Sacking Jega “recipe For Disaster” – Northern Elders

Speculations that President Goodluck Jonathan intends to fire the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Attahiru Jega, before the general elections, intensified Friday after the Federal Government refused to give a clear commitment on the matter.
Responding to concerns that the electoral chief would soon be mandated to proceed on a terminal leave, the Minister of Information‎, Edem Duke, gave an uncertain response, saying Mr. Jega’s exit will follow a “natural course”.
Although he re-echoed President Goodluck Jonathan’s comments last two weeks that he had not informed anyone of any plans to sack the INEC boos, Mr. Duke said that did not imply that when it is time for Mr. Jega “to naturally exit his office, then the natural course of things will not take place”.
“I think all of that is in the terrain of the Presidency and he has spoken. I have nothing to add to that,” he added.
On Thursday, members of the Nigerian Senate belonging to the All Progressives Congress, APC, had accused Mr. Jonathan of plotting to ask Mr. Jega to proceed on pre-retirement leave next week.

Abdullahi Muhammad Who Tore His PDP Card Beaten To Pulp By Hoodlums

The other PDP party member who openly tore his PDP membership card has been beaten to stupor.

Abdullahi Muhammad, the senior special assistant on security to the governor of Gombe State, Ibrahim Dankwambo publicly tore his party membership card on Tuesday morning of the 17th day of February, shortly after Nigeria’s former president and PDP party founder, Olusegun Obasanjo publicly tore his PDP membership card.

Shortly after he tore his card, the state governor Ibrahim Dankwambo accused his special assistant, Abdullahi Muhammad of seeking a loan for his mortgage and now this:

Here is SSA Abdullahi Muhammad’s accocunt of his ordeal in the hands of thugs suspected to have been sent by the PDP:

Lagos Airport Conducts Bombing Response Drill

The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, will Saturday assess the capacity of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, to respond to a bomb attack.

According to a statement signed the coordinating spokesperson of the Aviation agencies‎, Yakubu Datti, on Friday, the assessment will be conducted with Bomb Simulated Exercise 10 am and 11 am.

This, according Mr. Datti, who is also FAAN’s General Manager, Corporate Affairs, is an essential requirement that has to be fulfilled for certification by the International Civil Aviation Organisation‎.

While appealing to passengers not to panic in the course of the exercise, he added that the drill is intended to assess the Airport’s response procedures should real bomb explosion happen at the Terminal Building.

He said, “FAAN hereby appeals to passengers and the general public not to panic as adequate arrangements have been put in place to ensure as safe an environment as possible while the exercise lasts.”

In addition, he assured there would be no disruption to flight operations as a result of the exercise.

Ozi Akerele, Nigerian Student Missing In London

Police are searching for a Coventry student who hasn’t been seen since he went on a night out in the city.

Officers are becoming “increasingly concerned” after Ozeivo Andrew Akerele, 24, went missing in the early hours of Saturday morning.

The Nigerian, who had only been in the country for a few weeks and was studying at Coventry University, was last seen by friends at the Iglu Club in Spon Street at around 3.30am on January 31.

Known as Ozi the 24-year-old, who lives in Richmond Street, Stoke, is described as black, 6ft 2ins tall and of slim build.

Yet Another Accident In Abuja Today

Several other similar accidents have been reported on this particular stretch of the Murtala Mohd express way and today a similar accident occurred in exactly the same manner, around the same time and about 200 meters from the one I witnessed last week.

Same reasons also, with the vehicles over speeding and somehow ending up mangled underneath the rear of a truck. In this case, there were no fatalities but the front seat passenger and driver suffered severe injuries and were in a coma as at the time they were taken to the hospital. Two infants and a woman in the rear seat escaped unscathed.

Is it really over speeding that causes this accidents or drivers enjoying the comfort of the smooth stretch of this road and dozing off behind the wheels or some mysterious force that we are yet identify?

Federal Road Safety please do something before more lives are lost here.

Farmer Drags Buhari To Court

ABUJA – A farmer from Abia State, Mr. Sergin Onuka Ibe‎ has approached the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, begging it not to allow Major General Muhammadu Buhari, rtd, to contest the March 28 presidential election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
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The plaintiff, through his lawyer Mr. U.O. Ukairo,‎ prayed the court to invoke its original powers and compel ‎Buhari to not only withdraw from the presidential race, but to equally stop parading himself as a bonafide candidate for the poll.

He contended that the 1st defendant (Buhari), is not legally fit to vie for presidency in view of the pendency of a perjury charge against him.
The plaintiff maintained that Buhari violated the provision of section 31 of the Electoral Act by lying on oath about his educational qualifications.

Ashish J. Thakkar is an African businessman and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Mara Group and Mara Foundation, and he is a co-founder of Atlas Mara. Thakkar was born in the United Kingdom, but he moved to East Africa as a teenager before founding Mara Group, a Pan-African conglomerate, at the age of 15. 


Mara Group's operations and investments span 22 African countries. Thakkar is a member of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders, and was featured on Fortune Magazine's list of the top "40 Under 40" in 2013. He was awarded the Base Leadership Award at the 2014 MTV Africa Music Awards event.