Rescued from Libyan war, jailed in Nigeria

Michy Ranny pressed the phone against his ear to hear the news once more as the caller repeated, “We won the case!”  He dropped the phone from his ear, grinned and began dialling friends and family to announce his ultimate freedom.

Ranny and 23 others won a case against the federal government, Tuesday. They were prisoners on death row in Libya, rescued during the Libyan war but were re-imprisoned by the Nigerian government touching down in Abuja, February last year.

The judge declared that it was illegal for the comptroller general of Nigerian Prisons and the National Security Adviser to imprison the Libya-condemned Nigerians. The judge awarded Ranny and fellow detainees damages of N100,000.00 each.

INEC’s position on the sacked governors – Press statement

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says Idris Wada – Kogi state – should be sworn in as governor immediately. See the fate of others in the 

NLC website hacked over botched Occupy Nigeria protest

Hackers say labour leaders are traitors

Nigerian Fuel Subsidy Probe Abracadabra

Someone has collated the most commonly asked questions in the recently concluded fuel subsidy probe by the House of Representatives and the answers different government officials gave to each question. The answers are so dissimilar it leaves you wondering if these officials worked for the same government.

Read them below.

Farouk Lawan: What is Nigeria’s daily fuel consumption?Diezieni:

Nigerians Third Top Tweeters in Africa, How Africa Tweets Reveals – New Research

South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria are most active tweeting countries in Africa

South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and Morocco lead Tweeting on the continent

Young people Tweeting from mobile devices are driving the growth of Twitter in Africa, according to How Africa Tweets, new research launched by Portland in Nairobi today.

In the first ever attempt to comprehensively map the use of Twitter in Africa, Portland and Tweetminster analysed over 11.5 million geo-located Tweets originating on the continent during the last three months of 2011. This pan-African analysis of Twitter traffic was complemented by a survey of 500 of Africa’s most active Tweeters.

How Africa Tweets found that:

The Press Statement That Sacked Hafiz Ringim

STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE

PRESIDENT JONATHAN APPOINTS ACTING INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF POLICE

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has approved the appointment of Mr. Mohammed D. Abubakar as Acting Inspector General of Police as a first step towards the comprehensive reorganization and repositioning of the Nigeria Police Force to make it more effective and capable of meeting emerging internal security challenges.

Mr. Abubakar who is currently an Assistant Inspector General of Police replaces Mr. Hafiz Ringim who

Boko Haram killed 935 Nigerians since 2009 – Human Rights Watch report

Boko Haram has killed 935 Nigerians since 2009

The campaign of violence by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram, including attacks on churches and suicide bombings in the first three weeks of 2012 that killed more than 253 people, is an indefensible attack on human life, Human Rights Watch said today.

The January 20, 2012 attacks in the northern city of Kano left at least 185 police and residents dead and resulted in the highest death toll in a single day since Boko Haram began its violent campaign in July 2009. More than 935 people have been killed in some 164 suspected attacks by the group during this period, Human Rights Watch said.

How Jonathan and Governors Shared N143.6 billion December 2011 Excess Crude Savings

Poverty continues in Nigeria

The Economic Confidential provides a table of the distribution of N143.6 billion from Foreign Excess Crude savings account shared by federal and state governments.

Excess Crude savings is the difference between the budgeted & actual receipts of revenue. For instance, benchmark crude oil price for this year is $75 (as suggested by the lawmakers) and the actual crude oil price is $111. The difference (excess) $36 per barrel is collected as the excess crude revenue and shared monthly by the three tiers of government.

The proceeds for December, 2011 was N143.6 billion and was shared in January in addition to  the disbursement of N783 billion from the Federation.

The highest recipients of the Excess Crude Account are from the oil producing states. Akwa Ibom

How Governors and Jonathan Shared N783bn Federation Account in December 2011

Akwa Ibom state got the largest chunk

Culled from Economic Confidential

The Economic Confidential magazine provides here the distribution of a total sum of 783 billion being the statutory and VAT allocations shared to all tiers of government at the December 2011’s meeting of the monthly Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC). This allocation is different from another of N143.6bn from the Excess Crude account of the same month, shared on the same day.

The total statutory disbursement of nets after deductions, the highest recipients are from the oil-producing states. Akwa Ibom received N17bn, Rivers N16.4bn, Delta 14bn, and Bayelsa N9.3bn. The highest recipients from non-oil –producing states are Lagos N13.8bn and Kano N10.2bn.

The lowest recipients as revealed in the table below are

President Jonathan puts Kano death toll at just seven – Statement

STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE

President  Jonathan Condoles with Channels TV, Others on Kano Incident

President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed his condolences to all victims, including the management and staff of Channels Television, following the multiple bomb blasts and acts of violence which rocked the city of Kano on Friday, in which seven persons were confirmed dead and others wounded. Among the seven persons killed in the incident was a reporter with Channels Television in Kano, Mr Enenche Akogwu. Mr Akogwu was reportedly shot and killed while on duty during the exchange of fire between men and officers of the Nigeria Police and the terrorists at the Farm Centre Police Station, Kano.