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Nice cross Emenike bungled it

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Like i said Cameroon captain sent off

Gooooooooaaaaaalllllllll. Efe Ambrose

The Cameroon captain will soon be carded

scribble:
So what
Couldn't he renovate and ask refund later


Instead of buying jet up and down and flying concubines around the world

With the problem he had with JEG and mama peace wake up. Even the road to mama peace village a federal road to the port and refinery was cancelled cause of their problem with amaechi

And they complain of been victimized by EFCC

Nigeria earned at least $11.8 billion as dividends from the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Company, and not $5.6 billion as claimed by former Nigerian governments led by the People’s Democratic Party, PREMIUM TIMES can confirm today.

The figure covers remittances due to have been paid to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, which holds 49 per cent shareholding in the NLNG, on behalf of Nigeria.

The remaining equities are held by Dutch firm, Shell, and its Italian counterpart, Eni/Agip.

After weeks of being rebuffed by different government agencies and the NLNG, over requests for the details of the remittances to Nigeria, PREMIUM TIMES arrived at the figure based on an analysis of payments to Agip, exclusively sourced by the paper.

The investigations showed that the Federal Government, through the NNPC, earned $11.8 billion (about N2.5 trillion) as dividends from NLNG between 2004 and 2014.

Pioneer Status

The NLNG operated for at least 10 years under a controversial tax freedom holiday, called the pioneer status, which was granted by the Nigerian government. The incentive is usually given pioneer investors in new sectors of the economy to encourage more investments. In the case of NLNG, it was to trigger investment in gas.

Even with the tax relief, the government and other shareholders drew dividends from NLNG during the period, but the Nigerian authorities refused to provide details of how much was paid from 2004, under the Olusegun Obasanjo administration.

Controversy over the money started in June when the Nigerian Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, NEITI, announced that it had uncovered that the NNPC failed to remit $11.6 billion paid by the NLNG.

NEITI urged President Muhammadu Buhari to recover the money.

In response, the NNPC spokesperson, Ohi Alegbe, said the matter had already been referred to the Inter-Ministerial Task Team (IMTT) for reconcilia­tion and resolution.

“At the last meeting of IMTT, it was resolved that the Minister of Petroleum, Chairman of NEITI, Execu­tive Secretary of NEITI and the Group Managing Direc­tor of NNPC should meet on the issue of NLNG dividends and report back to IMTT.

“Unfortunately, that meet­ing has not held. However, another meeting of IMTT is coming up next week and the issue will be taken up from there. NEITI, as a member of IMTT, is aware of the ongo­ing efforts to reconcile and resolve the issue of NLNG dividend remittance,” Mr. Alegbe said in a statement June 10.

He did not confirm or deny the amount in question.

By July, nearly a month later, the new federal government said it was disbursing $2.1 billion out of the NLNG funds to cash-strapped state governments to enable them clear backlogs of salaries owed workers.

The distribution was the first time in Nigeria’s history. It is the first time that funds from NLNG would be shared between the federal and state governments.

The ruling All Progressives Congress accused the previous PDP government of diverting past remittances, an allegation denied by the PDP.

APC spokesperson, Lai Mohammed, said over $4 billion of the NLNG money was outstanding.

In its response on July 12, the PDP said the party’s previous administrations –from Obasanjo to Goodluck Jonathan— deserved praise than rebuke for saving the LNG funds for the new government.

The party’s spokesperson, Olisa Metuh, said since NLNG had been on a “10-year tax haven” (he probably meant tax holiday) until 2014, “successive governments, right from President Olusegun Obasanjo never shared nor tampered with the cumulative dividends over the years”.

He said as of May 29, when Mr. Jonathan left office, the NLNG dividend stood at a cumulative $5.6billion and “not a single cent was ever taken from the funds”.

Denials

Repeated attempts by PREMIUM TIMES to confirm that figure were rebuffed by all the relevant government agencies.

The Corporate Communications manager of NLNG, Tony Okonedo, said releasing the details to PREMIUM TIMES would amount to a breach of confidentiality.

“Any details on the dividends we (NLNG) paid to government, the best place to go is NNPC that received it. For us, we are very clear on what we paid,” he said.

The NNPC told PREMIUM TIMES that the corporation did not have any information on dividend payments by NLNG.

“Your best bet for such information would be NLNG, which made the payment,” Mr. Alegbe said.

Neither the NLNG nor the NNPC was forthcoming with information on their annual report and financial statements.

The ministry of finance and office of the accountant general also refused to provide details.

Eni to the rescue

Regardless, PREMIUM TIMES sourced Eni’s financial filings, and confirmed that the company received billions of dollars as its due of dividend since 2004.

Eni owns 10.4 percent of NLNG, while Nigeria holds 49 percent stake.

A review of Eni’s consolidated financial statements showed that the company received €2.319 billion ($2.5 billion) as total dividends billion between 2004 and 2014.

Eni received €72 million in 2004; €33 million in 2005, €56 million in 2006; and €131 million in 2007.

The company also earned €453 million in 2008; €101 million in 2009; €188 million in 2010; €483 million in 2011; €331 million for 2012; €224 million in 2013, and €247 million in 2014.

At 49 per cent, Nigeria’s dividend climbed to $11.8 billion. That is about N2.5 trillion.

The figure tallies with the $11.6 billion reported in the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) 2009-2012 Audit Report. The little difference might be as a result of fluctuating exchange rate.

Still, there is a discrepancy as previous reports show that the NLNG had announced in 2014 that it paid a total $13 billion as dividend to the government.

The firm’s managing director, Babs Omotowa, stated this when the company celebrated its 3,000th LNG export cargo in Abuja, in March.

He said Nigeria now owned $14 billion of assets on Bonny Island; $13 billion in dividends, another $11 billion earned in feed gas sales revenue, over $10 billion expenditure in local economy on goods, services and salaries of thousands of staff employed.




http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/187929-investigation-nigeria-earned-11-8bn-from-lng-not-5-6bn-claimed-by-pdp-jonathan-govt.html

At least N11.55 trillion or $84.52 billion expected revenue into the coffers of the nation’s Excess Crude Account for the eight-year period from 2007 to 2014 are unaccounted for, according to findings by PREMIUM TIMES based on now available data from multiple government agencies not made public until now.

The ECA accounting has remained perhaps one of the most opaque public fund mechanisms in the country, puzzling even state governors who repeatedly challenged former Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for lack of transparency and accountability regarding the organization of the fund.

After a recent National Economic Council meeting in Abuja, a committee of state governors angrily lashed at Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala, accusing her office, as supervisors of the fund, of arbitrariness and probably illegality in the management of a fund meant for the three tiers of government but which the ministry of finance apparently ran as a sole federal government fund.

PREMIUM TIMES arrived at its computation based on differentials between expected accruals and actual withdrawals from the ECA honey pot.

Based on their reporting, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation [NNPC] and the Central Bank of Nigeria [CBN] claim that for the eight years in review, no fewer than N23.79 trillion was deposited into the ECA fund.

In its own accounting, the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee [FAAC] reported that for the same period, N10.58 trillion was withdrawn from the fund.

Although no where in the FAAC reporting was the N1.3 trillion ad-hoc domestic infrastructural investment and capital-intensive spending on the National Integrated Power Projects [NIPP] indicated, PREMIUM TIMES accommodated it in its analysis to arrive at the N11.55 trillion unaccounted ECA revenue.

Our estimate can even be said to be conservative given that we did not compute what could have accrued to the ECA from crude allocated to the NNPC for domestic refining, but which almost always ended up being sold abroad because of the bad shape of Nigeria’s four refineries.

It is instructive to note that for the first 41 months from January 2007 to May 2010, there was no single public record of transfers into the ECA by FAAC.

After the questionable 41-month silence on ECA reporting, the FAAC curiously resumed reporting in June 2010 till the end of the review period during which N7.16 trillion accrued to the national coffers.

It remains unknown if this unaccounted funds were stolen or mismanaged and if federal law enforcement authorities are currently reviewing the process.

The spokesperson for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Wilson Uwujaren, said he had no information about any ongoing investigation regarding the ECA.

But concerned by what appeared a lack of accountability in the management of the account, the National Economic Council [NEC] on June 29 raised a four-man committee to examine accruals into and withdrawals from the Federation Account and the Excess Crude Account from 2012 to May 2015.

Members of the committee are Governors Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Emmanuel Udom of Akwa Ibom, Ibrahim Dankwabo of Gombe and Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna.

The panel’s report is still being awaited.

Repeated suggestions by the new Muhammadu Buhari’s administration that public funds were poorly and corruptly managed in the recent past appear to necessitate a deliberate, serious and careful look into the management of public funds by past administrations.



http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/186780-investigation-at-least-%E2%82%A611-56-trillion-excess-crude-fund-unaccounted-for-in-8-years.html

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Post the vin number

At an executive committee meeting in Abuja on Thursday, Maigari was accused of "uncalled-for secrecy surrounding all financial dealings of the Federation and failure to call meeting of the Executive Committee for the past eight ( months, during which so many weighty decisions on Nigeria football had been taken by a small cabal within the Board".

Consequently, in a motion for impeachment moved by Shehu Adamu and seconded by Deji Tinubu, the Executive Committee passed a vote of no confidence on the NFF President, Alhaji Aminu Maigari.

A communique at the end of the meeting stated that "the Committee approved the immediate dismissal of Alhaji Aminu Maigari, from the NFF Executive Committee on grounds of financial misappropriation, misapplication and maladministration."

First Vice President Mike Okeke Umeh was appointed Acting President, to preside over the affairs of the Federation, pending the composition of the new NFF Executive Committee after the elections of Tuesday, 26th August, 2014.

The decision brings to a head weeks of crisis during which the NFF had a court order restraining it from acting, leading to Nigeria being suspended by FIFA


http://www.kickoffnigeria.com/news/47043/nff-president-aminu-maigari-has-been-impeached

swag queen: His sister keeps saying that if i leave,I'll be the one to lose.(which is true in a sense) but cuming from a divorcee whose husband battered until she ran for her life,i wonder what this world's turning into. She says many women want to be married to him and that as I'm the "lucky one",i should stay and still show him love. Till the day i die?

I'm pained,I'm crying,my heart is heavy but no one understands my pain. He's gone for a week now and my daughter keeps asking when daddy is coming back. I'm at my lowest ebb emotionally and all people can say is stay for the sake of the children.

I have no more self-esteem. He has abused,battered and violated me. He tells me things that make me feel I'm worth nothing. I'm tired!

You have lost your self esteem because u want to loose it. imagine this scenario something happens he beats you mistakenly get hit on the head and slumps. He settles police after some time gets another wife who beats your kids. Then you have lost.

Get out of the marriage no marriage is worth your life and dignity. Think of your children take them and run get a job make something of your life let the fighter in you come out. fight and make something of your life raise your kids. If he does not come for you get a divorce and move on. You are entitled to some happiness fight for it

any link to watch the match

My postpaid lines is blocked and i have paid my bills tried calling your customers care but did not get through

DEMOCRACY is readily associated with freedom: the freedom to be free in many respects and increasingly in Nigeria, many of our compatriots, particularly persons in positions of privilege and authority confuse this with the right to be disagreeable. The sober truth is that democracy is about rights and responsibilities, a democratic dispensation therefore cannot be a licence for disagreeable conduct as a norm; just as the possession of power in any form does not guarantee the right to be reckless or to ignore the etiquette required of office holders. Anyone in the corridors of power, either by chance or right, or appointment, is expected to behave decorously.

Dame Patience Jonathan, as she is now referred to, our President’s wife, failed the test this week in Okrika, Rivers State. It is trite knowledge that there is a critical difference between Yenagoa and Abuja, and a world of difference between being the wife of a Deputy Governor/Governor/Vice president and being the wife of Nigeria’s No 1 citizen. When people suddenly find themselves in such latter position, prepared or unprepared, anywhere in the world, they are taken through a crash programme in finishing and poise and made to realize that being the wife of an important man comes with serious responsibilities lest they sabotage the same person that they should be supporting.

If Dame Patience went through such re-orientation, the course was incomplete. This week, we got a feedback drawn from her visit to Rivers state to launch her NGO – the Women for Change Initiative, when she ended up in Okrika, her home town. This homecoming became an egoistic show-off as she openly contradicted the state Governor, offering him unsolicited lessons on how to develop the Okrika water front and school system, in addition to pointed comments on the use of the English language. The Governor had reportedly insisted that his administration must demolish some houses which adjoin the schools in Okrika in order to create a proper learning environment. Dame Patience disagreed.

She then gave an unsolicited lecture on the land tenure system telling the Governor: “I want you to get me clear. I am from here. I know the problems of my people so I know what I am talking…” The Governor tried to explain his administration’s policy and the larger public interest. The Dame reportedly cut him short: “But what I am telling you is that you always say you must demolish; that word must you use is not good. It is by pleading. You appeal to the owners of the compound because they will not go into exile. Land is a serious issue.” Wao! “that word must..is not good.” We must all commit that to memory as we re-learn Practical English according to Patience Jonathan!

If it is in the place of the President’s wife to teach a state Governor how to run his state, it is definitely not in her place to veto a state policy (the reason the governor used the word “must”), not even her husband has such powers. It seemed as if Dame Patience Jonathan was determined to impress her kith and kin. She told them she had directed the governor not to demolish their houses. Then, she left straight for the airport obviously having overstayed her welcome and having behaved like a bad guest. She was scheduled to visit the prisons to grant amnesty to some inmates (is that really her duty or something that should be in her itinerary? ); she was also meant to commission some projects. The face-off between her and the governor put paid to all that.

On the eve of her arrival, a group which calls itself “the Okrika Political Stakeholders Forum” and “the people of Kirikese” had actually placed an advert in the papers welcoming “our amiable daughter and sister…to Rivers state and your home town Okrika.” They also brought up the issue of “the land reclamation and shore protection project at Oba Ama, Okrika being undertaken by the Rivers state government.” (Daily Sun, August 23, 2010, p. 2). Either on the strength of this advertorial or private consultations, Dame Patience must have felt compelled to be a partisan stakeholder and intercessor. She needed to put Rotimi Amaechi, the state Governor in his place and that was what did. She recommended “pleading,” – that advice is actually meant for her. A state Governor is a duly elected official; and in a Federal system, he is not answerable to the President, and nowhere is the president granted the powers of a Headmaster over state governors. In Okrika, Dame Patience behaved so impatiently and spoke to Governor Amaechi as if he is on the staff of the Presidency. It may not be her fault though. Amaechi caused it all by bringing himself to such level by undertaking to debrief Dame Patience about his administration’s programmes and activities in the misguided hope of getting cheap political endorsement. He should have asked his wife to attend to her. On the issue of land, Dame Patience should be reminded that the Land Use Act, Section 1 thereof, says the state Governor holds the land in trust for the people. Land matters in the state are beyond the ken of the wife of the President!

The wife of the President of Nigeria, or a state Governor, or a local council chairman, is not a state official. The same applies to husbands if the gender is reversed. He or she is unknown to the constitution or the governance structure. Recent history has however made it a convention to have the spouses of persons in such positions under the guise of providing support, play some ceremonial roles. This has been routinely abused. Under the Jonathan presidency, Dame Patience Jonathan even got a special allocation in the original budget for the 2010 Golden jubilee anniversary whereas she has no official, financial reporting responsibilities! The international standard is that spouses in these circumstances must not only appear but be seen to be above board like Caesar’s wife. They must not misbehave like Marie Antoinette.

When Cherie Blair, wife of former British PM, Tony Blair started buying up houses, apartments and antique furniture, the public raised questions. It didn’t matter that she was a professional in her own right, a Queen’s Counsel with a traceable source of income. There were also questions about the scope of Hillary Clinton’s influence during her husband’s Presidency: Americans wanted to be sure that it was the man they elected that was in charge, not his wife. A couple of weeks ago, the American public was up in arms against Michelle Obama and her poll rating dropped drastically after a visit to Spain where she and her daughter reportedly stayed in a $7, 000 a night hotel.

Much earlier, Nancy Reagan was also the butt of public criticism, with people asking: who is she? And this is not a female thing. In Britain, Prince Phillip, the Queen’s husband, is constantly criticized for putting his foot in his mouth. He once said for example that “British women can’t cook.” He told a visiting Nigerian President, all dressed up in babariga (name withheld): “you look like you’re ready for bed.” During a state visit to China, he told British students: “if you stay much longer, you’all be slitty-eyed.” Prince Phillip’s supporters insist that he is honest, but the majority ask: how is the Queen coping with such a man who is perpetually saying something offensive? There may be persons who defend Dame Patience’s aggressive style, but some of us ask: how is the President coping?

Since Dr Jonathan assumed office, he and his wife have been practically on the road. The Dame has travelled from one state to the other, under the auspices of the Women for Change Initiative. In every state she tells the women to vote and “make sure your vote counts if you like my husband.” Is she now a partisan politician? The Jonathans must be told that Nigeria does not have a co-Presidency. We have only one president and his name is Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. And by the way, what does Dame Patience Jonathan do for a living? She obviously does not have to deal with the challenges of rotation and zoning in her home, unlike the three wives of the Adamawa Governor, Murtala Nyako for whom zoning and rotation have become topical subjects or the wives of South African President Jacob Zuma – that is why she can afford to be so meddlesome!

When she misbehaves as she did in Okrika, she creates the impression that her husband is not in control of his own home. First ladies are prominent figures but their conduct is an eternal subject of public interest. In Nigeria, there was Victoria Gowon, there was also Ajoke Muhammed: dignified and restrained. There was Maryam Babangida – she was influential but no one could accuse her of verbal recklessness; Mrs Abdusalami Abubakar was a court judge, totally self-effacing, No major social party was complete without Mrs Stella Obasanjo, yet she controlled her tongue. Mrs Turai Yar’Adua was described as the power behind the throne and she proved that during the period of her husband’s illness but she was carefully reticent. At the state level, there was Remi Tinubu in Lagos state and Onari Duke in Cross River state who have both conducted themselves responsibly in and out of office. The new First Lady likes to travel, party, and talk outside the script. People are beginning to learn to read her lips in order to understand her husband. Dame Patience must not push her Goodluck.

-This piece was written by Dr. Reuben Abati in The Guardian of Thursday, 27th Aug 2010




Source

http://saharareporters.com/article/dame-patience-our-president%E2%80%99s-darling-wife-opinion-reuben-abati-2010




And now he sings a different song

Not sure i believe this story that first picture is that of the student shot by police in ilorin not sure of the others

The best way is to talk to warn the child and if he continues smack him. By the time you have done this like twice or three times only the threat of a smacking will set him on the straight and narrow. We are beginning to take on take on the cultures of the White guys of not spanking. Look at what their children are turning to.
The major thing is don't smack any child in anger then you will overdo it

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Civil rights groups and political parties have berated the Federal Capital Territory Administration for budgeting N4bn for the construction of First Ladies’ Mission House in Abuja.

They said that the N4bn budget was a demonstration of the Goodluck Jonathan administration’s penchant for profligacy.

The N4bn proposal was contained in the FCT’s N253bn budget for the 2013 fiscal year currently before the National Assembly.

In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Emma Eneukwu, in Abuja, on Sunday, the All Nigeria Peoples Party described the budgetary provision as illegal, corrupt, and unpatriotic.

It said since the Federal Government had earlier declared the mission as a non- governmental organisation, it would be inappropriate for the same government to spend public funds on it.

The statement reads, “Our party believes that the matter is a non-issue as the budget for the complex is inherently illegal and should not waste the time of the distinguished senators in their work.

“The fact on ground is that the Federal Government has already declared that the African First Ladies Peace Mission is a non-governmental organisation and could not be funded with the taxpayers’ money.

The party added, “For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to remind Nigerians that in July 2012, the Presidency, while refuting reports that the Federal Government had purchased 200 new exotic cars for the African First Ladies Summit in Abuja, affirmed that AFLPM, which was holding its summit in Abuja, is an NGO and its activities are funded by stakeholders and members of the private sector who support and identify with its objectives.

“The statement by Dr Reuben Abati, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, stated inter alia, ‘in accordance with its modus operandi, the AFLPM set up several committees, including a finance committee to raise funds and sponsorship for the organisation of its Abuja summit.”

‘Therefore, our party finds it puzzling, absurd and incongruous that another project of the AFLPM could now be smuggled into the budget of the FCT, an undeniable burden to the already burdened citizens of our great nation.”

While declaring the provision of the budget as unpatriotic, the party called on the members of the Senate to reject the budget provision.

It said that there were several people-oriented projects begging for attention in Nigeria and wondered why the FCTA decided to fund the project to the detriment of Nigerians.

On its part, the Congress for Progressive Change described it as “outrageous imprudence.”

According to a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Rotimi Fashakin, the CPC declared that the budget in itself was a demonstration of the present administration’s profligacy.

The party said it had noted “the N253bn budget proposal by the FCT Minister, Mr Bala Muhammed, and for which the President had given his Executive approval.

“As expected with this regime, there are items in the 2013 budget that are not just absurd but utterly outrageous.

Among the bizarre lines embedded in the budget document are:

- N4bn for construction of First Lady’s mission building.

- N5bn for rehabilitation of commercial sex workers.

- N7bn for construction of two city gates.

- N150mn for renovation of vice-president’s guest houses in Asokoro.

“It is appalling to see budgetary allocation as much as N4bn for the office of the First Lady that is not recognised by the Nation’s constitution.”

The party added, “A cursory view of these budgetary items easily reveals that this PDP-led regime is never in short supply of nauseous financial recklessness and indescribable superfluity of indiscretion.

“At a time when many Nigerians have been rendered homeless by the anti-people stance of the PDP-led FCT administration, it is ludicrous to imagine that, rather than embarking on projects in alleviating the afflictions, this clueless regime has again shown its undisguised self-centeredness. Indeed, it beggars belief that a supposed democratic government can revel in such thoughtless insensitivity!

CPC said, “Recently, the N7bn allocation for the construction of a new home for the vice-president was mindlessly jerked up to N16bn. Despite the show of outrage by the Nigerian people – as evindinced by their elected representatives in the National Assembly- the same regime is demanding another humongous allocation for renovating the guess houses for the same Vice-president.

“It is unmistakably clear that, whilst the nation’s rulers demand selflessness and sacrifice from Nigerians, they do not show example in walking the talk in preachment on patriotism!

“As a party, we are convinced beyond doubt that this PDP-led administration is incapable of judicious appropriation of scarce resources. It is for this reason that we call on the National Assembly to investigate this dubious budgetary approval and ensure reversal of this reported infra-dig.”

Also speaking on the issue, Executive Director of the Civil Society Legislative and Advocacy Centre, Mallam Awual Musa-Rafsanjani; said the allocation was an insult to Nigerian taxpayers.

He explained that it was sad that at a time the administration was making plans to increase the tax burden on residents of the city, it was planning to waste such funds.


http://www.punchng.com/news/outrage-over-n4bn-allocation-for-first-ladies-house/

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Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Umar Manko, on Tuesday ordered a correspondent of The PUNCH, Kunle Falayi, out of the premises of the police command headquarters, Ikeja.

Manko said a story published on Tuesday titled, ‘Guard shot by policemen in critical condition’ was an attack on the integrity of the police.

“So, you are the one who wrote this rubbish? Were you there when the policemen shot the security guard? You people like to write rubbish,” he said.

The CP then asked his orderly to walk the journalist out of the premises, saying “make sure you follow him until he (Falayi) is out of this premises.”

The journalist was at the command headquarters to carry out his legitimate duty of reporting a press briefing to be addressed by Manko and the parade of some alleged criminals.

However, journalists from other media organisations were allowed to cover the event.

The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Operations, Mr. Tunde Shobulo, had earlier asked The PUNCH correspondent to identify himself before the event started.

PUNCH Metro had on Monday and Tuesday reported that a banker, Femi Badejo, and a security guard, Joshua Musa, were shot by policemen who had responded to a distress call to foil a robbery at the victims’ home in Ikota, Lagos on Saturday.

It was reported that when the policemen got to the house they opened fire indiscriminately on the residents, who were bemoaning their fate.

According to the residents, the policemen arrived about one hour after the robbers had left.

Badejo was hit five times, while Musa was shot twice. Both are currently receiving treatment in two different hospitals in the state.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, had said at the time, that the policemen met Musa already shot on the premises, but admitted Badejo was shot because the policemen thought he was one of the robbers.

“As the policemen were going to the house, an occupant of the house was communicating with them on the phone, saying the robbers were still on the premises. That is probably why they shot at the banker when they got to the house,” she said.

But the residents faulted her claim, saying they told the policemen many times that they were occupants of the house.

They said Badejo was shot after he had told the policemen that he was an occupant and a victim.



http://www.punchng.com/metro/power-drunk-lagos-cp-walks-out-punch-reporter/

meksroland: With all those money made in Lagos state, are we suppose to be celebrating?? How about Ejigbo and other places? The difference between Lagos and other states is just that Fashola receives too much press praise and being favoured by dem also. Amechi still remains the best gov cos u don't experience flood anywhere in PH now cos he constructed deep underground gutters. Fashola is working as far as press is concerned

Is this guy for real!!!! I live in PHC Try woji rd the whole RD is one Big Port Hole. The pot hole on Onne rd is a constant Hold up causer Market Jn turns into a swimming Pool once it rains Elelewon rd Is a lagoon I can go on and On and someone talks about a Gov who Thinks the only Job he has is that of the chairman of the Governors forum. And not that of a governor we lected him to do Abegi if someone is doing well talk am and dont try for cheap popularity

samwash: Barely three months after the reported birth of a baby with a mini-Quran in Mushin area of Lagos State, another oddity has occurred in Sagamu, Ogun State as a woman was said to have delivered a baby boy with an Islamic rosary, otherwise known as Tesbeu.

Investigation by Sunday Sun revealed that the boy was delivered on Tuesday at Rotoluwa Maternity Home along Aiyepe Road at about 11.45pm.

Mrs. Gbemisola Hamsat, a 35-year-old mother of five, was said to have been delivered of the baby and the rosary.

Expectedly, the strange delivery has turned their 2, Odujoko Street, off Prison Road, residence into a Mecca of sorts as people thronged the area to confirm the tale.

The Matron of the Maternity Home, Mrs. Sarah Olurotimi Oloyede, a traditional birth attendant, confirmed that she took the delivery of the somewhat strange child.

Oloyede’s words: “I heard a sound of something dropping into the bed pan before the placenta came out.

“It sounded as if it was an iron or something with weight that dropped on it and when I checked it closely, I saw a rosary covered with thick blood.”

Mrs Oloyede said that when she took the rosary by the ‘tail’ to examine it properly, all the clotted blood on it fell off, leaving the shinning rosary.

A Christian, Oloyede said that she immediately invited her husband and some Muslim clerics in the area to come and behold the strange birth by her Christian patient.

According to her, the shout of “Allahu Akbar” (God is Great) rented the air as hundreds of people trooped in to behold what happened.

According to her, the rosary was not around the neck of the boy when he was delivered by her mother.

She explained that the birth of the boy was miraculous and mysterious because a patient who was on the hospital bed for over four days and was unable to walk and eat, immediately got up and walked, demanding for food, which she ate on hearing the cry of the new baby.

Oloyede said the boy held on to the rosary and did not allow anyone to remove it from him despite the fact that he was yet to open his eyes.

The baby’s mother said she is a Christian while her husband is a Muslim and expressed surprise at the development.

Father of the baby, 45-year-old Mr. Idris Hamsat, said the wonderful delivery of his son helped to confirm his faith in Allah, adding: “Allah is indeed righteous and good.”

Chief Imam of Remoland, Alhaji Anofi Adeyemi Allinson, who doubles as the Ogun State President of League of Imams and Alphas, likened the wonder birth to the visit of Prophet Musa to Medina where Allah sent his light to herald his visit.

Allinson said: “Almighty Allah is sending us signals and message, which we must all understand.

“First, it was about a baby born with a miniature of the Holy Quran and now a baby boy with Tesbeu.”

The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) for Sagamu Area, Mr. Wale Lawal, was said to have led his officers and men to behold the mystery baby while prominent indigenes ofRemo town were said to have also visited the hospital.

In his reaction, the Chief Medical Director of Ogun State General Hospital, Ijebu Ode, Dr. Wellington Ogunsanya, said there was no biological link of the story with the normal conception and baby delivery by a woman.

According to Ogunsanya: “Such claim could only be possible with the help of a third party who might have implanted the rosary into the woman while she was unaware.”

He said that such claims might be due to some women who inserted Intra-Uterine Device (IUD) through their vaginas into the uterus, adding that this may not necessarily disturb the growth of the baby.

Dr. Ogunsanya noted that in such cases, it was possible for the baby, during delivery, to hold on to or bring such an object out of the woman.

The CMD said that the case of a boy and a rosary being born by a woman had no correlation medically.
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/oddity-in-ogun-woman-delivers-baby-with-rosary/

Apart from the fact that this story is from the sun the matron first said the rosary dropped into the pan then later she said it was held by the baby which one we go believe na??

The Senate of the University of Lagos on Wednesday shut down the 50-year-old institution for two weeks and asked the students to vacate the campus latest 11 o’clock in the morning.

The closure came on the second day of protest by the students who are against the renaming of the university after the winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, MKO Abiola, by President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday.

Notwithstanding the closure the students on Wednesday vowed not to leave the campus.

The Federal Government has, however, said the decision to rename the university established by an Act of parliament in April 1962 was done in the best interest of the country and that the protest was not a disapproval of the decision to rename UNILAG.

Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, told State House correspondents on Wednesday, “The decision has been made in very good faith by Mr. President and we have seen the reactions by a section of the students of University of Lagos. We have also seen the outpouring of encomiums by patriots and statesmen who really understand the reasons why the President honoured Abiola.

“It is our hope that reason will prevail and that the decision to honour one of our nation’s icons and heroes will be appreciated by all Nigerians, including our youths and students who are the future leaders of this country.”

But the Senate has faulted the decision of Jonathan, submitting that only an amendment to the Act establishing the University of Lagos can alter its name.

Leader of the Senate, Victor Ndoma-Egba, said the National Assembly has yet to receive any bill to that effect.

Ndoma-Egba said the University of Lagos was created by law and only an amendment to the law creating it by the National Assembly could change its name.

“To the best of my knowledge there is no such bill before the National Assembly,” he said.

The protesting students on Wednesday shut down activities at the Yaba and Victoria Island areas of Lagos, blocking the Third Mainland Bridge with a BRT bus they forcibly took over from its driver.

For over three hours, Lagosians who work on the Island were trapped in the traffic gridlock while the main gate of the institution was blocked by the protesting students.

A commuter who spoke with one of our correspondents said that he was in the heavy traffic for about two hours.

A banker who works on the Island, Mr. Dapo Awoyemi, said, “The traffic was so bad that I spent about two hours before I could get to my office. When I entered the traffic at Iyana Oworo, I thought it was a joke. It was later I discovered that the UNILAG students had blocked the road but since there was nothing I could do, I kept on moving and burning my fuel.

“Though I’m not a product of UNILAG, I don’t think that it is right to change the name of a 50 year-old university just like that.”

Dignitaries who visited the university to witness the special Senate Session organised by the university for its late vice-Chancellor, Prof. Tokunbo Sofoluwe, were forced to enter the institution through the second gate near the Mountain of Fire Church at Onike-Yaba.

As the protest was going on, the university Senate hurriedly met around 9am where the decision to close down the institution was reached.

After the brief meeting chaired by the acting VC, Prof. Rahman Bello, the university asked the students to vacate their halls of residence before 11am as all academic activities had been suspended for two weeks.

Bello after the meeting told the press that the decision to suspend academic activities for two weeks was to give peace a chance and to prevent the crisis from degenerating.

He said, “In view of the recent developments on our campuses, the Senate of the University has directed all academic activities be suspended forthwith for two weeks.

“Accordingly, all students are to vacate the halls of residence, latest by 11:00am today (Wednesday).”

But the students said they would not stop the protest until Jonathan reverse the decision.

Though they were dispersed from the Third Mainland Bridge, the students regrouped at Herbert Macaulay Way, where they continued with the protest around 11.30am.

They were chanting anti-Jonathan songs while some bore placards with the inscription “Jonathan is a liar, he must go,” “It’s only Jonathan that will attend MAUL varsity’ and “We hate Jonathan.”

They said that their next stage of the protest would be the Ikeja Airport, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company and the Central Bank of Nigeria.

One of them, Martin Awolo, said, “We are going to the airport tomorrow, then NNPC and CBN. We are going to protest at these places. Our plan is to visit all the top organisations in the state. There is no giving up until Jonathan reverses this provocative decision.”

Another student, Mr. Saheed Adebayo, said, “We are going on strike for a month. We don’t care about our studies. Jonathan must not go free. He can’t change the name of our university. The name UNILAG carries weight. We have no business with Abiola.”

A student who identified himself simply as Wale said that students at all the campuses of the university across the state would be mobilised to join them in a sympathy protest.

“We are marching to Idi-Araba, LUTH; we heard that students there are having lectures. No student is to have lecture. We must all join the strike,” he said.

However, some students used the opportunity to destroy and loot items at a filling station inside the UNILAG AP and Total filling station on Herbert Macaulay Way.

A salesman at the TOTAL filling station, who identified himself as Soji, said that the students took gallons of engine oil worth over N10, 000 and also fuelled their cars and bikes with petrol without paying a dime.

He said, “The students came in groups and grabbed me. They were shouting, telling me to fuel their cars and bikes. When I refused, they said they were going to beat me up.”

The students were also seen harassing a female sales girl when she refused to heed their demands. Aside from looting gallons of engine oil and fuelling their cars, the students took soft drinks and snacks from the stations without any payment.

The President also came under heavy criticisms during the special senate session as most of the speakers described him as an “insensitive” leader.

The President, Nigerian Academy of Science, Prof. Oye Ibidapo-Obe, and the Vice-Chancellor, Ekiti State University, Prof. P.O. Aina, as well as the Provost, College of Medicine, UNILAG, Prof. Oluwole Atoyebi, said the decision to rename UNILAG was not well-thought out.

“This is the most inappropriate time to make such a decision. It shows that the president is insensitive; this is a period of mourning. That decision to rename the university should not have been disclosed at this time. Education is not in the forefront. I’m sure President Jonathan did not make any consultation before going ahead with the decision to rename the university,” Ibidapo-Obe said.

Atoyebi said that the name change was a rumour.

“As far as I know, the President’s decision to rename the university is a rumour. I believe it’s just a thought on his mind. It’s a rumour or a proposition on his mind, because this university was set up by an Act of Parliament. So maybe he is proposing to send a bill or something. Until then, this university remains UNILAG,” he said.

Source
http://www.punchng.com/news/unilag-crisis-deepens-%E2%80%A2-varsity-shut-students-stay-put-%E2%80%A2-new-name-in-nations-interest-fg-%E2%80%A2-no-bill-to-change-name-before-us-senate/

All Akokites sign the petition.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/referendum-against-unilag-change.html

Would not mind been a mod tho i have not been active on Phones but i know my phones and am active on NL