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Foreign Scholarship: Kwankwaso Is Your Problem, Gov Ganduje Tells Students

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<b>KANO, NIGERIA - The cold war between Kano State  governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, and his predecessor, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has  degenerated to full blown hostility  following  the threat by the former to expose the latter’s stewardship in office.</b></div>
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Ganduje, who went for broke when he hosted the leadership of Kano  students  abroad under the aegis of General Association of Northern Nigeria Students, based in Egypt, alleged the distortion   of the state scholarship programme.</div>
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The long-time Kwankwaso's political soul mate declared: </div>
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For one year, Kwankwaso did not pay a single kobo as tuition fee for our students studying abroad. </blockquote>
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Right now, Kano State government owes those students ₦3 billion, and painfully, our revenue is dwindling and we would be cautious in handling the situation.</blockquote>
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The new Kano strongman revealed that the delay in the payment of the tuitions fee was caused by the Kwankwaso administration, even  as he stressed: "For whatever reasons, the Kwankwaso  administration distorted the scholarship programme".</div>
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The enraged governor told the leadership of the students: "I've decided to let the cat out of the bag so that, as educated people, you would understand where your problem lies".</div>
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<b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/-%20See%20more%20at:%20http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/gov-ganduje-declares-war-on-kwankwaso/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#sthash.guzjNryd.dpuf">Vanguard</a> </b>learnt that last Wednesday weekly state executive meeting, presided over by Ganduje had  condemned the failure of the Kwankwaso  administration to fulfill financial obligation to the programme despite  the allegation that huge amounts of money in foreign currency were allocated to it by the former regime.</div>
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Foreign Scholarship: Kwankwaso Is Your Problem, Gov Ganduje Tells Students

KANO, NIGERIA - The cold war between Kano State governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, and his predecessor, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso...

Gov Ganduje Names Special Advisers, Managing Directors For State Agencies

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<b>KANO, NIGERIA - The Kano State Governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje today named 5 Special Advisers amongst 14 appointments he approved. In a Press Release signed by Baba Dantiye, the Director General of Media and Communication Team of the governor and made available to <i>The Nigeria Newsroom</i>, Ganduje approved the appointments of Managing Directors to some of the State's agencies.</b></div>
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NEW APPOINTMENTS</div>
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His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Kano State, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, OFR, has approved the appointments of the following persons into various positions as follows:</div>
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1.Lawal Abdullahi Ken Ken</div>
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Kano State Zoological Garden &Wildlife Management Agency</div>
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2. Engr. Auwalu Mohd. Galadanchi</div>
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3. Sani Abdullahi Kofar Mata</div>
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4. Hon. Umar Kibiya</div>
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State Universal Education Board, SUBEB</div>
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Permanent Member I</div>
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5. Baba Musa Saleh</div>
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State Universal Education Board, SUBEB</div>
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Permanent Member II</div>
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6. Engr. Aminu Aliyu</div>
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7. Abdullahi Abbas</div>
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Special Adviser, Political</div>
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8. Ibrahim Mohammed Kankarofi</div>
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Special Adviser, Governmental Affairs</div>
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9. Sheikh Ibrahim Khalil</div>
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Special Adviser, Special Duties</div>
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10. Ali Baba Agamalaafiya Fagge</div>
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12. Dr. Adam Baba Impossible</div>
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Guidance and Counseling Board</div>
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13 Yahaya Garun Ali</div>
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14. Mal. Sani Abdullahi Tofa</div>
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While congratulating the new appointees Gov. Ganduje urged them to be dedicated in their duties and ensure that the goals of this administration of ensuring welfare and quality service to the people of Kano are achieved.</div>
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KANO, NIGERIA - The Kano State Governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje today named 5 Special Advisers amongst 14 appointments he approved. ...

Meet The Nigerian Bishop Who Established Islamic Centre In His Church

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<b>KADUNA, NIGERIA - For the immediate past Kaduna Diocesan Bishop of Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, the Most Rev. Josiah Atkins Idowu-Fearon, the time of glory has come having just been appointed Secretary General of the Anglican Communion Worldwide, with headquarters at Lambeth, United Kingdom.</b></div>
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The position makes him the second in command after the Archbishop of Canterbury. Breaking a record as the first African to hold the position, Idowu-Fearon has had a number of other high profile albeit controversial achievements in his over half a century of dedicated service to the development of the Anglican Church not only in Nigeria but also across the world. He is expected to serve for an initial renewable period of seven years.</div>
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When at the height of the Kaduna religious riots of 2000, Idowu-Fearon, against all odds, established a centre for the study of Islam in his Kaduna Diocese, a cross section of his flock virtually demanded for his head, calling him all manner of names including that of a Muslim Bishop, infiltrating the Church of Christ.</div>
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That name tag has tended to accompany the Bishop over these years for a man who actually speaks Arabic apart from holding a Master’s Degree in Islamic Theology.</div>
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The valedictory lecture and send-forth ceremony for Idowu-Fearon and his wife, Amina, which held Saturday at the Jakaranda Farms, on the outskirts of Kaduna metropolis, attracted a number of dignitaries from within and outside Nigeria, Muslims and Christians alike.</div>
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Kaduna state Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufa’i was there, along with former Governor Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi, Taraba state Governor, Dairus Ishaku, a former Military Governor of Edo state, Senator Tunde Ogbeha, and a former Minister of Defence, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma, among several others.</div>
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Born on January 17, 1949 at Gerinye in Kogi state, Idowu-Fearon said he formally embraced the Christian religion in 1964. Originally enrolled in military school to train as a soldier, the passion to be a priest apparently overwhelmed all other aspirations and as Idowu-Fearon explained during his valedictory speech.</div>
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“In my fourth year, it had become very clear that the Lord was calling me to be a soldier in His Army, to the extent that in spite of a direct entry to the Nigerian Defence Academy, I was given a sympathetic discharge by the late Gen. Hassan Katsina, in Lagos.” The development, according to him, “turned out to be the channel through which the Lord saved me.”</div>
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Several years later and in the course of his pastoral training across many institutions, Idowu-Fearon said he developed a special interest for Islam, more so, at a time in Nigeria when the religious harmony that hitherto existed between Christian and Muslim communities went sour.</div>
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At the Immanuel College, Ibadan, Idowu-Fearon said he met a certain Dr. Stadey who introduced him to what he described as the world of Islam, and, as he put it, “my interest was aroused, I pleaded with the Lord for a scholarship to do some further studies in Islam and I felt the need to carefully study how the Koran presents the nature of Jesus Christ.” The quest later led to Idowu-Fearon’s Master’s Degree programme in, Islam and Muslim-Christian Relations, at Birmingham University.</div>
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From then on, he delved further into Islam and also studied the Arabic language in the process, at the University of Jordan, Amman, and, eventually turning the Bishop into a visiting Islamic lecturer and Faculty member at both the Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, Canada, and at the Canterbury International Centre, United Kingdom.</div>
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Back home in Nigeria and applying his various trainings to his primary assignment as Bishop in Kaduna and Sokoto, Idowu-Fearon ran into muddy waters as a number of his flock apparently could not explain how and why a Bishop can be “so close to Islam and Muslims.” This is aside the fact that the Nigerian Anglican community also has its fair share of divisions pertaining to certain ideologies in the Christian religion and Anglicanism in particular.</div>
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Perhaps,   Voltaire’s philosophy may apply to Idowu-Fearon as it is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. As a Theology student and researcher, Idowu-Fearon is quite familiar with the concepts of     Monophyisitism and Nestorianism, a twin Christology position that insists that Christ has only one nature as opposed to the traditional belief that Christ has two natures, one divine and the other human.</div>
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Moreover, as a self-confessed disciple of Richard Hooker who is believed to have laid the theological foundation for understanding of the church for Anglicans, Idowu-Fearon says he shares the concepts of the mystical church which is invisible and the visible church. For him, membership of the visible church is determined, among other things, the profession of the Lord Jesus Christ while only God knows those who belong or may eventually be part of the mystical church.</div>
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Whatever the arguments, for Idowu-Fearon, “in order to create and promote a culture of respect for differences within our Communion, I encourage our bishops in this part of the Communion to cultivate the habit of understanding other positions other than their own. Our bishops in Nigeria within their diocese should promote robust debates between the lay and ordained members and such will get the bishop well-informed.”</div>
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After his consecration in 1990 and given what he describes as his exposure and experiences which were compounded by his “undue” knowledge of Islam, Idowu-Fearon said his colleagues, fellow bishops, did everything possible to frustrate him in the course of his service. According to him, “my being elected as Bishop of Sokoto was seen by some in the then House of Bishops   as a way of humbling me but God used our time in Sokoto to expose us to the international community.</div>
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And, when Kaduna Diocese was going to be vacant, efforts were made to send me to be bishop in Cyprus and the Gulf; this was to get me out of the country. The form was filled and my signature forged without my knowledge. In Cyprus for an interfaith meeting, the Lord revealed it to me through Australian missionaries who volunteered to host me for the conference and the plot was confirmed by the then Secretary General of the Anglican Communion.</div>
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After my first five years as the first ecclesiastical Archbishop of Kaduna province, again, the powers that be felt that I was too close to the then Archbishop of Canterbury and the Communion at large, that I was promoting Western relativism and that I was going to sell the province of Nigeria to the West. Two bishops were specially commissioned to sell me as a convert to Islam and that Fearon is a Muslim, drinking tea with the Sultan and that Fearon was promoting homosexuality in Nigeria.”</div>
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Idowu-Fearon’s journey to Lambeth as Secretary General at the Canterbury did not come on a platter of gold. Although he applied for the position, along with 31 others from various countries, Idowu-Fearon believes that God made it possible for him to use his undergraduate and graduate studies in the United Kingdom to make contacts that ultimately laid the foundation for his nomination after beating three other candidates who made the shortlist.</div>
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According to him, in the years after 1990, opportunities started to open up for him in Britain and the United States of America during which he served on various commissions within the Anglican Communion. Idowu-Fearon was a founding member of the Canterbury’s Compass Rose Council, a foundation member and one of the first three presidents of the Network for Interfaith Concerns.</div>
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He was also member of the 13-man committee of the Archbishop of Canterbury that looked into the responses to Lambeth Resolution 1; 10 of 1998 as well as member of the committee that produced the Windsor Commission Report of 2003. According to Idowu-Fearon, “as I was thinking and praying about taking an early retirement in order to spend the rest of my active life to build an army of well-informed and articulate Christian leaders to constructively engage their Muslim neighbours and build a culture of respect and peaceful co-existence, the Lord opened a new world of service to me.”</div>
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We have become very close since 1999 when as Governor of Kaduna state, I met with religious leaders and Idowu-Fearon was one of them. You are all witnesses to what we went through especially between 2000 and 2002. He was a reliable and dependable partner in the search for lasting peace, harmony and tranquility in Kaduna state and we have sustained that relationship since then. </div>
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I have already told him that between London and Nigeria is more or less between Abuja and Lagos.   He is committed to Nigeria and he wants peace and tranquility for Nigeria. Physically he may not be resident here but I believe his heart and spirit will be here with us and he will continue to contribute his quota towards our development. He should continue to have faith in God and God that has taken him this far will continue to protect him and make him go even higher. - <b style="font-family: '';"><i>Senator Makarfi, former Kaduna State Governor </i></b></div>
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This is the Lord’s doing and it is marvelous in our eyes. It is our prayer that the Lord will give you courage and wisdom like Joshua and Solomon of old to lead the flock of God to an enviable height and to the Promised Land. There is no doubt that God has prepared and given you the ability to serve His people in this new capacity and at this point in time. </div>
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We encourage you to be more determined and courageous in fighting the good fight of Faith. The renewed task will no doubt further compound your busy schedule but God who has chosen you will give you the required strength, motivation and good health to do it faithfully as unto Him. - <b style="font-family: '';"><i>Rev. Dare Ajiboye, General Secretary, Bible Society of Nigeria</i></b> </div>
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In the light of the excellent work which you have been doing till today, bringing together people of different faiths to live together in peace, even against popular mistrust and ignorance, gives us the confidence that the Anglican Community will be glad to have a person with such skills and experience. - <b style="font-family: '';"><i>Rev. Dr. Owe Boersma, Secretary, European Liaison Committee, Association of Protestant Churches and Missions, Germany</i></b></div>
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Your exceptional record of devoted work on Christian-Muslim relations is a specific gift you bring to your new role. Developing the role of churches as peace-builders and dialogue partners in a time when religious-motivated violence is causing devastation to so many is an urgent demand for us all as faithful Christians. I pray that your wisdom and experience will inform not only the activities of the Anglican Communion in this regard but the wider ecumenical family as well. - <b style="font-family: '';"><i>Rev. Dr. Olav Fyskse Tveit, General Secretary, World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland</i></b></div>
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Coming from the north, do you have some members of your family who are Muslims? Yes, I have some distant members of the family who are Muslims and as a young man, some people tried to initiate me into certain things, some of them fetish, without the knowledge of my mother but I came to Christ at the Nigerian Military School, Zaria in my second year in 1964 and since then, I decided to rely on Jesus Christ alone and no other.</div>
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I once saw you clutching Dan Bown's <i>Davinci Code</i>. Some people believe that the book is a direct attack on the Church of Christ. Do you hold that view too?</div>
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The book is an attack on the church because Davinci is totally against the fact that Jesus Christ lived and died as we read it in the Bible. That book must have been inspired by the Devil and it is coming direct from the pit of Hell, against the Gospel. And, that is why I consider this fighting within the church as a waste of time.</div>
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Instead, we should come together and be aware of the fact that secularism has become a religion and it is very strong and some of the promoters control most of the media. Christians ought to come together, forget whether we are Roman Catholic, Pentecostal and all others who worship God, the Christian way and join hands with the Muslims who are also fighting secularism. That is my mission.</div>
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Do you not think that some of the issues you raised in your valedictory speech may actually be responsible for certain disagreements you have with some of your colleagues. Issues as, the visible and invisible church and the concepts of Monophysitism and similar high-sounding words which may not make meanings to an ordinary member of the church?</div>
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You see, in the Anglican understanding and Roman Catholics also have similar understanding too and that is why the Roman Catholic is one church. But the Anglican Church is a group of churches, 38 different churches coming together and that is why it is a communion. We don’t have a centralized government or authority like the Pope, for the Catholic Church.</div>
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That is the problem the Anglican Church is facing. When we talk about the invisible church, it means Heaven and only God decides who goes there and you do not need to discipline anybody. From the Bible, we believe that whoever believes in Jesus Christ and takes him as the Lord and Saviour and you are baptised, that person is a Christian and belongs to the visible church.</div>
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In this visible church, you also have liars, thieves, you have adulterers, cheats and you cannot disown them and say that they are not members of the church because all they need is a confession to believing in Jesus Christ as Saviour. The Bishops and other priests are there to guide the visible church and teach them what the Bible says.</div>
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But irrespective of going against certain injunctions, you do not have the right to say that they are not members of the visible church. If for example somebody is a serial adulterer, you can suspend him from the church for a while, to correct him or her. In the invisible church, you do not need bishops or priests because God alone decides who become members. But we need the visible church to remind us of the invisible church because in the final analysis, everybody wants to be in the invisible church.</div>
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On the issue of Monophysitism, I did not want to go further because if I did, some people would throw stones at me but there are some Christians who still believe in Monophysitism. Members of the Coptic Church are Monophysites, they believe in one nature of Christ. But the orthodox position is two natures of Christ, the human and divine, not conjoined. In other words, Jesus is 100 per cent divine and 100 per cent human but only God knows how it is like that. Anglicans, Catholics, Presbyterians, we believe in the two natures of Christ.</div>
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Is the controversial Centre for Islamic Studies which you established in the Diocese likely to survive your exit?</div>
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Yes. In fact, I signed a contract this morning (Monday), recruiting two Muslims and two Christians who have Masters Degrees in Islamic Studies, to teach at the centre and I will be paying them from my pocket. They will continue to run the certificate and diploma programmes there. So, the centre will continue and we are going to use the lower part of the new house being built and I am putting up a full library there and the chapel will serve as classrooms until I retire.</div>
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[NEMESIS]: Ritualists Sacrifice Man Who Sold Friend For ₦150,000

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<b>KANO, NIGERIA - This is a really distressing story of a man who was betrayed into the hands of ritualists by a friend for ₦150,000.</b></div>
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25 years old Timothy Lawani went outside his family house at Old Barracks, Suleja to ease himself, when suddenly he heard someone call his name. Walking towards a red Volkswagen Golf parked behind his house, he was surprised to see an old friend, Friday, comfortably seated in the car beckoning on him with two hefty men.</div>
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Narrating his story, Lawani said; "In my confused state, I greeted them. One of them held me and the other sprayed a powder on my face. That was the last thing I could remember. I later saw myself in a very large hall with other young men who were tied up. The kidnappers kept bringing other people to join us. Sometimes, they even offered us food to eat which we all refused. They then said, whether we ate or not, we would die after all.</div>
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"After two days, we were made to put on white apparels and join a queue. I noticed that anyone who goes out never comes back; I was so scared. When it was my turn, I went outside, saw a large pool of water like swimming pool and a man standing by the side chanting incantations. He later ordered the guards to take me inside that they were not in need of someone like me."</div>
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Continuing, Lawani said: "In my presence, the man called on Friday who came about 40 minutes later. After telling him that I was not acceptable for their rituals, Friday started flogging me mercilessly. He then ordered the men to take me out, but not before the ritualist got angry, and ordered the hefty men to bring Friday for sacrifice in my place. I heard him beg them to give him just 30 minutes to enable him bring another person, but the man said there was no time.</div>
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"With Friday's hands and legs tied, the man began chanting incantations again. This time, I saw crocodiles coming out of the water. Friday was then thrown inside, the reptiles feasted on him. I was not myself because of the sight of blood and how such large reptiles ate up a whole human being. The man later ordered the men to throw me out, that I was useless to them. They sprayed a powder on my face again and I became unconscious."</div>
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On how he got back to his senses, Lawani recalled that he was sheltered by a Hausa man who saw him wandering in Gwamaja area of Kano State.</div>
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After prayers were offered for him for about three days, he regained consciousness but could not speak. It was then he wrote down his father’s phone number which he easily remembered and with which they used to reach his family, that had been searching frantically for him.</div>
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His elder brother, Theophilus Lawani, said that his friend sold him to the kidnappers for ₦150,000.</div>
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[NEMESIS]: Ritualists Sacrifice Man Who Sold Friend For ₦150,000

KANO, NIGERIA - This is a really distressing story of a man who was betrayed into the hands of ritualists by a friend for ₦150,000. ...

Angry Kano Youths Set Sharia Court On Fire

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<b>Some Muslim youths on Friday stormed the Kano Government House and the palace of the Emir of Kano, Mahammad Sanusi II, to protest an alleged blaspheming of Prophet Mohammed (SAW) by a Tijjani preacher, Abdul Nyass.</b></div>
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The protesters, armed with sticks and other dangerous weapons, stormed the streets of the city to express their anger over Nyass’ alleged blasphemous statements against Prophet Mohammed.</div>
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Chanting "Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar", meaning "God is great, God is great'', the youths temporarily caused chaos at the Government House, causing stampede for about an hour before the intervention of government officials and security agents, who also formed a ring-like barricade to prevent their entry.</div>
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The intervention of Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso was said to have averted a bloody clash between the protesters and security operatives manning the gate, while police officers were immediately drafted by the state Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to the scene.</div>
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The governor, who was represented by the Commissioner for State Affairs, Mr. Aminu Gwarzo, and the Commissioner for Water Resources, Dr. Yunusa Dangoni, later invited the leader of the sect, Sherriff Sani Jan-bluo, before peace was restored.</div>
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However, the irate youths set ablaze Nyass' house in Gaide, Kombotso Local Government Area of the state and burnt part of the state Sharia court, a development which ignited widespread condemnation across the state from prominent Tijaniyya leaders, including Shiek Dairu Bauchi, and Califa Shiek Isyaka Rabiu.</div>
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The court, located in Rijia Lemo, where the preacher was supposed to appear was set ablaze by the youths after patiently waiting for a long time without him showing up.</div>
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PHOTO NEWS: Old Schoolmates From 1953 Visit Buhari

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<b>Former schoolmates of the President-elect General Muhammadu Buhari yesterday used the opportunity of his presence in Daura on a short break to pay him a congratulatory visit.</b></div>
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The old schoolmates from the 1953 class of Katsina Middle School were led by Senator Abba Ali.</div>
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Others who visited include Lawal Gwauda, Hassan Sada, Bature Mohamed Ungwar Aikali, Tanimu Saulawa Gidado, Yunisa Ibrahim Paul, Magaji Bakori, Mohammed Kabiu Daura, Muhammadu Buhari, Abdulmalik K/bai, Sule B.K., Sen. Abba Ali, Abdullahi Ibrahim, Muhtar Abubakar, Nuhu Zango and Garba Kalu.</div>
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PHOTO NEWS: Old Schoolmates From 1953 Visit Buhari

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PHOTO NEWS: Buhari Visits Emir Of Katsina

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<b>Before heading for Daura, his hometown, on Tuesday after taking a short break from Abuja, the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari paid a courtesy visit to the Emir of Katsina, Alhaji Abdulmumini Kabiru Usman CFR, in his palace.</b></div>
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PHOTO NEWS: Wild Jubilation As Buhari Returns To Daura

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<b>On Tuesday, May 19, the President-elect General Muhammadu Buharu, took time off from his busy schedules at the Defence House in Abuja to return to his hometown, Daura in Katsina State.</b></div>
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On arrival in Daura, the ancient town went in ecstatic jubilation as the "Peoples General" returned. Below are images from the wild jubilation along the route of the President-elect.</div>
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PHOTO NEWS: Wild Jubilation As Buhari Returns To Daura

On Tuesday, May 19, the President-elect General Muhammadu Buharu, took time off from his busy schedules at the Defence House in Abuja t...

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<b>For allegedly helping their father plunder Nigeria of an estimated $5 billion in the 1990s, Mohammed and Abba Abacha, and other relatives of the late dictator, Sani Abacha, have been rewarded by the Nigerian government.</b></div>
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A secret deal between the government and the Abachas, wants the family to return part of the loot, in exchange for perpetual immunity against prosecution.</div>
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The deal, kept classified for months, was personally approved by President Goodluck Jonathan in July 2014, and jointly authored by the Attorney General, Mohammed Adoke.</div>
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The terms of the agreement, obtained by <b>PREMIUM TIMES</b> in March, have alarmed anti-corruption activists.</div>
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“The agreement is (also) a tragic triumph of impunity,” said The Berne Declaration, a Swiss nongovernmental organization, which for years has monitored efforts by the Nigerian government to recover hundreds of millions of dollars stashed by the former military ruler, and his family, in bank accounts across Europe, and America.</div>
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The agreement closes criminal proceedings for the plundering of the Nigerian treasury against the perpetrators and their accomplices, with the result that they go unpunished.</div>
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Foreign banks involved in the heist have also not been convicted of money laundering.</div>
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Worse, Swiss lawyers and other attorneys who helped facilitate the so-called out-of-court settlement, will pocket fees up to five per cent of all monies recovered from the family from banks in Switzerland and other countries. The government expressly agreed to pay one of the attorneys $28 million.</div>
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“This is all the more troubling because many of the banks involved have not been convicted of money laundering. It is equally incomprehensible that the Swiss lawyers involved may pocket up to 7 percent of the sum for their services, as this money belongs to the Nigerian population,” Berne Declaration said.</div>
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The base of the agreement is for the Abacha family to cooperate with federal authorities to have the stolen funds repatriated, in exchange for clemency.</div>
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On receipt of the assets, Nigeria will “end any and all legal proceedings and investigations against the settling parties (referring to the Abacha family)”.</div>
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The government will “recognise” properties owned by the family in Nigeria, the agreement says.</div>
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“The FRN (Federal Republic of Nigeria) will withdraw any and all civil proceedings against the settling parties,” one clause in the agreement states.</div>
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Another clause says, “The FRN will end, without any finding of liability or guilt, any and all proceedings of whatever kind including criminal, civil or administrative proceedings contemplated or pending in any court in Nigeria (including in relation to forfeiture and or restraint) relating to or arising out of any investigations into the resolved matter, …”.</div>
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“The FRN will provide to any government, authority or organisation, where necessary, information, clearance or such other documentation or support as may be required by any or all of the Settling Parties to ensure and guarantee unrestricted movement in and out of Nigeria or in any other state or country,” another clause adds.</div>
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As Nigeria’s military leader between 1993 and 1998, Mr. Abacha stashed away billions of dollars of public funds in various accounts abroad.</div>
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Transparency International estimates $5 billion was stolen.</div>
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The money include those in three accounts at HSBC Bank Plc, one in Standard Bank Plc in England; five accounts in Cítibank Private Bank of London; one account in Deutsche Bank International Ltd, in Jersey, United States; three accounts in Banque SBA SA and one in Standard Alliance Corporation in France.</div>
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There are also funds in nine accounts in Luxemburg and Liechtenstein totaling about $248.64 million and Euros179.14 million, which was transferred to the Bank for International Settlements (BI) in 2014.</div>
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In June 2014, Liechtenstein agreed to return $227m, while the U.S. froze some $458m hidden by Abacha in bank accounts.</div>
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Switzerland had earlier returned some $700m. By March 2015, the country agreed to return a further $380m.</div>
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The recovery of the money had been blocked by legal action brought by companies linked to members of the Abacha family.</div>
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The government’s initial charges against Abacha’s oldest son, Mohammed Abacha, was for unlawfully receiving government money from his father.</div>
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The Nigerian government agreed to the secret deal as a sort of plea bargain, to have the Abacha family drop its case, and allow the money to be repatriated.</div>
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Geneva prosecutors had also closed their own case against the Abacha.</div>
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Anti-corruption activists argue that granting immunity to those who helped in stealing the country blind will only embolden others to do worse.</div>
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They also question why the Nigerian government failed to lay clearly as part of the agreement how recovered money will be applied from the benefit of Nigerians.</div>
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“The agreement between Nigeria and the Abacha family, approved by the Public Prosecutor in Geneva, does not contain a single provision to ensure that the returned money will be of benefit to the Nigerian people from whom it was stolen in the nineties and who continue to suffer endemic corruption,” Bernes Declaration said.</div>
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“The entire arrangement is questionable,” said David Ugolor of the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice. “We must let Switzerland see the need to suspend further decision on the return of the money stolen by Abacha until all the terms are clearly established in a manner that would really benefit Nigerians.”</div>
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Anchored by Attorney General Adoke, the agreement compels the Federal Government to withdraw all pending cases against any member of the Abacha family at home and abroad, while all organs of government, including the National Assembly, were barred from asking questions with the intention of recovering the stolen wealth.</div>
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Also, the deal forbids the government from taking any action to limit the constitutional rights, including freedom of movement of the Abachas within and outside Nigeria and right to property, in connection with the theft.</div>
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Mohammed and Abba Abacha represented the Abacha family in the negotiations, which also involved international brokers.</div>
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Mr. Adoke represented Nigeria on the instructions of President Jonathan.</div>
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“I hereby confirm that the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke SAN CFR, has full authority to contract in that capacity in relation to the Repatriation Agreement between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Alhaji Mohammed Sani Abacha and Alhaji Abba Abacha,” the president wrote.</div>
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As part of the agreement, Nigeria will pay four per cent of the sums recovered and repatriated to Nigeria to Swiss agent, Enrico Monfrini of Monfrini, Crettol & Associe, which also entitled to another $5 million for litigation expenses.</div>
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Another 2.8 percent of the recovered or repatriated sum was agreed to be paid Christian Luscher of CMS Von Erlach Poncet Ltd (subject to a cap of $28million), while the Abacha are expected to settle the legal fees of their appointed agent, Nicola Boulton, of Byrne and Partners of London.</div>
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<b>An All Progressives Congress (APC) senator-elect, Shehu Sani, has warned the party of the danger posed by the delay in adopting a zoning formula for the office the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, warning that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) might hijack the process to its advantage.</b></div>
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The APC, which will form the majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, is yet to zone the positions of the Senate President and the Speaker of the House as well as their deputies, barely three weeks to the inauguration of the 5th session of the National Assembly.</div>
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There are however speculations that the party might zone the Senate Presidency to either the North Central or North East zones while the office of the Speaker might go to the South West.</div>
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Consequently, a former Governor of Kwara State, Bukola Saraki, and a former Governor of Benue State, George Akume, as well as Ahmed Lawan from Yobe State are campaigning for the position.</div>
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All three are ranking senators of the All Progressives Congress.</div>
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There is no elected APC senator from the South-East and South-South zones although the party's national chairman hails from the latter.</div>
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The president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, is from the North West while his deputy hails from the South West.</div>
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Mr. Sani, who will represent Kaduna Central Senatorial District, said the failure of the party to determine which zone should produce the presiding officers is not only giving the PDP confidence that it could negotiate for anything, but has also divided the APC senators, both serving and incoming.</div>
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He said: “There are three consequences of this delay. First, it has divided the APC senators and members of the House of Representatives into different camps. This is dangerous because the implication is that we may have a divided house.</div>
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“Secondly, it is building acrimony, discontent and suspicion among the APC members and as a result the interest of the party is becoming secondary.</div>
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“Thirdly, the PDP is using this division to extract commitment from the contestants. That is to say if they back a candidate and if the candidate wins they will get what under normal circumstance they don't deserve.”</div>
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Mr. Sani said the race for the National Assembly seat is being influenced by some external forces in readiness for the 2019 general elections, stressing “what you see now is the voice of Jacob and the hand of Esau.”</div>
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He stated that some of the candidates are already making claims of being backed by some top party leaders, including that of Mr. Buhari.</div>
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He however expressed joy that the statement by the president-elect in which he said he was ready to work with anybody elected as the presiding officer of any of the chambers had put to rest speculations that he (Buhari) was backing a particular candidate for the Senate Presidency.</div>
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He added: “I think the problem with the selection of the leadership of the National Assembly is the problem of politics of 2019. There are forces outside the Senate that are interested in the leadership that will control the Senate for their own interest.</div>
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“The division within the APC and the refusal of APC to be categorical on zoning is giving the PDP the confidence to do things and blackmail it.</div>
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“APC must put its house in order or else we may end up with a poisonous choice. Somebody has to call the three contestants and sit them down to sort things out.</div>
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Mr. Sani explained that although the APC was yet to zone the National Assembly positions, he and some other senators-elect on the party’s platform, attended the meeting convened by Mr. Saraki, on Tuesday night because they were free to associate with anybody.</div>
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At the meeting were the chairman of the PDP Governors Forum and senator-elect from Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, and the other two senators from the state, Bassey Albert and Nelson Effiong, Andy Uba from Anambra State, Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State and senator-elect for Abia Central Senatorial District and Shehu Sani from Kaduna Central Senatorial District.</div>
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“For now since the party has not zoned it, it means that any senator is free to attend any meeting or multiple meetings,” he said.</div>
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“If the party makes its position known, there are people who will naturally step down from the race. A lot of heat is being built by the contestants. The APC in the National Assembly is divided. Once the party makes its position known the activities will be gravitated towards the zone.”</div>
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Meanwhile, the National Chairman, John Oyegun, said there was nothing to worry about the delay in making official pronouncement on the zoning formula for the National Assembly position.</div>
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“There is nothing to worry about,” he said. “The party is in charge. The party knows what to do. It is a hard won victory and no member hand over this victory to another person.”</div>
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SMEDAN Trainees Hold Yero Hostage Over Unpaid Allowances

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<b>Hundreds of graduate trainees under the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) in Kaduna on Thursday held the State Governor, Mukhtar Yero, hostage over unpaid five-month allowances.</b></div>
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Although the target of the protest, <i><b>The PUNCH</b></i> correspondent gathered, was Yero, who narrowly escaped the anger of the placard-carrying youths. The youths besieged the venue of the inauguration event of the distribution of cheques to benefiaciaries of the ₦1 billion partnership fund between the state government and Bank of Industry (BoI).</div>
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The governor was represented by his Deputy, Nuhu Bajoga, at the event.</div>
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The protesters, who completed SMEDAN training since January this year, beat the security to find their way to the late Gen. Hassan Katsina House, Kawo, Kaduna, venue of the event.</div>
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At about 1.25pm, the aggrieved trainee graduates forced themselves into the main hall where they expected to see the governor himself but were disappointed that the deputy represented him.</div>
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Not done, the youths opted to disrupt the speech of the Deputy Governor.</div>
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As the written speech of the governor was read by the deputy, the protesting youths shouted him down.</div>
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They chanted solidarity songs, “What we are saying, give us our money!” to distract the listening guests.</div>
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The development forced the programme to end abruptly.</div>
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Government officials and other guests from the BoI at the ocassion had to rush into waiting vehicles to leave the venue of the event.</div>
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Inscription on some of the placards displayed by the protesters read: "SMEDAN programme is a fraud"; "This is 419"; "Give us our entitlements"; "We have not been paid any kobo but the state government said it has paid us; it is a lie"; and "You cannot use us and dump us, we are tired of this government."</div>
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A leader of the SMEDAN trainees, Abdulraman Salihu, said since they completed their training, the government had failed to pay them.</div>
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He said the trainees were entitled to ₦1bn across the state but till date none of them had received anything.</div>
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Salihu said: "We finished training since January this year, but the government refused to pay us and what we are hearing from people is that we have been paid, but nobody paid us any kobo.</div>
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"We are entitled to one billion Naira across the state, but up till now we have not been paid."</div>
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We Will Recover All Funds Looted By PDP, Says El-Rufai

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<b>The Governor-elect of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will retrieve all the public funds stolen by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).</b></div>
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El-Rufai stated this when exeutive members of the National Union of Textile Garments and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN) paid him a courtesy visit on Tuesday.</div>
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He said politicians both at state and national levels who had stolen money should be ready to refund it back to the incoming APC administration.</div>
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He said the recovery of the money has become necessary because the incoming government will inherit a bad debt situation, adding that the APC government will ask politicians who stole government money to return such funds.</div>
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The Governor-elect said: "We will politely ask those who stole government money to return the funds.</div>
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"This is because those in government now are there to work for themselves, but the APC government is made up of people who are ready to work for the masses and betterment of the country.</div>
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"We will work with the textile union to ensure that lives of average Nigerians get better."</div>
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The Governor-elect of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will retrieve all the publ...