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Olubunmi Oke, a female journalist working with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Akure, has been released by her abductors.

Mrs. Oke , a nursing mother, was kidnapped on Thursday by four gunmen after closing from work at Oba Ile area of Akure, the Ondo State capital.

She was said to have been whisked away shortly after she drove into her residence after closing from work.

Although, the abductors demanded ransom, it could not be ascertained at this time when any money was paid before the journalist was released.

Details of how she was freed by her captors will come in our subsequent reports.


http://premiumtimesng.com/news/126584-breaking-kidnapped-nta-reporter-regains-freedom.html

He was a great man!

There are indications that
mega oppposition party, All
Progressives Congress, is
considering a name change
should the African People's
Congress beat it to the APC
acronym.
Both political associations are
laying claim to the acronym in
their bid to be recognised as
political parties by the
Independent National Electoral
Commission.
SUNDAY PUNCH gathered that
APC may add the alphabet
"N" (which will stand for Nigeria)
to its version of APC, to
distinguish it from any other.
A prominent member of the
association said adding 'N' to
the acronym will solve the
controversy.
"We may just add 'N' to our
acronym if this matter drags on
for too long. We find it
diversionary."
However, National Publicity
Secretary of the Congress for
Progressive Change, Rotimi
Fashakin, said the name change
was speculative.
He said, "Whatever anyone tells
you about our merger now is
speculative and untrue. We have
said it over and again that the
acronym APC is our intellectual
property, whatever the PDP
and its agents in the system are
doing to frustrate our
registration will not succeed."
Also speaking on the issue,
National Publicity Secretary of
the Action Congress of Nigeria,
Mr. Lai Mohammed, said the All
Progressive Congress would
not change its name.
He said, "It is a big lie. We are
not changing our name. We are
sticking to our name."
Calls made to the mobile
telephone number of the
National Publicity Secretary of
the All Nigeria People's Party, Mr.
Emma Enekwu, did not go
through. He also did not
respond to a text message sent
to him.
When one of our
correspondents contacted the
Chief Press Secretary to the
National Chairman of INEC, Mr.
Kayode Idowu, he said, "No
comment."
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the
Independent National Electoral
Commission, Prof. Attahiru
Jega, said on Saturday that
the commission was neither
aware nor frustrating the
registration of the All
Progressives Congress.
Jega who spoke on the Hausa
programme, Hanu Dayawa, in
Kaduna which was monitored by
our correspondent on
Saturday , noted that the APC
officially notified the
commission of their intention to
merge into a political party
about six days ago.
The INEC boss also ruled out
the possibility of adopting the
electronic voting in the 2015
general elections, saying the
constitution was against the
use of the system.
Insisting that no political party
had notified the commission of
any merger plan ahead of the
2015 general elections, Jega
said, "The issue has generated
controversy in the past few
weeks. Firstly, the truth is that
no political party wrote to
notify us that it is planning to
merge with some other political
parties until the past five days
or so.
"It is not true that we were
notified. The issue became
serious when one group came
out to seek for registration
and I guess that was what
made them to write and notify
us. But that is not the issue. The
main issue is that there are
guidelines for registered
political parties who want to
merge to become a new party.
There are also guidelines for
individuals or groups who want
to form a political party for
registration.
"The guidelines for registering
new political pray are different
from that of registered
political parties who want to
merge. For registered political
parties who want to merge,
they must have agreed to
merge and each of the political
party in the merger must hold a
convention and agreed to
withdraw their registration as
a political party to become
part of the new party to be
form through the merger.
"After their conventions, they
are expected to write and
request INEC to withdraw their
former registration and say
they want to join a new party.
In spite of all the controversies,
none of these political parties
who want to merge has held
their convention.
"We only read in the
newspapers that they have the
intension of merging and
nobody wrote us until about
five or six days ago. If anybody
wants to register a political
party, you are expected to tell
INEC of your intention by saying
that you want to register a
party with so and so name and
you want to know the
procedure for doing so."
"People are just making noise
over the name which is in the
market while we have not even
gotten to that stage. While all
these noise were going on,
another group came up seeking
for registration with the same
name."
On the use of the electronic
voting system in the 2015
general election, Prof. Jega
noted that it was clear that
the Nigerian constitution has
prohibited the use of the
system, adding that the
commission would only use
technology to improve on the
registration of voters and
improve on the electoral
process.
http://www.punchng.com/news/all-progressives-congress-may-change-name/

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Sanctions are to help telecoms
operators in becoming more
productive, former NCC board
chairman Mr Oluwale Ige has said.
He said sanctions and fines in the
industry will help telecoms
operators to be more responsive
and pro-active in providing
service.
Ige who is a former Chairman of
the Nigerian Communications
Commission (NCC) Board, said in
Abuja that the essence of
sanctions was to put operators
on their toes in the area of
quality service delivery and also
to assure them that the
commission was watching closely
their activities.
Ige said the sanctions should not
be seen as punishment, but as a
tool to tackle low level of
productivity in the telecoms
industry. ``It depends on your
definition of sanctions. If you look
at sanctions as punishment, you
will sit up. Sanction is a stepping
stone for telecoms operators to
re-examine their operations. It is
not punishment, but something to
ginger them up to be pro-active
and to be more positive beyond
their environment,’’ he said.
Ige also pointed out that
telecoms operators do not
operate in isolation, and there
was the need for compliance
adding that the reason for
introducing Mobile Number
Portability (MNP) was to enhance
competition among telecoms
operators so as improve on the
quality of service.
``The MNP is a system which
enables a subscriber to move
from one network to another if
not satisfied with the quality of
service, without changing his or
her SIM number,” he said.
www.dailytimes.com.ng/article/“why-we-are-sanctioning-telecoms-operators”-ncc

A NEW wave of impeachment saga now sweeps through Imo State, following a new demand on the lawmakers to impeach Governor Rochas Okorocha.

Coordinator of Save Imo, Nze Ebubagu Ekenulo, Saturday submitted a letter to the House of Assembly asking the 27-member Assembly to commence impeachment process against the governor for gross abuse of office.

This follows Saturday’s inauguration, in Owerri, of a seven-man panel, recently set up to investigate allegations of “gross misconduct and bribery scandal” against the Imo State Deputy Governor, Mr. Jude Agbaso.

The inauguration, which was conducted by High Court Judge, Goddy Ahanihu, commenced at 10.30 am, and was concluded in about one hour.

But Ekenulo, who addressed journalists, at the weekend, said the move to instigate impeachment process against Okorocha was to save the state from cataclysm.

The letter titled, “Without Prejudice, Petition Against Governor Rochas Okorocha OON, A Call for His Immediate Impeachment for Abuse of Office, Diversion of Government Revenue and other offences”, and signed by Ekenulo, urged the House to commence the impeachment process without delay.

The letter, which was addressed to the Speaker of the Assembly, alleges that the governor has plunged the state into financial recklessness more than any other official of government.

The letter was supported by as sworn affidavit from the state High Court, dated March 20, 2013 to substantiate the allegations against the governor.

Ekenulo threatened to sue the Assembly if it failed to carry out the process, just as they did in the case of the deputy governor, Agbaso.

In the 13 –point allegations against the governor, the group accused Okorocha of “unlawful use and diversion of government revenue and funds to establish his private university at Ogboko, contrary to his oath of office; concealment of revenue from proceeds of the concession of Imo Concorde Hotel, Adapalm, Imo Transport Company, Imo General Hospitals and conversion of proceeds of same to personal use contrary to his oath of office as governor; and approval of 100 percent upfront payment for road contract to JPROS International Company, without proper evidence of work completion contrary to the public procurement laws.”

Other allegations include:

• “unlawful use of the proceeds of the Imo State bond by diversion to unapproved projects contrary to the Imo State bond law;

• unlawful use of the proceeds of the bond to the tune of over N13.3 billion without appropriation;

• approval of award of contract to JPROS International without advertisement and other contract processes contrary to the public procurement laws;

• Unauthorized and unlawful use of local government allocation to the tune of N63 billion;

• Unauthorized borrowing of N63 billion naira from a financial market, contrary to the Imo state appropriation law;

• Approval for purchase of furniture to the tune of N4 billion for Government House without proper appropriation contrary to the Imo State appropriation law;

• Approval and award of road contracts without design, advertisement and public bidding, without due process;

• Concealment of government revenue and unlawful use of same without appropriation contrary to the constitution and his oath of office;

• Conversion of government assets and properties — Imo deputy governor’s lodge and two-storey building at directors quarters, Orlu Road to Lamonde Hotel, a company in which he has interest — contrary to his oath of office.

“The governor is not above the law, neither is he untouchable for breach of the law and the constitution,” according to the letter.

Absence of the Chief Judge of the State, Benjamin Njemanze, for the inauguration of the panel to probe allegations against Deputy Governor Agbaso, however, raised concerns over the integrity of the event that took place at the main Conference Hall of the Secretariat of the Council of Traditional Rulers, Owerri.

All members of the panel were present. The panel members include Justice Godwin Chukwuemeka Ihekire (rtd), as Chairman; James Gozie Nze, a lawyer, and Egeonu Chijioke Mere, another lawyer.

Others members are Elder Humphrey Ajaelu, Vin Onyeka, Cecilia Chinyere Oladimeji, and Oparaku Nwarie.
www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=117148:pressure-on-lawmakers-to-remove-gov-okorocha&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

Two suicide bombers were on Saturday blown up by their own explosives at the Eastern bye-pass in Hotoro quarters in the ancient city of Kano.
The bombers, according to sources were pushing a truck loaded with primed explosives, disguising as water vendors.
On arrival at a check point mounted by the Joint Task Force (JTF), one of the officers, promptly stopped them but the vendors pretended not to have heard the directive.
It was gathered that their refusal allegedly prompted operatives of the JTF to open fire and in the process the explosives went off .
However, four Niger nationals are now being detained by the Police in Kano for their alleged involvement in Saturday’s terrorist act in some parts of the state capital, which claimed two lives and left nine Mobile Police officers injured. .

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/news-update/two-suicide-bombers-blown-up/

The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, on Monday
March arraigned Pastor David
Nnanso Eshiet, Pastor Samson
Okemona Ugbara, Pastor
Adesanmi Richard Aderoju and
Prince and Zion International
Services Limited before Justice
Adebisi Akinlade of the Lagos High
Court on a seven count charge
bordering on conspiracy to
obtain money under pretence;
issuance of dishonoured cheque
and forgery contrary to Section
1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and
Other Related Offences Act, No.
14, 2006.
They were alleged to have
obtained the sum of
$25,000(Twenty-Five Thousand
United States Dollars) from Angel
Estate Residents Development
Association, Ojo, Lagos as
processing fees for sourcing
foreign loan for them to
purchase an expanse of land at
Nkwelle Ezumaka Estate in
Anambra state.
According to the spokesman of
the commission and acting media
and publicity secretary, "one of
the charge reads: “ that you
Pastor David Nnanso Eshiet,
Pastor Samson Okemona Ugbara
and Pastor Adesanmi Richard
Aderoju and Prince and Zion
International Service Limited on
or about 27 October, 2011, at
Lagos, within the Ikeja Judiciary
Division with intent to defraud
obtained the sum of $25,000
(Twenty Five Thousand United
States of America Dollars) only
from Angel Estate Resident
Development Association of
D10/58 ASPAMDA Trade Fair
Complex, Ojo Lagos by falsely
representing that it is part
payment of the cost of
processing $100,000,000.00 (One
Hundred Million United States of
America Dollars) foreign loan you
had sourced for them for the
purchase of an expanse of land
at Nkwelle Ezumaka Estate, Oyi
Local Government, Area of
Anambra State, which
representation you knew to be
false”.
Another charge reads: "that you
Pastor David Nnanso Eshiet,
Pastor Samson Okemona Ugbara,
Pastor Adesanmi Richard Aderoju
and Prince and Zion International
Service Ltd on or about 28th
February, 2012, at Lagos, within
the Ikeja Judicial Division with
intent to defraud forged Nigeria
National Petroleum Corporation
sales contracts papers titled
“sales & purchase contract
agreement CIF Crude Oil with the
aim of facilitating your obtaining
money from the public".
Uwujaren added that, When the
charge was read to the
defendants, they pleaded not
guilty.
Prosecution counsel, Ben Ubi
asked for trial date and prayed
the court to remand the accused
persons in prison custody. But
counsel to the defendants, F.O
Udokporoh, however urged the
court to admit his clients to bail.
Justice Adebisi fixed March 27,
2013 for hearing of the bail
applications and May 22, 2013 for
trial. She ordered that the
accused persons be remanded in
Kirikiri maximum prison.
www.dailytimes.com.ng/article/efcc-arraigns-three-pastors-25000-scam

Peoples Democratic Party,PDP,
yesterday, rebuffed insinuations of a
fresh division in the ranks of its
governors, describing as grossly untrue
reports that two of its governors
walked out on the national chairman
during a stakeholders meeting in Port-
Harcourt, weekend.
The party’s claim came as the two
governors, Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta
State and Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State,
besides denying the reports, pledged
loyalty and commitment to the Bamanga
Tukur-led national executive of the
party. Amaechi specifically faulted
mischief makers for initiating the reports.
Ameachi, who refuted the allegation
while fielding questions from newsmen at
the end of the 2013 Founders’ Day
Lecture at the Nigerian Institute of
Advanced Legal Studies, NAILS, in Abuja
yesterday, said there was no truth that
he stormed out of the meeting alongside
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan.
Visibly angered by the accusation,
Ameachi said: “Didn’t you also read that I
didn’t walk away? That story was pure
mischief.
“What really happened was that my
colleague was leaving to travel back and
I had not had lunch. So I had to follow him
and somebody went and wrote that I
walked away. I didn’t walk away.”
Delta State Commissioner for
Information, Mr. Chike Ogeah, in a
statement denying the report of the
alleged walk-out said: “Governor
Uduaghan is a leader that has
distinguished himself in the exercise of
democratic principles and will never
engage in acts that do not bind or unite.”
PDP, in a statement by its National
Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh,
said the party held a successful
stakeholders meeting in Port-Harcourt
for members from the South-South zone
as it has held in three other zones.
Asserting that the meeting in Port-
Harcourt was devoid of rancour, he said:
“No governor walked out of the meeting.
Governor Uduaghan had an appointment
to keep and duly informed the National
Chairman who gave him permission to
leave.
“Governor Chibuike Amaechi just
escorted him and he also took permission
from the National Chairman. Nobody is
above the party and it is totally untrue
that they walked out. Our governors are
cultured and decent and, therefore,
cannot engage in unruly acts.
“The issue of hunger and Mr. Biggs was
actually a play of words by Governor
Uduaghan and Governor Akpabio, who
added humor to showcase the
leadership appreciation of sacrifices of
those who attended.”
Defending the N1 million donation made by
the Akwa Ibom governor to each state
chapter of the party at the meeting, PDP
said: “The cost of the venue and other
logistics were handled by the host
governor and Governor Akpabio showed
his commitment to party faithful by
assisting them with transport allowance
as well as assisting them with some
welfare.
“Politics all over the world is expensive
and any gesture towards
accommodating the sacrifices of the
ordinary PDP faithful is important.”
Mr. Ogeah, in his own reb*ttal of the
assertions of a walk-out by governors
Uduaghan and Rotimi Amaechi, said: “On
arrival in Port Harcourt, Dr. Uduaghan
had informed Alhaji Tukur of his desire to
return to Asaba same day.
“Given that Asaba Airport closes to
traffic by 5pm, the governor had sought
the permission of Tukur to leave
whenever it gets to the threshold of
arriving at the Airport ahead of its
closure.
“Tukur had graciously agreed to let
Governor Uduaghan leave to enable him
return to Asaba on time. When eventually
it was time to leave for the return flight
to Asaba, Uduaghan again notified the
chairman who wished him a safe flight.
Governor Amaechi, as the host governor,
had to see Uduaghan off.”
Meanwhile, Tukur yesterday urged
governors in the north-east zone to
ensure that all broken relationships
within the party are restored ahead of
the 2015 general election.
Speaking yesterday at the PDP North-
East stakeholders meeting in Bauchi,
Tukur said his decision to tour all the
zones of the party within the country
was to rebuild and address challenges
against the background of the threats
from opposition parties.
He said: “Our great party has got what
we call the triple “R” which means,
reconciliation without confrontation,
reformation without revenge and
rebuilding the party based on equity and
fairness and no imposition.
“Our party is respected because our
manifesto and constitution delivers the
dividends of democracy to the people.”
In separate remarks, governors Isa
Yuguda of Bauchi State and Ibrahim
Dankwambo of Gombe State urged PDP
members to embrace one another
irrespective of political differences,
saying under Tukur, PDP had opened its
door for members to express their
differences.
Others present at the meeting were the
Deputy Governor of Taraba State, Alhaji
Umaru Garba; Deputy Governor of
Adamawa State, Mr. Bala Nginare;
Senators Abdul Ningi, Babayo Gamawa,
Adamu Gumba. [Vanguard]
www.informationng.com/2013/03/pdp-defends-akpabios-n1m-gift-says-politics-all-over-the-world-is-expensive.html

LAGOS—Three pastors David
Eshiet, Samson Ugbara and
Adesanmi Aderoju, were
yesterday arraigned by the
Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, over
alleged N7.9 million fraud .
The defendants who were
arraigned before Justice
Olabisi Akinlade of an Ikeja
High Court, are facing a six-
count charge bordering on
conspiracy, obtaining money
by false pretences, forgery
and uttering.
The defendants were
charged by the anti-graft
agency alongside their
company, Prince and Zion
International Service Ltd.
The defendants pleaded not
guilty to the charges
proffered against them.
The trio were accused of
defrauding their victims of
the sum under the pretense
of helping them to secure
large sum of money as loan.
The EFCC counsel, Mr Ben Ubi
alleged that the defendants
had conspired among
themselves to fraudulently
obtain N4 million and 25,000 US
dollars (N3.9 million) from one
Angel Estate Residents
Development Association in
Amuwo-Odofin, Lagos.
Ubi alleged that the money
was obtained on October 27,
2011 under the pretext of
helping the complainants
source for a 100 million US
dollars loan facility.
He stated that the loan was
being sourced by the
association to finance some
community projects, adding
that the defendants had
obtained the money as
processing charges.
Ubi, however accused the
defendants of forging
various documents which
were used in facilitating the
fraud.
Adding that after collecting
the money, they failed to
secure the loan as promised
which led the complainants to
petition the EFCC.
Ubi said their alleged
offences contravened
Sections 1, sub-sections 1,2,3
and 8 of the Advanced Fee
Fraud and other Fraud
Related Offences Act, Laws
of the Federation of Nigeria.
He said it also contravened
Sections 363 and 364 of the
Criminal Laws of Lagos State
2011.
However the judge ordered
the defendants be remanded
in Kirikiri Maximum Security
Prisons pending the hearing
of their bail applications
fixed for March 27.
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/efcc-arraigns-3-pastors-over-n7-9m-fraud/

The Federal Government,
yesterday, lifted the
suspension imposed on Dana
Airlines last Saturday, after a
meeting among officials of
the airline, Nigerian Civil
Aviation Authority, NCAA, and
Aviation Ministry in Abuja.
Consequently, the airline will
resume flight operations
today, according to the
airline management last night.
Government, however,
insisted on grounding the
airline’s airplane that had a
snag last weekend that
necessitated the suspension.
Special Assistant to the
Minister of Aviation, Mr. Joe
Obi, confirmed to Vanguard
last night that after series of
deliberation on critical
safety issues involved in the
airline’s operations,
government lifted the
suspension imposed on the
airline
Obi said: “Officials of the
Federal Ministry of Aviation
and the Nigerian Civil Aviation
Authority, NCAA, met with the
management team from Dana
Airlines today (yesterday) in
Abuja and deliberated on
some safety issues in
connection with the
operations of the airline.
“At the end of the meeting,
the suspension of the
operations of the airline
which took effect last
Saturday was lifted. The
airline is to resume normal
operations immediately.
“However, the particular
aircraft which had a snag
over the weekend is to remain
grounded until after its air-
worthiness has been re-
certified by Boeing, the
manufacturer of the
aircraft.”
Dana Airlines also issued a
statement last night, saying
that following the lifting of
the suspension, it will
commence scheduled
operations today.
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/fg-lifts-suspension-on-dana-airlines/