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Wednesday, 8 July 2015

Buhari May Sideline EFCC, ICPC In Loot Recovery

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari may not involve the nation’s anti-graft agencies such as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission in his government’s efforts at recovering looted funds, The PUNCH has learnt.

Our correspondents learnt on Monday that the President did not have confidence in the anti-graft agencies.

A top government official, who is familiar with the Buhari’s government’s efforts at recovering looted funds, told The PUNCH in confidence that President might rely more on people outside the system to achieve good results.

The official said, “The President’s body language as far as the anti-corruption agencies are concerned suggests that he does not have so much confidence in them.

“Most of the recovery job may be done by people outside the system, like consultants.”He added that Buhari’s reliance on outsiders had started yielding positive results and that the President was currently in possession of incriminating information about individuals and institutions suspected to be culpable in looting the nation’s treasury.

76-yr-old retired school principal identified as Pa Alphonsus Dimgba, has reportedly died while exerting himself on an 18-year-old girl he was having sex with.

According to reports, the incident occurred in a community in Enugu State where the old man who retired from a public school in Anambra State some years ago, had gone back to and became a community leader. But his undoing, according to residents, was his love for anything in skirt, not sparing the young and the old, even the married women.

A resident of the community who sent in the report, said that Pa Dimgba, an elder in the local Catholic Church, was so fond of philandering with other women and had been caught several times and warned to desist from such acts but he always waved such away until the last 'supper' which sent him to the great beyond.

Residents of Iwogban community protest at Head office of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC)

For allegedly being in total blackout for the past five months, residents of Iwogban community in Ikpoba-Okha local government area of Edo State on Tuesday staged a mass but peaceful protest to the Head office of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC).

The angry protesters numbering hundreds who carried placards of different inscriptions, said they were mainly artisans and owners of small scale businesses who depend on electricity for the survival of their businesses, adding that, they have been thrown into total darkness since January this year.

They demanded immediate restoration of power to the community.

An NYPD sergeant has been suspended after a co-worker claimed he threw semen on her inside of police headquarters, police sources said Tuesday.

The sergeant, identified as Michael Iscenko, 54, allegedly tossed semen on the unidentified woman near a freight elevator at 1 Police Plaza, according to the reports.

The victim — who worked with Iscenko in the Organized Crime Control Bureau - reported the recent incident immediately after it happened, police sources said.

The substance that was splattered on her was tested and determined to be semen, a police source said. It had not yet been determined if it was Iscenko’s semen.

Iscenko had previously told the co-worker he liked her, a police source said.

Fani Kayode has reacted to reports he said Nigerians deserve Boko Haram for voting out Jonathan..Read press statement
It has been brought to our attention that Premium Times, a popular Nigerian online magazine, has alleged that Chief Femi Fani-Kayode wrote the following words on his Facebook page- ''For rejecting Jonathan, Nigerians deserve Boko Haram''. This is false and, needless to say, Chief Fani-Kayode has never and would never say such a thing or harbor such a horrendous and heartless view.

For the last few years Chief Fani-Kayode has been one of the loudest and most strident voices against Boko Haram in Nigeria and he has continously and courageously condemned them. He has also continously expressed his grave concerns about the barbarity and sheer evil that they have unleashed on the Nigerian people and he has constantly expressed his condolences to and support for the families whose loved ones have been murdered by them over the years.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has rearrested a former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido, and his two sons Aminu and Mustapha over fraud running into billions of naira.
The ex governor and his sons are said to have been moved to Kano for arraignment in court either Wednesday or Thursday.

The spokesperson for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed the arrest of the former governor.
In November 2013,Mr. Lamido’s sons were arrested in Kano and flown to Abuja..He was not arrested because he enjoyed immunity as a governor ..Lamido surrendered himself to the commission at the end of his tenure on June 15.They were accused of using their positions to siphon Jigawa State funds,using construction firm, Dantata and Sawoe.The firm is said to have paid N1.3 billion as 10 percent kickback for contracts it won, into accounts owned by the governor and his sons.

The long arm of the law caught up with a 44-year-old secondary school certificate holder, Martins Ugwu Okpeh, who, for nine years had been parading himself as a medical doctor and even rose to become the chairman of a branch of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA.

Okpeh, an indigene of Ogbadibo local government area of Benue State and father of five stole copies of the medical and academic credentials of his childhood friend Dr. George Davidson, a medical doctor practising in Jos and used it to secure employment in the Federal Ministry of Health.

The fake doctor continued his deceit and practised as a medical doctor and collected salaries from the ministry until the lid was blown off his scheme.

There was pandemonium at a court in Ejigbo, Lagos, after a snake was discovered in the chambers of one of the Magistrates.

The incident which occurred at about 8:30am on Monday terrified the court support staff, who were at the time preparing to receive the newly posted Magistrate, Akeem Fashola.

The Nation gathered that the Magistrate, who resumed duty at the court premises and had sat on his desk, did not know there was a green snake beside his table.

Seven policemen attached to the Anthony Police Division are being quizzed for their roles in a fracas involving fuel vendors at the Ishaga junction, Lawanson Road, Surulere, Lagos State.

The policemen were alleged to be in the habit of collecting money and free fuel from the vendors as part of arrangements to give the black marketers freedom to operate by the roadside.

However, there was a disagreement between the two groups on Thursday, which led to a fight.

Three of the uniformed men were said to have chased some of the vendors into Orotedo Street, shooting sporadically.

One of the fuel vendors, Kamarudeen Olalude, was said to have been shot in the waist.

Some hoodlums in the area reportedly surrounded the policemen with clubs, bottles and other weapons, in a bid to fight back.

The various assets of four of the six companies charged with money laundering along with a former Governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani, were on Tuesday forfeited to the Federal Government.

Justice Mohammed Yunusa of a Federal High Court in Lagos pronounced the companies’ assets and all the funds standing to their credit in various banks forfeited to the Federal Government after they had been convicted for the offence levelled against them.

Kim K squeezes her baby bump into tight LBD

Kim Kardashian seems to be handling her second pregnancy well..The pregnant star was spotted in a tight black dress after filming for reality show Keeping Up With The Kardashians in Van Nuys, California on Monday. A braless Khloe was also spotted on set..

Embattled popular US comedian Bill Cosby admitted having drugged at least one woman with Quaaludes to have sex with her, in court documents unsealed Monday.

Cosby, accused of sexual assault by about 30 women over decades but who has so far escaped justice, made the admission in a deposition in 2005, talking about an incident from 1976.

The 77-year-old was questioned by Dolores Troiani, a lawyer for Andrea Constand, ex-women’s basketball director at Philadelphia’s Temple University where Cosby studied and was a member of BOT.

Constand took her rape case to court, but the case was dropped.

Cosby’s lawyers had sought to block publication of the court transcripts, but they were released Monday on the PACER public court records website.

The rough girl mounted the stage at London Wireless Festival on Sunday evening in a raunchy outfit that put her stuffs on display to the extent that her "oranges" were exposed. See the photos...

Ladies, no man can love you more than your husband. If you are not getting his love, discuss it with him in humility, things could change. But if you think otherwise, go try another man and see how it goes.

I hope you remember the case of that married lady who was said to have died in her secret lover's custody in a suburb of Lagos recently? Well, there are new updates to the very shameful saga.

A suicide note the late married woman wrote has been found in the room...

A bus has fallen off a bridge and plunged into a lagoon at Ajibandele on Ijebu Ode- Ore Expressway. Luckily enough nobody died as passengers sustained injuries. What a miracle! See more photos below.

Following the recent 30 day assessment of the new government led by President Buhari, and Buhari being referred to Baba Go-slow, former Nigerian Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon has pleaded with Nigerians not to rush the new president.

Speaking exclusively with the Nigerian Tribune, in Ibadan, Gowon said;

"Give him a chance. You cannot solve any problem within two or three days. People say they want a change but as far as the problem of Nigeria is concerned, you cannot do it in one day, in one month. It will take time before a lot of these changes would be done and done effectively.”

University of Ibadan has emerged the best in Nigeria and the 8th in Africa..The University established in 1948 was ranked by Journals Consortium on 1,447 higher institutions.

The Journals Consortium arrived at the ranking through research publications and citations from the last five years (2010 to 2014) as well as visibility on the internet.

University of Cape Town topped the rank followed by Cairo University , and the University of Pretoria at 3rd place..The top 10 include six institutions from South Africa, two from Egypt and one each from Kenya and Nigeria (University of Ibadan)

Top Universities in Nigeria according to the ranking are:

The WBO stripped pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather of his welterweight world title on Monday for his failure to comply with the organization's rules.
Mayweather claimed the WBO welterweight title when he outpointed Manny Pacquiao on May 2 in a 147-pound unification fight that shattered all financial records for a boxing match, including total gross, pay-per-view subscriptions, closed circuit revenue, live gate, foreign television sales and sponsorships.

Mayweather, who holds two other alphabet welterweight world titles, let come and go the 4:30 p.m. ET Friday deadline by which he had to pay a $200,000 sanctioning fee from the May 2 fight (for which he earned more than $220 million) and vacate the two junior middleweight titles he also holds.

"The WBO world championship committee is allowed no other alternative but to cease to recognize Mr. Floyd Mayweather Jr. as the WBO welterweight champion of the world and vacate his title for failing to comply with our WBO regulations of world championship contests," the WBO wrote Monday in its resolution.

All real fine curves..

New regulations aimed at rolling back Brazil’s obsession with Cesarean sections took effect Monday, with the government hoping it can steer the country from its status as a world leader in C-section births.

The rules and a campaign called “Childbirth is normal!” address what Health Minister Arthur Chioro has dubbed an “epidemic” of Cesareans, currently accounting for more than half of births in this nation of 200 million.

About 84 percent of Brazilian mothers on private health care undergo the operation, in which the baby is delivered through a small incision in the mother’s abdomen — often for no other reason than the convenience of being able to choose the date.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum and the Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, have condemned the police harassment of the Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu under the guise of investigating the alteration of the Senate’s standing rules.

The allegation of forgery of the Senate’s standing rules was first raised by Senator Kabiru Marafa (Zamfara Central) on the floor of the Senate on June 10, 24 hours after the inauguration of the Eighth Senate and election of its presiding officers – Senate President Bukola Saraki and Ekweremadu as his deputy.

Marafa also restated the allegation through another point of order on June 23.
But in response to Marafa’s point of order, Ekweremadu had explained that every edition of the Senate standing orders was only valid for a tenure of four years.

There was serious pandemonium in a district in Chad as a top military personnel fought law enforcers dirty over the full-face veil of his wife in public. The Chadian government had earlier on the 17th of June, 2015 banned the use of full-face veil throughout the country. The military officer and his boys descended on the officials who attempted to remove the veil off his wife. It was indeed a drama. See more photos below.

No fewer than 20 persons were killed on Monday in an early morning crash around Irepeni, along Abuja-Lokoja-Okene highway. About 25 cows were also killed in the incident.

Vanguard gathered that the accident was caused by a road block mounted by armed robbers along Irepeni axis of the highway. The robbers were said to have fled the scene afterwards.

An eyewitness said a luxury bus with number plates KRD 799 LC, which was heading to Abuja from Lagos, suddenly ran into the road block mounted by armed bandits. As the bus was trying to avoid
the blockade, a truck, with number plates KTN 711 YZ, loaded with cows, reportedly rammed into it, killing several people on the spot.

Ciara is one beautiful lady..The singer and mum of one was spotted out and about as she displayed her really toned legs..

The general superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry and Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor Williams Kumuyi, is set to visit Adamwa State next week Tuesday to “strengthen the church and identify with the people” over persistent attacks by Boko Haram insurgents.

Kumuyi will also hold a special meeting with residents of the state, “irrespective of religion”.

The state overseer of the church in Adamawa, Pastor Adeniyi Hassan, made this known in Yola at a news briefing. He also revealed that the church had so far expended about N7.6 million on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the state.

Kaduna State Governor Malam Nasir El-Rufai yesterday abolished the state/local government joint account. He said his government would remit 10 per cent of its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to local government councils.

El-Rufai spoke while swearing-in chairmen of the Interim Management Committees of the 23 local councils.

The governor warned the chairmen against residing outside their councils and advised those that could not abide to vacate the office.

He said: “You have no excuse to fail. Perform and bring real development to our state at the local level. This is to fulfil our campaign promises that we will not hold local government funds if elected.

Muhammadu Buhari has approved a whooping sum of 400bn Naira to settle the ongoing crisis over unpaid salaries.

With several states crying out that they are in debt and some states not being able to settle salaries of over 7 months, the president has had to intervene to get the nation back on track.

He today approved a relief package valued at over N400bn, which would then be distributed evenly between the states of the federation.

Bomb Blasts: Restore checkpoints in Plateau, Lalong tells FG

Simon Lalong, Plateau State Governor

Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau has appealed to the Federal Government to restore checkpoints in the state to check the movement of suspected terrorists.

The governor made the call on Monday following multiple bomb blasts in Jos on Sunday night in which 44 people died and 67 got injured, according to figures by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).

Lalong said shortly after he visited the scenes of the blasts and the injured victims at Plateau Specialist Hospital that “today I made an appeal to Mr President to please allow us to have checkpoints.

“This is because without the security checkpoints, people can flow from all angles and attack innocent people.”

Over a decade ago, Modupe Ozolua, took the beauty scene by storm when she pioneered cosmetic surgery in Nigeria. To some extent a controversial enterprise at the time, once the uproar it generated subsided the enthusiastic entrepreneur thrived.
Recalling how she weathered the storm, Ozolua says, “I became synonymous with plastic surgery in Nigeria, which led both privileged and underprivileged persons to my offices. I have a way making extremely difficult circumstances appear easy, but that is due to my philosophy. If you work hard, you will be rewarded.

“The obsession with self-improvement also applies to our physical appearance. That’s why people want to lose weight, eat healthy and undergo cosmetic surgery so they can look good. As long as that remains in our DNA, there will always be gyms for people to exercise and more cosmetic surgical treatments will take place.”
Today, the 41-year-old philanthropist is of the opinion that more Nigerians are now open to having cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, unlike what obtained when she started out.

Professor Jega who retired as INEC Chairman on June 30th resumed as a lecturer at the department of Political Science, Bayero University Kano today July 6th. Professor Jega had said he would be returning to the classroom to teach once he retires as INEC chairman.

The Yoruba actress is getting her groove back and has been sharing pics with fans. More pics...

Jada Pinkett has revealed her husband knows she can't cheat on him. Speaking to hosts of Today's Show, she said

'After you’ve been with somebody for 20 years, you think there’s any room for [jealousy]? He knows he got me on lockdown.'

She says it doesn't mean she doesn't get tempted to stray,she said but she knows how to handle it

“[When that happens], the good Jada says, ‘Boo boo, you’re married, okay, so we need to shut it down.’ But the bad Jada goes, ‘Wow, procreate! Procreate! Procreate!’

The Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday said the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, had summoned the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, over alleged forgery of the Senate Rules on election of its principal officers.

The PDP said Ekweremadu is expected to appear before a team of investigators at the Force Headquarters in Abuja on Monday (today).

It said the letter inviting the deputy senate president was dated July 1, 2015 and was signed by the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of criminal investigation at the FHQ.

Says he’s in Germany, not UK
Tobi Soniyi in Abuja

Former Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswan, Sunday said he was not arrested in London for wife beating.

His lawyer, P.H. Ogbole, who spoke in Abuja yesterday called on friends and family of the former governor to disregard the publications claiming that Suswam was arrested in the United Kingdom for beating up his wife, Yemisi.

While threatening to take legal action against those behind the falsehood, Suswam described publication alleging that he beat his wife as a calculated attempt to smear his image.

THREE masked men broke into Buchu Meat Wholesalers in Bulawayo's Thorngrove industrial area and fatally struck a security guard with a four-pound hammer on the head before robbing him of $300.

Workmates and family members of the slain security guard said the incident occurred on Saturday shortly after 1AM. The victim identified as Jabulani Madolo, 48, of Mpopoma suburb was manning the premises when he was attacked by three men who concealed their faces under woollen monkey caps.

Two of the suspects have since been arrested after their images were captured on the company's closed-circuit television cameras (CCTV).

Bharti Airtel said it had raised $1.3 billion with the sale of its mobile towers in five African countries from Helios Towers, IHS Plc and American Tower Company. The proceeds will go towards reducing the $10 billion debt used in its African operations in 2010.

Last month, Airtel said a proposed deal with Helios Towers in Tanzania and Chad had expired without a final agreement. Airtel does still work with Helios in other countries. The India-based operator said it was negotiating similar deals with six other countries in Africa. Under the original agreement, Airtel said it would sell around 3,100 towers in four countries to Helios.

The Police have made a breakthrough in their investigation of the June 24 Ikorodu bank robbery. They have arrested four of the perpetrators.

The arrest of one of them in Ondo was said to have led to the arrest of others in Ikorodu on Saturday.

The suspects are Promise, who was arrested in Ondo, Baba Ibeji, Bright and Monday.

Apparently worried by the purported recent transfer of Boko Haram suspects to Anambra State, the South-East governors have called on the Federal Government to reconsider the relocation.

Briefing journalists on Sunday after the meeting of South-East governors in Owerri, Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, stated that the suspects should have been relocated to any northern part of the country instead of the South-East.

The meeting was attended by Enugu State Governor, Chief Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi; Abia State Governor, Mr. Okezie Ikpeazu; and the Deputy Governor of Ebonyi State, Dr. Kelechi Igwe.

A kidnap suspect, Vincent Ibor, said he collected reluctantly the sum of N3.5m after an abduction deal in Calabar, the capital of Cross River State.

Ibor, who hails from Akamkpa Local Government Area of the state, said he was lured into the kidnap deal and threatened with gun after attending a birthday party.

The 25-year-old suspect is currently in police custody with two other accomplices, Justice Ajodo (21) and Stanley Obi (20), who he alleged lured him into the crime.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Hogan Bassey, said the three suspects had on October 9, 2014, kidnapped one Chief Samuel Onyeka at the Ikot-Ishie axis of Calabar.

Dangote Backs Central Bank's Forex Restrictions on Rice, Toothpicks, Others

Following the criticisms by foreign media who are calling for a massive devaluation of the naira instead of foreign exchange restrictions on certain items such as rice and toothpicks by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Africa’s richest man and foremost businessman, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has come out in strong support of the CBN’s decision, calling the ban on 41 items from forex market as "excellent and one of the best decisions taken so far by the CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele."

Apparently miffed by criticisms in some quarters against the apex bank’s decision to restrict forex on the importation of certain items, Dangote, who is President of Dangote Group, described the CBN’s intervention as appropriate for the Nigerian economy saying, “We cannot be importing poverty and exporting jobs.”

Ibrahim Coomasie, former Inspector-General of Police and present chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) discloses why the North moved massively for President Muhammadu Buhari and against Goodluck Jonathan. A former classmate of PMB, he reveals why it would not be business as usual with Buhari. He spoke with Leadership's Kunle Somorin, Catherine Agbo and Muazu Elazeh:

With the emergence of Buhari, do you think the North has achieved one of its major agenda?
Buhari became so famous during the electioneering and on the political scene generally. If you recall, the arrangement when it was decided that power should go to the South was that after eight years, it would come back to the North but that was disrupted somehow by nature when the late president Umaru Musa Yar’Adua died and Jonathan continued, isn’t it? Some people believed that with the completion of his first tenure, Jonathan should have stepped aside and allowed another Northerner to come and complete the term. This was not to be.

To make matters worse...

A WOMAN and a technician who was trying to rescue her from a jammed elevator car plunged to their death from the eighth floor of the National Railways of Zimbabwe headquarters on Friday at around 4pm, only to be discovered 24 hours later yesterday.

The technician from Schindler Lifts had been called to assist the trapped woman, who is an NRZ employee in the accounts department.

Police and the Bulawayo Fire Brigade battled for close to three hours to retrieve the bodies of the victims from the shaft. They only managed to recover the bodies around 7pm.

National police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba confirmed the incident last night.

It's said What Hollywood can do.. Nollywood can do even better. Check out these mind blowing totally nude photos of Nollywood actress Dior Chidera Adiele. Dior recently had the shoot, 24th June, 2015 to celebrate her pregnancy and her new body.

And according to her photographer, his intention was to create a beautiful painting. You like? Dior is also a video vixen, she has been featured in one of Reekado Banks music videos. See more pictures after the cut....

Nicki Minaj put her curves on display during a performance in Finland

Following the relocation of Boko Haram detainees to the Ekwulobia Prisons in Anambra State, the military have taken over the security of the facility.

SUNDAY PUNCH investigations showed that security operations in the Federal Government facility are no longer the exclusive preserve of the officials of the Nigeria Prison Service.

The development, sources told our correspondent, is not unconnected with the calibre of the detainees being held behind the walls of the facility.

The heroic man who shielded his fiancee and told her to run during the Tunisian massacre has spoken for the first time..Matthew James, whose courage made headlines around the world, tells how he was initially convinced he was going to die after being hit by three bullets as he flung himself around Saera Wilson to protect her.

When the shots were fired at the German couple it simply didn’t register with Saera,’ said Matthew. ‘At least not for a few seconds. She said later she thought it was a joke, some kind of game. But I just kind of acted instinctively, and pulled her out
of the way.’

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday promised that his administration will ensure that all cases of political assassination and kidnapping in the country are thoroughly investigated.

A statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, quoted the President as making the promise while addressing state chairmen of the All Progressives Congress who visited him at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Adesina said, “I can confirm to you that the President did say during the closed-door meeting he had with the APC state chairmen that his administration will ensure that all cases of political assassination, intimidation and kidnapping in the country are thoroughly investigated to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice. The President said the cases will be investigated irrespective of the perpetrators’ political affiliations.”

Wardrobe allowance: Okogie blasts lawmakers

Cardinal Okogie

Archbishop Emeritus of Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie has condemned the outrageous wardrobe allowances reportedly earmarked for the nation’s legislators, saying that the proposed national change will be impossible when National Assembly members live in contradiction to the moral, social and political aspirations of their fellow citizens.

In a statement titled; “The moral blind spots of the jumbo package”, made available to Sunday Vanguard by the archdiocesan Director of Social Communication, Monsignor Gabriel Osu, the archbishop argued that duty, honour, country: are the mandates the nation needs to rediscover at this hour, noting that the allowances and the jumbo package of the lawmakers are not only shocking, but outrageous and outlandish.

According to the statement, “they (the allowances) are hard to be justified in the face of widespread poverty and the socio-economic realities of our nation. It is highly unjustifiable that our national resources service a profligate class of politicians, but neglect the hope and welfare of civil servants especially teachers who build the engine of our nation’s future.

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