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Being very resourceful is very important - marriage more better than few hours of wedding.

Rob Kardashian's ex Adrienne Bailon goes public with new man Israel Houghton... just a month after he split from wife of 20 years due to his infidelity.

Adrienne Bailon went public with her new romance during a sun-filled holiday in Tulum, Mexico this week.

The 32-year-old is dating Grammy-winning singer Israel Houghton, who announced he had divorced wife of more than 20 years Meleasa last month.

The 44-year-old stated that he and Meleasa had been separated for a long time before officially ending their marriage, and revealed that his infidelity five years ago was to blame for the split.


http://www.eonline.com/news/750810/adrienne-bailon-dating-israel-houghton-why-he-s-defending-their-relationship-1-month-after-his-divorce

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3505064/Rob-Kardashian-s-ex-Adrienne-Bailon-goes-public-new-man-Israel-Houghton-just-month-split-wife-20-years-infidelity.html

http://believetvnetwork.com/vpa-ministries/

Ex-wife's name is Pastor Patricia Omokudu




We should all be careful not to follow men, but make Jesus Christ the author and finisher of our faith.

Alex Omokudu has divorced his wife Patrica Omokudu to marry a Russian 25 years old girl. While the Church service was going on, Pastor Alex was busy getting married upstairs. Pastor Alex Omokudu has several times during the sermons talked about how he was a nobody and Patrica brought him to London. How he got his papers and how from nobody Patrica saw the greatness in him and married him and he became somebody.

"Before they ended the marriage there was an open fight between both during the service on the altar."

Apparently they divorced a couple of moths ago...

The link below showed Pastor Benny Hinn performing the wedding rites for Pastor Alex and his new wife:

https://www.facebook.com/jpdiamond1/videos/10207935904450850/?hc_location=ufi

You tube link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plPMBdlXgwA

http://vpachurch.org/

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki’s desperate bid to evade prosecution for false assets declarations and corruption has been met with a robust response. Saraki, a former governor of Kwara State, continues to push the claim that his prosecution is politically motivated, despite a welter of evidence. He similarly concocted other stories and engaged in legal manoeuvres to ensure the trial does not proceed.

On March 7, Saraki had filed a motion to restart the jurisdictional battle, asking once again that the Code of Conduct Tribunal decline jurisdiction validly affirmed by the Supreme Court in February. This has resulted in another shift in the date of the commencement of his trial till March 24th.

On March 18, when the trial was billed to open, Kanu Agabi, Saraki’s counsel, had ambushed the prosecution by requesting the tribunal to give room for the hearing of Saraki’s motion, arguing that it was in accordance with the law.

Agabi had also argued that that the Attorney-General of Federation and Minister of Justice lacks the powers to file charges before the Code of Conduct Tribunal and claimed that the failure of the Code of Conduct Bureau to confront him with discrepancies in his assets declaration forms makes the charges against the Senate President invalid

But a counter-affidavit, filed on 15 March by Peter Danladi, an operative of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), punched holes in the Senate President's claims and laid bare what he is struggling to conceal from the public.

Danladi’s counter-affidavit, exclusively obtained by SaharaReporters, identified depositions contained in paragraphs 5 to 34 of Saraki’s motion as false and made with the intention to mislead the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).

In the counter-affidavit, Danladi said Saraki, who was elected twice as governor of Kwara State filed four assets declaration forms. The law requires certain public officers to do so on the assumption of office and at the end of their tenure.

The first assets declaration by Saraki (Form CCB1), with ID 001440, was filed on September 16, 2003, following his assumption of office as Kwara State governor. The second (Form CCB1), with ID 000041, was filed on July 11, 2007, at the end of his first term as governor. The third, Form (CCB 1), with ID 000040, was also filed on July 11, 2007, on assumption of office for his second term as governor.

The fourth (ID000218), which marked the end of his second term as governor, was filed on 3 June 2011.

Danaldi added that he was informed by one Yahaya Bello, an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on 14 March 2016, that the EFCC was in possession of a slew of petitions alleging the existence of dinosaur-sized skeletons in Saraki’s closet. As governor, Saraki has engaged in a variety of corrupt practices, including money laundering and theft.

Danladi said EFCC operative told him, these revelations provoked investigations into the petitions by the Commission. The investigations yielded valuable information showing that Saraki on numerous occasions abused his office as well perpetrated corruption with impunity.

Specifically, Saraki, the EFCC discovered, obtained loans running into billions from commercial banks, particularly Guaranty Trust Bank, and used proceeds of such to acquire eye-popping landed properties in Lagos, Abuja and London while serving as governor of Kwara State.

Rather than use his legitimate income to repay the said loans, the EFCC discovered, Saraki took billions of naira in public funds and lodged same in several tranches and cash into his Guaranty Trust Bank account in GRA Ilorin, Kwara State. Saraki’s account officer, the EFCC said, told the commission that the he was given cash many times by Saraki in the Kwara State Government House for lodgement into the current Senate President’s account. Occasionally, disclosed the account officer, Saraki sent his aides from the Government House with cash to hand over for lodgement into his account.

On completion of its investigations, the EFCC submitted its report to its legal department and the Federal Ministry of Justice. With the gravity of what was perpetrated, particularly regarding properties acquired and the various huge amounts transferred into Saraki’s many overseas accounts while he was governor, the Federal Ministry of Justice was persuaded that the matter can be better investigated by the Code of Conduct Burea and prosecuted by the Code of Conduct Tribunal.

The Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) then sent the findings and evidence sourced through EFCC’s investigation of the misdemeanours as a complaint to the CCB, directing the bureau and EFCC to collaborate for effective investigation.

Danladi explained in his affidavit that collaboration is the norm among all the anti-graft agencies.

“That I know for a fact that there is a long-standing collaboration between the EFCC, ICPC and the Code of Conduct Bureau and that as 2006, the Presidential Committee headed by EFCC and comprising of other anti-corruption bodies in Nigeria, including the Code of Conduct Bureau, was set up with the responsibility to investigate cases of corruption involving public officials,” Danladi said in his affidavit

The CCB operative added that the various assets declaration forms submitted by Saraki were forwarded to the CCB, which has the responsibility of ascertaining the veracity of declarations made.

In the process of doing this, Danladi said, the CCB found a variety of financial misdeeds perpetrated by Saraki. For instance, the landed property listed by Saraki as No. 42 Gerrard Road, Ikoyi in Lagos, was visited by one Ikechi Iwuagwu, a Deputy Director with the CCB, who found it was still an empty land. The implication was that contrary to Saraki’s claim that he was earning a yearly income of N110m in rent on the property, there were no tenants as the property was a vacant piece of land.

Saraki was also found to have lied on the properties at 15A and 15B McDonald Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, which he listed as his in his 2003 assets declaration. CCB investigators found that the said properties were acquired in 2006, three years after Saraki had claimed to be their owner. The properties were acquired by Saraki in 2006 from the Implementation Committee of the Federal Government on Federal Government Landed Properties through his companies Tiny Tee Limited and Vitti Oil, paying N396, 150,000.

The CCB also discovered a whiff of a graft within graft in the above transaction. Saraki made an anticipatory declaration of the two properties, acquiring them in the name of the two companies because he could not buy two government properties in his own name.

Also, Saraki was discovered to have bought properties listed as 17, 17A and 17B from the Implementation Committee of the Federal Government on Federal Government Landed Properties, paying a total of N497,200,000. This was despite his monthly income, as shown by a scrutiny of his account with Intercontinental Bank (now Access Bank), could not have yielded the amounts he spent on properties. His account (No. 0100857813) showed that he earned N500,000 monthly. Public officials, by law, are barred from engaging in trading.

Saraki, despite earning the said amount monthly and barred by law from trading, also bought Plot 2A Glover Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, from the Central Bank of Nigeria, which is a Federal Government agency, through his company, Carlisle Properties. He paid the sum of N325m between 2007 and 2008 while he was governor.

The said property, however, was not declared in his asset declaration form, dated 3 June 2011, which he submitted to the CCB. Similarly, Saraki failed to list the property at No.3 Targus Street (otherwise known as Cadastral Zone A06), Abuja, in his declaration of assets dated 16 September 2003, shortly after being sworn-in for his first term as governor. Saraki claimed to have to have bought the property in November 1995 from one David Baba Akawu.

In the same vein, his declaration of assets document of June 3, 2011-at the end of his second term as governor-was silent on his ownership of 3 Targus Street (otherwise known as 2481 Cadastral Zone A06), Abuja. This he claimed to have bought off one Alhaji Attahiru Adamu.

Saraki’s first asset declaration document as governor in 2003, Danladi’s affidavit showed, did not include the fact of his leasehold interest in No 42 Remi Fani-Kayode Street, which he acquired in 1996 via his company, Skyview Properties from First Finance Trust Limited on 12 December 1996.

Saraki, through Carlisle Properties, also bought Plot 37A Glover Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, while he was governor.

During the same period, Saraki operated a domiciliary account with Guaranty Trust Bank ( account number 441441953210, from which he made cash transfers totalling $3.4million between 2009 and 2012 to American Express Service Europe Limited with account number 7030580 domiciled with American Express Bank, New York. Various sums were then transferred from this to the card account (No. 374588216836009) that Saraki maintained outside Nigeria.

The Senate President’s misdeeds while he was governor also included obtaining a N375 m loan from Guaranty Trust Bank in February 2010 and converting to 1, 516, 194.3 GBP, which he instructed the bank to transfer to the United Kingdom in favour of Fortis Bank SA/NV that Saraki claimed was the full payment for the mortgage on a property he purchased in London.

Danladi, in his affidavit, said the assets declaration forms submitted by Saraki and information supplied by him were sworn to at the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin and on being discovered to be false, given that they were made under oath, would make Saraki criminally liable.

Saraki had claimed in his motion, filed on 7 March, that the gaps in the assets declaration forms submitted between 2003 and 2011, which forms the basis of the charges against him were mere inconsistencies, irregularities and discrepancies. But Danladi, relying on the investigation by anti-graft agencies, contends that they were made to conceal corruption and theft of public funds.

Saraki had also claimed that he was given a clean bill of health by the CCB, a claim Danladi described as false. He also dismissed Saraki’s claim that his prosecution was politically-motivated, saying charges were not filed in bad faith before the CCT but because investigations came up with strong prima facie case against Saraki.

Danladi also challenged paragraph 30 of Saraki’s motion. “That contrary to paragraph 30 of the Affidavit in Support, the Code of Conduct Bureau, upon receipt of complaints from Attorney-General’s Office and preliminary investigations made by the EFCC, the Bureau investigated the assets declaration forms submitted by the defendant/applicant between 2003 and 2011 and the facts contained in the declarations are quite fresh in the minds of the investigators and the defendant,” said Danladi.

The CCB operative added that he was told by Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), counsel to the EFCC, that Saraki's motion amounted to an abuse of court process. Jacobs, who urged the CCT to dismiss Saraki's motion, Danladi said told him that the Senate President had, in a similar motion, argued up to the Supreme Court, contended that the charges were incompetent for being filed at a time the Office of the Attorney-General was vacant. But the Supreme Court ruled that the charges and the jurisdiction of the tribunal were valid.

http://saharareporters.com/2016/03/21/no-hiding-place-saraki-code-conduct-bureau-exposes-his-new-lies

A church in London has been fined almost £8,000 after a series of noisy 3am sermons aimed at battling 'witchcraft' woke up its neighbours.

Kingdom Church in Camberwell holds weekly 'healing and miracle' services aimed at training parishioners to be 'wise to the wiles of the devil' in the early hours of the morning.

But the preaching which goes on during the events has brought complaints from neighbours and a £7,740 'anti-social behaviour' fine.

The church was set up in London by a Bishop Climate Irungu, who claims God delivered him from a life of 'alcohol and drug addiction, street fights and gang life'.

As well as meetings on Fridays and Sundays, it holds early Saturday morning 'deliverance services' to help its congregation 'identify demonic attacks'.

Its website states: 'It is a well-known time that witchcraft and negative elements begin to work in the early hours of the morning.

'Programming yourself to be alert and in prayer at this time sets you on the path to being alert and wise to the wiles of the devil'.

'While the witches are busy working their witchcraft you are getting the wisdom of God concerning their demonic operations.'

A video of the service on the church's website and YouTube claims to show a woman being healed of a 'demonic rash'.

But after anger among residents of the street over noise, Southwark council took church leaders to court.

The church was fined £7,740 fine at Camberwell Green Magistrates last month, after it was found guilty of two charges under Section 80 of the Environmental Protection Act 1980.

Southwark councillor Michael Situ said: 'We would have preferred to settle this matter out of court, but unfortunately our attempts to work with the church leaders were ignored.

'We hope the penalty helps to remind both the leaders, and the wider community, anti-social behaviour of any kind will not be tolerated and wrongdoers will be made to pay one way or another.'

Bishop Climate insists the church was there before the residents and it has made every effort to cut the noise.

He told Southwark News: 'It is a big fine and we will be appealing against it. I do not deny that we made some noise – we did. But we have spent nearly ten thousand pounds reducing the noise. And I was out of the country so could not go to court.

'We are based is an industrial area. But there are new flats and they complain. The flats were meant to be offices but they became houses. People could hear it, especially in summer when they open their windows.'


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3498921/Church-holds-3am-anti-witchcraft-services-fined-noise.html

http://www.bishopclimate.org/

Majority of our politicians use public funds to pay off personal loans...they are all the same...so sad...

Reason why politics is a do-or-die affair in Nigeria.

From Liverpool to Arsenal...the sky is her limit.

Well done to her for all the hard work.

Wishing her all the best.

As Spanish politicians gear up for what could be weeks of political wrangling, the unprecedented election result has ushered in another first for the country, with Podemos’ Rita Bosaho becoming the first black person to win a seat in Spain’s parliament.

“It’s about time, isn’t it?,” Bosaho told El País. In Spain immigrants make up about 15% of the population but represent less than 1% of the country’s lawmakers.

Born in Equatorial Guinea, 50-year-old Bosaho moved to Spain more than three decades ago, working as a nurse before she made the jump to politics. Motivated by what she calls an “obsession” for human rights and worried about what kind of world she was leaving behind for her child, she decided to add her name to the list of Podemos candidates in the coastal city of Alicante. “It’s a window that’s open to the future,” she said of her party.

Compared with the rest of Europe, Spain is a relatively homogenous society. It has traditionally sent emigrants abroad, rather than receiving them, especially in the 1970s, when Bosaho was growing up. She is now 50.

She says she credits her foster parents with teaching her the values of equality and justice. She became a hospital nurse and volunteered with disadvantaged populations of Roma and other minorities in the rough northern barrios of Alicante, on Spain's Mediterranean coast.

In 2008, the Socialists made headlines around the world when José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the then prime minister, announced he would have a cabinet made up of more women than men. The nine women appointed to the 17-member cabinet included Carme Chacón, who was seven months pregnant when she was named the country’s first-ever female minister of defence.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/21/podemos-rita-bosaho-becomes-spains-first-female-black-mp

Translated from the description box of the video
On the 12th of September 2015 the initiation into priesthood took place for Father Iyke Romanus Ugwu in the Cathedral Basilica. We welcome him in our Diocese. It was a stately initiation ceremony.

It is a very long video...So fast forward to 01:33:35, .. who will see the traditional Igbo part of the ceremony... then jump to 02:16:00 to see the Father Iyke's sermon.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYRmY5TUI4Q

Indeed Nigerians are everywhere.


For those of us who don't know where Suriname is, the country is a former Dutch Colony in the South America continent, sharing borders with Brazil, Guyana and French Guiana. Famous people from Suriname are Edgar Davies and Clarence Seedorf, prolific footballers for the Dutch National team.

I also think that both the legislative & judiciary arm of government are seriously toying with the patience of Nigerians. Till date no single trial of corruption have been completed.

Revolution is the answer.

aniblue:
The Clash of Titans

when Saraki shift the date of Budget approval, the court also shift the day of trial. What a funny game.

If saraki is innocent as he claim to be, why not conclude his case? And if by any chance he is guilty, pronounce judgement and lets move on with the budget. Enough of this drama

God Bless Nigeria.

If the above statement is true, then it seems 'order from above'...similar senario played out during the confirmation of the ministerial list by the Senate last year. Where the CCT keeps adjourning the case over several weeks.

With this latest ruling, Saraki's case is as good as dead.

The case will continue to be adjourned indefinetely until 2019.

So much for our judiciary in Nigeria, they need to be purge & sanitize, they are not helping to fight the issue of corruption in Nigeria.

PM News: Discharge Saraki Like You Discharge Tinubu

Chief Kanu Agabi, Lead lawyer for Senate President, Bukola Saraki demands his client’s discharge and acquittal by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, the way it was done for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, five years ago.

Agabi told the CCT panel that the Code of Conduct Bureau case was flawed as Saraki was not invited, when it had an issue over his asset declaration.

Agabi said his team is not raising any of the issue that has been determined by the Supreme Court.

He said the issue being raised in the fresh application is that failure of the CCB to act 13 years after the defendant filed his forms is fatal to its case.

”If for any reason, the defendant has committed any offence he should be informed. The defendant has not been given any opportunity to defend himself against the charges. The AGF has no jurisdiction to prefer the charges and therefore the Tribunal has no jurisdiction to hear it.

“Under our constitution, the moment a man comes under justifiable suspicion, he must be informed promptly of the reasons for the suspicion”, said Agabi.

He said failure to inform Saraki was against the principle of fair trial. He said failure of duty on the part of the CCB for 13 years operates to the peril of the Bureau.

He said there is no document to indicate that any member of public has complained or that the CCB has conducted any research to implicate the the defendant.

He however agreed that there are aspects of the charges against Saraki that can be prosecuted elsewhere.

“The result of the investigation by Bureau is expected to be presented to Your Lordship, where is it?” Where is the reference? We don’t have it, you can struck it out and let them start afresh.

“He has not been invited, he should be invited like Tinubu. He is the Senate President of this country. He has not been invited, it is not discriminatory. My Lord, the reason you said you allow Tinubu to go home was that ten other governors were invited, but he was not invited, the defendant is a former governor. ”

He then asked the Chairman of the Tribunal to strike out the charges.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2016/03/18/discharge-saraki-like-you-did-tinubu-agabi-tells-cct/

I like the preparation process...very easy to follow.

What is Amaechi a federal minister doing with a regional election that doesn't concern him?

Senate President Bukola Saraki, won the first part of his battle to stop his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, by letting tribunal hear his motion over jurisdiction.

Government lawyer, Rotimi Jacobs told the Tribunal he has been served with defendants motion dated 4 March, 2015.

But he argued that going by sections 220, 221 and 396 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, the motion cannot be moved before beginning of hearing of the substantive case.

“The only thing the court can do now is to proceed to trial. I want Your Lordship to determine the issue now,” Jacobs said. He further explained that the of ACJA stipulated that technical objections cannot be raised during trial.

He added section 396 (2) said after a plea has been taken, the defendant can raise any objection which can only be considered alongside the substantive trial.

According to him, the defendant is challenging the validity of the charges by saying the Attorney General did not have power to filed charges against him or that he was not informed before the charges were filed against him.

Jacobs urged the Tribunal to enforce the ACJA to ensure that justice is done according to the law. Jacob said the court should allow the prosecution to call his witness.

Kanu Agabi, for Saraki said the defence is happy to be in court and the opportunity to defend him.

He argued that motion is part of administration of justice and the Tribunal should hear it.

He reminded the Tribunal Chairman that he ruled last Friday that the motion would be argued today.

The defence counsel said the motion is challenging the juridisction of the tribunal to hear the case.

Justice Umar however ruled that he is ready to hear the motion as anything done by the Tribunal without determination of the issue of juridisction will be nullity.

Agabi is about to move the motion now.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2016/03/18/cct-trial-saraki-wins-first-battle/

Ricky Tarfa, the lawyer did the same stunt few weeks ago with scores of lawyers, where is his case now...still in court with more incriminating revelations.

Saraki should learn to be humble, whatever happens after this episode, his political career has been greatly affected.

From 30, senators with Saraki at CCT shrink to 18.

Senate President Bukola Saraki has arrived at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) where his trial for alleged false declaration of assets continues.

He arrived at 9:55am in company of at least 18 senators.

The number of senators who accompanied him on Friday was less than the 30 who accompanied him to the tribunal last week.

Saraki wore a flowing milk-coloured “Agbada”, and sat gently in the second row of benches reserved for senators.

Some of the senators present are Abdullahi Sabi, senate spokesman; Sam Anyanwu, Stella Oduah, Ben Murray-Bruce, Tayo Alasoadura and Andy Uba.

This is the fifth time the senate president will appear at the CCT.

The first time was on September 22, 2015 after the tribunal had issued a bench warrant for his arrest. He was accompanied to the tribunal by at least 50 senators on that day.

On the same day, he was docked, but he pleaded not guilty to 13 counts of false declaration of assets brought against him by the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB).

The second time was on October 21, 2015 when he was accompanied by at least 81 senators to the tribunal.

And the third time was on November 5, 2015, when his lawyers, Joseph Daodu and Mahmud Magaji, withdrew from the case in protest of the decision of the tribunal to continue the matter despite an appeal against the constitution and jurisdiction of the tribunal at the supreme court.

The senate president had gone the whole hog to challenge his trial at the CCT, but he failed at every turn.

On February 5, the apex court dismissed the appeal to stop his trial paving the way for the continuation of the case at the CCT.

The CCT had earlier fixed March 10 for trial, but it shifted to March 11 at the instance of Kanu Agabi (SAN) Saraki’s new lawyer. On March 11, Saraki’s lawyer filed an application challenging the jurisdiction of the tribunal. The application will be heard on Friday.

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https://www.thecable.ng/from-30-senators-with-saraki-at-cct-shrink-to-18

The question that comes to mind is why can't Pastor Oyaks and the members of CE used the power of the spoken Word to stop the divorcement?

At least the power of the spoken Word has taught in the ROR is that it is powerful to shape our intellect and spiritual lives.

They have to be arrested quickly before this becomes a serious issue.

Very funny indeed...it's all marketing gimmick!!!

Two things here,
1. If this legislator felt his human rights have been abused, he would have gone to the courts. But since last week, nothing of such has been done, which shows there's more that meets the eye.
2. Most of our politicians are plain cowards, they make silly excuses when faced with serious allegations.

The legislator looks well in my opinion.

With all the great leaders from the SouthEast, does this mean none of them are qualified to be chairmanship of PDP.

Looking forward to 2019, if people from SouthEast will vote for PDP with a Nothern presidential candidate, the best they can settle for is VP.

So, there's a possibility that there won't be an Igbo president until 2027 at the earliest...chai.

They should have used all their resources to develop APGA.

This is the NA we all know about....not the one doing 'running man' from BH 2 years ago.

Why can't grazing of cattles around the country be stopped immediately, why wait for 24months?

The Senators have backward mentality...they are enemies of progress.

A very good investigative journalism by Saharareporters.
Hope some people will not say that Saharareporters is APC media department.

Nepotism of the highest order...this has been happening for a long time...children of the high & mighty in Nigeria getting employed in jobs they didn't apply for. They get employed because of their foreign education.

This doesn't only happen in CBN, what about NNPC, majority of the federal ministeries etc

She deserves her new post if it's on merit.

Beautiful couple!!!

Beans & yam porridge (asaro elepo) with pepper soup.