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01/01/2025

Kyautata Mu'amala shi ne cigaban kowanne Ɗan Adam a Rayuwa
...Mu'azu Ibn Nasir (Sanata)

http://www.jaridarmadogara.com.ng/2024/12/kyautata-muamala-shi-ne-cigaban-kowanne.html

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01/11/2024

Comparative advantage of Russia by Russia and for Russia

12 hours ago: Russia shuts down the gas pipeline to Poland and Bulgaria for refusing to pay in rubles.
10 hours ago: Poland agrees to pay for gas in rubles.
6 hours ago: Austria and Bulgaria agree to pay for gas in rubles.
5 hours ago: The European Commission authorizes European countries to purchase gas in rubles.

16/10/2024

Failed promises

🇳🇬PBAT CAMPAIGN PROMISES

[1] I will run a lean & efficient Federal Govt with zero tolerance for wastefulness, corruption, and inefficiency in public service delivery that will serve as a role model to other arms of government.

[2] I will instil budgetary discipline on a strictly Jan-Dec budget cycle.

[3] I will introduce an efficient, robust, transparent revenue drive that will boost Federally Collected Revenue by over 200% in the next 4yrs, boost external reserve, and create a sustainable culture and regime of the surplus budget annually.

[4] The short-term goal is to achieve a ₦/$ rate of 300 ₦/$ and gradually achieve a less than ₦200 rate over the next 4yrs.

[5] My administration will build an efficient, fast-growing, and well-diversified emerging economy with a real GDP growth averaging 12% annually for the next 4yrs, translating into millions of new jobs during this period.

[6] My administration's critical goal is to have 15,000MW distributable to all categories of consumers nationwide to ensure 24/7 sustainable supply within the next 4yrs.

[7] I will create a new, independent & transparent system of auctions for allocating drilling rights to reduce the opportunity for graft and corruption.

[8] I will immediately privatize the NNPC and compel exploration companies to list their equity on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and contribute directly to the Sovereign Wealth Fund.

[9] I will triple education spending over the next 4yrs from the current 8% to over 25%.

[10] I will increase the proportion of the annual budget dedicated to Health Care from 6.5% presently to over 10%.

[11] My immediate goal is to provide for all Nigerians the basic needs of life at the minimum, including affordable housing, food security, quality primary education and healthcare for all, and a conducive and safe living environment.

[12] I will make the complete eradication of poverty a significant priority of my administration.

[13] My administration will usher a new culture of transparency, openness, and excellent service delivery into the new Federal Govt.

[14] Security of life and property is a top priority of my administration.

08/10/2024

Regardless of their religious affiliations, Why is it that women don't back down whenever they sit or see their husbands with cash or account balances till they finish? It seems it's generational!

Why are men doing the opposite?

05/09/2024

If you spend all of these gather here for remembrance.

27/07/2024

Anonymous NG


When I saw the Malta 🇲🇹 NNPC comment by Dangote, I suspected there was more to it. Our group decided to investigate further.

Our discovery was deeply shocking.

Thread !

Firstly I will breakdown the whole Oil theft process and how Oil exporting and importing business works here in Nigeria .
NNPC grants importation licenses to a select group of oil companies, which are responsible for importing petroleum products into the country. These companies set the prices for petroleum products, and the media often refer to them as "oil marketers."

We’ve another set responsible for exporting/selling unrefined petroleum products both locally nd internationally. NNPC nd few partner companies plays a major role in this sector, along with high-ranking govt officials, military leaders, & politicians who r involved in oil theft.

To better understand this thread i will briefly explain how oil exportation and importation works in Nigeria.
Please note every point I will list you will need them as reference as we progress, very important

1. Extraction: Oil is extracted from the ground using drilling rigs.

2. Processing: The crude oil is exported(internationally) to refineries where it is processed into refined products

3. Transportation: The processed oil are transported from the refinery to storage tanks, blending facilities, and ports, typically via pipelines or ships.
4. Export: At the port, the oil is loaded onto tankers or other vessels and shipped to Nigeria and other countries
5. Sale: The oil is sold to buyers in Nigeria at a price set by the importer (oil marketer). The government subsidizes a significant portion of the oil price to make it more affordable for citizens, a practice known as fuel subsidy.
Now let’s link the list together

Recently, Oando PLC announced the approval to acquire 100% of Nigerian Agip Oil Company. This effectively means that the Tinubu family now owns Agip Oil, which is part of Eni S.p.A., an Italian multinational oil and gas company.

Agip Oil operates 17 onshore oil blocks and produces 11 million barrels of oil and condensates annually, and it also manages the Bonny natural gas liquefaction plant. One might wonder why such a successful company would divest 100% of such a critical asset.

Observing similar situations, like the case with Dangote, suggests that this sale was not made lightly. Now, these crucial oil fields and plants in Nigeria are under the control of Tinubu through Oando PLC which is Tinubu’s family owned not even NNPC.

Stay with me please

Continuing, with their control over substantial oil reserves in the Niger Delta and the ability to explore further through Agip Oil, their next step is refining. Instead of building a refinery in Nigeria, they opted to construct one in Malta 🇲🇹.

This move allows them to exploit the country's resources and obscure their activities.

In early 2021, Enemed Co Ltd, the leading fuel supplier in Malta, issued a tender for the leasing of storage tanks and a blending facility at the Ras Hanzir Oil Terminal in Malta.

Ras Hanzir Oil Terminal Limited won the bidding. It is owned and operated by the Tinubu family, with Wale Tinubu, who is also the chairman of Oando PLC, serving as its chairman along with other members of the Tinubu family and their associates.

The company has already established a functioning refinery in Malta, they have now acquired the storage tanks and blending facility oil terminals, which were recently exposed to the public.

Stay with me please

After Tinubu was sworn in as president, his first major move was to announce the removal of fuel subsidy, while the government continued to pay in secret, allowing him to increase petroleum product prices. This move was designed to benefit his own monopoly.

With the recent forced acquisition of Agip Oil by Oando PLC, Tinubu as an individual has become the largest oil exporter, explorer, and marketer in the whole country, second only to NNPC.
Here’s the pattern: Tinubu, through NNPC, will sell Nigeria’s oil to himself at a low price via his company in Malta. He will also explore, extract and export oil using his newly acquired Agip Oil Company, which operates across the Niger Delta states of Ondo, Edo, Delta, Bayelsa,
I’mRivers, Imo, Abia, Akwa Ibom, and Cross River.

Tinubu will then buy back the refined oil from his company in Malta through NNPC and as an oil marketer via one of his companies OVH Energy(Oando) at a higher price and export them back to Nigeria
The refined oil is sold to the Nigerian public at a high price, while the subsidy, although officially removed, is still being paid secretly. Essentially, Tinubu is paying himself subsidy.‼️

This scheme an extraordinary level of financial exploitation

Even after he leaves office, and Nigeria remains without refinery which he will make sure of, his Oil Monopoly over the country will remain standing. As if that is not enough, the govt will still pay him for subsidy!

He sold Over 2 Billion Dollars worth of petroleum products to Nigeria through the Malta refinery just in 2023 alone, that’s an example of what the future of Nigeria Oil importation will look like

That’s why he will fight the Dangote refinery with everything he has; if it becomes operational, his multi-trillion-naira oil monopoly enterprise will collapse.

The price of petroleum products like fuel will keeping increasing, while he still pays himself subsidy.

Considering his age, one might wonder what he needs all this money for, other than sheer greed. It's truly disheartening.

05/07/2024

NIGERIA SHOULD UNSIGN THE LGBT AGREEMENT

The agreement, which has some clauses that compel underdeveloped and developing nations to support the agitations by the Le***an, Gay, Bis*xual, and Transgender (LGBT) community for recognition, as a condition for getting financial and other support from advanced societies, has sparked a chain of reactions.

Daily Trust reports that some clerics, rights activists, and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Nigeria are furious over the decision of the federal government to sign the controversial agreement.

Named after the Pacific Island Samoa, where it was signed, the agreement is gradually gaining traction, despite opposition by many countries that cherish Islamic and Christianity values, in addition to the sensitivity of their cultures.

Defending government’s action in a statement late Thursday, Mohammed Idris, Minister of Information, said the agreement was done in Nigeria’s interest.

He said Nigeria’s endorsement was accompanied by a Statement of Declaration clarifying its understanding and context of the Agreement within its jurisdiction to the effect that any provision that is inconsistent with the laws of Nigeria shall be invalid.

“It is instructive to note that there is an existing legislation against same s*x relationship in Nigeria enacted in 2014,” the minister said.

Daily Trust reports that it was former President Jonathan who, in January 2014, signed into law a bill that criminalises same s*x relationships, defying western pressure over gay rights and provoking United States criticism.

The law contains penalties of up to 14 years in prison and bans gay marriage, same s*x ‘amorous relationships’ and membership of gay rights groups.

04/07/2024

NIGERIA SHOULD *UNSIGN* THE LGBT AGREEMENT

By

SonnieEkwowusi

It is nauseating that despite several meetings held with Nigerian officials and several briefs and memoranda sent to them, the Nigerian officials proceeded yesterday to sign the dreaded and devious Samoa Agreement. The Samoa Agreement, named after the Pacific Island, Samoa, where it was signed on November 15, 2023 is a celebration of perversity. Certain Articles of the Agreement especially Articles 2.5 and 29.5 legalize LGBT, transgenderism, abortion, teen s*xual abuse, and perversity in African countries. The signing of the Agreement by Nigeria constitutes a threat to the sovereignty of Nigeria and Africa. It further debases our democracy. Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Atiku Bagudu, disclosed yesterday at a reception organized by the European Union in Enugu that Nigeria has signed the Samoa Agreement.

I can wager that neither Minister Atiku Bagudu nor the Nigerian officials or diplomats who signed the Samoa Agreement on our behalf understand the import of the Agreement to Nigeria's sovereignty, let alone the destructive impact of the Agreement in Nigeria. This explains why many African bodies including the African Bar Association (AfBA) has condemned the Agreement and respectfully urged African countries not to sign it.

Not infrequently, Nigerian officials in Geneva, New York, and other places sign international agreements or treaties over a cup of coffee or a glass of wine with little or no knowledge of their contents. The pertinent questions are: Why did Nigeria sign the Samoa Agreement when LGBT, abortion, and transgenderism, as well as teen s*xual abuse, are illegal in Nigeria? Were the Nigerian officials who signed the offensive Samoa Agreement representing their own interests or the interests of the Nigerian people? Having refused to sign the Agreement earlier, why did Nigeria change its mind and proceed to sign the Agreement?

You will recall that on November 15, 2023, Nigeria, to the bewilderment of the EU, refused to sign the offensive Samoa Agreement. Apart from Nigeria, 34 other ACP countries, including the Republic of Benin, Senegal, Liberia, Botswana, Burundi, Jamaica, Mali, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Somalia, Namibia, Grenada, Eritrea, Malawi, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, the Kingdom of Eswatini, the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, the Republic of Maldives, Mauritania, the Republic of Nauru, the Republic of Palau, Saint Lucia, the Republic of Saint Kitts and Nevis, the Kingdom of Tonga, the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, and Tuvalu, also refused to sign the LGBT Agreement.

In fact, on that fateful November 15, 2023, Nigeria not only refused to sign the LGBT Agreement but was conspicuously absent in Samoa on the day of the signing. Frustrated by the refusal of these 35 countries to sign the Agreement, the European Union issued a significant threat dated November 24, 2023. According to the threat, which was issued in Brussels, any African, Caribbean, or Pacific country failing to sign the LGBT Agreement by January 1, 2024, when the Agreement is scheduled to come into force, will face dire consequences. These consequences include the denial of EU funding, development assistance, and program implementation. Furthermore, the threat specifies that such countries will be treated as pariah nations and may be subject to economic sanctions. They would also be barred from participating in EU-Organization of African, Caribbean, and Pacific States (OACPS) meetings and activities.

Since the issuance of this threat, the EU has been applying increasing pressure on Nigerian ministers and African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) ministers to persuade ACP heads of government to sign the contentious LGBT Agreement. Several meetings convened for this purpose ended in deadlock as many ACP countries refused to sign the Agreement. Surprisingly, towards the end of October 2023, news emerged that the EU had scheduled November 15, 2023, for the signing of the Agreement in Samoa, a small island country in the central South Pacific Ocean composed of an archipelago of nine islands, four of which are inhabited.

The initial refusal of Nigeria and 34 other African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries to be coerced into signing the LGBT Agreement was hailed as praiseworthy. Unfortunately, Nigeria has now gone ahead to sign the offensive Agreement. Why did Nigeria succumb to the EU's pressure, intimidation, and coercion and proceed to sign the LGBT Agreement? Why didn't Nigeria call the EU's bluff and resist their intimidation, coercion, and threats? Why didn't the Nigerian officials who signed the Agreement consult the Nigerian people before signing? I am sure that dollars exchanged hands before the Nigerian officials signed. But why? Why betray your country and compromise principles for money?

Anyway, the signing of the Samoa Agreement is completely unacceptable. Nigeria must undo the damage: Nigeria should immediately proceed to withdraw from the LGBT Agreement. The National Assembly must invite the Nigerian officials who signed the Agreement to explain why they did so. Africans must understand that the fate of Africa lies in the hands of Africans. Only Africans can truly and really develop Africa, not foreigners. It is evident that the EU's LGBT agenda in Africa is another form of population control. The paradox lies in the fact that the West, intent on reducing human capital in Africa, is now confronted with a serious demographic disaster. Despite wresting political independence from their erstwhile colonial masters, the economic systems and political policies of most African countries, infatuated with foreign aid, are still tied to the apron strings of the World Bank and powerful European and multinational organizations.

Therefore, Nigeria should withdraw her signature from the offensive Samoa Agreement. If most African countries, including South Africa, have refrained from signing the Samoa Agreement, why should Nigeria, the big brother of other African countries, which is supposed to lead by example, compromise her earlier stance and proceed to sign the controversial LGBT Agreement? The truth remains that when democracies lose their constituting philosophical and legal principles—when wrongs are described as "rights," and the tools of law are deployed to do and justify evil—democracies metamorphose into LGBT totalitarianism.

Therefore, we must work to uphold our democracy. The surest way to be ruined by democracy is to take it for granted. If Nigerian democracy must yield the so-called democratic dividend, then it must reflect the will of the Nigerian people. After all, democracy is government of the people, by the people, and for the people. In our Presidential democracy, power belongs to the people. Our elected representatives must govern according to the wishes of the people. The ongoing revolution in Kenya results from the refusal of Kenyan political office holders to govern according to the will of the Kenyan people. The same thing, sadly, is happening in Nigeria. Our political office holders have refused to govern according to the will of the Nigerian people.

We can no longer take Nigerian democracy for granted. We must envision a democracy that guarantees personal liberty. Personal liberty is more than the absence of imprisonment or deliverance from despotic rulers. Personal liberty concerns shared beliefs, shared values, and liberating principles. If there are no liberating principles to guide political activity, then political ideas and convictions can easily be manipulated or corrupted for reasons of power.

*Sonnie Ekwowusi* is the Chairman, Human & Constitutional Rights Committee, African Bar Association

28/06/2024

EFFORT FOR NEW NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE, AND SUFFERING OF NIGERIAN WORKERS AND NIGERIANS:

By Hassan Idris Gusau

I can rightly say that, In the whole world, Civil Servants in the Public and Private Sectors are the engine and drivers that manages the affairs of the two sectors for result driven and attaining the desired goals for sustainance and productivity, but unfortunately in a country typically Nigeria, these drivers are the least paid and worst managed by the majority of their employers, despite all the exploitations that forced them to utilize their energy and technical experience to prove their capabilities for every kinds of tasks assigned to them.

Up till now, I failed to understand the logic behind the leaders deliberate laicadassical attitudes at Federal and State Levels for refusing to pay their civil servants reasonable salaries and wages that can stand the test of the current economic time and daily inflation on almost all usable items and bills.

At the same time, I have seen so many formulas used by the Elected Office Holders from the President downward, to pay themselves exubetant and huge amounts of money on SUV Cars, Mansions, Jets, Wardrobe, Foreign Trips, Office Maintenance and So-called Furnitures Allowances, without any long deliberations and blowing grammar between the Presidency, States Government Houses, National and State Assemblies respectively. To me this is the highest injustice,
greediness and playing with fire by the current leadership, be it Federal, States or Private Sectors.

No right thinking person or employer will seek the monthly services of his employee, after all the written and bilateral agreement between the two parties, on the mode of payment, designed to be good take home package, then the employer start cutting corners thereby given silly excuses, leaving the employee with peanut that can never cater up his one day demand regardless of the whole month? While the employer is not only enjoying full pledged package payment of his salaries, wages and allowances, additional luxurious cost of living bills has already been settled and paid without any delay.
This is exactly what's happening in this country. Elected Office Holders are living a comfortable life, at the expense of hard earned tax payers of the country.

I was deeply disappointed and loss confidence with the way and manner the Federal Government under the President Bola Ahmad Tunubu GCFR is playing a long delay tactics on not to finalize on this crucial issue of national interest to the reason best known to them, I read recently on one of the media outlets that, the Federal Executive Council Meeting headed by the President at Presidential Villa on Tuesday 25th June, 2024. Revealed that, the National Minimum Wage Memo has been stepped down, until wide consultation is been made by the President or a Committee based on the exclusive decision of Mr. President on the matter.

With the above highlight, the following are my personal take and message to the Federal, States Governments, Private Sectors and Organized Labour:
- Federal Government should understand that, the recent adopted harsh policies by the Government led to the current economic hardships in the whole country.
- Policies like Removal of Fuel Subsidy, Dollar Independent Market, Commodities Boarders Closure, Electricity Tarrif Hike, Annual Hajj Exercise Subsidy Removal and many other policies contributed badly and makes life unbearable to millions of people in the country
- The above policies should be critically reviewed by government, without further delay as they're only adding more injuries of life to nigerians in the country
- Ideally and to the best of my knowledge, Democratic Government anywhere in the world was designed to be Government of the people, thereby driven and enjoying all avenues of Human Capital and Infrastructural Developments in the country, which crystally, in Nigeria the visions and missions have been defeated and compromised by some few crooks of so-called leaders.
- Additionally, If Government at the Federal Level can stand by it's feet to do the needful in terms of Internal Security, Infrastructure, Food Security, Health Care and Education. Then we will not be blowing grammar and compiling lengthy write ups on something very simple as Reading A,B,C,D.
- At this point, I want to commend some Past and Present Governors for their dogdeness on prompt payment of salaries, wages and welfare of their Civil Servants in their respective states. I also want to call on them to maintain the tempo, by implementing the ersthwhile approved National Minimum Wage in coming days in the country
- For those Governors that always wishes to see their Civil Servants in a critical conditions due to their ineptitude and negligence to pay their workers Old National Minimum Wage regardless of the new one on process, delay in the payment of their retirement benefits and others should change their modus operandi as they are not only playing with their civil service but taken their states backward.
- On the other hands, to me, this is the most critical and difficult time for Organized Labour Unions to sit up and play their card very well considering the trajectory of complains upon complains from the Governments and Private Sector, as they boldly indicates that, they cannot afford to pay the proposed New National Minimum Wage presented by the NLC/TUC, which if care is not taken, Workers in this country will continue to be and remained most poorest people in the country. Therefore, the Organized Labour need not to be sleeping henceforth until the battle have been successfully won!
- The most terrifying part of it now is, Majority of Nigerian Workers and Nigerians are struggling to feed themselves on three square meals basis just to maintain the nutritional formula. And to me, this is highest intimation nigerians are experiencing without any sympathy from the Leaders.

Finally, we all need to put our hands on desk as Nigerians to voice our needs and demands from the leaders to do the needful at a right time, what's happening now in terms Security, Education, Public and Private Services, Health, Infrastructure, Food Security, Financial Mismanagement by the Leaders and Regional hatedeness amongst Nigerians, will not breed Us take home results as a prosperous country.

-NIGERIANS MAKES NIGERIA
-NO NIGERIA WITHOUT NIGERIANS !!!

Hassan Idris Gusau is the Immediate Past Director General ZAGIS.
He can be reached through:
[email protected]
Friday
28-06-2024

24/01/2024

Top 50 countries by population size:

1. 🇮🇳 India (1,428,627,663)
2. 🇨🇳 China (1,425,671,352)
3. 🇺🇸 United States (339,996,563)
4. 🇮🇩 Indonesia (277,534,122)
5. 🇵🇰 Pakistan (240,485,658)
6. 🇳🇬 Nigeria (223,804,632)
7. 🇧🇷 Brazil (216,422,446)
8. 🇧🇩 Bangladesh (172,954,319)
9. 🇷🇺 Russia (144,444,359)
10. 🇲🇽 Mexico (128,455,567)
11. 🇪🇹 Ethiopia (126,527,060)
12. 🇯🇵 Japan (123,294,513)
13. 🇵🇭 Philippines (117,337,368)
14. 🇪🇬 Egypt (112,716,598)
15. 🇨🇩 DR Congo (102,262,808)
16. 🇻🇳 Vietnam (98,858,950)
17. 🇮🇷 Iran (89,172,767)
18. 🇹🇷 Turkey (85,816,199)
19. 🇩🇪 Germany (83,294,633)
20. 🇹🇭 Thailand (71,801,279)
21. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom (67,736,802)
22. 🇹🇿 Tanzania (67,438,106)
23. 🇫🇷 France (64,756,584)
24. 🇿🇦 South Africa (60,414,495)
25. 🇮🇹 Italy (58,870,762)
26. 🇰🇪 Kenya (55,100,586)
27. 🇲🇲 Myanmar (54,577,997)
28. 🇨🇴 Colombia (52,085,168)
29. 🇰🇷 South Korea (51,784,059)
30. 🇺🇬 Uganda (48,582,334)
31. 🇸🇩 Sudan (48,109,006)
32. 🇪🇸 Spain (47,519,628)
33. 🇦🇷 Argentina (45,773,884)
34. 🇩🇿 Algeria (45,606,480)
35. 🇮🇶 Iraq (45,504,560)
36. 🇦🇫 Afghanistan (42,239,854)
37. 🇵🇱 Poland (41,026,067)
38. 🇨🇦 Canada (38,781,291)
39. 🇲🇦 Morocco (37,840,044)
40. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia (36,947,025)
41. 🇺🇦 Ukraine (36,744,634)
42. 🇦🇴 Angola (36,684,202)
43. 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan (35,163,944)
44. 🇾🇪 Yemen (34,449,825)
45. 🇵🇪 Peru (34,352,719)
46. 🇲🇾 Malaysia (34,308,525)
47. 🇬🇭 Ghana (34,121,985)
48. 🇲🇿 Mozambique (33,897,354)
49. 🇳🇵 Nepal (30,896,590)
50. 🇲🇬 Madagascar (30,325,732)

Data: As of July 16, 2023.

Sources: UN Population Division, odometer

24/01/2024

COPIED

If they lied to us about Gaza and Israel.

And lied to us about Ukraine.

And lied to us about Libya and Syria and Iraq.

And lied to us about Vietnam.

And lied to us about Korea.

If they lied to us about every single war and why it really happened and who the good guys and bad guys were.

Do you think they lied about ww2?

I mean.

History is written by the victors, no?

Im just asking a very simple question.

Do you think the version theyve told you is the truth?

Do you care enough to find out?

Considering ww2 was such a large cultural event its still used to this day to psyop the populace.

Bad guy = N**i.

I think you should at least understand why the war really happened.

22/01/2024

Former General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division of the Nigerian Army, Maj Gen Danjuma Ali-Keffi (rtd), weekend, called on President Bola Tinubu to probe the air crash that killed former Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Ibrahim Attahiru.
He alleged that the crash was linked to terror sponsors.

He lamented that no less a person than the chief of army staff and 11 senior officers died in a “suspicious” plane crash and the matter was swept under the carpet, as the full report of the crash investigation was not made known.

Ali-Keffi said Attahiru devised the strategy to end terrorism in the North, part of which was infiltration of terror groups and the instigation of crisis among terror leaders, which culminated in the elimination of Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, by a rival terror group, Islamic State for West African Province (ISWAP).

Part of the strategy was to also cut off the oxygen of terrorism, including funding and logistics, and to take down terror financiers, Ali-Keffi stated.

Attahiru and 11 senior military officers died in a plane crash in Kaduna, when the aircraft was preparing to land at the Kaduna International Airport. The crash also killed the crew members.

Ali-Keffi, who had been billed to receive the late army chief, as GOC 1 Division in Kaduna, pointed to the sudden change of time for Attahiru’s trip to Kaduna, the change of aircraft, change of airport of landing, from the military airstrip to the Kaduna International Airport, his landing in a turbulent, stormy weather, and the ear-shattering explosion that occurred before the crash.He also pointed to the fact that there was no crater or impact on the crash area, noting that the bodies of the passengers were flung out of the aircraft and burnt beyond recognition long before the aircraft came down, a strong indication that there was an “explosion”.