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delectablegyal:
now he go say him no see the lady. he can lie for africa.



like my dp for no reason.

I will not.

leofab:
So after all the honey moon stunt; the billionaire's son can't even come and confirm to Nigerians if Zara is still a virgin or not after all the support we accrued to them... it's none of my business though!

They would have sampled her when she was in UK.

Oluwo may be remanded in "Ilesha prison" when he is finally arrested.
This Oba will definitely sleep in prison with his so called crown.
We should all learn how to respect the laws of the land, no matter highly placed we might be.
I don't think court summon is already a conviction.
The guy(Oba) should have respected himself by honour court summon when it was still honourable.

A magistrate’s court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State has ordered the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Fimihan Adeoye, to arrest the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, and bring him to court on January 6, 2017.

The magistrate, Olusola Aluko, gave the fresh order on Friday when the case involving the monarch came up for hearing again.

He said he was surprised that the police commissioner had not arrested Oluwo since he first issued the bench warrant of arrest against the first class monarch. Aluko expressed dismay that the police commissioner had not effected the bench warrant of arrest he had issued against the monarch, which he said he had signed and handed over to an officer of the state police command.

He said, “I am baffled that the commissioner of police has not done his duty. I am also surprised by his claim that he was unaware of the bench warrant. That must be a joke of the century. I, therefore, order him to immediately arrest the respondent.

“I am not joking with my order. He (Akanbi) should be arrested and brought to this court on Friday, January 6, 2017. The sanctity of the judiciary must be protected.”

Aluko stated that the case instituted by the Oluwo Oke of Iwo Oke, Oba Kadiri Adeoye, against Akanbi before his court was not a chieftaincy case but a criminal one.

He said, “I will like to say that the matter before me was filed based on sections 35, 37 and 38 of the criminal procedures of Osun State.

“In a criminal case such as this, a defendant must appear in court. This court is not trying a chieftaincy matter. It is the law that once an order is made, to prevent anarchy, such an order must be obeyed.

“It is to be noted that an order was first made by my brother, Magistrate Omisade of Iwo jurisdiction before the case was transferred here by fiat and I had asked him (Akanbi) three times to appear before this court.”

It will be recalled that the magistrate had on December 2 threatened to issue a bench warrant against the Oluwo if he failed to appear before him on December 20, but the monarch failed to appear before the court.

The magistrate then issued a bench warrant against the monarch on December 20 but the monarch allegedly said he would not appear before the magistrate.

Aluko had also issued a fresh bench warrant against the monarch on Wednesday for contempt of court but the monarch still did not appear on Friday.

The Oluwo had earlier told our correspondent in an interview that he would not appear before the magistrate, but subsequent efforts to get his reaction to the fresh order of arrest were not successful as calls put across to his telephone did not connect.

The police commissioner, when contacted on the telephone by our correspondent after the fresh court order, said he was not aware of it.
http://punchng.com/court-orders-osun-cp-arrest-oluwo/

Smart move by Drump. Obama just want lay down landmines for Drump's administration.

US President-elect Donald Trump on Friday praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for not quickly hitting back at Washington for the punitive measures imposed over alleged interference in the November election.

“Great move on delay (by V. Putin) – I always knew he was very smart!” Trump tweeted.

Earlier, the Russian leader ruled out any immediate tit-for-tat expulsions of American officials in the row over what Washington says were “efforts to harm US interests” in connection with the November 8 election won by the Republican.

Putin’s own foreign ministry had recommended that he eject 35 American officials to counterbalance US President Barack Obama’s move on Thursday to expel 35 Russian intelligence operatives and shut down two Russian compounds in the US.

Trump, who succeeds Obama on January 20, has repeatedly praised Putin and made a number of cabinet picks of people with ties to Russia.

The FBI and CIA have concluded that Russian intelligence agencies oversaw the hacking and leaking of emails from Democratic Party organizations under Kremlin orders this year in order to benefit Trump’s campaign against Hillary Clinton.

In the past, the president-elect has ridiculed US intelligence about Russia’s cyber-meddling, saying it was not clear who conducted the attacks.

He has long treated such accusations as a thinly veiled effort by a Democratic president to delegitimize a Republican victory.

On Wednesday, he issued a call for the country to “move on to bigger and better things,” but said he would meet with US intelligence leaders next week to be “updated on the facts of this situation.”

While Trump has already received intelligence briefings about the election and substantial evidence is in the public sphere, his pledge to meet with intelligence chiefs could provide a face-saving opportunity to further soften his stance.

Also next week, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper will appear before lawmakers to testify about foreign cyber threats to the United States — a possible opportunity for him to expand on Russia’s activities.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/trump-praises-very-smart-putin-for-holding-off-on-reprisals-against-us/

Buhari is too corrupt, he has not started today.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption profile is fading. The bogeyman mystique that constitutes the essence of his public persona is increasingly being revealed as an absent and abstract construct. Surprisingly, it is the masquerade himself who has been demystifying the man behind the mask.

His chief of staff, Mr. Abba Kyari, is alleged to have collected 500 million naira in bribes from MTN Nigeria to get the federal government to crash the 1.04 trillion fine imposed on the telecommunications company by the National Communications Commission to a third of the original penalty. He was later rumored to have been suspended by President Buhari to allow for investigation of the charge. But Kyari showed up after two weeks of absence from the Villa to joke that he had only gone away on leave, an incomparably different experience from the ostracism of suspension.

In the month of August, SaharaReporters published a letter that clearly showed Kyari overleaping the bounds of his official duties to seek undue privilege for a heavily indebted private firm. He wrote to Assets Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON) requesting a clean bill of health that will allow Valiant Offshore Contractors Limited, a concern that was being fronted by the major owner of SeaWolf Oilfield Services Limited, to commence business dealings with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC). He was working to put the private company in a position to win huge drilling services contract from NNPC where he is the most influential board member.

Kyari had also been alleged to have attempted to scuttle the investigation of Sahara Energy for massive fraud. The company amassed hundreds of millions of dollars from the opaque crude oil swap deals arranged by the ultra-corrupt former petroleum minister, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke.

None of these grave allegations alarmed Buhari or moved him to ask Nigerian anti-corruption agencies to investigate Kyari.

Few weeks ago, the senate found that Buhari’s associate and confidante, the secretary to the government of the federation, Mr. Babachir David Lawal, gifted himself an 'over-inflated' 270 million naira weeding contract. The paperwork states that M/S Josmon Technologies Limited won the contract. But the senate committee that investigated claims of abuse of IDP funds discovered that soon after the release of the contract money, a tributary of millions of naira began to flow from the contractor to the bank account of Rholavision Engineering Limited, a company owned by Lawal.

What may have caused the cash flow to Rholavision? The company prides itself on its website as ''a truly innovative leader in computer and telecommunications engineering''. So did M/S Josmon subcontract out the job to Rholavision so the ICT firm would use some novel technology to effect a virtual grass removal from the earth?

The answer is no. It was all about kickback. Lawal presumed on his control over the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) to make fast fortune. He cut for himself huge hay as if money grows like grass!

To be sure, Lawal tried to rewrite reality after the fact. As soon as he learned that a probe into of the PINE scheme had commenced and that the discovery of his sharp practices was imminent, he rushed to Corporate Affairs Commission, removed himself as a director of his company and divested himself of his shares. But the panicked man who resigned his directorship remained a signatory to the account of the company. Control of the purse strings was that important to him!

The senate has asked Lawal to resign. He has vowed to stay on. The standoff prompted Buhari to wake up to the exigency of authorizing an investigation into accusations of corruption involving his aides.

In a terse two-paragraph press statement, unarguably the shortest ever released by the Buhari administration, presidential spokesman Garba Shehu said that:

“The attention of the presidency has been drawn to a number of reports in the media, in which various accusations of corruption have been levelled against some top officials in the administration.

“In that regard, President Buhari has instructed the Attorney General of the Federation to investigate the involvement of any top government officials accused of any wrong-doing. If any of them are liable they will not escape prosecution.”

That miserly 70-word reaction was the sum of Buhari’s reply to pervasive accusations of corruption against his senior aides. He vouchsafed no more than a tame, tokenist answer. A timid improvement on silence that disingenuously sidestepped the identity of his accused officials and the nature of their alleged offenses.

The Buhari administration is big on naming and shaming those accused of corruption. Feeding Nigerians corruption porn is its preeminent definition of 'fight against corruption.' Yet, it showed an incongruous disinclination to expose its own accused officials in a public statement meant to address the issue of their alleged involvement in corruption. It shied away from namechecking them even at the risk of making a hide-and-seek game out of the scandals. Instead, it purported to spread a veneer of anonymity over Kyari and Lawal in order to dissociate them from the corruption charges.

The hoarding of the names of the allegedly corrupt Buhari men by the presidency in the statement ‘ordering’ their investigation represents an elliptical and preemptory defense of their innocence. The presidency could not deign to cite the identity of Kyari and Lawal and the particulars of the wrong-doing attributed to them because it is persuaded that acknowledging the narrative in the public domain, in its pristine form, would dignify the allegations and taint Buhari's men.

There was no need to edit out the names of Kyari and Lawal. It’s a front-page secret that they are under a cloud. The avoidance of their names smacked of ostrich pretension. It made that piece of presidential communication factually deficient, vague and evasive.

The resort to literary parsimony in a context that required abundance of clarity speaks to the psychological orientation of the Buhari presidency. The thinking of the Buhari administration is that corruption is the preserve vice of outsiders. It is what other people do. And it is what Buhari's disciples are incapable of doing.

Buhari has the strong notion that human beings rise to infallibility by the virtue of their presence in his immaculate orbit. This fallacy in his head filters out accusations of corruption against his aides. Thus, he is irritated by any suggestion that one of his men could be guilty of indiscretion. It makes him poised to dismiss accusations of wrongdoing raised against his any member of his team as politically motivated attacks on his person and the government.

Buhari's narcissistic obsession with the optics of moral invincibility has served to make him a self-employed, full time custodian of an illusory ideal. He feels obligated to protect and insure the integrity of his entire staff. This sense of false duty has expanded into an amorphous policy of blind spot favoritism, a touch-not-my-anointed exemption arrangement that guarantees his men immunity from rigorous scrutiny.

It is an irony lost on Buhari, that in his administration's supposed open season against corrupt persons, Nigerian anti-graft agencies make to-investigate-or-not-to-investigate decisions on his cues. They read his ‘body language’ to determine the man to arrest and prosecute and the woman to let be.

President Buhari approved the midnight raid of the houses of Supreme Court justices by the Nigerian state police. The nocturnal invasion was justified on the basis that there was intelligence to the effect that the judges were warehousing proceeds of corruption in their homes. Sure enough, the tipoff proved helpful.
Some of the judges were found to be wealthier than their means could explain. And their court trial is underway.

But consider that one of the disgraced auctioneers of verdicts pointedly accused Buhari’s former campaign director and minister of transport, Rotimi Amaechi, and minister of science and technology, Ogbonnaya Onu, of attempting to procure justice on Buhari’s behalf. The same Buhari that claims to be interested in purging the Nigerian judiciary discountenanced the justice’s allegation and shielded Amaechi and Onu from investigation. Buhari ignored the weighty allegations even though his own reputation was in play.

In all his campaigns for president, Buhari ran on an anti-corruption platform. Everywhere he went, he affirmed with tired, clichéd reductionism that all the problems of Nigeria and Nigerians boiled down to corruption. He argued that the powers of the highest office in the land must be exercised in an earnest 'war on corruption' for Nigeria to recover its promise. His rallying cry had a prophetic repent-or-perish ring: ''Nigeria must kill corruption or corruption will kill Nigeria.''

One year after Buhari took office, the news cycle is furnishing cause for fears that corruption is killing the presidency of the presumed corruption slayer. His kitchen cabinet has been frothing poisons instead of the antidote. And his minimalist response to the scandals all but testifies that that he has enough hypocrisy in him to nurse in his inner circle the corruption plague he affects to be invested in eradicating from the body politic.

The litmus test of the sincerity of Buhari’s ‘war on corruption’ is supposed to be the extent to which his response to reports of graft in his inner circle matches with his administration’s standard reaction to similar scandals in the body politic. The exposés of the alleged involvement of his top officials in bribery and contract scams offered him a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate that his ‘zero-tolerance for corruption’ was no respecter of persons. But he has only grudged a forced, modulated response which doesn’t jibe well with his vaunted hostility to sleaze.

It would be oddly fitting if, a few years from now, this 'grasscutter moment' Buhari is trying to duck, is remembered as the historical inflection point, a time when the proverbial fall from grace to grass began to find symmetrical fulfillment in the fallout of the real life story of North East grasses given the golden cut of corruption.

http://saharareporters.com/2016/12/29/ultimate-grace-grass-story-emmanuel-ugwu

Buhari did not want to see Saraki because of corruption. Nonsense.

Ha

omofunaab:
Sarkin doesn't mean king Mr man , it's more like leader of the hausas

Sarkin is like Asiwaju abi. Okay, if they dont want Asiwaju Igbo, they can come and take Sarkin Igbo but for the Eze Ndigbo, no way.

Okay
Asiwaju Igbo is okay. If they are not satisfied,.they should go back to their caves.
Asiwaju Tinubu.
If they dont behave themselves, they should be ready to be flogged again.
They have been flogging before and they can be flogged again. Deji of Akure likes to watch the Eze Ndigbo been flogged sef.

HVACSpecialist:
Visionless irresponsible governor that rode on southwest sentiments based on fashola's achievement in lagos to win his first term and sai baba syndrome for his second term.He has no visible achievement for 2016.. TOTAL FAILURE!

You are absolutely right. This means that you are following Oyo state politics.

skyoboy:
Ajimobi is Working

Ajimobi is working or what did you say?

overdrive:
Since 20/12/2016 they still hold my #500 saying I shld go complain to my bank.they want d whole world to know say I dey do biz with Alabi.

Lol, and you dont want the whole world that you dey do business with Alabi.
Dey wan expose your yansi to the world.

TuCloz:
35million out of 3.3Billion- that's roughly10%. Kai, politicians you guys are wickeRd

1% and not 10%

The terrorists were running and they were been pursuing by soldiers. But wait, where are the corpses of these terrorists? This question is too simple.

Too bad.

Stupedinluv:
my own have finished.

I cant even kill a cockroach

I am telling you, your own have finished.

I am telling, nobody cares in this country.

How times fly.
Someone should help me with that of University of Ibadan.

A Lagos bound train from Kano collided with a trailer at a railway crossing in Kawo, Kaduna, and cut the trailer into two, the Federal Road Safety Corps said in Kaduna on Wednesday.

The Sector Commander of FRSC in the state, Mr. Francis Udoma, told the News Agency of Nigeria, that the incident occurred at 3 a.m., adding however, that no life was lost.

Udoma explained that the train, carrying Nigerian soldiers and civilians, crashed into the sugarcane-laden trailer, belonging to W.A. Group of Companies.

He said the accident occurred when the driver of the trailer insisted on crossing the rail line even when the train was blaring its horn.

He said the incident caused traffic jam that lasted for six hours.

Udoma said motorists coming from Kano and other northern states, as well as those coming from the southern and the eastern parts of the country were all stranded at the railway crossing.

“We deployed our men, including myself, when we received the call, and arrived there to manage the traffic jam for hours. We were there until 9 a.m. before we were able to open the road for motorists to pass through,” Udoma said.

He blamed the accident on the impatience of the trailer driver, whom he said might be suffering from hearing problem.

“It could be that the driver had problem hearing, because trains normally will blare their horns, but this driver, even with the horn decided to cross.

“This is abnormal. Nobody with normal hearing sense would take such a risk,” he said.

The FRSC boss advised drivers with hearing defect to get hearing aids to avoid accidents.

In a related development, Udoma said that no fewer than 14 people lost their lives and 160 others were injured in accidents involving 53 vehicles from December 1 to date in the state.

He said that 14 people were killed in 33 serious accidents involving 332 people.

Udoma, however, said the corps had rolled out several operations which began on December 12 to ensure safety on roads throughout the Yuletide.

“These include operation zero tolerance to accidents, special intervention patrol and traffic frequency monitoring.

“The operations are being carried out in collaboration with the police, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, the National Emergency Management Agency and the National Union of Road Transport Workers,” he said.

He said that marshals had been drafted to junctions to ease traffic flow in Kaduna metropolis, adding that officers had also been deployed in all flash points to assess the impact of the patrol.
http://punchng.com/train-cuts-trailer-carrying-soldiers-two-kaduna/

brimoknight:
By their comments,we shall know where they belong on the table.........lol

Lol. Warn yourself ooo

Arik Air’s United States and South Africa-bound passengers, who were stranded due to bad weather condition, on Wednesday disrupted the airline’s services at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos.

The airline’s members of staff at a point abandoned their duty posts as the passengers became uncontrollable.

Arik, like other domestic airlines, has been unable to fly its international passengers to their destinations since Tuesday, December 27, thereby creating a backlog.

The development is coming barely a day after the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority sanctioned the airline for violating passengers’ rights and contravening the provisions of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Regulations.

It was gathered that since Monday, Arik Air had not been able to operate flights to London, New York in the United States and Johannesburg in South Africa.

Passengers lamented that despite the backlog and the inability of the airline’s flights to depart for these destinations, Arik’s officials at the international terminal sold tickets to unsuspecting passengers.

As of Wednesday afternoon, the airline had not airlifted its London-bound passengers, while its Johannesburg passengers were still waiting.

In a reaction, Arik’s spokesperson, Adebanji Ola, said the airline had ferried an aircraft back from the John F. Kennedy Airport to fly its Lagos-New York passengers.

He said that due to the damage to its Boeing A330-200 aircraft by a ground-handling company at the JFK airport a few days ago, the airline had to charter a B767-300ER aircraft from a European charter operator to minimise the disruption and inconvenience to booked passengers on its Lagos-New York service.

He said, “This arrangement was put in place to cover for the period until the return to service of our A330-200 aircraft on December 28, 2016.

“The Lagos-New York flight, which was scheduled to be operated by the charter company and depart Lagos on Tuesday, December 27, 2016 at 11:00am, could not operate due to the closure of the airspace for several hours due to bad weather. Despite the airline’s repeated appeals to the charter operator to operate the next fight, they insisted on positioning their crew and aircraft back to Europe on Wednesday, December 28, 2016.”

He said Arik immediately commenced the ferry back of its A330-200 aircraft from New York to Lagos on Wednesday, and that the aircraft was expected to arrive Lagos today (Thursday).

“Passengers originally booked on Arik Air’s flight W3 107 on Tuesday, December 27, 2016 from Lagos to New York JFK will now be accommodated to travel on Thursday, December 29, 2016 at 06:00am,” Ola added

http://punchng.com/passengers-disrupt-ariks-services-lagos-airport/

Explorers:
A terrorist that wants to blow up a structure like this will bring the bomb activate and detonate within 10mins or he will be spotted.

Now, its true that Dynamites are used to blast rocks or concretes, but do you consider the time the detonators will spend in placing, connecting, and wiring the bombs or dynamites?

Now on busy bridge like this, terrorists will have to go under the bridge with the dynamite, placing the bombs, connecting and wiring them to almost 4 - 5 pillars before detonating them.

To do this, they will spend hours and how is that possible without being spotted?

There is this channel where they air how they demolish buildings with explosives, they spend days setting the dynamites and dynamites brought in truck not in sedan.

They did one in Lagos years back.

cc: ajbf, brendaniel

Exactly

Manchester United should get this type of juju now.

Buhari is too corrupt.

So, the man married his first wife 25 years ago and he has just married to 18 years old girl. Not shame in the north and all in the name of Islam.
Buhari is currently looking for 10 years old damsel to marry after he might have sent his wife parking.

The guy is a bastard.

ednut1:
dynamite cannot blow up dat bridge. lets be sensible here

The dynamite that can blast rock, cannot blow up the bridge. Kontinu

Pato23:
Watch your mouth boy.....

Small child, read the piece up there. He was trained in the south-south.

This lost is too much.