FG plotting to sabotage smooth handover – APC

ABUJA — The All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday accused the out-going President Goodluck Jonathan administration of plotting to hinder a smooth handover of power to the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) on May 29.

President Goodluck Jonathan had, on Wednesday, accused the APC of acting like a parallel government and trying to stampede his administraton out of office by making impossible demands in the terms of reference of the President-elect’s transition committee.

Jonathan and Buhari

 

Briefing newsmen after the Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday, Minister of National Planning, Abubakar Suleiman, a member of Jonathan’s transition committee, said the council frowned at the terms of reference of the in-coming government and warned that the President’s magnanimity should not be construed as cowardice.

He said the council agreed that Dr Goodluck Jonathan remains the President of the country until May 29 and the in-coming government should avoid creating a parallel government.

Misplaced aggression

Responding yesterday to President Jonathan’s accusation, the APC in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said it was becoming apparent that the Jonathan administration will not fully cooperate with the incoming government, despite its public posturing in that regard.

The party also described as “an act of hostility and a patently-misplaced aggression the unnecessary vituperation against the incoming Buhari administration by the Jonathan government, ostensibly because of the terms of reference of the Buhari transition committee but in reality part of an orchestrated plot to sabotage the transition.”

It rejected the continued blackmail by the Jonathan administration as a result of President Jonathan’s concession of defeat, wondering whether the concession, gracious as it was, has now become a shield for all wrong doings.

PDP Chief Asks Mu'azu To Resign With Immediate Effect

Some chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have continued to call for the resignation of the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, over the party’s loss in the 2015 general elections.
Latest to join those calling for Mu’azu’s resignation is Alhaji Yinka Ajia, a chieftain of the party.
Ajia, who was a special adviser to a former national chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Kawu Baraje, called on the PDP national chairman to resign with immediate effect, Punch reports.

PDP national chairman, Adamu Mu’azu

In a statement released on Thursday in Ilorin, the PDP chieftain accused Mu’azu of failing to mobilise the party for victory in the just concluded general elections.
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He added that President Jonathan’s poor results in all the North-Western states and majority of the North-Eastern states proved Mu’azu’s alleged incompetence.

No more dodging a bullet, as U.S. develops self-guided ammunition By Don Melvin, CNN

(CNN)You know the phrase "dodging a bullet"? Forget about it. Probably not going to happen anymore.

The U.S. military said this week it has made great progress in its effort to develop a self-steering bullet.

In February, the "smart bullets" -- .50-caliber projectiles equipped with optical sensors -- passed their most successful round of live-fire tests to date, according to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.

In the tests, an experienced marksman "repeatedly hit moving and evading targets," a DARPA statement said.

"Additionally," the statement said, "a novice shooter using the system for the first time hit a moving target." In other words, now you don't even have to be a good shot to hit the mark.

Buhari Challenges National Assembly To Work With Him To Fix Nigeria

President-Elect Muhammadu Buhari today called on members of the National Assembly to work with him in the task of addressing the development challenges that confront Nigeria. 


Speaking at an induction programme for new national legislators organized by the National Institute for Legislative Studies in Abuja, the incoming leader told them, “I need the support of the Members

PDP Governors Blame National Chairman, Muazu, For Electoral Defeat, Demand Ouster Of National Working Committee

Governors of the soon to become opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have voiced their lack of confidence in the party’s national chairman, Adamu Mu’azu, blaming him and the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party for leading the party into a disastrous electoral performance in Nigeria’s recent presidential, governorship and legislative elections.  

Gov, Godswill Akpabio

At their latest governors forum in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, on Tuesday, the PDP governors demanded that Mr. Mu’azu and other members of the party’s  NWC leave office immediately.

Miraculous Survivors Of Nepal Earthquake

The worst earthquake to have hit the Himalayan nation in over 80 years has already claimed more that 5,500 lives in Nepal.
Amid the terrifying photos and reports from the area where rescuers are working day and night, there are still miracles being recorded.
The moment the group finds a survivor under the rubble, gives hope to the thousands of families waiting for the news about their beloved.
See the three unbelievable stories below. We pray that more people will be found alive.
Four-month-old “Sonit Awal”
The rescue workers heard an infant’s cry to discover a four-month-old baby, all covered in dust.
The search team had already scoured the area near to the child’s home in Bhaktapur, Kathmandu, but lost hope of finding the boy named locally as Sonit Awal.
The faint cry for help, however, helped the little man to receive another chance. He is said to be in a stable condition now.

Precious life saved…  Credits: Daily Mail

PDP Can Produce House Speaker

The members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who are now in the minority in the House of Representatives, may play a key role in determining the new speaker.
The PDP now has about 140 legislators, compared to the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s over 200 legislators.

Jonathan, Zuma Talked About Xenophobia

The incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan and his South African colleague President Jacob Zuma had a telephone conversation over the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians residing in South Africa.
Both leaders restated the necessity for their countries to work together.
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In a comment released on Thursday, April 30, by the South African presidency, Zuma spoke over telephone with Jonathan on the need not to let the recent attacks on some Nigerians and their businesses create any diplomatic crisis between the two countries.

Nigeria:Falling oil prices threaten my agenda — Buhari

ABUJA—THE President- elect, General Muhammadu Buhari yesterday painted a gloomy picture in the economic development of his administration as he said that the decline in the revenues due to fall in oil prices poses a great threat to his administration’s development agenda.

Gen. Buhari who visited the newly elected Senators and House of Representatives members who are undergoing induction course in preparation for the 8th National Assembly in Abuja also said that the decline in revenue would affect the reconstruction of devastated areas in the country as a result of insurgency.

 

He reminded the elected members of the 8th assembly of the challenges the nation had been facing which he also said would continue in the near future.

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The challenges according to him include general insecurity and insurgency that has caused extreme human hardship and destruction of lives, livelihoods that would take over a decade to rebuild across most of North Eastern Nigeria and some parts of North western Nigeria.

Transition: Don’t take Jonathan’s magnanimity as cowardice, Jonathan’s men tell Buhari’s men

Abuja — A disagreement has broken out between the transition committees of outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan and the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) as the President accused the Buhari team of acting like a parallel government and trying to stampede the Jonathan administration out of office.

 

Addressing State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting, yesterday, Minister of National Planning who is also a member of the Jonathan Transition Committee, Abubakar Suleiman, said the Buhari transition team was making impossible demands from the government.