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he approach of the Nigerian government in handling the Boko Haram insurgency is worrisome.

More troubling is the way some members of the opposition are playing politics with the whole issue. Some of the reasons why the Boko Haram problems have persisted are because Nigerian politicians are divided over the definition of the insurgency.

This disagreement has to do with some political party members trying to take advantage by pointing accusing fingers at each other.

For this reason we must commend General Muhammadu Buhari's total condemnation of the Nyanya bombing and President Goodluck Jonathan's response in which the President applauded Buhari as an exemplary leader. Nigerian politicians must learn when to unite and leave partisanship aside for the purpose of moving the nation forward. Pointing accusing fingers at each other has not worked and will never work, and the insurgency is taking advantage of this. This is the time to talk with one voice and stand together.

Nigeria has come a long way. With all the lapses the democratic government of Olusegun Obasanjo succeeded in handing over power to a democratically elected government after eight years in office, proving cynics and ardent critics wrong of the possibility that Nigeria would disintegrate. President Umar Musa Yar'adua passed on and Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in as president, despite all the upheavals we are still here as one nation. We should protect that.

With the upsurge interest in news nowadays, there is the need to interpret, educate and inform people objectively on what is going on around them and around the globe that will affect them positively and negatively without sensationalizing issues, which has become the style and culture of most media practitioners in Nigeria.

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Brief News

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Nyanya Bombing Almajiris are not extremists Wamakko

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Let’s stop praying and start acting

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Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko Building Indestructible Legacy in Sokoto

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The roots of Nigeria’s religious and ethnic conflicts

Director of Circulation Muhammed Bello

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The filth called Boko Haram

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Bye-Bye David Moyes

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Africa is losing its humanity

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The Nigerian Tragedy

GUEST COLUMNIST

Professor Pius Adesanmi In the overall context of the N i g e r i a n t r a g e d y, s o m e of my friends - friends with credibility, integrity, and loads of ethical capital have argued that given the fact that we will most certainly end up with a field of corrupt, more corrupt, and most corrupt thieves jostling for the Presidency in 2015, our most pragmatic option now is to give serious consideration to a performing corrupt thief as opposed to the prospects of re-hiring a clueless corrupt thief as president in 2015. To this end, they think Atiku Abubakar could claim to be our best corrupt option in a potential field of megathieves and scoundrels.

I am no stranger to this line of argument. You will recall my recurrent theme in previous essays that our choice, every election cycle, is never between good and bad candidates but between bad and less bad candidates.

My aburo, Tolu Ogunlesi, took this further at our explosive Ake 2013 panel by making a persuasive and pragmatic case for responsible thieves.

Yes, our case is that bad in Nigeria: a distinction must be made between responsible and irresponsible thieves.

When you see all the amazing developments and projects all over the South West, it is not that those performing governors are not eating with all four civilized corners of their mouths. Therefore, you cannot compare them with an irresponsible buffoon like former Borno governor, Ali Modu Sherrif, who has a harem of four private jets and only a legacy of poverty and Boko Haram to show for his years in office. So, there are thieves and there are thieves.

As a first realistic step, the argument went at the Ake Panel, let's even have responsible thieves who do maybe 30 percent of the work they were elected to do and steal in hundreds of millions of naira instead of billions of dollars.

From that vantage point, we could struggle to reduce the stealing progressively.

I supported Tolu. Our brother, Chuma Nwokolo, was outraged and blew a lot

of unworkable grammar about zero tolerance. We must be zero tolerance hardliners, argued Ogbuefi Nwokolo.

Trouble is: do Nigerians even want the squeaky clean candidate and leader?

They did not vote for Gani Fawehinmi.

They did not vote for Tunde Fagbenle when he ran for Senate. They treat every squeaky clean candidate as a joker whose ambition is dead on arrival. They will not waste their votes.

And there is also that part of them that is so used to being led by thieves and corrupt scoundrels that they are afraid of the unknown scenario of being led by non-thieves and non-corrupt c o m p a t r i o t s .

This explains why two candidates have emerged for 2015, one a jester, the other a potential, but none has gotten any look in from Nigerians. Chris Okotie is the jester. You dismiss him outright. But you cannot do the same thing with Sam Nda Isaiah. He is a potential.

His candidacy does not deserve silence. It should be given a serious look in and if you all decide that he is a credible alternative to all the thieves and crooks looming in the horizon, what you do is mobilize en masse, register massively for APC starting from February 5, and constitute a Third Force within that party to wrestle it from the usual suspects. Look at what the Tea Party does within the Republican Party. They wrestle party

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machinery and impose their candidates. You think Bola Tinubu, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, Atiku Abubakar, Lai Mohammed, and Femi Fani Kayode can resist sixty million of you if you form a movement within that party and insist on a squeaky clean, non-establishmentarian, untainted candidate like Sam Nda Isaiah? It doesn't even have to be Sam Nda Isaiah. Sixty million of you tea partying within APC could insist on Chidi Odinkalu, Ayo Obe, Oby Ezekwesili (on the nonestablishmentarian side) or Babatunde Fashola, Oshiomhole (on the establishmentarian side) Unfortunately, Like you did to Gani Fawehinmi, like you did to Tunde Fagbenle, you are already thinking that Sam Nda Isaiah is a huge joke who stands no chance. You are waiting patiently for the most responsible thief, the best corrupt candidate that the two leading parties will throw up.

If that is what you want, then the submissions of my friends about Atiku being the thief most likely to perform best among the thieving lot that the parties will eventually present to you will become a real scenario for you. If that is how you are going to play 2015, that is your funeral. I have told you time and again that it is too late in the day for any of the buffoons ruling Nigeria to have a direct negative economic and material impact on my life. It is too late in the day for me to be a direct victim of their visionlessness and congenital stupidity. So, this is about you. Register in your millions on February 5, seize the initiative from the current crop leading APC, and make it impossible for them to ignore your choice of a squeaky clean, nonestablishmentarian candidate for president in 2015. You can do it. The Tea Party does it to the leaders of the Republican Party all the time.

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Nasarawa State still toddling AJEN BAKO

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asarawa state since its creation seventeen years ago going on eighteen has continually groaned under the maladministration of successive Governments to remain in the league of backward states in the country. T ? he election of Alhaji Umaru Tanko Almakura the incumbent was a concerted effort by the people of Nasarawa state to rid themselves of an inept and visionless Government and usher in an era of prosperity, growth and progress. Thus the emergence of Alhaji Tanko Almakura was greeted with high hopes and great expectations for a radical transformation of the fortunes of the state and its people and to place the state on the path to unprecedented growth and development. ?It's now three years under his watch and Nasarawa state is still struggling to toddle. Three years on and the state is still plagued by the same state of affairs that prevailed in previous administrations and more worrisome is the worsening trend of affairs manifest in the rising insecurity, gross unemployment, a dearth of infrastructure and general underdevelopment, absence of a clear cut roadmap for his administration, misplacement of priorities and a host of other defects.?

The rising spate of insecurity is without precedence in the state.

Nasarawa a hitherto relatively peaceful state is now a hotbed of crises that has claimed a lot of lives and property. A lot of people have lost their sources of livelihood due to the incessant unrests with the Government doing very little to assuage the plight of such victims. It has also failed in tackling such occurrences and in proactively curtailing it. Rather its witch hunting approach reeks of complicity and has done very little to check the scourge as pockets of attacks on hapless citizens are still been reported. ?The administration of Governor Tanko Almakura has at different times been accused of brewing and inciting distrust and disharmony amongst ethnic groups in the state. If this is true, then it is an unfortunate and potentially

dangerous development with dire consequences for the state. The Government of Nasarawa state should know that the sole reason why it exists is to protect the lives and property of its citizens and he the Governor is the chief security officer of the state not of a select section of it.?

The scourge of unemployment in Nasarawa is evident everywhere in the state. Since the inception of this administration, there has been an embargo on employment (though cronies and party faithfuls get routinely employed).The rife level of joblessness in the state is not unconnected to the administration's nepotic disposition and an indictment on the Governments for it's inability to think outside the box so as to evolve strategies that may culminate in avenues where the teeming jobless youths can be engaged productively outside the conventional civil service.

Where progressive minded Governors are sending their youths overseas for training in professional fields, the Nasarawa state Government is content with recruiting its own youth in obsolete and noncompetitive trades and vocations- how visionless can a Government get if it cannot do some decent and productive investments on its youth, the future of the state. It is instructive to state here that the high rate of unemployment in Nasarawa state is a re-enforcing factor in the rising spate of sectarian and civil unrest.

Though the Government has made modest efforts at road construction at rates well above that obtainable in the industry (300m as against 150m/km), the quality and distribution leaves much to be desired. Lafia the state capital still remains a glorified village.

There is a general dearth of infrastructure and a stark lack of planning in all the major towns in the state. The state's proximity to the FCT is a comparative advantage that has not been maximized and so far, the potentials therein are still lost on the Government by design or as a consequence of its ineptitude. What Nasarawa state requires is an

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Almakura infrastructural revolution not cosmetic ventures. ?F urthermore, this administration appears not to have a clear cut agenda for the development of the state by way of a comprehensive developmental plan. Its workings seem to be arbitrary and dependent on the whims and caprices of the Governor. An elaborate developmental plan ought to be articulated for the state and brought to bear on the workings of the Government.?

While the free education policy of the state Government should otherwise be viewed positively, but it is yet another ruse to hoodwink the unsuspecting mass of the people as the policy was transactionally conceived at the eve of the 2015 elections with its feasibility and implementation highly in doubt.

The Government has yet done nothing to ensure its workability and sustainability. The Nasarawa people deserve and desire a better deal and will want to see a Government that is actually working towards meeting the aspirations of the people.

B a k o , O r g a n i s i n g S e c r e t a r y, Nasarawa People's Congress (NPC) writes from Lafia..

BRIEF ISSUES

Fayemi challenges Fayose to debate

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kiti State governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi recently scored the state's educational sector high.

He said the state has witnessed tremendous transformation in the last three years of his administration.

Governor Fayemi attributed this to the improvement in the level of students' performances in external examinations and the welfare of the teachers which he said are unprecedented since he came on board as the governor of the state.

He said these recently in Okeoro Ekiti in Ijero local government while reacting to an allegation by the Peoples Democratic Party governorship

candidate, Mr Ayodele Fayose that the rating of the state in public examinations is at its lowest ebb since October 16, 2010 when Fayemi assumed office.

The governor therefore challenged Fayose to a debate on the level of development of education in the state s a i d , “ G o t o We s t A f r i c a n Examinations Council and check the trajectory. Go and see the records we have achieved in the last three years.

Ekiti has produced good results consistently. I don't deal with opinions; I deal with facts because facts are sacred; opinions are free; anybody can say what they like”.

Fayemi

Gombe marries out 720 couples

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ombe State Government recently marries out 720 couples. The state government says it spent N151.8 million on the mass wedding.

Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo, disclosed this during the wedding ceremony of the couples in recently in Gombe.

Dankwambo said the amount was expended on the settlement of dowry, purchase of food items, textile materials, furniture, kitchen utensils, as well as takeoff capital for the couples.

The governor said that the materials had already been distributed to the beneficiaries by the committee set up to organise the wedding.

He revealed that some of the couples were People Living Positive, “Our aim is to ameliorate the negative implications of failed marriages and the attendant consequences on our society,” Dankwambo said.

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Umar, Taraba State Acting Governor

Police nab 24 suspects in Taraba

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en of theTaraba State Police Command have arrested 24 suspects in connection with a clash that occurred in Wukari on 15 April.

The state's Police spokesperson, Joseph Kwaji, ans Assistant Superintendent of Police , said that the suspects would be charged to court soon.

“The command has so far arrested 24 persons in connection with the current Wukari crisis, I can assure you that the suspects would soon be prosecuted,” he said.

Violence broke out on 15 April in Wukari, when youths in the town protested the alleged killings in some villages by suspected herdsmen.

Alhaji Garba Umar, the Taraba State Acting Governor has imposed a 24 hour curfew in the area to prevent further breakdown of law and order during a visit to the troubled .

BRIEF ISSUES

Sub-standard electric poles supplied to be used by private electricity company in Benue

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fter heavy rain that fell in Makurdi, the capital of Benue State three weeks ago that led to the fallen of electric poles, the private electricity company in charge of Benue axis due to recent privatisation, has brought new poles to replace them. The problem is that these poles are so substandard that they were breaking as they were being offloaded off the trucks.

People of Makurdi are complaining that they are a deathtrap as serious wind will bring them down as there are so weak. NEWISSUES heard from a reliable source that Gabriel Suswan, the Governor of Benue State, also invested hugely in one of the company that benefited in the privatisation of the PHCN.

Some of the sub-standard poles.

Members of the Kano State cabinet, led by the Kano State Governor, Engr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso sweeping off feet of the Peoples Democratic Party after President Goodluck Jonathan led a PDP rally in the state...recently.

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An Almajiri is not an extremist like Bishop Matthew Kukah said recently in one of his statements

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As far as I know there is no crisis in the APC. There may be disagreements here and there. In human interaction it is just natural and you cannot avoid disagreements between human beings

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Nigerians have forgotten about ethnicity, religious differences, but now Goodluck and his team have brought back the politics of tribalism, that is dividing

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One, either the government is incompetent or incapable of dealing with the situation, or two, it is deliberately allowing it to continue for some political purposes

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have heard people say that it is prayer that can solve our problems in Nigeria. “It is only prayers that can solve our problems,� they say.

Some of us who have chosen reality to superstition, people like me who are rational and choose not to believe in illusion, know prayers without work, faith without work, is useless. Yes, you can pray but prayer without action is worthless. How can prayers solve our problems when we create our problems deliberately and refused to solve them deliberately? We politicize Boko Haram and everything else. We politicize corruption, nepotism, religion region, even the ongoing National Conference. Albert Einstein said our problems cannot be solved by the same thinking that created it.

We have not changed our mentality yet we expect divine intervention. When you change the way you think you will definitely act differently and your problems will start to change.

The politics of Boko Haram is annoying but will be fascinating to students of Political Science and History. PDP blames APC, APC blames PDP. Interesting, isn't it? The insensitivity and apathy shown by politicians on incidents like the Nyanya massacre and others is appalling.

It simply makes me feel hopeless that these generation of politicians are incapable of doing anything different than what they are doing right now which is using Boko Haram as a stepping stone to campaign for 2015 election and LOOTING and LOOTING and LOOTING. And those who are not in power are screaming because they want to come and LOOT. Prayers don't solve problems we can solve. We solve problems that we can solve as human beings. In Nigeria we are unwilling to solve our problems and want God, Allah, or some divine intervention to come whisk our problems away. The truth is that things don't work that way.

There is a process to everything. How can you budget millions and billions of dollars for security and tell me to pray?

Let that millions and billions of dollars

be channeled properly towards ensuring we are safe and you will see the miracle we are all expecting.

The miracle is in doing the right thing as a people and as a nation. Developed countries don't pray but they solve their problems. China, Japan, South Korea are not Christians or Muslims, India has more Hindus to Muslims and Christians, but things are working in these countries. Why are things not working in this country even though we pray more?

Let's keep praying. People like Boko Haram will continue to bomb this nation. Let our policemen and army at checkpoints keep taking little bribes and not do their job, Boko Haram will continue to succeed.

Let our religious leaders keep running away from the truth and politicizing Boko Haram, the terrorists will continue to penetrate and kill people.

Let us continue to be dishonest about everything; we will continue to face tsunami of problems and bombardment from our enemies.

The most poignant, pathetic and funny thing is that some of us are using Boko Haram as a means to promote our interests but we don't care at all. Look at PDP rushing to blame APC over Nyanya bombing.

Isn't that ridiculous? Politicians and their supporters cashing on the misfortune of the masses that is directly and indirectly as a result of their failure, because of 2015 election, is simply inhuman.

Immediately after the Nyanya bombing about 200 girls were kidnapped from some girl secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, and you tell me to pray? Please don't insult our sensibilities. Government people should just do their job. With all the money going to the State government for security, why are schools not being protected by security, even vigilante?

Yes, the State Government.

The Borno State government must take part of this blame. Several schools have been attacked in Yobe State and still schools are not protected?

Something is definitely wrong with the way the whole of this country is

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President Goodluck Jonathan

Abubakar, President, NSCIS

Oritshejafor, CAN President being governed.

We will triumph over evil as evil will never win no matter how long it last.

However, it is not by prayers that we will triumph over evil, it is by action, the right action. Right now we have not started doing the right thing and talking the right talk. The National Conference should be an opportunity to say it as it is.

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Almajiri Integrated Model School, Sokoto.

Few of the boys already taken off the streets.

Wamakko is restoring hope to the Almajiris

Some of the classroom blocks.

One of the hostel blocks.

Block of staff quarters.

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INTERVIEW

Borno people should be praised - Honourable Terab Honorable Abdulrahman Terab is one of the brilliant young members of the House of Representative you would ever meet. He speaks to NEWISSUES honestly on Boko Haram and his people of Bama, Ngala and Kalabalge. This is one of the most honest and brave politicians who is not afraid to say the truth at a period where everything in Nigeria is being politicized by politicians and party leaders.

- Haruna Yusuf Sir, from what I learnt, you are the son of Abba Gana Terab…

Yes Famous politician, he was one time presidential candidate during the Abiola/Kingibe era, how has he influenced your career today?

He was everything. He was the source and the root. That's how I picked up, and it is ehh…, the fruit of his labour that we are still reaping now.

The issue of your people is what brought us here, the people in Bama, Ngala and Kalabalge.

Recently there has been series of attacks on your people, what has government done for them in terms of reliefs. I mean the vulnerable women, children and others.

While, ehh… relief has come in so

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INTERVIEW Sir, from what I learnt, you are the son of Abba Gana Terab…

Yes Famous politician, he was one time presidential candidate during the Abiola/Kingibe era, how has he influenced your career today?

He was everything. He was the source and the root. That's how I picked up, and it is ehh…, the fruit of his labour that we are still reaping now.

The issue of your people is what brought us here, the people in Bama, Ngala and Kalabalge. Recently there has been series of attacks on your people, what has government done for them in terms of reliefs. I mean the vulnerable women, children and others.

While, ehh… relief has come in so many ways but our primary concern is security. There is no amount of relief you can give someone who is in a state of insecurity that will make him feel better. It is when insecurity comes that you get to know that nothing in this world is as important as peace and then whatever it is that you have is meaningless, is useless. There is no amount of money you will have that you will go to the market, there is no amount of strength that you will have that you will go to the farm, and there are no schools, no hospitals…so you are virtually living on your own. That's how people are feeling. It is not a matter of relief. Reliefs are going there in and out from concerned citizens, government and from all across. What we want is security to be maintained, sustained, and ensured, so that our people can go back to their lives as they used to.

The Nigerian government has been trying in their own ways to ensure there is security in the area. Do you think they are doing enough?

While…I will not know equally from where they are coming from, but I must say that if someone is coming out for an operation, then you must have made preparations. Based on what we have seen on ground, we have always believed that much needs to be done, but if of course you believe everything is ok, by now everything should have

been over. So, it is insurgency, it is insecurity, it is not the first time it is happening in the world. It is not a new phenomenon completely in the history of the world, and we have seen how it is being battled in other parts of the world. But we have always made a very significant point here that our people have made remarkable sacrifice for them to agree to live without this people. To take their own brothers and sisters out of them, and to create their own society free of insurgents. That is the first thing that any insurgent infested environment should do. They have done that, which means they have contributed more than fifty percent to the war against insurgency, and of course the military is there with the might of the Federal government, we just hope this will be sustained so that peace can be restored back to the whole of the region, I mean the North East.

There is the issue of the way the Federal Government is going about fighting insurgency in Borno State. A lot of people are not satisfied with the whole of it. People complain of too much force, civilian casualties, like the incident Gamboru Ngala where civilians were caught in the whole imbroglio sometimes ago. What are you people in power doing to ensure things like that never happen again?

Well, I don't know if you have your records straight. From what is going on right now I doubt much if we have unnecessary civilian casualties.

While…in any case we are fighting insurgency and in insurgency you don't have uniforms. You have people attacking from all corners. Sometimes it is rather very unfortunate that we find ourselves in the crossfire. You understand what I am saying?

Yes, I understand ...but the fact of the matter is that in recent times because of the high ip between the army and the people for

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corporation of the civilian population in helping to tackle this matter, and of course that is being reciprocated the military authorizes, there has been a very cordial relationship between the army and the people for quite some time now. All we are after and have always said is that the military needs to get all the resources it needs on ground so that they can battle this thing as it is expected, and I believe that with so much cries, complains, that has been coming on and off from all sides, I believe that they are now trying to put things in right steps for them to conquer it.

The issue of insurgency is a battle of ideology; the issue of using military power alone does not work anywhere, even in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen…sometimes we need government to…

That's what I am telling you. Our people have already ideologically sensitized themselves for them to agree not to live with them. In any case what we are now having in our place is more of…is already getting into a conventional warfare. The issue of insurgency is more and more getting reduced. What is insurgency?

Insurgency means warfare from within the community. Believe it our own communities have gotten rid of its insurgents out of them. So it is now more of a conventional warfare. I said it in a lot of for a, I said it once in the United States department of states that if anybody should be commended the people of Borno specifically must be commended in the war against insurgency. In the history of the world there is no place that just within four years after a major strike of insurgency, after insurgency eating deep into the society, that within just four years they woke up and decided to get rid of it on their own. It has never happened neither in Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan, nor in any historical insurgent areas that are known in the current history of the world. So I believe the case of Borno is a special case study where the people have awoken, re-orientate themselves and resist it.

So the issue of ideological warfare, I think should be left to others, people of Borno have woken up on their

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Education Female hostel at the Sokoto State University.

The University’s Vice Chancellor’s Lodge.

Inside the administrative block..

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The Sokoto State University gate.

Administrative block of the university in perspective.

The University’s mosque.

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Health A section of the expansive Sokoto State Orthopeadic Hospital, Wamakko.

Few of the equipment at a government hospital.

A pool of ambulances purchased for all local councils.

Doctor attending to a patient.

Another medical equipment at Orthopeadic Hospital.

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The Sokoto Water Supply Scheme, Asare.

A rural water supply scheme.

The Asare Water Scheme at commissioning.

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Sokoto Independent Power Project

Control Room of the Sokoto Independent Power Project.

A rural electrification initiative of the Sokoto State government.

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Oussama Almasri, General Manager of Giginya and Shukura Coral Hotels.

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Housing

A 1000 housing units nearing completion.

A 500 units housing estate.

Presidential Lodge, Sokoto.

Sokoto State Guest House.

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A 500 units housing estate.

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Farming Skills Acquisition Centre, Kware.

A dry season farm land in Sokoto.

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The new Silame River bridge.

One of many resurfaced rural roads.

One of many rehabilitated and dualized township roads.

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OPINION

Buhari is Jonathan's worst nightmare ahead of 2015 DANIEL ODEY

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t is the fundamental obligation of a State to provide social security for its citizens and in fact all persons within its territory.

Any government that is incapable of meeting up that basic responsibility should consider itself a huge failure; and rather than attempting to trade blames, should pack up and leave or brace up for the indignity of a colossal electoral defeat.

Since Nigeria's return to democracy in 1999, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari has generously offered himself on three different occasions to serve the nation as President and Commander-in-Chief. Although the electoral umpire did not deem it fit to declare him victorious on any of these occasions amid highly contentious circumstances, I am constrained to explicitly dispel the barrage of mendacities and campaigns of calumny that the adversaries of truth, justice, equity and development in Nigeria have concocted over the years and fed Nigerians; with the aim of discrediting Gen. Buhari.

Without mincing words I wish to describe as utterly baseless and mischievous, the impression which the PDP and other antagonists of a united Nigeria have foisted on a strata of the citizenry; that General Buhari is a religious fanatic who is capable of Islamizing Nigeria if elected President. It is inconceivable to me, how any citizen that is privy to Gen. Buhari's antecedent can be bamboozled by such meretricious allegations! Let us not forget in a hurry that when Buhari served as the Head of State in 1984, he had all the key instruments of the State at his disposal. yet he did not at any time contemplated to advance any policy or agenda that could infringe on the rights of Christians and members of other faiths in Nigeria.

On the contrary, it was his successor, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) that attempted to make Nigeria a registered member of the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) in his tenure as Head of State between 1985-1993. I recall vividly that some confidential documents have been leaked that revealed IBB's huge financial contributions to the OIC from the national purse.

IBB is still a bigwig in the PDP today. So the question we should ask is, is it possible for Buhari to nurse a presidential ambition for over 12 years, only with the intent to Islamize Nigeria? I don't think so!

The only reason why terrorism is flourishing in Nigeria is because of the increasing level of poverty and the brazen neglect of the masses. These factors are traceable to high profile corruption and indiscipline in official circles. The lip-service commitment of the incumbent PDP-led government to the fight against corruption is evident in the shoddy handling of the alleged missing $20billion from the coffers of the NNPC. Imagine how far that money could go in providing employment for Nigerians, visualize how many socio-infrastructural facilities, medical equipments and healthcare services, that magnitude of money can provide, then you will agree with me that corruption kills more Nigerians that terrorism.

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integrity! His efforts in the fight against corruption in Nigeria are still unequalled. The efforts of the EFCC and ICPC pales in comparison to his War Against Indiscipline and Corruption (WAI-C) in the mid 80s. The Asian Tigers, as they are fondly called, were able to attain the socioeconomic and technological heights they have reached today because they tackled corruption squarely with the death sentence. Till date, some of the structural works, facilities and buses donated to tertiary institutions across Nigeria by PTDF under Buhari's tenure still adorn the campuses. So how can a man who abhors corruption like Buhari be responsible for the massacre of thousands of Nigerians under any guise?

I consider it a huge relief to know that every generation of Nigerians is blessed with people who are capable of charting the right course for the nation. But due to sentiments, political conspiracies or sheer complacency, we ignore these people until they are no more. For instance Chief Obafemi Awolowo, long after his death, remains a political colossus in Nigeria. Although he never had the opportunity to rule Nigeria as a monolithic state, Awolowo's legacies in the South West speaks volumes for him, especially in the areas of educational development; raising the political consciousness of the people and of course, Press Freedom! A vibrant press and politically consciousness citizenry are necessary ingredients for development. No wonder all the people that opposed Awolowo then, later made detours and eulogized him, calling him "the best president we never had". We must not allow Buhari's strength to wear out before we wish we elected him President!

However it is very likely that if Buhari decides to contest the 2015 presidential election, he will be the poorest among the contenders. Yet, he remains the only leader that can fully declare his assets before he contests. We must be determined to shun the allure of monetary inducements in the forthcoming general elections, in order to elect leaders that can be accountable to the people. Buhari is one leader that must be feared; not for his propensity for wickedness, but to do what is right and to stand up for justice.

Let me put in proper perspective that Buhari, by his pedigree, is an elder statesman and leader of the people. Much of his decisions and actions will not be to serve his personal interest, but the interest of his teeming followers and political supporters. Therefore the issue of whether he will contest the 2015 election or not is not entirely up to him to make. As the leader that he is, he will make his decision, taking into cognizance the wishes and aspirations of his followers.

In conclusion, I want to state unambiguously that as a former national student leader and frontline youth mobilizer, I am already mobilizing the youths for an unprecedented rally at the Kaduna residence of Gen. Buhari; where we intend to tarry for as long as it takes Buhari to come out and publicly declare his intention to contest the 2015 presidential election. I am writing this article with strong passion born out of conviction. I have taken my stand; and as they say, it is better to stand right, even if you stand alone!

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DIKE CHUKWUMERIJE

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ome people say it was a red VW that had four men in it. I heard about it in the elevator, riding up to my office, just past 7am, with two cleaners and a tea-lady. One cleaner had swollen eyes, he said he woke up that morning and found them like that, so the tea-lady nodded wisely, and said 'Na boil. No worry. Take ampiclox. E go dry am.' But the other cleaner was speaking rapidly, impatient to get back to a stalled conversation. His fluency in Yoruba made me think of shifting social dynamics, and the future of Nigeria, because I knew he was actually from Itsakor. But the urgency in his voice made me listen. There had been a bomb blast in Nyanya. The cleaner with swollen eyes nodded, 'You go see. Dem go soon talk am for news.'

And he left.

So, I thought to myself, maybe it was like what happened three years ago, when I heard a loud sound on the road to a meeting, so startling it made me look up, searching for the crane, the one that must have just snapped its chain and thrown down its load. But there had been no construction site around the corner, just billowing smoke, and people rubbing their eyes in disbelief. It was that image that came to me again, of a cloud hanging over Loius Edet. And I thought; please, let that be it, a car in a deserted parking lot, a blast that did more damage to our ego than anything else. But the cleaner had left me with two devastating words, 'El-Rufai bus'. So, I took a deep breath before getting on the net.

You see, my friend, Tunde, was pushed out of a molue once. Yes, it can get that full on these buses. When he eventually returned to school, he had large patches of gentian violet down the sides of one arm and on both knees. In Abuja, they called them 'Urban Mass', back in the days when Churchgate was a food market. You could catch one at Area 1, all the way to Gwagwalada, for twenty bucks. And people stood along the aisle, were squeezed three, sometimes four, on the narrow seats on either side, but drug sellers still found a way to make a trade. This was before Akunyili, before Lugbe and Gwarinpa

became sprawling peripheries, before Aso Radio privatized the view from Katampe hill; yes, even then, when Abuja was without traffic jams, without power outages and carjackings, there were enough people trying to get from one day to the next to fill its mass transit buses to bursting.

It's what we have in abundance, what we've always had in abundance, in this country of millions. But you don't think about it when you wake up in the morning; no, you just focus on creating elbow room. So, if you can afford it, you stop a taxi. If you can't, you wait for a danfo, or an okada, or a keke napep. Or, my brother, you start walking. I can tell you stories, we don't tell them enough, of people who began in a mud hut in Kirimajiji, then a rented two-bed in Kurudu, then a piece of land on the outskirts of Gwarinpa, and two and a half years of austerity to build their own houses there. I tell you, these buses these ungainly El-Rufai buses, bright red paint splashed over the framework of yesterday's vehicles are full of dreams, every one of them, full of hopes and unyielding faith.

Ah! But yesterday morning, a man was looking for his son in Nyanya, looking up to the skies and looking down to the ground. And a woman clutched her chest, for the phone in her ear was lying to her, telling her her child could not be reached. And if not for the belt the same one he had given his brother that morning Jamilu would not have recognized Shamsudeen's body.

Mama Arinze is still missing. And a cleaner in my sister's office lost her cousin. Uche is lying in a hospital in Karu. A husband walked up to a reporter looking lost, 'Do you know where my wife is?' That was what he asked. 'She left home this morning.

Please, do you know where my wife is?' And that man I told you about at the beginning, the one looking into the distance for his only son, the newspaper wrote that he kept muttering to himself, middle-aged and retired, 'They have killed my future.'

They said it was four men in a red VW, parked in front of loaded El-Rufai buses, the same ones that every single

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...if not for the belt the same one he had given his brother that morning, Jamilu would not have recognized Shamsudeen's body day carry unrelenting hopes in and out of the shining city; they said it was four men in a red VW that did it. And what shall the rest of us do? After the seconds of silence on the floor of the Senate, and the President has dabbed his eyes and repeated his speech?

Tomorrow morning. Or the morning after, after the news has moved on, and the names are forgotten, and death is again something that happens only in Bama? After PDP has traded pointed fingers with APC, and the conspiracy theories have run their course? What shall the rest of us do then? We shall take a deep breath, and we shall get on those buses again. Yes. It is a sort of courage. But let us also not forget this one, that four people can change everything.

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SPORTS ISSUES

Bye Bye David Moyes Ryan Giggs takes charge

BY GEORGE ONMONYA DANIEL

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avid Moyes didn't make it to the end of the season; his sacking by Manchester United wasn't a surprise at all.

In fact it was expected and when it happened, Manchester United fans all over the world applauded it.

Anointed by the legendary Alex Fergusson, within 10 months Moyes had lost support of the players, the fans and the board.

Ryan Giggs, the playing legend employed as a coach by Moyes but estranged from him by the time the axe fell, has taken charge for the final four matches. Louis van Gaal, Atlelitico Madrid coach Diego Simeone and Real Madrid's Carlo Ancelotti, are the names on the shortlist of Manchester United.

In European Football success in everything, at least that is the standard of big clubs like Manchester United. Success means more revenue. Owen Gibson of the Guardian, UK, best describe this as “The Glazier's leveraged business model, estimated to have cost United 680 Pounds in interest and fees since they took over in 2005, requires consistent success on the pitch to keep global sponsorship deals rolling in and tills ringing.

With season-ticket renewals due, and said to be disappointing, and a long-delayed 600 million Pounds kits deal still in negotiation, The Glazers felt their hand was forced ahead of a make-or-break summer of transfer dealing in which they have promised uncharacteristic - to spend big.

The club regularly trumpets new money-spinning sponsorship deals that crisscross the globe and claims to have 659 million “followers” around the world. But without success on the pitch to drive it, that financial model will start to creak.”

For the Glazier it is about money but for the fans it is about the glory of the club. Under David Moyes, Manchester United became an ordinary team, a team beatable by any team. It was simply hopeless. Both the Glazers and the fans can now breath a fresh air, but with huge investments in the Premier league, with teams like Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal and perhaps Liverpool now in contention, it looks like it will take a while before Manchester United take over the Premier League again as they did under Sir Alex Ferguson.

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Giggs

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he first time Nigeria met Argentina on 25 June, 1994, there was Diego Armando Maradona. Unarguable one of the best Nigerian team in history, it was Maradona who made all the difference. He inspired Argentina into winning the game two goals to one against Nigeria. Then we met again in 2010 and Diego Maradona was the coach and this time there was the phenomenon Messi.

It wasn't Maradona's magic that made them win this time or Messi's genius, Nigerian goalkeeper Vincent Iyama, stopped Messi.

The Argentines went ahead to win by a lone goal. They took their chance and sealed the game. We have again been peered with Argentina.

Argentina's coach has bragged that the other clubs in the group are afraid of them.

NEWISSUES went out to talk to football fans. Ejembi Daniel, former Jigawa United footballer in the Nigerian Premier League believes that Nigeria can beat Argentina if they work hard despite the array of stars in the Argentinian team. “If Nigeria can beat Cote de I'voire in the Nations Cups who says they cannot beat Argentina? It takes ninety minutes and that's it. If they put in all seriousness, of course they can beat anybody.” He believes there is no such thing as jinx. Football has evolved since Maradona and African football has changed over the years for the better as most of African players play with the best in Europe and some of them are some of the best in Europe.

Ahmed Oguntoye, a football fan and an analyst said, “Of course there is no big deal. Nigeria can and this time will beat Argentina. The issue is however not beating Argentina but qualifying from the group. Every team should be respected as we respect Argentina. In modern football you'd be shocked. Such surprises happen in every tournament nowadays.”

“Even Argentina knows that they have to fight hard like any other club to qualify,” says Michael Udenyi. “They haven't done much as a team even with Messi lately and Messi's form even with Barcelona this season is questionable. Nigeria should not worry about Argentina, it is a distraction.

They should worry about everybody in the group.”

Most of the people NEWISSUES interviewed seem to express the same sentiment. The NFF is looking beyond the second round and have given Coach Stephen Keshi Quarter Final target, but everything starts from the group stage and Nigeria must play very well and be disciplined, decisive and clinical to get there. Coach Stephen Keshi obviously knows this more than anybody. Argentina are beatable, every club is beatable, but on paper they are still the favourites.

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Africa is losing its humanity

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BUSINESS ISSUES

Wamakko is a man of vision - Oussama Almasri; GM, Giginya Coral Hotel NEWISSUES talks to the General Manager Giginya Coral Hotel, Sokoto, Oussama Almasri, On the hospitality business, doing business in Nigeria, and how he sees Nigerians and Nigeria.

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irst of all foremost our readers would want to know where you are from and how you ended up as General Manager Giginya Coral Hotel.

I am from Labanon. I used to work for the Coral Group in Saudi Arabia and there is a partnership between Coral group and Sokoto State on the management of both Ginginya Coral Hotel and Shukura Coral Hotel. When I came here I had a manager, but when she was leaving, I was appointed General Manager Giginya Coral Hotel and I oversea both Giginya Coral hotel and Shukura hotel.

How is business?

The hospitality business is good business and I must say business is good. This is the city of the Caliphate and this city needs such hotels for guests. This is the city of the Sultan and a city of activities. Governor Wamakko is a man of vision and he knows that and invested hugely in making this possible. As you can see this place can be compared to any hotel in the world. I hope the people of Sokoto State do appreciate Governor Wamakko efforts in turning Sokoto State into a first class city, great man, humble, simple and a man who listens. Business is good. As you can see everything is working, we have a standard swimming pool; our rooms are exquisite and simply the best. We have 88 rooms in each wing of the hotel wing, ranging from simple room to presidential suites. People come to Sokoto all the time for various events, politicians, religious leaders, business men, and this is the place for all of them. I must really commend the governor who renovated this hotel and NEWISSUES MAY 2014 www.newissuesmagazine.com

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turn it to first class hotel for his vision.

How would you access Nigeria in terms of foreign investment?

This is a great country. It is home to me. My wife is even Nigerian from Nasarawa State. Nigeria is a great place to do business. The people are nice, friendly and things are working contrary to all the negative stories you here about Nigeria. The media should really calm down on the way they report some issues. There are a lot of things going on in the business world in Nigeria but it is not adequately covered.

Like I said, this is a great country. Lest I forget, the food here is great. I eat everything. You can see the different African cuisine in our restaurant. You people have been here for few days and you can attest to that. Shukura and Gingiya Coral hotel are the best in this area. People doing business in neighboring states sometime prefer staying and driving down to their destinations later. Nigeria is really a great country and Sokoto State is a great place, great people, hospitable and nice.

What more can Gingiya Coral hotel offer?

Everything any hotel can offer anywhere in the world. We are planning to get our gymnastic in order, there is the tennis court, there is the swimming pool, and the service is great.

Like I said, the visionary Governor of Sokoto State, Dr. Aliyu Wamakko knows how to get the best. Apart from what you see, ask the people of the state, they will tell you their governor has transformed the state.

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P-Square and wives

P- SQUARE'S Family feud:

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hey are one of the most loved duets in the Africa.

P-Square changed the face of Nigerian music by starting up the standard video revolution. They came out hot, classy, smoky and they aimed at the sky and got beyond. The song “Do me,” video is a class act.

Belly dancers twisting and turning in that colourful dress like a trance. Everything they touched turned to gold.

In any relationship when money, women, and power get so embroiled and entangled you expect chaos, even if the actors are family. For Peter and Paul, twin superstars P-Square, these are trialing times. It started just like a rumour and it started from a tweet from their elder brother Jude Okoye: “After 10 years it's over. Am done.”

It sent shock wave through the entertainment industry.

The media picked it up immediately and now it is all over, with people close to the stars coming out to reveal the deep furor in the relationships of Peter and Paul and big brother Jude.

NEWISSUES gathered that the story is no rumour even though their publicist, Bayo Adetu, have come out to deny rumour of breakup. Bayo Adetun debunks the story saying, “I am too busy to pay attention to some wannabe blogger traffic because I don't know where that report is coming from. Of course it is coming from their big brother Jude Okoye.

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months, with Jude caught in-between their feud.

Peter is said to be bitter, partly because of unhealthy innuendos have been hurled at him as a passive member of the group. The source reveal to Vanguard newspaper reporter that, the way things are we may find Jude staying with Paul, while Peter walked away. It is being said that all moves to reconcile Peter and Paul right now is targeted at changing Peter's mind. Report says they are talking terms, discussing sharing of their properties.

Everything that has to do with the brand name P-square has been put on hold.

It would be recalled that some of the reasons Peter wants out is that he claims his brothers donot respect his wife and that senior brother Jude has been disrespecting Lola for years.

This according to report prompted his parking out of Squareville Mansion in Omole where he lived with his brothers for years to Lekki Phase 1 with his wife Lola Omotayo and their children.

Fans and celebrities alike are worried and have pleaded that the two resolve their differences and come back strong again. So far, the family has not address the media, even if they do no one will believe that there is no crack in their relationship, but this is a family feud and it happens sometimes. Being family a lot of people believe that this issue will be resolve and P-Square will be back again.

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