to him, the ruling party has failed the people for the past
16 years, adding that virtually all aspects of the economy has been
destroyed by PDP, while reminding his supporters that February 28 is a
very important date in the history of political electioneering in Delta
State.
The APC governorship candidate said, “For 16 years PDP led government
in Delta State has suffered us. There is no food on our table. There
are no jobs for our children. They have been telling us stories all
these years. All the promises they have been making are in the
pipelines.
Our youths decided to cut the pipelines, but they did not see any
promises. They later started fighting our youths. Is it not the promise
they said is in the pipelines that the youths wanted to collect?”
He faulted the amnesty programme of the Federal Government, saying it
only favoured the Ijaw people in the Niger Delta, pointing out that
President Jonathan’s administration under the PDP has not brought any
development to South-South where he claimed to have come from.
Emerhor who is also the vice chairman of Standard Assurance Group,
noted that PDP failed the nation when it refused to provide jobs for the
youths in the country, attributing the high rate of insecurity to the
high rate of unemployment in the country.
According to him, “There are no jobs for our youth that is why there
is so much trouble in the country. Our children must have something to
do. PDP government has suffered us for the past 16 years. They have
also threatened to suffer us for the next one hundred years. Is that not
what they said? But God will not allow them to succeed.”
Emerhor revealed that the opposition political party is making plans
to postpone the elections because they have found out that they will
lose if the election holds in February, emphasizing that PDP cannot stop
or postpone the election.
He said: “God has opened the red sea and they are about to drown. So
they are now asking that the elections should be postponed. But we will
not accept their ill-motivated agenda because we are fully prepared for
this elections. We have only 20 days for a new government under General
Buhari to take over. Now they are afraid of the elections. But we must
conduct the election.”
Continuing, Emerhor said that Delta State people are clamoring for
change because PDP has failed the people in the state. He stressed that
Deltans are mobilizing for him to win the gubernatorial elections
because he has the interest of the state at heart.
According to the APC governorship candidate, “For the past 16 years
PDP has been selling the same idea over and over again. They do not have
new ideas. All of them are from the same establishment. They do not
have anything to offer you anymore.”.
Olorogun Emerhor noted that he is going to come up with new business
ideas because of his solid background in the revival of ailing and
moribund companies and establishments for over three decades.
He said: “I am coming from the business background. I have built
businesses, evidence of which you will find in Lagos. I will ensure that
government will be a public-private participation. I will ensure that
in my first one hundred days in office I will inject one billion Naira
into private sector. We will use it to support and empower our youths
and women.”
Chief Ede Dafinone, Chief Frank Kokori, Hon. Cyril Ogodo, Halim Agoda
and others who spoke at the rally called on the people of Okpe to vote
for all APC candidates.
Boko Haram:US halts Isreali Aid to Nigeria,blocks purchase of military helicopters from Isreal
Twenty Four hours after US Secretary of State, John Kerry met
President Goodluck Jonathan and former Head of State, General Muhammadu
Buhari, pledging his country’s determination to work with Nigeria and
other countries to end activities of the Boko Haram terrorists, the
Israeli media, yesterday, revealed that the US stopped Nigeria’s
purchase of Chinook military helicopters from Israel to fight Boko
Haram.
The sale/transfer of such aircraft required a review by the US, to determine its “consistency with US policy interests,” Obama administration officials told The Jerusalem Post.
It quoted White House Assistant Press Secretary and Director for Strategic Communications, Ned Price, as saying that reviews of such kind take place in the case of “any requests for one country to transfer US-origin defence items to another country.”
Nigeria’s largest arms purchase ever reported was from Israel in 2007, in a deal with Aeronautics Systems worth $260 million. That company is Israeli, however, not American.
A single Chinook costs roughly $40 million to produce.
Vanguard had reported the Nigerian military in the past as saying that the country also resorted to training its security personnel on terrorist encounters in Russia and China because of the refusal of the US administration to sell arms to the government following “unfounded allegations of human rights violations by our troops,” among others.
However, the reports quoted unnamed Nigerian officials as also saying that the US blocked the order “after the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had initially approved the purchase.”
Policy directives
US officials told The Jerusalem Post that such transfers must be consistent with a policy directive revised by President Barack Obama in January, which outlines the criteria for conventional weapons sales.
The policy requires US transfers, including Boeing aircraft, to take into account “the risk that significant change in the political or security situation of the recipient country could lead to inappropriate end-use” of the weapons.
While the Nigerian report suggests Abuja sought the purchase of Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopters, Israel predominantly uses Sikorsky CH-53 aircraft for missions involving heavy-lift transport. Both Boeing and Sikorsky are American companies.
Israeli laws concerning the export of arms is less restrictive than those in the United States. Israel, however, is a member of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms and, in 2009, reported to the body that Israel, in practice, refrains from transfers “where there is imminent risk that arms might be internally diverted, illegally proliferated and re-transferred, or fall into the hands of terrorists or entities and states that support or sponsor them.”
Sixteen nations operate the Chinook helicopter, none of which are in sub-Saharan Africa.
Nigerian officials were reported as saying that “we had even tried to procure arms from Russia but this was stalled because of the Ukrainian crisis, thus compelling us to turn to other nations like Israel. But even this has been frustrated by the US.”
They further said it was not just in the area of arms procurement that US has been most unhelpful, adding that contrary to its public stance that it was assisting in the rescue operations of the abducted Chibok secondary school girls, it has done nothing significant to help Nigeria in this regard.
Other intelligence sources also cited the fact that the US has refused to share intelligence with Nigerian security forces in a timely manner.
They said: “When we complained, they started sharing some intelligence, but days after such intelligence is of little value”.
Boko Haram gained notoriety around the world after its militants kidnapped 276 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State in April last year. The US sent military personnel to assist in finding the girls.
Amnesty connection
In August, Amnesty International said it had gathered video footage, images and testimonies that “implicates the Nigerian military in war crimes” which the Nigerian government vehemently denied.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said in Nigeria recently that the United States remains committed to helping the government combat Boko Haram.
“We are engaging with the Nigerian government at all levels to identify areas of counter-terrorism cooperation,” other state officials earlier said.
This was contrary to what the US ambassador to Nigeria James Entwistle told reporters last October while speaking on the refusal by his country to sell high calibre weapons to Nigeria. Entwistle told reporters that “the kind of question that we have to ask is, let’s say we give certain kinds of equipment to the Nigerian military and that is then used in a way that affects the human situation, if I approve that, I’m responsible for that. We take that responsibility very seriously.”
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/boko-haram-us-halts-israeli-aid-nigeria/
The sale/transfer of such aircraft required a review by the US, to determine its “consistency with US policy interests,” Obama administration officials told The Jerusalem Post.
It quoted White House Assistant Press Secretary and Director for Strategic Communications, Ned Price, as saying that reviews of such kind take place in the case of “any requests for one country to transfer US-origin defence items to another country.”
Nigeria’s largest arms purchase ever reported was from Israel in 2007, in a deal with Aeronautics Systems worth $260 million. That company is Israeli, however, not American.
A single Chinook costs roughly $40 million to produce.
Vanguard had reported the Nigerian military in the past as saying that the country also resorted to training its security personnel on terrorist encounters in Russia and China because of the refusal of the US administration to sell arms to the government following “unfounded allegations of human rights violations by our troops,” among others.
However, the reports quoted unnamed Nigerian officials as also saying that the US blocked the order “after the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had initially approved the purchase.”
Policy directives
US officials told The Jerusalem Post that such transfers must be consistent with a policy directive revised by President Barack Obama in January, which outlines the criteria for conventional weapons sales.
The policy requires US transfers, including Boeing aircraft, to take into account “the risk that significant change in the political or security situation of the recipient country could lead to inappropriate end-use” of the weapons.
While the Nigerian report suggests Abuja sought the purchase of Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopters, Israel predominantly uses Sikorsky CH-53 aircraft for missions involving heavy-lift transport. Both Boeing and Sikorsky are American companies.
Israeli laws concerning the export of arms is less restrictive than those in the United States. Israel, however, is a member of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms and, in 2009, reported to the body that Israel, in practice, refrains from transfers “where there is imminent risk that arms might be internally diverted, illegally proliferated and re-transferred, or fall into the hands of terrorists or entities and states that support or sponsor them.”
Sixteen nations operate the Chinook helicopter, none of which are in sub-Saharan Africa.
Nigerian officials were reported as saying that “we had even tried to procure arms from Russia but this was stalled because of the Ukrainian crisis, thus compelling us to turn to other nations like Israel. But even this has been frustrated by the US.”
They further said it was not just in the area of arms procurement that US has been most unhelpful, adding that contrary to its public stance that it was assisting in the rescue operations of the abducted Chibok secondary school girls, it has done nothing significant to help Nigeria in this regard.
Other intelligence sources also cited the fact that the US has refused to share intelligence with Nigerian security forces in a timely manner.
They said: “When we complained, they started sharing some intelligence, but days after such intelligence is of little value”.
Boko Haram gained notoriety around the world after its militants kidnapped 276 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State in April last year. The US sent military personnel to assist in finding the girls.
Amnesty connection
In August, Amnesty International said it had gathered video footage, images and testimonies that “implicates the Nigerian military in war crimes” which the Nigerian government vehemently denied.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said in Nigeria recently that the United States remains committed to helping the government combat Boko Haram.
“We are engaging with the Nigerian government at all levels to identify areas of counter-terrorism cooperation,” other state officials earlier said.
This was contrary to what the US ambassador to Nigeria James Entwistle told reporters last October while speaking on the refusal by his country to sell high calibre weapons to Nigeria. Entwistle told reporters that “the kind of question that we have to ask is, let’s say we give certain kinds of equipment to the Nigerian military and that is then used in a way that affects the human situation, if I approve that, I’m responsible for that. We take that responsibility very seriously.”
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/boko-haram-us-halts-israeli-aid-nigeria/
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