Buhari appoints Malami and 6 others into federal board

The seven appointees took oath of office with a promise to put in their very best for the development of Nigeria through the mining sector - Minister Kayode Fayemi said the approval was an indication of the commitment of the government to fixing the country President Muhammadu Buhari’s minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has inaugurated inaugurated the board of Solid Minerals Development Fund (SMDF). The board was inaugurated after their appointment by the president with Fayemi stressing that the approval is a clear indication of the administration's commitment to fixing the Nigerian mining sector to become a key contributor to the economy. The minister stated in his remark at the inauguration ceremony held at the ministry’s conference hall that the inauguration of the board marked an important milestone in the efforts of the present government in repositioning of the Nigerian mining sector. Read more: https://www.naij.com/1106637-buhari-appoints-malami-6-federal-board.html



Minister Fayemi said the appointments were made by President Muhammadu Buhari

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“As the administration marks two years in office, we are pleased that these successes are being recorded during our stewardship of this sector, and under the direction of Mr President,” Fayemi said. 

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The minister stated that the mandate of the board in addition to the mandate of the SMDF include the restructuring and operationalisation of the SMDF by designing the appropriate governance structure, organisation, strategies and operations for effective management, to promote the establishment of the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) facilitator Fund and work with investors to establish its governance and financial structure.

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The appointed include: Alhaji Uba Saida Malami (chairman), Demola Gbedegesin (member), Prince Theo Iseghohi (member), Eze Samuel Ogbu (member), Hajia Fatima Shinkafi (secretary and head of secretariat), Dr Uwatt Bassey Uwatt representing the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Mrs Yinka Mubarak representing Bankers Committee Fayemi said that the “competent team of seasoned professionals” would inspire confidence and trust from other stakeholders they would be working with. “Their wealth of experience and networks would be brought to bear on this job towards achieving the desired results. Read more: https://www.naij.com/1106637-buhari-appoints-malami-6-federal-board.html

"We are pleased that this administration’s strategic focus on the mining sector is being justified by the very strong sectoral performance that is now being recorded,” he said noting that efforts of the present administration in repositioning the mining sector had started to yield dividends. He said this was evident in the latest report by the National Board of Statistics (NBS) which indicated a positive growth in the sector. “The first quarter 2017 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) results recently released by the National Bureau of Statistics indicates: ‘Coal mining; Metal Ores; and Quarrying and other metals; grew strongly by 2.03%, 40.79% and 52.54% respectively’. “There is however a lot more grounds to cover. In the FGN’s recently launched ‘Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (2017-2020)’, the minerals and metals sector was duly recognised as one of those to drive Nigeria’s recovery. The document projected to grow sectoral contribution to GDP from N103 billion (2015) to N141 billion in 2020, at an average annual growth rate of 8.54 percent. 

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“Other targets for the sector include the facilitation of coal to power plants to contribute to our energy mix towards bridging our energy deficits. “The strategy document which is very much in sync with the sector’s Roadmap, also aims to produce geological maps of the entire country by 2020 on a scale of 1:100,000; as well as integrate artisanal miners into the formal sector,” he said.
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Malami, on behalf of the board members, accepted the responsibility with all humility. “He assured that the board will focus their energy to pursue speedy establishment of the SMDF to achieve federal government strategy in the sector as enshrined in the economic and growth plan of 2017-2020," he said. Alhaji Malami pledged that the board would develop a quick strategic working plan with schedules and time line to guide their activities. Watch this video of the reactions to the alleged declarations by some northern elements that Acting President Yemi Osinbajo cannot contest for presidency in 2019: Read more: https://www.naij.com/1106637-buhari-appoints-malami-6-federal-board.html

President Muhammadu Buhari is responding to treatment in the UK Read more: https://www.naij.com/1106500-buharis-health-embassy-source-reveals-detail-presidents-status.html

A source at the Nigeria High Commission in London reveals the president has made very significant improvement - The source at the embassy says the president is very stable and is able to regularly and promptly observe his five-time daily prayers Emerging reports suggest that President Muhammadu Buhari’s health has improved significantly. 

A source at the Nigeria High Commission in London, United Kingdom, reveals that the president is very stable. The source however notes that only the president's physicians can determine when he will return to Nigeria and to work. “He is doing very good; he is ok but his doctors will determine (when he will return),” said the source. Read more: https://www.naij.com/1106500-buharis-health-embassy-source-reveals-detail-presidents-status.html

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According to Premium Times, the official, who sees Buhari regularly, asked not to be named because he had no permission to discuss the president’s condition with journalists. The source also expressed sadness that some Nigerians could wish the president dead, saying “(it is) sad that any human being will wish another dead.” He continued: “It’s sad but God is all seeing and will always suffice and to Him we submit all our affairs. They have failed and will continue to fail.”


 On the calls for Buhari’s resignation on the ground of poor health , the source said, “Well that’s their problem because it is God that gives power and takes it when He so wishes and not anybody else.” NAIJ.com learnt that when asked if the president’s health was now better than he left home, the source said the president is largely stable. Adding that Buhari is able to regularly and promptly observe his five-time daily prayers.

 Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has decided to make good its promise of holding a second national convention. The ruling party had on Wednesday, January 18, said it will hold its 2nd National Convention in April, however, the convention did not hold. In a bid to ensure that the convention holds as promised, governors on the platform of the APC met with the party’s National Working Committee (NWC). The meeting held in Abuja on Wednesday, May 24. According to Daily Post, the delegates agreed to proceed with preparations for the convention. 

They agreed to proceed even with President Muhammadu Buhari still away on vacation. The governors and NWC also resolved to send a delegation to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to present him with suggested dates for him to pick from. Stalwarts of the party noted the though Buhari its national leader is absent, still the convention must hold for the good of the party and to the betterment of Nigeria. Buhari left the country for London on May 7 to continue with his medical treatment. He had returned to Nigeria on March 10 after spending 51 days in the British capital during attending to his health. Upon his return, the president said he “couldn’t recall being so sick since he was a young man, including in the military with its ups and downs.” He also said he could not recall ever having blood transfusion before. The president also hinted that he would return to the UK for further treatment. “I’m feeling much better now. 

There may, however, be need for further follow up within some weeks,” Buhari had said while addressing the country. Below is a video in which Nigerian's react to fake news over President Buhari's health and the speculations of an imminent military takeover. Read more: https://www.naij.com/1106500-buharis-health-embassy-source-reveals-detail-presidents-status.html

 

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- Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has labelled as naive, late Odumegwu Ojukwu's drive towards

the fBiara war -

 Obasanjo made the assertion at the maiden edition of the "Memory and Nation Building, Biafra: 50 Years After" Read more: https://www.naij.com/1106528-the-young-officers-started-nigerian-biafra-war-naive-obasanjo.html

The ex-president says the young officers who started the 1967 war were unguarded Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the officers who started the 1967 Nigerian-Biafra civil war were all naive. Speaking at the maiden edition of the "Memory and Nation Building, Biafra: 50 Years After", the former president said the young officers who started the 1967 war were naive and never had an understanding of what they were going into. Read more: https://www.naij.com/1106528-the-young-officers-started-nigerian-biafra-war-naive-obasanjo.html 

"Although there were some nationalism in some of them. And that is whathas kept us where we currently are," Obasanjo said. He further condemned remarks by some of Nigerian leaders who are bent on planting hatred in the hearts of the Nigerian populace. "We really never had a national leader, we had three leaders at the beginning of our journey as a nation who are mindful of their regions. That is our problem. When you listen to our leaders they talk about freedom and their region but never unity," he said. Obasanjo said all the officer who participated in the war never saw themselves as enemies. Read more: https://www.naij.com/1106528-the-young-officers-started-nigerian-biafra-war-naive-obasanjo.html 

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"We saw our brothers on the other side as rebels, we never called ourselves enemies. Right from the beginning of the war, reconciliation was on the federal's mind," he noted. He said all the standard rule of engagement was observed during the civil war with the aim of reconciling with the aggrieved party. "We had special code of conduct, foreign observers, we had people who had power to report authoritatively and power to even investigate. "I have said it before, civil war is more difficult to fight that fight a foreign nation or exterminate. "We wanted to preserve our nation, reconciliation was on our mind," Obasanjo added. 

The Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, former president of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo and many others are currently seated at the Shehu Musa Yar'adua Centre in Abuja to discuss the Nigerian-Biafra civil war after 50 years. Also seated for the debate is the president of Ohanaeze Ndigbo John Nnia-Nwodo, Pat Utomi and Dr Oby Ezekwesili. The chairman of the occasion is the former permanent secretary for the ministry of information, education and industry, Mohammed Joda. Speaking at the event, Innocent Chukwuma of Ford Foundation - the co-organizers with Shehu Musa Yar'adua Foundation said the event was the first of its kind. Below is a NAIJ.com video in which Nigerians react to the possibility of a military takeover in Nigeria. Read more: https://www.naij.com/1106528-the-young-officers-started-nigerian-biafra-war-naive-obasanjo.html

The current status of Obagi town/Population 80% on

Where are you are feel free, your community  is save, God has make it work.

We have been observing the community for the past two months now, no killing, no stilling, no rapping and even the place is now lively. 24/7 light on, no power failure

The electricity is presently provided by total E&P NIG. ltd. The hospital is about to start working, and there will be a free medical.

Presently the Community secondary school students are enjoying the campus, freedom of movement. 

Information l got from one of the student that the teachers are good especially in science, all like before that they were lacking science teachers such as chemistry, physics, English teacher,  but now since peace has be restored  in the community the students have restored all the lost field. 

So you can see how amazingpeace  is for good. 

DAMN. is a widescreen masterpiece of rap, full of expensive beats, furious rhymes, and peerless storytelling about Kendrick’s destiny in America.

DAMN. is a widescreen masterpiece of rap, full of expensive beats, furious rhymes, and peerless storytelling about Kendrick’s destiny in America.

Life is one funny motherfucker, it’s true. “DUCKWORTH.,” the last song on Kendrick Lamar's fourth studio album DAMN., tells a winding story about Anthony from Compton and Ducky from Chicago, whose paths cross first over KFC biscuits, and again, 20 years later, when Ducky’s son records a song about the encounter for Anthony’s record label. It’s a precious origin story, the stuff of rock docs and hood DVDs, and it’s delivered with such precision, vivid detail, and masterful pacing that it can’t possibly be true. But it’s a tale too strange to be fiction, and too powerful not to believe in—just like its author. Kendrick Lamar has proven he’s a master storyteller, but he’s been saving his best plot twist this whole time, waiting until he was ready, or able, to pull it off.

Storytelling has been Lamar’s greatest skill and most primary mission, to put into (lots of) words what it's like to grow up as he did—to articulate, in human terms, the intimate specifics of daily self-defense from your surroundings. Somehow, he’s gotten better. The raps on his fourth studio album DAMN. jab mercilessly like a sewing machine. His boyish nasal instrument is distinct and inimitable as it slithers up and down in pitch on “PRIDE.” Even when Lamar sounds like Eminem, or Drake, or OutKast, he sounds like himself, and he arguably outpaces them all as a writer. On “FEAR.,” he relays daily threats from his mom (“I’ll beat your ass, keep talking back/I’ll beat your ass, who bought you that? You stole it”) and from his neighbors (“I’ll probably die because I ain’t know Demarcus was snitching/I’ll probably die at these house parties fucking with bitches”) over low-slung blues stirred by The Alchemist. Lamar’s recitation is so effortless you wonder where he breathes, or if he does at all.

Kendrick is a relic of the mid-aughts rap blog era, where bedroom WordPress pages would post .zips of albums by amateurs. After years of such releases, Kendrick dropped a self-titled EP in 2009 that featured Big Pooh from Little Brother and elicited such Nah Right comments as “I like the beats on this” and “who da fuk?” Accolades swelled with each project; by 2011, he was considering signing with Dr. Dre; by 2013, he was playing “SNL” and touring with Kanye West. He came of age with his fans, and by 2015’s To Pimp a Butterfly, he put to music their chest-clenched frustrations. Ever the curtain-puller, he released an album of untitled and unmastered drafts and grew his hair out. His short absence, even after lending Taylor Swift a verse, has been made to feel longer by his media shyness and a surging tide of new rappers shuttled out daily.

Throughout it all, he’s avoided the boxed-in fates of predecessors like Nas and peers like J. Cole through an electric originality and curiosity. He mastered rap not for mastery’s sake, but to use it as a form, undeterred by slow-eared fans who’ll only highlight his “simplest lines.” His best new trick is repetition; it offsets his density and drills his ideas, as enthralling as a Sunday sermon or pre-fight chirp session. There have been few threats committed to record as sincere as, “Let somebody touch my mama, touch my sister, touch my woman/Touch my daddy, touch my niece, touch my nephew, touch my brother”—you tick down the list along with him, slot in your own lifelong bonds with loved ones. Such internal processing plays out through the album’s Greek chorus, via the singer Bēkon, who speaks in riddles of balance throughout: “Is it wickedness, is it weakness;” “Love’s gonna get you killed, but pride’s gonna be the death of you;” “It was always me versus the world/Until I found it’s me versus me.”

DAMN. is best in these philosophical spaces. It lags slightly around the center, where the concept loosens: “LOYALTY.,” with Rihanna, has all the makings of a radio mainstay this summer, and is as low-stakes as the platform demands; it’s always fun to hear Rih rap, and her presence is its most interesting aspect. “LUST.” would sound better if it weren’t next to an ear-worm as tender as “LOVE.,” which slow-dances between Zacari falsettos and Lamar’s sheepish read of the girl who fills him up. Between the two tracks, it’s easy to tell which force is tugging at him harder.

The record’s few lulls succumb to what surrounds them. The springboard bounce of “HUMBLE.,” the war chant of “DNA.,” and hot steel of “XXX.” show Kendrick in his element, fast and lucid, like Eazy-E with college credits and Mike WiLL beats. The production is taut and clean, but schizophrenic, often splicing two or three loops into a track and swaying between tempos, closer in kin to good kid, m.A.A.d city’s siren-synths than Butterfly’s brass solos. If he was “black as the moon” on his last album, he’s an “Israelite” here, refusing to identify himself by the shade of his skin but fluent in the contents of his D.N.A. Butterfly floated along to soften its scathing stance—“We hate po-po” sounds better over a smooth saxophone—but with so many “wack artists” in play, what’s the reward for upliftment? Kendrick is so alone at his altitude that when he acknowledges Fox News, let alone Donald Trump, it feels like a favor to them both.

Still, the album exists for “DUCKWORTH.” It’s the final piece of the TDE puzzle, a homegrown label of Compton natives that happened to deliver the best rapper of his generation. If we’re to believe the song’s last gunshot—and its seamless loop back to track one—much of DAMN. is written from the perspective of a Kendrick Lamar who grew up without a father to guide him away from the sinful temptations outside his home. He bobs in and out of this perspective, but the repeated pledges to loyalty and martyrdom evoke the life and mind of a young gang member who carries his neighborhood flag because no one’s proved to him that he shouldn’t. These choices, Lamar suggests, aren’t pre-determined or innate, but in constant dialogue with and in reaction to their surrounding circumstances. They aren’t above or beneath anyone who can hear his voice. Success and failure choose their subjects at their whim; we’re as grateful as Kendrick for his fate.