October 23, 2013

11 APC states to boycott national confab

                        
The proposed national conference announced by President Goodluck Jonathan has suffered a setback as the All Progressives Congress, (APC) has declared that 11 states under its control, will not participate.

States being controlled by the APC are Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Ekiti, Edo, Imo, Nasarawa, Borno, Yobe and Zamfara.

BMW Scandal: Aviation Minister’s New Line Is To Blame Opposition For Fraud Reports

                     

Yakubu Dati, a senior aide to Nigeria’s Aviation Minister Stella Oduah, has issued a statement claiming that those opposed to President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid were behind reports that revealed his boss’s purchase of two armored BMW cars at the cost of $1.6 million.

The preposterous position is contained in a press statement titled, “APC Demonstration: Unmasking the Face Behind The Mask”. In it, Mr. Dati claimed that the APC as well as members of a splinter group of the Peoples Democratic Party were behind the expose on Ms. Oduah’s scandalous misuse of public funds in the purchase of the BMWs as well as a series of other sleazy car deals.

Delta Commissioner’s Killer Squad Unleashes Terror, Kills One, Destroys Cars, Houses

A heavily armed killer squad allegedly operating at the behest of Delta State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary education, Patrick Muoboghare, unleashed terror early hours of Sunday on the Uwheru community in Ughelli North local government area.

Several members of the community told SaharaReporters that the armed thugs had killed one George Imiti in an earlier attack on October 2.