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richidinho:
How can u declare sombody wanted and the person is moving around from one radio and tv house to the other and you never arrest him.

Political EFCC

Buhari govt is a joke

A former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has filed a lawsuit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission asking for damages of N10bn for alleged defamation by declaring him wanted.

Omisore, who instituted the case before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja is also seeking an order restraining the EFCC from further publishing any libelous publication against him.

According to a statement of claim made available to our correspondent in Osogbo on Saturday by an ally of Omisore, Mr. Diran Odeyemi, who is also the spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State, the plaintiff joined the spokesperson for the EFCC, Wilson Uwajaren as the second defendant.

He claimed that the defendants damaged his good reputation by allegedly concocting falsehood against him and portraying him as somebody who could not be trusted in an advertorial published in The Nation newspaper of May 18, 2016.

The anti-corruption agency had declared Omisore wanted for his refusal to honour its invitation in a case of receiving and misappropriation of over N700m between June–November 2014 from the office of the National Security Adviser.

The plaintiff said a court had restrained the EFCC from arresting him, but despite this order coupled with the fact that the agency had issues with him in the case, they declared him wanted and portrayed him as a fugitive.

He stated that the advertorial that newspapers published portrayed him as a dishonest person, who was seeking to evade the law.

The statement of claim read in part, “Plaintiff avers that the content of the publication in Page 37 of the Nation Newspaper of 25th May, 2016 is completely false, misleading and defamatory of the Plaintiff.

“The Plaintiff states that by the publication, the Defendants have damaged his character, integrity and person by alluding as follows:

“That the Plaintiff is a fugitive of dishonourable character seeking to elude the law.

“That the Plaintiff is a fraudster who has deliberately refused to honour an invitation by the 1st Defendant in relation to criminal allegations of fraud.

“That the Plaintiff lacks financial credibility and has been involved in criminal misappropriation.

“That the Plaintiff’s hard-earned reputation is questionable.

“That the Plaintiff is a person to be avoided and shunned by the Society being a fugitive and a man of questionable character.”

He explained that sometime in 2014, Fimex Gilt Ltd. presented some proposals to the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) on some security services it could render towards combating the scourge of terrorism and influx of terrorists into the country.

The plaintiff stated that Dasuki entered into a contract with the company on border protection and intelligence services and the company was directed to execute the project and payment would be made.

The document read, “Prior to the payment made by the former National Security Adviser on the contract, he (the Plaintiff)was approached and he had loaned Fimex Gilt Ltd some of the funds required by Fimex Gilt Ltd to perform the contract.

“Upon receipt of the payment by Fimex Gilt Ltd from the former National Security Adviser for the execution of the contract, the Managing Director of Fimex Gilt Ltd known as Adetona David Famadewa who is well known to the Plaintiff on behalf of Fimex Gilt Ltd repaid the fund loaned to Fimex Gilt Ltd to the Plaintiff.

“The Plaintiff had no further interests, affiliations or dealings with Fimex Gilt Ltd and was not in any way involved in the performance of the contract between the former National Security Adviser and Fimex Gilt Ltd.”

He stated further that despite that the defendants were aware that be had nothing to do with the company they had continued to harass and intimidate him, asking him to refund all monies by the former National Security Adviser in relation to the contract.

http://www.punchng.com/omisore-sues-efcc-n10bn-alleged-defamation/

ganisucks:
I L♥√ع Fayose. He is the greatest Yoruba political office holder ever. All Nigerian men should try A̶̲̥̅̊Ω̴̩̩̩̥D̶̲̥̅̊ emulate his bravery A̶̲̥̅̊Ω̴̩̩̩̥D̶̲̥̅̊ strength. Nairaland APC, learn how †̥♥ be a real man from Fayose.

Gbam!

[size=13pt]Buhari must be the worst president in the world. Over 1yr in office and not a single kilometre of road constructed.

He and his APC team of liars are busy enjoying themselves on the ultra-clean Abuja roads constructed by the same GEJ they want us to beleive did not do anything. Nonsense![/size]

[size=13pt]Buhari must be the worst president in the world. Over 1yr in office and not a single kilometre of road constructed.

He and his APC team of liars are busy enjoying themselves on the ultra-clean Abuja roads constructed by the same GEJ they want us to beleive did not do anything. Nonsense![/size]

[size=13pt]This APC/Buhari govt is the worst
since independence[/size]

[size=13pt]Very sweet but my problem is that illiterate dullard in Aso Rock.

Since he did not go to a University and does not seem to value of education much,
I am afraid he may decide to sit on it.

Good one from the NASS though[/size]

[size=13pt]Eeyaa . . . and some of them were probably chanting "Sai Buhari" Sai Baba" during last election[/size]

The gale of job losses being witnessed in the country due to the current economic hardship has caught up with Ecobank Nigeria, which has sacked over 1,040 of its employees.

The PUNCH reported on Tuesday that Diamond Bank Plc sacked over 200 members of its workforce, while FBN Holdings, the parent company of First Bank of Nigeria Limited, recently said it would prune the number of its employees by 1,000.

Top officials of the pan-African lender confirmed to our correspondents that the initial list of those to be sacked had over 1,400, workers but was later reduced to “a little above 1,000.”

Ecobank spokespersons declined to comment on the number of workers who were disengaged.

However, the lender said in a statement that it had converted over 200 outsourced personnel to permanent employees as part of its drive to attract and reward talent, while also repositioning for improved efficiency.

In line with the recognition of excellence, the bank also said it had recently implemented a merit-based pay increase for the top performers across all cadres.

The Managing Director, Ecobank, Mr. Charles Kie, was quoted as saying that converting qualified outsourced staff to permanent workers was in line with the bank’s commitment to developing and growing talent by nurturing its people along their career paths and giving them access to higher responsibilities.

He said the bank was resolute that recognising and rewarding excellence would drive its goal of achieving exceptional performance in the industry.

Kie said, “The bank, in its renewed drive for optimal performance, has in addition realigned certain roles bank wide to ensure improved efficiency. This necessitates the exits of some staff who were adequately compensated.

“This is in furtherance of a market repositioning exercise designed to strengthen the bank’s business across all markets where it operates.”

He emphasised that the ETI was on a trajectory to achieve leadership and that the Nigerian subsidiary remained one of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated’s major affiliates as well as one of the country’s systemically important financial institutions.

Kie explained, “Our focus is to improve the quality of service to our customers as well as our operational efficiency.

“We understand that people are our key assets; so, we have emphasised the need to reward our best performers, continue to re-invigorate our people, while also opening up new opportunities for talented and committed people to join us as permanent employees. At the same time, based on our repositioning plan, we had to disengage some staff, while ensuring that, in line with industry standards, they are treated fairly.”

Ecobank Nigeria is a member of the Ecobank Group, which is present in 36 African countries. The Group employs nearly 19,000 people from 40 different countries in over 1,200 branches and offices.

ETI had posted over N40bn decline in its profit for the 2015 financial year owing to high impairment charges.


http://www.punchng.com/ecobank-nigeria-fires-1040-workers/

[size=13pt]Buhari's ethno-religious bigotry infuenced him to stop funding Amnesty but instead budgeting billions for herdsmen grazing and North East Development Commission

The Fooolish Predent is the reason behind the Avengers' action[/size]

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Buhari is a joke

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Is that the reason your dullard presidend is getting more and more confused? Nonsense, tell us another story.

Barely one week after President Muhammadu Buhari called off a much-hyped visit to Lagos State, he equally dashed the hopes of Cross Riverians as he shunned the commissioning of the much-publicized Monorail and Garment factory projects in the state.

And as in the Lagos instance, no reasons were given for suspending the president’s visit to commission the two legacy projects alongside his wife, thereby causing some embarrassment to the government and people of the state.

Had the number one citizen honoured the invitation, it would have been his second visit since he came into office, because on October 10, 2015 the president honoured Governor Ben Ayade’s request on him to visit and perform the ground breaking and flagging-off of construction of the controversial Calabar super highway project.

Preparations were in top gear to ensure a successful commissioning as work on the projects continued round the clock in the past few weeks till yesterday, when it became obvious that the event would no longer hold.

Last Thursday, the State Commissioner of Information, Mrs. Rosemary Archibong, while presenting a paper titled, “The Future of Tourism in Africa: A Case Study of Cross River State”, at the just concluded conference of Africa Public Relations Association (APRA) at the Calabar International Centre (CICC), announced that the president and his wife were no longer coming to commission the projects.

APRA members had earlier frowned at the poor facilities at Lakeside hotel, Tinapa, and the wrong use of the picture of former governor, Senator Liyel Imoke, in a brief documentary branding the state’s tourism potentials at the conference, instead of that of the incumbent, Senator Ayade.

They also queried why participants were not allowed to use the monorail, which was touted as one of the tourism brands that influenced most participants to lodge at the Lakeside hotel, Tinapa.

While apologising for all lapses noticed, the commissioner noted that “Cross River State gets very little in terms of allocation, whereas, other states have over N9b or more”, saying that that affects a lot of things that ought to have been done.

On the Monorail, Mrs. Archibong explained that it was not yet open to the public, adding that only a test run was carried out in preparation for commissioning last Friday, by the president, who she said sent a message that he was no longer coming due to some unforeseen circumstances.

The monorail project was conceived by the previous administration of former Governor Donald Duke to run from the Margaret Ekpo International Airport to Tinapa and the rails were procured, but the Senator Liyel Imoke regime changed the plan given the huge financial outlay, thus rerouting it to run from the CICC to Tinapa.

Imoke had commenced the actual construction of the 1.5km rail and procured the trains, but Ayade came in and completed it, while the Cross River Garment Factory reputed to be the biggest single floor garment factory in the world with a floor size of 5,000sqm has employed 3000 Cross Riverians, mostly women to start work in three shifts.

http://m.guardian.ng/news/like-lagos-buhari-shuns-cross-river/

Lol . . . he could not afford fuel at #145

Diamond Bank Sacked Over 400 Workers
It was a bleak ‘Democracy Day’ weekend for over 400 staff of Diamond Bank Plc, as their appointments were terminated by the mid-sized lender on Friday.

A source at the bank told this newspaper that when most of the affected staff resumed for work last Friday, they had no inkling that it would be their last day with the lender.

The source said, “The first sign that made us notice something was going on was that many people could not log into their systems.

At first, we thought it was a network problem; but it soon became clear that staff who could not log in had been sacked.” The source further revealed that most of the people who were disengaged were mainly middle level staff such as Customer Service Managers (CSM) and some workers in the Human Capital Department.

The source said, “As as at now, we cannot ascertain the actual number of people that have been asked to go but we heard that they are between 400 and 600 and that many Customer Service Managers(CSM) are affected.

There had been speculation that Branch Managers were compiling list of people to be sacked but nobody expected that they had chosen the end of May to carry out the exercise.”

Attempts by this newspaper to confirm the development from a spokesman of the bank were not successful, as he failed to call back with details several hours after she promised to. Financial analysts have predicted that the economic downturn in the country, coupled with regulatory headwinds, would lead to many banks sacking staff this year, as part of cost cutting efforts.
Indeed, respected economist and Managing Director of Financial Derivatives Company (FDC) Limited, Mr. Bismarck Rewane, predicted last January that banks may commence massive staff retrenchment in Q2 2016, due to the tough economy. Significantly, banks such as FCMB and Ecobank had already announced job cuts this year and there are indications that many lenders will soon follow suit.

The tough economy has seen many lenders posting below par performance for both their full year December end 2015 and first quarter 2016 results. In fact, Diamond Bank, which held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) last Friday, was one of several lenders that issued a profit warning that it’s profits for 2015 will be lower than the previous year.

http://newtelegraphonline.com/diamond-bank-sacks-400-staff/