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ebosie11:
Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai’s son is getting married today December 26th in Gashua, Yobe State.

Buratai is the current and 26th Chief of Army Staff of Nigeria.

Details later…

Source: http://trezzy2..com/2015/12/buratais-son-weds-todayphotos.html

Why cnt he wait till his father defeat Boko Haram?

jamex93:
R.I.P

May d Blood of those fallen soldiers b on d head of those that Pdp vampires that embezzled d money that shld b used 2 buy Arm for soldiers.

jamex93:
R.I.P

k I tnk God i hav been unbanned,wetin i do?pple they insult Buhari NL no ban them.

LEAFLET:
Gowon will forever a betrayer in the eyes of many and also a hero for some.... I have no single respect for him in the life time and in the next life to come!!!!

Wetin Gowon do u?

tomdon:
why did maman want to overthrow Ibb?

Y did IBB,overthrown his Boss PMB?

drss:
Nonsense! Is it because GEJ's govt is witch hunted by buari dullaard Wat about holier than thou's comment dat abacha never stole a kobo despite billions of dollars recovered from d abacha family
as far as am concern, corruption under GEJ is a childs play compared to military regimes like sani abacha, abdulsalam abubakar, obj.
kworruption is still going on under buari's nose. Eg. TSA N25 billion scam, Cabals buying naira at N197 official rate and selling at N250 in black market.
Modified...
FTC: Accnt details
acct name: john dul
acct no.: 000004041

OoooH No!Not Again!!

willywasco:
http://nigerianpilot.com/pdp-charges-nigerians-not-to-abuse-buhari-in-eid-el-maulud-christmas/

Why dnt metuh & PDP has shame do they realised they are shamelessly,unrepentantly holding unto our stolen wealth,thereby recking our economy if they return all they hav stolen,PMB will not need 2 borrow money again,just imagine what Dasuki loot $2.1billion can do in d Budget.All PDP are intrested in is 2019.Are u pple preclaiming Armnesty?Let PDP & her Minions Keep Insulting & let PMB keep ruling over them.

They shld hav allowed him finish d Roads & still vote him out,Afterall It is thier stolen constituency Allowance money.

ProfessorPeter:
If Idoma fail to re elect David Mark, they will regret for not voting him the way Nigerians are regretting for not voting GEJ

Small pikin talk,Abegi go play with sand.

ogochukwu247:
https://www.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Florence-Esu-and-Bright-Echefu.jpg
Queen of Aso Nigeria 2014 – Florence and Bright

Friends and family are crying foul as winner of Queen of Aso Nigeria 2014, an Abuja-based beauty pageant Florence Esu is engaged to her friend’s husband, Dr. Bright Echefu, four months after the friend died during pregnancy.

The pair got engaged this past Saturday, December 19, 2015 and invited Queen Of Aso Nigeria 2009 Jennifer Igwegbe and other members from the pageant’s management team.

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Florence Esu being Crowned Queen of Aso

Cindy Echefu, Bright’s late wife, died less than a month after turning 28 years old, this August, 2015, when she was pregnant with the couple’s third child.

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Cindy’s Funeral Poster

The pair were close friends when Cindy was alive.

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Cindy Echefu and Florence Esu

Friends and some family members, including Cindy’s cousin, have taken to Facebook and Instagram to pour out their suspicions and frustrations on Bright moving on too quickly, in their opinion.

A photo of his new fiancee is now his profile picture on his Instagram page.

He has replied,

“Engagement doesn’t mean we have been sleeping with each other. She is the only friend I can keep in the care of kids.”

He also added his late wife’s family fully supports him and even his late wife would support him if she was alive, saying,

“My late wife’s family are [sic] fully aware of this decision and they knew I did it for the sake of our kids” and “The Cindy I have known and loved so dearly is part of this decision.”

Here are screen shots of the comments and his replies, from Keep Calm Black is Beautiful Blog

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source
http://www.reportnaija.com/2015/12/controversy-as-beauty-queen-is-engaged.html

cc lalasticlala

From what i see d late florence dnt need a hubby any more but cindy need one badly,an oppurtunist.this is survival of d fittest.

LaurelP:
Onitsha killings: IPOB drags FG to court

INDIGENOUSPeople of Biafra (IPOB) has slammed an N8.9 billion suit against the Federal Government for alleged killing of their members at separate incidences in Onit­sha, Anambra State.
Also, the group has signalled intent to drag the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and the IGP to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of crimes against human­ity.IPOB, in an application filed on behalf of deceased and injured members by the King­dom Human Rights Foundation in a suite no: FHC/ABJ/CS/1035/2015 is demanding N8.5 billion as damages over the alleged killing and maiming of pro-Biafra protesters.

Joined as respondents in thesuit are the President; Attorney General of the Federa­tion; National Assembly; the COAS, Inspec­tor General of Police; Commissioners of Police, Imo, Anambra, Abia, Enugu, Ebonyi, Delta, Bayelsa and Rivers State Police Com­mand; Commandant General of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps; and the Director General of the Department ofState Security (DSS) .
The human rights group, through their lawyer, broughtthe application on behalf of IPOB and families of victims of various shootings by security agencies on October20 and December 2, in parts of the South East and South South.

In the application, they sought a decla­ration of the court condemning as crime against humanity, the unlawful, cruel, inhu­man, brutal and wicked killing (shooting) of unarmed, non-violent and peaceful protesters who are exercising their right to peaceful as­sembly, freedom of association, and right to self-determination as guaranteed in Section 39 and40 of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria and Articles I, IV, XIX and XX of the African Charter on Human Rights (Ratification and Enforce­ment) Act, by the combined team of the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Police Force and other security agencies.They further demanded in the application: “An order of the court awarding N100,000,000 to each of those who sustained gunshot inju­ries and were grievously injured by a combined team of the Nigerian Army, the Nigerian Police and other security agencies on October 20 and December 2015 at Onitsha, Anam­bra State, and in Owerri, Imo State; Ebonyi, Bayelsa, Rivers and Delta State respectively.


http://sunnewsonline.com/new/onitsha-killings-ipob-drags-fg-to-court-demands-n8-5bn-compensation/

They Bleep up!theyshld hav demand #6.08trillion.

New party kwa!Did feefle just hav 1 objective in mind ;to Swindle jonathan of his Loot!

kennydee05:

“I assure Nigerians that as the probe continues, it will be difficult for leaders and members of PDP to visit Wadata Plaza. PDP has become a symbol of corruption, impunity and lawlessness. It will be difficult for PDP to win future elections in Nigeria.


With the above statement PDP is forever a gonner

So Nurse Metuh,has been wasting injections trying to revive a dead Pig.

ijustdey:
http://leadership.ng/news/486217/jonathans-supporters-set-float-new-mega-party

We said it a house built on sand will not stand,#500k for Tickets what a corrupt,greedy party,people destruction party(PDP).

Oghene!when bush meat dey everywhere!

ODUBEZE:
are U not in this country?

Answer my question.

Lanceslot:
Yea! a man of protocol who disobeyed 3 court orders in 7 months.

Abeg which court orders he disobey?

What is graphic in d pics?who come use marker cover wetin Bia-bia do cover already?

hassan85:
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/195573-buharis-budget-a-big-fraud-pdp.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

Useless Pdp!Useless Metuh,.....to engage capable & tested hands like Ngozi Okonjo Iweala & Dumbo Dasuki abi?Pdp return back our looted Funds.Ole!Barawa!!Onyi shi!!!

Make God & Devil punish Mark & co!After taking up to #1billn as constituency allowance,he can only bribe his pple with few trailer load of Rice which translate to few cups/person.d idoma pple are not hungry 4 Rice,they hav been eating Rice b4 mark was born.

Ibime:
I dont know where finance minister found N6trn from.

Naija will not get close to that this year.

Mumu!that Budget is 4 next year,dey are using what remain of pdp battered Budget.

omohayek:
This is still only $1.5 billion we're talking about, to provide infrastructure for 170 million Nigerians. Without foreign investment it won't be nearly enough to do more than patch up the most pressing problems, and for that to happen Nigeria needs to make it easier for foreigners to start businesses, obtain permits and move money in/out of the country - all matters which are out of Fashola's control.

Plus d $2.1billn PDP-gej-dasuki loot mKing $3.6

This Dullard shld hav been in Nollywood acting with Mr Ibu,Na who curse Ekiti state like this!

AmeLonRo:
Sometimes I think our presido and politicians speak by faith (Only seriously serious believers who hear from God should do that).
Some things they do not have any realistic plan for they will be promising it.
When Obama said he will create 2million jobs, Americans asked him how? He had to explain.
Which platform do we have to ask our leaders such sensitive questions? Maybe nairaland. So, as a patriot I agree and believe your optimism Mr Presido but please explain how...

He told u he will employ 500,000 teachers including u & u are still asking how?

Nice 1 PMB,Pdp will not b happy with d news.

Nice 1 Hajia!she shld b d 1 named Mama Peace not d other wicked 1.

They shld hav gvn them Jungle Ropes 2 swing down like George of d Jungle.

lordcornel:
The retired boxing champion shared a photo of him lying on a pile of cash with the caption.

"They go to the strip club. I bring the strip club to me wherever whenever".

lol


https://www.instagram.com/p/_jTSECR3cY/

I hope Thief Shambo Dasuki has not been generous to him?

sivel:
Omo u don marry before?

happily married with kids.

LordAdam:
With all due respect, it is a good policy. In saner climes, fraud still occurs but on a very reduced scale.

Maybe you did not understand the policy. But the government sought to favor those that invest in local rice production with reduced import duty to encourage them to build Nigeria's rice production capacity, while those that did not invest got high import duty to discourage them from importing without investing in local rice production. What would you rather the GEJ administration did?

-Lord

Look my frd go & read d post again & again & understand it b4 u comment.

feedthenation:
The fuel subsidy scam probably broke the ceiling in a room crammed with some of the worst corporate perfidy. Nothing could more sabotage the economic interest of a nation, many Nigerians thought.

But then came the rice import quota scheme, an unholy romance between politicians and businessmen, at the moment stretching corporate bad practices in Nigeria to an incredulous length.

About N117 Billion is there for the pick. A total of 26 companies are involved; two of which are owned by a former Attorney General of the Federation and a former civilian governor of Kebbi State respectively. Predictably, in the all-too-familiar Nigerian fashion, not all of the 26 companies selected for the scheme made the list on merit.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in 2014 disclosed that Nigeria spent an average of N800 Billion annually on the importation of rice. Unofficial import receipts through the Cotonou corridor was not captured in the CBN figure.

But the business of importing rice, a staple in Africa’s most popular nation, is so huge and attractive that four neighbouring countries of Benin, Togo, Cameroon and even landlocked Niger Republic have technically factored transhipment or smuggling of rice and allied commodities into Nigeria in their national economic plan.

A recent figure from the CBN indicated that Benin Republic imports almost as much rice as China and nearly as much frozen chicken as the UK. Most of the commodities are smuggled into Nigeria.

Disturbed by the nation’s huge import bill, the President Goodluck Jonathan administration in 2014 came up with a new rice policy to fast-track national self-sufficiency in rice production.

The policy specified that owners of existing rice mills and new investors with verifiable backward integration in the rice value chain will be allowed to import rice at10 per cent duty and 20 per cent levy (30 per cent); while merchants who have nothing to contribute to local production in the form of rice farms or mills will be charged 10 per cent duty and 60 per cent levy (70 per cent). Technically, it was a subsidy aimed at building local capacity in rice production.

Subsequently, an inter-ministerial committee was set up to work out the national rice supply gap and allocate import licenses with appropriate quotas in order to bridge this gap, same time advancing the objectives of the national rice policy.

On paper, this committee was to determine beneficiaries and allocate quotas based on four key criteria that assess investment of individual companies into local rice production.

The criteria included a Domestic Rice Production Plan (DRPP) that demonstrate evidence of current or planned investment in domestic rice production over a three-year period. The DRPP was also expected to show the size of investment, proof of land acquisition and establishment of rice fields and paddy production.

The second criterion was called paddy purchase outlook from Paddy Aggregation Centres (PAC). This should demonstrate a clear plan of purchase of paddy from PACs, location of the PACs and volumes of paddy to be purchased.

The third criterion was paddy purchase outlook from outgrower farmers and farmer cooperatives. This should include location of farms, volumes of paddy to be purchased, etc.

The last criterion was proof of ownership of integrated rice milling facility with par boilers and dehuskers. This should include size of planned installed capacity and evidence of acquisition of integrated rice milling equipment.

Sources within the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment told this reporter that the then Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, by-passed the inter-ministerial committee in the selection of beneficiaries and commensurate import quota. Mr. Akinwunmi, now President of the African Development Bank (ADB), was Chairman of the inter-ministerial committee and took key decisions as the arrowhead of President Jonathan’s much-vaunted Agriculture Transformation Agenda.

Mr. Akinwunmi was easily outwitted by merchants and politicians who did not want a change in status quo, and were known to have resisted such in the past, industry insiders said.

Although the turf is different, the strategy is the same. The same way Nigeria’s oil refineries were put in comatose to pave way for massive and lucrative import of refined petroleum products, the same way entrenched interests known in the industry as Rice Mafia, are sabotaging local rice production to sustain the rice import business.

In the final analysis, the rice policy was scuttled to serve everything but national interest. Companies who have no investment in the rice value chain were granted quota. These companies in turn sold the quota to other importers who already had vessels on the sea.

The sellers of quota made huge profits without any investments in Nigeria’s local rice production and indeed did so without taking risk or lifting a finger.

The same sellers have been working hard to get more quotas in the bid to get more money from the scheme without any investments, thus holding the domestic rice policy to ransom.

Investigations by PREMIUM TIMES revealed that the 26 companies that benefitted from the rice import quota scheme included Milan, Bua, AA Ibrahim, Stine Rice Mills, JMK Foods, Labana Rice Mill, Elephant Group, Honeywell, Kerksuk Farms, Wacot, Mikap Rice, Golden Penny, Stallion, Umza International Farms Limited, Dangote and Olam. Others were Tara Agro, Ebony Agro, Atari Rice Industry, Ashi Foods, JAI, Arewa Rice Mill, Onyx Rice Mill, Bansara Rice, Danmodi and Klysat.

Investigations revealed that Mikap Rice is owned by a former Attorney General of the Federation, Michael Aondoakaa, while Ebony Agro is owned by Charles Ugwu, a former minister of commerce and industry.

Ashi Foods is owned by the immediate past governor of Benue State Gabriel Suswam. Milan Group is a business interest that also owns Intercontinental Hotels while Bua is owned by billionaire Ishaku Rabiu. Honeywell is owned by Oba Otudeko while Elephant Group is owned by Tunji Owoye. Labana Rice is owned by former Kebi State governor Adamu Aliero while Keresuk is owned by one Rotimi Williams.

Investigations revealed that for instance, Umza Internationa Farms Limited has a rice mill in Kano with a capacity of 30,000 MT. Beyond this mill, Umza has no other investment in local rice production. However, the company was given import allocations in two categories: 36,000 MT under existing miller allocation and also got 49,207 MT under investor allocation.

Dangote and Golden Penny have no existing mills but got 115.204 MT and 91,887 MT respectively. Stallion got a total allocation of 89,989 MT; that was 59,989 MT under investor allocation and 30,000 MT under existing miller allocation. It has two mills – one in Kano and another in Markurdi.

Investigations further revealed that Mikap Rice, owned by Michael Aondoakaa, has a very small scale mill of between 15,000 to 20,000 MT. The mill itself is government-funded. Mr. Aondoakaa got 82,897 MT of import quota.

Wacot is in seeds business only while Labana has two mills in Kebbi State. Many of the beneficiaries were found to have no investment in the rice value chain. They include Wacot, Honeywell, Elephant Group, AA Ibrahim, Milan, among others. Kersuk Farms has no mill. Stine Rice has a mill but it is not in working condition. Bua has only brown rice mill. It does not have parboiling capacity; the mill is defunct. However Bua received a total import allocation of 109,448 MT.

Ebony Agro owned by Charles Ugwu made wrong investment decision. It built rice mill in a place where there is no paddy. The same wrong investment decision of building a mill where there is no paddy was also made by Tara Agro. Many of the quota beneficiaries sold their allocations to importers. Mikap sold its quota to Elephant Group. Stine Rice sold its quota to a company called PJS. Elephant Group in May 2015 also received through the Jama’tul Nasril Islam (JNI) waiver to import 100,000 MT of rice. The religious organisation had applied for and was granted waiver by President Goodluck Jonathan to import the said metric tonnes of rice and 25,000 metric tonnes of cooking oil described in a letter from the Budget Office of the Federation as ‘donated foodstuff’.

One smoking gun on sale of import quota is found with Umza International Farm Ltd. Shipping documents obtained by this newspaper showed that shortly after the release of quota allocations and Umza was named one of the beneficiaries, a letter dated December 20, 2014 instructed Marietta Bolten (owners of a ship MV Marietta) to divert a cargo of rice originally meant for delivery at Cotonou Port to Lagos Port. The cargo in question was a 15,500 MT Thai Parboiled Rice 100PCT Sortexed of Thailand Origin. The letter reads in part: “The above cargo was shipped on the above vessel … for delivery at the port of Cotonou – Benin but we, Navision Shipping A/S, hereby request you to order the vessel to proceed to and deliver the said cargo at Port Lagos – Nigeria to Pearl Universal Impex Ltd, 7A Asa Afariogun Street, Off Osolo Way, Ajao Estate, Isolo, Lagos, Nigeria.

The same Navision Shipping on the same day gave two more instructions to Marietta ordering it to divert another cargo of 3900.650 MT Thai Parboiled rice to Port Harcourt for Pearl Universal Impex. This second cargo, originally meant for Cotonou Port was originally consigned to STE Premiere Sarl, Niamey, Niger Republic. The third cargo, 18,500MT Thai Parboiled rice, originally destined for Cotonou Port was diverted on instruction to Port Harcourt.

A visit to Pearl Universal Impex in Ajao Estate, Lagos, showed that the company is no more at No, 7A Asa Afariogun Street, the land address used for the shipping transaction. There was no forwarding address. Pearl Universal Impex is a major rice importer owned by a group of foreign businessmen that include the Chairman Pulkit Jain, Nimit Jain, Pranshu Goel and Ramanathan Srinivasan. Pulkit Jain was quoted in a recent media report that his company “has been a major importer of rice in the country with imports of 350,000 metric tonnes of rice annually in the past”

Given that Nigeria is the only country that consumes parboiled rice, any cargo of parboiled rice going to Cotonou is in the first place is meant to come into Nigeria through land borders.

All the cargoes diverted belonged to Umza International Farm Ltd, one of the companies that benefitted from government subsidy.

Shipping documents show that diverted rice cargoes with the following bill of lading: MRT1409-01(10,000 MT), MRT1409-03(1,000 MT), MRT1409-04(1,000 MT), MRT1409-05(1,000 MT), MRT1409-09(1494.650 MT) and MRT1409-20(806.000MT) were consigned to Umza International Farm.

Yet another document showed that Umza International Farm Ltd has been importing rice from Thailand purportedly to be transhipped to Niger Republic. In October 2014 Umza, using the same ship MV Marietta imported 1,000 MT of Golden Standard brand of parboiled rice to Cotonou for ‘transit to Niger’. The Umza cargo has bill of lading MRT1409-03.

The same 1000 MT of same bill of lading MRT1409-03 is named in the instruction letter to the ship owners Marietta Bolten on 20th December 2014 to be diverted to Port Harcourt shortly after Umza was named as a beneficiary of Federal Government rice import quota. So also was another cargo of bill of lading MRT1409-04 with Niger Republic as its original destination.

Industry stakeholders are confused as to how consignments of parboiled rice are transhipped to a country that does not consume parboiled rice. Maritime experts say this is another red flag of irregularities and sabotage of the rice value chain adding that parboiled rice is not the only item ‘officially smuggled into Nigeria’ in the guise the goods were meant for Niger Republic.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/195509-investigation-inside-the-massive-fraud-in-nigerias-n117billion-rice-import-quota-scheme.html

It is only when u hava a Drunkard as president that such nonsense can happen.