NIGERIAN TRIBUNE, 17 SEPTEMBER, 2012

I' lot ready for 2015 politics now ~onathan 'Says it's til e for governance -2015 presidency: Power comes from God -Sule Lamido 'Gives Jonathan pass mark

Leon Oair,be. ~ years away. He made the caD ill Lagos

at a media presentation of a book entiUed Sure and Stleady ~omuztion, which documents the numerous ~ts of

his admmJs:t:ratlcn in the firstoru: year in of[oe.

The president, who spoke through his Senmr SpcciaJ Ad viser on Resea rc h , Documen t ation an d Stra tegy, Mr O mnto

Douglas, said the caD bad become necessary gJV'eD Ute preponderance of reports and commen on the 2015 electIOns in national newspapers and other media channels.

He argued that in poUIlcs, 24 hours was a long time. and wonde.ed why polibcians were already talking about 2015 that is threewholeyears away.

Said he: "There seems to

be too much pobtlcs In

N1geria titan goo..-emance. in other democraCIes, poUbcs stops at the end of an e1ectlon and governance starts. But in Nlgerta, lt IS the

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A:IDElrr GuodJuck Jonathllr, on Sunday, C1l ed on

ig=an polIticians to stop dist.a c ting his admIrustmllul s li>:us on governance, lIS It e next gencmJ eJecdOll IS slill three ;pUIiDlen kill:4 in Kano, 1 in Kadu~a. .' ~

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" .. Lanre Ad"'!!. ,AbuJa

ic ary c rruptionwidens n I'tportrd oogoing

probe of fly ~ judges for aU<ged. cr ,",-,plion

by the Economic and Finan c ial Crimes c.,rnmission (EFCq may not be an i30latcd ca.se, as discreet probe 0 r foreign accounts >1 tl'P judicial oJJicers is Ixmg .~rtec:1ly undertake, by security

-As security agents investigate foreign accounts agencies as colTUp tion al l egatIons kee p .everbera t ing In t h e system

A sour ce to ld the Nigerian TrIbune that the all-i n clusIve d iscree t investigation was a fallout of the discovery that alleged

bribe money t o t h e aJJegedly compro mised judges usuaUy cbrmged bands abroad in order to keep away the prying eyes

of the security agellCleS. It was learnt, on Sunday

n ight, that the public disclosure of Ute ongoing EFCC probe was creating

jitters among judges, who just resumed for a new legaJ year.

The top echelon of the judiCIary rrught also be

Weighing- in on the ongomg probe starting from todny

It was revealed to the

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Fo d shortage ilD.lD.inent lEn1inent Dodo Stab! su and Va ghte

on

From Olu"o!e Ice, AdeJowo Oladlpo ... d

Celeatlne Ihejirlka

N IGERIA may wlln"s s food insecurity a n d

astronomlt:al inc:rease in prices of fo<d items as prec:1.icted Oooding mvaged some parts or the NorUt at the weekenj , clai m ing seven m.es in Tnraba, while water I'eI.eased from the popular Kainji and Shiroro

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-As floods wash away farms~ livestock dants In NIger State forced many residents to nee coastal coDUDumties

BesIdes, no fewer than I I . 500 persons ha"" also been displaced as a result of Oood disaster in Jlgawa nod Kanoslates.

The Nigerian Red Cross officw.ls S8Jd Utey had found 25 corpses niter a massive n ood was bed through

Senue River in Adamawa State.

Ac c ordIng to the organisation secretary, Mr AbubBka. Ahmad , the col'J>s"s may have come from nelghbourong Cameroon as no one In the area could immediately identify the dead

Ahmad said there could be more V1ctims of the

incident as many were stiU nnsslng. pointmg out that its officw.ls had prevwusly recovered at least 45 bod,es from the Ooodmg. which th blamed on officw.ls in Cruneroon o~g up a dam . Cameroon had warned Nlgena before relieving pressure on Ute overwbelnted dam.

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Investigations revealed that some states affected by the ravagtng Dood In tlle North are producers of ar­abIc crops being trans­ported to the southern pan of the country.

Food shortage imminent row ties, as some of Ule vtcLroB re..ocaled to up­Jane IIvtng In make-sblft len I and government scb,lols in the areas.

Nigerian Tribune au­ltlor1taUvely galhered lhal RIver Niger slmUarty over­nowed Its bank at the weekend. as excess water released rrom Kanji and Sblroro dams swept through coastal communi­ues. rendertng thousands of inhabitants In Adakolo. Mpala and GadUDlO area or LokoJa. Kogi State.

homeless. One of the vIctims.

IdenUfied as Isaac Ochema. who spoke wttb the Niger/an Tribune, said Since two years thal he had been Uvmg In one or the affecled communi­ties "the river used 10 over­flow but bas DCVU come to such magnltude.-

Another resldenl, who SImply! gave his name as John. caUed on ille p ­emmenl to come to lhelr ald.

lbe deveJopment came

CBN may retain MPR at 12%

as llle Director-General. severaJ mlliIons of naira Niger Slate Emergency worth oHannlands and ag­Management Agency ricultural food crops were (NSEMAl, Mr Mobanuna:I belng lost on an annual Shaba. ralsed the alarm basis to flooding. as limn-­over !he IrlCn:asIng Hood In lands, espcclalJy that p( !he North. warnIng iliat If lice. were being degnIded. \he ILuallon was nol WIllie dlsclosing ilial checked. -It Is capable of the reports SO far earned causing Imminenl food outbylbeagcncylnOooded shortage In the country. - a=IS showed thai. affected

SpeaIdng dw1ng an In- communities were mostly tavII:w with the Nlgerlan farmlands and grazing 'I'ribwu! 10 MInna. al lbe fields, he said Stnltcgles

tIoner and two brothers of same parents, who were missing stnce 2008 when Akere and Mur.gl village were s ubmerged ," he nOled.

Shalla hlnled that hun­dreds of Innottnl citizens already displaced wen: currently UYIng along river channels or coastal com-

1 c NSEIM boss said the geney had carned out lbc assessment of ille hole development. to I e abl!! to Slate the exu of Ule damage and to I r9per1,y Inform the gOY; crtL on the next lloe or aCllon.

Gunmen kill 4 in KanO. 1 in Kadnna weekend. he said be was must be CYOIved to control From Kola Oy~e", IlDd a n olorblke slruck at 0DIlCf!rDCd about devastat- flooding to lbe barest mtnJ- illel oouse and ldIJed aU log elfedsoflloodlng In r1cc mlllIl. Ewas paodemonJum on of Llem. producing areas of \he '"The rainstorms and Sunday. when gunmen 'rdI:lg 10 a source. slsl.c. adding thai "the raJe raJnfaJJ that bad caused ed [our members of b I'd ed ymlty at which fiarmJands W~~ h """"In" f W (p err anon •

~. eavy '-'6 In most a a [amJly al Hotoro, on the sale an ur.cie, with three 0dldIsaa Om8l!kban\t:o, mortgage Industry, pro- being washed away almost the consUlne communities out.sklns of kano. chi dren o[ an undls ­x..,.., with Af{.f:nt::y Rqlcn mole exporLS and counter on an annual basis bas be- had so far c1atmed eight The In Ident occurred c1()!;ed staff of ille NIge-

TIE are strong In- htgh unemploymenllo the come W'OrT1some." Uves, which Included a around 12. 15 p.m , when rlar Security Corps and

dlcaUons that tile country. - The DG stressed Ulat MInna-based Iegll! practl- the who came on CM Defence INSCOC), Monetary PoUcy 1b~ source further said

Commillee {MPeI of the the father was nOl at Central Bank of Nlger1a honle when the incident (CBN) wUJ nol change the happened. Monetary Policy Rate Effortlio to gel ille real!-(MPR)aI12percenlatthe tlon of th~ poUee on ille end of lLS meeUng sched- trtct~CIlI I the Urne of m-uled for- Indayand inmor- !rig this ~n faDed. but row In Ahuja. a suunx In the secur1ty

In tts July meellng, the conlrmed IL MPC rel8lned the MPR at I. another develop-12 per cent; Increased the mellt, the CommiSSIoner Cash Reserve Rallo (CRR) of P LIce Ln Kaduna to 12 per cent from eight State. Mr Olufemt per cent and reduced the Aderutlke, had conftnned Nel Foreign Exchange Ule k11Ilng of one person Open PoslLlon INOP) to In ltadunu by unldenLl-one per cent from illrc:e fied gunmen. wbile oill-per cenL ers wert -DJured at tile

The decisions were weekend hlnged on curbing specu- Hhlle "peaking wlill JaUve demand for foreign n""'Smell 011 pbone. he exch~ due ID perceived saIc. "I got that rcpon bul excess liquIdity In ille only one person dled, not banking system. tlln e. Anyway caU me to-

Attortl1ng to a flnanctal I'TJ0IT'OW ror mon: details analyst, Okechukwu bee.use ror now, I don't

=:,e ~1l=1l:; Nigerians groan as fuel carcity bites harder ha~'h~ l!~:r~~~~ In the lasl meeung were s\mmedtheMalaUarealn stUl there. Fmm.1UDde ~ 'NNPC still owes FMC N351bn -FG He said there was no lIle nlgbl and reponedly

He said there was the Akin AdewaImn, cause for alarm, since the kIllul three persons and need to Slem the Inna- Cbakwuma Olrpu1locha NIgerian 7nbune ilial at feder.rllon sew:raI sums of corporation had onwtd up Injured .:v al others, Uonary pressure anslng au4 GboIa Sabair the close of busin.css on money lOtaIIiogN450bffiIon. to the deb! and was mak.- atrumg wh.cb was a secu-from both domestlc and L ONG queues have = F'r1day, III8l1reters were yet MInis,.". of Star.. for- Fl· log progress In Its repay- r1ty olflcW. woo was part CXlcmaJ sources; sustain turned to petrol sm- to be paJd thelr subsidy nanoe. Or Lawan Ngama. ment schedules of Ihe r<!Sponse opera-B stahle exchange rate for lions aCTQss tile daIms by the Ilnanoe min- speaking al the weekend Meanwhile. the Excess tlOT . tile nair and create a country, as most of them Ister. sborllyallc:rtheSeplember CrudeAccounlsavtngsbas 1.o-onUngtoaneyewll­buffer for the extcmaJ = wo-eWlClerlockandJa:ydue Besides. spokesman of meeUng of the FederalJon hll $8.03 billion In Aul).lSl. nCSj. "the lolling was at erves. 10 "non-avaJlabllJty" of the ille Nigerian NatJonal Pc- Accounts AUocallon Com- as the three ucrs of govern- GhUla Rood. MalaD GRA

He added that there Premium Motor Splnt troleum CorporaltoD mlU",,(F'AAC)InAbuJa,said menl shared N570.6 t bU- anc Lbe gunmen Ored was also the need to milJ- IPMSJ, popularly called (NNPC1 Mr F1dd Pepple, In outoftheN450bIIIIonowecl lion from ps revenue of sho.sal&D Igbobuslness­gatethetmpactofthecon- pelnli. a Iex:t. message on Sunday, the fede.ratlon by tile N564.B9 blllJon earned In man and two otiler per­llnued slowdown In global investigations by !be 1ft. atlrIbuted the shor1faD In NNPC. N99btUlon, In 13 the month under review n!. The :lead had since economiC acllvlLles, par- yerian Tribune 00 Sunday supplies to the damaged insbImenls. had been paid from various revenue bee ~ lalcen to a nearby ucularly, In tile United n:veaJedlhataUtreofpetrOl and c:va:ttuaJ shutdown of Intolherederallonaa:ounl. sources. hospital."

tates (US), Europe and was sokHorN 120 aI a petrol theSyst:em28productplpe- I' t d l' 20 5 Ii China on lhe Nlgerlao slaUon on Ola·ldl lroko line. due to operatlons of ill no rea Y lor 1 po 'tics now -.Jonathan eco:;::~er. researchers =~,:a:~:!:s~ ::e~;1 An:po (Cont:inu.e4frompage4J development Ob<..snnjo, as weD as the at FSOH Secur1Ues Urn. opened to CUSUlmCrS. Some motor1st.s who "Butfnmkiyspeak:mg.1 The source, which Mgcna Governors Forum Ited would prefer If the Most SlaUons that bad spoke with the Nigerian don ' t think we should sought anonymity. In view (NCFl, W( re said to be MPC relaxes tile poilcy stocks of fuel on LagOS- Tribune. however. ex- waste our time and energy of ille ~uve nature or c1andesunely canvassing rate. saytng -In our optn. AbeoIrula Expresswaywere pressed r<gretlhatthe fuel talking about 2015 now. the subject had added ror nt·cnndlclature of the lon,thecomblnatJonoflm' seilIng at N97 per litre, scarcly Issue had finaJly Th man tilere Is very that Larnldo and Amaechl govl;mor of Jigawa Slate. prove<! pt1ceofbonny llghl. wbUepanlcbuytngsurfaood surfaood in ~ bealilly. he Is doing very would baWe ror ille PDP AthnJI Latn.doaodlhecur­lncreased oU output, ro- In Surulere area of Lagos loanolherdevdopmenJ. well as far as I am COD- presidential ticket wltil reDt NOP chairman. busl exJ.emaI reserve po- Stale, as customers en- the NNPC paid N99 billion cerned and power comes President Jonathan and Amaecl11, a president and sItlon. relative stability In gaged In storage of the prod- in t3 InsIaImenIs Into the from God." Vlee·President Nomadl v1ce-~entofNIger1a1n lhe value or Ihe Naira uct In gallons of dlIfer=t Federntion ALxount. as the II wUJ be recalled thaI Sambo If Jonathan de- 2015 on U", tlckel of the against the US donar and sizes. corporaUon outstanding a !V)urce dose to CbJef c1des to coolesl ille 2015 POI'. nseal prudence uggest On Sunday, fuel was debt now stands at N351 Obasanjo had ~ed to poll This was reponed to that ille MPC should re- sold al N97 per Hire In most billion.. the Nigerian 'I'ribwu! that N"19erlan Tribune had have ratUed tile leader· lax policy rate In Its next pans of Lagos State. but 1bc debt. aJtJ5C as a = tile forme, presldeDt Is recently reported that this sWl' of Ult PDP. meeung, 10 allow more there wen: long queues in s uit of Lbe discovery. nov. drumming up support devt:lopmcnt was corrung Governor Lamldo credlilo How to the smaU most of the talionsvisUed. through a forensic audlL for a power sbJfL to the just as various group" be- se .... ed under ObasanJo's and medlum enterprtses, Asourccwlthlnmajoroll that theNNPC bad, at vall- Nonh.on the grounds iliat Ueved 10 be loyalists or admlnlstrallon as Foreign aid tbe development of marketers confided to the ousUmes.shor1dlangedlhe the regton deserved the former Presidenl AffiaJrs MinIster ~~~====~------------~~~==~~~--~-----------------------