BIAFRA PEOPLE:Nigerians react to claim that snake swallowed N36m in JAMB office

 
reported that an account staff Joan Asen and a lady outside JAMB connived to steal the money “spiritually” Nigerians have reacted to reports that a mystery snake sneaked into the account office of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, in Makurdi, Benue State and swallowed N36 million cash.                  
This development has raised eyebrows and Nigerians have been voicing out the views.
Below are some reactions to the story.

@Ugatoba, Which party does this snake belong to? APC or PDP?
@lordkabba, JAMB QUESTION- 100 marks. Calculate how long it will take a snake to swallow 36,000,000 Naira. If the Bank notes are either in 100, 200 or 500 denomination and tabulate the chances of the snakes survival using the APC formula.

@em_kalan, I pledge to Nigeria my country…to never be surprised when I see such news…a whooping 36million. The people doing us are mad.
@ favorandCee, The snake was a member of Goodluck’s cabinet. It should be probed.
@ yay_tunes, Kai…how can I suffer to be a Nigerian like this.
@Saintlumy, Nothing should surprise one in this country anymore.

@newscanttell, What name are we going to call the snake now? It’s definitely no anaconda.
@lohs_21, On this episode of animal farm, corruption blues.
@Ejike, Why dey born me for this kind country, Nigeria is such a joke.
@prodigy023, Benue people can lie die. First it’s herdsmen that don’t exist now it’s a snake that swallows money not eggs.
@mozartard, Mehn….they are not even putting effort in the lies anymore..

                                                                                                                                

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met with former head of state, Abdulsalam Abubakar (Rtd) at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Buhari immediately after his meeting with Abdusalam joined the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akande in another meeting. Details of both meetin

 
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met with former head of state, Abdulsalam Abubakar (Rtd) at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Buhari immediately after his meeting with Abdusalam joined the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akande in another meeting. Details of both meetings have not been made public yet.
. Report says Police in Ugep, Yakurr local government area of Cross River State Tuesday shot a councillorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) dead in Ugep.
Trouble started when some Itighidi youths attempted to burn down the Police station in the area over the alleged arrest of their kinsmen.
 The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has closed registration for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). This was confirmed in a statement signed by the board’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, on Tuesday. He said candidates who paid and obtained pins but had not been able to register, have 24 hours to complete their registration.
. Over 30 herdsmen reportedly invaded the Akure South Local government Secretariat on Tuesday brandishing different dangerous weapons. The invasion of the herders disrupted the official activities at the council secretariat including marriage ceremonies going on at the council’s registry. Staff of the council were driven out of their offices one by one by the herders who allegedly threatened to kill anyone who looked into their eyes.  Nobel laureate and activist, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is in a trance. Soyinka said this while reacting to a question on the three things he would tell the President if he meets him, saying one of them is that he will tell Mr. President that he is in a trance for failing to lead the country on the right path.  Five armed gunmen on Tuesday morning kidnapped a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Musa Danbaba Saya-Saya in Kaduna State. It was learnt that the gunmen stormed Saya-Saya village in Ikara Local Government area of Kaduna State at about 1.00am and forced their way into his residence.
 A National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has described his appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari as head of the APC reconciliation committee as a very strong political challenge. Speaking after his meeting with President Buhari on Tuesday, Tinubu said his party would be victorious in 2015.
 Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday accused Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), of being a double-faced person. Omokri stated that Tinubu who described former president Olusegun Obasanjo as a retiree once begged the ex-president to support the APC during the 2015 election.
 The Benue State police command has arrested one suspect at Ayilamo, Logo Local Government Area in connection with the killing of a police officer in the state. The state Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, parading the suspect in Makurdi said one of the suspects was killed during the arrest.  Report says twelve Fulani herdsmen have been reportedly killed while fourteen others are currently missing in Oyo State, after an attack by suspected local farmers at Okere near Iseyin in Iseyin local government area of the state. The chairman of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) Oyo state chapter, Yaqub Bello disclosed this to newsmen in the state on Tuesday.

Nigerian govt has not achieved total victory – Shehu Sani

 
But Sani insisted that until all hostages, including Chibok girls, are freed and attacks stopped, the federal government should not boast of complete victory over Boko Haram.
He further hailed the efforts of the military in battles against the insurgents saying progress has been made.
Shehu Sani on his Twitter page wrote “The military made sacrifices and achieved a lot in the battle against the insurgents and that is commendable.
“But until the last hostage is freed and back home and until the suicide attacks stops, we can only say tremendous progress has been made but not complete victory.”Shehu Sani, the Senator representing Kaduna Central, says the fight against insurgent group Boko Haram is not over.

BIAFRA:Why we must restructure Nigeria – Jang

A former Governor of Plateau State and Senator representing Plateau North, Jonah Jang, said Nigeria is running a unitary system of government, hence the need for the country to be restructured.
Jang disclosed this in an interview with journalists in Jos.

“I am a disciple of restructuring. Because we cannot be calling ourselves a federation and yet we are running a unitary system, the two don’t walk together.
“If we want to run a federal system, then we should restructure the country.
“It is unfortunate that we in the military because I was also a military governor, we believe in unitary and that anytime we are in power, we run a unitary form of government. So, when we tried to give the nation a constitution, we didn’t really look deep into it and we ended up giving the nation a unitary constitution to be operated in a federal system, and that is why nothing is working”, he lamented.
“So I believe that in this country it is not just a matter of whether we like it or not, it must be restructured for the country to move forward”, the Jang stressed.

On calls by former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former Head of State General Ibrahim Babangida advising, President Buhari, not to seek re-election, the former Governor said, “Every Nigerian has the right to air his view after all, the President did not bring himself to Aso Villa.
“He was elected so those people asking him not to re-contest, maybe voted for him and I believe they might have voted for him and they are just telling him that we cannot vote for you again. That is my way of understanding it, that is their opinion but the Nigerian voters would decide whether they want him or they don’t want him”, he explained.
When asked whether he thinks President Buhari has done well to deserve re-election; Jang said, “When we were doing well did they tell us we have done well?
“We that even performed, they are pursuing us all over the place, but they are not performing, everybody knows that”.

“This is democracy, are those individuals advising him not part of the electorates? They are expressing their views.
“Some would not talk but express it through voting, they have decided to express theirs through verbal or written communication and may also express it when it comes to the time to vote if he decides to re-contest”, he stressed.

NIGERIA PEOPLE:Pray For Nigeria’s Unity, Buhari Urges Christians

Buhari made the appeal in a message today to felicitate with Christians on the solemn occasion of the commencement of this year’s Lenten season. President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerian Christians to pray ‘fervently for the country’s unity and progress”.The President urges Christian brothers and sisters to pray fervently for the country’s unity and progress”, said the statement by Femi Adesina, the special adviser on the media.

Adesina said President Buhari believes that Nigeria’s existence as one united country is a divine arrangement and nothing should be done to put it asunder.

“President Buhari enjoins all Nigerians to intensify love, brotherliness and concern for the less privileged members of their communities in order to strengthen the bond of togetherness.

“As Christians begin the period of increased prayers, piety, sacrifice and selfless services, the President wishes them and all Nigerians well,” Adesina said.

BIAFRA LAND:insists court must deliver its judgment despite Kanu’s missing file

 
The group said the announcement of the disappearance of the file was a huge joke that further portrayed the rot in the Nigerian Justice sector, while calling on the chief Judge of the federation to step in and salvage what was left of its integrity.
IPOB head of Directorate of Service, Mazi Chika Edoziem, in a statement recalled that the Court of Appeal panel heard Kanu’s matter in March 2017, insisting that any attempt to delay the judgment on the ground of a missing file amounted to perversion of justice and criminal conspiracy.
According to IPOB, never in the history of Nigeria had it been reported that a case file of such magnitude went missing on the day judgment was meant to be delivered.
The statement read: “This very matter, Appeal Case No CA/A/78A/C/2018, which is a legal action against the decision of Justice John Tsoho to reverse himself on an earlier ruling he made rejecting masked witnesses when he was the presiding judge before the matter was transferred to Justice Binta Nyako, is over a year old contrary to the law.  The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday asked the Court of Appeal to deliver judgment on its embattled leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, whether his case file was missing or not.
“February 13, 2018 was the day Appeal Court of Nigeria agreed, after much protestation from IPOB lawyers and in direct contravention of a key constitutional provision, to deliver its long overdue judgment in the matter of Nnamdi Kanu vs Justice John Tsoho.
“On getting to court, instead of the usual adjournment that characterizes IPOB cases in Nigeria and ECOWAS courts, the panel of judges announced, to the dismay of the court and others assembled, that the file was not before them.
“Not minding that this was a high profile matter already outside the constitutionally guaranteed three months maximum for delivery of judgment, the lead judge announced that the matter could not proceed, without the case file.
“The questions we are asking are; what happened to the decision of the initial panel that heard the case on the 8th March 2017 considering that Appeal Court of Nigeria is a supposedly competent court of records? Where is the copy of their judgment, because judges must have a copy of their judgment in their own personal files?   Assuming and for the purposes of benefit of doubt that Kanu’s file is missing, how about the judgment written by the panel of judges that heard the matter on the 8th of March 2017, which they were meant to deliver on the 8th of June 2017 at the very latest as guaranteed by law?
“Does it mean Nigerian courts do not keep records of their judgments or are we to assume that Appeal Court judges are ignorant of the Nigerian Constitution to the extent that they are unaware that the statutory limit on delivery of all Appeal Court judgments is 90 days?
“Why wasn’t judgment in this matter delivered within the constitutionally guaranteed 90 days, which is 8 June 2017? What this case is telling the world is that Nigerian Appeal Court judges do not obey the constitution of Nigeria they are supposed to interpret and uphold.
“We view this ugly development as a desperate conspiratorial move to deny long overdue justice for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB by Nigerian judicial officers on the orders of the Nigerian presidency.
“Our humble request to the President of the Nigerian Judicial Council, NJC, President of the Appeal Court of Nigeria and Attorney General of the Federation, AGF is to recall the original panel of judges that heard the matter on the 8th of March 2017 to deliver their judgment as required by the Nigerian Constitution.”

BIAFRA PEOPLE; ECOWAS court fails to hear Nnamdi Kanu’s case

 
The case had been adjourned in November 2017, after a previous postponement a month before, following applications by parties in the matter.
On Tuesday, the court presided over by Justice Hemeye Mahdmadane announced its decision to make further adjournment after entertaining a fresh application by the prosecution.
The judge said the court’s decision to adjourn sitting was based on the fact that motions brought before the court in November were yet to be translated into English language.
At the opening of session on Monday, the prosecution counsel, Maimuna Shiru, informed the court, that her client had a motion seeking to keep the court abreast of the recent developments in the matter. 
The Economic Community of West Africa ECOWAS Court, has again adjourned hearing into the fundamental rights suit filed by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
Kanu’s suit filed in March 2016 is yet to reach its hearing stage at the court since it was first brought before it. 

According to Ms. Shiru, her motion seeks to inform the ECOWAS court that IPOB had already been proscribed and that the Federal High Court in Abuja had affirmed the proscription of the group.
Reacting to the recent application, however, Mr. Ejiofor accused the prosecution of making unnecessary motions aimed at preventing the case from succeeding.
The court, however, warned Mr. Ejiofor to desist from making such utterances in court.
The matter was adjourned to May 30.