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IBADAN- Titilayo, wife of former
governor of Western State,
Brigadier General Oluwole Rotimi,
(rtd), was Monday abducted by
some unknown gunmen. Brigadier
Oluwole Rotimi was made Nigerian Ambassador to the
United States in 2007. According to information
gathered, the kidnappers
numbering four abducted her on
Monday evening when she was
about entering her company, AOK
Logistics Ltd. It was further gathered that the wife of the
ex-miltary leader was whisked
away in a green Nissan Primera
car. Confirming the incident, the Oyo
State Acting Police Public
Relations Officer, Mr. Ayodele
Lanade said” Titilayo was
kidnapped on Monday at about
6.30pm and I can tell you that our men are currently on the trail of
the criminals.” The incident which happened
within the jurisdiction of Egbeda
Police Station was transferred
to the state Criminal
Investigation Department at
Iyaganku, Ibadan. According to a source, the police
may be working on a possible
labour dispute lead going by the
way the woman was kidnapped
within the premises of her
company. Her driver was said to be helpless as her boss was
taken away from him. The PPRO said, “the incident was
different from other cases of
kidnapping in some parts of the
country because in this case, we
found out that there was a rift
between the woman and her workers because of wages and
there was a kind of agitation
from the aggrieved workers. The workers were said to have
earlier demanded for their
unpaid three months salary
which according to him, led to
the retrenchment of some of
them. “So, it seems there is a foul play in
this case. It is not in anyway
related to other kidnapping
cases,” he said. Christopher Oluwole Rotimi was
a Nigerian Army officer, diplomat
and politician. A distinguished
officer, he eventually rose to the
rank of Brigadier General. He served during the Biafran War
and was the Governor of
Western State while Nigeria was
under military rule from 1971 –
1975. Oluwole Rotimi then became the
Nigerian Ambassador to the
United States in 2007
He was born February 20, 1935 in
Abeokuta, Nigeria to a Yoruba
family. He attended Agooko Methodist School, Lisabi School,
Olowogbowo Methodist School
as well as Kings College Lagos.
After which he earned a Bachelor
of Arts Degree at the University
College Ibadan. Oluwole Joined the Nigerian Army
in 1960 and served as part of the
United Nations Peacekeeping
Force in the Democratic Republic
of the Congo. He rose to become
the first African Deputy Quartermaster General and the
third non-white Quartermaster
General of the Nigerian Army in
1966. During the Biafran War
Oluwole Rotimi provided logistics
support for the Federal Government’s war efforts. He
became the commander of the
Ibadan Garrison between 1969
and 1970. In 1975, Oluwole Rotimi was
removed from office as governor
of Western Nigeria after the
1975 coup d’état. The following administration led
by General Murtala Mohammed,
commissioned a panel to
investigate corruption amongst
the governors of past
administration. Oluwole Rotimi, together with Brigadier Mobolaji
Johnson, (Lagos State Governor)
were the only governors
exonerated under Obasanjo’s
military regime. In 1999 Gen. Oluwole Rotimi was
appointed by civilian President
Olusegun Obasanjo as the Head
of a Commission of Inquiry for
the Investigation of Federal
Government Landed Property. Oluwole Rotimi was honoured
with a National Award of
Commander of the Order of the
Niger (CON) in 2003. In 2005, he was appointed a
member of the National
Constitutional Review
Conference representing his
home state-Ogun State. He later
became the Ambassador to the United States of America in March
2008. He was however sacked
from the post in March 2009 by
late President, Umaru Yar’Adua
after allegations of
insubordination.
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/gen-rotimis-wife-titilayo-kidnapped-in-ibadan/

chuckdee4: Why are they all ladies
I suspect something fishy

No be only fishy na meaty.

ABUJA (AFP) – A top US general
visited Nigeria on Tuesday after
recently warning that
collaboration between Islamist
extremist groups in the region
posed risks Africa-wide as well as to Europe and the United
States. General Carter Ham, head of US
Africa Command, met President
Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria,
where Islamist extremist group
Boko Haram has been carrying
out a deadly insurgency in the country’s north and centre. Ham recently spoke of concerns
over indications of collaboration
between Boko Haram and an Al-
Qaeda affiliate in northern
Africa, which he warned has
found a safehaven in northern Mali, where Islamists have taken
control. A statement from Nigeria’s
presidency said Jonathan
discussed issues including Boko
Haram and asked for US support
in resolving such problems. “President Jonathan also briefed
General Ham on his visit to Mali
and the efforts by ECOWAS to
resolve the conflict in that
country, adding that the
situation could still be contained if the right steps are taken
quickly,” it said. Jonathan attended an October
summit in Bamako to discuss
winning back northern Mali from
the Islamists. ECOWAS, a 15-nation regional
bloc, says it wants to deploy
3,300 troops to reclaim northern
Mali and is waiting for approval
from the UN. Meanwhile, Malian Prime Minister
Cheick Modibo Diarra quit
Tuesday under pressure from
influential former putschists who
are opposed to a military
intervention. Ham recently told an audience in
Washington that he was
concerned about indications of
growing links between African
extremist groups that could pose
a threat across the continent as well as to Europe and the United
States. “We have seen clear indications
of collaboration amongst the
organisations,” he said. “In one instance … we believe and
have seen reports that Boko
Haram is receiving financial
support, probably training,
probably some explosives, from
Al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb, and in a
relationship that goes both
ways.” There has long been intense
scrutiny over whether Boko
Haram is forming operational
ties with other extremist groups. Diplomats have said previously
that there has been evidence of
Boko Haram members seeking
training in northern Mali, but not
of operational links. The US has declared three
Nigerian extremists “global
terrorists,” but has declined to
label Boko Haram as a whole a
terrorist group due to its
nebulous nature and domestic focus, among other factors. It is believed to include various
factions with differing aims, in
addition to imitators and
criminal gangs that carry out
violence under the guise of the
group. Nigeria is Africa’s most populous
nation and largest oil producer.
Its 160 million population is
roughly divided between a mainly
Muslim north and predominantly
Christian sout
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/us-general-in-nigeria-after-warning-over-african-islamists/

globalaid: this man should not be living in the midst of human being.

No mind the old man.

Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the
General Overseer, Redeem
Christian Church of God (RCCG)
on Tuesday said that God will
restore and rebuild Nigeria. Adeboye said this while delivering
his sermon at the 15th Holy
Ghost Congress at the
Redemption Camp on KM 46,
Lagos/Ibadan Expressway. The week long congress, which
began on Monday, had the theme:
“Signs and Wonders’’. According to him, God has plans
for Nigeria, pointing out that “sin
distorted God’s plan for the
nation. “God is not just a builder, but an
architect, He has good plans for
Nigeria, but somewhere along the
line, something tampered with
the plans. “Sin came in, the plan was
distorted, God being God in his
wisdom has decided to restore
and rebuild the nation,” he said. Adeboye said the original plan of
God for Nigeria was that the
people would multiply, be fruitful,
have dominion, prosper and be in
control. “Then signs and wonders will
follow’’, the cleric assured (NAN)
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/god-will-restore-rebuild-nigeria-says-pastor-adeboye/

Na Banks Go Suffer Pass!

Thank you governor
Okorocha for that
wonderful remark about
Igboman. What you said about
Igboman is 100% true. Igboman
is envied because of their special qualities given to them
by God. Many are intimidated
because of confident, and
intelligent looks of an igboman.
They are not only envied in
Nigeria but also around the world, because Igboman is
always successful in whatever
they put their minds into. I will
advise those that envy Igboman
to stop, because it is not their
fault for the special qualities given to them by God.

No mind the fool.

LAGOS — Governor Rochas
Okorocha of Imo State has
charged Igbos to assume
leadership roles, saying cries of
states not doing well could be
traceable to absence of leadership. This came as security operatives
attached to the governor
damaged the camera of
Vanguard’s photojournalist, Mr.
Biodun Ogunleye, while stopping
him from taking shots of the governor. Okorocha, who spoke at an
interactive meeting with the
Igbo community in Lagos, said
the challenge facing the country
was that of leadership. He said: “Today, states are
crying of not doing well because
of absence of leadership. There
is cry all over the nation because
of leadership problem. Seek ye
first leadership and every other thing in government will be
added unto you.” He pointed out that with the
right leadership, things will go
well for Nigeria, explaining that if
a football team was not doing
well, the coach needed to be
fired for a better coach to come in and help the team win its
matches. “So Ndigbo, we must rise to the
issue of leadership. Blessed are
the Igbos among generations of
Nigeria, rise up and take your
rightful place on the surface of
earth. I think it is high time we start a new song. “The old song of marginalization,
the most persecuted, the most
hated, should be an old song, let
us sing a new song,” the governor
added. In defining an Igboman,
Okorocha said that an they are
special creature from God, who
was not created the same time
others were created; but was
created particularly on a Sunday, when God was at rest.
God took his time to create an
Igboman. “Because of the envy of who an
Igboman is, when it comes to
relationship with creation, that
has attracted what we think is
hatred. It is not hatred but
simply because God has given you a position. And if you cease
to be an Igboman today, you will
no longer be hated,” he said. He called on Ndigbo to ensure
that flood and Boko Haram
victims were not left uncared
for, noting that anyone could
have been a victim. The governor used the
opportunity to raise money for
the affected flood and Boko
Haram victims. Meanwhile, a woman, (name
withheld) told the governor that
she was still paying school fee
for her son , a student of Imo
State University (IMSU), despite
the wide spread news that education was free in the state. Okorocha, in his reaction,
pointed out education in Imo
State and advised the woman to
stop giving his son school fees.
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/okorocha-tasks-igbo-on-leadership/

Banks have agreed to commence effective implementation of zero Automated Teller Machine (ATM) charges Monday, December 17, through out the country.

The agreement was sealed at the fourth annual Bankers’ committee meeting held in Calabar this week end. The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Chairman of the Bankers’ committee, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who confirmed this development said the CBN would monitor the effective implementation of the removal of bank charges associated with the use of other banks’ ATMs by customers, adding that the delay all along was to enable some banks to put their house in order as far as information technology is concern.

“We have agreed on a final date of Monday 17 December, 2012 for the kick-off, which every bank will take-off the charges. We allowed some time for banks that have not configured their IT to do so and stop charging and hopefully by 17th of December, you are not going to have any customer pay additional charges,” Sanusi said.

He also informed that the banking sect or lending to the agriculture sector has increased remarkably from 1.5 per cent of total industry portfolio to 3.5 per cent in 2012.

At the Bankers’ committee Retreat titled: “Towards Economic Development and Sustainable Transformation,” Sanusi said banks have outlined strategy to attain 7 per cent agric sector lending by next year and 10 per cent by 2017.

“With a vision for a better future for Nigerians, the Bankers’ Committee is committed to a lead role as catalyst for economic development, improving access to finance by the unbanked and under-banked population and growth of the real sector.


www.tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/component/k2/item/882-banks-commence-zero-atm-charges-dec-17

The board of directors of the Nigeria Security Printing and Minting Company (NSPMC) met yesterday over the scandal that rocked the establishment where it was revealed that a whopping N2.1 billion of newly printed N1,000 notes have mysteriously gone missing.

The board meeting, chaired by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, decided to expand the investigation and audit the production of other currency denominations to ascertain the quantity of money that has actually gone missing over the years.

LEADERSHIP had exclusively reported that an acting managing director, Ahmed Bamali, had been appointed to head the Mint company while Ehi Okomoyon, who was the chief executive, was asked to proceed on indefinite leave.

A source with insider knowledge of what transpired at the meeting told LEADERSHIP that the suspension of Okoyomon as managing director on an indefinite basis until all investigations have been concluded was reaffirmed.

The head of security at the NSPMC, Emmanuel Bala, has also been asked to go on compulsory leave by the board of directors of the company. The general manager, management services, Obi Igoban is expected to write him the letter of suspension today.

LEADERSHIP also gathered that the board faulted the suspended MD for failing to disclose to it that such amounts of money had gone missing even though the company had set up an internal investigation after a mint staff was arrested in Lagos for being in possession of unnumbered bank notes.

The board meeting, which reportedly started at about 10am, did not end until 3pm. Other than the initial audit report, the board also discussed routine and budgetary issues.

The CBN had to set up its own audit team, whose findings were put to the board yesterday, and a unanimous vote affirmed that Okoyomon should continue on indefinite suspension.

Part of the CBN audit team’s investigation is to unravel why the management of the Mint company has consistently refused to place Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) in its Abuja and Lagos factories, and why other security measures were deliberately set aside.

The audit team had, however, established that the theft of printed bank notes could be traced to security lapses and security personnel who take custody of newly printed bank notes, and when there were shortages, they were never reprimanded. The entire security department is said to be directly under the supervision of MD.

LEADERSHIP also learnt that this would be the second time that Okoyomon would be going on suspension as he suffered a similar experience in 2007 for three months when Charles Soludo, who had appointed him in the first place, was CBN governor.

After seven and a half years on the job, Okoyomon has been the longest serving MD of the NSPMC, with previous chief executives spending an average of five years in office.


www.247nigerianewsupdate.com/mint-scandal-n2-1-billion-worth-of-n1000-notes-missing/

I think i will buy him nice private jet

Happy 4 him.

Thirty-three students have been expelled by the Ebonyi State University, EBSU, Abakaliki, while 88 others were suspended over alleged misconduct, examination malpractice and admission racketeering.

The Registrar and Secretary of Senate, Mr. Egwu Sam, said in a statement that the Senate of the institution had at its 22nd emergency meeting, held on Thursday, August 23rd, 2012, decided to make public the offences of all the affected students.

He stated that the conduct of the expelled and suspended students is contrary to the rules and regulations governing the conduct of examinations and admission into the institution, stressing that those expelled from the university for grievous misconduct were not expected to be seen in the institution for any purpose.

“The suspended students for the stipulated period are to fail their examination and in addition should also stay away from the university for the period of the suspension and apply to the Registrar for re-admission when their suspension tenure elapses,” he said.

The Registrar further stated that the suspended students are to fail all the examination during the period of their suspension and would be required to register and retake all their courses. He warned the affected students to desist from show of irresponsibility as any other repeated act of gross misconduct would not be taken lightly.

www.informationnigeria.org/2012/12/33-students-expelled-88-suspended-in-ebonyi-state-university-over-exam-malpractices-other-misconducts.html

Iyanya Mbuk broke record on
the 6th of December when he hit
a 3million download for his hit
single Kukere....
www.sturvs.com/773004/iyanya-breaks-record-gets-3million-caller-tune-downloads/

The Football Association said its Independent Regulatory Commission had found Mikel guilty of the charges relating to an incident in the official's changing room. Chelsea had complained immediately after the controversial defeat about Clattenburg using "inappropriate language" to two of their players, one of whom was Nigerian Mikel. The FA launched an investigation into the allegations of racist language and Clattenburg was subsequently stood down from his refereeing duties before they decided that the official had no case to answer. Mikel's ban would have been longer, the FA said in a statement, had it not been for the player's genuine belief that he had been racially abused. "The breach of FA Rule E3 was in relation to an incident which occurred in the match official's changing room at the end of Chelsea's
fixture against Manchester United on 28 October 2012," the FA statement said. "The Regulatory Commission's independent chairman Christopher Quinlan QC emphasised that the Independent Regulatory Commission accepted, as did The FA, that at the time he threatened the referee the player genuinely believed that the referee had racially abused him. "But for that factor the suspension would have been significantly longer." In November the FA said the evidence for the accusation against Clattenburg had come from Mikel's Brazilian team-mate Ramires. In clearing Clattenburg, the FA said: "The details of the allegation were that following one or the other of the red cards issued during the second half of the game, Ramires heard Mark Clattenburg say to John Obi Mikel, "shut up you monkey". John Obi Mikel did not hear the alleged comment. "Ramires, whose first language is not English, explained that his instinctive reaction was to seek confirmation from John Obi Mikel as to what the referee had said. "John Obi Mikel, who was being spoken to by the referee, was much closer to the referee than Ramires and did not hear what it is suggested was said to him." FIFA referee Clattenburg has now returned to his duties and Chelsea last month issued a statement expressing regret over their handling of the allegations. Mikel will miss Premier League matches against Sunderland and Aston Villa as well as the League Cup tie against Leeds United but the ban will not affect his participation in the Club World Cup in Japan.
www.au.eurosport.com/football/premier-league/2011-2012/soccer-chelsea-s-mikel-banned-and-fined-over-referee-incident_sto3519088/story.shtml

lekkie073: who is dbanj?

My House Boy.

Award winning artist and self
acclaimed entertainer; D’banj has
promised fans a Christmas
holiday that would be rocked
with concerts and entertaining
stagemanship like never seen before even as his annual Koko
concert begins it’s count down. Fans had been skeptical of the
show taking place as it had been
a major headliner in the Mohits
era which tore irreparably
apart early this year.
D’banj came on social
networking site twitter to drop
the hint that the show would still
take place at the Expo Hall of the
Eko Hotel and Suites with G.O.O.D
Music label mates rappers Big Sean and Pusha T performing. Feelers coming from within
D’banj’s camp however, indicate
that Kanye West will not be
coming to the event.
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/dbanj-to-give-fans-a-christmas-to-remember/

KANO-Uneasy calm pervades the
ancient city of Kano following a
time bomb that exploded near
Zoo Road, Wednesday morning. The incident is coming on the
heels of a failed attempt by a
yet-to-be identified group to
blow up a luxury bus along Zaria
Road, by Kundila Housing Estate,
yesterday night. Security sources in the city
confirmed there were no
casualties in the two incidents,
adding that troops have been
deployed to the affected areas
to restore “confidence and normalcy”
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/breaking-news-explosion-rocks-kano-as-attempt-to-blow-luxury-bus-fails/

ABUJA — MINISTER of the Federal
Capital Territory Administration,
FCTA, Senator Bala Mohammed,
yesterday, told Senators that
the Park and Pay policy recently introduced in the nation’s capital
where owners of vehicles park
and pay was not backed by law. The FCT recently made it
mandatory for commuters who
use the roads especially in places
like in Garki, Wuse, Maitama,
Asokoro to pay N50 for 30
minutes, N100 for one hour and more depending on the hours one
must have parked his or her
vehicle. After a serious session,
yesterday, with the Senator
Smart Adeyemi, PDP, Kogi West-led
Senate Committee on the FCT to
defend the 2013 budget, the FCT
Minister, however, dared the lawmakers, boasting that no law
can stop him from demolishing 31
estates and Mpape in the FCT.
When asked if there was any law
backing the introduction of park
and pay policy in the FCT, the
minister said: “The parking
regime, we inherited it and we
saw that it is noble and we implemented it. We are treating it
administratively. “There is no institutional
structure at all. It is just a
responsibility of the road
department to make sure that all
these practices where the city is
converted into a car park. We have designated car parks here
and there, people park anyhow
such that the corridors are
impeded by people who do not
want to follow our transport
resolutions and that is why it was done by my predecessor and
I saw that it is a good thing. “Even the Okada, we don’t have a
law but we are treating it
administratively because
security is everybody’s business.
If we allow all these things to
happen, certainly we will end up in trouble and we just have to
take pre-emptive measures. I
have a law on demolishing. The law I said I don’t have is the
one the chairman asked on the
issue of parking. But for
demolition, I have the law and I
don’t even have to interfere with
Development Control Law under the Land Use Act.” The FCT Minister noted that
N50,000,000,000 budget ceiling
for the FCT by the Budget Office
of the Federation as 2013
National Priority budget will not
be enough to provide the needed infrastructure for the city. He
said 2012 budget based on
analysis, stands at 99 per cent,
adding that total payment made
up till date stands at N31.7 billion
while the balance of N496 million is under process. In the budget breakdown, the
FCT will next year build a
cultural centre and Millennium
Tower for N2 billion, just as
besides the N1 billion earmarked
for construction of Vice President Namadi Sambo’s
residence in Aso Drive, it will now
be completed for N2 billion. On demolition, Mohammed said: ‘’I
want to ,with all respect and
humility , tell the Chairman that
this is not true. Since I came, I am
not aware of any conversion
that we have done and we have the coordinator of Abuja
Metropolitan Management
Council. ‘’People are free to think anyhow
out of mischief and treachery
and they will be ringing issues to
the highest level of government
up to the Senate. I too, I have
had occasion to discuss to in the Senate that there are some of
this information that are not
true and as a Senate I will ask
you to investigate and find out. ‘’If there are hills being bulldozed
maybe they are part of the
development of the Master Plan
and it is not true that all hills are
not being developed. If you go to
some countries they are all on hills. So it is not every hill that
should be left out. Some hills are
meant to be removed and we
have some areas which we call
buffer zones and we have to
bulldoze some buildings. I must say with all humility at the
risk of sounding impudent that
there is some lot of practice of
impunity prevalent in our city
where people take it for
granted. ‘’Some of those estates that you
said we have not given notice, we
can give you evidence when you
come when right from the
foundation we have been telling
the developer ‘don’t do it. This place is designed. It is not your
own plot. You have not even
obtained Development Control
approval. Yet they will go ahead
and develop and you expect us
to leave them to practice that impunity thinking that will go
through the corrupt system and
get it regularize. ‘’Certainly we will not allow the
business of government to be
extricated by this type of
unwholesome attitude. And it is
with all humility that we do
demolition. It is not because we like it. It is not the moral issue but
the moral baggage is also on the
society to know that
government is just a service to
them and if they continue to
abuse it certainly we have to take the remedial measures in
terms of enforcement and we do
enforcement after persuasion. ‘’Not just going with the big
hammer to start killing the fly
but we normally give all the
information and in particular
cases of the expense we will give
you all the information that you require. We are in court. We don’t
want to pre-empt the outcome
of the court but certainly we will
not allow the huge investment
made by the federal government
for the last 35 years to the tune of N3 or N4trillion to be
destroyed by the wishful
interest of some few individuals
who are just using the media and
using some offices of
government to blackmail us. we are not doing it for ourselves, we
are doing it out of absolute
responsibility. ‘’Development control is just a
government office. We don’t have
power of enforcement. We use
the police sometimes we use the
military but people don’t listen
and like you said we will want more capacity to be built. In the
Mass Housing area, when it was
started, it was about four to
five district and we did not have
the capacity for oversight but
now we are really building with the support that we are getting
from you. You can see in our
statutory budget all this things
captured so that we can have
more in terms of enforcement.
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/50bn-wont-be-enough-for-infrastructure-fct-minister/