SNG Rejects How UNILAG Was Named After MKO Abiola
The Save Nigeria Group(SNG) while acknowledging the eternal place of Bashorun M.K.O Abiola, the winner of June 12 elections, in the political history of Nigeria and would want the highest possible honor done to him; deplores the indecent manner in which President Goodluck Jonathan has re-named the University of Lagos after him.
Renaming a University established by law through presidential fiat is an abuse of power which would make even the symbol of democracy turn several times in his grave as he died in the process of fighting against arbitrariness and rule of he thumb which the annulment of June 12 represented.
It is violation of the principles and tenets of democracy which government officials are celebrating to go on air to announce the renaming of an institution like the University of Lagos without any consultations with the university community in a manner reminiscent of the autocratic ways of the military brass hats who denied Abiola his victory in 1993 because they arrogated to themselves better knowledge than 14 million Nigerians who went to the polls.
This presidential misdemeanor displayed on the purported renaming of the University of Lagos without due process is at the heart of the mis-governance that has been the signature of a “democratic” president behaving like an Emperor in the last one year.
The scant regard for appropriation laws that led to the theft of N3 trillion on fuel subsidy whereas only N245 billion was appropriated, the deployment of soldiers against peaceful protesters against the law and other violations of due process in the last one year; are all signals of a dangerous mindset driving the country into a full dictatorship while pretending to a democratic order.
It is high time President Jonathan embraced a democratic mindset and stop behaving like maximum ruler.
We restate our demand that M.K.O Abiola must be given a befitting honor or the sacrifices he made for democracy in Nigeria in a decent and worthy manner.
Yinka Odumakin.
Spokesman.
Save Nigeria Group.
Democracy Day National Address By President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan That Caused The UNILAG Students Protest
Fellow Nigerians: 1. One year ago, I was privileged to stand before you, to take the oath of office as President of our dear country, the third to serve you as President since the return to democratic rule in 1999. Today, I remember that day and the processes leading to it with profound gratitude to God Almighty and to all Nigerians who have worked very hard to enrich our journey from military dictatorship to inclusive democratic governance.
2. For the past 13 years, we have remained a stable democracy. We have together demonstrated that the government of the people is an ideal that the people of Nigeria cherish. We have our differences as individuals and as politicians, but we have shown great faith in democracy and its institutions. We have refused to be limited by our differences. Despite reservations about some of our institutions, we have refused to submit to despair. This achievement is a testament to the courage and optimism of the Nigerian people.
Bomb Found, Defused In Kaduna
Justice Salami: FG Will Not Act On NJC Recommendation, AGF Adoke Says
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), has said that the federal government places no immediate value on last week’s recommendation of the National Judicial Council (NJC) to recall the suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Isa Salami.
The Looting Of Nigeria: BIG OIL’s $140 Billion A Year and Counting By Thomas C. Mountain
As western oil companies loot some $140 billion a year of Nigeria’s black gold, two thirds of the country’s 100 million people live on less than $2 a day.
Nigeria’s “official” oil production figures show about 3 million barrels a day being pumped from their oil fields into the holds of western tankers, though for decades now informed observers have estimated up to one third of all Nigerian oil is actually “stolen”, secretly loaded onto oil tankers after bribes are paid to corrupt government officials.
If 4 million barrels of oil are being shipped out of Nigeria daily at $100 a barrel, times 30 days a month, times 12 months, you arrive at almost $150 billion a year in potential oil revenues for Nigeria.
Annual Ritual: You Spill Oil, No We Don’t By Hélène Michaud-RNW
The media are full of reports about oil theft in Nigeria, environmental activists are busy launching cool new campaigns to embarrass Shell – it can only mean one thing: it’s almost time for the oil multinational’s annual shareholder meeting.
Dutch environmental organisations and Royal Dutch Shell are used to vying for the public’s attention, but this competition goes into overdrive every year in early May in the run-up to Shell’s annual shareholders meeting which begins today (Tuesday) in The Hague.
House of Reps Hembe Is Charged For Corrupt Enrichment
Controversial Chairman House of Rep. Committee on Capital Market, Herman Hembe arrives at the High Court in Abuja on Thursday to face charges of corruption.
Mr. Hembe was initially leading an investigation into the collapse of the Nigerian capital market but got busted when it was revealed that he recieved travel grants from the Nigerian Stock Exchange and pocketed it.
Bus Explodes In Port Harcourt City In Nigeria’s Niger Delta region
ACN Denounces Crude Attacks On Buhari, Says CPC Leader’s Warning Must Be Heeded
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has thrown its support behind the warning by General Muhammadu Buhari of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).
In a statement issued in Osogbo, Osun State, by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the ACN reiterated that the 2011 general elections remain the most systematically-rigged polls in Nigeria’s history, irrespective of the so-called endorsement by some visceral foreign election monitors.
It denounced the crude, vitriolic and impudent verbal attack on Gen. Buhari, by the presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), affirming that the warning by the former leader against election rigging in 2015 is timely.
Nigeria Is Cash-Strapped, Can’t Pay Monthly State Allocations And NYSC Allowances
By SaharaReporters, New York
Sources in several state governments as well as the Federal Ministry of Finance have disclosed to SaharaReporters that Nigeria’s cash flow woes appear to be worsening. For the second month in a row, the Nigerian government was unable to meet the schedule for disbursing monthly allocations from the federation account to states.
ACN Blames Disillusionment Among Nigerians, Owing to Lack of Governance, For Fuelling 2015 Debate
By SaharaReporters, New YorkThe Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) today blamed the “record-setting” mediocre performance of the Jonathan Administration and its policy inconsistencies for fueling the ongoing debate on whether or not the President will seek re-election in 2015.
The party was reacting to a presidency statement on Saturday over the ”growing furore in political circles and the media” about the President’s alleged ambition for 2015, and it underlined that a government that fails to perform is the creator of a conducive atmosphere for rumours that will inevitably overheat the polity.
Gunmen Attack Potiskum Cattle Market In Yobe State, Killing 34 People-AFP
By AFPUS Govt. Agrees To Consider SERAP’s Request To Share Foreign Bribery Fines
By Adetokunbo MumuniThe United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has said it would “give appropriate consideration to the thoughtful” request by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) asking the agency to “establish an efficient case-by-case process for the payment of some or all of US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) civil penalty and disgorgement proceeds to or for the benefit of the victimized foreign government agency or the citizens of the affected foreign country like Nigeria.”
Killing Of Christians And Terrorism: Nigeria On The Verge of Disintegration, Say Northern Christians
Christians of Northern Nigerian extraction, under the aegis of the 19 Northern State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) have warned that there may be no longer a Nigeria if the killings and bombings by Boko Haram sect are allowed to continue.
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