Police arrest Fulani herdsmen's weapon supplier

The Enugu police has paraded one Alhaji Samaila Garuba who suppliers weapons to Fulani herdsmen

He was implicated by an herdsmen who had been earlier arrested by police

The suspect is providing information to police in custody

The police in Enugu have apprehended one Alhaji Samaila Garuba for allegedly supplying weapons to Fulani herdsmen.

The state has been terrorised by killer herdsmen in the past with news of attack on humans and farmlands renting the air.

The Punch reports that Mr. Ebere Amaraizu who is the spokesperson of the Enugu state police command said a herdsman, Ibrahim Adamu, who was arrested with an AK-47 in the Udi area of Enugu on August 29, implicated Garuba as the one who supplied the weapon to him.

Since Adamu’s arrest, the police had been on the trail of Garuba explained the police spokesman.

He was however apprehended at a motor park on Tuesday, December 6.

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FG set to shut down MMM in Nigeria, Nigerians react

The Federal Government of Nigeria is taking moves to shut down MMM operations in Nigeria. Speaking at the 2016 Lagos International Trade Fair, the managing director of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim, said that regulators have set up a committee to see the end of the nefarious activities of the ‘fraudsters’ across the country.

I am really disappointed at the fact that Government instead facing the challenges of the Nigerians and the Nation's welfare, they have decided to swallow Panadol for one's headache. I can decide to keep my money in my house, inside my car it's all about risk and who is taking it.

I really want to tell anyone who wants to hear to leave MMM alone, if it will crash let it be, I for one have decided to take the risk, what is wrong with the government? Is that the schools that you need to build, or roads you need to fix. 

Tell us today what is it that you are really fighting MMM for? Let me help you Mr. NDIC Managing Director, the fact that Nigerians no longer lodge monies in banks is becoming an issue, why not continue lodging your cash there and leave us with our risk.

Living in itself is risk, that I am a Nigerian is a huge risk, that we allowed this present government into power is also a risk which we are still taking.

Please key into MMM like South African President has done, haven't you noticed that people can now put food on their tables for their families, school fees paid with ease.

I put it to you that if you can't beat them join them. We are harmless and we are here to help Nigeria. Like I said before face other issues and let MMM be. 

How I'm I not sure that you are even involved in MMM and your other colleagues.

How dare you call MMM people fraudsters and that they are involved in nefarious activities, should I tell you the shares we risked our monies in but yet nothing.

Please let sleeping dogs lie. Long Live MMM.

Below are other reactions of Nigerians:

'I will run for presidency if Trump wins US election' - Comedian

The comedian who has stated his disinterest in Donald Trump, threatened to run for president if he wins.

Stand-up comedian, Basketmouth has declared that he will run for the 2019 General Elections if US Republican candidate, Donald Trump wins presidency.

Trump is running against Democratic Party candidate, Hilary Clinton who is looking like the favourite to win the race.

“If Donald Trump wins the US election, I’m so running for the Presidential election in Nigeria 2019”.

In an interview, Basketmouth took time to comment on Nigeria's last presidential election which was won by Muhammadu Buhari.

He criticized Buhari's predecessor, President Goodluck Jonathan, whose administration  was dominated by allegations of corruption.

The comic was not shy to admit who he was rooting for in the last election.

“While many of my colleagues, friends and family members campaigned for the PDP, APC and various candidates during the last elections (and I cannot emphasize enough that it is their right to do so), I never campaigned for Buhari or any other politician.

“Indeed, I personally hoped that he would win the election and perhaps that was evident in my body language and I am happy he won. But I did not campaign for him.

“Nigeria was in a bad place by the end of the last administration and it was only a matter of time before we would have suffered the plights of Brazil and Venezuela.

“Truth of the matter is that I would have voted anyone that could speak 2 words of English against GEJ and that’s strictly based on the amount of greed and selfishness we witnessed from members of his administration in the 6 years that he sat on the rock.

“They put us in this septic tank we are in right now…. well, that and the oil price downfall among other things."

Under new president, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian has a new sense of hope though his administration hasn't been without some drama.

The Abduction Of 14-Year-Old Habiba and the Conspiracy Of Silence [MUST READ]

With the abduction of Miss Habiba Isyaku Tanko, a 14-year-old Christian girl in Katsina State, her alleged conversion to Islam and forced into marriage with one Jamilu and the silence of the powers that be to secure the release of Habiba to her parents tells a lot about the conspiracy of silence that is going on about the needless abduction of young Christians girls, their forceful conversion to Islam and subsequent giving of their hands in marriage to Muslim men without even informing the parents.

“….In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are simply protecting their trivial age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.” – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn.''

On the 13th day of April in the year 2016, Miss Grace Alheri Bawa left Miya town to visit her uncles in their family compound in Siri, a village in Bauchi State. Information from her father had it that she later followed one of her uncle’s children to spend the weekend in Bauchi City in one of her uncle’s house.

The father, Elder Bawa Buba, an ordained elder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Miya, in Ganjuwa LGA of Bauchi State, thought she was in the village until he received Grace’s message of Grace following his brother’s children to Bauchi.

Elder Bawa put a call to Dauda Buba, his elder brother, to whom his daughter has gone to visit to enquire whether Grace was with him as reported. To his surprise, he confirmed the information but was also told that he, Dauda, has also Islamized her and that he should forget about seeing her any time soon.

Shocked and thinking it was a joke, Bawa could not believe his ears when Dauda went further to tell him confidently to forget about having back Grace as his daughter as she is now a Muslim and has no dealings for an “infidel” like him!

Instead of staying in the other room, see where Aisha Buhari was spotted (Photos)

Aisha Buhari attends Crans Montana African Women's Forum

Dame Aisha Buhari has been spotted in Brussels, Belgium, where she attended the Crans Montana African Women’s Forum.

The First Lady was a key speaker in this well attended event.

BREAKING NEWS: 2 Northerners appointed as Supreme Court Justices by Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has sent the names of Justice Sidi Dauda Bage and Justice Paul Adamu to the Nigerian Senate for confirmation as justices of the Supreme Court.

These names were included into a letter sent by the president to Senate President Bukola Saraki which was read on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday, October 11, 2016.

This moves comes three days after operatives of the Department of State Security Services, DSS, acting on the orders of President Buhari raided the homes of seven federal judges, including two Supreme Court justices on Saturday, October 8, 2016.

The judges were arrested by the secret police and reportedly released on bail by “self recognition” the next day.  The midnight raids on the judiciary by the presidency has been widely condemned in Nigeria and across the continent.

Mahmud Mohammed, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, has condemned the attack on the judges and confronted the president in Aso Rock on the unconstitutional action of the DSS.

The two new Supreme Court Justice nominees are of northern extraction.

Police secure Assakio Central Mosque to maintain peace

The appearance of crucifix around a mosque in Nasarawa attracts crowd.

The police was deployed to maintain peace and urged people to live in harmony.

People were urged not to allow the presence of the crucifix cause controversy. Police have been deployed to secure the Assakio Central Mosque in Nasarawa state following the discovery the image of cross in the religious premise. The appearance of the crucifix in the vicinity of the mosque left the people in awe as hundreds of people from the area and neighboring places trooped to the place for deliverance.

The cross which is the considered the symbol of Christianity was illuminated on the ground close to the mosque. Hajara Hussaini confirmed that she was the first to see the light in the shape of a cross on Wednesday, September 28 when her mother sent her on errand. Her mother, Matan Liman also confirmed the strange appearance and said her daughter was gripped in fear when she returned. Today reports that Mr. Abubakar Bello who is the state commissioner of police visited the scene of the strange sighting and revealed the deployment of security officials. Bello also visited the house of HRM Osula Inarigu who is the paramount ruler in the town. He advised the people to try to live in peace with each other as that would bring development. The police chief said the appearance of the cross should not lead to controversy in the area which was why security had been beefed-up. Inarigu also advised the people to live in harmony irrespective of their religious differences.

Some Nigerians have interpreted the reports of the mysterious sighting to mean the supremacy of one religion above the other. However, others have doubted the credibility of the appearance of the strange cross, describing it as a fraud. Similarly, hundreds of people trooped to Saint Augustine’s Catholic Church which is located in the Nenger area of Makurdi in Benue following the “appearance” of an ‘image’ of Jesus. The church which is situated behind Government Model College became a hub for Catholic and non-Catholic worshipers after bright image fell on the crucifix of Jesus.

Uber INDEPENDENCE TREAT

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On Saturday, October 1st, from 11am – 2pm, Uber riders in Lagos and Abuja will see a yummy new option in their app – hit the Chops icon and your small chops will be en route.

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• Open the Uber app on Saturday October 1st 2016, between 11am – 2pm
• Slide across to the UberChops option, set your pickup location and place an order for small chops
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• One small chops pack per request

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Happy Independence Day

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Before you criticize MMM read this.

I use to have this mindset about MMM and really criticised the whole process, but like its said don't judge a book by its cover.

With the prevailing condition in Nigeria, people reserve the rights to do what they want with their money, this has been there for a long time as bankers were getting richer and living a well balanced life amidst adverse conditions.

So CBN and SEC should not truncate the process. Thank God there is no account to freeze, no transactions to stall. Below are basic facts you need:

There was so much panic about MMM Zimbabwe, all those were just rumours.

 

What is MMM?

MMM is a global mutual aid community. MMM is social financial donation exchange network. MMM is an online community of millions of  people who have agreed to willingly extend financial helping hands to one another via donation.

MMM is not a bank, an investment opportunity, a business but simply a community of people helping each other financially.

MMM has no central pocket were money is been deposited. Transactions are done peer to peer.

MMM is being run by the community. That is you and me. We just have a technical program that regulates what we do and what we can't do. The technical system controls how much we can ask as help or withdraw; and how much we can provide as help or deposit.

MMM is composed of 3 components:

1. Provide help

2. Get help

3. Technical basic program

A provider of help is someone who has pledged to give financial help in the community. He or she can also be a receiver of help, when he or she has extended a financial helping hand to someone in the community.

A receiver of help is a member or participant who has already extended a helping hand or provided help. Thus such is qualified to receive help from the community.

So basically MMM hasn't any central account where all money deposits or donations go into; because all donations are done peer to peer. How do I mean? Donations are done via member to member transfers into their bank accounts or bitcoin wallets.

The technical basic program controls the activities of the provider of help and the receiver of help.

HOW IT WORKS

You know about the popular word 'Contribution' where people contribute money to one person and there's a book where everyone's name is written. When it gets to your turn; everybody's money is given to you.

In MMM, we make pledges to donate our SPARE money to members who need the money. We do so by logging into our MMM account (Personal office) to make the pledge. We join the queue of people who made pledges after making the pledge.

We ONLY make pledges. We don't gather our pledges to give to one person. In MMM there is no CENTRAL ACCOUNT (No bank account where all our pledges are paid into). Members transfer money directly to each other.

Now, if a member in the community who has already made a pledge to provide financial help to another member and has fulfilled his pledge now needs help, he does that by logging into his MMM account (Personal Office) to say so. 

The system, connects him with the person in the queue for providing help. If it's your turn on the queue to provide help; when you log into your Personal Office, you will receive the details of the person to provide financial help to.

As soon as you pay the money directly into the person's bank account who needs that financial help and that person acknowledges he has received the money, you are now qualified to receive help.

You then log into your personal office to ask for financial help. Someone/people in the queue whose turn it is to provide help will be assigned to pay you 30% of the donation you provided + the donation money itself.