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Quakertellicus1:
In 2013, OAUTH's budget was $11 MILLION. In the same period , the budget for Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston was $750 billion.

In my opinion, the problem is that it is very difficult to adequately fund healthcare in Nigeria. A hospital in Nigeria cannot fund itself adequately from hospital fees, government funding is falling because Government has too many hospitals to fund. and there is the corruption.

Recently, State House hospital got more money than an average government run teaching hospital. While it was wrong....even if State House clinic had been funded at an amount less than that of the government hospital...it won;t be enough.

The only solution is to raise hospital fees, raise taxes to fund the hospitals better, and make the hospital public private. Oil prices have fallen, and even then, funding was still difficult.

Modified: Cost of an incubator:900-1800us dollars

Cost of twenty incubators: 18,000- 36000 us dollars

Cost in naira: 7.2MILLION naira.(http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/baby-incubator-price.html)

I salute you sir.


raise hospital bill, raise taxes.
and above all PPP. that is the best way for us to enjoy all this basic amenities.

Mind you, this issue is not only happening in the health sector, same apply to Education, Power etc.

for us as a nigeria to enjoy all this thing, we have to pay the price.

My problem with we nigerians is that, we are not ready to pay any price for anything, yet we want to enjoy the same thing which other people are paying heavily for, where is that done.

recently power sector came to mind, we complain BRF increase tariff, bla bla bla, now if Gov want to borrow to fund infrastructure, we will took to the street and social media again shouting they want to borrow to mortage our future and our children children future.

Nigerians we are set of complicated people in this world.

what now baffle me most is that this same nigerians travel out, and pay x10 in other country to enjoy this same service, but back home the street will be full of protest.


forgeting to know that even in FREETOWN, nothing is FREE

An investigation by SaharaReporters has exposed the officials of Nigeria’s Ministry of Justice who collaborated with lawyers representing Senate President Bukola Saraki to obtain a controversial adjournment by filing a motion challenging the jurisdiction of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) to try the senator.
Bukola Saraki
At a session of CCT yesterday, Mr. Saraki’s lead lawyer, Kanu Agabi, obtained a weeklong adjournment by claiming that he had filed a motion on March 4, 2016, contesting the tribunal’s jurisdiction.

However, several officials of the Ministry of Justice, as well as a staff member of the CCT, told SaharaReporters that Mr. Agabi’s purported motion was a carefully orchestrated scam to scuttle the Senate President’s trial. “The so-called motion Agabi talked about was never served on the tribunal. And as such the lead prosecutor [to the tribunal] was never made aware of the motion,” a lawyer with the Ministry of Justice declared. He added: “The whole thing was a ruse, and it was calculated to ridicule the judicial process and scuttle the Senate President's trial.”

After a report by SaharaReporters exposed the fact that the tribunal’s secretary was also not aware of Mr. Agabi’s so-called motion, an investigation by the Federal Government found that Mr. Saraki and his lead lawyer colluded with the Solicitor-General of the Federation and the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, Taiwo Abidogun, as well as the Director of Public Prosecutions, Mohammed Sa'idu Diri, to hide the motion secretly filed at the Ministry of Justice. The judicial officials colluded with Mr. Saraki and his lawyers to hide the motion from the tribunal and the lead prosecutor, Rotimi Jacobs.

A highly placed security source told SaharaReporters that investigators had obtained records of phone conversations between Mr. Saraki and Mr. Abidogun discussing strategies for scuttling the corruption case against the senator, who for eight years was the governor of Kwara State. Part of the said conversation centered on the need to hide the motion from the tribunal. The investigator disclosed that Mr. Saraki used two phone numbers, 0802 454 4666 and 0810 451 2566, as he engaged in several conversations with Mr. Abidogun, whose phone number is 0803 316 4271.

Our source revealed that Mr. Abidogun claimed that he had informed the chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Justice Danlami Umar, that a motion challenging the CCT’s jurisdiction had been filed and served on his tribunal. Justice Umar was observing the lesser hajj in Saudi Arabia at the time.

Our investigation revealed that, shortly after the deal was struck, Mr. Abidogun called Mr. Jacobs to a meeting and asked the prosecutor to “cooperate,” asserting that the Ministry of Justice had decided to bring an end to Mr. Saraki’s trial.

Our security source claimed that once Mr. Abidogun and Mr. Diri arranged to fraudulently thwart Mr. Saraki’s trial, they assured the senator that the case was as good as “finished.” That assurance explained why Mr. Saraki was upbeat when he arrived at the tribunal yesterday.

Another lawyer at the Ministry of Justice told SaharaReporters that it was obvious that Mr. Saraki’s lawyers had connived with a few top officials of the ministry to thwart the case because Abubakar Malami, SAN the Minister for Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation had minuted on the motion and instructed the DPP to respond to the motion at least 48 hours before he departed to London for a conference. “Justice Umar ought to have thrown ought the motion and commenced with the trial since [Mr. Agabi’s] motion was improperly filed,” said the lawyer. Instead of dismissing the motion, Justice Umar said he would hear the motion next Friday before proceeding with the trial.

When SaharaReporters contacted the Solicitor General, he feigned ignorance about the issues. At first, he claimed that Mr. Agabi’s motion was not served on him but on the Ministry of Justice. He also indicated that the Attorney General was traveling. Asked why, as Solicitor General and Permanent Secretary, he did not know that something was amiss with the case, he answered that he simply did not know.

When our correspondent asked if he had ever been in contact with Senator Saraki about the issue, he claimed he had never met or spoken to Mr. Saraki, a claim that is at odds with what investigators told SaharaReporters.

This website had revealed that Mr. Saraki’s recruited his new lead lawyer, Mr. Agabi, because he had hired Justice Umar to work at his law practice in Calabar when the judge was a fledging lawyer. Mr. Agabi, a former Attorney General and Minister of Justice under former President Olusegun Obasanjo, had also recruited Mr. Jacobs to work with him during his tenure in the cabinet.


www.saharareporters.com/2016/03/12/nigeria’s-solicitor-general-director-public-prosecutions-fingered-plot-scuttle-saraki’s

With his trial before the Code of Conduct Tribunal scheduled for Friday, March 11, 2016, Senate President Bukola Saraki’s aides have given bribes to judiciary numerous reporters based in Abuja in order to shape the reporting of the trial, two reliable sources have confirmed to SaharaReporters.

An undercover investigator for SaharaReporters was present when Mr. Saraki’s aides met with Judiciary reporters inside an Abuja garden called Nelson Nuek Gardens, and handed each of the reporters the sum of N50,000. The garden is located in the Central Business District of Abuja, quite close to the International Conference Center.

Our major source, who was present at the parley, disclosed that all the judiciary reporters covering Mr. Saraki's case attended the meeting where bribes were handed out.

Our two sources disclosed that Chuks Okocha, a special assistant to the Senate President, distributed Mr. Saraki’s cash largesse to the reporters. At the meeting, the senator’s aides struck a deal with the reporters to have only one of the friendly reporters write a report of the trial which would then be syndicated among all the reporters. It was agreed that each reporter would merely retouch the syndicated report and send it to their medium.

Before his appointment as Mr. Saraki’s aide, Mr. Okocha had worked for Thisday newspaper group, owned by Nduka Obaigbena.

One of our sources revealed that Mr. Okocha warned the reporters that the Senate President’s office would not tolerate any negative reports by the reporters who collected the bribe.Saraki's spokesperson Yusuf Olaniyonu was being awaited when our investigator left the meeting.

Senator Saraki is being prosecuted for alleged false declaration of assets. All his attempts to use political contacts and appellate courts to scuttle his trial failed. Last week, he unveiled a new legal team led by a former Attorney General of Nigeria, Kanu Agabi, who once supervised the chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danlami Umar, and who while as a minister of justice recruited Rotimi Jacobs, the chief prosecutor against Mr. Saraki.


http://saharareporters.com/2016/03/07/senate-president-saraki-bribes-judicial-reporters-ahead-corruption-trial[b][/b]

Up Lagos.


Ekiti cant eat their future and still have it.
its impossicant

Long live BRF
Long Live Nigeria

You make the initial step, now you are looking for a way now.

like i always tell my pple, dnt start what you know you cant finish.


just put a full stop, to everything,

she should stop coming to your room, and you as well, stop going to her room.


you personally invite trouble into your life, i dnt know how we human being think sometime.

Enjoying this Tale by Moonlight.


make I tanda here for the rest

chimaobikanu:
Smh in disgust! Please, please, and please... If you dont understand the title "Eze ndi-Igbo" in diaspora, please ask questions before you come on to a public forum like to display your high level of ignorance. Eze ndi Igbo in diaspora is just a representative of the Igbo's in a forgien land. He has no palace nor office like your Oba's and Emires, he's just the head of the Igbo association in his domain and is subjected to the law of the land. Please most of you guys should get your facts right before jumping to conclusion. Well, common sense they say is not common.

sir, from the post here, you can read clearly that eze ndiigbo of ibadan have a palace. that one.


secondly, let me take you back memory lane, eze ndiigbo in akure wore a crown to the original tradition ruler of akure palace, which is Deji of Akure.
how many king do we have in a palace, in most community is a taboo, the eze ndiigbo turn deaf hear to it, which is not suppose to be.

some of all this things causing issue here and there are avoidable



This simply show, you guys knows the right thing to do, but intentional abandon it, and start doing otherwise, which is what is causing problem with you host community.

Karanka:
You see,the Eze ndiigbo in where ever apart from Igboland does not equate himself to the paramount ruler of that place. Even the Eze ndiigbo himself is subject to the paramount ruler of that place. He is only a leader of his own tribesmen in that particular place.
It makes for easier organization and peaceful co-existence of the people living there with their host community.
What does Seriki (hope I got the spelling right)mean? Is it not same as king which is same as Eze in Igbo language?
It doesn't really matter if they call themselves Eze,leader,ruler,director or even Oba of ndiigbo so long as they know their boundary and remain subject to the paramount traditional ruler of the land.
Heck,even Buhari was even given a royal title in Igbo land during the last election campaign and nobody has called for his head.
Yorubas should quit acting like sissies - it doesn't look good on them.

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Sir seriki is not the same as Emir, find out from pple close to you.

now, from your assertion upther, you said Eze should subject themselve to the king.

but me and you know reverse is the case, some eze ndiigbo, even instigate their fellow igbo men against the king, just like we witness in Akure few month.


Eze ndiigbo equating themselve with the traditional ruler of their host community is what is causing all this hullabaloo.

igbo need to respect their host community tradition.

with that am sure, there will not be any problem, and we will all live in peace.

Thank you

sankky:
Here they go again
Can never understand why yorubas feel extremely insecure (almost to the point of wetting their pants) when issues concerning Igbos arise?
Is this not the so-called unity in diversity. You got to accept the other tribes and their ways of life (so long as that way of life obeys the Nigerian Constitution) or you should call for a split if you are truly honest about rejecting them. Its not a favour and it's not to be begged for.
In all the cities in the worls there always an Eze Ndigbo. But it's only in Yoruba land that people shiver, pee and poo upon hearing it.
in igbo land, there are Serikis all over the cities and nobody cares despite the fact that occasional tribal clashes between Igbos and Hausa's which also happens nationwide.
There are also Serikis in Yoruba land
Tomorrow, out of arrogance, someone will start telling us that they are very accommodatingb, simply because Lagos was made the nation's capital without our consents and was therefore developed with everyone's money. The attendant result is ripple effect that also spread to neighbouring Yoruba lands. It has nothing to do with being nice or tolerant because any other part of Nigeria that was made the capital will still have the semblance of what u see now in the West including even the North East.
Some will raise the nauseating poo that people easily buy land in the West. That's the most asinine argument anyone has ever heard. How does selling land as business to make a living show that you love the buyer? Why not give out for free? Where will u not buy land in any part of this world if u have your money and can afford it?

Sir, base on your write up, can u have two driver, driving a bus at the same time.
two captain inside a ship.

you mention that the northerner have seriki everywhere in the east, good.

how will you feel, if those seriki are converted to emir, and equate will your kind.

for me, am not against igbo having representatives in any community they find themselves, it a welcome idea, but that representative cannot be an eze ndigbo, equating to the king of that land, either the oba or emir in that land. hereby giving directive same as the original king of that land. it is a no no

No two way about it.

Get up and start swimming to work,

or you get fired, whenever the rain stop, for you to resume work

Well done ma.

More grease to your elbow.


The sky will be your steping stone, nt limit.

Senate President Bukola Saraki has made fresh moves to reach out to President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, following the Supreme Court judgment on his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal.

The Supreme Court had on February 5 ruled that Saraki’s trial should continue at the CCT. The apex court had affirmed the propriety of Saraki’s trial at the CCT on 13 counts of false asset declaration.

In the 13 counts initiated by the Federal Government, Saraki was said to have made false asset declaration in his forms at the Code of Conduct Bureau as a two-term governor of Kwara State.

The CCT had on Friday said Saraki’s trial would resume on March 10.

It was reliably gathered that since February 5, Saraki had been making moves to indirectly reach out to Buhari and Tinubu.

A top government source, who confided in SUNDAY PUNCH , said Saraki could not reach out directly to Buhari on the matter because he knew the President’s disposition to such issues.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added that the Senate President resorted to sending emissaries to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo when Buhari was on a six-day vacation and Osinbajo was the acting President.

The delegation was reportedly led by the Senate Leader, Ali Ndume.
The source said the Vice-President made his position and that of the President clear to Saraki’s emissaries.

He said, “Saraki knows the kind of person the President is and I think he won’t approach him directly on this matter.
“But yes, I can tell you that he is reaching out indirectly.

“He sent emissaries to meet with the Vice-President when the President was on vacation and the Vice-President was on the chair in acting capacity.

“The emissaries had met with the Vice-President under the cover of the developments about the 2016 budget.
“In the process, they put the issue of Saraki forward.

“Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, however, made it equivocally clear to them that the two issues could not be mixed. He told them that the issue of the budget was different from the trial of Saraki.”
Ndume had on Tuesday led some of his colleagues, including Dino Melaye, Abdullahi Adamu and Monsurat Sumonu to meet Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
At the end of the closed-door session, Ndume told State House correspondents that the meeting reviewed some developments in the polity, including the issue of the 2016 budget currently before the National Assembly.

While saying that it would not be a new thing if people read meanings into their visit, Ndume had claimed that his delegation did not discuss Saraki’s travails with the Vice-President.

He was however quick to rise in support of the Senate President when his opinion was sought on the calls by his colleagues in the Unity Forum that Saraki should resign.

“Are you saying that the Senate President should be convicted before the trial? In our constitution, you are considered innocent until proven guilty,” he had said.

For Tinubu, it was gathered that Saraki had reached out to not less than 10 opinion leaders and clerics to visit the APC leader at his home in Bourdillon, Ikoyi, Lagos.

Saraki and Tinubu fell out in June last year when he defied the directive of the APC and became the Senate President under controversial circumstances.

The Senate President further ensured that Tinubu’s preferred candidates were denied principal offices at the Senate.

The former governor of Lagos State subsequently broke all communication with Saraki, describing him in an open letter as an ‘indisciplined and disloyal man who is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party in soul.’

Another reliable source told one of our correspondents that Tinubu was not interested in Saraki’s latest peace moves.

He said, “Access from Saraki’s camp has been blocked. Tinubu has been disappointed in every way. It was the party that picked Ahmed Lawan. He was not Tinubu’s initial candidate but he did it all the same.

“So, he has decided to (wash his) hands and will not say a word again regarding Saraki.
“Efforts have intensified since Saraki’s recent CCT trouble but Tinubu has been out of the country. He has been in Guinea for the last five days.

“We have been informed that Saraki is working with a team of people in Ilorin that will storm Lagos. Top leaders there including Muslim clerics are being put together to visit Lagos and mediate on his behalf but Tinubu is not interested.”

He added, “There is no deal to be made anymore. Saraki never conceded anything. He did not give any of our people any principal position. He then went ahead to increase the number of Senate committees by fiat just to placate those that have been following him to court.

“Every concession was denied. The approval of ministers had nothing to do with Tinubu. It was purely between him and President Muhammadu Buhari.

“Tinubu has moved on. He has been visiting African countries, supporting other democracies in West Africa.”

“Saraki should go and get good lawyers. As you can see, attempts to remove the CCT chairman did not work. Attempts to stop the trial at the Supreme Court have also failed.”

All attempts to reach the spokesperson for Tinubu, Mr. Sunday Dare, proved abortive as he did not respond to repeated telephone calls.


Saraki meets Buhari regularly — Aide

When contacted, the Special Adviser to the Senate President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Yusuf Olaniyonu, said on Saturday that his principal had been having regular meetings with the President in recent times on national issues.

Olaniyonu, who spoke with one of our correspondents on telephone cited the most recent when both leaders jointly hosted the German President at the Aso Rock villa on Thursday night.

Saraki’s spokesperson however, said the regular parleys between Saraki and Buhari were purely on issues of national interest.
He said, “These two gentlemen hold two critical arms of government and they need to meet regularly to discuss issues of national importance.

“The issue of budget is there, insurgency and the economy generally. How can anybody think the Senate President will be seeking audience with the President on the issue of the CCT when there are serious national issues calling for attention?”

When asked if Saraki would reach out to the President, Olaniyonu said, “No comment.”

Before his recent moves to reach out to the President and Tinubu, Saraki had been facing renewed opposition from the Senate Unity Forum led by Senator Ahmed Lawan.

Lawan was supported for the senate presidency by the APC leaders and some party senators, while Saraki got the backing of all Peoples Democratic Party senators and some APC senators to emerge as senate president last year. Last week, the Lawan faction regrouped in a bid to force Saraki to resign.



www.punchng.com/cct-trial-saraki-reaches-out-to-buhari-tinubu-again/

Corruption lingers at the core of many of the world's underdeveloped nations.

Nigeria, the most populated country in Africa, is perceived to be the most corrupt among 60 countries evaluated, according to data from the 2016 Best Countries rankings. The rankings are a characterization of 60 countries based on a survey of more than 16,000 people from four regions.

In the survey, respondents answered how closely they related each of the 60 countries to the term "corrupt." Respondents were given no further specifications of the term, so interpretation of the word "corrupt" was left to survey respondents.

Elections in Nigeria face scrutiny, even though government accountability is seen as having improved. In 2015, President Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari became the first opposition party candidate to win an election. As part of his presidential campaign, Buhari promised to crack down on corruption.

"When you fight corruption, it fights back," Nuhu Ribadu, the former chairman of Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, said in a TedX talk in Berlin.

[READ: Explore the rankings, data, video and news from Best Countries.]

Nigeria's former national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki, is scheduled to face trial on charges of fraud and money laundering, according to Bloomberg. It is the country's first high-profile corruption trial since Buhari took office.

In November, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari attributed this incident – and other alleged abuses of power – to the country's inability to defend itself from other threats, including Boko Haram, an extremist group that began its conquest in 2009 to create an Islamic state.

Russia, seen as the second-most powerful country in the world, is also seen as the sixth most corrupt.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Colombia – a country synonymous with illegal drug kingpins like Pablo Escobar – gives Nigeria a run for its money as the second most corrupt country, based on perception.

Below are the 10 countries perceived to be the most corrupt, according to data from the 2016 Best Countries rankings.





Country Name
1. Nigeria
2. Colombia
3. Iran
4. Pakistan
5. Mexico
6. Russia
7. Algeria
8. Egypt
9. Kazakhstan
10. Bolivia



http://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2016-02-11/10-most-corrupt-countries-ranked-by-perception?hl=1&noRedirect=1

Kenai:
Now that the Naira is 313 per dollar, I'd like to refresh your memories with some of the hypocritical comments made by the former "activists", better known today, as Buharists...

I'll be focusing on some posts made on this thread created during GEJ's tenure titled "Naira Now 172 To A Dollar. Why?"

Number 1

My broda, it took all of 16 Years for Naira to fall to 172 under PDP, but JUST 8 months to fall to 313 (141 steps!) under APC. Choi!
In that case, God only knows how many wheelbarrows of money we'll be needing to buy a sachet of Milo after 16 years of APC.

Number 2

Today, this dude is mute

Number 3

Bros, how far naa? GEJ has left oh. Now we have the Budget of Yams... But wait, did NOI cause this one too?

Number 4

Well, we now hear "FeBuhari". Nothing's still changed.

Number 5

It's 313 now nigga. How about that?

Pls i dnt get what you are insinuating.


what all we are seeing now, is a ripple effect of misappropriation and management.

i dnt wnt to blame anybody here, but the truth is previous administration (bth OBJ, Yardua & GEJ) during the raining days fail to save for time like this.

mind you, this is not only affecting nigeria, but just that we are one of the most hit nation, reason been that our economy depend only on crude, and crude is no more selling.

the only way out for us now is to diversify.

and at present only two things can save us, which is IT and Agriculture.

importation should be reduce drastically.

From the period PMB take over fr GEJ, most people will agree with me that, their is increase in power, yet we continue to pay the same amount we are paying before.
then No complain.

now for us to keep on enjoying even more power, FG said we have to pay a little above what we are paying before.
we started shouting, calling BRF diff unprintable name.

some even say, BRF wake up yesterday and decide to increase the bill over night, mean while this issue of increase in tariff have been on for almost 3yrs now, NERC have been ringing this into our ear.

Now the question is,
Do we really want the government to work, or just sit there for 4 years,

we vote for another person, he will also come and sit for another 4 yrs.


Because to me now, Nigerians we are set of confuse people.

if Gov want to borrow to put infrastructure in place, to be payed back over a period of years,


we will all start shouting that they don borrow money again, they have mortgage our future, mortgage our children children future as well.

now for gov not to mortgage both our future and our children future, we are ask to pay for it, so that this infrastructure will be put in place.

we are allover the street, shouting, complaining, calling our leaders various unprintable name.

if the gov fold their arm, and do nothing, we will still complain, that they are not doing anything, now were will they get the money to finance various project.

yet we want to keep enjoying the basic amenities of life,


at who's cost


EVEN IN FREE TOWN, NOTHING IS FREE

i think I receive a message to this effect, alert abj resident not to be panic, if we hear strange sound around ICC, towards War college.

when you get core i5 or i7, kindly get in touch

Someone like me need this badly
pls what is cilantro or parsley.
a fruit or what, pls another name for it, and where can I get it

ernecy:
jungle don mature. why are the afraid now.

the guilty are afraid.

Bros, no be GEJ era be this,

am sure those who escape will not go home direct, for fear of EFCC to trace them to their house

they will all go and hide somewhere.


This fight against Yam eaters, knows no party member, either APC or PDP.

because the last time i check, Bornu is control by APC

Report reaching DAILY POST has it that the Borno State House of Assembly has been invaded by operatives of the Economics and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Residents of Shehuri ward where the House of Assembly is located told DAILY POST that legislators abandoned the flour of the house when security operatives allegedly to be men of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC came to arrest some of the members.

According to them, some of the legislators escaped on foot while others were quick to sneak out before the security operative sealed off the Assembly over alleged corruption.

There was no legislator to speak to as at press time, even as rumour has it that the EFCC has succeeded in arresting some politicians in the state.

http://dailypost.ng/2016/01/26/efcc-seals-borno-house-of-assembly-over-allegations-of-corruption/?utm_source=dlvr.it_dp2&utm_medium=twitter~

notjohndoe:
My story. And it only took 3 years

hummmmmmm

From your bible verse, 22 comes before 25.

Submission and Love come hand in hand.

a wife need to summit to her husband, and see how the husband will be all over her, evertime, like a baby around her mother, then it even easier for the wife to remote control the husband. because the husband will see ntin wrong there.

even if the husband love the wife, without the wife been submissive, the love will grow wary, and die.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will today arraign the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, before the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja for charges bordering on destruction of evidence.

Metuh, who has been on remand in prison, pending when he would fulfil the bail conditions imposed on him by a Federal High Court in Abuja with respect to the charges of money laundering involving N400m, part of funds meant for procurement of arms which he allegedly collected from the office of the National Security Adviser in November 2014.
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Metuh allegedly tore his written statement and attempted to chew it while he was being investigated for the money laundering case.
Prison authorities have produced Metuh before Justice Ishaq Bello for the arraignment to take place.


http://www.punchng.com/efcc-arraigns-metuh-for-destruction-of-evidence/

The reminiscences of the heroic deeds of a late Premier of the defunct Western Region, Chief Ladoke Akintola came alive in Ogbomoso as the son of the deceased politician, Ambassador Abayomi Akintola gave a vivid account of how his dad was murdered 50 years ago.

He said this at a lecture marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Akintola who died in January 15, 1966.

The event was held at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso.

According to him, the picture of how the remains of his father were left at the entrance of the building is still fresh in his memory.

Among the dignitaries that attended the ceremony include Governor Abiola Ajimobi; Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, former Governor of Oyo State; Secretary to the Osun State Government, Alhaji Mashood Adeoti; a former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Richard Akinjide; Senator Brimmo Yusuf and many others.

At the LAUTECH lecture, Akintola said that none of the premier’s children and their wives was injured while the gun attack lasted, describing their father as a hero who laid down his life and shielded his family from the invaders.

He said, “I was managing a thriving business in Lagos when my late father directed me to relocate to Ibadan when he became premier. Although, I was very reluctant to leave certainty for uncertainty, I had to defer to him. That was how I came to Ibadan.

“During the coup, about 50 soldiers invaded our house. My father was in a room within the house with us and we begged him not to go out. We shielded ourselves with the big wardrobes in the room as the soldiers began to shoot sporadically.

“At a stage my father told us he wanted to go and meet them, but we begged him not to go. Like the hero that he was, he told us that he would prefer to go and face them and damn the consequence, rather than to allow them to wipe out his family if they continue to hide.”

In his address at the event, Ajimobi admonished the family of the late premier to reach out and involve more people and political leaders on issues and events relating to the late premier, whom he described as an “unsung hero.”
Ajimobi said, “Akintola died at God’s appointed time. It’s our fault that Akintola was not being celebrated the way we should. I want to first blame the family for monopolizing him; then the rest of us. That is why I would want us to start strategizing on how to compensate this nationalist.

“The contemporary political history and evolution of Nigeria begins with the outstanding contributions of many notable nationalists, politicians and statesmen, who were beacons of light in their generation. In the forefront, no doubt, was the Late Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola

“This late icon was an unsung hero, not only because of his unprecedented achievements as a politician, a parliamentarian, an astute administrator, but also because he was a bridge builder in Nigeria’s search for national integration.

“In the various ministries where he served and most importantly under his watch as the Premier, his administration became the centre of landmark achievements. Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola was an orator, humourist, forceful campaigner, crowd-puller and a frontline politician.
In his lecture, a professor of History from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Enoch Oyedele, said, “Whether they call themselves Biafra, Boko Haram or any other name, anybody clamouring for the balkanization of this country should forget the idea. Nigeria is a viable country if its resources are well harnessed and applied.

“Political party system is one of the greatest problems confronting this country today. Political parties are mere platforms being used to win elections. They are not movement of the people. We must restructure this country to redress the unjust political and socio-economic structure of Nigeria.’’


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There are strong indications that the Defence Headquarters will this week set up a panel on its officers who are being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over alleged fraudulent arms purchase.

SUNDAY PUNCH reliably gathered on Saturday that besides facing the EFCC’s investigations, the affected serving officers would face the military panel, which the Defence Headquarters might constitute this week.

President Muhammadu Buhari had on Friday ordered the EFCC to investigate 17 serving and retired military officers, including the past Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh (retd.); a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Dikko Umar (retd.) (2010 -2012) and the immediate past Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (retd.), in alleged fraudulent arms purchases between 2007 and 2015.

The 11 serving officers that will be investigated by the EFCC, who will also face the military panel, include Air Marshal A.M. Mamu (Chief of Administration, Nigeria Air Force); AVM Oguntoyinbo (former Director of Production, Defence Headquarters); AVM T. Omenyi (Managing Director, NAF Holdings); and AVM J.B. Adigun (former Chief of Accounts and Budget).

Others are AVM R. A. Ojuawo (Air Force Tactical Air Command, Markudi); AVM J.A. Kayode-Beckley (Director, Armament Research in Air Force Research and Development Centre); Air Cdre. A.O. Ogunjobi; Air Cdre G.M.D. Gwani; Air Cdre A.Y. Lassa; Col. N. Ashinze (Special Assistant to the former NSA, Dasuki and Air Cdr. S.O.Makinde.

An Air Vice Marshal is an equivalent of a Major-General in the Army, while an Air Commodore is on the same level with a Brigadier-General.

It will be recalled that Buhari had last year set up a committee to audit the purchase of defence equipment between 2007 and 2015.

The committee, in its report, said that it discovered that N643bn and $2.1bn were received for defence procurement between 2007 and 2015 by Defence Headquarters and the military services.

Based on the N197-to-the-dollar official exchange rate of the Central Bank of Nigeria, the sum of $2.1bn translates into a total of N413.7bn.

The $2.1bn (N413.7bn) when added to the N643bn, gives a total sum of N1.067tn that was received for defence procurements by the Defence Headquarters between 2007 and 2015.

It stated that N29bn and $2bn were expended on procurement by the Nigerian Air Force during the period.

A senior military officer, who spoke to SUNDAY PUNCH on condition of anonymity on Saturday, said the defence authorities had started a process of setting up a military panel that would also investigate the arms procurement scandal.

The senior military source explained that the affected senior officers of the armed forces would face the administrative process of facing a military panel or be relieved of their command positions.

The source said, “There are standard administrative procedures for doing things in the military when issues like this come up.

“The indicted officers are either relieved of their positions or they are summoned to appear before a panel which would make recommendations.”

The source, who could not speak on record because he was not authorised to speak on the issue, said the panel might be constituted this week.

The Acting Director, Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Rabe Abubakar, also said the military authorities would not shield any personnel indicted in the ongoing probe from investigation.

He said the armed forces were totally committed to the President’s campaign against corruption because of the inimical effects of the scourge against national developments.

Abubakar said this while speaking with our correspondent on the telephone on Saturday.

He said, “Corruption frustrates development. Whoever is involved in corrupt practices should face the music because corruption has adverse consequences on all sectors of human endeavours. Corruption deprives the citizens from the expected getting benefits from the government.

“Our stance is that we are completely in support of any measure that would stop corruption in the military or in the civil sector. The military would do anything to support the fight against corruption which is a cardinal principle of this government.

“The present leadership of the military abhors corruption.”





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