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I COMRADE MAHMUD MUHAMMAD NAMED MY ARTICLE AS MUST OF BORNO STATE YOUTHS ARE DESTRUCTIVE IN THEIR CRITICISM AND NOT CONSTRUCTIVE  First and foremost, let me start by recalling the readers' mind the Award His Excellency Hon. Kashim Shettima receives from Mr.  Bill Gates Foundation and the World Health Organisation for his outstanding commitment that is evident in the sector of health care delivery in Borno State. As the Secretary of Borno Social Media Frontiers (BSF), I must give tribute to His Excellency, the Most Sympathetic Governor of Nigeria, Hon. Kashim Shettima for his outstanding performance and commitment in the health care delivery of Borno State.  My attention was drawn that, some unscrupulous elements who are Abuja base politicians are busy DESTRUCTIVELY condemning the effort of our outstanding Governor and the state at-large. They are busy fabricating, a mere  propaganda about our dear state Borno.  One Abba Sec M...

The Nigerian Petroleum Sector accounts for over 80% of Nigeria's revenue, consequently being the largest source of our economic dependence. President Buhari's desire to oversee the affairs of the Petroleum Industry/Sector has seen a series of unfounded attacks on the President's decision from both legal and moral viewpoints. Nigeria cannot joke with this profound sector. On the other side, it is of significance to note the fact that the Petroleum sector accounts for over 60% of our revenue leakages. It is lucent that the Nigerian Petroleum sector has been bereft of prudence and accountability. President Buhari's consequent decision to put a special eye on this sector by personally overseeing the Ministry of Petroleum is in order. I would not pretend or shelve beneath the carpet the moral and legal argots flying here and there giving credence to or castigating Mr. President's decision. It is important that I state here that, in fact, after President Buhar...

By Dr Idris Ahmed  Following the shenanigans and the preposterous delays surrounding the ministerial screening of Rotimi Amaechi at the Senate, we at CUPS feel obliged to shed more light on the matter. As always, our covenant with God and fellow Nigerians is to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, no matter whose ox is gored. The Integrity Group, which claims to be a grassroots anti-corruption civil society organisation based in Rivers state alleged that Rotimi Amaechi has a case of grandeur theft to answer for. In their petition letter addressed to his Excellency, President Muhamamdu Buhari, on 31/7/2015, they alleged that Amaechi is guilty of corruption, criminal breach of trust, unlawful enrichment, and wanton conversion of Rivers state financial resources for personal use to the tune of N70 billion. They alleged that the offences were committed between 10/2007 and 28/5/2015. They sent the same petition letter to the EFCC on 28/7/2015. While Th...

By Eze Chukwuemeka Eze Preamble and Political Life Contrary to the expectations of Chief Nyesom Wike and his gang of miserable ingrates, their ferocious campaign to blackmail, disparage and portray Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi as a very corrupt person and unfit to be appointed as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria failed to achieve the desired objective. On 30 th September, 2015 President Muhammadu Buhari went ahead to list and submit the name of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi along with those of 20 other great Nigerians as ministerial nominees to the Senate for confirmation. However, to the shock of most Nigerians, during the two sittings of the Senate to screen and confirm the 20 ministerial nominees, Amaechi's screening was deferred based on the Senate's on-going investigation into the fraudulent petition against Amaechi by one Livingstone Wechie working in consonance with Wike. This is despite the fact that the case is in court and is, t...

If we can think enough, what we have is enough. The "channel" of understanding is the "remote" of outstanding. Understanding yourself is part of the purpose of your life, and it will represent your value. It is all about courage and understanding, not to mention a sense of purpose, hope, diligence, and the belief that you have special talents and skills to share. When you aren't getting the results you want, no matter how deep or complex, we must have it as tongue phrase that - "defining life is understanding life; and understanding life is the source of life. Understanding life is talking about your value, raising questions about the value of your value, and how you define yourself. Believe it or not, you view the world and others through your own unique perspectives and understanding, rosy or complex, cumbersome or simple, fair or unfair, based on the fact that your lifestyle is the product of your thinking, and what you think; you tick. Overcoming ...

Photo Credits : www.google.com Some media outlets and bloggers are the true cause of the unnecessary tension and criticisms regularly witnessed in Nigeria. A reporter will just wake up, file a speculation and forward it to his or her editor to be published. That is crazy! It is even unfortunate that some editors always fail to study the logical implications of reports they received from their reporters. Most media are now embarking of speculative journalism in order to be tagged as one of specialists on investigative journalism. It is even unfortunate that editors of some if not many media outlets are ignorant of the 1999 constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria as amended and other relevant laws of the federation. I laugh most times I read reports from some media outlets. Any editor that is ignorant of our laws CAN NEVER be a good analyst and any analysis released by a report supervised by such editor will be nothing but a poisoned information that can catalyse unnecessary...

With this ISLAMISATION of Pa Edwin Clark the acclaimed GEJ's Political Godfather and his coming out to openly accept the facts of almost everything I had advocated as the wrongs and woeful failures of the Goodluck Jonathan's administration since 2011, I hereby declare thus; * In correcting Pa Clack, I would rather say A very Corrupt man can actually pretend to be a gentle man, A gentleman can also be a Corrupt man and A Corrupt gentleman cannot make a good leader and president! * That most JonaTANians who argued and debated in defence of GEJ regarding his clear misrule of Nigeria were working from the angle of deep rooted ignorance. They were grossly fooled by 16 yrs of PDP Propaganda designed to sustain the party in power to carry on with heartless treasury looting and reign of impunity! With more revelations of record shattering looting escapades of the GEJ era superpowers leaking out every other day, it should only be an act of natural instinct for these JonaTANia...

Ibrahim Abatcha Umar Ibrahim Abatcha Umar in an interview with Extra Reporters expresses concern over the political atmosphere in Borno State. He is among many young political enthusiast in Borno State. Excerpts:  So, how does the political atmosphere look like now in Borno State? Very unpleasant, running under dictatorship of governor Kashim Shettima people no more have the right to choose their prepared candidates, the whole circle of leadership evolve within few individual there are no development project, initiatives, or good economic policy.the list goes on and on, I stand for justice and and fair play I won't mind saying the truth. But a lot of people do give compliment to the the Kashim Shettima administration, despite the crisis he keeps pushing on with some projects. How will you justify that? Mention one? I am making this statement not because I have ill feeling against him, let me tell you this governor Kashim Shettima is a person who is a very good public sp...

Photo Credit : http://www.premiumtimesng.com By Ajos Ajongbolo Oluwagbenga Growing up was fun. I meant academic fun. Is there anything called "Literary Fun"? Please use that. I read almost everything I laid my hands on. Newspapers, magazines, prose and play and poem. I listened to the news often. On radio and television. You dare NOT watch Bukky Wright wicked roles, Kura Matete incantations, Ogogo Kulodo calmness or some Ronke Oshodi Oke comic plays whenever Kele(my dad) was around. What part of that house would you be by 4pm and 9pm and you wouldn't come over to watch NTA news! You were toying with fire. I took special interest in these two- novels and local newspapers(Alaroye) in my teenage years. My novels were more of romance. Many silhouette series. Some Harlequin fictions. Countless Nora Roberts. More Diana Palmer. Many Judith York. Few Susan Wigg. I just imagined myself as the lead actor and the rest is history! Though I read some Buchi Emecheta, Chinua Ach...

By Comrade Mahmud Muhammad Borno state It's completely discombobulating to say the least about the Senators representing Borno South and Borno North who were presumed to have spent their youthful life "fighting" corruption and other malicious act in our great land #Borno to now turn to not only supporting but rather aiding and abetting corruption. Yesterday, as a group of the masses enemies (read the Senators or better Sinnators) converged and pass a "Vote of confidence" on the embattled Senate President, Borno Senators (Sen. Muhammed Ali Ndume and Sen. Habu Kyari) were number two (2) and thirty five (35) respectively on the list I saw. I now believe those who say you can't judge a book by its cover. Going by the mien and disposition of this senators, one cannot but wonder whether they possessed or a powerful spell cast on them to warrant there brazen display of insensitivity. Is it the lobby for a "Juicy" Senate Leader and committee Chair...

By Abdullahi Yusuf The efforts of our gallant military in recent times has been acknowledged by all and sundry. We the people of the northeast have seen hell, and that is why we are in support of any measures that can bring an end to these killings and destruction. We cannot afford to have a failure at this point in time, the issue of insecurity is a matter that is of concern to all, and it should be addressed collectively, both the civil populace and the security agencies have a stake in it. The statement from the military yesterday accusing some leaders in Borno of sabotaging the efforts of the military came as a suprise to many. What the people expect is whoever is either directly or indirectly involved in these killings and destruction should be arrested without any delay. We expect action from our gallant soldiers and not accusations or blame games. Borno and indeed Nigeria is above the self serving interest of any individual, and as such no one involved should be spared. ...

By IG Wala  It was in July 2014 that the Administration of former President GEJ set up a Victim Support Fund Committee with Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (rtd) as the Chairman of the Committee. The mandate of the committee was to raise N30 billion to help the victims of Boko Haram in the North East. In a quest to achieving the mandate, the committee organized a fundraising, which the sum of N58.79 billion was raised from the organized private sector while the federal government and state governments pledged N20 billion combined to the victim support fund. "In December, 2014, Dr. Sunday Ochoche was appointed as Executive Director of the committee. However, following this appointment, very little has been heard from the committee except that about N250million had been expended on administrative costs towards the 'setting up'of the Victim Support Fund..." Vanguard Newspaper Recently, President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja directed the Head of Service of the Fe...

By Ajongbolo Ajos Oluwagbenga OmoKele  Whenever I hear of an upcoming or "up-and-coming" comedian, artiste, dancer etc, he or she comes with great prospects. He could sing till "mama calls". She could dance till she starts feeling pain and weakness on her "Achilles heels". He or she could create rib-cracking jokes that could make the "goat forget to eat the yam", thereby disobeying the GoatAndYam theory postulated by an erudite Zoologist. But the upcoming event is not for fun. It is not for paparrazzi. No cracking of jokes. Not even a single "scratching of the wheels by Dj Money". Infact, there will be no red-carpet! In July 2015, Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency(NIHSA) had warned Nigerians that 12 states might be affected by floods this year. The agency stressed we should be alert for massive flooding and work towards preventing it or worse still reducing the damaging effect. Niger, Delta, Bayelsa and Rivers w...

By Abdullahi Yusuf The Biu main market which is the biggest market in southern Borno has been under lock and key for almost one month now. The market which is the main place that the people within Biu and it surrounding get their essential needs has been shutdown for security reasons according to the military. It has therefore subjected the people to unquantified hardships, as commercial activities has been crippled as a result of the shutdown. The worst hit are ordinary poor people whose live depends on their daily petty trade that they normally do to survive in the market. Am therefore calling on those responsible for closing down the market to please for the sake of these poor people whose life's depends on the market do something. While we all appreciate the efforts of our gallant military on their efforts to end the insurgency in our beloved state, but closing down the only market in the zone for a month is uncalled for. There should other strategy to control the ...

By Chukwuemerie Uduchukwu I have been reading many articles about Buhari’s 100 days in office. Many people have also asked me to say my view on his 100 days in office without a 'presidential team' and policy framework. Why reading the numerous articles, I observed that many claimed that the president has no direction and that he is working without a team. I disagree!  Any responsible leader will first of all clean the foundation (system) before laying new blocks (policies) on it otherwise the building (leadership) will collapse and result to massive failure. It is unfair to acknowledge that the administration headed by the immediate past president Goodluck Jonathan failed Nigerians and left the polity in a decayed state, and at same time expecting President Buhari to implement policies without reforming the system. To be sincere, it is laughable and unrealistic to expect a wide cleanup in all sectors of the government inherited from failed President Goodluck Jonathan ...