Budget 2016: FG Under Fire For Poor Provision For South-East

Boko Haram kills 60 in two attacks in Borno

– SEMA confirmed the attack on IDP camp in Borno state

– The officials put the death toll at 55, but the casualty figures couldn’t be confirmed at this time

– The Boko Haram also raided communities in the Damboa local government area 

Sahara Reporters obtained information that the Boko Haram terrorists killed 50 peoplein two attacks in Borno state since Monday, February 8. 

                        The village after Boko Haram attack in Borno state. File photo 

State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) confirmed the attack on IDP camp in Borno state.

According to the agency two female bombers attacked a camp in Dikwa local government area at about 6:30 a.m., and detonated their explosive in the midst of thousands of helpless IDPs.

Satomi Ahmed, the chief of the state agency, told journalists that thirty were killed and seventy-eight people wounded in the attack. He also stated that the lack of a telecommunications network in Dikwa LGA meant that SEMA did not receive word of the attacks until Wednesday morning.

He said: “We were not informed of the attacks until this morning Wednesday. As soon as we heard SEMA and NEMA officials were on the scene.  We evacuated seventy-eight injured persons to Maiduguri.”

Rescue workers who took part in evacuating the victims revealed that more than fifty-five people were killed, most of the victims were women and children.

The Boko Haram insurgents also stormed communities in the Damboa local government area on Monday, murdering at least seven people. News of this onslaught is just emerging because of poor phone network in that area.

The Nigerian army has announced today that the troops in an early morning ambush killed some sect members.

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno state recently confirmed the information that the insurgents do not control any community in Borno state. 

The Boko Haram fighters also continue attacks on neighbouring countries. Double suicide attack rocked today the village of Nguetchewe in Cameroon, killing at least five residents.

However, the last month apparently was the most peaceful since 2013 year.

Budget 2016: FG Under Fire For Poor Provision For South-East

Budget 2016: FG Under Fire For Poor Provision For South-East 

 The Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) has criticized the federal government for poor provision made for the South-East in the 2016 budget proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari. 

 Today.ng reports that the group expressed its dissatisfaction in a statement made on Monday, December 28, and signed by its secretary-general, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, and the forum chairman in the seven Ohanaeze states, Mazi Alex Okemiri.

Wondering why the federal government voted billions of Naira to the North-East, the OYC accused the government of deliberately marginalizing the South-East.

 “The South-East is supposed to be declared a disaster zone going by long years of neglect. Nothing short of the scheme for Niger Delta Youths and militants and creation of the Ministry of South East Affairs will assuage the feelings of the suffer 
ing youths who are the worst treated in the country,” the statement read in part. 

 The OYC also warned the Nigerian  army not to repeat the alleged provocative killings it carried out at Onitsha and called on the military High Command “to fish out the soldiers that used life bullet on unarmed protesters, else we will write officially to the international Criminal Court over the matter”. 

 Members of the group wondered how could the army use life bullet instead of rubber and tear gas on unarmed protesters.

The council urged the security agents to arrest some people they described as impostors, who “have been going about claiming to be presidents of the council and extorting money from members of the unsuspecting public, and planning violent attack on the South-East states”.
The OYC highlighted that the Youth wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo is currently under the leadership of Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro.

Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has recently explained how the federal government will source for funds to run the N6trillion budget for next year.

Buhari assured Nigerians that in spite of the fall in the international price of crude oil, measures taken to block leakages in the nation’s revenue generating agencies would ensure enough cash to fund the budget.














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Governor Okorocha steps into Ohaneze Ndigbo crisis

   Governor Okorocha steps into Ohaneze Ndigbo crisis

 – Governor Rochas Okorocha held a closed door meeting the leadership of the Ohaneze Ndigbo

– The group has been affected by leadership issues

– The governor urged the different factions to unite for the sake of Igbo people. 

Governor Rochas Okorocha has reportedly berated the Ohaneze Ndigbo for allowing its leadership crises to linger on.

The apex Igbo group has been rocked by a leadership crisis for a while necessitating the intervention of the governor of Imo state

The Nation reports that Okorocha had a closed-door meeting with the Gary Enwo-Igariwey-led faction of the group at the government house in Owerri, the Imo state capital on Tuesday, February 9.

The meeting was attended by the group’s secretary-general, Dr Joe Nwaogu and other leaders and it lasted for hours.

Igariwey said after the meeting that they were happy with Okorocha’s decision to step into the matter for the sake of peace. 

 “We are here to find solutions to the leadership crisis rocking the group. We have come here in search of peace because when there is peace in Ohanaeze, there will be peace in Igboland. Governor Okorocha is our friend and he has mediated and we are hopeful that peace has returned.” 

 It was gathered that Governor Okorocha criticized the group for allowing the crises to escalate and become an embarrassment to Ndigbo. He urged the factions to come together and make peace in the interest of Igbo people.

The apex Igbo group has been criticised lately by Igbo youths agitating for an independent Biafra state. The stance of the Ohaneze Ndigbo however is that they dot support the agitation. The group has repeatedly called on youths from the South East and South South to stop the Biafra agitation and support the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.