Atiku puts more stain on Buhari’s white
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate in the February 23 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, have insisted that the Trader-Moni policy of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration was a vote-buying scheme that lacked budgetary backing. Atiku and his party described the policy as “illegal and corrupt extra-budgetary spending.”
They added, “In spite of the fact that there was no budgetary provision for this scheme; and in spite of public outcry against it, the second respondent (Buhari), through the Vice-President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, went round all the states of Nigeria and the FCT, Abuja, and shared the said sum of N10,000 to traders, thus using state resources to buy votes.”
LOL. The way Atiku keeps digging up dirt on Buhari’s administration ehn, I’m starting to believe he has employed the same private investigators Pusha T used for that Drake diss track.
World Press Freedom Day: Buhari hails Nigerian journalists
In his felicitation with Nigerian journalists, Buhari, through his Special Adviser, Femi Adesina, in a statement said: “Our administration is committed to the highest levels of transparency, and we will guarantee press freedom at all times. We only require that the freedom be used responsibly, and for lofty ideals of national unity and development.
“Without adherence to ethics, professions turn awry and become part of national malaise, rather than solutions. That is why journalists must constantly recommit to the canons of fairness, accuracy, objectivity, balance, and other ideals that guide their profession.”
Mtcheew. Make I reserve my comment. I no wan make my last name turn to Adeyanju.
Nigerian Guild of Editors want no more troubles
The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has called for more protection for journalists before, during and after elections. This was the highpoint of a statement issued by the President of NGE, Mrs. Funke Egbemode, and the General Secretary, Victoria Ibanga, on the occasion of the 2019 World Press Freedom Day.
NGE specifically called on relevant authorities in Nigeria to begin to see journalists as partners in development and voice of the voiceless rather than treat them as meddlesome interlopers and enemies of the people.
Hmmm. If you give some Naija politicans chance ehn, them go just gather all journalists and send them on a journey, à la Saro Wiwa.
A cruel, biblical tale plays out in Sudan
A picture of a thoroughly emaciated man believed to be Colonel Ibrahim Chamsadine, former Sudanese minister of state for defence, has gone viral. Chamsadine was found in an underground prison in Omdurman, Sudan, where he was reportedly arrested and kept by deposed President Omar al-Bashir
A critic of Omar al-Bashir’s government, Colonel Ibrahim Chamsadine had been pronounced dead in a plane crash on June 11, 2008—but there was no body to provide closure for his family. Omar al-Bashir then married Chamsadine’s widow.
Owing to the recent revolution in Sudan, Ibrahim Chamsadine, what is left of him, can breathe the air of freedom.
Chai. This story is so, so sad. No comment.
Who talk say ashawo no be work?
This year’s May Day celebration was incomplete until-Lagos based sex workers joined in the annual procession clearly indicating that what they wanted was equal rights rather than rescue. They came dressed in grey tops, jeans and carried purple umbrellas and quickly became the centre of the gathering at the Agege Stadium in Lagos.
The group, whose banner read, “Sex workers need rights, not rescue”, declared they were part of the Ohotu Diamond Women Initiative.
Perhaps informed from their boldness and desire to be heard, no one dared harass them as they stayed through the event and left when everyone departed.
LOL. Good. Hate them all you want but sex workers are an integral part of our society. Seeing the dangers and levels of vulnerability they are exposed to, it is only fair they are treated like every other Nigerian with care and assured safety. Abi na only you deserve better thing for this life?