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Yeah dis story is true, I can't find any source online but i called a few people to confirm it, but I also learnt that the Crises had already been taken care of.

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ANOTHER scandal involving daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, was on Wednesday unearthed by the House of Representatives panel probing the power contract scam.

M.Shnider Energy Nigeria, an Austrian company linked with Senator Obasanjo-Bello, was on Wednesday discovered to be involved in another N4.1 billion contract scandal.


The money was meant for the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) which the House of Representatives probe panel is currently investigating.


The panel learnt that the Austrian company failed to execute the contract for building a power station in Borokiri, Rivers State, after collecting an advance payment from the Federal Government, although the exact amount of money it collected could not be ascertained.


Members of the House of Representatives probe panel who visited the site of the contract could not believe their ears when told that the contractor did not do anything even as the supposed contract site visited turned out to be a swamp.


Meanwhile, officials of the NIPP who equally visited the contract site for the construction of a power substation said the Austrian company had not collected any amount for the job, whereas reports on the contract indicated that it had been mobilised by five per cent.


In a similar development, the sum of N1.2 billion meant for Afam 4 Power Transmission Project also in Rivers State seemed to have gone down the drain as the probe panel discovered that the contractor involved, Enegovod, did not bother to get a site for the job after collecting an advance payment of five per cent.


The panel also discovered that Afam 5 Power Extension Project costing at N276 million and meant to generate 138 megawatts of electricity with completion date put at 2008, has been virtually abandoned.


Also at Onne, Rivers State, a contract for a new sub-station worth N2.5 billion was discovered to have been mishandled as the contractor involved, Valence complained to the probe panel that it had site problem in the process of execution. The company had collected N330 million as mobilisation.


Another Shell-NNPC Joint Venture Project in River State located at Afam and meant to supply gas to the power stations in the state were also discovered to be facing abandonment against the background of inability of NNPC to fulfill its side of the contract bargain.


The officials of Shell who spoke to the House panel on the contract said the oil company had fulfilled up to 55 per cent of its bargain whereas NNPC was unable to pay the 45 per cent required to put the gas supply power project on line.


Meanwhile, Senator Obasanjo-Bello, has shunned the summons by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and joined members of the Senate Committee on Health to jet out of the country to Cuba.


Senator Obasanjo-Bello was supposed to appear before the EFCC to answer questions on the role of her committee in the N300 million scandal that rocked the Ministry of Health, leading to the resignation of Professor Adenike Grange and Mr. Michael Adukwu as ministers in the ministry.


The senator had through the clerk of the committee, Mr. I.E.F. Edobor, said on Tuesday that the committee only received N10 million from the ministry as part of the support for the retreat held in Ghana.


The fund was sourced from the controversial N300 million unspent funds of the ministry’s 2007 budget.


Sources in the National Assembly confirmed that Senator Obasanjo-Bello travelled late on Tuesday to join members of the Senate Committee on Education, headed by Senator Joy Emordi.


The committee is due to return to the country next week. Although sources said the Ogun State Central senator had been in touch with the EFCC since the scandal broke out, it was gathered that she was being expected at the commission on Wednesday.


But another source said that the EFCC was not readily agitated about the failure of the senator to appear before it on Wednesday as the Senate leadership was said to have assured the anti-graft agency that the committee members would only be away for a while.

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well said

I know Some House of assemblies in the North that use Hausa as official Language

haba its not fair now, how can Nigeria be an Islamic State ,,.,how bout the millions of christains in d country its jts nt fair,

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The Chairman of Arewa Consultative forum (ACF), Chief Sunday Awoniyi is dead.

Chief Awoniyi was involved in a car accident along Abuja-Kaduna expressway two-weeks ago and was flown abroad for further treatment.

May His Soul Rest in Perfect Peace.

Asian

Its not surprising since US spends about Six Hundred Billion Dollars on it.

Springer

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The election petition tribunal sitting in Yola, Adamawa state, has delivered judgement on the governorship petition challenging the election of Governor Murtala Nyako (PDP).

The tribunal nullified the election based on the petition of the AC candidate in the April polls, Alhaji Ibrahim Bapetel.

efcc

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LONDON (AFP) - Britain's main opposition leader David Cameron was initially delighted that supermodel Kate Moss asked for his phone number -- until he realised she thought he could help her with her drains.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071110/en_afp/entertainmentbritainfashionpoliticspeopleoffbeat_071110005826

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did u try www.nassnig.org

President Umar Musa Yar'Adua, earlier in the day, presented the 2008 Budget to the Joint Session of the National Assembly in Abuja.

The preparation of the 2008 budget, according to the president, was "informed by the need to be disciplined, focused and strategic. We placed emphasis on containing costs so as to enhance value for money," he said.

According to the him, "All the major line Ministries were requested to reappraise in detail their initial proposals, keeping in view the need to strengthen public expenditure management and ensure transparency, accountability and value for money, with emphasis on completing on-going projects," he added.


http://www.tribune.com.ng/09112007/news/news4.html

http://dailytrust.com/images/stories/2008_budget.pdf (for full speech)

this is a bit late but there is 1 coming up in jan. 08

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A letter from an Indian mother to her daughter

My dear Jagjit,

I am in a well here and hoping you are also in a well there. I'm writing
this letter slowly because I know you cannot read fast. We don't live where
we did when you left home. Your dad read in the newspaper that most
accidents happen 20 miles from home, so we moved 20 miles. I won't be able
to send the address as the last Sardar who stayed here took the house
numbers with them for their new house so they would not have to change their
address. Hopefully by next week we will be able to take our earlier address
plate here, so that our address will remain same too.

This place is really nice. It even has a washing machine, situated right
above the toilet. I'm not sure it works too well. Last week I put in 3
shirts, pulled the chain and haven't seen them since. The weather here isn't
too bad. It rained only twice last week. The first time it rained for 3 days
and second time for 4 days. The coat you wanted me to send you, your Aunt
said it would be a little too heavy to send in the mail with all the metal
buttons, so we cut them off and put them in the pocket. Your father has
another job. He has 500 men under him. He is cutting the grass at the
cemetery.

By the way I took Bahu to our club's poolside. The manager is Badmash. He
told her that two-piece swimming suit is not allowed in his club. We were
confused as to which piece should we remove? Your sister had a baby this
morning. I haven't found out whether it
is a girl or a boy, so I don't know whether you are an Aunt or Uncle. Your
uncle Jetinder fell in the nearby well. Some men tried to pull him out, but
he fought them off bravely and drowned. We cremated him and he burned for
three days.

Your best friend, Balwinder, is no more. He died trying to fulfill his
father's last wishes. His father had wished to be buried in the sea after he
died. And your friend died while in the process of digging a grave for his
father.

There isn't much more news this time. Nothing much has happened.

Love Mom.

PS: Jagjit, I was going to send you some money but by the time I realised,
I had already sealed off this letter.

A guy took his blonde girlfriend to her first football (American not Soccer)game. They had great
seats right behind the bench. After the game, he asked her how she liked
the experience. "Oh, I really liked it," she said, "especially the really
tight pants and all of the big muscles, but I just couldn't
understand why
they were killing each other for 25 cents."
Dumbfounded, her date asked, "What on earth do you mean?"
"Well, I saw them flip a coin and one team got it and then for the rest of
the game, all they kept screaming was: "Get the quarter back!

At the 1994 annual awards dinner given for Forensic Science, AAFS resident
Dr. Don Harper Mills astounded his audience with the legal complications of a
bizarre death. Here is the story:


On March 23, 1994, the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald
Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound to the head. The
decedent had jumped from the top of a ten-story building intending to commit suicide.

He left a note to that effect indicating his despondency. As he fell
past the ninth floor, his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast passing
through a window, which killed him instantly. Neither the shooter nor the
decedent was aware that a safety net had been installed just below at the
eighth floor level to protect some building workers and that Ronald Opus
would not have been able to complete his suicide the way he had planned.

Ordinarily, Dr. Mills continued, "a person who sets out to commit
suicide and ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be
what he intended" is still defined as committing suicide. Mr. Opus was shot
on the way to certain death nine stories below at street level, but his
suicide attempt probably would not have been successful because of the
safety net. This caused the medical examiner to feel that he had a homicide
on his hands.

The room on the ninth floor from whence the shotgun blast emanated
was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing vigorously,
and he was threatening her with a shotgun. The man was so upset that when
he pulled the trigger he completely missed his wife and the pellets went
through the window striking Mr. Opus.

When one intends to kill subject A, but kills subject B in the
attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject B. When confronted with the
murder charge, the old man and his wife were both adamant. They both said
they thought the shotgun was unloaded. The old man said it was his long
standing habit to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no
intention to murder her. Therefore the killing of Mr. Opus appeared to be
an accident, that is, the gun had been accidentally loaded.

The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old
couple's son loading the shotgun about six weeks prior to the fatal
accident. It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financial
support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the
shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father
would shoot his mother.

The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus.

Now comes the exquisite twist.

Further investigation revealed that the son was in fact Ronald Opus.
He had become increasingly despondent over both the loss of his financial
support and the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother's murder.
This led him to jump off the ten-story building on March 23rd, only to be shot by his father

New Speaker of the House of Assembly, Honourable Dimeji Bankole (arrowed), with other corps members at the orientation camp in Kubwa, Abuja, when he did his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme in Abuja in 1998.


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New Speaker of the House of Assembly, Honourable Dimeji Bankole (arrowed), with other corps members at the orientation camp in Kubwa, Abuja, when he did his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme in Abuja in 1998.


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