Inspector general of police gave Rivers police commissioner mandate to kill me – Wike

The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesome Wike has alleged that the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Idris Ibrahim, has given the new Commissioner of Police posted to Rivers State a mandate to kill him.

Wike said this while fielding questions from reporters yesterday.

Asked if he was aware that Rivers State has a new Police Commissioner, Wike said, “Yes, and he told me he is going to do a professional work and I told him, ‘You, a professional work?’ You can’t be independent and can’t do a professional work.

“He shouldn’t come and tell me he wants to do any professional work. Who is he to say that?“The inspector general of police has given him instructions on what to do. The inspector general has told him he must cage the Rivers State governor.

Wike said the new commissioner cannot have his own mind, adding that people are posted based on their loyalty not competence.

“Do you know that we are the only state that has had about nine commissioners of police in just two years?He added, “Which mind? Before he was posted here, he was told what to do. They don’t post people based on competence but loyalty; someone who will do their bidding.

“When he was going to be sent, there were about three of them that were called, and interviewed. They said they were going to kill me.

“They took this one who said he would be diplomatic about it. We know.

“This police commissioner has an agenda; I can’t be deceived. I’m not saying he should go; let him stay. He has been given an assignment to kill me. No problem. No man dies two times.

“This inspector general of police said so.”

Asked how inspector General of Police could send someone to kill a governor, Wike insisted that the IG said so.

“Yes, I’m telling you. The inspector general of police, who removed my security details without letting me know until when I was going out and realised that I had no security personnel. What is the implication of that?

“When a supposed chief security officer of a state wakes up in the morning and realises that he has no security personnel attached to him, what do you expect? What’s the implication? Danger!”

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JAMB gives two weeks extra for Candidates to register, see details below

· Postpones mock examination

The Joint Admissions and MatriculationS Board yesterday announced extension of registration for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) by two weeks.

The extension covers April 19 – 5th May.

The examination body also announced suspension of the conduct of its mock examination scheduled to hold yesterday in some selected centres across the country indefinitely.

JAMB registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, told reporters in Abuja the postponement of the UTME mock exam was due to failure from its technical partners.

He also announced shift in the conduct of UTME scheduled to begin on 6th May. The exercise, according to him, will commence on 13th – 20th May.

“The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board wishes to apologise to candidates and other stakeholders.

“We could not go on with the mock examination and hereby announce extension of registration exercise of the 2017 UTME.

“Instead of the earlier announced April 19, the deadline for the sale of forms and registration will now extend to Friday, May 5, 2017.

“Consequently, the 2017 UTME has also been postponed to start on Saturday, May 13-20, 2017,” Oloyede said.

Justifying the action, the JAMB boss said:  “The postponement of the UTME mock examination was due to failure from our technical partners.

“Yesterday (Friday) we told you people that if there was need for extension, we would do that.

“Today (Saturday), we put the system on trial and discovered that there were certain failures from our technical partners.”

Oloyede said the mock examination remained free for candidates willing to sit for it, adding the agency would pay the fees due to owners of computer based centres (CBT) to allow candidates write the examination.

“The mock examination earlier slated for Saturday, April 8, 2017 has been put on hold.

“This is because the appropriate rehearsal and test-running of the new stem has been substantially achieved.

“The plan was to trial-test the readiness of our facilities and address challenges that may likely confront the main examination.

“At this moment, we have realised that the plan to hold this mock examination was good for us.

“We are now in a better position to achieve better than we would have done without this trial testing. This is why the exercise is at no cost to candidates.

“The blessing that will trail the suspension of this mock examination and extension of registration deadline will manifest in our main UTME by next month,” he said.

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How President Buhari made Nnamdi Kalu a hero from zero level thinking he was persecuting him - Uwazurike

The former President-General of Igbo Think Tank Tank group, known as Aka Ikenga, Goddy Uwazuruike, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s continued detention of leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has transformed the agitator from the status of a nobody to a heroic personality.

In a chat with the media during the weekend, the Igbo intellectual said the celebration of Kanu as a hero and the clamour for his release from Kuje prison was born out of necessity and expediency.

According to him, the call for Kanu’s release and the subsequent hero status he had attracted can be justified by an allusion to an African proverb.

He said “If an individual on his way to work finds a man beating his child on account of disobedience, and the child is still sighted serving the same punishment in the evening, what would the passer-by tell the father? Of course he would wade in and say: ‘this is enough, stop it. It is enough.’

“Who was Nnamdi Kanu before now? He was nobody. But suddenly during this detention, after various court have discharged him, he has become somebody. By government’s action, it has made him an authority.

“Remember some years ago, leader of the Oodua Peoples Congress, Chief Gani Adams, was arrested, just like the late NADECO leader, Chief Abraham Adesanya. But it got a stage that people shouted ‘Leave these people alone.’

“Similarly, we are calling for the release of Kanu, enough is enough. It has nothing to do with the 2019 elections.

“Nnamdi Kanu is not a threat to anybody. You have him in prison for owing a radio station but his detention has not stopped the radio station to stop broadcasting.”

On why the call is being made at this time, he said: “It is never too late to say the truth, even at the point of death.

“Let me put it this way, anyone who keeps silence in the face of oppression and injustice deserves the worse treatment.

“Prof. Soludo, Prof Utomi and the governors have spoken and we are very happy and we call on all Nigerians to join in the call as well. If people are charged for treason because they spoke about injustice and oppression, then they are labeled enemies of the state, then you know what kind of government that is.”

On how to effect the release, he said the Attorney- General of the Federation should advise the President that this treasonable felony trial will do him no good and the charge should be dropped.

“And that is why we advocate the separation of the office of Attorney General from that of the Minister of Justice, the former answers to the people while the latter to the President”, he added.

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EFCC discovers over N400m in abandoned bureau the change in Lagos (VIDEO)

The Lagos State zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has recovered over 400 million naira in an abandoned bureau the change in Lagos State.
The anti-graft agency in a video posted on its Facebook page Friday night said they had counted over N400m while the counting is still ongoing as at 8:33pm.
No details of the area where the money was recovered at the time of this report, but DAILY POST observed that the money was stocked in a ‘Ghana Must Go’ bag.

The development is coming barely one month after the EFCC intercepted N49m at the Kaduna International Airport.

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