President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the composition of the Governing Boards of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA).
A statement by the Director of Press in the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Bolaji Adebiyi, listed members of the boards as:
For the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA)
(i) Emmanuel Olajide Adesoye-Chairman
(ii) Supo Shasore-Member
(iii) Suleiman Ibrahim Halilu-Member
(iiii) Constance Harry Mashal-Member
(v) Umar Shu’aibu-Member
(vi) Charles Efe Emukowhate Sylvester-Member
(vii) Hadiza Bala Usman-Member
(viii) Mohammed Bello Koko-Member
(ix) Dr. Sekonte Davis-Member
(x) Professor Idris Abubakar-Member
(xi) Mrs. I. J. Uche-Okoro-Member
For Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), members are as follows:
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu has challenged the traditional rulers, leaders and indigenes of the Niger Delta to embark on soul searching on the roles they played in the application of the $40 billion which the federal government disbursed for the development of the region in the last10 years.
The minister, who spoke to the traditional rulers from the Niger Delta when they paid him a visit in Abuja, regretted that when he went round the creeks, he found no infrastructure that reflects the money disbursed to the region through the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) or the 13 per cent derivation from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC).
Kachikwu, who is from Delta State, said that the Federal Government is interested in releasing money for the development of the Niger Delta, if governance and transparency are addressed, saying that unless the issue of transparency in the management of funds is solved no further release of cash would be made.
“If you look at the amount of money that has been out into the Niger Delta over the last 10 years, in papers it is over $40billion. These have come from NDDC; it has come from derivation, it has come from oil companies’ investments.
“Over $40billion, but as I go to the creek, I see no single infrastructure that you can point to to say this is the result for these investments. So what it means is that we must begin to do some soul searching ourselves: where did all this money go to. Who to them, what where they applied for ? What were the roles of our own people and others no necessary from the Niger Delta and how this money was applied .
“Because unless you solve the governance and transparency issue in terms of spending this money it doesn’t matter how much money put into the place you are going to go back to square one.
“So the first fundamental question we must begin to ask now is how are these institutions run? How are these monies placed and what roles do our traditional rulers play in the decision making process on how these projects are supposed to …
“And how can we put a sense of responsibility on delivering on the infrastructural imperative ? So there is a lot of home truth that must happen.” [myad]
The new President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Abubakar Mahmud, has suggested that the Act setting up the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), limited its power only to investigation. He said that the commission`s mandate to prosecute should be handled by an independent highly resource prosecution agency. Mahmud, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), who spoke on Friday as he was being inaugurated in Port Harcourt, said: “the critical institutions involved must be repositioned, re-equipped and re-tooled to confront the problem of corruption on a consistent and sustainable basis.
“As a start, we commend the efforts of the Economic and Financial Crimes Institution for the work it is doing and for its modest achievements.
“However, going forward, the NBA must demand the reform of the institution itself. We need to define its mandate more narrowly and more clearly.
“In my view, its broad objective as an investigative and prose curial agency should be reviewed.
“I recommend strongly that the EFCC be limited to investigation.”
The NBA boss said that the anti-corruption committee would be mandated to develop clear recommendations toward enhancing the fight against corruption and improving the effectiveness of the agencies involved.
Mahmud said that the NBA would advocate urgent reforms that would reposition the judiciary and make it play crucial roles.
He said that a clean, efficient and knowledgeable judiciary, was a foundation for building orderly, peaceful and prosperous society.
“The NBA under my watch will fight judicial corruption. We shall make the legal profession unattractive for corrupt lawyers.”
Mahmud wanted the NBA to take active interests in the happenings in the North-East and Niger Delta Region, adding that the NBA would set up a North-East task force to assist members affected by the conflict, provide legal services to individuals and communities who were victims of the conflict and monitor human rights issues.
He said that the association would set up a Niger Delta task force to carry out similar assignments in the area, especially providing legal support to advise on general challenges to enhance environmental protection and quality of life.
Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari, in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, congratulated the NBA on the inauguration of its new executive committee, headed by Mahmud.
Buhari also commended the outgoing executive led by Augustine Alegeh for the resourceful exchange of ideas, commitment and support for national development.
The President urged the new NBA president to use his vast experience in private practice, and public service, which he garnered over the years, to build on the legacies of his predecessor and contribute to reforms across the country.
He said that he expects a strong and sustainable relationship between the presidency and the leadership of the Association, especially in jointly tackling the challenges currently facing the nation. [myad]
Members of an armed robbery gang who were arrested at various points have confessed how they have been operating. They owned up to the recent kidnap of Senator Iyabo Anisholowo, using military uniform.
They are Ikechukwu Daniel, also known as Ike, Mohammed Babuga, Mamman, Boyi, Abubakar, Alayidi, Muhammedu Ganiu, Saliu Nanayi and Katune. They operated with three rifles: an AK 47, AK 49 and a pump action gun.
Mamman’s gang confessed to have carried out six kidnapping raids: two in Ibadan, two in Ilorin and two in Kebbi State, and various ransoms were collected. The Kebbi State operation fetched the gang six million while it got N26.1 million from the Ilorin and Ibadan cases.
Babuga, aged 32, said: “I am from Kebbi State. I am married with two children. I grew up in Ilorin and studied Business Administration at Kwara Polytechnic. In 2011, I used to drive some armed robbers who usually rob on the Kaduna road in Kwara State. I used to take them to the scene, and they paid me N156, 000 in three operations.
“On the third operation, when taking them back to Ilorin, some vigilante men on guard arrested us and took us to the police where we were charged to court and I was remanded in prison. While I was in prison, I met Ike. But when I left prison, I joined a kidnap gang led by Boyi and Bubah Bube, and we kidnapped a Fulani man. We got four million naira and I was given N700, 000.
“We did our second job (kidnapping) at Rejob, a boundary between Kebbi State and Niger. We collected two million and I got N250, 000. After that operation, I left Kebbi and relocated to Oyo State because there were no good roads. Boyi called me and said he wanted to join me, and he had an AK 47 rifle. One Abubakar, a herdsman, also had a pump action gun.
“We contributed money and we bought a Honda Bullet car. Boyi brought a job which was to kidnap a man, but before we went for the job, Ike came and joined us and we did four jobs together before I was arrested. I was arrested because of a senator’s kidnap case.”
Ike, aged 28, confessed that he dropped out of school and took to a life of crime. “I am from Imo State,” he said. “I dropped out from school in ABU Zaria. I was reading laboratory science in school, but I went to LAUTECH to initiate some new students (into robbery), but after the process we were arrested on our way back home. I was taken to prison and I spent one year in prison. My case was later struck out of court. When I returned I could not go back to school.
“I was born and bred in Kaduna State and I speak the Hausa Language fluently. While I was in prison, I made friends with Mohammed, who is Fulani. We were in the same cell. After my one year in prison, I realised that prison wasn’t a place for reformation and I discovered that inmates were arranging jobs from the prison.
“Mohammed came out of prison before me. But when I came out, he told me that he had joined a kidnapping gang.
“Before I went to prison I was into diversion (of goods). When I came out of prison I went back into diversion, and I did two jobs, but Mohammed asked to come and join his kidnap gang. In 2014, I joined Mohammed’s gang and we kidnapped a man. I don’t know the man’s name and we kept him in a forest in Ilorin, and we were paid five million naira.
“On the second job, we kidnapped an Alhaji who was one of the people who later died at the stampede in Mecca. I did the negotiation in that kidnapping case and we got N15 million from the man’s family. I got N2 million as my share. I bought a car with my share.
“The third operation was in Kwara State. We kidnapped a man who identified himself as Akintola. We received three million naira as ransom from the family. On the fourth operation, we kidnapped a victim who did not pay us something reasonable. I stay in festac town. I paid the rent myself and I stay alone.” [myad]
The Reformed Indigenous People Of Biafra (RIPOB) has said that it sacked the leader of IPOB Nnamdi Kanu and the TRIPOB because it discovered Kanu collected huge sums of money from local and foreign sources to betray the cause. Spokesman of the group, Ikemba Biafra, accused Nnamdi Kanu of insulting and denigrating respected Biafran and Igbo leaders and converting the Radio Biafra set up by the MASSOB leadership for his private propaganda machinery. The also accused Kanu of making utterances and statements that led to the death of so many innocent Biafran youths and the detention of many others. It said that Nnamdi Kanu is not actually sincere about the Biafran struggle “but is just playing to the gallery and using the platform for fame and fortune seeking. Ikemba Biafra said that TRIPOB emerged as a result of internal in the IPOB, saying that members and officers of IPOB loyal to Emma Nmezu, one of the spokesmen of IPOB were behind the TRIPOB. “There is nothing actually different between IPOB and TRIPOB, and for that reason, the two groups have been sacked.” The Reformed IPOB spokesman said that the group would name its leader on Monday, 29, adding that it would also name its proposed Mediators to any possible Dialogue with the federal government if need be. The group advised all pro-Biafra groups to remain calm and to cease any contact with Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB or TRIPOB and await further information from Reformed IPOB new leadership.. The group called on the Nigerian Army not to molest or kill pro-Biafran agitators so as not to escalate the tension in the country. [myad]
The Oil Producing States have benefited a total sum of N12.874 billion as 13 percent derivation revenue from the Federation Account for the month of July. From the Statutory revenue, Federal Government got N129.212 billion, representing 52.68 percent; States received N65.538 billion, representing 26.72 percent and Local Government Councils got N50.527 billion, 20.60 percent out of a total of N493.828billion shared as Federal Allocation. According to the figures released by Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, the gross statutory revenue, including solid minerals is N275.102 while the net allocation is N258.151billion. The gross value added tax is N66.987 billion and the total distributable revenue is N335.759 billion.
The shared amount comprised the Month’s Statutory revenue of N258.151 billion, Value Added Tax of N66.987 billion, Exchange gain of N70.037 billion, Exchange Gain differential claim of N36.494 billion for the month of May 2016 , additional distribution of N50.165 billion from excess PPT and N1.373 billion as excess bank charges recovered from 2008 to 2012. There was also a N6.330 billion refund to the Federal Government by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC). The statement showed that from the Revenue available from the Value Added Tax (VAT), Federal Government received N9.646 billion (15%); States received N32.154 billion (50%) while the Local Government Councils received N22.508 billion (35%) and less 4%cost of collection to FIRS. Also the N50.165 billion from the Excess Petroleum Profits Tax is to be shared among the three tiers of Government according to the revenue allocation formula.
The Communique from the FAAC sub-technical committee also explained that there was a decrease in the Volume of Crude oil export by 2.8 million barrels in April 2016 due to a subsisting Force Majeure at Forcadose Terminal. There was also a shut-in and shut-down of pipelines due to the activities of vandals as well as for maintenance which impacted negatively on production. [myad]
Presidential spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is leveraging on the democracy which the country is practicing to listen and learn from critizems instead of picking quarrel with the critics.
Garba Shehu, who was reacting to the statement credited to the Emir of Kano, Mohammed Sanusi on the running of the nation’s economy and similar one by a former minister of finance, Chukwuma Soludo, insisted that the presidency regards criticisms as healthy for democracy.
“This government will not fight people for criticizing the present administration led by President Buhari. This kind of criticism is healthy for our democracy. One cannot get better without being criticized. I can assure you that this government is listening.” [myad]
The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari has asked him to advice other traditional rulers in his domain to offer him advices on matters related to the way he should run a good government, and that such advices should be in writing.
Alaafin, who visited the Presidential at the Presidential Villa, Abuja to defend a private memo he wrote to the president on the state of the nation, told news men that the President invited him over on the strength of the advice contained in his written memo..
“As a Nigerian and one of the topmost traditional rulers in the country, I sent a memorandum to the President which he acknowledged and asked me to come and endorse those things I have written.
“I think it was time for me to use the proper channel to reach the President for suggestions and advice.
“Where he deserves commendation, I should also do that especially as it concerns the multi-dimensional problems Nigeria is facing like the Avengers and bombing of oil installations, MEND and Boko Haram insurgency in the North East.
“The President listened attentively and has asked me to pass the information to other traditional rulers in my domain to assist the government by giving advice because he is a good listener; but that such advice should be put in writing so that he can then relate it to the problems affecting Nigeria.”
He commended the President for acting swiftly to flush out criminal elements that wanted to extend militancy to Lagos and the rest of South-West.
“I have met with the President and offered some suggestions. We are losing huge resources to the activities of the Niger Delta Avengers. Coming close to that is the infiltration of the militants in Lagos and Ikorodu where in the last three weeks, 10 landlords were massacred.” [myad]
The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him and the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog – George Graham Vest (1870)
Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, the man who named his dog after President Muhammadu Buhari is right now probably regretting his decision to honour his dog with the name of a man he considers his hero.
He has been accused of trying to incite hate and breach the public peace.
He has been arrested and re-arrested by the police and taken to a magistrate court, which promptly remanded him in prison until he is able to meet the conditions of his bail.
He has spent days in prison custody unable to raise the N50, 000 that he has been asked to pay.
His family members have only so far managed to raise N20, 000.
Even if he succeeds in putting that sum together, his life is still in danger because aggrieved persons in his neighbourhood, including a man who says he was trying to ridicule his father, have threatened to kill him, if he shows up.
The police are not investigating this threat, but they seem so excited about dealing with the poor trader called Joe, for having the effrontery to name his dog, Buhari.
To protect himself, Joseph has allegedly put the dog to sleep, or thrown it away or whatever, in the hope that once the evidence is destroyed there will be no case against him.
It is all so pitiable.
Public opinion appears to be divided as to the nature and seriousness of Joseph Chinakwe’s alleged felony, with some people arguing that it is definitely an act of provocation and incitement for him to label his dog, Buhari so boldly and to parade the same dog in a neighbourhood where there are many residents of Northern extraction, whose feelings may be injured or who may perceive that he is trying to make a political statement.
Those who want him punished have therefore dismissed Chinakwe’s protestation that he is an admirer of the President, or that he means well.
His defenders insist that he is entitled to free speech and there is nowhere in the statutes where a man can be punished on the basis of the perception that some people’s feelings may be injured, and hence, be prompted to commit murder.
The law is not structured that way.
We are dealing, therefore with ethnic hate at the lunatic fringe.
Nigerians have become so suspicious of one another, and inter-ethnic relationship is so poisonous that even the littlest innocent gesture could result in mayhem.
This is why many have been killed for allegedly committing blasphemy or for insulting the religious sensibilities of some people.
Remember the woman who was killed by her students for allegedly desecrating the Quran.
Remember Gideon Akaluka.
Remember the woman who was recently beheaded in Abuja for daring to preach the Christian gospel.
We are also dealing with disregard for human freedom, and Nigeria’s slip into a tragic season of intolerance.
Why shouldn’t Chinakwe call his dog whatever name catches his fancy?
Well, maybe he should have chosen an Igbo name?
But if we want national unity, why shouldn’t he take a name he admires from another part of the country?
Ali Baba, the ace comedian, like many others, has come out strongly in defence of Chinakwe saying he actually has a dog in his house named OBJ, and that is quite direct because only one man bears that sobriquet in this country, and neither OBJ nor his kinsmen have asked Atuyota to leave Yorubaland.
One of the most famous pictures online is that of a goat named Goodluck Jonathan, with the name written on both flanks of it.
President Jonathan’s wife was also once (July 2013) referred to as “shepopotamus” by Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, and before our very eyes, President Olusegun Obasanjo, donated, to a conservation sanctuary, a chimpanzee, which he named Patience to make a point obviously.
The parody at the time was unmistakable. We all drew humour from all of that.
What we seem to be dealing with right now, however, is the absurd deification of a name on ethnic and partisan grounds.
It is curious that the Nigeria Police is devoting to the trial of Chinakwe, a feverish amount of energy that we have not witnessed with regard to more statutorily relevant offences.
This hullaballoo over the giving of a dog a name that has led to its hanging and the likely punishment of its owner is one distraction too many.
We are above all else, dealing with a storm in a tea cup, occasioned by a culture shock, and our underdeveloped understanding of the relationship between man and animals.
Chinakwe says he chose the name Buhari out of admiration.
And he may well be right, and he would have been right, and there would have been no problem if he was living in Europe or North America.
But he lives in a country where animals have no rights and no recognition other than as victims of human predators, and a dog in our culture is to be treated as an instrument or as meat for the soup pot.
Elsewhere, a dog has earned its reputation in mythology and actuality, as a man’s best friend.
The root of this is that a dog is considered the most beloved, the most loyal and the most dependable of all animals.
People use dogs to guard their homes, to keep away intruders, even to play with children and as companions in the home.
There are many stories and legends about the loyalty of dogs.
Hawkeye is the name of a famous dog that lay next to the casket of its owner who died in active service as a US Navy SEAL.
There is a film, “Hachi, a dog’s tale,” starring Richard Gere, about Hachiko, a dog who greeted his owner at the train station every day and after the owner died, the dog went to the same station for nine years.
Recently, I posted on Instagram the picture of a dog in Santa Catarina, Brazil, Negao the dog, whose owner died eight months earlier and the dog remained outside the hospital awaiting his owner’s return.
In the United States, a police dog has been given a state burial, draped with national colours in appreciation of its loyal and meritorious service to the nation.
Many centuries ago, Homer wrote in Odyssey, about a loyal dog, Argos who waited for Odysseus until he returned.
The established normal is that a dog can be trusted more than a human being.
And this is why in other parts of the world, when people name their dogs after celebrities, they are actually paying compliments and showing respect.
World figures like Elvis Presley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Louis Vuitton, Mandela, Clinton, J. F. Kennedy and others have had their names given to either cats or dogs, and it is no big deal.
Admirers transpose their feelings from man to animal.
Joseph Chinakwe may actually be saying that President Buhari is a loyal, trustworthy, supportive, dependable and companionable Guardian of the Nigerian estate.
It would have been a different thing perhaps if he had given that name to a tortoise, a rat, cat, a fox, or a chimpanzee.
But in a country where every animal is considered a prey or a lower, spiteful creature, using the metaphor of a dog could be risky as the Chinakwe case has shown.
In Nigeria, we treat animals badly, and we don’t consider anyone a friend, man or animal.
We are vengeful, mean and suspicious. We are so scared we are even afraid of domestic and domesticated animals.
In other societies, animals are treated with greater respect and in the United States for example, the life of a dog is far superior to that of a human being in Nigeria.
I have written about this twice: In “A Dog’s Life” (1996), I reflected on the life of a dog owned by Stanley Meisler (God bless his soul) and his wife, Elizabeth Fox, my hosts during my journalism programme at the University of Maryland, College Park, United States (1996 -97).
I was shocked that the dog had a room of its own, a proper room, not a kernel, and whenever that dog fell ill, we took him to a dog hospital and Stanley bought drugs.
I saw that dog living the life of a king, better catered for than many Africans.
I wrote another piece titled “A Hotel for Dogs” (July 23, 2006) about a five-star hotel in Bethesda, Washington, which attends to dogs as customers, and where dogs enjoy a life of luxury.
Established in 2003, by PetSmart Inc., by 2006, there were 32 hotels of its type in the United States and the then spokesman of the group, Bruce Richardson, had boasted that by 2010, the plan was to have 240 such hotels across the United States.
We are talking luxury, 23 USD per night, 33USD for a dog suite, as at that time, all pre-tax, plus provisions for pooch ice cream. In general, Americans spend about $40 billion dollars a year on household pets.
I guess that is more than Nigeria’s annual budget even by today’s relative standards.
And so, what are we talking about? An American dog is a big man in Nigeria by all standards.
But because we eat dogs and treat all animals badly in this country, in fact we have no regard for human beings (consider the hundreds that get killed, raped, kidnapped daily and nobody cares), we are bound to be incensed that anyone would name a dog after a deified political figure.
Joe Chinakwe’s sins should be forgiven, albeit there is no morality in law, but the Nigerian judiciary should not expose itself to further ridicule by lending the weight of the law to such partisan trash that makes no sense.
There are far more important issues requiring serious attention in this country today.
But in case nobody understands that and Mr Chinakwe and his counsel find themselves in a tight corner, they should put out a disclaimer and say their dog, living or dead, is filing for a change of name.
That is perfectly within their rights to do.
And should they find themselves in any other difficult situation, they have my full permission to rename the dog, Reuben Abati.
But should you, dear reader consider this a bad name you wish to hang, you also have my full support, partnership and friendship to offer your own name.
If that will put an end to this circus over the name of a dog, and set Joseph Chinakwe free, and also remind us that we are in a democracy, please, help and so be it.
By the way, I hear Chinakwe and his sympathisers finally managed, after a fund-raising appeal, to raise a sum of N90, 000 to perfect his bail bond and that he is now out of detention.
Would somebody in a responsible position just put an end to this joke and let us focus on serious issues? [myad]
Nigeria’s Health minister, Professor Isaac Adewole has announced that the Federal Government has obtained a $125 million loan from the World Bank to tackle fresh cases of polio and other health challenges in the country. The minister made this known while briefing the Senate Committee on Primary Health and Communicable Diseases on Thursday in Abuja. Professor Adowole said that with the approval of the National Assembly, $60 million would be earmarked for polio, while the remaining $65 million would be used for the procurement of vaccines. He said that N10 billion had been released by the Federal Government from the 2016 budget to tackle the epidemic. He decried the fresh outbreak, even as he said that about N30 billion would be required to tackle the menace, adding that as a result of the outbreak, no fewer than 800,000 children under the age of five had been immunized in five local government areas in Borno State. He said the local government areas, which had a population of about one million people, were Jere, Gwoza, Mafa, Maiduguri Municipality and Bama. Prof. Isaac Adewole said: “The resurgence of polio is an unusual development and a major setback considering the investment of the international community, and the whole world was looking forward to celebrate Nigeria next year. “I wasn’t expecting polio as a challenge; I was expecting teenage pregnancy and other health challenges.” Adewole also said the ministry was working with relevant stakeholders to search for more cases, adding: “We want to assume there could be many more of the cases, we are looking for more cases.” He said the ministry had flagged off response channels while the team monitoring and managing the disease was working to ensure that it was nipped in the bud. According to him, the ministry will embark on six-round response programmes to immunize children under five in the whole of the country and neighbouring countries, to ensure that every potential child is immunized. Adewole disclosed that 300 million doses of vaccine were required to be able to carry out immunization in the country to curtail the spread of the virus. He, however, said only 100 million doses of vaccine were on ground, adding that measures would be put in place to make up the required doses. He stated that the ministry was toiling with the idea of administering injectable vaccines in view of its efficacy, particularly in Borno State, rather than relying solely on oral vaccine. The minister however said that plans to curb the disease could change depending on subsequent developments. He also said that due to the security situation in the North-East, the medical team from the military had equally been deployed to assist experts from the ministry. On recent case of Lassa fever that claimed the life of a medical doctor in Delta, the minister said that measures were being put in place to curb further spread. He also disclosed that the ministry was working with relevant agencies to check Zika disease, which was already prominent in Brazil. The Chairman of the committee, Mao Ohuabunwa, urged the ministry to embark on more sensitization and advocacy. He expressed displeasure with the ministry for not involving the legislature before now. Ohuabunwa said: “If we didn’t initiate this meeting, we would not have been carried along. “I expect that immediately you had this outbreak, you alert us and say areas we could collaborate with you to alert state assemblies for sensitization.” He pledged the committee’s support to the ministry in tackling challenges in the health sector. [myad]
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The Reformed Indigenous People Of Biafra (RIPOB) has said that it sacked the leader of IPOB Nnamdi Kanu and the TRIPOB because it discovered Kanu collected huge sums of money from local and foreign sources to betray the cause.
The Oil Producing States have benefited a total sum of N12.874 billion as 13 percent derivation revenue from the Federation Account for the month of July.
