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Names of treasury looters remain undisclosed for now - Buhari

Abuja - President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the names of those who returned looted public funds would not be divulged, pending the determination of cases in courts.

Buhari made the disclosure on Wednesday in Abuja during his maiden Presidential Media Chat.

According to him, some people have returned stolen monies but their names will not be made public as they are assumed innocent until they are found guilty by the courts.

He said that his government had fared well so far in the fight against corruption and appealed to Nigerians to be patient.

He added that under whatever circumstance, we cannot prejudge what the courts will do.

"We will submit the documents but how the Ministry of Justice will react to it is what we have to develop the patience.

"Once we have gone to court, we should keep our mouth shut; we cannot comment on issues when they are still in court.

Under two years of its formation, the All Progressives Congress, APC made the historic translation from opposition party to the ruling party in Nigeria.
By Levinus Nwabughiogu
Registered in 2013, the APC was a merger of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, All Nigerians Peoples Party, ANPP, Congress for Progressives Change, CPC and a faction of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, and elements of the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP.
It had at the twilight of 2014, through a ballot process, chosen the former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari as its presidential candidate. Buhari in turn picked former Attorney-General of Lagos State, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, as his running mate for the 2015 election.
January 2015
To all Nigerians, February 14 and 28 were the dates for the presidential/National Assembly and Governorship/State assembly polls respectively. It was as such not surprising that most of the political parties paid little attention to the Yuletide break that gave yield to 2015.
The tension gripping the nation, however, lessened a little about two weeks to the election when the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, announced the postponement of the election for six weeks upon security considerations among others. The presidential election was thus shifted to March 28.
For APC, “change” was the message. And it permeated. Also, for the PDP, the message of continuity and transformation agenda sank deeper. But both were to be tested at the April polls.

Igbo land gradually becoming a desert

ENUGU—In a bid to shore-up the dwindling business investments in the south-east geopolitical zone, the Alaigbo Development Foundation, ADF,has held its maiden business conference of Igbo leaders with a vow to adopt strategies that would influence the socio-economic,political and cultural growth of the people.

A Bahraini court sentenced a Shiite citizen to death and jailed 22 others for life Thursday for forming a “terrorist group” that killed two people, including a policeman. This is the second such ruling this week in the tiny Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom, where members of the Shiite majority population have led an uprising.
The court also revoked the citizenships of the 23 convicts and fined two of them 200,000 dinars ($530,000/480,000 euros), terror crime prosecution chief Ahmed al-Hammadi said in a statement. Judicial sources said that all the defendants were Shiite and that 16 were tried in absentia, without giving further details.
Hammadi said members of the group were convicted of carrying out bombings in two Shiite villages last December. One of the bombings, in Damistan village, killed a Jordanian policeman working in Bahrain under a security and training exchange agreement.
The other one in the nearby village of Karzakan, killing an elderly Bahraini man. Both bombings were carried out by the same “terrorist group” formed by the defendants and “specialised in making explosives to target policemen,” Hammadi said. Meanwhile, an appeals court upheld the death sentence Thursday against a Shiite convicted of forming and leading a similar “terrorist group” that killed a policeman in a bombing in the Shiite village of Aker last year, Hammadi said.
The court also confirmed stiff jail sentences handed down in April to 11 other members of the group. Seven of them have been sentenced to life, and four others to 10 years, said Hammadi in a statement. The appeals court also approved revoking the citizenship of all the defendants convicted of attempting to kill three other policemen.
On Tuesday, Bahrain handed down sentences ranging from five years to life in prison to 29 people for the attempted murder of a policemen in a bombing later in December 2014. Attacks against police are common in Bahrain, a Western ally and home to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet, across the Gulf from Iran.
The kingdom has been rocked by the Shiite-led uprising since February 2011, with demands ranging from a constitutional monarchy to overthrowing the ruling Sunni dynasty altogether. Scores of opponents have been detained, with many facing trial, while others convicted of involvement in violence have been handed heavy sentences, including loss of citizenship and life in prison.

NCC ready to force MTN to pay fine as deadline expires

Nigeria said it was expecting telecoms giant MTN to meet a deadline for paying a record $3.9 billion fine which expires Thursday, despite the South African operator challenging the penalty in court. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the country’s telecoms regulator, had in October fined the firm for missing a deadline to disconnect 5.1 million unregistered SIM cards, citing security concerns in a country plagued by frequent kidnappings and an extremist Islamist insurgency Boko Haram.

It imposed a whopping $5.2 billion fine, later reduced to $3.9 billion (3.6 billion euros) following an appeal by MTN. “If MTN fails to meet the deadline today (Thursday), the regulatory body will enforce the fine,” Nigerian communications ministry spokesman Victor Oluwadamilare told AFP.
Oluwadamilare said the pending legal proceedings had nothing to do with the payment deadline, saying “the court case is not tantamount to extending the deadline.” Johannesburg-based MTN declined to offer a detailed response on Thursday, but said earlier this month it would launch a legal challenge in the Federal High Court in Lagos against the fine, and expected all parties “to restrain from taking further action” until the case was concluded.
MTN disconnected the millions of unregistered subscribers in Nigeria at the end of August, it reported in its quarterly performance update in October, adding that 3.4 million of those subscribers had since been reconnected. Nigeria’s four major phone companies have routinely been fined in the past for regulatory infractions but none has received as big a punishment as MTN.
The initial fine of $5.2 billion was more than MTN’s total sales in Nigeria in 2014 and the equivalent of about 37 percent of the group’s total revenue, according to Bloomberg News. “The fine is really unusual, it’s far and away bigger than anything we’ve seen globally and anything we’ve seen in Nigeria,” Amy Cameron, telecoms analyst at BMI Research, a market research firm, told AFP.
“Normally when it goes to arbitration like this, it would make sense that the NCC can’t impose the fine until there’s a decision from the court,” Cameron said, speaking from London. “I would expect that it’s highly unlikely that MTN would pay anything.”
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country of 170 million people, is MTN group’s largest market with 62.8 million subscribers. It operates in 22 countries in Africa and the Middle East. “MTN is committed to Nigeria and it’s going to stay there. Nigeria is its most profitable market and it has no intention of leaving,” said Cameron.

The Nigerian army has arrested a female suicide bomber and has given an update on the most recent suicide attacks in Adamawa and Borno states.

”At about 8.00am two suspected female suicide bombers detonated themselves at Madagali Market in Adamawa State in which 17 people were killed and 44 others suffered various degrees of injuries.
”Similarly, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7 Division, Major General Lamidi Adeosun, has shed more light on the suicide bombings in Maiduguri, Borno State in which 26 people were killed while 85 others were injured on Monday morning at a news briefing. It should be recalled that 14 female suicide bombers attempted to attack Maiduguri, Borno state capital on Sunday but were repelled by gallant troops

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Buhari’s presidency a misadventure for Nigerians, he remains a dictator – Fayose

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described the return to power of President Mohammadu Buhari as a misadventure for Nigerians, calling on the international community, especially organisations like the United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) to focus their attention on human rights abuses and contempt for the rule of law in Nigeria in 2016.”