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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commsion, EFCC, has sealed all the properties belonging to embattled ex-chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina.

Maina, who has been accused of complicity in N2bn fraud, has reportedly gone into hiding.

The civil servant was declared wanted by the EFCC in November 2015 for alleged fraud.

However, Maina surprisingly resurfaced this month as an acting director in the Ministry of Interior, a development that triggered a nationwide uproar, forcing president Buhari to order for his immediate disengagement from service.

The EFCC Spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, while speaking on the issue on Monday, said the commission was still on his trail.

He, however, stated that the commission had marked his houses in Abuja, including a house in Jabi said to be worth about $2m.

Uwujaren told Punch, “Yes, his properties were marked today. To the best of my knowledge, he has not yet been arrested.”

Another source within the anti-graft agency was quoted as saying that Maina was moving around http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2017/10/n2bn-fraud-maina-flees-as-efcc-seals.html

In an effort to deepen troops understanding and appreciation of Human Rights issues and their impact on military operations, the Army Headquarters Department of Civil Military Affairs have organised Human Rights Sensitization Workshop for officers and soldiers of 8 Task Force Division in Monguno.
Declaring the workshop open, the Chief of Civil Military Affairs, Major General Nuhu Angbazo noted that the Nigerian Army is currently experiencing fourth dimension warfare; where the assymetric nature of the enemy has demanded that the army must work more closely with the civil populace, in order to understand, identify, engage and defeat the enemy. To achieve this strategic objective, Major General Angbazo added that “the Nigerian Army has embarked on this sensitization workshop so that our troops can become knowledgeable in the Laws of Armed Conflicts and therefore avoid those unprofessional conducts that could destroy their career and http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2017/08/violation-of-human-rights-nigerian-army.html

The Minister of Transportation and past governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that the present governor, Nyesom Wike once threatened President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration and now boasts that he has the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, and the entire judiciary in his pocket whereupon he can manipulate any judgement against him (Amaechi).

Amaechi also accused Governor Wike of running an administration “that embarks on wholesale forgery and distortion of government documents and then retails it out to his minions, the media and now the judiciary in a shameful and futile bid to defame and destroy Amaechi.”

According to the minister, Wike is basing the recent visit to the state by the CJN, to brag that Justice Onnoghen is his ‘main man.’

Amaechi gave the statement in a release to newsmen on Sunday through his media office.

The statement read thus: “Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike has continued to twist, falsify and forge fresh documents that he intends to use against the immediate past governor of the state and now Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.

“Wike wants to use the elaborately distorted and most times outright but carefully forged documents to persecute and prosecute his erstwhile benefactor in court. In the past couple of days, Wike has been telling anyone who cares to listen, bragging that he will certainly get a conviction, a judgement against Amaechi in the law courts on spurious charges of corruption using his forged documents because he (Wike) is in control of the judiciary at the state and national level.

“For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to state that Wike has been boasting that he has the judges in the Rivers State judiciary in his pocket, that he’s in full control and that the State Judiciary would always give him any judgement he wants against Amaechi.

“Furthermore, Wike is bragging that the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) is his ‘main man’, that would readily and easily assist him to get any judgement he wants against Amaechi at the apex court, using his contorted documents.

“Wike is also telling anyone who cares to listen that the Supreme Court (Justices) and judges generally are not happy with Amaechi and so they would easily convict him with any forged document he presents in court. Power drunk Wike is using the recent visit of the CJN to Rivers State as his bragging right to prove his ‘extreme’ closeness to the CJN.

“Nigerians would recall that only a few days back, Livingstone Wechie, the young man Wike used to accuse Amaechi of corruption and write false and frivolous petitions to the National Assembly, EFCC etc, confessed in a live television programme and in a statement he also circulated to the media, that all the documents he used to wrongfully portray Amaechi as corrupt when he governed Rivers State, were phonies, forged documents given to him by Wike’s Rivers State Government House.

“Wechie also admitted, like we have always said, that the forged documents were used as the template and basis for the Justice Omereji led Judicial Commission of Inquiry, a panel Wike set up early in his administration to witch-hunt, malign, vilify and persecute Amaechi.

“Sadly, this is the kind of administration that presides over the affairs of Rivers people. An administration that embarks on wholesale forgery and distortion of government documents and then retails it out to his minions, the media and now the judiciary in a shameful and futile bid to defame and destroy Amaechi. Brazenly, without any scruples, Governor Wike runs an administration that manufactures and concocts documents to indict Amaechi of corruption. Yes, this is the kind of character, a low-level con man that is at the helm of affairs in Rivers State. “Since he became governor, Wike’s sole agenda has been to attack and vilify Rotimi Amaechi, no matter how ridiculous and silly he sounds.

“Since he became governor, Wike’s sole agenda has been to attack and vilify Rotimi Amaechi, no matter how ridiculous and silly he sounds. Every day in Rivers State, there is one frivolous, false story of what Amaechi did or didn’t do. Same pattern, the same blatant lies using distorted and forged documents, same old concocted stories of corruption allegations against Amaechi told with different twists.

“Nigerians will not forget in a hurry how Nyesom Wike, hurriedly called a suspicious late night press conference to lie that the over $43 million found by EFCC in a luxury apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos and the apartment belongs to Amaechi. “Wike shamelessly said that the money was part of what was stolen from Rivers State – and warehoused in the Ikoyi house – by his predecessor and current Minister for Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi. “Not done with his concocted tales, Wike went further to threaten the President Mohammadu Buhari administration with fire and brimstone if the money is not returned to him (

“Wike shamelessly said that the money was part of what was stolen from Rivers State – and warehoused in the Ikoyi house – by his predecessor and current Minister for Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi. “Not done with his concocted tales, Wike went further to threaten the President Mohammadu Buhari administration with fire and brimstone if the money is not returned to him (Wike). “He gave the Federal

“Not done with his concocted tales, Wike went further to threaten the President Mohammadu Buhari administration with fire and brimstone if the money is not returned to him (Wike).

“He gave the Federal Government a seven-day ultimatum to return the money; otherwise, he would institute the mother of all legal actions against the Buhari government to recover the money.

“That’s the typical Wike, a lying, reckless, irresponsible and brutal forger that has become the laughing stock of his: http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2017/07/wike-claims-he-has-cjn-judiciary-in-his.html

Forty-eight corpses of persons killed by Boko Haram terrorists during an oil exploration to the Lake Chad Basin have been brought to the Maiduguri Teaching Hospital in the Borno State capital.
Sources at the UMTH and the Maimalari Army Barrack told The PUNCH that the corpses were brought into Maiduguri from the scene of the attack.
The corpses brought include 18 soldiers, 15 Civilian JTF, five university staff and four NNPC drivers.
Also six persons who were wounded in the attack but escaped to somewhere in Yobe State were later found dead and brought to Maiduguri.
Apart from the wounded soldiers admitted to military hospital in the town, two members of the Civilian JTF were as at Thursday on admission at the UMTH.
The Army, in a press statement on Wednesday by it’s spokesman, Brig. Gen. Sani Usman, had claimed that all the NNPC staff abducted in the Tuesday’s ambush had been rescued.
Usman, in the statement, said: “On receipt of the information, the Brigade mobilized and sent reinforcement, search and rescue party that include the Armed Forces Special Forces and guides that worked and pursued the terrorists throughout the night.
“So far, they have rescued all the NNPC staff and recovered the corpses of the Officer, 8 soldiers and a civilian who have been evacuated to 7 Division Medical Services and Hospital.
“The team recovered 4 vehicles one of which include a gun truck mounted with an Anti-Aircraft Gun, 2 white Hilux taken away from NNPC staff and 1 blue Hilux belonging to CJTF. The team also recovered large quantities of arms and ammunition, several spare tyres, many jerry cans of containing Petroleum, Oil and Lubricant, assorted drugs, Improvised Explosive Device (IED) making materials, reflective jackets and a Motorola handheld radio, among others. The team also: http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2017/07/breaking-corpses-of-18-soldiers-30.html

Emergency officials have reached ground zero of the four-storeyed building which collapsed on Massey Street, Lagos Island, recovering eight dead bodies –five males and three females.

Some of the deceased were identified as Zainab Balogun, Ademola Taiwo, Olayiwola Sikiru and Lawal Mabolaje.

Fifteen victims, who sustained varying degrees of injury, were taken to hospitals for treatment.

PUNCH Metro had reported that the distressed structure collapsed around 2.30pm on Tuesday, trapping tenants and those who had come to eat at a canteen in the building.

It was said that a telecommunications mast recently mounted on the building’s rooftop contributed to the collapse.

Two bodies were initially recovered as of 11pm on: http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2017/07/8-bodies-recovered-from-collapsed-lagos.html

A four-storey building on Massey/ Carena Street off Campos bus stop on Lagos Island collapsed yesterday around 2pm.
The collapsed building killed two persons who were brought out after many hours of rescue operation and as well injured many.
General Manager of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) Adesina Tiamiyu confirmed the fatalities.
However, it was gathered that fifteen persons including five children, were rescued around 6.30 pm, while at least five persons were still trapped under the rubble.
According to the residents, it was structurally defective, adding that a telecommunication mast was erected on the building two weeks ago.
A source disclosed that a woman who sells Amala on the ground floor narrowly escaped but her workers and some of her customers are among those trapped.

It was gathered that the woman stepped out of the shop few minutes before it crashed.
Another woman identified as Iya Ibeji is said to be under the rubble with her four kids. Residents said two women who sold rice and yam are also under the rubble.
The crowd which gathered at the scene of the incident, however, prevented the: http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2017/07/breaking-news-building-collapse-in.html

An Ebonyi sate-based General overseer of King of Kings Deliverance Ministry, Prophet Emmanuel Chukwudi has made a strong prophecy that the ailing President Muhammadu Buhari will not return to Nigeria as the President and the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo will be sworn-in the President in his stead in the midst of fiery oppositions.
Prophet Chukwudi also revealed that come next election in 2019, the former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar will emerge as the President of Nigeria.
The Prophet stated this categorically while he was being conferred with a new title by his kinsmen.
Read here: http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2017/07/buhari-will-not-return-to-power-atiku.html

Following the on-going Constitutional amendment by the National Assembly, led by Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, former President, Goodluck Jonathan, is no longer eligible to contest in the 2019 Presidential election.
In the report by the Constitution Review Committee, the Lawmakers proposed that ”anyone who has been sworn is as President or Governor, to complete the term of the elected President or Governor, cannot do more than a single term.”
Based on this, Post-Nigeria recalled that Jonathan was sworn-in as President in May 2010, after the death of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.

After completing Yar’Adua’s tenure, Jonathan contested and won the Presidential election in 2011.
Based on the provisions of the amended Constitution, Jonathan has been disqualified to contest for President again.
The Committee worked on amending some sections of the 1999 Constitution.
Recall, that in: http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2017/07/breaking-tears-national-assembly-makes.html

Former Governor of Lagos State and Minister of Works, Housing and Power, Babatunde Fashola, has technically dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, by not voting in the last Saturday, Local Government elections, in Lagos State.
This came as the APC National Leader, Bola Tinubu, ​voted at his Polling Unit 047, on Sunday, at Adigun Street, Alausa, Ikeja, while Governor Ambode, voted at his polling unit in Epe.
The first Civilian Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande​, also voted, defying the ​rain.

However, it was gathered that Reporters and residents around Ward G3, Unit 002, State Senior Grammer School, Itolo, where Fashola normally ​casts his vote, waited endlessly for him to vote, but he did not show up, till voting and counting ended.
All effort to reach his Media Spokesman, Hakeem Bello, to react to Fashola’s refusal to vote, proved abortive.
Fashola, also was not visible ahead of the elections, to mobilise his Constituents to vote for the APC, as was the case when he served as Lagos State Governor.
The Minister, has further stayed away from Lagos politics, and official gatherings, since his tenure ended in 2015. http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2017/07/just-in-tinubu-in-total-shock-as.html

The Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, LASIEC, has officially released the breakdown of last Saturday’s Local Government election held in Lagos. See Details here: http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2017/07/a-review-of-lagos-lg-elections-results.html

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said that all his children are products of Nigerian Universities, urging public office holders, to endeavor to send their children to schools in the country.
Governor Fayose, who was at Covenant University, Ota, in Ogun State, to witness the graduation ceremony of one of his sons, Ayorogbayimika Fayose, told Journalists that there was no reason children of public office holders should study in Universities outside Nigeria, except in cases where courses interested in, were not offered in Nigerian niversities.
According to the Governor’s Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said: “We talk and do. Whatever we say is what we practice. Apart from the fact that none of the children attended schools abroad, I have never traveled out of the country for Medicare.
He added: “Even though views of people like us might not be popular among the powers that be, because we say the truth and act the truth, we won’t stop telling them what they do not like to hear and one of such is that the only way to improve the standard of education in the country is for children of holders of public office to experience what children of ordinary Nigerians are experiencing in schools in the country.

“During my first tenure as Governor, I took my son from a private school and enrolled him in SUBEB Model Primary School, in Ado Ekiti.
“Today again, I am here to witness the graduation of my son, and I make bold to say here that none of my children attended tertiary institution outside Nigeria.
“That should be the spirit, not a situation where someone is the Minister of education in Nigeria, and his children are schooling abroad. And by enforcing this too, we will be saving Nigeria a lot of foreign exchange being wasted on medical and academic tourism”, the Governor said.
While condemning what he described as the hypocrisy of some Nigerian leaders, especially those in the All Progressives Congress, APC, Fayose said: “Even children of President Muhammadu Buhari, that they told us lived a modest life, attended Universities abroad. Shouldn’t President Buhari have lived by example by: http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2017/07/breaking-massive-jubilation-as-fayose.html

Two ladies have been made a laughing stock online after a “before” picture of them grooving, about to go into a club was shared by them on social… and an aftermath photo which showed their drunk self wasted on the ground.

They both ended up in the toilet after an all night partying, puking all over.

Shayo they say is a basterd...See More Photos Below: http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2017/07/2-slay-queens-end-up-in-toilet-after.html

For committing a really grievous crime, five young men have been condemned to spend as many as 150 years behind bars.

The Ashaiman circuit court sitting in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, has sentenced five young men to a total of 150 years in jail with hard labour for robbery.
The convicts are Rashid Nurudin alias Torgbor, 20, a sprayer; Prince Tetteh Agormeda, 18, a commercial motorbike rider; Saviour Feda, 21, a conductor; Kelvin Baah,19, a commercial motorbike rider and Francis Kwasi,19, a bus conductor.
The five young men were slapped with 30 years’ imprisonment each by the court, presided over by Gabriel Mate-Teye, in connection with a robbery case which took place at Zenu in the Kpone-Katamansu District in 2016.
They were charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit crime and robbery. They pleaded not guilty to the charges but after almost a year-long trial, they were found guilty of the offences and sentenced to 30 years on each count, but all to run concurrently.
Briefing the media after the court verdict yesterday, the Ashaiman Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Fleance Senam Adikah, stated that: http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2017/07/read-why-these-young-men-have-been.html

Renowned Yoruba author, Adebayo Faleti, is dead, Punch Metro reports.
The poet, journalist, writer and actor died on 22nd July 2017 at the University College Hospital Ibadan.
He was aged 86.
Faleti was responsible for translating Nigeria’s National Anthem from English to Yoruba.
Before his death, the Oyo-born author received many awards, both locally and internationally, including the national honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger, the Festival of Arts award with: http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2017/07/renowned-nigerian-actor-and-author-is.html

Nollywood teen actress, Regina Daniels has bestowed a lovely throwback picture of herself to her social media fans. The 16 year old star shared a photo where she was younger and rocking a low haircut. In the photo probably captured on a movie set, the younger Regina Daniels is seen playing the role of a hawker. The young Regina was simply dressed in a grey long top with a tray of goodies balanced on her head. She shared this photo with another: http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2017/07/actress-regina-daniels-shares-epic.html