Nigeria’s President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan is scheduled to be in Chibok, Borno state tomorrow. Chibok is a village where over 200 female students were abducted on April 14, by members of the deadly Boko Haram.
Senior government officials said today that the President would immediately, after arriving in Chibok, take off for Paris the same day, to attend a regional security summit, during which the issue of Boko Haram would be discussed.
The visit to Chibok by President Jonathan is coming on the heels of a growing international effort to rescue the girls, since they were abducted.
Jonathan is under pressure to crush the rebels and has so far rallied many international communities for that task, even as his government has come under criticism for its slow response to the abductions.
The President asked France last week to arrange a Paris security summit with neighbours Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Benin, and officials from the US, Britain and the European Union to discuss a coordinated response
A British singer and song-writer, Adele, 26, has topped the list of the richest people in music under 30, having amassed an estimated £45 million with her two chart-topping albums so far.
Adele, who has not released an album since 2011, however remains Britain’s richest musician under the age of 30, according to the Sunday Times’ annual rich list.
It has been another successful year for the singer, who is estimated to rank wealthier than One Direction and Calvin Harris. The Oscar-winning 26-year-old, who recently dropped a hint that her third album would be released at the end of 2014, is said to be worth £45m, a £15m increase from last year’s takings and over double that of 2012.
Just behind Scottish DJ Calvin Harris, who is currently No 1 in theUK singles chart with the track Summer, are the five members of One Direction. Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson all appear for the second time on the list.
This year, the group are reportedly worth an estimated £14m each, almost triple the amount of 2013’s earnings. Collectively that makes One Direction the richest boyband in British music history, with a combined wealth of £70m.
While much of the UK’s music rich list is made up of businessmen and producers, the under 30 list is more squarely focused on musicians
This year’s list includes a number of pop and rock band members, including One Direction, Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner and Mumford & Sons
Elsewhere, X Factor winner Leona Lewis entered the list at No 9, joint with Mumford & Sons’ Marcus Mumford and his wife, the actor Carey Mulligan. While last year’s list was primarily dominated by female pop acts, this year sees an increase in alternative acts. Mumford band members are not far behind their frontman on the list, with Ted Dwane, Ben Lovett and Winston Marshall each earning an estimated £8m, and Arctic Monkey’s frontman Alex Turner with £9m.
Warner Music Group owner Len Blavatnik tops the list of the wealthiest people in music in the UK and Ireland, with an estimated worth of £10b, despite his wealth decreasing by £1bn over the past year. Musicians U2, Elton John and Paul McCartney also feature high on the list, while One Direction label boss and media mogul Simon Cowell also sees his fortune grow to £300m.
Richest Young Musicians 2014
1 Adele: £45m 2 Calvin Harris: £30m 3 Cheryl Cole: £16m 4 Niall Horan, One Direction: £14m 4 Zayn Malik, One Direction: £14m 4 Liam Payne, One Direction: £14m 4 Harry Styles, One Direction: £14m 4 Louis Tomlinson, One Direction: £14m 9 Leona Lewis: £13m 9 Marcus Mumford, Mumford & Sons: £13m 11 Katie Melua: £12m 12 Jessie J: £10m 12 Florence Welch: £10m 14 Alex Turner, Arctic Monkeys: £9m 15 Charlotte Church: £8m 15 Ted Dwane, Mumford & Sons: £8m 15 Ben Lovett, Mumford & Sons: £8m 15 Winston Marshall, Mumford & Sons: £8m 15 Olly Murs: £8m 15 Dizzee Rascal: £8m 15 Emeli Sandé: £8m 15 Jamal Edwards: £8m
Richest people in music in the UK and Ireland:
1 Len Blavatnik: £10 billion 2 Clive Calder: £1.4bn 3 Sir Cameron Mackintosh: £1bn 4 Sir Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell: £710m 5 Lord Lloyd-Webber: £640m 6 U2: £428m 7 Simon Fuller: £382m 8 Simon Cowell: £300m 8 Mohammad and Kamaliya Zahoor: £300m 10 Sir Elton John: £260m
L-R: Minister Of Justice And Attorney General Of The Federation, Mohhamed Adoke, Minister Of Agric, Akinwunmi Adeshina, Minister Of State For Foreign Affairs 2, Muhhamed Nurudeen And Minister Of State For Agric, Asabe Asmau Hammed. L-R: Minister Of State For Power, Mohhamed Wakil, His Special Duties Counterpart, Taminu Turaki, Minister Of Solid Minerals, Mohammed Sada And Power Minister Chinedu Nebo During The Meeting.
The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier -General Johnson Olawumi, has said that the Federal Government has stopped posting corps members to the troubled three states in the North-East which are under a state of emergency rule. They are Adamawa, Yobe and Borno.
Olawumi who spoke today in Abuja when he appeared before members of the Committee on Civil Society, Labour, Youths and Sports of the national conference said that the agency has taken a decision not to send any corps member to the three affected states unless the request to be posted to any of the states comes from the corps members.
“We have stopped sending corps members to the three troubled states in North-East under emergency rule. Surprisingly, some still demand to be posted there would get posted there. But nobody is forced to go there.”
He said that there is no way the agency would stop those demanding to be posted there, adding that the embargo on the three states would continue until security improved there.
Olawumi also spoke on areas the agency is making use in order to make the corps members self reliance after their one year service.
This, he said, included skills acquisition and entrepreneurship development programme which he said had been established in all states and Abuja to train corps members.
He said that many corps members have benefitted from that programme and that this has made them to rather than becoming job seekers after the one year service, they have actually became job creators.
The DG also said the commission was considering setting up youth empowerment fund where skilled corps members would be able to draw after they must have finished their service years.
“What we are looking at is to have a pool where those corps members who have acquired one skill or the other while in camp and throughout the service year will write a business proposal, which we will look at and if we find it suitable, refer such a corps member to the administrators of that fold that they can advance on loan.
“Such a loan if it is approved will be interest free and there will be no issue of bringing collateral, since the corps member is just passing out, we hold the discharge certificate as collateral.
“We have tried that under the MDG, War against Poverty Programme and seen hundred per cent response by corps members to payment of loans given to them.”
He said the agency was already planning to expand its coast by posting corps members to oil companies and banks, an action he said was not part of the policy of the NYSC before.
He said that by government policy only allow them “to deploy (corps) members to four key areas, which are health, education, agriculture and rural development.
“Over time we found out that when we post corps members to these areas, we still have some that do not have places for their primary assignment.
“We are looking at expanding it beyond this four to places like oil industry, the banking sector, the telecommunication industries but in doing this, we might need to put some regulations in place so that corps members are not used and dumped as it was done sometimes in the pas by banks.
Kaduna State House of Assembly has suspended its former speaker, Alhaji Usman Gangara for three months after finding him guilty of stealing and hiding its mace.
The decision to suspend him at its sitting today followed the report submitted by the House Committee on Education, Ethics and Privileges that investigated the whereabouts of the mace, which disappeared from the house on September 24, 2013.
The mace was removed from the floor of the assembly during the leadership crises that rocked the assembly and which led to the removal of Gangara and other principal officers.
Since then, the Assembly had to dust the mace used by the previous legislature to conduct its business.
While presenting the report, the Chairman of the committee, Mr. Philemon Gidan-Mana, said their investigations had revealed that the former speaker was responsible for the disappearance of the mace.
Gidan-Mana said the committee recommended that Gangara be directed to return the mace to the Clerk of the house and proceed on a three months suspension.
The sitting, which was presided by the Deputy Speaker Mr Peter Adamu, put the motion to vote, and those in support of Gangara’s suspension won.
Adamu then announced that the Assembly had suspended the former speaker with immediate effect for three months.
President Goodluck Jonathan is still not comfortable with what is termed as “distortions” in the 2014 national budget, leading to continued delay in his ascending his signature to it, five months into the year.
Information Minister, Labaran Maku, who made this known when he briefed newsmen at the end of today’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, said that the delay in signing the 2014 Budget by President Jonathan has to do with some distortions made by the two chambers of the National Assemby.
He said the distortions were made in areas which he described as very serious, hence the need for the Executive to look into them to avoid their possible negative impacts on the budget implementation.
Maku said that it is very sad that almost in the middle of the year, the Federal Government is operating without a budget, adding that as part of efforts to reconcile the differences in the proposed Bill and the document passed into law, the Ministry of Finance is currently meeting with members of the National Assembly.
The minister expressed the optimism that the reconciliation exercise would soon be concluded, leading to the signing of the budget.
“The Minister of Finance briefed us today at the FEC relating to the progress on the budget. It is very sad that we have almost entered the middle of the year and we don’t have a budget.
“This indeed is sad that the budget has taken so long in coming and practically we have less than seven months to execute the budget.
“We will do everything possible to reconcile the few differences that emerged in what was transmitted to the government by the national Assembly.
“There are few areas of distortions and they are those areas that are very serious and we think there is a need to look into them because of the negative impact those distortions may have on the implementation of the budget.
“There is a lot of conversation going on now between the Federal Ministry of Finance and the National Assembly on these issues. And very shortly we believe that we are going to reconcile those areas and then the final budget will be announced to the nation by the President.”
It will be recalled that both chambers of the National Assembly had, in passing the 2014 Budget, raised the figures to N4.695 trillion from the N4.642 trillion estimates submitted by the Executive.
The 2014 budget is made up of statutory transfers, N408.687 billion; debt servicing, N712 billion; recurrent expenditure, N2.454 trillion; and capital expenditure, N1.119 trillion.
In the Appropriation Bill submitted by the Executive, the recurrent expenditure was put at N2.4 trillion while capital expenditure was N1.1 trillion.
The budget passed was based on an oil price benchmark of $77.5 per barrel and crude oil production of 2.3883 million barrels per day.
For Nigerian leaders, political power serves only one purpose – it is a self-serving instrument for self aggrandisement. Little wonder, political power in Africa’s most populous country has churned out thousands of overnight billionaires, at the expense of a choking populace.
When the late Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Chukwudifu Oputa JSC was delivering his judgement sometime in the 80s in the famous Johnson case, referring to the unfair treatment meted out to the foreign partner by his Nigerian partners, the then “Socrates” of the Apex Court compared the case to a hungry poultry, where each chicken was eager to grab as much grain as it could, not minding in the struggle which chicken was hurt. Oputa concluded by saying that it was unworthy of gentlemen.
That statement he made then paints a true picture of Nigeria of our time. For Nigerian leaders, public office is a rat race of pilfering the commonwealth without giving a damm about what happens to the common man. As they crazily looted the treasury, they did not pause to ponder. Also what they foolishly failed to ponder while they were milking the cow called Nigeria dry, was what kind of a country would they live in with their ill-gotten wealth amidst artificially created hunger and poverty?
The chickens have come home to roost. Nigeria, as it is today – an impoverished and severely unsafe country – is the end product of the foolishness of the Nigerian elite. Depraved corruption is the cause of all the troubles we have in present day Nigeria, including the Boko Haram insurgency.
If Nigerians had enjoyed 20% of the benefits normally meant for citizens of the world’s 7th largest producer of crude oil, there would have been no Boko Haram. Because the people would have a good life and would have no time for extremist thoughts. About three hundred of our girls of the future generation would also not have been kidnapped and Nigeria would not be getting the very bad press it is getting at the moment due to the missing Chibok girls.
Amnesty International last week chastised the Nigerian Military for failing to respond to early information it got about plans by the terror group, Boko Haram to attack the Chibok School. This has been vehemently denied by the Military, although two conflicting responses emerged from the Defence Headquarters.
Surely the military is guilty of both not doing enough to prevent the raid and not doing much to bring back the girls, as angrily demanded by an outraged populace and the international community. However, what this writer fails to understand is why Nigerians could not understand that we lack an army which is capable of dealing with this insurgency, no thanks to corruption.
As a result of idiotic corruption, the defence budget has been seen, over the years, as a big cake to be shared by the top military brass and their political collaborators. This is why we have a ragtag army and this is why our military cannot deal with the threat of Boko Haram without international help, not withstanding the trillions of Naira that has gone down the drain-pipe called defence.
The Nation is told that huge amount of military personnel has been deployed to the North-East to face the insurgency. Good talk. But no one cares to ask if adequate logistics have been put in place. The United States of America, for example, do not send troops anywhere without first setting up a make-shift camp, which would have grocery store, clinic, laundry, cafeteria, sport facilities etc.
But the Nigeria Army sends its troops in harm’s way without caring for their welfare and safety. It is useless to talk about lack of adequate compensation for the families of soldiers who fall in serving their fatherland. Yet, Nigerians expect too much from our soldiers. Because they know that if they died in service, their families will suffer, this is why they chicken out when they are expected to provide security.
If not for corruption, Chibok would have been a flourishing town with good policing and good communications network. It would have been impossible for any group to take away such number of girls in lorries. Those girls suffered the fate they suffered due to a ravenous elite, whose greed left Nigeria a skeleton of a nation. It is very sad.
Even if President Jonathan, now with international military help, finds and brings them back as he promised (and as Nigerians legitimately expect), those girls’ lives may never be the same again. It must be a hell of ordeal for them to be held captive by a brutal terror group.
Nigeria is cursed by new generation leaders, who think that leadership is a jamboree. They were forced down on the nation by a corrupt military. They are emergency leaders, with 90% of them not even prepared for leadership. Our leaders don’t care about the masses; neither do they care about their country. This has now turned out to be their nemesis. The Igbos say that a sheep that foolishly urinated on where it would sleep will stand when the night falls.
The night has fallen on our dear country. The darkness is intense. Due to corruption, Nigeria is now a pariah state, where there is no security to lives and property. The military is not to blame. I hold the political class responsible for all our troubles.
Those missing girls maybe found and brought back. Boko Haram maybe defeated one day. When this happens, then we will realise that our problem is not just Boko Haram and a helpless military that could not fight them. 85% of our employable youths are unemployed. And they have no hope of finding work. There would be plenty to agitate for in the years ahead. Other militant groups would crop up.
Ultimately, our unwise leaders would have no hiding place. If they think that they will get away with the injustice they meted out to their fellow countrymen and women, they had better check through history again. In post Boko Haram Nigeria, the leaders will ultimately be held to account for stealing the dreams and twisting the destiny of a people.
Rights activist Shehu Sani, has for the first time, disclosed how he became a friend of Boko Haram and details of his meetings with them. In an opinion article published this afternoon by CNN, Sani, who is the President of the Kaduna-based Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria and one-time Boko Haram negotiator, also disclosed how he was invited twice for a face-to-face meeting Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau. He blames the continued insurgency on hawks in the Nigerian Government and contractors who continue to sabotage every effort to reconcile Boko haram and the government. Excerpts:
“I mooted the idea of dialogue with the insurgents as a new option towards ending the insurgency and restoring peace to my bewildered and beleaguered nation. In September 2011, I facilitated talks with the insurgents and the former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo – then chairman of Nigeria’s ruling party.
“The first surprise in the encounter was that the representatives of the terror group spoke fluent English. The bigger surprise was when some of the insurgents revealed that they had university degrees. It is a prerequisite for new Boko Haram members to burn their university certificates or any paper identification that links them secular schools.
“In the meeting, they justified their violence on the grounds that it was the Nigerian Government that had forced them to take up arms. They said that before they trod the path of violence, they first tried to take the path of peace.
“They even showed us copies of a petition they wrote to the government complaining about the harassment and intimidation of their sect members by security forces before they picked up arms.
“They showed us photographs of followers and relatives they said had been killed by the police in cold blood, even before the insurgency began and threatened more attacks until they “avenge the injustices done to them.”
“They expressed anger at the way people criticised and condemned them when they launched attacks but kept mute when Boko Haram members were killed, their homes demolished and their wives and children arrested by the security forces.
“We took their grievances to the government and advised the government to follow through, but hawks within the corridors of power discouraged the president from taking our advice.
“The second effort at dialogue involved a northern Islamic cleric and head of the Nigeria sharia council. The talks were facilitated by a freelance journalist who was later threatened by those opposed to dialogue.
“This second round of dialogue took place in the last quarter of 2012.
“Boko Haram accused the government of leaking the details of the talks to the media for political reasons. One of the group’s conditions for talks had been that only their outcome be made public.
“We were close to achieving a ceasefire but again hawks, security and defence contractors in the corridors of power sabotaged our efforts.
“I have never met the Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau but I declined to meet him on two occasions when I got his invitation to interview him. I declined because I realised that the government was not interested in my approach.”
Nigerian Senate has stepped down debate on the request by President Goodluck Jonathan for the extension of emergency rule in the three Boko Haram troubled states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa even as it invited the country’s security chiefs, including the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to brief iton the security situation in the affected states.
The security chief are expected to appear before the Red chamber tomorrow, Thursday before debates on the request by President Jonathan would commence.
Also to appear before the senate are the National Security Adviser, Minister of Defence and the Minister of Police Affair.
President Jonathan had on Tuesday, sought the approval of the Senate to extend the state of emergency imposed on the three states of North East, alleging that the security situation in the states had not improved.
Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba who was to move the motion for the extension of the emergency rule, differed debateand advised members to allow the item be stepped down in the order paper till another legislative session.
President of Dangote Group of Companies, Alhaji Aliko Dangote is taking investment in Sugar plantation to the heartland of Boko Haram, having acquired some hectres of land in Adamawa, Taraba, Yobe, Bauchi and other states in the North. Dangote, who paid a courtesy visit on Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo yesterday said that so far, his group has acquired about 260,000 hectres of land to develop sugar plantations in Adamawa and Taraba states. He said that plans are under way to acquire more in Bauchi and Yobe states after the completion of the Kafin Zaki Dam. Alhaji Dangote added that the group is going to partner with government on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) basis to ensure the realization of the project. According to him, other states that are lined up to benefit from the plantation project are Jigawa and Sokoto, even as about 56,000 hectares of land has already been acquired in Kebbi state and payment for compensation to those affected had commenced for the same purpose. He said that 50,000 hectares of land has also been acquired in Kogi and Kwara states for the sugarcane plantation. Dangote said that the group is planing to produce about 1.5 million metric tonnes of sugar Ethanol, bio-compost and animal feeds and would generate about 360mw which he said is above the firm’s requirements. He said that the group will require about 240mw while the remaining 120mw would be transferred to the national grid for distribution to the host communities, even as he said that Rice Plantation would be established in Edo and Niger states. Already, he said, it has acquired about 50,000 hectares of land in Niger state for the project. Dangote said that the group is deeply interested in the development of the Nigerian mining sector, pointing out that high profile mines in Nigeria has been licensed to those that do not possess the requisite capacity to develop them and that the time frame given to develop them has since expired. He added that the firm has entered into a partnership with Andre de Coulters which is one of the leading companies responsible for about 44,000mw, about a third of Brazil’s power generation capacity. Vice President Namadi Sambo praised Dangote Group for the huge investment it has made in sugar plantation in the country, adding that it would go a long way to create employment opportunities to millions of Nigerians. The vice president promised government’s incentive to the private sector in the development of the mining sector, particularly in coal mining. He said that arrangements are being made to cancel the licenses of underperforming miners while advertising same to the public to attract more serious investors. While congratulating Dangote Group on the plan to undertake Concrete Road projects which he described as good, he assured the Group of government’s readiness to partner with the private sector in capital projects, especially in the area of infrastructural development.
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President Goodluck Jonathan is still not comfortable with what is termed as “distortions” in the 2014 national budget, leading to continued delay in his ascending his signature to it, five months into the year.
Night Has Fallen On Nigeria, By Charles Ofoji
For Nigerian leaders, political power serves only one purpose – it is a self-serving instrument for self aggrandisement. Little wonder, political power in Africa’s most populous country has churned out thousands of overnight billionaires, at the expense of a choking populace.
When the late Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Chukwudifu Oputa JSC was delivering his judgement sometime in the 80s in the famous Johnson case, referring to the unfair treatment meted out to the foreign partner by his Nigerian partners, the then “Socrates” of the Apex Court compared the case to a hungry poultry, where each chicken was eager to grab as much grain as it could, not minding in the struggle which chicken was hurt. Oputa concluded by saying that it was unworthy of gentlemen.
That statement he made then paints a true picture of Nigeria of our time. For Nigerian leaders, public office is a rat race of pilfering the commonwealth without giving a damm about what happens to the common man. As they crazily looted the treasury, they did not pause to ponder. Also what they foolishly failed to ponder while they were milking the cow called Nigeria dry, was what kind of a country would they live in with their ill-gotten wealth amidst artificially created hunger and poverty?
The chickens have come home to roost. Nigeria, as it is today – an impoverished and severely unsafe country – is the end product of the foolishness of the Nigerian elite. Depraved corruption is the cause of all the troubles we have in present day Nigeria, including the Boko Haram insurgency.
If Nigerians had enjoyed 20% of the benefits normally meant for citizens of the world’s 7th largest producer of crude oil, there would have been no Boko Haram. Because the people would have a good life and would have no time for extremist thoughts. About three hundred of our girls of the future generation would also not have been kidnapped and Nigeria would not be getting the very bad press it is getting at the moment due to the missing Chibok girls.
Amnesty International last week chastised the Nigerian Military for failing to respond to early information it got about plans by the terror group, Boko Haram to attack the Chibok School. This has been vehemently denied by the Military, although two conflicting responses emerged from the Defence Headquarters.
Surely the military is guilty of both not doing enough to prevent the raid and not doing much to bring back the girls, as angrily demanded by an outraged populace and the international community. However, what this writer fails to understand is why Nigerians could not understand that we lack an army which is capable of dealing with this insurgency, no thanks to corruption.
As a result of idiotic corruption, the defence budget has been seen, over the years, as a big cake to be shared by the top military brass and their political collaborators. This is why we have a ragtag army and this is why our military cannot deal with the threat of Boko Haram without international help, not withstanding the trillions of Naira that has gone down the drain-pipe called defence.
The Nation is told that huge amount of military personnel has been deployed to the North-East to face the insurgency. Good talk. But no one cares to ask if adequate logistics have been put in place. The United States of America, for example, do not send troops anywhere without first setting up a make-shift camp, which would have grocery store, clinic, laundry, cafeteria, sport facilities etc.
But the Nigeria Army sends its troops in harm’s way without caring for their welfare and safety. It is useless to talk about lack of adequate compensation for the families of soldiers who fall in serving their fatherland. Yet, Nigerians expect too much from our soldiers. Because they know that if they died in service, their families will suffer, this is why they chicken out when they are expected to provide security.
If not for corruption, Chibok would have been a flourishing town with good policing and good communications network. It would have been impossible for any group to take away such number of girls in lorries. Those girls suffered the fate they suffered due to a ravenous elite, whose greed left Nigeria a skeleton of a nation. It is very sad.
Even if President Jonathan, now with international military help, finds and brings them back as he promised (and as Nigerians legitimately expect), those girls’ lives may never be the same again. It must be a hell of ordeal for them to be held captive by a brutal terror group.
Nigeria is cursed by new generation leaders, who think that leadership is a jamboree. They were forced down on the nation by a corrupt military. They are emergency leaders, with 90% of them not even prepared for leadership. Our leaders don’t care about the masses; neither do they care about their country. This has now turned out to be their nemesis. The Igbos say that a sheep that foolishly urinated on where it would sleep will stand when the night falls.
The night has fallen on our dear country. The darkness is intense. Due to corruption, Nigeria is now a pariah state, where there is no security to lives and property. The military is not to blame. I hold the political class responsible for all our troubles.
Those missing girls maybe found and brought back. Boko Haram maybe defeated one day. When this happens, then we will realise that our problem is not just Boko Haram and a helpless military that could not fight them. 85% of our employable youths are unemployed. And they have no hope of finding work. There would be plenty to agitate for in the years ahead. Other militant groups would crop up.
Ultimately, our unwise leaders would have no hiding place. If they think that they will get away with the injustice they meted out to their fellow countrymen and women, they had better check through history again. In post Boko Haram Nigeria, the leaders will ultimately be held to account for stealing the dreams and twisting the destiny of a people.