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It was gathered that the money was meant to pay the allowances of 17,500 participants for eight months, which never got to them.
The SURE-P GIS is a component of the SURE-P domiciled in the Federal Ministry of Finance.

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has launched an international manhunt for all persons suspected of complicity in the $2.1bn arms scam, the N676m immigration job scandal and other high profile cases.

Our correspondent learnt on Wednesday that the EFCC had sent the names of the suspected individuals to the International Police Organisation.

A reliable source at the commission told our correspondent that INTERPOL had been asked to keep some of the suspected individuals under watch while some others would be arrested immediately if sighted.

The source said, “We are seeking INTERPOL’s assistance to establish the exact locations of these persons and to help us to monitor their movements. If these persons are travelling from one country or the other, we would be alerted at the airport.

“Once we can get them, we will approach a court and get an extradition order.”
The source explains that there are two methods of getting a person that has fled abroad. One is to report to INTERPOL and then INTERPOL gets them wherever they are. The second method is to officially seek their extradition through diplomatic means.

“When you go to court, the court will issue a bench warrant or an order for extradition and it is the court paper you will send to the government of the jurisdiction where the persons are. That is Mutual Legal Treaty Assistance,” the source added.

Some persons indicted by the EFCC, including ministers who served under the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan, have since fled the country and have refused to honour EFCC invitations.

For instance, the immediate past Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Bello Adoke (SAN), has refused to honour an EFCC invitation over the $2bn Malabu scam since December and even said in an open letter to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo that he would not honour the invitation because there was a plot by his political opponents to embarrass him.

An anti-graft agency in The Hague, Netherlands, was confirmed on Tuesday to have searched Adoke’s residence, following collaboration with the EFCC.

Also, one of those charged in the immigration job scandal, Mahmood Ahmadu, in connivance with Drexel Tech Nigeria Ltd, allegedly lavished N423m of the N676m extorted from the applicants on several properties.

The EFCC had also accused a former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, of an alleged N2bn fraud.

chinchum:
There is a defined allocation quota to all the 13 discos. Each discos get a defined fraction of what is generated.

The multi-billion naira executives chamber of the Ondo State Governor’s office was on Tuesday gutted by fire.

The incident which occurred three minutes after the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff arrived the governor’s office was said to have caused by power surge, thereby destroying some government’s property.

DAILY POST reports that Sheriff was in the state on a courtesy visit to the Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko . He arrived his office around 1.15pm.

The fire outbreak was discovered by journalists and some PDP chieftains who were waiting for the PDP chairman and Mimiko for briefing.

All effort by journalists and PDP leaders to put out the fire proved abortive.
Mimiko quickly left his office with his guest to the government house, while workers were seen rushing out of their offices for safety.

However, the fire brigade service where seen arriving the governor’s office 20 minutes after the incident occurred.

Less than one year into the life of the current administration, politicians of the major partisan divides have commenced secret moves to realign forces ahead of the 2019 general elections, New Telegraph has gathered.

The talks, said to be causing ripples within the Presidency and a cross section of the All Progressives Congress (APC), cut across a sizeable portion of the ruling party and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The move, according to a source close to the leadership of the ruling party, is ostensibly triggered by the emergence of a new power cartel in the Presidential Villa that appears to have sidelined some founding fathers of the APC.

“Such leaders are aggrieved, but have resorted to remain calm and keep their cool even in the face of glaring subjugation to the background by those young Turks who have formed a new cartel in the villa to corner the spoils of war,” the source told our correspondent in confidence.

New Telegraph could not get reaction on the development from the Presidency as a text message sent to the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, was not replied as at the time of going to press.

But the deputy national chairman (South) of the APC, Engr. Segun Oni, has described such politicians as desperate spoilers who have nothing to lose any longer. “We are aware of all the antics of these so-called politicians. I am sure they are more in the PDP than they are in the APC.

Even if there are some in our party, they must be acting in ignorance and perhaps misinformed by their contact travellers in the PDP. “In this country, people have failed to realise that losing election itself is an opportunity for self-reassessment and reinvention. It is an opportunity to go back to the drawing board and see what could be done to salvage your party.

“You don’t just wake up one day and say because you lost, everything should be lost. It is absolutely impossible the way they view it. Like in America, once the Republicans or the Democrats lose, they concentrate more on what led to their defeat and not to immediately explore possible means of bringing down a government.

“As far as we are concerned, such elements are desperate and you the media should expose them, we know what they are up to, but we are more prepared to bring the dividends of change to the ordinary Nigerian who voted for our party than spend time trying to stop them,” Oni told New Telegraph.

The source said several attempts have been made by the APC leadership and the Presidency to placate those aggrieved party leaders who have lost out in their various states or geopolitical zones since the inception of the present administration in May last year. “The issue of politics is first to see how secure you are to further the national interest. If it is only national interest, it means that some leaders did not need to contest against incumbents to heat up the polity.

“Some specific leaders made sacrifices to bring about the change we are seeing today and where are these people? In most cases, they are either sidelined or relegated to the background because some new cartel boys have emerged to corner everything and have built walls around the villa against some of the real leaders.

“For now, we are keeping our strategies close to our chest, but I can assure you that in the course of time, things will start unfolding gradually because we can’t pretend that all is well among us. The real leaders of the party are watching developments and will give specific directives when the time comes. “The change we got was not the destination; it is just a bus stop and another vehicle can take us to that destination.

So, we are looking at various options, including two hard ones whether to go for a fresh party or revitalise the ailing PDP,” he said. The source, who was a member of the interim national executive committee of the APC, disclosed that the secret talks among the political class are being facilitated by two serving PDP governors and two former Senate presidents even as the tentative understanding is to scout for a less controversial presidential candidate from the North-East.

He said, the outcome of the March 19 Area Councils election in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) will determine, to a large extent, the direction of the realignment talks that are currently ongoing.

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has taken over more than 20 of its vessels in the custody of Global West Vessel Services, Daily Trust investigations has revealed.

Global West Vessel Service, which handles maritime security issues for NIMASA has Government Ekpemupolo, also known as Tompolo, as one of its major shareholders. The company purchased the ships as part of a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement it has with NIMASA during the regime of former president, Goodluck Jonathan.

Tompolo was declared wanted by the EFCC over alleged contract scandals he sealed with former government. NIMASA confirmed taking over the vessels when contacted by our reporter but denied revoking the entire contracts with Global West.

NIMASA’s Deputy Director, Public Relations, Hajia Lamin Tumaka, told Daily Trust that it was the management of Global West Vessels that withdrew its services because the agency had not been able to meet up with payments.

Daily Trust investigations revealed that the move to take over the vessels began soon after the exit from office of the agency immediate past Director General (DG), Mr. Patrick Akpobolokemi.

Akpobolokemi is presently standing trial for allegedly diverting funds running into billions of naira belonging to NIMASA.
It was gathered that NIMASA under the leadership of the former acting DG, Haruna Baba Jauro, directed that the vessels in the inventory of Global West be taken over by management of the agency and kept in safe custody.

Though, it could not be confirmed if the contract between the agency and Global West Vessel Services had been terminated, a source told our correspondent that it was to allow for effective security of the country’s waterways.

The source said since is Tompolo currently being investigated by EFCC it became necessary for the agency to take over its ships in the custody of Global West.

“These ships are mounted with guns and those in charge are being investigated. The management thought it wise to take over the ships so that they will not be used to cause any breach of security in the Niger Delta region.

“The ships were purchased by Global West under a Purchase Operate and Transfer agreement it had with NIMASA. Those who man the vessels are naval personnel who are authorized by the constitution to police the waterways. Because there are GPMG rifles mounted on all the vessels, we don’t want a situation where it will be used against the Nigerian state” the source said.

She said the agency is presently waiting on the federal government, through the Ministry of Transport for further directives.
Speaking on whether the agency had stopped its contract with Global West Vessel, Hajia Tumaka said they had no directive to that effect.

It would be recalled that Global West procured some decommissioned naval battleships and combat boats from the Norwagian Navy in 2012.

The purchase was followed by a public outcry as a result of which the Norwegian Defence Chief, Haakon Bruun-Hansen, apologised to Nigerian lawmakers for the sale.

Tompolo, through Global West in 2012 received at least six decommissioned Norwegian battleships. Among them were six fast-speed Hauk-class guided missile boats, now re-armed with new weapons.

The most recent hardware was the KNM Horten, a fast-attack craft allegedly used for anti-piracy patrol in the Nigerian waters.
It was reported that the sale was implemented through a shell maritime security company based in the United Kingdom, CAS Global.

PUNCH Metro gathered that the Udi, Enugu State indigene, and the victim’s parents were friends.

Acidosis:
You mean women don't enjoy it?

kingphilip:
this is an issue between the junior wife and senior wife from what is garnered from the piece

Didn't she know he had a first wife before coming in??
Secondly, when trouble arose, did she meet her husband telling him about it and seeking for a peaceful resolution of matters??

If the above two wasn't really done by her I guess she should seek for ways to salvage her marriage instead

He said the respondent insisted that he should get another apartment for her and should divorce his first wife before she could stay married to
him, which he said, he would not do.

He added that the five exotic vehicles recovered from the syndicate include one registered Toyota Camry car with registration number Edo: BEN 443 DP, and four other unregistered vehicles, namely Toyota Matrix, Lexus 300 SUV, Ford saloon car and Nissan Primera.

Auditor General of the Federation, Samuel Ukura has revealed that the NNPC under Goodluck Jonathan withheld N3.2 trillion ($16 billion) in revenues from the federal government in 2014, the auditor-general said on Monday, confirming claims by then Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Emir Sanusi Lamido.

Constitutionally, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) must hand over all oil revenue – which makes up about 70 per cent of total income – and money is then paid back based on a budget approved by parliament.

Ukura, who presented his findings in a report to lawmakers at the National Assembly, said other government ministries and agencies had also failed to remit funds, taking the total not passed on to 3.3 trillion naira for 2014.

No one at the NNPC could immediately be reached to comment or provide details of the amount remitted that year. According to the latest figures on OPEC’s website, Nigeria’s oil exports are worth about $77 billion a year.

Development in Nigeria, Africa’s biggest oil producer and largest economy, has been stunted by decades of corruption and mismanagement. President Muhammadu Buhari took office last year on an anti-corruption ticket.

Ukura’s report stated that it was based on an “examination of NNPC mandates to CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria) on Domestic Crude Oil Sales and Reconciliation Statement of Technical Sub-committee of Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting held in January 2014”.
“Amount not remitted to FAAC was N3,234,577,666,791.35,” the auditor-general said in his report.

In 2014, the then central bank governor, Lamido Sanusi, was suspended after accusing the NNPC of failing to pay $20 billion into government accounts between January 2012 and July 2013.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) says it is difficult to get a replacement that can match the outstanding performance of its former party spokesperson, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

The APC Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun said this on Monday at a briefing with newsmen at the party secretariat in Abuja.

According to him, the party had a problem getting a spokesperson to fit into Mohammed’s shoes.
He, however, said that the issue was being resolved and the party would have a spokesperson soon.

It would be recalled that Mohammed, now, Minister of Information and Culture, held sway as the party spokesperson during its years as opposition until the party emerged winner in last presidential elections.
“I think arrangements have been completed to hold the necessary congresses to nominate a spokesperson.

“I think that should be done very shortly. In fact the issue is getting somebody that can be as close as possible to the outstanding performance of the present minister of information, Lai Mohammed,’’ he said.
The Chairman, who just resumed from a ten-day working leave, said he was glad to be back to work.

“I told you I was going on a break because I needed it. I’ve had a good break, I’ve had a bit of rest and I’m back to the office,’’ he said.

He assured that all party activities would hold as planned in the month.
“All the scheduled meetings of the party will run as planned, the caucus will meet on the 21st, the BOT on the 22nd and NEC on the 24th.

“Everything will go as planned,’’ he said. (NAN)

A housewife, Funsho Ajayi, has been hospitalised after she was battered by her female co-tenant, Adeyemi Adijat, during a fight over an allegation of witchcraft in Lagos State, western Nigeria.

The 31-year-old Adijat was arrested and charged before a Magistrates’ court sitting in Ejigbo for allegedly battering Ajayi which caused her serious injury.

Fighting broke out after Ajayi reportedly attacked Adijat and alleged she was involved in witchcraft.
The incident happened at their house at 13, Nureni Atoku Street, Akesan in the outskirts of Lagos where they reside.

According to their neighbours, both Adijat and Ajayi had been at loggerheads over the years before the incident happened.

P.M.NEWS gathered that their neighbours had attempted to settle the rift but they refused to make peace.

On the day the incident happened, the duo started their usual quarrel and during the exchange of hot words between them, Ajayi reportedly called Adijat a witch that had been hindering the progress of other tenants in their house.

The allegation did not go down well with Adijat who allegedly attempted to engage Ajayi in a fight.

They were prvented from fighting by other tenants present there.

A few days after the incident happened, Adijat reportedly ambushed Ajayi in the bathroom and poured a substance on her face and she could not see again. Adijat also allegedly battered her, inflicted injury on her and bit her face before other neighbours rescued her.

Ajayi was badly injured and was taken to a hospital where she is being treated.
The matter was reported to the police at Igando Division and Adijat was arrested and charged to court.
When she was arraigned, she pleaded not guilty.

The presiding Magistrate, Mrs J. O. E. Adeyemi granted her bail in the sum of N50,000 with one surety in like sum.

Adijat was remanded in prison custody pending when she will perfect her bail condition.

The matter was adjourned till 4 April, 2016.

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At least 71 female students of Government Girls Secondary School, Kalgo, Kebbi State have been hospitalised as a result of food poisoning. The Principal of the school, Hajiya Gwamma Sakaba, said the students were hospitalised after eating contaminated food bought from vendors selling food on the school premises.

Sakaba said immediately the incident occurred, the authorities alerted the local government sole administrator, officials of both the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health to investigate the matter.

She said: “The students just went on break and later all of them started complaining of stomach pain while some of them collapsed. We quickly informed the officials of the Ministry of Health who visited the school and took the sample of the food for testing as well as the blood of the victims.

They discovered that it was poisoning caused by the palm oil used to cook the food.” The Sole Administrator of Kalgo Local Government Area, Alhaji Musa Hassan, confirmed this in an interview with journalists at his residence at the weekend.

Hassan said that the food vendor and the palm oil seller had been arrested by the police. He explained that the condition of three of the 71 students was more critical than others. According to him, the Deputy Governor, Ismail Yombe, has directed that the students be treated at Sayahya Hospital, Birnin Kebbi.

The sole administrator added that no life was lost due to the immediate action taken by government to save the lives of the students. He said: “When the incident happened on Thursday, we took them to primary health care and they were given treatment. Some of them became well but the others are still in the hospital.” Hassan added that the students ate pasta but the poison came through the palm oil used to cook the food.

Also, a police officer, who did not want his name in print, confirmed that the food vendor and the palm oil seller had been arrested. He added that the case had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Birnin-Kebbi.

Further investigations revealed that the school was not registered with the authorities in Lagos and it had just relocated to its new address in Mushin.

“Most importantly, and with all modesty, I satisfy my husband sexually. Any man that will look at
me and still have feelings for my maid will be insane. But even unattractive housemaids are not enough to keep some randy men at bay.”

Kola Eke Ogiugo

A 45-year-old mechanic, Edward Azinka in Okpanam community near Asaba has reportedly sacked his wife over her involvement in a church two-day organised vigil. It was gathered that the woman, Awele Azinka was sacked by her husband for disobeying him and attending a church vigil for two days without performing her civic duties.

Reports said the house-wife had before the vigil informed her husband of a church organised vigil for housewives to ward-off sudden death.

But this was not to be when the man threatened he would ensure the wife was sacked from the house if she dared attend the vigil without his kind permission.

Speaking to our correspondent, the housewife who claimed the husband’s decision was too rash for her to contend with said: “I was invited for a two-day vigil in a nearby church Holy Mission and I did mentioned it to my husband, instead of giving me a go ahead, he threatened to throw away my properties, I did not listen to him, I went but see what I have suffered”.

A suicide bomber, who disguised as a local detonated explosives on Thursday killing himself and injuring three soldiers and two other civilians in Katarko town, Gujba local government area of Yobe state.

Army Public Relation Officer of the 27 Taskforce Brigade, Damaturu Lieutenant George Okupe confirmed the attack, saying that three soldiers who went to the local fabricator to weld a signal antenna were hit by the explosion.

He said the suicide bomber who disguised as local fabricator strapped explosives round his body to carry out the attack.

"After the fabricator noticed that a Vigilante attached to our troops identified him, he quickly detonated the explosive, killing himself and injuring five others. Three soldiers and two other civilians (inclusive)," he said.

He said the injured were taken to hospital for treatment and are all responding to treatment."

He said another person suspected to have connection with the bomber was arrested in Damagun town, the state capital.

Residents in the town told our correspondent that the explosion happened around 12:45 pm after the military men brought a cylinder like device to the fabricator to fix at Ari kolo area in Katarko.

The police in Katsina have apprehended a man (name withheld) who was caught having sex with a mare, the state commissioner of police Usman Abdullahi has said

The suspect was arrested having carnal knowledge of the animal at the state polo ground at the night.

The police commissioner said the parked motorcycle of the suspect drew the attention of the police and upon getting there; the suspect was caught in the act.

While decrying the attitude, Abdullahi said drug abuse might not be responsible for the unusual behaviour.

He called on religious and community leaders to intensify sensitization on the ills of drug abuse and assured that the police will continue to play its role in sanitizing the society.

Policemen from the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Lagos, Wednesday abducted two teenage children in Satellite town in a bid to arrest their father.

The police officer had storm the residence of the children’s father, Mustard Ramadan over a crime allegation but did not met the businessman who had gone to work.

Consequently, the police officers decided to abduct Ramadan’s two children as a way to compel him to report to the police station.
Lawyer to Ramadan, Mr. Adeyemi Olatunji has immediately petitioned the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni to intervene so that the innocent children, who ordinarily should be in school are released.

Accord to the lawyer, the abduction of the teenage children, Abbati Muktari Ramadan and Kabiru Ramadan clearly violate Convention on the Treatment of Children and Women in areas of conflict and it is contrary to Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Administration in the High Court and Magistrates Courts Law of Lagos State 2011.

Mr. Adeyemi in the petition stated that his client, called to informed him that some men who claimed to be policemen from D9 in Panti invaded his house at about 4.30am and woke up his entire family, including women who were still in various stages of UnCloth, demanding to see him.

Since he, Muktari Ramadan was not around they grabbed the two teenage boys and bundled them into their vehicle.

“Our client’s wife quickly placed a call to her husband who requested to speak with the policemen. Our client spoke to one of the policemen who refused to give his name but only demanded that our client produce himself at their office by 9am. Our client told him that from where he was he would not be able to get to Panti at 9am but that he would get there around 11am.

“Our client who believed he had secured the understanding of officers was distraught when his wife told him the men left with the two children. The men did not leave any letter of invitation or any official document beyond the verbal message.

“Our client who is into the business of transportation and equipment leasing informed us that sometimes in late February 2016 a legal practitioner whom he only knows as Barrister Dele approached him to lease his caterpillar for a demolition job.

Our client informed us that he told the lawyer that he would not release his equipment for such job unless there was guarantee that the job was legal and that there would be adequate security for his men and equipment.

“The lawyer assured him there was a court order and that there would be police security with court bailiffs in attendance. True to his word, the next day the lawyer came in a bus with four armed mobile policemen and some court officials. It was only then that our client released his caterpillar with an operator to go and do the job somewhere in satellite town.

“According to our client, the operator told him that when they got to the site he could not do the demolition because the owner of the building came out to stop them and the lawyer agreed that they were going to negotiate. The operator left the scene with the caterpillar and our client was paid. He said he was called again two weeks later to come and do demolition and he told them to fulfil the last condition which they met.

“When they got to the site there were people around so he could not carry out the demolition again, he was only able to tap a portion of the roof of the house before they all left the scene. To our client’s surprise, somebody informed him that the lawyer had been arrested about a week ago and just two days ago his operator was also arrested. So, our client firmly beliefs the abduction of his children has to do with the demolition work.

Mr. Adeyemi said his client is not afraid to honour police invitation as he was prepared to appear at Panti as promised.

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has dismissed the allegations that recent killings in the oil-rich state have been politically motivated and targeted at members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, alone.

Wike pointed out that the killings in the state are clashes of rival cult gangs fighting for supremacy, noting that, it has nothing to do with politics ahead of the March 19 rerun election.

Wike made this declaration while swearing in the Justice Iyayi Lamikanra as the substantive Chief Judge of the state.

“When politicians perceive a threat and they want to act, they will not say let’s eliminate him. If that happens, you will not ask if it was a politically motivated killing, you will know it is a political killing.

“Not when cultists die from a feud, then some people will start shouting that they are killing their party members.

“Have you asked yourself why no known politician has been killed or even a known person? Why? Does it not tell you something? When you shed other people’s blood, one day you will also die that way.

“Go to Omoku, all I hear is Icelanders, Greenlanders, all of them are ‘Landers’,” Wike said.

It would be recalled that the Icelanders and Greenlanders are rival cult groups in Rivers state whose feud has lingered for many years.