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  • Dapchi Christian girl: Archbishop of Canterbury offers to contribute to negotiations

    After weeks Dapchi Christian girl, Leah Sharibu, has remained in lone captivity, and as Nigeria continues to battle Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen menaces, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has repeated his offer to contribute towards peace negotiations in the country.

    The Archbishop of Canterbury, following his January’s tweet, reiterated his offer to contribute towards any peace negotiations while fielding questions on the deteriorating security situation in Nigeria put to the British government in the House of Lords on Monday.

    “I once again exhort President Muhammadu Buhari and other authorities, civil and religious, national and international, urgently to build a coalition to end this violence immediately.

    “In communications earlier this year with the Primate of All Nigeria, His Grace Nicholas Okoh, I offered to contribute towards such effort to the extent such might be useful. I repeat that offer again, knowing, however, that within Nigeria are all the skills needed for resolution of the suffering of the people.

    “My condolences go to those who have lost loved ones and property. I urge the authorities to seek for ways to ameliorate their sufferings and losses. I call on all people of goodwill to continue to pray for the peace of Nigeria,” Archbishop Justin said.

    TheNewsGuru reports President Buhari had assured the parent of the lone girl in Boko Haram’s captivity and the entire Dapchi community that he won’t abandon her because of her bravery not denounce her religion.

    However, weeks after, Leah Sharibu is still in captivity; even after the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, confirmed that the Boko Haram terrorists were set to release her.

    Meanwhile, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) had called on all churches and Christians to use the occasion of Easter to offer prayers to God for Leah Sharibu’s freedom and safe return.

    Others, including the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) and the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, have appealed for the safe return of Leah Sharibu.

     

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Center denies leadership award presented to Buhari

    The official memorial body of Martin Luther King Jr., The King Center, established in 1968 by Mrs. Coretta Scott King, wife of the renowned American activist, has distanced itself from the award presented to Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari.

    Personal assistant to President Buhari’s on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, had announced on social media that Buhari received the First Black History Month National Black Excellence and Exceptional African Leadership Award 2018 from the family of Late Martin Luther King Jr.

    “Dr. Mrs. Naomi Barbara King led other members of the African-American body to the conferment,” she said.

    Lauretta Onochie

    Reacting to the development, The King Center posted on its official Twitter handle that neither the Center, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, nor the children of Martin Luther King Jr. presented the award to Buhari.

    “The award given to President Buhari of Nigeria was not given by The King Center, at the request of The King Center or by the children of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King,” the tweet read.

    Dr. Mrs. Naomi Barbara King, as quoted by the Buhari’s aide, is actually Mrs. Naomi Ruth Barber King (Dr.), wife of Alfred Daniel Williams “A. D.” King, who is the youngest son of Martin Luther King, Sr.

    TheNewsGuru reports Mrs. Naomi Ruth Barber King (Dr.) is the founder of A. D. King Foundation that was established in 2008.

     

  • Concerned Nigerians condemns Martin Luther King Jr. leadership award given to Buhari

    A pro-democracy group in Nigeria, Concerned Nigerians on Wednesday condemned Martin Luther King Jr’s family for giving leadership award to Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari.

    The group made their displeasure with the award given to Buhari known to the public in a press statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Theophilus Abu Agada.

    The statement reads, “We receive with dismay, the Black history award for exceptional leadership in Africa conferred on the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari by Martin Luther King Jr’s family”.

    Concerned Nigerians noted that Martin Luther King Jr. was America’s foremost Civil rights activist who stood and died for Justice. He led a nonviolent revolution against racial inequality and Black’s emancipation in America.

    The actions and inactions of President Muhammadu Buhari since he was sworn in as the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria negates the ideals and principles of what Martin Luther King Jr fought and died for.

    The Group also revealed how President Buhari illegally detained the leader of Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Sheik Ibrahim Zakzaky and his wife for over 800 days against a valid court order that says they should be released unconditionally but Martin Luther King Jr fought for freedom.

    Many today in Nigeria are in political servitude because they do not belong to President Buhari’s political party.

    Martin Luther King Jr had a dream, a dream where his four little children Would live in a nation that they will not be Judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. However, in our country Nigeria, the man that is being honored with Martin Luther King jr’s legacy of equality and justice is known to be a despotic, tribalistic and nepotistic leader who has refused to adhere to the principles of federal character that allows equal opportunity for all.

    The president sees people from other region and ethnic nationalities as lesser beings that must not be given an opportunity to serve in some sensitive positions of government.

    He categorized citizens from Southern Nigeria as 5% people that must not enjoy what people from his 97% region who overwhelmingly voted for him should enjoy.

    Minority Christians in the North have suffered so many losses, with the president abetting and pampering the perpetrators of the genocide that is ongoing in the North-Central region and Southern part of Kaduna state.

    We condemn in its entirety, this prestigious award that was conferred on the president. He doesn’t deserve the award and as such, we are calling on the family of Martin Luther King Jr not to compromise the legacy of Rev. Luther by giving award to people that are undeserving.

  • Whistle-blower reveals Israeli hackers behind Buhari’s data compromise

    Whistle-blower and former employee of Cambridge Analytica, Christopher Wylie, has finally revealed the Israeli hackers that were engaged to hack into Muhammadu Buhari medical records and private emails.

    Wylie made the revelation when he appeared before British Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee.

    He said Cambridge Analytica’s parent company SCL worked with Israeli spy firm, Black Cube, to compromise Buhari’s private data in events leading to the 2015 general elections.

    “The company utilized the services of an Israeli private intelligence firm, Black Cube. Black Cube on the Nigeria campaign was engaged to hack the now-president Buhari to get access to his medical records and private emails,” he said.

    Meanwhile, Black Cube, based in Tel Aviv, has vehemently rejected Wylie’s statement, and said it plans to investigate his claims to “reveal the truth and the motive” behind them.

    “Whilst we are flattered that we are seemingly being connected with every international incident that occurs, we will state that Chris Wylie’s testimony is a flagrant lie,” the agency said.

    The firm said it will “launch a massive defamation suit against any entity that we will find involved, including Christopher Wylie, SCL or Cambridge Analytica, for any pound they still have or don’t have”.

    Black Cube said it and its affiliates and subsidiaries have never worked for SCL or Cambridge Analytica, and have never operated in Nigeria or on any Nigerian-connected project, nor have any of its employees gone to Nigeria for their work with the firm.

    It also said it “always operate within the boundaries of the law in every jurisdiction it operates.”

     

  • Compromised election: Buhari’s Govt. reacts to Cambridge Analytica revelations

    After TheNewsGuru reported the President Muhammadu Buhari administration silence to Cambridge Analytica revelations is alarming, the government has stood up to the occasion requesting the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) to address allegations it actually hired the data analytics firm or not.

    TheNewsGuru reports data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica and its parent company, SCL Elections, confirmed playing a role in Nigeria’s 2015 general elections, but denied it had accessed Buhari’s financial and medical records, and denied hacking into his private emails.

    “We can confirm that SCL Elections was hired in December 2014 to provide advertising and marketing services in support of the Goodluck Jonathan campaign,” SCL stated, adding: “During an election campaign, it is normal for SCL Elections to meet with vendors seeking to provide services as a subcontractor. SCL Elections did not take possession of or use any personal information from such individuals for any purposes. SCL Elections does not use ‘hacked’ or ‘stolen’ data”.

    However, several confessional statements made by employees of the firm, seven of them, with close knowledge of the campaign, showed that Cambridge Analytica did more than just providing advertising and marketing services in support of Jonathan.

    The employees, who have described how Cambridge Analytica worked with people they believed were Israeli computer hackers, who offered Cambridge Analytica the access to Buhari’s financial and medical records, confessed a Nigerian billionaire paid Cambridge Analytica about N1 billion to actually work to sway the 2015 general election votes in favour of Jonathan.

    Reacting to the development, Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in Abuja said such unfair practice undermined the country’s democracy.

    “Nothing undermines a country’s democracy as such unfair practices. The Cambridge Analytica hacking scandal committed against candidate Buhari by the PDP in 2015 in which billions of Naira was paid out to the Israelis and other hackers have shown that the former ruling party lacks both the integrity and credibility to talk about election rigging. Instead of explaining their role in the scandal, the nation is greeted by stunning silence,” Shehu said.

    “Do they think this will simply blow away?” he further queried, adding: “Rigging is PDP’s main area of core competence and its party leaders are drowning men who won’t mind clutching at any straw for political survival”.

    Shehu also advised the leadership of the PDP to stop raising false alarms in order to gain public sympathy and divert attention from its “abysmal past record and failures”.

    “They should, instead, address the concerns raised about their role in the mass data harvesting at the heart of the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, following the revelation that they hacked into Candidate Muhammadu Buhari’s personal data in the run-up to the 2015 general elections.

    “That is why President Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment when they hacked into the opposition, Democratic Party records, and this is why a Special Counsel is investigating the alleged Russian interference in the US presidential election, and if President Donald Trump’s campaign is complicit in the attempted subversion of democracy in that country,” said the presidential aide.

    He also lambasted the leading opposition party for its decision to drag the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to the United Nations (UN) over alleged plan or plot to rig the 2019 general elections, describing the PDP move as “not only laughable and puerile”, but that it “also demonstrate the level of desperation that is haunting the opposition leaders”.

    Shehu said President Buhari was passionately committed to free and fair elections in the country, noting: “and for a man who joined forces with local and international observers to ensure a free and fair election which brought him to power in 2015, the President would under no circumstances tolerate any attempt to derail constitutional democracy.

    “The outcome of the gubernatorial elections in Edo, Ondo and Anambra States stand as clear examples of President Buhari’s commitment to free and fair elections in the country, and Nigerians should indeed be wary of PDP’s desperate propaganda.

    “For the PDP to be preaching free and fair elections is like a street-walker preaching about chastity.

    “We must recall that the PDP postponed the 2015 general elections in the guise of national security challenges because defeat was staring it starkly in the face. However, despite the delay tactics, it was resoundingly defeated when the polls finally held.

    “The PDP has lost every moral ground and it is mortally afraid of facing the 2019 general elections because Nigerians will always remember their past and punish them one more time for economically plundering the country.”

    According to Shehu, “by dragging the United Nations into its political propaganda, the PDP is indirectly suggesting that it is afraid to face the voters in 2019.

    “Rather than hiding behind allegations of a plot to rig the elections, the opposition party should work harder to win back the trust of voters instead of spreading the false alarm to gain international sympathy.

    “It is unfortunate that the PDP is desperately trying all dirty tricks, including the exploitation of tragedy, for political advantage.”

    However, Shehu, and the presidency is yet to address the part of the revelations that alludes Buhari and his team hired AKPD, the firm of former Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod, to push slick-social-media-heavy, Obama-esque message of hope in favour of Buhari.

     

  • Data scandal: Buhari must act on Cambridge Analytica revelations

    After revelations emerged of data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, meddling with Nigeria’s teething democracy; that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration is silent about the issues raised, is alarming.

    SCL Elections, parent company of Cambridge Analytica confirmed the data analytics firm was hired to play a role in the 2015 General Elections that brought the Buhari government to power with the company saying it was hired to provide advertising and marketing services only.

    However, several confessional statements made by employees of the firm, seven of them, with close knowledge of the 2015 election campaigns, showed that Cambridge Analytica did more than just providing advertising and marketing services.

    Employees of Cambridge Analytica, according to a report by the Guardian UK, actually worked effortlessly and ruthlessly to sway the 2015 general election votes in favour of a particular candidate.

    Describing how Cambridge Analytica worked with people they believed were Israeli computer hackers, they said the hackers offered Cambridge Analytica access to Buhari’s financial and medical records, and that they had accessed the private emails of two politicians who are now heads of state in the country.

    Also, Cambridge Analytica was reported to have used an astonishing and disturbing video to push the campaign, a malicious one, against Buhari.

    “Coming to Nigeria on February 15th, 2015. Dark. Scary. And very uncertain. Sharia for all. What would Nigeria look like if Sharia were imposed by Buhari?,” the Guardian UK report quotes the voiceover on the campaign video.

    “Its answer to that question is certainly dark. And scary. It’s also graphically, brutally, violent. One minute and 19 seconds of archive news footage from Nigeria’s troubled past set to a horror movie soundtrack. There are scenes of people being macheted to death. Their legs hacked off. Their skulls caved in,” the report stated of the campaign video.

    According to one of the employees, now a former contractor of the firm, “It was voter suppression of the most crude and basic kind. It was targeted at Buhari voters in Buhari regions to basically scare the shit out of them and stop them from voting”.

    According to the Guardian UK, the employees confessed Cambridge Analytica was paid an estimate of N1 billion by an undisclosed Nigerian billionaire barely six weeks to the elections to sway the votes.

    There is, however, no suggestion former President Goodluck Jonathan, who lost to Buhari in the election, knew of the covert operation.

    While SCL Elections has denied the confessional statements, President Buhari was also fingered in the report.

    SCL said “During an election campaign, it is normal for SCL Elections to meet with vendors seeking to provide services as a subcontractor. SCL Elections did not take possession of or use any personal information from such individuals for any purposes. SCL Elections does not use ‘hacked’ or ‘stolen’ data.

    “Members of the SCL Elections team that worked on the Nigeria campaign remained in country throughout the original campaigning period, although the election was rescheduled and SCL was not retained for the entirety of the extended campaign period. Team members left in accordance with the company’s campaign plan”.

    And then according to the Guardian UK report that also fingered Buhari, in the whole development, his team was alleged to have hired AKPD, the firm of former Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod, to push slick-social-media-heavy, Obama-esque message of hope in favour of Buhari.

    A Cambridge University professor named Aleksandr Kogan was reported as well to have harvested valuable information on the data of about 50 million Facebook users in the US to sway votes in favour of Donald Trump.

    Also, UK Channel released an expose on Monday which showed the managing director of Cambridge Analytica’s political division, Mark Turnbull, admitting to being responsible for every element of the highly contested campaigns of incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta during the 2013 and 2017 election cycles.

    In the video, Turnbull admitted to the channel’s undercover reporter that Cambridge Analytica had re-branded the Jubilee party by writing its manifesto and speeches, and conducting surveys, and the Kenyan government has shown a red eye to the firm.

    Sources said the same Israeli team that had worked on the Nigeria campaign obtained private information of the St Kitts and Nevis politician Timothy Harris at the time he was an opposition leader, and is now prime minister.

    Cambridge Analytica chief executive Alexander Nix, who has since been fired, was reported to have given staff instructions to handle material provided by computer hackers in the election that took place in St Kitts and Nevis.

    German and Israeli governments and a host of others have since launched investigations into the data practices of Facebook even when its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has opened up to say they are doing all they can to address the situation.

    In the wake of these disturbing developments with governments around the world having to express concerns about their democracies to demand answers from Facebook, especially on how safe data of their citizens are, and with the 2019 general elections at the corner; is it not imperative the Nigerian government act?

     

  • Cambridge Analytica confirms rendering Jonathan services against Buhari – Report

    Under-fire data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, has confirmed it had been hired by a Nigerian billionaire, who supported ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, to execute a campaign against Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 general elections.

    According to a report, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, SCL Elections, made the confirmation it was hired in the wake of December 2014 to support Jonathan’s campaign on a massive scale.

    The report fingered Brittany Kaiser, a senior director at Cambridge Analytica, who would go on to play a public role at the launch of Nigel Farage’s Leave.eu campaign, and a senior strategist on the Donald Trump campaign.

    Regarded by colleagues as a prolific networker, in December 2014, Kaiser was introduced to a Nigerian oil billionaire who wanted to fund a covert campaign to support Jonathan, according to the report.

    The billionaire wanted total discretion, the report stated.

    “We can confirm that SCL Elections was hired in December 2014 to provide advertising and marketing services in support of the Goodluck Jonathan campaign,” the firm confirmed.

    However, several confessional statements made by employees of the firm, seven of them, with close knowledge of the campaign, showed that Cambridge Analytica did more than just providing advertising and marketing services in support of the Jonathan campaign.

    Employees of Cambridge Analytica, according to the report, actually worked effortlessly and ruthlessly to sway the 2015 general election votes in favour of Jonathan.

    Describing how Cambridge Analytica worked with people they believed were Israeli computer hackers, they said the hackers offered Cambridge Analytica access to Buhari’s financial and medical records, and that they had accessed the private emails of two politicians who are now heads of state.

    Also, Cambridge Analytica was reported to have used an astonishing and disturbing video to push the campaign, a malicious one, against Buhari.

    “Coming to Nigeria on February 15th, 2015. Dark. Scary. And very uncertain. Sharia for all. What would Nigeria look like if Sharia were imposed by Buhari?,” the Guardian UK report quotes the voiceover on the campaign video.

    “Its answer to that question is certainly dark. And scary. It’s also graphically, brutally, violent. One minute and 19 seconds of archive news footage from Nigeria’s troubled past set to a horror movie soundtrack. There are scenes of people being macheted to death. Their legs hacked off. Their skulls caved in,” the report stated of the campaign video.

    According to one of the employees, now a former contractor of the firm, “It was voter suppression of the most crude and basic kind. It was targeted at Buhari voters in Buhari regions to basically scare the shit out of them and stop them from voting”.

    According to the Guardian UK, the employees confessed Cambridge Analytica was paid an estimate of N1 billion by the Nigeria billionaire barely six weeks to the elections to sway the votes.

    There is no suggestion Jonathan knew of the covert operation.

    Meanwhile, SCL Elections has denied the confessional statements, stressing that, they, through the instrument of Cambridge Analytica, only provided advertising and marketing services in support of the campaign.

    “During an election campaign, it is normal for SCL Elections to meet with vendors seeking to provide services as a subcontractor.

    “SCL Elections did not take possession of or use any personal information from such individuals for any purposes.

    “SCL Elections does not use ‘hacked’ or ‘stolen’ data,” the Guardian UK quotes the firm to have said.

    The firm went further to say “Members of the SCL Elections team that worked on the Nigeria campaign remained in country throughout the original campaigning period, although the election was rescheduled and SCL was not retained for the entirety of the extended campaign period. Team members left in accordance with the company’s campaign plan”.

    Buhari was also fingered in the report.

    His team was alleged to have hired AKPD, the firm of former Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod, to push slick-social-media-heavy, Obama-esque message of hope in favour of Buhari.

    The report, however, notes that there are multiple wider political questions about what went on in the Nigerian election of 2015 and the role western powers played.

    “Whether western political campaigners taking lucrative foreign contracts are contributing to the democratic framework of developing countries or helping to destroy them or if they’re experimenting with methods and techniques that they later re-import back to our more developed democracies” is yet to be ascertained.

    Christopher Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower who spoke to the Observer, however, called it “post-colonial blowback”.

    The revelations are the latest to focus attention on Cambridge Analytica, whose activities are being investigated in the US by special counsel Robert Mueller as part of inquiry into possible Russian collusion in the 2016 US presidential election that brought the much-criticized Trump administration to bear.

    The firm is under pressure to explain how it came to have unauthorized access to about 50 million of Facebook profiles.

    This, in part, has led to the suspension of Cambridge Analytica chief executive Alexander Nix.

     

  • Buhari dispatches Lai Mohammed, 3 other ministers to Dapchi

    President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday ordered four ministers to proceed to Dapchi in Yobe for update on the release of the female students abducted in February.

    The Ministers include Mansur Dan-Ali, Defence; Abdulrahman Danbazau, Interior; Lai Mohammed, Information; and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mrs Khadijat Abba-Ibrahim.

    The four ministers left the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting for the trip to Dapchi.

    Before their departure, the Information Minister confirmed that 76 of the released girls had been documented.

    According to him, when the girls were dropped in their school by the abductors many of them went straight home to reunite with their parents.

    “I can confirm that the Dapchi girls have been returned, what we can confirm to you is that Mr President did actually assure Nigerians that the abducted girls would be released, but he also said that violence and confrontation would be ruled out.

    “Based on that, the Federal Government with support of friendly countries embarked on back term negotiations; this back term negotiation has led to the release of these girls.

    “What I can confirm today is that these girls were released yesterday, but on the conditions, number one is that they were released unconditionally; no money changed hands.

    “Number two, they had one condition to return them to where they picked them.

    “So in the early hours of today they did return the girls but of cause most of the girls went to their parents homes,’’ Mohammed stated.

    According to him, efforts are now being made to document all the girls, adding that at the moment, 76 of them have been documented while “they are still more.’’

    He promised to give update on the incident from time to time.

    “It is a day of joy for Nigerians. What I can assure you is that Mr president has kept his promise.

    “The girls have been released and we will tell you exactly in a few hours time how many of them have been documented.

    “They were not molested,’’ he added.

    Also, Defence Minister, Mansur Dan-Ali attributed the early release of the girls to “the effort of the President and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces for the support he has been giving us and the output is showing now.”

    On the negotiations, the minister said that while it was being planned the government was prepared to move on a position of strength.

    Also Minister of state for foreign Affairs, Khadijat Abba-Ibrahim said: “I am very excited today. That is what I feel because the Dapchi girls have been released.

    “We are very happy. We have achieved what we have gone out to achieve and we thank the Almighty God for his mercies.”

    She declined to mention if any of the girls was killed.

    “As far as I know now, they are taking a roll call so we cannot ascertain how many have passed on, but we will find out later on what the casualties are.’’

    The minister advised parents not to be discouraged by the incident but to continue encouraging their female children to embrace education.

    “I will advise parents to continue sending their children to school.

    “We as a government will fortify the schools to make sure that they are safe for the children to actually go and learn,’’ Mrs Abba-Ibrahim said.

     

  • Namadi Sambo stays mute after private meeting with Buhari

    Former Vice President to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Arch. Mohammed Namadi Sambo, has declined comment on the outcome of his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.

    TheNewsGuru reports Sambo visited the Presidential Villa and met behind closed doors with Buhari this morning.

    The meeting, which took place in the president’s office, and which lasted for less than an hour, the former Vice President said was a private one.

    However, it would be recalled that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had on February 2, 2016, raided an office complex in Abuja belonging to the former Vice President.

    The EFCC operatives carried out the raid in search of clues linking him to the 2.1 billion dollars arms scandal popularly referred to as Dasukigate.

    Meanwhile, Sambo had raised an alarm sometimes ago over alleged raid on his house by the Department of State Services (DSS).

    Sambo noted that the most recent raid on his house was the fifth in a sequence.

    Explaining how the security operatives raided his home, Sambo said despite the continuous action of the anti-graft organizations, nothing incriminating had been found.

    However, the DSS denied invading the ex-vice president’s home and warned other security and anti-corruption agencies to desist from operating in the name of the service.

    Sambo served as Nigeria’s vice-president under former President Goodluck Jonathan between May 19, 2010 and May 29, 2015.

     

  • Breaking: Buhari holds private meeting with ex-Pres. Goodluck Jonathan’s Deputy

    President Muhammadu Buhari is currently holding a private meeting with former Vice President to Goodluck Jonathan, Arch. Mohammed Namadi Sambo.

    The meeting, according to the personal assistant to President Buhari on new media, Bashir Ahmad, is being held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

    Former President Jonathan nominated Sambo as Vice President when he became the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the platform of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), following the death of former President Umaru Musa YarAdua.

     

    Details to follow shortly…