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Samson Folarin and Afeez Hanafi

The police in Lagos State have launched a manhunt for a man suspected to have murdered his lover at a hotel on Prince Adeyemi Street, Ikotun, Lagos.

It was learnt that the suspect, whose name had yet to be ascertained, had lodged in a room in the hotel – Taola Hotel – with his girlfriend around 9.30pm on Friday.

He was said to have paid for one hour which was supposed to elapse around 10.30pm.

Workers of the facility, however, became worried when it was 12am and the guests did not check out of the hotel.

The manager of the hotel, identified only as Ahmadu, was said to have gone to check the room only to discover that the woman was dead, while the suspect had fled.

Ahmadu reported the case at the Ikotun Police Division, while the remains of the victim were deposited in a morgue.

A resident of the area, Jibola Adesina, said no one could explain how the suspect escaped from the hotel.

He said, “The police came to remove the corpse. No one can say how the man managed to escape from the hotel because it has only one entrance.”

Another resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the man had said he wanted to buy something outside the hotel and fled afterwards, adding that the management suspected something was wrong when he did not return.

“I learnt from one of the workers in the hotel that the man came out of the room around 10pm. He said he wanted to buy something outside. He left, but did not return. It was when they waited in vain for his lover to step out that they decided to go into the room. She was found dead,” he said.

A worker of the hotel, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told our correspondent during a visit to the area on Sunday that the incident “shook everyone”.

He said the lovers had come to have “a nice time”, adding that their details were not collected because they did not have the intention of passing the night.

He said, “It was unfortunate. They just came to spend a short time together. That was why their details were not taken. The case was reported to the police.”

The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, said the police were investigating the incident.

Leon, who spoke in a recent interview in Abuja, said, while conditions that impeded growth in the first half of the year, including shortages of power, fuel, and foreign exchange, as well as the higher price of dollars on the parallel market, may have been reduced, they still weigh on the economy.

A popular political thug in Akure, the Ondo State Capital, Mr. Adeleye Fayehun (aka Ade-Basket) has been arrested by police for allegedly assaulting a 44 year-old pregnant woman, Mrs. Adenike Adeolu.

Fayehun, who is also into timber business was said to have beaten the woman to a coma over timber transaction business.

The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO),Femi Joseph who confirmed the arrest said the suspect, Fayehun, had been placed under custody for interrogation.

Joseph added that the confessional statement of the suspect had been taken by the police.

He said “The case has been reported and we have already begun investigation into the matter”.

DAILY POST gathered that the husband of the victim, Olusanya Adeolu, accompanied by sympathizers reported the case to the police at the Akure Area Command shortly after the incident.

Adeolu said the suspect’ Ade-basket’ joined by some hoodlums believed to be his boys battered her wife to a state of comma.

Adeolu alleged that the culprit had been terrorising residents of Akure and had been threatening to deal with his wife over timber business, which according to him he wanted to monopolize.

He said ”the issue got to this level when the suspect (Fayehun) collected a sum of N800,000 from some forest agents which was illegal.

“It was this collection that warranted the timber’s union meeting summoned at a hotel along Ondo road and my wife decided to join them during the session, being a member of the union.”

Speaking on her sick bed, Mrs. Adeolu narrated how Fayehun stood up during the meeting after raising issues and slapped her.

According to her, two other men who were his accomplices also joined to maltreat her, to a point that she became unconscious.

Dayo Oketola, John Alechenu, Friday Olokor, Adelani Adepegba, Fisayo Falodi and Gbenro Adeoye

In a twist to President Muhammadu Buhari’s order for the probe of two former Chiefs of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika and Lt. -Gen. Kenneth Minimah, and 52 others, over arms procurement scandal, some retired military officers and other Nigerians have said that the probe should be extended to the Minister of Interior, Lt. -Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd.), and the current Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai.

They questioned the exclusion of Dambazau and Buratai from the list of those to be probed when the chief of army staff was the Director of Military Procurement during the period the arms scandal was alleged to have been committed.

They said the call for Buratai’s probe became more necessary given the revelation that the Chief of Army Staff bought $1.5m properties in Dubai with “stolen money.”

According to them, Buhari’s fight against corruption will appear to be one-sided if Buratai is left in his position and not being probed in spite of the allegations against him.

President Buhari had ordered the probe of 54 persons, including Ihejirika and Minimah for their roles in the arms scandals that saw billions of dollars meant for the procurement of arms for the Nigerian military for the prosecution of the war against Boko Haram insurgency diverted to private pockets.

The affected persons include 18 serving and retired personnel, 12 serving and retired public officials and 24 chief executive officers of companies involved in the arms procurements between 2011 and 2015.

The move had followed Buhari’s approval of the recommendation of the Presidential Committee on the Audit of Defence Equipment Procurement in the Armed Forces led by AVM Jon Ode (retd.).

In June, the Nigerian Army Council had retired a former aide de camp to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan; Col. Ojogbane Adegbe; a former Principal Secretary to an ex -National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.); Col. Nicholas Achinze, a former ADC to the late President Umaru Yar’Adua, Brig. Gen. A. H. Sa’ad; and 57 other senior officers for their involvements in the scandal.

However, the retired military officers said the President’s war against corruption should be impartially prosecuted. One of them, Col. Kunle Falayi (retd.) expressed support for the ongoing anti-graft war, but urged the President to ensure that it was not one-sided.

Falayi said, “But if it is true he (Buratai) has stolen money or that he partook in the mismanagement of the arms funds, there should no reason why he should be exempted from being probe.

“He should be invited for probe if he has stolen, but if it is found that he has not stolen any money, he should be allowed to continue with his work.”

On the allegation that Buratai’s total emoluments since he was commissioned in the Army could not support the mansions he bought in Dubai, Falayi said, “Buratai should be able to explain how he got the money with which he bought the properties. I have nothing against that; he should be made to explain the source of the money.

All I know is that I support President Buhari’s war against corruption, but the war should be total; nobody suspected to have stolen public money should be exempted from probe.”

Another retired military officer, Col. Tony Nyiam, who commended Buhari for creating the condition engendering the probing of departments of the Federal Government used to be treated as “sacred cows”, however, said it would be unfair to leave out Buratai from the probe.

“The Director of Procurement within the period being investigated should certainly be asked to help enquiry or be called in as a witness to give more information or as someone whom the allegations against him should be checked. In other words, the probe has to involve him.

“The President has an opportunity to show that his war against corruption is not biased because there are so many allegations in the air.”

In the same vein, a former military administrator, who spoke on condition of anonymity, faulted how Buhari is handling the allegations against Buratai.

“There is no doubt that the anti-corruption war is a one-sided campaign, but even beyond that, there is the issue of lopsided appointments and nepotism in Buhari’s government,” he said.

A former Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, who also described the source of Buratai’s wealth as unexplained, asked that the army chief should be probed.

Tsav said the impression given by Buhari’s government so far showed that the administration had been using double standard on the anti-corruption issue.

He said, “People are saying that Buratai declared his assets with the Code of Conduct Bureau, but even if he did, how did he get the whopping sum of money to acquire the property in Dubai? How much does he earn in a year?
“These things are unreasonable; the government is giving the impression that it is being partisan and taking sides.

“He (Buratai) should be investigated. If Minimah and Ihejirika will be investigated, Buratai should also be investigated so that we can know the truth. And if the government knows what we don’t know, it should lay it bare to members of the public so that it will be left to the court of public opinion to recommend to the government but taking sides is not good enough.

“If a President comes to serve, he takes the oath that he is going to be fair to all manners of people, so he should be fair to all manner of people. The government said it found huge funds in the farm of a person but it has not told us whose farm it is. We want to know. Is the man a soldier or a politician?”

Recently, an editorial of July 10 edition of Sunday PUNCH, had described the situation as “a major credibility test for the President’s campaign against corruption.”
It said, “President Muhammadu Buhari’s fledgling war on corruption has reached a critical juncture. In a case that has generated outrage, the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, has been accused of buying two houses in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, at a cost of $1.5m.

“Curiously, the Nigerian Army has admitted that Buratai, indeed, owns the assets, saying, however, that he bought them with his savings in 2013.”

But some of the retired military officers, who spoke to Saturday PUNCH officers and some online commentators, have also questioned the exclusion of the Minister of Interior, Lt. -Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd.), from the list of persons to be probed.

According to Nyiam, who called on Buhari to probe all persons in his government with corruption allegations against them, “many of the contracts being looked at had their genesis in the period that Dambazau was Chief of Army Staff.”

He said, “So as to avoid accusations of double standard, the period when President Umaru Yar’Adua was ill should be looked into because there was much stealing and corruption as the Commander-in-Chief was not well.

“If not added, it would make the fight against corruption questionable and it will make it look one-sided. It will be as if it is only the Chiefs of Army Staff from the South that are being probed.”

Also, on the PUNCH website, some of the comments trailing the report: ‘Arms scandal: Buhari orders probe of Ihejirika, Minimah, 52 others’, accused the Federal Government of bias by leaving out Buratai and Dambazau in the names of people to be probed over the arms scandal.

A commentator, General Sam Bockerie, said,“So how did Lt. General Abdulrahman Dambazau become the only former Chief of Army Staff who has no explanation to do? What did he do differently? Or was he left off the hook because he is a northerner?
“Where is Colonel Jafaru Isa that was arrested and released on the grounds that he refunded some National Security Adviser office’s funds? Didn’t former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (retd.) – a Yoruba man, also refund money? Why is Amosu being prosecuted while Jafaru is walking around a free man? Your guess is as good as mine! What about Tukur Buratai that ‘saved’ so handsomely to buy foreign properties in his wife’s name? Anti-corruption war indeed!”

Anti-graft war should not be sectional – Afenifere

A socio-political organisation, Afenifere, on Friday deplored the non-inclusion of Dambazau and Buratai in the arms scam report released on Thursday.

Afenifere said the non-inclusion of the two Generals gave an impression that President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-graft war was sectional.

Secretary of Afenifere, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, said the duo should be investigated
“If there are allegations against Buratai and Dambazau, they should be investigated alongside their colleagues so that the impression is not created that we have unequal justice.”

Also, a Second Republic member of the House of Representatives, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, has said that Danbazau and Buratai cannot be exempted from the arms purchase probe.

Mohammed spoke in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents on Friday.
He said, “I still believe that it will be gross injustice for Danbazau and Buratai to be left out of the list of those to be probed.

“Gen. Buhari himself said anyone that owns property in Dubai and Abuja must be investigated. Everybody knows that Buratai owns property in both Dubai and Abuja on that count alone, Buratai ought not to be left out of the list.”

Anti-graft fight non-discriminatory -FG

The Federal Government said there was no truth in the insinuation that the report of the Presidential Committee on the Audit of Defence Equipment Procurement was doctored.

In a statement issued in Abuja on Friday by his Special Adviser, Mr. Segun Adeyemi, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said what had been released so far was the report of the audit covering the period 2011 to 2015.

He added that the committee would commence the audit of procurement from 2007 to 2010 as soon as the necessary documents were available.

The minister said, ‘’When the documents regarding procurement from 2007 to 2010 are available and scrutinised, the committee will then issue its report on that. The audit is being done on phases, and the report that was released on Thursday is the third of such.’’

He stated that the Federal Government’s anti-corruption fight was non-discriminatory.

He said, ‘’No one should attempt to distract from the seriousness of the issues involved in this audit of defence equipment procurement. It is important to note that even though the total amount spent for procurement and operations within the period were N185,843,052,564.30 and $685,349,692.49, the irregularities in the awards ensured that the military did not get value for money, with very serious consequences.’’

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Vanillaskin:
Wait let me get this straight, so a woman was having sex with her lover and for no reason turned into a snake and for no reason again, waited to be photographed and took her time to even strike a pose .
You really expect me to believe this piece of crap

francisbiz:
Ask our 3 lawmakers in U.S. sex scandal

Folashade Adebayo

The forex crisis rocking businesses and other establishments may have taken its toll on the education sector with the refusal of some elitist private schools to renew contracts with their expatriate teachers.

Findings by our correspondent show that these schools could no longer cope with unfriendly exchange rates, which have inflated the salaries and other entitlements of the teachers.

Some school owners in Abuja and Lagos, who spoke with our correspondent on Thursday, said the development was simply a survival decision to keep operating cost at a tolerable level.

Nowadays, the difficulty in getting forex to pay for goods and services, coupled with the high exchange rate, has caused a series of reactions, including retrenchments, salary cuts and other cost-cutting measures across all sectors of the nation’s economy.

The development, which is the fallout of the depreciating value of the naira to the dollar, has equally forced school owners to rethink the constitution of their staff strength with a view to reducing operating cost.

Findings, indeed, show that many schools can no longer cope with the cost of paying salaries and maintaining staff quarters, cooks and car pools for their expatriate teachers.

According to an Abuja-based school owner, Mrs. Funke Abdullahi, she had to let her two expatriate teachers go because of what she called “some obvious reasons.”
Ibrahim, in a telephone interview with our correspondent, said the “hard times” had offered more opportunities to explore the Nigerian teachers.

The educationist explained, “I had to let the two Britons in my school go for obvious reasons. I also want to give Nigerian teachers a chance. It was becoming too difficult to meet the financial needs of the two expatriates. They were with me for three years but with the economic realities on the ground, I had no choice but to let them go.”

A director of a highbrow school in Lekki, Lagos, said her school principal, an American, would not be resuming next term. The educationist, who craved anonymity, said the school would be having a Nigerian replacement when the new session begins in September.

She added, “It was actually a discussion and the proprietor reasoned that he would no longer be able to cope with the trappings of having an expatriate principal. Feeding the pupils, running the school, buying diesel and other things do not come easy anymore. So, we have to do whatever we can to reduce cost.”

However, the proprietress of another Abuja-based school said she was not having any financial challenge paying her expatriate staff. While admitting that the employment of expatriate staff is a ‘marketing issue’, she said she was not finding it difficult to pay her staff.

“In fact, I just renewed another two-year contract. He is a Briton and the head of school. He has been with us for two years and we had an agreement that I would use the CBN exchange rate to pay him. So, whatever the exchange rate is, that is what I use. The schools who have problem are those who pay in dollars,’’ she said.

When contacted, the Public Relations Officer, Nigeria Immigration Service, Mr. Ekpedeme King, said he could not immediately confirm if there was indeed a reduction in the number of contracts signed with expatriate teachers.

He said, “You will have to give me some days. It is like asking you how many science students are there in a state.

Essentially, what happens is that these expatriate teachers have to register first with the National Planning Commission before getting residence and work permits from us. This is necessary for both private and government schools. However, the expatriate quotas depend on the need of a school. It is not fixed.”

An educationist, Mrs. Yinka Ogunde, who said the development was not limited to the education sector, added that businesses across sectors were reviewing their operational costs in order to stay afloat.

She said, “It is a case of business survival and it cannot be business as usual. About a year ago, schools were paying $3,000, an amount less than a million naira. Now, the sum is about N1.5m. School fees are not increasing commensurately and every organisation is now having a lot of re-examination about operating costs.

“The way we are doing business in the country is changing. Schools have been growing their capacity before the forex crisis, perhaps, to have competent workforce, especially in the administrative cadre. But there are other trends. Very competent Nigerians are also returning to the country. These are educationists, who have worked in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. They are transferring such knowledge and I tell you the education sector and the nation’s economy will be all the better for it.”

However, the Director, TLS, Ikoyi, Lagos, Mrs. Bunmi Egbeyemi, sees the major constraint with expatriate teachers from another perspective. According to her, clash of culture, more than anything else, is making her to think twice in terms of recruiting foreign teachers.

For her, Nigerian teachers can also do as much as their foreign counterparts if they receive adequate training.

She noted, “I think it is a class thing and I know that many parents like the idea. It also helps to increase school population. I used to have an expatriate teacher but I had to let her go. For me, the problem is that they do not understand our culture. But you also know that the naira nowadays cannot give you what it used to give in the past. What we do now is to expose our teachers to leadership programmes and skills. We also make sure that our teachers have UK certification.”

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Ade Adesomoju, Abuja

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Maitama, Abuja on Friday dismissed the bail application filed by a former govenorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2014 election in Osun State, Iyiola Omisore.

Omisore was arrested on July 3 and has since then been detained in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over alleged criminal investigation in relation to about N1.3bn of the Office the National Security Adviser’s fund traced to him.

Justice Olukayode Adeniyi in a ruling on Friday held that the bail application was incompetent because it was filed during the period when an order obtained by the EFCC from another judge of the High Court of the FCT, Justice J.O Okeke on July 8, was still valid.

Justice Adeniyi held that the only option open to Omisore was to await the expiration of the remand order which had a lifespan of 14 days to renew his application for bail.

The police in Lagos State have arrested a 32-year-old woman, Chinoso Okonkwo, for allegedly using pupils of some secondary schools in the Ikate, Surulere area, as commercial sex workers.

PUNCH Metro learnt that Okonkwo was arrested on Wednesday after residents gave the police a tip-off that some teenage schoolgirls were being taken to a hotel in the area – Sunderland Hotel – for sex during school hours.

Our correspondents gathered that Okonkwo allegedly worked with a syndicate which usually went to the school to lure the victims out during school hours.

The girls reportedly always removed their school uniforms and put on clothes provided by the syndicate.

PUNCH Metro learnt that Okonkwo also allegedly posed as a nurse to deceive her victims.

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, who paraded the suspect, said investigation was ongoing into the matter.

He said, “Detectives arrested her on Wednesday. Her mode of operation is to target some secondary schools in the area. She, together with her cohorts, would go to the schools and get the girls to a hotel. The hotel is located in Ikate, Surulere. She would change their clothes and use them as sex slaves.

“She would keep the girls in the hotel until the school closing time and make them change back into their uniforms. Investigation is still ongoing, and we will extend it to the hotel and the schools which are involved. We want to see whether there is connivance between the suspect and the school authorities.”

Speaking with PUNCH Metro, Okonkwo, a mother of two, said she was based in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, where she worked as a trader.

She added that she sometimes came to Lagos to work as a sex worker.

Okonkwo, however, denied knowing any of the schoolgirls, saying she only worked in the hotel as a commercial sex worker to raise money for her business in Port Harcourt.

She said, “I am a widow with two children. They are both in a boarding school in Port Harcourt. I live in Port Harcourt, but I sometimes come to Lagos to sleep with men at the hotel. I came to Lagos to find a means of livelihood.

“I use Sunderland Hotel in Surulere. When I was arrested by the police, I saw three girls, probably aged 10 or 12, who claimed I usually picked them from school to the hotel.

“I don’t know any of them. In fact, let the police visit the hotel for investigation. I have never seen them before. I meet men for sex and they give me money. I use the money to buy clothes and take them to Port Harcourt to sell. I have been in this job for a long time. I am a familiar face at the hotel. I do this for a living.”

Except there is a change in plan, the leadership of the Senate will severe relationship with the Senior Special Assistant to the President National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang, and six of its members, PREMIUM TIMES can report today.

The six senators, who might be sanctioned belonged to the self-styled Unity Forum and have been lined up as prosecution witness in the court alleged forgery case involving the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu and two others.
They include Kabiru Marafa, Suleiman Hunkuyi, Ahmed Lawan, Ajayi Borofice, Gbenga Ashafa and Abdullahi Gumel.

The action is coming on the heels of the impending trial of Messrs Saraki and Ekweremadu for alleged illegal alteration of Senate Standing Rule.

Also charged alongside the duo are the former Clerk to the National Assembly, Salisu Maikasuwa and his deputy, Benedict Efeturi.

A cross section of the All Progressives Congress senators opposed the emergence of Mr. Saraki as Senate president and Mr. Ekweremadu as the deputy Senate president.

The duo emerged leaders of the upper legislature against the permutation of the ruling party that favoured Mr. Lawan for the Senate’s top job.

A top official of the Senate, who pleaded not to be mentioned because he was not authorized to speak on the matter, said the leadership of the red chamber felt betrayed by Mr. Enang and the six members.

“The body language of the leadership and most members is that the affected members should be suspended while Ita Enang should be expelled,” the source told PREMIUM TIMES.

“Ita Enang cannot be giving credence to the allegation that the Senate leaders are forgers and criminals and still interface between the Senate and the presidency.

“He has only two options. He either steps down as presidential liaison officer to the Senate and proceed to testify or be expelled. He cannot testify against the Senate leadership and still remain as a liaison between the president and the upper legislature.”

When contacted, Mr. Enang told PREMIUM TIMES he had not done nothing wrong to warrant being expelled by the leadership of the upper legislature, saying he was merely performing his duties to the country.

“I was listed first as a suspect and when the clerk to the National Assembly made a statement that it was he who did and not me, they left me and thereafter listed me as a witness. I have nothing to hide,” Mr. Enang said.

However, attempts to speak with Senate spokesperson, Aliyu Abdulahi, failed as he did not answer or return multiple calls made to his known mobile telephone.

Messrs. Saraki, Ekweremadu, Maikasuwa and Efeturi were on June 27, arraigned before Justice Haliru Yusuf of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Jabi, on a two-count charge of conspiracy and forgery, contrary to Sections 97 and 362 of the Penal Code Law respectively.

They were, however, granted bail before the court adjourned its proceedings to July 12.
PREMIUM TIMES had reported that the Federal Government would rely on the testimony of 14 witnesses, among them Senators and National Assembly bureaucrats, at the trial of the four persons.

Prosecution’s case against Saraki and his alleged conspirators
According to court documents obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, “it is the prosecution’s case against the defendants that sometimes about the 9th day of June, 2015, the defendants conspired among themselves to forge and indeed actually forged the Senate Standing Order 2011 (as amended) and caused the said forged document to be circulated among elected senators for use during the inauguration of the 8th Senate of the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

The document – prosecution’s case summary – was signed by a Principal State Counsel, D.E Kaswe on behalf of the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, and is among documents filed before the Abuja High Court.

“We have 26 power plants (including the AES plant), three of the plants are powered by water, the hydro power plants in Jebba, Kainji and Shiroro. The remainder are powered by gas.

BossKratos:





"The Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, has
reiterated his stand that the position of POWER MINISTER in Nigeria has no weight.
According to him, virtually all arms of the
electricity value chain had been taken away from the control of the minister, leaving the occupant of THE OFFICE with nothing to control."




So where did he mention FASHOLA? You don't even understand the concept of sensationalism in media reporting? Someone is referring to a situation he found particular to the office and you immediately made it look as if he actually called out fashola?


Can't you see YOU just fell for the daily posts JOB?





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Lmfao!!!

Reminez:
Cc : mynd44
There's no correlation between the heading and the content .

The Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, has reiterated his stand that the position of power minister in Nigeria has no weight.

According to him, virtually all arms of the electricity value chain had been taken away from the control of the minister, leaving the occupant of the office with nothing to control.

The Emir stated this during a stakeholders’ workshop on Road Transport Management and Mass Transit Operations in Nigeria, organised by the Federal Ministry of Transportation in Abuja yesterday.

He said, “Very often in this country, we do not give as much focus as we should to the organic link between the objectives, our strategies, processes, procedures and our results.

“And one example I’ve always given is the power sector in Nigeria. I used to ask this question that, ‘please what really is the Power minister responsible for?’ And it sounds like a silly question.

“But the truth is, I don’t know about now, but as of the time I was in government, could anyone legitimately hold the Power minister responsible for delivering power? The PHCN (Power Holding Company of Nigeria) was privatised by the Bureau of Public Enterprises; the Ministry of Petroleum Resources is responsible for gas; regulation and pricing is done by the NERC (Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission), which is an independent body.

“By the time you took out everything you need in power, the minister has nothing. He controls nothing. The Power minister cannot boast that I will deliver 1,000 megawatts because he can actually build a gas powered turbine and not have the gas. This is because the gas is under the control of a different ministry.

“Also, for hydro, the dams belong to the Federal Ministry of Water Resources and the sites around the dams belong to the state governments. The water turbines belong to the Ministry of Power, but if you want to use hydro, the Ministry of Power does not have the dams. The point I’m making is that one of the reasons why we’ve not made much improvement on power is due to a lack of coordinating mechanisms.”

He added that “I kind of think that we can have a similar problem with transport. We need to have some framework for coordination and harmonisation for a clear division of roles and responsibilities, and also for ensuring that everything is mainstreamed into one strategic objective.

So, whoever is responsible for any part of the transportation chain should have a forum where you come and coordinate activities.”

BossKratos:



This article has been remixed! Sanusi was referring to the way the system worked during"his own time in government and he never even mentioned fashola once"





O.p you are a bagger!!!

The Federal Government has hired 18 professional audit companies to carry out a forensic audit of its agencies to access true state of their revenue generation. Accountant - General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Ahmed Idris, said the audit process would cover the period of 2010 to 2015, and would be completed in 18months. Idris said that the audit would also cover capital , personnel and overhead expenditure across all Federal Government ’ s Ministries , Departments and Agencies (MDAs ).

Addressing the consultants selected to handle the task at an interactive session yesterday in Abuja , the AGF, represented by the Director of Funds, Alhaji Salau Zubairu , said the audit would aid the Federal Government in arriving at better decisions, in view of the dwindling inflow of government revenue .

He said the first phase of the assignment was divided into two categories and will involve 33 agencies. Category A comprises eight agencies with a turnover of above N100 billion and category B involves 25 agencies with a turnover of below N100billion.

The AGF said some of the terms of reference given to the consultants was to review the sources of revenues accruing to the organisations and the effectiveness of revenue generation and accounting. Some of the terms of reference given the consultants for the audit process include , to: Undertake a critical review of the financial statements of the organisations over the last five years, confirm the sources and quantum of funding received from government, whether loans, subventions or grants and reconcile with treasury records; study in detail the enabling laws establishing the organisations with a view to identifying possible constraints and areas of improvement ; and determine the amount of remittances made to the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF ) over the last five years in the form of operating surplus and revenue dividends .

Also , the consultants are to determine the extent of compliance with extant regulations regarding the adequacy and regularity of remittances to the CRF ;and identify all income and interest thereon and make adequate recommendations on the future management of the organisations .

Ahmed said the consultants were to establish the cost of operations and make appropriate recommendations to understand real personnel cost and cost associated with revenue collection or revenue sharing arrangement . He assured the consultants of the support and assistance of the OAGF in discharging their duties. He said however, that their activities would be closely monitored by experienced staff of the OAGF to ensure that ”government gets value for money”.

Peter Dada, Akure

Men of the 32 Artillery Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Akure, the Ondo State capital have arrested a 37-year-old man for parading himself as an army officer serving in the state.

The suspect identified as Sunday Uwanle from Kogi State was said to have been arrested in army uniform while fighting with some men.

Parading the suspect on Wednesday, the Public Relations Officer of the brigade, Captain Ojo Adelegan said the suspect had been using the army uniform to terrorise the people of Akure and environs for a long time.

He said, “Our investigation revealed that the suspect had been involving in some of the armed robberies that had been happening in Ondo and some neighboring states, using the army uniform.

“We have a report that he robbed a man in Akure of two vehicles, he had been using the army uniform to terrorize the people of Akure, at times he would go to petrol station and be causing trouble. Everybody is scared of him they thought he is a soldier. They also know him as a soldier at many police stations in Ondo State. “

Adelegan said the suspect also confessed to have bought the army uniform from one retired soldier who is a chief security officer of a branch of a commercial bank in Akure.

Some of the items recovered from him, according to the PRO included, a motorcycle, army uniform and an identify card of a police officer.

He said the suspect had been handed over to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the state police command for further interrogation and investigation.

By Evelyn Usman

The annual Egungun ceremony in Isheri, Magodo area of Lagos State was marred, weekend, after one of the guests, Mutiu Edunjobi, was allegedly stabbed to death by a suspected cultist.

Late Edunjobi, a 34-year-old battery charger, who resided at 3, Egbedina Street, Isheri, was said to have been lured to the party by suspected cultists, Sunday, who had plotted to kill him for being sympathetic to a rival cult group.

A fight broke out between rival cult groups at about 8p.m., during which dangerous objects were reportedly used. In the process, the father of two was allegedly stabbed in the neck by one Kehinde Lawal, a suspected cultist.

When news of Edunjobi’s attack went round, youths in the area reportedly went berserk as they attempted to carry out jungle justice on his assailant and members of his cult group.

Eyewitnesses said the angry youths stormed the assailant’s residence at 5, Ajegunle Street, Isheri and threatened to set it ablaze but for the intervention of policemen.

He was my everything —WIFE
When Vanguard visited the deceased’s home yesterday, his widow, Mariam, was seen with her 41-day-old baby, while the elder one, aged six, rested her head on her mother’s lap.

She said: “My husband was not a cultist. They just killed him for nothing. He was my friend, brother and father. He promised to open a shop for me when my baby turns one and half.

“Now he is gone. Who will take care of me and my children?”
Father of the deceased, Mr. Dauda Edunjobi, disclosed that cultists were always at loggerheads in the area, calling on Lagos State government to address the issue, as it was getting out of hand.

He maintained that his son was never a cultist. According to the distraught father, “The person that stabbed my son to death is about 10 years his junior. They were never friends. My late son was an easy-going fellow, who was loved by all.

“He was not a cult member. Their grievance was that he was sympathetic to their enemies and for that reason, they have been threatening to kill him.

“My late son was invited to the party by Ipodo’s brother. He never knew it was an invitation of death, as it was a deliberate plan to kill him. They have been telling people that they will kill him and now they have carried out their threat. All we want is for justice to be done.”

Police
When contacted, spokesperson for Lagos State Police Command, Dolapo Badmus, a Superintendent of Police, said: “I can confirm that at about 8p.m., one Kehinde Lawal allegedly stabbed one Mutiu Edunjobi on his neck with a knife during a fight at Edum compound, Isheri.

“Edunjobi was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he died. The corpse was deposited at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja for autopsy. Meanwhile, efforts are on to arrest the suspect.”