In Gombe: Bomb Blast outside venue of Jonathan’s campaign rally

An explosion has reportedly occurred today, February 2, outside the venue of a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign rally in Gombe State.

The bomb is said to have exploded outside a stadium along Abubakar Habu Hashidu Road a few minutes after President Goodluck Jonathan left the scene.

The device was planted in a tricycle station about 200 meters from the stadium, according to Sahara Reporters.

Jonathan was earlier forced to cancel his campaign in Yobe State due to security concerns.

It is not yet known if there were any casualties from the latest incident.

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(PHOTOS)Muna Obiekwe’s Burial Arrangements Announced

Late Nollywood actor, Muna Obiekwe’s burial arrangements have been announced through the AGN President, Ibinabo Fiberesima.

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Candle Night: Sunday, February 1, 2015 Venue: Masha Roundabout, Surulere, Lagos Time: 4 PM Dress Code: White (Tshirts will also be made available at the venue)

Burial: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 Venue: Umudioka, Anambra State

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Warning to Nigeria's Presidential Candidates by Prophet Paul Okikijesu - Part 6

General Mohammadu Buhari: He must resist the pressure from different groups/people regarding the upcoming presidential election. The physical body of this man needs supervision. Why can’t he accept that it is only the power of God that can heal him?

He must pray for the spiritual hand of God to preserve and protect his life. Furthermore, he must also pray to Me so that I can give him liberty and healing in his physical body, says the Lord of hosts.

If it is Buhari that believes that I am alive and surrender his heart to Me, he will win the election. Nevertheless despite people’s mandate they will neither release power to him nor swear him in as the president of the nation.

His situation will be similar to Abiola that had people’s mandate, but was not given the chance to rule the country.

Upcoming Election: 1. If APC is not careful and increase their efforts in Lagos State, PDP will win the State.

2. If APC is slack in Ogun State PDP and SDP may take over the State.

3. In Oyo State, if APC did not become energized, PDP, Labour Part and Accord Party will dominate the State.

4. PDP is still firmly in control of Ondo State.

5. If care is not taken Labour party and PDP will snatch the rein of control in Kano State.

6. If the people of Kwara are not ready, APC will take the State.

7. If River State did not put in their best, PDP will win the State.

8. Also Edo people must be prepared or else PDP will take over the State - if Edo people only speak without appropriate actions, PDP will win the election.

February 2015: Before February 2nd 2015, some political parties will merge with PDP because they want Jonathan on the presidential seat.

All Progressives Congress (APC): APC will win many states in the gubernatorial election, but not the presidential seat at this time.

President Jonathan: If he believes fully that all power belongs to Me and nobody has power except God then he will win the presidential election, but within six months after the election he will be ambushed.

Jonathan will only rule for one year after his swearing-in-ceremony because people will poison him whereby he will be sick and die on the throne/seat. If they did not succeed, then there will be physical confrontation to terminate his life and these are the reasons why he has to surrender his life and heart totally to Me says the Lord.

If he refuses to take steps to implement My directives, the event that will happen will be beyond his comprehension. If the above incident happens due to Jonathan’s refusal, and an early presidential election is conducted before Jonathan’s second tenure expire due to his demise or incapability then APC can win the presidential seat.

Jonathan and Buhari: If these two men refuse to change, if they did not make Me their Alpha and Omega, both of them will contend/contest the presidential seat, but they will not be sworn-in.

I send this message to these men so as to be filled with My fear and fear Me in all their ways; Moreover, for them to realize that all power belongs to only God and not men, says the Lord of hosts.

Female Politicians: Women are still coming to powerful positions in the government of Nigeria.

The Word of the Lord was received on Thursday, January 26th, 2015

For more prophecies go to CAMM website and click by date received.

http://www.christapostolicmiracleministry.org/ God bless! Prophet Frank Akanbi On behalf of Prophet Apostle Paul Okikijesu. Contact phone numbers: Phones in Nigeria: +234-8023290525, +234-8037008769, +234-8053548304 Phone in USA: + 1 401-365-0204

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Danger to February 14 Election: NSA compounds INEC’s woes

Facts emerged, yesterday, suggesting that Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was grappling with problems which may have compelled it to postpone the February 14, 2015, presidential election, had the National Security Adviser, NSA, Colonel Sambo Dasuki, not publicly called on the electoral body to consider the option of postponement.

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Sunday Vanguard was made to understand in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, that the INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, had summoned an emergency meeting of Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, penultimate week, to review the Commission’s preparedness for the election, as well as look into areas requiring urgent attention.

Conscious of legal latitude, INEC was said to have called an emergency meeting to review its operations on Monday, January 26, 2015, with the notice sent out a week earlier, based on the executive assessment of readiness for the election by its Board. The assessment by INEC’s Board had identified some challenges with meeting deadlines and was going to share it with the wider body of policy implementers who also had their concerns based on their field assessment on the level of preparedness. Given this background, all the Commission’s stakeholders were shocked to hear the NSA make reference to possible postponement without consulting with the electoral body.

And whereas an INEC insider disclosed to Sunday Vanguard that “but for the statement of the NSA which they claimed gave a colouration of politics to the issue, INEC was possibly going to make its own independent adjustment to the time-table, to avert a repeat of the postponement of election after already deploying personnel and materials as was the case in 2011 when there was a shift from 2 April till Thursday the 4th and again shifted to the 9th of April – that postponement was necessitated by the failure of contractors to meet supply schedules”, another source within the Commission made Sunday Vanguard to understand that indeed the NSA may have been doing his job innocently, “the Commission Chairman was already adamant just as was the case in 2011 when the nation was sent on a wild goose chase only to return to the path of sanity by eventually postponing the election”.

The latter source further insisted that the NSA with his bird’s-eye view of the security situation in the country may have just attempted to try to try to shield the Commission from public opprobrium regarding the laxity to effectively distribute PVCs since last year by pre-empting the issue of postponement.

Sunday Vanguard was made to understand that that issue is still one of the key challenges identified by the INEC Board assessment.

Another technical problem that is emerging include the fact that although the electoral body, on its part, has placed orders for the production of ballot papers, it was restrained by the legal window which was tied to the outcome of the party primaries and the window for substitution of candidates which only terminated on December 30, 2014.

After the primaries and substitution were done, the Commission had to compile the outcomes and confirm with the parties, as indicated by development of January 26, 2015, which saw INEC, through a press release, dropping some parties candidates for not meeting the legal requirements of Section 187 of the constitution, with reference to nomination of running mates for the gubernatorial election.

By that development, it was clear that the Commission’s final list of parties involved in the election and their candidates was only just being finalised, and therefore “the Commission could not have ordered for definitive ballot papers without such crucial information”.

“Taking the latter development into account”, the usually dependable INEC source continued, “it means that the production of the ballot papers was only just ordered. This is a process which is outside the full scheduling control of INEC. Caught between legal constraints from the Electoral Act and Constitution, as well as the technical challenges from contractors engaged with the production of ballot papers, result sheets, electoral forms and envelopes that are currently being customized, to enhance the fidelity of the process, and the inability of politicians to move them from one polling area to another, INEC is currently faced with a heavy burden to meet the February 14 date, without organizing a shambolic election”.

According to the very server INEC official, “Professor Jega is bent on organizing a free, fair and credible election but his hands are currently being tied by the politicians who are playing games with the integrity and fidelity of the process”.

Had those been the only challenges confronting INEC, opinion would still have been divided.

Worse to come is the fact that the Commission, the source continued, “is yet to commence training of election-day personnel for the polling unit activities. This is more serious when it is considered that a new technology – the electronic card reader authentication – is being introduced to the process.

“This means that thousands of NYSC, post-NYSC and federal civil servants as well as lecturers have less than 15days to be recruited, indoctrinated and technically trained to handle these devices and possible contingencies that may arise if there are technical failures when using this innovative devices.”

Stemming from that, the source disclosed, “is the number of ad-hoc personnel that are required due to the need to create more accreditation points or voting points. This arose because many polling units now have 1,000 to 2,000 voters, which require being broken into more points of accreditation which insiders call voting points.

“As a result of this”, Sunday Vanguard was told, “each polling unit may now require not less than eight personnel instead of four that were previously needed.

“When this is multiplied by 120,000 existing polling units, it means that the Commission may need to recruit about 960,000 ad-hoc personnel nationwide within the next two weeks and train them on normal electoral processes and the added technical challenges related to the card reader that have been highlighted above.

“In addition to the requirement to train this massive number of people, INEC personnel also have to be committed to the ongoing distribution of PVCs, particularly to those who were registered in the Continuous Voters Registration exercise expected to be delivered to the country this week, just a week to the election – these will need to be received, sorted out, before distribution nationwide to appropriate registration areas in 120,000 places, and the problems arising from the distribution simultaneously addressed”.

Due to these diverse challenges, Sunday Vanguard discovered that the Commission was already considering what to do to address then, before the NSA compounded the issues, that appears to have now barred INEC from taking such decision for postponement independently only because it may not want to be seen as being dictated to by the government through the NSA.

As things stand, the source declared, “this may now result in the Commission being stampeded into going ahead with the presidential election despite the worries by many electoral Commissioners nationwide.

Most are yet to receive critical materials required for the election. The Commission may be braving the risk of a fatally flawed election.

The source then warned:“if it goes ahead despite these lapses, politicians may now take advantage of the lapses. It is quite possible that the Commission may have actually fallen into a grand trap which was intended to force it to stick to the time-table, so that the plans to strengthen the process cannot be perfected”.

One of the main issues INEC had to worry about is the constraint of meeting the legal requirement with regard to the time-frame for conducting the election.

In this connection, unlike 2011 when it had to go to the National Assembly, the Commission had some time within which adjustments to the time-table can be accommodated in line with Sections 76, 132 and 178 of the Constitution, which are to the effect that “the Independent National Electoral Commission shall have the power to conduct election, not earlier than 150days and not later than 30days before the expiration of the term of office of the last holder of the that office”.

Under this time-frame-the Commission had the 28th of April, 2015 as its maximum time bar, which means it has enough time within its own allowable time-frame under the Constitution without reference to the National Assembly.

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NGO to empower 1,000 indigent people in Enugu

A non-governmental organization, Adadioranma Foundation, will on Saturday empower no less than 1000 indigent persons in Enugu.

The coordinator of the Foundation, Mr. Nnamdi Anigbo, who briefed journalists on the preparation for the event, said it had nothing to do with politics.

He described the facilitator, Chief Mrs. Nkoli Imo as a woman, with unparalleled passion and love for the downtrodden in the society.

I Have Succumbed To My Mother’s Pressure Of Getting Married Now –Dbanj

D’banj has said he will be getting married this year and he also intends to have a baby this year. According to him, his mom wants him to get married now and the pressure has been somehow high. Hear him;

‘Yes, I was under pressure towards the end of last year to get married, my mum really wanted it,’ he said. When NETng asked him if he was going to do what his mother really wants by taking a woman home to her this year, he said;

‘Well, I don’t know yet but I know that I am intending to do it this year. More importantly for me, I’ve always wanted to have a child, but last year my brother, Kay Switch had a child and it brought so much joy to me. So this year, I’m thinking of settling down to have my own Koko junior soon,’ he said.

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Boko Haram ‘Bomb Maker’ Arrested In Yobe

A man suspected of being behind the manufacture of explosives used in a series of Boko Haram suicide attacks in Nigeria has been arrested in northeast Nigeria, a senior police officer has told AFP.

The man, identified only as Ba’na, was held in the Arikime area of Potiskum, in Yobe State after several weeks of surveillance?.

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Jonathan shedding crocodile tears over division among Nigerians -APC

The All Progressives Congress has said President Goodluck Jonathan is “only shedding crocodile tears” with his lamentation over the fact that Nigeria has become more divided along religious and ethnic lines today than at anytime in its history.

“Mr. President, there is no point being sanctimonious about an issue for which you bear the most responsibility. You are the most divisive leader in the history of Nigeria, having ceaselessly exploited the country’s fault lines for political gains,” the party said in a statement, issued in Abuja on Thursday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

It said President Jonathan was the first leader to have turned the house of worship to a political arena, using the pulpit to make political and policy statements and making a show of what should ordinarily be a very personal religious affair.

APC said the President’s belated lamentation was aimed at “pulling the wool over the eyes of Nigerians with a view to extracting undeserved political gains,” especially a few weeks before next month’s elections.

The opposition party said, ”Where was President Jonathan when his spokespersons and party members sought to pit Christians against Muslims by labelling the country’s main opposition party, the APC, an Islamic Party? Where was President Jonathan when his spokespersons and party members sought to portray all adherents of a particular faith as terrorists? Not once did this President call his loquacious and sycophantic supporters to order when they were denigrating people of other tribes, calling them unprintable names. Not once did he call his supporters to order when they were threatening to bring the country down if he is not re-elected.

”President Jonathan himself led the divisive band by tagging the leaders of a whole people ‘rascals’, just because people dared to protest against his administration’s policies. A man who got a pan-Nigerian mandate turned himself into a tribal leader, running a government that excludes a critical mass of the nation’s demography and pigeon-holing himself into an ethnic cocoon.”

It called on Nigerians of “all hues to repudiate the divisiveness that is embodied in President Jonathan and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party,” so that the country’s ‘unity in diversity’ could once again become a reality, rather than a mere saying.

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Every Registered Nigerian Must Get Voter’s Card, Jonathan Tells Jega

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, charged the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega to ensure that all eligible Nigerians who registered to vote are provided with their permanent voter’s registration cards.

Speaking while swearing in a new national Commissioner of the commission, representing Oyo state, President Jonathan said no Nigerian should be disenfranchised because of his inability to get the PVC.

Professor Jega, who was also present at the swearing in of the new commissioner promised that every eligible Nigerian would be provided with a PVC before the next month’s general elections.

According to President Jonathan the huge interests shown by Nigerians from all walks of life in getting their voter’s card was an indication that confidence is being restored in the electoral process.

“Nigerians are getting worried whether INEC can actually conduct elections because of the PVC. Talking about the PVC, even some governors are complaining that they are yet to get their PVC. If governors are yet to get their voter’s cards, of course that means that so many Nigerians are yet to get and people are a bit worried.

“But to me I’m quite pleased, not pleased in the negative sense, but because of the awareness that has come on; that Nigerians want to have their voter’s cards.

In 2011, no Nigerian will complain about voter’s card and that’s why when some politicians talk I just laugh. Before 2011 how many Nigerians complained about not having voter’s card because elections were not conducted with voter’s cards. Nobody cared, we are all adults in Nigeria and we knew what was happening.

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President Jonathan Did Not Squander Nigeria’s Reserves – Finance Ministry

The Federal Ministry of Finance has debunked claims that President Goodluck Jonathan has squandered the Nigeria’s reserves, insisting that it was used appropriately in the course of normal transactions required for the development of the Nigerian economy.

In a statement released to clarify the facts of the recent history and status of Nigeria’s Excess Crude Account and foreign reserves, the Ministry said “it is important to restate the true position in the interest of the Nigerian public as well as local and international investors.

“It is absolutely not true that the Administration of President Goodluck Jonathan has squandered the nation’s reserves”, it said, maintaining that “at the end of May 2007, Nigeria’s gross reserves stood at $43.13 billion – comprising the CBN’s external reserves of $31.5 billion, $9.43 billion in the Excess Crude Account, and $2.18 billion in Federal Government’s savings. These figures can be independently verified from the CBN’s records”, insisting that “the figure of $67 billion cited in some recent commentary is therefore factually incorrect”.

The statement further added that “it is a misconception to think that reserves are immutable or cast in stone. The reality is that since May 2007, the reserves have fluctuated in line with developments in the international oil market, rising from $43.13 billion at that time, peaking at $62 billion in September 2008 during the Yar’adua/Jonathan Administration when oil prices reached a peak of $147 per barrel, and falling subsequently to a low of $31.7 billion in September 2011″.

“This fall in reserves was largely a result of the vicissitudes of the global economy and oil market which caused the CBN to intervene, using some of the reserves, to defend the value of the naira.

“The Excess Crude savings, which it should be noted is a component of the reserves, was largely used to cushion the economy at the height of the global financial crisis in 2008-2009. As a result, Nigeria was one of the few countries in the world that did not seek assistance from international financial institutions at that time.

“The fiscal stimulus used to shore up the economy during that period was shared by all 3-tiers of government. Similarly, savings in the ECA were also used to pay for fuel subsidies for the entire nation and that sharing continued after the crisis ended. Starting in 2012, such payments have been published each time they are made”, it said.

The Federal Ministry of Finance also explained that the savings in the ECA would have been higher but for the fact that “a number of Governors, against strong professional advice, actively kicked against continuous building up of the ECA and, indeed, pushed for its sharing” adding that they “took the Federal Government to court on this matter, and the case is still pending at the Supreme Court.

“It is also worth noting that the Jonathan administration built the first ever Sovereign Wealth Fund for the nation in which savings are being made for future generations of Nigerians and important infrastructure investments are being supported.

“It is also a matter of public knowledge that the Fund would have generated more savings and investments if the same sort of opposition that blocked savings in the ECA had also not been at work.

“Furthermore, by common agreement between the FGN and State Governors, in 2009, an amount of about $5.5 billion was drawn from the ECA and used for investment in Independent power projects. Today, various State governments are shareholders in the projects and hold share certificates confirming their stake in the projects” the said.

On the use of reserves, the Ministry maintained that “it is not correct to say that the nation’s external reserves were dipped into or misapplied by the Administration. Anyone familiar with foreign reserves management will be aware that the Federal Government cannot dip its hands into the external reserves.

“Like in other countries, the management of external reserves is one of the statutory mandates of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Section 2 sub-section (c) of the CBN Act (2007) states that the Bank shall maintain external reserves to safeguard the international value of the legal tender – in other words, to defend the value of the Naira. No President since the democratic dispensation has contravened this Act.

“The reserves are also used to settle both public and private sector foreign currency obligations, including the importation of goods such as equipment for power sector. Whenever an Agency of Government or a private individual/company needs to make a payment in foreign currency (e.g. payment of goods and services, settlement of external debt, etc) it must provide the naira equivalent to the CBN in exchange for the required foreign currency.

“From the above, it is clear that Nigeria’s reserves during the period were not squandered but used appropriately in the course of normal transactions required for the development of the Nigerian economy”.

The former Nigerian President, Mr Olusegun Obasanjo, had blamed the present economic woes facing the nation on the depletion of the Excess Crude Account and the external reserves.

He said that his administration left $25 billion in the excess crude accounts in 2007 which was shored up to about $35 billion by the Yar’Adua’s administration, while he left $45 billion in external reserve.

“Our economy should not have been this bad. When I was leaving office about eight years ago, I left a very huge reserve after we had paid all our debts. Almost $25billion we kept in what they called excess crude. The excess from the budget we were saving as reserve for the rainy days. When we left in May 2007, the reserve was said to have been raised to $35billion,” he said.

“But today, that reserve has been depleted! Today, that reserve has been depleted. The reserve we left when we finished paying all our debts, our debts that was about 40billion dollars, that is including debt forgiveness, the remaining debt was not more than $3billion. Our reserve after we had paid off this debt was about $45billion. As I said, they continued till the end of 2007, I heard that the reserve increased to almost $67billion before the end of the year. Our reserve now, learnt is left with around only $30billion.

“That is why the Naira has been falling against the dollar. What would now happen, I learnt if you want to buy a dollar now, it’s about 192 Naira or 195 Naira. What it means is this, what you have been buying at N150 to a dollar, now you need N192 or N195 to buy it. That is the real situation. Is there any remedy? There is, but it does not come overnight because it means we have to give up all the bad things we have been doing,”Mr Obasanjo said.

These funds, he said, had been mismanaged by the present administration.

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