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- Presidential guards take over National Assembly as Buhari presents 2017 Budget today President Muhammadu Buhari will today, December 14 visit the National Assembly - Buhari will present the 2017 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the legislature - This is Buhari’s second budget since he assumed office in May 2015 President Muhammadu Buhari will today, December 14 present the 2017 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly by 10 am. Pres ident Buhari had expressed optimism that the 2017 budget will Nigeria out of recession The president will be accompanied to the National Assembly by top federal government functionaries to lay the document which will be the second since he assumed office in May 2015. The Federal Executive Council had on Wednesday, November 30 approved the document for presentation to the National Assembly. “The 2017 budget has been approved by the Federal Executive Council and the details will be revealed when the presi

UGOCHUKWU EJINKEONYE Mr. President, Pythons Do Not Dance! Posted: 11 Dec 2016 12:08 PM PST By Obi Nwakanma   In a badly worded press release announced last week, the Nigerian Army declared what it called “Operation Python Dance,” aimed, the Army says, at anticipating and curtailing violence in the South East through the Christmas period. The language of that press statement signed by Colonel Sagir Musa was only slightly better than the extremely poor and bombastic English of an earlier statement by the Army’s Public Relations Office signed by Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, Army Director of Public Affairs, that challenged Amnesty International’s damning report about the Nigerian Army’s extrajudicial killings of unarmed Biafran activists and protesters.     *President Buhari with Military Service Chiefs The Army’s response and denial of Amnesty’s report was not only incompetent, in that it lied about the Biafrans, but it also seemed